08:55 – Front page article in the paper this morning about a traffic accident back in May, where a police car ran a red light and rammed a car proceeding through the intersection on green, killing the driver. The cop wasn’t on a call, wasn’t using drugs or alcohol, nor was he texting, using his patrol car’s computer, or otherwise distracted. He simply didn’t notice the red light. That’s pretty hard to understand, considering there were two lights for the through lanes and a third for the left-turn lane, all red. It was 10:00 at night at a major intersection, so there was no excuse for not seeing the lights. A second patrol car was sitting in the left-turn lane, and its dashcam recorded the collision. The report said the involved patrol car was speeding, but it wasn’t really. The cop was moving at 42 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, which is a normal free-market speed for that road.
The cop was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. Anyone who wasn’t a cop or politician would very likely have been sentenced to jail time for manslaughter, because in today’s way of thinking someone always has to be at fault. In absolute terms, I think that cop received a fair sentence. It was unfair in the sense that anyone should have received that same sentence, but the cop got a pass because he was a cop.
We’re building a couple dozen more science kits today to get our finished-goods inventory built up before the move. By the end of next week, I want to have as many finished kits ready to roll as possible so that we can just label and ship boxes without having to build them on-the-fly. At that point, we’ll be ready to haul half of each type up to the new house once we’ve closed on it the first of next month and be in a position to ship from either Winston-Salem or Sparta. Then we can start building more subassemblies up in Sparta and shift final assembly up there.
We had about 1.25″ of rain overnight, but today is to be sunny with a high in the 70’s. By the weekend, we’ll have highs in the 40’s and lows in the 20’s, so winter will actually be arriving here in Winston. We hope to be living in Sparta by mid-December, just in time for real winter in the NC mountains.
Losing the occasional Mundane to a speeding costumed government thug in a hurry is a small price to pay for the protection they give us and their heroic warrior service to our communities.
Well, there is that. Has a cop EVER gotten a traffic ticket?
Back in 1979 when I was running operations for a security company in Pittsburgh, one of the guys drove out to Gunsite in Paulden, AZ. Our company employees were armed (boy, were we ever armed…) so everyone had to get certified under PA Act 235. Our badges were the Blackinton B-296 models used by a ton of LE agencies. A gold shield with the PA state crest in the middle. Above the crest it said “Certified Officer” and below the crest “State of Pennsylvania”.
So, Harry got pulled by an AZ cop for doing, believe it or not, 94 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. He showed his badge to the cop, who presumably thought Harry was PA State Police. He waved Harry to go ahead, and just asked him to take it easy.
Oh, back in the day when I was still on The Job in Maffachufetts I got away with speeding and DUI more than once, and so did a bunch of other cops. Might still get away with the former nowadays but not the latter. Hell, cops would all be sitting together in one of the usual cop bars and pounding them down until past last call and then drive home. Nobody thought twice about it.
I was involved, in a minor way, in an accident between a volunteer fireman and a civilian. It was at an intersection that sat atop a hill. The volunteer fireman had been recalled for a fire and was racing to the fire station in his POV with lights and siren on. He went through a red light as he is allowed to do and t-boned a teenage girl in the intersection. Totaled both vehicles. Neither driver was seriously hurt. His spare tire tore off from his truck, bounced across the intersection, and slammed into my car door crushing the outer door panel and shattering my window. There was no way the girl in the car could have seen or heard him as he was below the hill when she advanced into the intersection and her windows were rolled up. She wasn’t speeding, had no passengers, did not have her stereo blasting and this was before texting and smartphones were a thing. It’s one of the town’s busiest intersections too. Most emergency vehicles slow to an almost stop before proceeding through that intersection on a red. This guy just blew through it at 70 mph. Something that the volunteer fire fighters are notorious for. They just love to hot dog it a lot more than the professional police and firefighters do. Nevertheless, the accident was automatically 100% her fault because he was an emergency vehicle on route to an emergency and so is automatically not at fault no matter how stupid and imprudent he was being. I told the police and the other VFD that showed up what I thought about it all. I got the look of death from the VFD for having the audacity to say they were anything less than heroes that walked on water.
