A lot of the people in the USA are depending upon the government to bail them out if everything fails. If things do fail, we expect that the government would have to depend on the military forces for both order and supplies. The government is now trying to at least inventory the resources available. It did not look well. 99 % of the power used by the military was generated by civilian sources. As expected as the military has no farms, refineries, etc. The goal is to get the military up to a 90 day storage, generation, food supply etc for its facilities. That means that it at present doesn't have that stock. Because of the current situation in the world, the security of the bases in the US now face new threats, These require hardening the bases against drones and I also think against the threats of millions of illegal and legal aliens that could be a danger in a crisis or create the crisis. If the military is going to survive and remain a source of stability for more than a few days, they will not only have to secure its own supplies, but also seek to enhance those supplies. It would seem that the military in order to survive, and take care of the dependents, will not only fail to provide resources, but be in direct competition for those resources. While it is my opinion, and I wear a tin foil hat, it would seem that if you live in an urban area, you are sc****. I say urban area as I think that being 20 miles from the city core will still be ground 0 in a short time. Inside the Pentagon's doomsday plan to keep America fighting if global war erupts Recent studies have shown that our future for the military does not look good. Only 3 % of the males of draft age even think that they might be interested in the military and 70% of the males in the draft age are at present disqualified. Many would be able to serve if they received some conditional waiver. They ignore lack of education, drug busts, etc. The old pathways to leadership thru the campus ROTC also seems to have some problems. While it is presented in a positive light, the colleges selected and the enhanced status given to the program would seem to indicate a real problem exists. Rather than being critical of these programs, I am glad to see that after a long period of neglecting the needs of the Armed Forces, at least some attention is being placed on the problems that do exist. I have totally given up on any effective civilian defense program in this country. These Five Higher Ed Institutions Join Pete Hegseth’s New Military College List Stock deep and hide well. I think the new survival color is going to be a neutral shade of grey.
I've been watching the erosion of military independence aboard base for more than forty years. We used to have a base bus service that would carry us to town. That was the first to go, because the cab drivers complained. Every unit had a police Sergeant. He kept the grounds around the barracks clean, did minor maintenance, and had working parties to paint and mow the grass. That's all done (often poorly) by contractors now. Next to fall was the messhall, shifting from all enlisted cooks and bakers who did all the ordering and cooking, with Marines on mess duty to do all the cleaning, to all civilian contractors. I've only met one exchange Marine at the PX in the last twenty years. Our mobile maintenance capability has been replaced with just-in-time resupply that usually isn't. We don't even transport our own gear to the port like we used to. Rail and military trailers have been replaced with civilian trucks. The military police were even replaced on the gate with civilian law enforcement for a bit, but that's gone back to all active duty again. The latest thing I noticed was that the steam plant on base was gone. Erased. Grass is planted there now. Everything is heated by gas or electric now. I like what I hear about war fighting and warrior ethos, but I always felt that being able to function independently from the civilian community was part of that.
the micro-nuke plants being bilt for 5 of the larger homeland US military bases are long overdue - technology has been around since the Nautilus sub dayz - not been enough emphasis on the logistics & nutz /bolts of warfare ;;;;;;;;;; the fun is going to be in Greenland >>> putting a nuke plant on foreign soil - can't imagine the power that will be needed for the military and industrial/mining buildup will go conventional ;;;;;;;;;
I worked in that free standing OSHA violation once. There was literally miles of steam and condensate lines under that base.
In 1959 I pulled mess check at the mess hall and I had pulled KP before that. We also pulled CQ duties and policed up the area before Squadron call before breakfast. Problem was that I was assigned a couple airplanes and they had to find someone else to check them out and arm them..They came to the conclusion that the impact on assigned duties and re enlistment rates were costing a lot more than hiring basic skilled civilians to do the duty. I spent nearly 2 years in electronic tech school and was working on the military tests to qualify some missiles and aircraft..After 4 years,and really only being fully qualified for 1, I got out. Pay wasn't good either, went from 124.00 per month as an A 1/c to working part time while in school as a technician processing Navy missile telemetry at White Sands for $400 a month. That was for 30 hour weeks and not 84 and up. Nothing seems to get better in the long run. Most of the stations we were working in were in fact either WW2 or Korean war construction. But in that same time period 1950 to 1960, the military built and qualified the 100 series fighters, modern radar and fire control computers, the B-52 and the C-130. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a semi controlled test aircraft in 1947. By 1957 as an enlisted technician I was working on the F-100 chase plane that had a simple range radar, the F-104 that was testing out the sidewinder missile, the F-102 with a real target radar and the computer to aim it and checked the pins on the F-105. All operational and most able to hit close to Mach 2. In retrospect we didn't make much money and spent a lot of hours, but most of us were very proud of our birds and their cargo. i
