“Time to be Patriotic!”
Posted on September 25, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
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BOSTON (Aug. 23, 2013) USS Constitution sets sail in Boston Harbor to commemorate the 201st anniversary of Constitution’s battle with HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812. The underway also marked the culmination of a week’s worth of seamanship and leadership training for more than 150 chief petty officer (CPO) selectees living aboard ‘Old Ironsides’ for CPO Heritage Week. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Peter D. Melkus/Released)
When Barack Obama was elected President, a group of Republicans met on Inauguration Day, and plotted to oppose The President of The United States of America – in every conceivable way! These Plotters are members of the Christian-right led by Newt Gingrich, whom Margaret Thatcher wanted to be President. When Obama pushed his Healthcare program. these Plotters said this was Socialism, and thus Obama was not Patriotic. They formed the Tea Party Patriots, who were phonies. They were, and are, TRAITORS. because they swore not to honor our Elected President.
I just found a real memorandum about Zelensky I posted three years ago. For four days I have been composing a long blog – in my head – but it is too massive, so, I will make some videos about The Battle of Charleston, The Swamp Fox, and two Rosamond Brothers.
John Presco
Ukrainian president says defense is at a ‘turning point’ (msn.com)
“We need to kick Russian soldiers off our land, and for that we need all, all possible weapons,” Ukrainian parliament member Anastasia Radina said at a news conference at the Ukrainian Embassy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the case directly to U.S. President Joe Biden.
“If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point. Tanks, aircraft, artillery systems. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation, which he delivered standing in the dark outside the dimly lit presidential offices in Kyiv. He thanked the U.S. for an additional $500 million in aid that was announced Wednesday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Charleston
Watch War Games first, then move up. The reason the Russians are putting limbs atop their tanks is to explode the armor-piercing rockets, and are not camouflage.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPA-uNgXMlgepbcVHwXH4Q
Russian troops in Ukraine have scrambled to avoid detection and attack by using tree branches and straw, even swaths of carpeting, to conceal tanks and other armored vehicles, in what analysts call a surprising lack of sophistication for such an advanced military and further evidence of how ill-prepared some commanders were for the sustained fight that has unfolded.
Why Russian troops are using tree branches for camouflage in Ukraine
Colonel Vindman – The Patriot
Posted on February 7, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
It has been a curse to own the ability to see into the future, a gift I have had most of my life. I have destoryed the credibility of those who cruelly mocked me. I will seek out people who know I am Seer, and want me to continue to See. John
https://rosamondpress.com/2019/11/08/evangelical-leaders-pray-for-president-to-elude-justice/
The White House plans to transfer Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, whose testimony in the House impeachment hearings infuriated President Trump and his allies, out of the National Security Council staff as early as Friday, two senior administration officials said.
Mr. Trump essentially confirmed the move in brief comments with reporters before leaving on a day trip to North Carolina. “I’m not happy with him,” the president said of Colonel Vindman. His senior officials, he added, would inform the colonel of his future soon. “They’ll make that decision.”
It was not immediately clear where he would next be sent within the Defense Department, one administration official said, but Colonel Vindman is on active duty in the military.
Lt. Colonel Vindman is getting death threats. I saw this coming. Our nation is divided in twain. The Court Pastors have turned the Republican party into Faith-based politics, where truth is thrown out the window. This can get worse. Much worse!
John Presco
Even before raising his hand to take the oath on Tuesday, Colonel Vindman had come under particularly sharp fire. Mr. Trump’s allies on Fox News and elsewhere have questioned his patriotism by noting that he was born in Ukraine, a critique the naturalized citizen rebutted by showing up Tuesday in his Army dress uniform with Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart from his service in Iraq.
Colonel Vindman opened his testimony by deploring smears on government officials who have been subpoenaed to testify in the inquiry. “The vile character attacks on these distinguished and honorable public servants is reprehensible,” he said.