Okay, this is weird. I just started seeing a light gray double underline in this comment. Hovering the cursor over it expands the abbreviation. I’ve done nothing to cause this to happen, and I wonder where the expanded abbreviation is coming from.
It’s the use of the ABBR element in HTML. In the following example I’ll use square brackets instead of angle brackets to prevent wordpress from parsing it:
[abbr title=”Federal Bureau of Investigation”]FBI[/abbr]
Thanks. I looked at the HTML and noticed that, but I thought some external thing was doing that rather than you doing it. I had that problem once with a green underline appearing under keywords and linking to places you could buy that item. That was some kind of script that had infected Firefox, and I was afraid this was something similar.
Sneaky Chad, sneaky!
nick
On a lighter note, there actually were VICs (Very Important Cats) at the recent G-20:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/17/456346500/cats-invade-g-20-summit-stage-bringing-a-welcome-laugh
There is also another informative video at the end of the article.
If there is any question about the intent of the Jihadists picked up in Hondurous (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/us-france-shooting-honduras-idUSKCN0T72UE20151119) on their way to the USofA, here are 5 that are already here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/19/ohio-police-arrest-five-foreign-nationals-seize-passports-after-search-during-traffic-stop-yields-unexpected-find
The article states: “The men are not suspected to be terrorists or to have any terrorist connections, officials said.” And we trust these “officials” with our safety? I think not!
Twice in the last month I have been stopped at a red light when a car passed on the right, either in the right-turn lane or on the paved space to the right of the driving lanes, blasting through the intersection at high speed. Different places, different cars. The 2nd one had one of those plastic covers over the plate that are supposed to make it hard to read.
None of these guys are terrorists or suspected terrorists, you see. Feel better now? They’re just ordinary schmuck citizens be-bopping around the country, seeing the sights, etc. Just trying to get through the day, you know, the peaceful religion.
Remember now, this is a nation of immigrants; all of us were/are immigrants, so that means, naturally, that ANY current immigrants are, de facto, A-OK.
[abbr title=”Federal Bureau of Investigation”]FBI[/abbr]
[abbr title=”Federal Bunny Inspectors”]FBI[/abbr]
Fixed it for you.
Yes, just a bunch of wild and crazy guys cruisin’, looking to pick up chicks or little boys.
We have to do something about mug shots, makes them look so guilty.
It gets better:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/report-8-syrians-caught-at-texas-border-in-laredo/
Drudge is having a tough time keeping up with all the incursion reports.
He went through a red light as he is allowed to do
Actually they are supposed to make certain the intersection is clear before proceeding. Yes, they can run the red light but only when safe. The VFD should have been charged with the accident. A red light and siren is not a license to ignore common sense and safety.
Has a cop EVER gotten a traffic ticket?
When I was young pup my dad was deputy sheriff in California. More than once when I was with him in our Wagon Queen Family Truckster my dad got pulled over for various infractions. Running red lights, speeding, tailgating, passing on the shoulder, etc. My dad would just show his badge and the stop was over. That is of course unless they knew each other from a previous encounter in which case the bull session would commence.
Cops protect their own. In Oak Ridge TN I witnessed an officer speeding by a significant amount and passing me in the middle turn lane. I got his vehicle number and called the local police supervisor. I was immediately informed the officer was on a call. I then asked the supervisor which officer or were they all on call since I had not yet provided any vehicle information. Dead silence.
I then asked if it was OK for an officer to speed and drive in a reckless manner. The supervisor said yes, if they are on a call. Sometimes they don’t use lights or sirens to avoid tipping off the bad guys. I said OK, if the officer was in such a hurry why did he stop at the red light and wait for a green signal. Again dead silence.
I asked if I could make a complaint against the officer. I was advised by the supervisor I could but it would not be a good idea. Anytime I traveled in Oak Ridge the police would find some reason to pull me over and possibly cite me for a violation regardless of how trivial. Basically a threat to STFU.
I kind of snickered when I read this about the female suicide-douche in Paris. Does it make me a bad person?
The head and spine of Europe’s first female suicide bomber flew through a window and landed on the street outside when she blew herself up during the siege of Saint-Denis.
Fresh, grisly details about Wednesday’s ferocious gun battle have emerged amid reports the ringleader behind the Paris massacre was killed in the melee.
