“I felt like a random email blast to thousands of airmen was an inappropriate way to direct them to essentially prepare for war with a near-peer adversary,” one Air Force officer reportedly stated.
US Air Force officers are reacting with horror to a memo by a top general advising them to prepare for a conventional war against China within two years.
On January 27, thousands of airmen received a communique from Gen. Mike Minihan informing them that his “gut” told him the US “will fight [China] in 2025,” and demanding they be prepared to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most.”
“Aim for the head,” added the memo, which also included instructions to update their virtual ‘Record of Emergency Data,’ which informs the military what to do in the event of a service member’s death.
A number of Air Force members were left dumbfounded by the message, including an officer who recently told Military.com that many of his subordinates could not believe what they were seeing.
“Some of my airmen are going to get scared when they read this memo,” the officer reportedly said. “I felt like a random email blast to thousands of airmen was an inappropriate way to direct them to essentially prepare for war with a near-peer adversary.”
The officer reportedly pointed out it was “inaccurate” to describe a magazine as a ‘clip,’ and that the insistence airmen “aim for the head” was “dramatic.”
Furthermore, he noted the suggestion ran contrary to lessons taught to snipers during marksmanship, which encourage sharpshooters to aim for the center of a target’s mass.
“Someone sarcastically joked, ‘Aim for the head. Spoken like a true marksman!’” the officer reportedly added.
Another pilot pointed out the commands revealed an extraordinarily shallow understanding of the US military’s division of labor.
“I am not aware of a single incident where an aircrew member has shot someone in the head,” the pilot reportedly said. “His direction completely misses the mark. AMC moves cargo; we are not SEAL Team 6.”
Several advisers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a leading US military aligned think tank, also greeted the general’s comments with dismay.
“What we’re effectively signaling is we have no idea, and I’m not sure we understand just how damaging that is,” said an official, who added that “having this menu option of various years… I think comes across as undermining the credibility of our statements and our assessments on precisely the relationship where your words matter.”
Another reportedly added, “I think we are seemingly trying to talk ourselves into a conflict that doesn’t need to occur.”
When I was assigned to the USAF’s Combat Control Team, (the AF equivalent of the SEALs, Delta Force, Marine Recon, etc) we were always taught to aim for the torso area.
In wounding as opposed to killing, this type of ops then ties-up an average of 7 enemy men who have to the care for and transport the wounded enemy out of the Combat Zone.
Men removed from direct engagement…being tied-up with caring for their wounded.
When I was in USAF Basic Training, we all fired the M-16A-1, the S&W Aircrew .38, the AK-47, the Winchester .308 sniper rifle, and eventually the Barrett .50 Cal.
We also trained on the .Browning .50 Cal machine gun, the GAU-17 Mini-Gun (similar to what was seen in ‘The Predator’ movie…), and the M-79 Grenade Launcher.
At the firing range, I always aimed for the head, and was promptly admonished by the T.I. (Training Instructor) for doing so, but my marksmanship didn’t go unnoticed.
Soft Targets are torso-aimed, and considered as the general population of enemies one might encounter.
Hard Targets are sniper-specific designated, ie political figures, enemy commanders, or enemy field Operatives.
There are 15,000 Yanks here in New Zealand.
5,000 are Veterans, and we have these skills, knowledge and the ability to act on them in the event of a national emergency.
After all, if China goes hot (and we hope it won’t), and New Zealand is no longer able or willing to do the normal ‘business as usual’ trade with our largest trading partner next to Oz, then can one imagine Chinese Littoral Zone Vessels launching their LST Landing Craft(s) on the shores of New Brighton, Auckland beaches, or 90 Mile Beach?
Or-
Chinese Paratroopers at night when everyone is asleep.
See the Chinese Supreme Commander’s plans for the U.S.- total extermination of all Americans, while taking what resources are left.
But- I think that those ‘resources’ will be radioactive by the time ‘Hong’ arrives…
Many Chinese who are here in NZ are in the Peoples’ Army Reserve. They can be called at any time.
One measure of how close such activities are is to watch the behaviours of those who would wage war.
If there is arrogance, a sense that their war here is already won, and the passive aggressive treatment grows, then you will need to keep alert, and be ready with a family plan, and engage with other Veterans!
