General LaCamera Takes Command of USFK
From the Stars & Stripes:
Gen. Paul LaCamera, described by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as a “quiet warrior” who “drives results,” has taken command of U.S. Forces Korea, United Nations Command and Combined Forces Command.
“Our alliance – forged in blood in the crucible of the Korean War – has been the bedrock of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula for more than 70 years,” LaCamera said during a Friday ceremony at Barker Field that included video remarks from Austin and flyovers by A-10 Warthogs and F-16 Fighting Falcons.
“I look forward to us getting together in the true spirit of one team, to strengthen our alliance and to propel it to even great heights,” LaCamera, who previously commanded U.S. Army Pacific, told an audience that included the head of Indo-Pacific Command, Adm. John Aquilino, and South Korean defense minister Suh Wook.
Stars & Stripes
You can read more at the link, but the prior USFK commander General Abrams is retiring after 39 years of service.
Let’s hope this one doesn’t continue to extend the USFK Public Health Emergency (PHE). After all it’s no longer an emergency.
Not one person in USFK has died, so find some other tool: PH Warning?, Urgency? Concern? Matter? … It’s not an emergency.
Gen Abrams’ current PHE expires 19 Jul. Let’s hope this one is no blue-state governor.
Dream on.
You don’t get that position unless you are a salad-tossing suckup to whatever political whim the Deep State is directing the media to push.
Be it gaslighting with fake pandemics, building war strategy around global warming, or making sure there are plenty of trannies to go around, these shoe clerks in uniform will support any stupidity that gets them promoted at the expense of readiness and ability.
Let’s be honest… despite trillions in sci-fi equipment the military couldn’t beat a bunch of illiterate goat herders using homemade rifles.
This is because the Deep State and their politician lackeys don’t want to win… and they promote officers who don’t want to win.
…so the chance of this guy being a winner is…
…roughly zero.
“After all it’s no longer an emergency.”
Heh yeah and the curfew (big one not the 2ID one) came about due to 9/11. What year did that finally go away?
🙂
@CH, Quietly, I had the same premonition about this guy, but I still had to announce my hope for July 20th. He looks like “one of those”*
* who drives a car, alone, w/ the windows rolled up, wearing a mask.
Don’t have too high of expectations.
General Abrams shared his name with a tank but LaCamera’s name is just French for The Camera.
Kid died at Shaw last year. F16 crash.
Here are the facts surrounding that case: He wasn’t qualified to do night refueling, which was a part of that exercise. The SOF told him to try to land on his broken landing gear (if the SOF was unsure he was supposed to call lockheed, which has a 24 hour number to call for these types of questions). And best of all…the ejection system in the plane wasn’t working, and hadn’t been working since 2017. Somehow maintenance was about to get the jet qualified for three years straight with a faulty ejection system.
But remember folks, our biggest concern in the world right now is diversity and transgender awareness.
Liz, you’re missing the point. The Chinese, Russians, and Iranians who are bankrolling our politicians don’t want the US to have any military at all. Not even a bunch of mincing nancyboys in pastel leather by Hugo Boss.
I am sorry for the kid. And whoever sent him up there in a broken jet in peacetime ought to be facing a General Court-martial for murder and falsifying government documents.
But they won’t. The bureaucrats protect their own.
In other news, the General has taken training in Thailand.
BTW, the official report on that F-16 crash blamed the pilot, not his leadership who ignored/disregarded multiple USAF directives and who ought to have been specifically called out in the summary findings. His leadership as much as killed him deliberately.
Abominable lack of courage on the part of the review board.
Exactly, Setnaffa. Yes, the kid made “pilot errors” which will happen when he is scheduled for a training mission he was never qualified to do. Leadership failure all around.
[Liz rant coming]
One of the worst things about bureaucracy is the way it divorces consequences from actions. Results don’t matter as long as consequences can be attributional. So if maintenance can point to a faulty ejection system and say, “hey not our fault we didn’t get the parts but we got authorization to fly that jet!” all is square and responsibility is deflected.
