Secretary of the Army Christine E. Wormuth: “A priority for me and our @USArmy is #resiliency in the face of climate change. At #FortBragg, we have the largest floating solar array in the Southeast United States. This is just one of many examples of how our Army #LeadsFromTheFront in climate innovation and adaptation.”
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By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
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Via Red State: The US Army is a barking shambles. In Fiscal Year 2022, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 soldiers or 25% of its goal (Military Recruiting Numbers Lowest Since the Vietnam War). At the end of the fiscal year, the Army was supposed to have 485,000 soldiers, but it only had 466,000. That shortfall of 19,000 soldiers is the equivalent of disbanding five of the Army’s 31 brigade combat teams. While we can quantify the number of soldiers not enlisted, what is much more difficult is to put a number on those who have voted with their feet because of Army leadership that has become highly politicized and the men — fathers, teachers, coaches, and family members — who will actively discourage young men from enlisting because the Army no longer represents American values (Army Backs off Enlisting High School Drop Outs but the Woke Cancer Killing Enlistments Remains Stronger Than Ever).
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Via Military.com: The 50-page plan, which is an extension of the service’s overall Army Climate Strategy released earlier this year, offers a series of ambitious goals to meet Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s 2021 call to “immediately take appropriate policy actions to prioritize climate change considerations” as the Pentagon points to several instances of climate change-related events that have affected the services.
The Climate Strategy Implementation Plan said: “While the Army cannot address all or even most GHG emissions, the right initiatives, investments, and policies can significantly reduce Army GHG emissions while at the same time enhancing readiness.” … The Army is looking to further reduce that consumption, while battening down the hatches for the damage climate change will likely bring. …
“As extreme weather becomes commonplace, the Army must adapt its installations, acquisition programs, and training so that the Army can operate in this changing environment and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth in a Wednesday press release.
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Years ago my SF team was set up tactically in a big piece of woods at Camp McCoy (now Ft. McCoy), WI in a position where we were to meet our commo man and his security that night. SF common men would make it a practice of moving kilometers away from the team to make coms so that if their broadcast position was fixed by RDF they were not giving the teams position away. So we were waiting for those two guys to come to the prearranged rally point where we would meet.
Suddenly a unit of mechanized infantry in M-133s came crashing through the woods right towards us. It was just a coincidence, they had no idea we were there.
Believe me, it does not take gunfire for tracked vehicles to be terrifying. It would be one thing for something like that to happen in daylight, but on a very dark night, it quickly got our undivided attention.
There was a steep draw nearby that we quickly retreated into.
That won’t be a problem in the future with solar-powered tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Generation-“V”ideo Games
BTW the M4 Shermans of WW II did not have heat. It was only slightly warmer in them than outside due to the heat coming off the air cooled engine when it was running. Later models of the Sherman were built with liquid cooled V8 engines in various configurations but I don’t think they had provisions for heating the crew compartment either.
The most famous M4 of WW II has to be Cobra King. It was a Jumbo Sherman, or IOW it had an extra armor plate added to it’s glacis and much heavier mantlet and other modifications. It was the first tank from Pattons’ 3rd Army to enter in the relief of the siege of Bastogne.
It was part of Combat Command R of the 4th Armored Division. Combat Command R was commanded by Creighton Abrams which the M1 is named after.
Cobra King went on to be lost and abandoned to the enemy as part of task force Baum in Patton’s infamous attempt to rescue American POWs, including his son-in-law.
The tank was eventually recovered and sat in a recovery yard with other wrecked tanks for some time until it wasselected as one to be set up as a Gate monument and eventually ended up as one at the Rose Barracks in Vilseck. There is sat with the wrong registration number painted on it.
For decades people had been looking for Cobra King. Finally an Army Chaplain discovered the mistake that had been made on the registration number and further investigation and inspection confirmed the tank was the famous Cobra King.
It was shipped to Ft. Knox, where volunteers restored the tank to operational condition and now stands as a display at the US Army Museum at Ft. Benning, GA.
That is a wonderful museum. See it if you can.