A blonde-haired woman, said to be Hasna Aitboulahcen – cousin of 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud – detonated her explosive vest moments after screaming ‘Help me, help me’ to police from a window, during the ferocious gun battle.
That’ll learn ya, Mister Ray!
I first learned the Principle of Police Revenge when I was myself a young pup working for Uncle’s air force security police. Somebody could piss you off or mess you over and all you hadda do was wait long enough and sooner or later you or one of your buddies could exact payback. As an armed and costumed State thug, you can do this kinda thing all the time and no one is immune, really, right up to the highest levels. Sometimes it backfires, though, so you gotta pick your targets carefully.
Quick example: Full bird forgets his line badge out on the flight line over in frigid winter Maine, nuke warheads on the jets at the alert hangar. Young pup OFD jacks his ass up against the chain-link fence and away he goes, backed up by the flight chief and the communications/plotter back at “HQ.” Couple of months later, young pup OFD is the ONLY security police drone given orders for ‘Nam, last year of the war.
Whoops!
“Does it make me a bad person?”
Yes, of course. And guilty of multiple micro-aggressions.
I’m still waiting for one of their mullahs to strap on a vest and blow himself up.
OFD: There was a similar story at Offutt AFB where an E-4 SP made the CINC SAC (an O-10) plant his face on the ramp because he attempted to enter the flight line without his line badge. The general said something like “Son, do you know who I am?!” and the E-4 said “I don’t care if you’re the President. Regulation XX-XX states {blah blah blah]. Now, sir, please lay down with your hands behind your head…” After the SP commander showed up on scene and had a small heart attack and dismissed the airman, a couple of days went by and then the E-4 was called to the CINC SAC’s office and immediately promoted to E-5.
When I was young toddler serving my time in basic at Lackland I was given the “honor” of being the dorm guard for few hours. The old wooden barracks without A/C in the middle of July.
An officer, full bird, cruises up to the door and demands to be let in for inspection. I refused saying he was not on the list of approved people. He got pissed, yelled at me, threatened me, etc. I stood my ground. I was a no-striper with the fear of the DI revenge on my mind for not doing what I was told. The colonel stormed off.
Squadron commander showed up 15 minutes later and said I did a good job as the colonel was not on the list.
Never found out what happened. Nothing to me. Never saw the colonel or the squadron commander again. Don’t know if anything happened to the squadron commander and was never told who the colonel was. Basically nothing was ever said of the incident again. I often wonder if it was staged as a test to a young and scared recruit.
Then there was that time at Hickam where I crossed a security perimeter surrounding a C-5 at the cargo terminal where I worked. I had access to the plane but crossed the security perimeter at the wrong point (dumbass move). I knew the guard and he knew me. He apologized, pointed his weapon at me and told me to get on the ground, face first, arms spread as he had to call it in. I got a royal chewing out by the security head honcho that showed and later on by my boss. I never blamed the guard as he was simply doing his job.
I figured with nukes the standing orders would be to shoot the intruder and identify the body afterwards.
RBT wrote:
“So, Harry got pulled by an AZ cop for doing, believe it or not, 94 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. He showed his badge to the cop, who presumably thought Harry was PA State Police. He waved Harry to go ahead, and just asked him to take it easy.”
My niece’s husband used to be a cop, and when he got pulled over for speeding in Victoria, where they’re very strict about that, he accidently showed his South Australian police officer’s badge while showing his driver’s licence. He was let go immediately…
Ray wrote:
“In Oak Ridge TN I witnessed an officer speeding by a significant amount and passing me in the middle turn lane.”
In the early Eighties I was pulled over several times for speeding. Sometimes I just got a warning, but usually I was fined. So, after this had happened a few times I was passed by a police van doing 20 km/h over the limit. (I was doing the limit.) I wondered if they were on their way to an emergency call. They weren’t – I ended up parking next to the van at the nearest MacDonalds a few minutes later.
Yes, I was, ah, cheezed off.
I used to keep my driver’s license in the see-through pocket of my badge case, with my company issue ID behind it. That ID looked a lot like a police ID, but I never had occasion to show it to a cop. It wouldn’t have worked anyway, because cops from PA and surrounding states would immediately know it wasn’t a State Police badge. But they might have thought it was some other PA LE badge, I guess.