It’s nuts.
This is why a lot of military leadership hated Trump.
He didn’t play the game the way they’d learned the rules, and got between them and their rice bowl by expecting results and asking, “why the hell are we doing this?”
[/the Liz rant has ended]
[/the Liz rant has ended]*
*for now
@Liz, rant all you want, it’s nice to hear from a retired spouse who never wore her spouses rank or fit the description of a dependapotamus.
Thank you for your tolerance, ROK Drop folks.
😆
And hope you all have a great fourth of July.
God Bless.
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1411455386721439747?s=20
Here is the article of the incident that Liz is talking about:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/11/09/pilot-error-leadership-failures-and-faulty-ejection-seat-led-to-fatal-june-f-16-crash-at-shaw/
I had no idea that a fighter aircraft can be allowed to fly with a inoperable ejection seat that ultimately ended up killing the pilot. It just seems ridiculous to me.
You guys are really terrible trying to assign blame.
The article clearly points out that the problem was with “key execution anomalies”.
Don’t blame people for the effects of anomalies.
The system is clearly to blame.
I thank God quite often for not being killed by a key execution anomaly.
If we ever meet, remind me to tell you of a flight with the DCM that almost ended badly. I think the plane had been sabotaged.
I am very glad you weren’t killed by a key execution anomaly too, Setnaffa!
Blaming the system makes it very easy to obfuscate responsibility.
By contrast, changing the system requires taking on responsibility.
Most problems are people problems.
@GI, I, too, would have bet a paycheck a non-op ejection seat = grounded plane. I remember old SAC where a Bent Spear was declared if there was a flat tire on a bomb loader … let alone the plane.
It’s possible he died of embarrassment (before impact):
He flubbed the refueling, royally screwed the pooch on an otherwise routine night landing, had to execute a go-around, had to endure another pilot inspecting his jet and listen to how bad it’s fucked up (at this point the guy is thinking he might as well change his call-sign to “Mishap Pilot”), missed hitting the barricade, crash-landed his plane as a result (which he sees burning from his suddenly gained bird’s eye view), and now, the chute’s not opening. What else could possibly go wrong?
I mean, I’d be dead of embarrassment before hitting the ground. Making impact would take the pain away, and saves mishap pilot from having to explain it all.
A few years back (from what I’ve been told), they put life support in charge of the ejection system instead of maintenance. They had few issues before, but much more since. At the last base they had to ground the jets for a short time to fix that problem. Similar issues, different airframe.
Does General LaCamera make the Taliban pose for their headshots?
Ref the first comment on this post:
He extended the PHE today; couldn’t wait for the 19th; and made it effective for 90 days at that!
Shit. Abrams’ first PHE was only 30 days.
Different day, same shit.
LaPorte, LaCamera, LaLaLand… if they keep putting these French generals in charge, they will get French military results.
USFK has an “over 80% vaccination rate”. What do they have to be afraid of? They are immune, right? Right?
JAMA pediatrics weighs in on masks for children. Confirmation of the CO2 problem that has been mentioned here before.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2781743
“This leads in turn to impairments attributable to hypercapnia. A recent review6 concluded that there was ample evidence for adverse effects of wearing such masks. We suggest that decision-makers weigh the hard evidence produced by these experimental measurements accordingly, which suggest that children should not be forced to wear face masks.”
I am a big fan of American children wearing masks… and getting the vaccine… and all the boosters.
This is valuable large-scale medical data we wouldn’t be able to collect if we just used small samples of orphans, hard to evaluate cognitive effects on the retarded, and questionable data from sickly quasi-human Africans.
While this kind of stuff is always frowned upon by future historians, they overlook the valuable contributions to mankind.
Without this kind of research, we might never have really known that injecting blue dye into eyes doesn’t make a Jew into an Aryan or that you can economically sterilize Gypsies in large numbers.
As a bonus, in this case, it doesn’t necessarily tell us who the good parents are… but it informs us of the smart ones.
We want those kids to live.