Military Ring Info

I don’t know if you remember the recent post that we did on the CIA suicide bomber who managed to blow himself up and kill 7 CIA agants and his Jordanian handler in a suicide bomb attack in an CIA outpost in Afghanistan.

Well my beloved military ring customers a video which he made before his death has surfaced. In the video he talks about he is misleading his handlers and his plans to blow them up. He is also saying that the opportunity to kill some American CIA at the same time has come up and he was planning to take advantage of it. He also talks about how he has misled the Jordanians by providing them with false information.

The essence of his suicide attack seems that he really wanted revenge on the Jordanian government. It seems to me (and I could be wrong) that he regarded the Jordanian government as traitors because of their past support of the US and its allies. He seemed to view his recruitment as a spy as an opportunity for him to be able to contribute to the war efforts against the US and its allies.

The AirSea Battle is a concept for fighting a future war with China. This strategy is based on the types of weapons that the Chinese are procuring at a rapid pace and looks at what we need to do to defeat them.

I am not saying that the US and the Chinese are going to war at any time but my beloved military ring customer we must plan for each and every contingency lest something happens and we are caught by surprise.

Military forces must be adapted to fight current and future battles. You can’t use past tactics and equipment to fight a present or future war. Just look at our situation now. Look at the war that my Desert Storm Military Ring Customers and the war that my Iraqi Freedom Ring customers had to fight. Those wars are totally different from the war that my Enduring Freedom Ring customers are currently fighting.

If you go back to Vietnam, those military ring customers fought an all together different type of war. Military tactics, plans, and equipment must constantly change and adapt to the current situation. 

The Precision Guided Mortar Munition is a new mortar round which the Army is developing. This new round will increase mortar accuracy enough to take out point or hard targets. This is very significant to me for two reasons.

Not all of you custom military ring customers are aware that is is difficult to get direct hits on targets with mortars. A mortar is an indirect fire weapon which kills be showering shrapnel on the target, not by hitting the target directly. In addition the mortar fires a high angle trajectory. Now my military ring customers who are fire direction specialists understand the ramifications of this but most other military ring customers probably don’t. What this means is that when a mortar fires a shell it fires it into the air at an angle greater than 45 degrees so the shell travels more distance up into the air than it travels across the ground. While it is in the air it is buffeted more by the wind and weather effects. This causes it to be moved around and thrown off course. Many of these factors can be identified and corrected before it is fired but there is still an effect.

The next good thing about the precision guided munition is that it gives the lower level commander an option to use a precision weapon. Normally precision weapons are only used by division level commanders and higher. The precision mortar will give the task force and company level commanders the opportunity to take advantage of precision bombs.

In  a recent terror attack in the Southern Phillipines the terrorist group Abu Sayef which is linked to the Taliban has killed 11 innocent civilians including women and children.

The attack was believed to have been conducted by about 70 of the militants who attacked the village at night while its inhabitants were asleep. According to the news report that I read the used automatic weapons and grenade launchers to indiscrimminately shoot up the residences. They also set fire to several other residences in the attack.

The attack was believed to be in retaliation to the governments recent killing of one of their top leaders.

Maybe I am the one with the problem here my military ring customers but I can’t see why anyone would want to slaughter innocent people in their sleep. It’s just down right lowdown if you ask me.  It makes perfect sense to the terrorists for some reason. Thats why they continue to do it.

There is much debate on the don’t ask don’t tell policy of the US military regarding the service of gays in the armed forces.

First of all lets remember that gay men and women have always served in the military and always will. I say that we should not deny anyone the right to serve in the armed forces for any reason other than that person not meeting the minimal physical or mental requirements of military service.

On the other hand we must keep in mind my military ring customers that the military is a unique organization and there are certain rules of order which must be maintained because of the nature of their job. The military is not a organization which can afford to promote indivuality. All must conform to its established and proven protocols.

For example there are dress regulations, haircut regulations, standards of conduct, etc. These have been proven over years to be effective in maintaining military order and can’t be overlooked or relaxed.

Whether a person is gay or not should not be a standard of military service. The terms of the military take precedence over the likes or dislikes of the individual. Anyone who meets the standards that the military required should be allowed to serve, but sexual orientation can’t be flaunted. A soldier either male or female should look and behave like a soldier.

The Taliban mounted an attack which killed about 15 people in Kabul recently. The attack was conducted against a compound which housed foriegners and was executed by 5 Taliban fighters.

This low scale attack seems to indicate that the Taliban is weak considering that that is the best that they could muster during the time of the NATO offensive which is currently being mounted against them. Lets not jump to conclusions because they have known for a long time that they can’t win against our larger and technologically advanced forces so maybe they were just making a statement.

