June 30, 2012
Please note, all text with quotation marks is taken from Kate Wiltrout's article in the Virginian-Pilot.
"The Navy will not use a target depicting a Muslim woman holding a gun at a new training range for SEALs in Virginia Beach.
The announcement came hours after the Council on American-Islamic
Relations asked the Pentagon to remove the target. A picture of the
cardboard target, which shows a woman in a headscarf holding a pistol,
was published in The Virginian-Pilot on Tuesday. The image shows verses
of the Quran hanging on the wall behind the woman, which also
generated criticism from the group.
Nihad Awad, executive director of the Washington-based council, said
in the letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dated Friday that the
target "is offensive and sends a negative and counterproductive message
to trainees and to the Muslim-majority nations to which they may be
deployed."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we the tax payers just spent millions of dollars to open a new training center for our special forces. Obviously, we would all want it to be as realistic as possible. But, that is not going to be.
"Naval Special Warfare Group Two, which oversees SEAL teams 2, 4, 8
and 10 at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, has not yet put the
$11.5 million facility to use.
The 26,500-square-foot building contains 52 interconnected spaces,
including mock-ups of markets, a hospital, schools, a bank, a bus depot
and two mosques. It will allow small groups of SEALs to practice enemy
engagement at close range.
Many of the details were taken from actual raids over the past
decade, Capt. Tim Szymanski, the commodore of Naval Special Warfare
Group 2, said during a tour of the facility Monday."
Religions of all stripes are continuing to push their tentacles into our government. They are ongoingly trying to change our laws and policies based on their so-called religious tenets. What the hell has happened to our society? I don't guess there's much else to say.
I've started many projects and finished few. My goals for this new venture, or possibly adventure, are few and modest at this time. I recently purchased a Honda CBR250R and I'll try to chronicle what happens as I try to relearn motorcycle riding skills after having not ridden regularly since about 1970. I hope to do a modest amount of traveling or touring, with my first venture planned for the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. I invite you to follow along if you're so inclined.
Also, I'm going to be posting rants, if you will, about religion, politics, so-called complimentary and alternative medicine in addition to anything else that comes along that I find interesting. Please excuse how the format of this blog/website. Though I have many blogs, I'm a neophyte at best in how to properly design them.
Also, I'm going to be posting rants, if you will, about religion, politics, so-called complimentary and alternative medicine in addition to anything else that comes along that I find interesting. Please excuse how the format of this blog/website. Though I have many blogs, I'm a neophyte at best in how to properly design them.
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