MrAtoz said:
“I kind of snickered when I read this about the female suicide-douche in Paris. Does it make me a bad person?”
Yeah. Perhaps we shouldn’t say bad things about her as she has eternity in hell to contemplate the wisdom of her actions. And suicides in Islam automatically get Jahannam.
RBT wrote:
“I figured with nukes the standing orders would be to shoot the intruder and identify the body afterwards.”
Nah, I’ve always thought OFD was a bit of a puppy.
“The cop was moving at 42 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, which is a normal free-market speed for that road.”
The cop was unambigiously in the wrong and deserves plenty of jail time, and probably to lose all his assets as partial recompense to the girl’s family. It’s 100% for her/them.
If we jailed everyone who did something stupid, made a mistake, or momentarily lost concentration on what he was doing, there wouldn’t be anyone left on the outside.
The cop was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. Anyone who wasn’t a cop or politician would very likely have been sentenced to jail time for manslaughter, because in today’s way of thinking someone always has to be at fault. In absolute terms, I think that cop received a fair sentence. It was unfair in the sense that anyone should have received that same sentence, but the cop got a pass because he was a cop.
Was he fired?
We hope to be living in Sparta by mid-December, just in time for real winter in the NC mountains.
Do you have a closing date yet?
[snip] I got away with speeding and DUI more than once, [snip]
The latter is a semi-regular event around here, except the car gets parked and a taxi cab called to the scene.
[snip] then the E-4 was called to the CINC SAC’s office and immediately promoted to E-5. [snip]
Bravo to the CINC SAC!
[snip] I figured with nukes the standing orders would be to shoot the intruder and identify the body afterwards. [snip]
I know a few guys who used to work on the tea kettles on Navy boomers, which were guarded by Marines while in port. The standard joke was that if a Jarhead shot you, and shouldn’t have, he had to pay for the bullet.
Yeah, assuming all goes as planned, it’ll be our house on December 1.
USAF flight lines are surrounded in a red line with entry control points. Along that red line are signs that says “Restricted Area. Authorized Personnel Only. Use of Deadly Force Authorized.”
I do know that an aircraft (be it a bomber or a cargo plane) cannot be hijacked with a nuclear weapon on board. If the aircrew cannot stop the hijackers then the SPs have the authority to disable or destroy the aircraft (preferably the former as you don’t want to expose the core) at the expense of both the hijacker’s and aircrew’s lives, if necessary. A hijacked aircraft with nuclear weapons will NOT be allowed to take off.
Sure, but doing seven over the limit, in addition to the other stuff, makes him worthy of jail time. What if the dead young woman had been Jasmine?
If a cop can’t concentrate while they are driving they don’t belong behind the wheel of a car. Remember, it was 100% for the young woman involved.
“The standard joke was that if a Jarhead shot you, and shouldn’t have, he had to pay for the bullet.”
A friend of my parents was stationed in Korea in the 60s. His story: He was on patrol on the DMZ wall one night when he spotted someone approaching him from north. He shouted all the phrases he had been trained to shout in Korean (phonetically spelled out on a card he was issued). Supposedly the words meant “Stop, get down, and wait” or something to that effect. The person didn’t stop, get down, and wait so he shot him with his rifle as he was also trained to do. The North Korean went down and two other men came and dragged the body away. He reported the incident immediately and an investigation began. He was not brought up on any charges but since no one could corroborate his story he was charged for the bullet. It was deducted from his next paycheck, I think he said it was 29 cents.
I didn’t think the armed forces kept track of minor consumables.
A lot of guys I knew who’d been in Vietnam routinely went on patrol carrying 1000+ rounds of ammo. If attacked, they did the old spray-n-pray routine while they waited on a gunship. If they’d been charged for that, they’d have come home bankrupt.
A couple of them did mention that they kept pretty good track of grenades and LAWs, presumably to keep officers from being fragged.
If it were Jasmine, I’d grieve, but shit happens.
Well, I have no reason to disbelieve this man’s story. He does delight in telling it, though. I’m sure the rules for an active shooting war zone are different. From the quartermaster’s point of view the guy signed out 1 clip, 10 rounds and returned 1 clip, 9 rounds with no official reason.