The attack on foriegners may have been designed to garner world opinion against the US and its allies. If so it just seems to be a futile waste of life to me. It may be time for terrorists to reevaluate their tactics of killing innocents. It intimidates, but it only intimidates a small sector of people. After all of the terror attacks over the years people in the United States and other countries do not live in fear of what terrorists will do next. http://www.militaryringexpress.com

The Army is fielding a family of vehicles called manned ground vehicles MGV. The MGV will perform many of the functions that the Army now uses different types of vehicles to perform but they will all have the same chassis so the majority of their parts etc. will be interchangeable.

These vehicles will be lighter and more mobile than the current vehicles that the Army uses to perform the same functions. At the same time they will employ better technology and better firepower. Advanced technology will also give them very good protection from enemy weapons even though they will be smaller.

Another advantage is that they will be easier to transport because of their smaller size and lighter weight. This will enable the Army to move soldiers and equipment to the place where they are needed quickly and easily. They will also be able to snuff out small fires wherever they may occur.

There are several of these vechiles which we will mention here today they are;

1) The Reconnaissance and Survey Vehicle (RSV) which will be outfitted with sensors which will give it the capability to conduct day and night all weather intelligence gathering missions. I imagine that this vehicle will be used as a scout vehicle for our custom army ring customers who are scouts.

2) The Mounted Combat System (MCS) which is a small version of the tank. This vehicle will have the capability to fire at targets out to 5 miles which will be beyond its line of sight (BLOS). All of our tanker ring customers will be proud of this one.

3) The Non Line of Sight Cannon which is a 155mm cannon. This cannon will have the capability to fire 155mm artillery rounds faster than the current 155mm artillery pieces that the Army currently uses. This artillery piece is so good that it has the capability to fire multiple rounds and have them to impact simultaneously. It does this by shooting each round at a different trajectory. The field artillery ring customers who use this piece of equipment will be able to accomplish more with less personnel.

4) The Non Line of Sight Mortar which is a high angle firing system. The mortar has the ability to fire rounds over the top of mountains or high hills and hit a target on the backside. Our infantry ring customers who are mortarmen will be even more flexible in their ability to perform their mission.

5) The Field Recovery and Maintenance Vehicle (FRMV) will be used to remove broken down or damaged vehicles from the battlefield. It will have a 2-3 man crew of mechanics who can perform quick fixes or evacuate the vehicle and its crew to the rear for higher level repairs. Our military mechanics ring customers will be able to respond faster and provide maintenance support far forward then in the past.

6) The Infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) will carry a crew of 2 along with a 9 man infantry squad. It will be armed with a 30mm MK-14 cannon and a 7.62mm machine gun. It will able to perform day or night and during all types of weather. The infantry ring customers that it carries will have a weapons platform to support them when they dismount.

7) The Medical Vehicle will be able to provide advanced trauma care and life support right on the battlefield. This will be a wonderful addition and will certainly save lives. It will also be used to evacuate the wounded or injured to the rear for even more advanced medical care.

The Command and Control vehicle will be used to maintain command and control on the battlefield. It will be equipped with advanced sensors and communications to help the commander to manage the battlefield. We will have to integrate the design of this vehicle into our military ring designs once it is fielded.

I know that everyone of you have probably heard the tune taps played maybe at a military funeral or at the end of the day. I have done a post on this wonderful piece before, but today I was reading a story about a bugler who wants it to become a national tune of remembrance and I totally agree. I remember this song from my days of doing funeral details in the military and it never failed to touch a place in my heart when it was played. All of you military ring customers have heard it I’m sure. A good bugler knew how to work taps for all that it was worth.

This song was adopted from a tune called “Extinguish Lights” during the Civil War, and has been used by our military ever since. It has been adapted and improved upon over the years and our military is not the only military that uses it.

The notes really carry the meaning of this tune well. I will stop whatever I am doing to listen and to recite the words in my mind. I really got to hear it a lot because I did a lot of funerals in my day. Sometimes family members of the deceased would be fine all during the service but would breakdown when taps were played.  It is such a beautiful, touching piece of music. 

The chinese government is obviously ticked about the recent deal that our government made to sell 6.4 billion dollars worth of military equipment to Taiwan. The deal is not new but it is a part of a bigger deal made a few years ago. The Chinese government cancelled all exchanges which were scheduled with us immediately after they learned of the deal.

Well my advice to China would be this; “You win some and you lose some.” Why can’t you take a joke?

The Chinese have been threatening a military takeover of Taiwan so they definitely don’t want to see the Taiwanese in anything that looks like a position of strength. We certainly don’t dance to the music of the Chinese or anyone else for that matter. There have been numerous incidents in the past of Chinese sword rattling but you may have noticed that our State Department never plays that game. Once again my military ring customers I will say as I have said before, watch China.