The Patton Museum is where it was restored. At that time it had a great assembly of historic Armored vehicles and I saw then there. Second only to the collection at the Aberdeen, where I have also visited.
In fact I got into a German MK IV tank at the Patton Museum. Being a welder I recognized the weld on the hatch was cracked and just opened it up and climbed in. It was still obvious on the inside that it had been brought from N. Africa.
Somewhere I have a picture of me standing in the hatch wearing a German Panzer officers jacket and hat. An SF troop on our team for a short time was a collector and asked me to wear the clothing so he could take the picture. I do have German blood in my veins and so have an Arian look.
The tank is a Mk V Panther that sits as a monument in the town circle at Houfalize Belgium. The tank with it’s turret blown off was laying upside down on the RR tracks at that town as it was found by the allies when they retook the town. They righted it and put the turret back on it and left it as a monument.
The tank was blown up during a heavy bombing of the town by US and RAF aircraft. Patton even quipped a poem about that night that was a take off of the song Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.
My father in law was in and around Houffalize during the Battle of the Bulge. 289th Regiment of the 75th Infantry Division. He passed away 3 years ago at the age of 94.
Condolences.
I, as others, could list some that were also “there” that are no longer “here”.
But whatever list we each could put up won’t make your lose less personal, no matter how many years ago you lost him.
(I still miss my Dad and my Uncles.)
Condolences.
Mine was too young for that war. He passed away in January. One day f his older brothers was an infantry scout wounded twice. He went into action after the battle of the bulge.
The first time he was wounded was from shrapnel from a 20mm. The second was from shrapnel from a short round of “friendly” artillery. All of my uncles from both sides of the family are gone now.
They truly were a part of the greatest generation. Forged in the Great Depression and tempered in war, they came home and built the great and prosperous nation that we were fortunate to grow up in.
Patton Museum.
My wife and did a 3 day “Road Trip”. The Patton Museum was our first destination. (The rest rest of the trip we made up as went. Visited the birth place of ‘The Bourbon Ball” candies. But I digress.)
I didn’t know that they were planning to move most of the armor to a base down south. Fortunately, they hadn’t done it yet.
(A side note. My Mom’s uncle was one of Patton’s translators. I knew him but I was just a kid. To young to realize what that meant and ask questions.
(But I did work with an Italian WW2 later. A two man crew. He told me some stuff. He ended up in Dachau. But that’s another story.)
I made a mistake. Cobra King was not restored to operational condition. The interior was so badly damaged they did not restore it. However the exterior was restored to the standard it was when the tank entered Bastogne and the 76 mm gun on it was removed and the shorter barreled 75 mm that it had when it broke through was installed.
About 15 or 20 years ago the Army made “leading transformational change” a large part of officer evaluations. It led to rejecting methods, policies, and organziational norms established from lessons learned in favor of finding something to change. Rewarding leaders for doing something different instead of doing the right thing drives good Soldiers away and reduces how many will push back against idiocy.
Change is not the same thing as progress.
With a 5-7 gallon commercial bucket for scale…
The alleged green Army is just so, underwhelming here.
Let’s see how their North Carolina floating array deals with severe thunderstorms or tornadoes with an occasional hurricane visit.
Not just storms but how about bird poop, dust and grime? Anywhere there is water there are often water birds, like geese, ducks, etc. And just because they are floating on water doesn’t mean there won’t be dust and dirt blown onto them from the land….
But yes, a tornado or hurricane and those panels will be blown into the next county!
By compare, I can’t say I’ve ever heard of a traditional power plant (in this country) ever being destroyed or even seriously damaged by any kind of storm or natural disaster.
They may not be putting all of their eggs in one basket, but these “eggs” are in a mighty fragile basket and just asking to get busted.
I see that the sign saying “No Stone Skipping Allowed” was cropped out of the picture.
I’ve skipped roof shingles on pond water. I think those solar panels will skip when they are in pieces.
(roof shingles are weighty which helps spin them and helps them skip further)
That’s barely sufficient to power my house on a sunny summer day
Maybe if they tilt the solar arrays just right they can blind the enemy and then bop them on the head with their vegan lunch snacks.
It must be climate scare week again in the Biden Admin.
