Lara joins Pete for PT at Fort McNair in Washingtin, DC, named after Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, an American Army officer who served in World War I and World War II and was killed in an infamous friendly fire incident.
On 25 July 1944, during Operation Cobra, an Eighth Air Force bomb landed in McNair’s foxhole near Saint-Lô when the Army attempted to use heavy bombers for close air support of infantry operations as part of the Battle of Normandy.
I was reminded of Berlin’s McNair Barracks, an oasis of unattractive concrete in Lichtefelde, West Berlin during the 1980s.
US grunts stationed there would have been evaporated quickly, if war had broken out. And they knew it.
Basically, a suicide mission. I visited the the installation only once, at the end of my 4-year Berlin vacation, in order to tick an ETS box. I was a frequent visitor to Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde cemetery nearby.
This morning on the walk downtown I saw many soldiers.
Many were limping, headed towards the main military hospital.
Donald blurted out yesterday:
Wonderful.
John over at The Atlantic Council writes an zillion-word essay, titled Why the Pentagon’s ‘pause’ on weapons to Ukraine backfired, in which he identifies some so-called “restrainers.”
Tucker Carlson
Steve Bannon
perhaps Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Odd Bridge is not on the list.
DoD, meanwhile, sez:
Whatever that means.