I 100% agree Chinese army folk are here in NZ. For many years now in growing numbers. Likely the 5,000 US veterans as well.
Branding China as a “near peer enemy” is arrogant and ill advised. Especially when the US and NATO are finding they have a long way to go to match Russia. (let alone China) Add in that the experience has exposed cracks and gaps in the wests industrial capacity and conversely proven Russia excels in its ability to produce weapons enmasse even in 2nd gear…. and we get closer to the bald truth.
What the idiot elites via this Ukraine conflict have done is expose the wests weakness and unite Russia and China when it is clear to Scott Ritter and a number of other US and UK military analysts that the west is out of its depth and a dose of humble pie might prevent WWIII.
Unfortunately those elite gods have no eyes or ears and its msm simply want the bucks and not the truth. But what about the ordinary people ?
Yes, Scott Ritter is an amazing analyst! More of his studies, expose’s and appearances along with Patrick Lancaster and John Mark Dugan puts everything into proper perspective.
The monsters in D.C. (District of Criminals) are just that; MONSTERS! The Zionist evil that is seething in the useless souls of those ‘Capitol Hill Entities’ who have been deeply compromised knows no bounds as to what they will do to keep their bank accounts full, and who they will kill to keep it that way!
The only problem with January 6 was that no one came fully-armed to take back the country from the Satanic, Luciferian and highly compromised Masonic Evilarchs from the Zionist Lobby.
It is known that D.C. is actually ‘Israel West’…!
The U.S. has never been, is not now, and never will be a ‘Christian’ Nation; it is a Luciferian Corporate Entity under Admiralty Law that denies basic Common Law Rights to it’s citizens. And,
As John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute has noted, it is also a fully-blown Police State, with the police trained by entities out of Israel.
And based on how the Palestinians have been treated over the last 70 years, that ‘training’ is brutal, murderous and illegal under International Law in most countries.
Had the Citizenry arrived fully armed, (as the U.S. Constitution lawfully demands in throwing off tyranny…) then the corrupt and criminal ‘Legislative Elements’ would be sitting in the D.C. Gulag.
Russia is the last Superpower ‘Christian’ Nation, and Putin has risen up to meet the challenges of the Khazarian Zionist Cabal to insure that another 1917 never, ever happens again by the J3wi$h Bolscheviks.
Interesting that the attacks on Russian Orthodox Christians began in 2014 when the first J3wi$h Ukrainian President was El-ected.
That alone is proof that the Zionist Mafia is trying to steal Russia once again, and Putin will not allow that to happen.
Many American Veterans back in the U.S. are quietly sneaking out of the country and are arriving to serve in the Russian Defence Force. They see the Zionist Talmudic and Noahide Law dangers that are afflicting the U.S. and other nations via proxy wars in behalf of Israel.
They will be successful in defeating the Zio-Communist in the Ukraine, and this time around, the Russians are not the ‘bad guys’; rather, it’s the influences of Tel Aviv in both the U.S. and the Ukraine that are now widely exposed, with their gene-specific bio-weapons labs, their money laundering, and the corruption that ties directly to the last 5 U.S. Presidents and ‘Congressional Bodies’…!
See the YouTube video of Rep. James Traficant as he exposes the massive infiltration of J3wi$h lobby interests of Israel via AIPAC, the ADL, the SPLC and more recently the 110 year old ANTIFA and contemporary BLM, a page right out of Lenin’s ‘Little Red Book’.
the ordinary people , world wide want peace, not war. I just read the above comments and it is scary. Europe and western countries have build their ” wealth” at the cost of low wages countries. I consider it myself as a modern form of slavery.
Europe delocalized all heavy industries such as steal and naval industries already end 1970. Cheap steal etc.
Nowdays a lot of industrial knowledge is lost and gone to china. We reap what we sow.
The US catch cry for WWII was ‘join the army uncle Sam needs you’. Yeah join the defense forces for world wide travel and adventure, meet new people and kill them. For what ? All wars are bankers wars gearing up for wars means gearing up the huge military industrial complex. The only winners are those with interests the manufacturing and sustaining of a war which are the oliagrchs and the bankers who see those participating in the wars as pawns in their ‘war games’. You would think by now they would all just be happy watching it in a matrix.
So you’ll be going over the top first, will you Mike?