Controversy over the Combat Infantryman Badge swirled last month following a CBS News investigation that revealed Nehls’ (R-Texas) Combat Infantryman Badge was rescinded in 2023.

He got the badge, but it was revoked.

“A recipient must be personally present and under hostile fire while serving in an assigned infantry or SF primary duty in a unit actively engaged in ground combat with the enemy,” Army regulations stipulate.

“Personnel with other than an infantry or SF MOS [Special Forces Military Occupational Specialty] are not eligible, regardless of the circumstances.”

During the time of his service, the Lone Star rep was working as a civil affairs officer rather than an infantryman or Special Forces soldier, according to CBS.

So he was working in an office, not in combat, but thinks he ‘deserves’ to wear the combat badge anyway.

Classic example of selfish stupidity right there.

My own city’s oversight board (that includes civilians) is essentiallly the same - no bite and little bark.

Last year, a woman in Albany, N.Y., filed a complaint with the civilian board responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct by the city’s police: She believed officers had not thoroughly investigated her claim that the father of her 3-year-old daughter had sexually assaulted the girl.

But when the board asked the Albany Police Department for a copy of the case file and issued subpoenas to compel the investigators to answer questions, the police refused to cooperate. Releasing investigative files, they argued, could endanger victims, according to internal emails.

Eric Hawkins, the police chief, also told the board that he would not allow officers or detectives to cooperate with any of the panel’s investigations because forcing officers to respond to subpoenas would violate the police union’s contract, according to a lawsuit the board filed against the Police Department.

The resistance to the Albany board’s demands is emblematic of the struggles such panels continue to face across the United States, decades after being created to increase police accountability.

JFC already! Then give the civilian oversight committees a mouthful of big sharp teeth so they can force these assholes to be accountable to anyone but themselves!!!

F U CK sakes already!

ACAB x 10,000

Dumb duh dumb dumb duh!

Whelp, had to happen sometime.

The article is pretty graphic with her accusations. If they’re proven true (she has texts, etc) this may the end of McMahon and Laurinaitis.

I posted it here because the question on the poll asks the voter if they’re in the EU or not, so understood the poll as being worldwide.

Nope.

I’m old so remember the before-times when politicians would at least try to hide their hypocrisy. Now nobody cares to even pretend to work for their constituents … they simply say whatever will get them “good” clicks on social media.

sigh

Just as an fyi on the pressure …

“The remains of the Titanic are 12,500 feet deep. Experts say the pressure at that depth is between 370-380 bars.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65934887

1 bar is equal to 14.7 psi (the pressure of the air around us on our bodies at sea level).

370-380 bars is equal to 5366-5511 psi … with the added bonus of an auto-ignited explosion of hydrocarbons (that have concentrated in the sub) after the initial implosion … all completed within 1-3 milliseconds.

The explosion burns everything to ash and dust, which is why only the titanium rear cover and landing gear have been found so far. (The front titanium cover housed the woefully-inadequate “window” and, if it was the failure point, it could be buried in the silt, shattered into pieces or even shot through the Titanic wreck itself … anybody’s guess at this point.)

But you know he will anyway cause he can. :/