I thought those were just the other shoes. You know, that dropped.
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The Puget Sound and the Straight of Juan de Fuca are notorious for shoes washing ashore … with a foot still in them.
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And Bigfoot!
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in fact images of unexplained objects that were taken by Navy personnel.
As the Army would say, better get a second opinion ; - )
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On the tangentially-related topic of Josh’s latest blog entry…
Not for nothing, but ‘no shit, Sherlock’. I grew up around these guys. They’ve always been like that. SpecOps has always attracted the most conservative, most ‘I’m here because I want to kill motherfuckers who don’t look like me’ elements of the US military, the ones most likely to adopt a denigrating mindset toward any ‘enemy’, and who define ‘enemy’ as ‘not us’.
The career military has, since the abolition of the draft, been developing a disconnect with the civilian population of the country. I’ve spoken about it with folks who are in, folks who’ve gotten out, other brats who grew up on base or in developments largely filled with service families, and it’s all the same. It was there in the '70s already, and it’s only worse now:
“Civvies don’t get us. They don’t know what we go through, what we put up with, what we have to deal with every day. Even when we’re not looking at a deployment into a warzone, units get deployed for extended periods on training exercises. Carrier groups put out to sea for six months at a shot. Marines get a rotation of Fleet duty. At any time, even in those ‘safe’ deployments, mishaps happen and you could get the news that mom or dad isn’t coming home. Even without that fear, single parents are on their own for weeks or months at a time, and when they’re not… those are the short spells. The husband’s deployed to Iraq for 2 years at a pop, or out to sea for 5-14 months (luv2sub), home for 3 months, and gone again.” and on and on.
It isolates them. It creates a disconnect with ‘normies’. I felt it growing up 40 years ago, and it’s only gotten more insular since. And that insularity leads them to become more insular. It’s a positive feedback circuit: the civvies don’t get us, don’t understand, act like this should all be just another day at school, so we associate with other military families. We talk to our deployed family or our dependents, or our buddies who aren’t where we are, through the cellphone or zoom or discord. And as they’ve become more insular through online associations, that insularity has only accelerated.
And SpecOps? SpecOps isolates themselves from even the rest of the service. SpecOps doesn’t play by ‘normal’ rules, so they don’t associate with the guys who have to. And when it comes time to decide who is and isn’t the bad guys… ‘us’ has become a smaller and smaller group.
So, really, @josh_m and anyone else who’s surprised or thinks SpecOps is only now becoming the most radicalized, racist, ‘I don’t give a fuck what they say the facts are, I know what’s right and ain’t nobody changin’ my mind’ part of the US military?
Think again.
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"And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong, I’m right.
Where I belong I’m right "
John Lennon was also a Libra.
(Me? Libra Leo Leo)
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Yeah - one of the big reasons I hate it that they got rid of the draft.
@geographyjones - yeah I know he was. Eminem is too; so is Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, T. I. and Snoop Dogg. We’re all about the words.
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Word!
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Per Joseph Stalin: dark comedy is like food-- not everyone gets it.
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It’s a problem, yeah… but it’s also why we can do more with less. The draft created a big pool of poorly-trained, poorly-motivated conscripts. A lot of them were just bad at their jobs, and didn’t give a damn about not being bad. They were there to mark time, try to survive, and get the fuck out. Not all of them, but a lot of them, and they dragged down how well others could perform.
Not having the draft has dramatically improved the competence levels of the United States Military. The people who are there long term generally want to be there, and respond well to the level of discipline and structure the military requires. But it does create problems. The last time professional militaries like this existed en masse was the old Regimental system in European armies… and that, in its way, contributed to the meatgrinder of WWI.
There needs to be a better way, some system that lets us retain that selectiveness without the isolation. I’m just not at all sure anyone’ll figure it out any time soon… or if anyone in a position to propose it is even trying… or cares enough to acknowledge the problem.
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It just means they haven’t passed the drivers test yet.
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Yeah I get that but I don’t necessarily think it’s a good thing for a democracy to have a military class and that’s what we’ve created.
@Throatwarmblermangrove - well in order to get the comedy in the series you had to watch it to watch it develop and I’m not kidding, the show is funny - really funny. The alien changes over the course of the first season. He is supposed to kill all of us - that’s why he’s here. The alien evolved from octupi and the octupi sent out a distress call cause we’re killing their environment and them. For most of the season he was trying to kill a little kid who could see the real him and it doesn’t sound funny but it was hilarious.
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My theory is the aliens landed and saw a statue of Christ crucified and their leader frantically exclaimed:
“you know what I think!?! I think we need to get the fuck outta here! That’s what I think!!!”
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Hey!! 
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Navy personnel recorded this data? I believe the Air Force has a new aircraft design in progress that is delta-shaped and would look like a triangle from below. The Navy and Air Force seldom communicate closely. The fact that there are periodic light pulses emanating from the craft tells me that it’s either of Terran construction or an extremely clever alien that wishes to be seen and identified as Terran.
Now back to Remulac, a small town in France.
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Bloody Pommie!
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It’s night-vision video shot through the window of an aircraft. We’re not dealing with precision instruments here.
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I’ve heard audio of a commercial pilot talking to the tower in Alaska about a UFO they are encountering and it’s compelling. Pilots are not excitable as a rule.
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