Camouflage, whether for personnel or equipment, is a fundamental part of warfighting, even as technological advances such as drones, satellite imagery and infrared scopes have made it harder to hide on modern battlefields. It works by distorting shapes and reducing heat signatures, in effect fooling the eye to create doubt and confusion.Russian troops’ tendency to talk on unsecured lines is proving costly
Yet to some observers who’ve closely tracked the conflict in Ukraine, Russian forces, despite their military superiority, have exhibited a breathtaking degree of amateurism. They point to videos circulating on social media showing an array of contrivances.
In one, purportedly captured mid-firefight by a Russian soldier seeking cover amid a cluster of idling armored transports, a patchwork of what appear to be pine saplings is visible along one of the vehicle’s flanks. It’s a sight that “smacks of desperation,” said Mike Jason, a retired U.S. Army armor officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. military tactical procedure, Jason noted, is to shroud entire vehicles with lightweight camouflage netting when they’re not moving, even if it’s only for short durations. Ukrainian units have been seen using combinations of netting and foliage to help break up the shape of armored vehicle hulls. Pine saplings, Jason assessed, are “better than nothing,” but would seem to indicate the unit involved lacks a basic competence for using camouflage or simply didn’t have the right equipment to begin with.
Other imagery to emerge from Ukraine shows armored transports with what resembles barnyard hay strewn across their tops. In still another video shared on social media, Russian troops can be seen covering a vehicle with rugs or another type of heavy cloth.
Related video: Fear for civilians as Russian column bears down on Kyiv (Reuters)
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Fear for civilians as Russian column bears down on Kyiv
This could be an attempt, Jason surmised, to reduce or distort heat signatures, which antiarmor weapons — like the U.S.-manufactured Javelin missiles being supplied to Ukraine — use to lock onto their targets. An altered signature could make it more challenging for a gunner to distinguish between a Russian armored vehicle and a civilian car, though a trained scout would oscillate between a thermal scope and binoculars to pick up other evidence of enemy activity, he noted.
© Wojciech Grzedzinski/for the Washington PostUkrainian soldiers with a captured Russian tank.
The U.S. military is emerging from its own complacency after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where vehicle camouflage in a fight against insurgents was often an afterthought. New training indicates a return to fundamentals like using camouflage netting, Jason said. Netting and other fabrics can help with concealment, and using foliage to distort the contours of vehicles can help gives crews vital seconds to react to an engagement or attack themselves. But they are of limited use in the age of drones and satellite imagery, Jason said, making camouflage an endeavor meant mostly to deceive human eyes.
The Russians’ apparent lack of modern camouflage netting is the latest example in what analysts call a string of tactical missteps since the invasion began late last month, affirming beliefs in the United States and in Europe that President Vladimir Putin and his senior military commanders failed to anticipate the strong resistance their troops have faced.
To the bewilderment of many Western observers, Russian soldiers have shown a tendency to speak on unsecured radios and cellphones, allowing enemy intelligence to intercept their communications. Military planners also have failed to distribute enough fuel and food, prompting troops to abandon vehicles in place and, in some cases, surrender.
Just as confounding, analysts say, is that Russian units are in fact versed in camouflaging their vehicles, and there is evidence they have done so in past military exercises. As recently as 2018, Russian state media touted its military’s advanced camouflage prototypes, which it said were capable of duplicating environmental surroundings.Sewing camouflage in Kyiv: Women volunteers craft cover for Ukraine’s military
Rob Lee, a Russian military expert and a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said the uneven use of camouflage in Ukraine may point to commanders’ lack of preparation and guidance to subordinates, or attest to their overconfidence from the outset that this fight would be easy and that the Ukrainian government would fall quickly.
It has become clear, Lee said, that commercial and smaller tactical drones provided to the Ukrainians by Turkey are enabling them to spot Russian units for artillery and airstrikes, potentially prompting some to resort to ad hoc solutions such as outfitting their vehicles with bits of shrubbery or simply taking them off road and hiding among the trees.
“Russia,” he added, “doesn’t have a good response.”
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