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Yellen warns climate change is causing major financial losses in U.S. (cnbc.com)
It is the catch all excuse for anything and everything.
I like the image of the tanks with solar panels. That got me imagining an aircraft carrier which must dedicate the entire flight deck to solar panels- well, if it didn’t have nuclear energy because of course the military will not be allowed any fossil fuels come nut zero.
I seem to recall a story when Bill Clinton was elected.
The air force did a fly over. One of the top Dems was offended that the military had a presence and said so to someone near them. The response was something along the lines that, “But now those are OUR planes.”
I suppose if by some disaster Brandon is reelected, the planes will be Wright Flyers with solar panels on their wings.
(Side note. I’m not sure if it was Bill or Hillary that insisted that the military guards at the White House NOT be in uniform.)
This is so stupid. She needs to be fired today. The first bullet fired, the first artillery round fired, the first mortar round fired what good is her worthless climate preaching then. Get rid of her and everyone else like her. The US military is there to protect us from bad guys not to be the social science laboratory for a bunch of low life activists.
A structure which is primarily designed to destroy, kill, burn and explode things also needs to be climate friendly? 🙂
This is beyond moronic.
Sorry, but the role of a nation’s armed forces to to force another nation to submit to the will of their government using either the threat or application of force.
They should obtain that force by the most effective method possible, or take a knee to another nation who is more prepared to obtain effective force.
How’s this for delicious irony? Seems the old Axis powers are on our side if you include the love the climate changers have for Toyota San for not going all in on EVs-
Germany angers EU after putting brakes on fossil fuel car ban (msn.com)
You never want to hold grudges except against Commies. LOL.
From the article: ““As extreme weather becomes commonplace, the Army must adapt its installations, acquisition programs, and training so that the Army can operate in this changing environment and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth in a Wednesday press release.”
Extreme weather *is* commonplace, it has happened from the creation of the Earth, and there is NO evidence connecting extreme weather to CO2. Extreme weather is a natural phenomenon that is an integral part of stormy weather. The U.S. Army is not going to put a stop to extreme weather, no matter how hard they try. Such hubris! Such stupidity! It doesn’t take a genius to figure out there is no real connection between CO2 and Earth’s weather, extreme or otherwise, but this Army Secretary can’t figure it out.
The Army Secretary should focus on our human enemies and leave the CO2 science fiction to others. Of course, that won’t happen because she is a radical, clueless Democrat, with radical clueless bosses.
I wonder what Trump would have to say about her? If Trump is elected in 2024, I doubt he would keep her on, or any of the other lunatics trying to run our miliary right now.
The U.S. is in the weakest position it has been in since I was born and it’s all the fault of these delusional Democrats who don’t have a clue about the real world or how to operate in it. The only thing Democrats are good at is criminal activity. They are very good at that. But that doesn’t help our national defense, it harms it, as is being done now by these lunatic lefty idiots.
Bet she doesn’t know anything about the Battle of The Bulge or the Frozen Chosen, where the US forces suffered more cold injuries than those from enemy action.
Th US Navy is also suffering.
I hear that all new ships will be name USS Titanic 1, USS Titanic 2, …
“While the Army cannot address all or even most GHG emissions, the right initiatives, investments, and policies can significantly reduce Army GHG emissions, while at the same time enhancing readiness.”
The ‘tell’ here is the last clause. It points to the the real concern that taking on policy priorities outside that of defense of the nation compromises its raison d’être. It shows they know this and want to pre-empt the rightful criticism it invites.
Wokies seem unaware that these tack-on tells are windows into their witless thoughts.
I recall a few years ago when the first women passed training for one of the elite military units, I don’t remember which (the Navy Seals?), the General said that the standards weren’t lowered just for the women. He didn’t say that the standards weren’t lowered for everybody so they could pass.
One year ago: Putin will lead Russia to strategic defeat in Ukraine, says Blinken
https://realclimatescience.com/
It sounds to me like Blinken will be correct.
Things are not going well for Putin, in Ukraine and internally in Russia.
This agrees with my take on the war in Ukraine.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/the_uss_march_of_folly_in_ukraine.html