SECDEF Leon Panetta and the administration have announced a dramatic reduction in defense spending. You will have to go back to the Clinton era to see lower levels of defense spending. Ramirez captures the folly of this in his cartoon today . . .
Today we honor the men and women who died in the attacks on Hawaii late in 1941. In the photograph below, the Officers and Crew line the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76, as they salute the war memorial at the resting place of the USS Arizona.
Ramirez offers yet another take on the administration’s military policy . . .
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I am also disappointed if what I’ve read about bin Laden’s final send-off is true. Was the creep’s corpse actually washed, wrapped in a white sheet and had an Islamic prayer read over it before it was dropped into the sea? If I remember correctly, bin Laden played a major role in the murder of 3,000 Americans, forcing a number of them to leap from skyscrapers because their option was to be incinerated, and we’re giving him a respectful burial? If it had been up to me, I’d have wrapped his cremated remains in a pigskin and then had a midshipman punt him off the poop deck. - Burt Prelutsky
After the Navy Seals accomplishment on Sunday, Obama tried to take part of the credit. The president has done nothing to root out the real problems in the middle east, namely identifying actual sources of hostility and CUTTING THEM OFF FROM US AID! Pakistan is no friend of ours, to be sure.
About 13 years ago while working for the aerospace company that produced this aircraft, I had the privilege of working on prototype avionics systems for pilotless aircraft systems like this. Video taken in the vicinity of Edwards AFB in California’s high desert.
From Fox News:
The U.S. Navy said it made a breakthrough in drone technology with the first flight of the X-47B, a bat-winged unmanned jet designed to take off and land from an aircraft carrier, one of the most complex and difficult feats in aviation.
If you know any WWII vets, today is a good opportunity for you to thank them for their sacrifices and service . . .
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