New Marine One Helicopters Aren't Allowed to Carry the President Because They Could Scorch the Lawn
 
Business Insider | By Jake Epstein
Published April 27, 2024 at 4:25pm ET

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The new Marine One helicopters, part of a program that the United States spent $5 billion on, still can't carry President Joe Biden because there's still a risk they will scorch the White House lawn, according to a new report.
 
The rotors and engine exhaust from the Sikorsky-manufactured VH-92 Patriot will occasionally burn the grass when it lands, an issue that was initially identified in 2018, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
 
Because of this unrelenting problem, the new VH-92 is only carrying White House officials or Secret Service personnel instead of the president himself and is restricted to landing on paved surfaces, the report said. Older VH-3D Sea King helicopters will continue to transport Biden from the iconic, traditional South Lawn takeoff spot.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/27/new-marine-one-helicopters-arent-allowed-carry-president-because-they-could-scorch-lawn.html

I have been seeing it for far too long, and I'm disgusted.

How the Ukraine War Exposes Vulnerabilities in U.S. Ammo Production
By Daniel Christman
April 29, 2024
 
The passage of new funding for military aid to Ukraine means that vital supplies for fending off the continuing Russian invasion will soon be on their way. Ukraine’s continuing shortages in bullets, artillery shells, vehicles, and air defense has shown that the United States and her allies were completely unprepared for the duration of a hot war with Russia. As Russia continues to throw a nearly inexhaustible supply of bodies and bullets against Ukraine, Ukraine’s western allies have been struggling to generate the physical capacity and until now, the political momentum necessary to meet demand. Subsequently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has admitted that his country would lose the war if the U.S. fails to provide sufficient supplies. To prevent a Russian victory, the U.S. must undertake efforts to boost and protect its production capacity.

Due to Ukraine’s growing deficit of 155mm artillery ammunition, its troops are increasingly forced to rely on small arms like rifles, machine guns, sub-machine guns, and pistols to fend off oncoming masses of Russian infantry. Nearly every soldier in Ukraine holds an automatic weapon, and when many sections of the front line have no artillery available at all, Ukrainian troops must expend significant amounts of small arms ammunition as a last line of defense. The U.S. has transferred 400 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades since February 2022, but it is not enough to sustain the long-term fight. For comparison, the U.S. required 1.8 billion rounds of small caliber ammunition during counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2004 alone. 


With all NATO member states facing difficulties in producing the amount of ammunition and equipment needed to support Ukraine’s continued self-preservation, allied countries should examine the manufacturing bottlenecks and vulnerabilities that could worsen the problem. One critical example is the dearth of companies that produce ammunition primers, which ignite the powder in an ammunition cartridge. There are only four fully operational manufacturers of primers in the U.S.: Winchester, which is owned by Olin Corporation, and Remington, Federal, and CCI, which are all owned by Vista Outdoor, Inc.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/04/29/how_the_ukraine_war_exposes_vulnerabilities_in_us_ammo_production_1028056.html

Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_
The Biden Admin has just officially abolished Title IX as we knew it. Now, sex = gender identity. 

In a nutshell, the new rewrite means:
- men can take academic AND athletic scholarships from women
- men will have FULL access to bathrooms, locker rooms, etc
- men could be housed in dorm rooms with women
- students and faculty MUST compel their speech by requiring the use of preferred pronouns

If the guidelines above are ignored or even questioned, then YOU can be charged with harassment.
10:35 AM · Apr 19, 2024

In a nutshell, Riley, I will not comply.  No man worthy of the title will stand by while his daughters, granddaughters, even great granddaughters are treated that way. No woman would either.
It is the job of parents to protect our children.

Where in the Hell are the "feminists"?

Have "women's Rights" become all about killing babies and not protecting their daughters?
Or has that movement been completely hijacked by the GLBTxyz lobby?

The way the BATFE has redefined a machine gun as any part unique to the function thereof.
Or maybe like how the EPA defined Carbon Dioxide as a pollutant.
Let them get away with this stuff once they use it everywhere.

Separation of powers has been severely screwed with.

Exactly right.  Give them an inch and they'll take IX miles.