This is a silly thing to get hung up on. A soldier in the Army statistically has little chance of seeing combat. Only about 10% of US soldiers actually pull any trigger, as in serve as infantry, artillery or cavalry. Not all of those even see real combat.

If (then) MSG Walz had deployed, unless his command post was overrun by the enemy (super unlikely) he wouldn't have seen combat. Even if he didn't deploy, he's guaranteed to have at least carried his assigned rifle, during that time.

Anyway, you're getting upset about something the guy said years ago about how dangerous assault rifles are. Being a hunter, he knows that they would rip apart anything you shot with them, so there wouldn't be much left to eat.

They fooled enough voters the first time the question is will those same voters be foolish enough to be fooled a second time?

Brave man willie brown… see the teeth on Kamala…

That's not all I've got. The title of the thread really should put emphasis on "of the week" because this junk happens all the time, and the tale of Willie and the helicopter is bonkers. Trump is a fountain of nonsense. In the same week, he held a press conference at Mar A Lago, and again, spewed nonsense.

http://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/08/us/trump-press-conference-fact-check

Now that Biden is out, and Trump is filling in as the old man who's slipping, Trump's craving attention leaves him making up stories to create headlines.

This week, Trump insists he was in a helicopter forced to make an emergency landing with former San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown (Kamala Harris' ex-boyfriend).

* When asked to confirm, Brown denied he ever rode a helicopter with Trump
* Suspecting Trump confused Mayor Brown with California Governor Jerry Brown, Governor Gavin Newsom said he was in a helicopter with both, and the helicopter had no problems.
* Trump insists that he didn't confuse the two Browns, and that the helicopter was in New Jersey--begging the questions: Why would Willie Brown be in a helicopter in New Jersey with Trump, and why doesn't anybody else know about this?

"OK Grandpa. Time to get you back to bed!"

http://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/politics/trump-helicopter-story-willie-brown/index.html

1. I'm not performing mental gymnastics. I'm just clarifying what seems to confuse you. I know the National Guard because I was in the California National Guard for decades, myself. A Guard soldier can retire at will after completing at least 20 years of service. However, when you retire, you don't get to retire at your highest rank unless you've held it for at least two years. That MN Gard officer is saying that Walz didn't retire as a CSM/E-9, but rather a MS/E-8. Walz was a CSM. At the moment his retirement took effect, he was a Master Sergeant. Both are true.

2. Saying he "carried weapons in war" isn't the same as serving in combat. Wars come and go, and one's place in them isn't always in combat. During the first Gulf War, I was in Texas, and we had our weapons, even though I didn't leave that state. Soldiers in my neighboring unit deployed to Iraq. They never saw combat, either. We all carried our issued weapons during that time. However, Walz's statement that those M-16 rifles have no business in civilian use, is just as true.

That's not in the job description for vice president. The V.P. has to periodically inquire about the health of the president and break ties in the senate. She's already broken more ties than any other V.P. and she has lunch with Biden every week. Sorry if you missed that. As far as lowering costs, that's obviously a continuing effort.

she's really good

If the government has a good case, it would've been tried long ago. It's probably taken this long because of all the mistakes that were made by overzealous Bush Administration officials, and people now realizing that taking the case to court would assure KSM's release on numerous technicalities.

How do you know there were no injuries, and since when does torture have to cause visible injuries? You would only find it inconvenient to be waterboarded? How about 189 times? You are either mistaken or a liar.

There's no evidence they got any useful information from waterboarding over regular interrogation techniques, and being information obtained by torture, it's unreliable, because that's when the prisoner says literally anything to make it stop. Lie more, spout the truth, or get details wrong, and none of it is admissible in court. So much for the death sentence, when then guy was waterboarded almost 200 times.

Except that they came up with a bipartisan solution and Trump killed it to keep it being a problem before the election. So the continuing mess is really on Trump.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4459861-trump-praises-collapse-of-bipartisan-border-deal/

You're upset that KSM wasn't executed before being convicted? Neat. The real problem was the mishandling by the CIA under GW Bush. They used "enhanced interrogation techniques" (torture) hundreds of times, making anything they get from him unreliable and inadmissible in court, and complicating chances of even getting a conviction, while probably breaking international law. No, this was just a mess, and getting the plea deal was probably the best outcome available, anymore.
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Plea deal now off the table , perhaps he will get just treatment , death sentence.. Waterboarding was a useful means for the U.S. to gain important information about that attack…

Ha ha. You fell for the right-wing media lies.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/conservatives-insist-biden-confusingly-boarded-wrong-airplane-heres-what-actually-happened/

Considering he got the deal done, despite requiring cooperation with Russia, Germany, Slovenia, Norway Poland and Turkey, your assessment appears misinformed. This was a huge deal and Russia gave up 16 political prisoners in exchange for 8 Russian criminals. It was years in the making and despite all Trump's complaining, was better than anything Mr. "Art of the Deal" has done.

It's not my job, anymore, to be informed about military systems, but I do still like to follow current events, and your hysteria about a Russian ship off our coast just seems a little alarmist. Maybe if you really want to get upset, go look up Russian submarine capabilities. I'm sure those things come much closer than Cuba, any day of the week, and we have no way of knowing, as I'm sure the US Navy does likewise. And, again, I'm not fretting about it.

Maybe your alarm is from Republican talking points. Are we supposed to be scared of Russians in Cuba because of Biden & Harris, while you conveniently ignore Trump's failures and pretend Harris will get us attacked? 9/11 happened during the Bush Administration--not Clinton or Obama, and Obama's the one who got Bin Laden after Bush gave up. Trump's the guy who disbanded the NSC Pandemic Response Team back in 2018, and we all see how badly that turned out.

The president shouldn't be the "big ideas" person; they're the chief executive and they should act on expertly crafted plans. Put Trump in office, who always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, and we end up with the mess of the Trump Administration. And Trump's shown us that he's not worthy of even a basic security clearance, much less the highest position in government.
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What are yo talking about? Who cares what party was in charge on 9/11… it happened. Duh..there is a difference between hysteria and concern. The concern is Russia and China teaming up to threaten the U.S.. Do you really think that we shouldn’t be concerned about that ? And yes considering the past performance in Afghanistan and the miserable failure the Biden administration is responsible for should be a cause for extra concern .. What is Trumps failure? … that no wars were started anywhere during Trumps term ? is peace in the world a failure to you ? and two wars started during Biden’s presidency is a failure? so yes I think a Harris presidency would be another incentive for Russia to expand the war.. weak and inept is what started that war and her presidency will be a continuation of the same..

I didn't say that the only counter weapon system was in Cuba, or even that any weapon system was in Cuba. This forum isn't the place to list all the military defenses of the US, but if you like, you can Google the US Navy's Arleigh Burke class destroyers, and the SM-6s thereon. I'm not worried about any number of Russian warships, considering their impotence around Ukraine. But maybe you can tell me how they'd get around US defenses from even 40 miles away, much less from around the port in Cuba.

I don't worry about Harris with regard to Putin, because I've seen nothing to indicate she'd give in, once Putin says something nice. She won't be inviting the Russian Foreign Minister into the Oval Office, or pledge Ukrainian land to Russia for a quick approval for new hotels in Moscow. There isn't even a rumor of a "pee tape" about Harris. Do you wish we could say the same about Trump?