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James48

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February 28, 2022

Open Source data

Here is a good page that details the normal staffing and equipment of the typical Russian Motor Regiment armor company, so you can see the breakdown of people and equipment:

https://www.battleorder.org/ussr-tanks-1980s

February 27, 2022

Standing up to a tank

Did you see this? I just did.

Citizens in Ukraine standing up to Russians with their bare hands.


https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/1497650209077215233?s=21

February 22, 2022

Ukraine /Russia

So I’m watching some of the video that is being shown of all the military vehicles, and trying to catch city names.

So far, all the convoys I have seen have only been small unit size- a platoon of tanks or vehicles, a company of artillery at most. I measured one location on the map as 2.6 miles to the Ukraine border, but still inside Russia.

What, if any open source Intel are any other veterans seeing. I’m seeing weapons systems rolling, but I’ve not see much actual ammo boxes being stored on trucks, or other indications of imminent combat readiness in any of the photos. Are you?

February 22, 2022

My biggest fear at this moment

Is that we are sending huge numbers of sensitive weapons into Ukraine.

Anti tank missiles, I would presume anti-aircraft manpads, and a while range of advance ground and air weapons, and , even if there isn’t a long war- lots of those weapons go missing.

That would be very, very bad too.

February 22, 2022

Why isn't there a "military members" thread?

Military members are a significant size common interest group. So why not a file forum for military members?

Or should it just generically go under “national security”?

Because these days I see the two aren’t necessarily aligned, so maybe it would be better to divide the forums? .

Or maybe “veterans” and “military members “ should be one group.

Your thoughts?

February 21, 2022

Jackson heads to court in Cross Village conspiracy-fueled plot

The saga continues -

“ Jackson heads to court in Cross Village conspiracy-fueled plot”

CROSS VILLAGE — A woman who faces fraud charges after she was accused of plotting to “clone” voting data from a ballot tabulator is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in 90th District Court, though some local officials say they’re frustrated no one has yet been charged in a related break in.

“I feel like everyone in the judicial system is just trying to cover it up,” Cross Village Township Clerk Diana Keller said. “They should be bringing in people who were there, and asking them why they were there, under oath.”

Tera Jackson of Petoskey was arrested in October on felony charges of fraud and unauthorized access of a computer related to an incident at the township hall Jan. 14, 2021, court records show.

(Says she was hired by Sidney Powell)

Witnesses, including Township Trustee Howard Wood, told police Jackson said she worked for Sidney Powell and a so-called “Election Integrity Commission” and needed them to “clone” or back up data on the township’s ballot tabulator before it was “wiped clean.”

Powell is a New York attorney known for espousing conspiracy theories and who once worked with former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on behalf of Trump in failed election-challenging legal efforts.



More: https://www.record-eagle.com/news/jackson-heads-to-court-in-cross-village-conspiracy-fueled-plot/article_8eb2508c-90fe-11ec-ac06-cb296f867f15.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1EleB6qcdUWQ6U6EfPSm4igC-kvRhir99ZXn6xlZ69rwjoV_MB822D2_Y

February 10, 2022

3 Mackinaw City hotels accused of bait-and-switch

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Customers who booked Mackinaw City hotel rooms with access to a waterpark were sent to a different hotel without comparable amenities and were refused a refund, the Michigan Attorney General says.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has issued a notice of intended action to Beach House Hotel, Crown Choice Inn & Suites and Hamilton Inn Select Beachfront for deceptive practices, the Department of Attorney General said in a Wednesday release.

More:

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/3-mackinaw-city-hotels-accused-of-bait-and-switch/amp/

Yikes!

This is more detailed:

AG’s Office goes after major Mackinaw City hotel owners

https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2022-02-09/ags-office-goes-after-major-mackinaw-city-hotel-owners

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Was once a republican. long long ago, in a far, far away place. I apologize.
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