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2023-07-28 Europe

Sweden, Finland and Switzerland consider security links with US National Guard

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Posted by Fred 2023-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 As our National Guard 'COMPO2' conduct foreign exchange training and activities, the US-Mexican border is overrun with illegals.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-28 03:30|| 2023-07-28 03:30|| Front Page Top

#2 If certain 'non-combat' specialties were offloaded from the Regular component then why would you want to be in a Guard/Reserve that is regularly posted overseas like a Regular? Think of your family and any civilian job...

Posted by magpie 2023-07-28 09:05|| 2023-07-28 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe they should apply for statehood first. Not that I'd necessarily be against it...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-28 09:06|| 2023-07-28 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I have a Partnership for Peace Challenge Coin from the 1998 Exercise based in San Luis Obispo with the Ukrainian Military. Spent two weeks with them doing a joint training exercise, extensive tour of parts of the state and some cultural social events than damaged my liver. (Pepper Vodka and this stuff that is essentially flavored lard in a tube they eat like a Slim-Jim (it is as vile as it sounds), and introduced them to Wild Turkey and Cheetos with disastrous results).

In a poignant moment, as Senior Escort Officer I was with the Lieutenant General of the Ukrainian Air Force when we stopped for a smoke break along Highway One overlooking Morro Rock along the California coast near Los Osos and Monterey Bay. To my utter surprise, he turned from a prolonged stare at the rock with tears in his eyes, and when pressed, explained that in his days in the Soviet Air Force, he had been a Bear Bomber Regimental Commander, whose nuke attack mission in the US was San Francisco, and that Morro Rock, which he had only seen in pictures, was the IP aiming point to turn for the attack profile run on the city. For him, to be standing there looking at it and the beauty of the coast was a never imagined moment he said with a huge smile. A poignant moment for both of us!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-28 12:34|| 2023-07-28 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 We don’t need more liberal states, but they would be better than DC.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-28 12:54|| 2023-07-28 12:54|| Front Page Top

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