I have finally gotten a technician appointment with Jeld-Wen to come look at the new windows in the home addition. 7 am to 9 am next Monday morning. Six of the new eight windows (36 inch wide by 72 inch tall) apparently do not have their weep holes attached to the bottom window channel. So, when it rains hard, some of the rain cascading down the outside of the window goes into the bottom channel. When the channel gets full of water, some goes out, some goes in. Enough so that one window generated a three foot wide puddle inside the addition when we got ten inches of rain a couple of weeks ago. I am having to manually drain the windows each time it rains now. Needless to say, very disappointing and enraging.
These windows cost $260 each at Home Depot. They are double pane single hung very low E vinyl windows that visually look the same as my original windows. There was even a cheaper window available for $150 or so. My parents advised me to get the Anderson windows which are $600 each. But their 15 year old Anderson windows are rotting at the bottom due to leakage or condensation (not sure which). And, I did not want to pay for the extra cost. Sigh.
I didn’t think the armed forces kept track of minor consumables.
I ran a bunch of different ranges as a second looey. Number of rounds out balanced against brass weighed at the ASP. Any difference and you paid. And there wasn’t much tolerance. We went out digging several times for old brass to make up the difference.
“A hijacked aircraft with nuclear weapons will NOT be allowed to take off.”
And any incidents where a nuclear weapon was accidentally dumped off a truck or something or any similar mishap would be known as either a “Bent Spear” or “Broken Arrow,” depending on severity, and us security police would have to cordon it off and everything within that area instantly came under martial law. If someone crossed the line and kept going and wouldn’t stop, we would have to blow them away immediately. I never had to do this gig for real but we had the training for it.
Overseas we were supposed to call in for authorization before returning fire, but the SOP was to call in whatever AFTER the event, depending, again, on severity. Obviously no one called in as their position was being overrun by VC or NVA sappers or infantry.
Just back from the weekly group at the VA; went well, mostly; a bit of an argument over the immigration mess we have in the country now, and some heavier talk, which is unusual, about moral ambiguity in and after war experiences, etc., etc. One of our jarheads is moving to Georgia (’cause his wife wants to be with their kids down there, and grandkids; he doesn’t really wanna go), and our Army door gunner is heading to Floriduh for the winta if the docs tell him he’s good to go; he just had a stroke, though. And our Desert One vet made disparaging rayciss comments about his Afrikan immigrant neighbors, who steal his kids’ basketballs and break his backboard.
_Point of Crisis_ (The Perseid Collapse Post Apocalyptic Series) (Volume 3) by Steven Konkoly
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Perseid-Collapse-Apocalyptic-Series/dp/1500163864/
Book number four of a five book series. This is actually a four book series plus a prequel book, _The Jakarta Pandemic_. The book is a POD printing in trade paperback (my favorite!).
Six years after the Jakarta Pandemic in 2013 that killed 30 million people in the USA and one billion people worldwide, the USA economy has mostly recovered from the pandemic. Then, an asteroid entered the atmosphere traveling low over Boston and crashed into the Atlantic. The author never explained where the asteroid came from but that it was “as large as a city business center”. The USA government did not detect the asteroid which seems a little far fetched to me. The kicker is that the PRC used the satellite event to explode a large nuclear bomb in LEO over the eastern USA. The resulting asteroid pass over over Boston, 60 foot tsunami, and EMP practically destroy the entire eastern seaboard of the USA. Please note that this explanation is not consistent over the books.
The first book in this series is the prequel flu pandemic that happens in 2013 with severe loss of life across the world. The second book is the first 48 hours after the EMP event. The third book is the second 48 hours after the EMP event. The fourth book is the next two weeks, starting at four days after the EMP event. I have ordered the fifth book.
Things are not going well in the story. Over four million refugees are moving out of Boston. One million of them are headed to southern Maine where our hero and his family / friends have bugged out to after their coastal homes were destroyed by the tsunami. The government is creating the RRZ (regional recovery zone) in Maine and supplanting the state government in order to house and feed the refugees. Plus, there is the good militias and the bad militia that are making things complicated.
The EMP affected civilian property greatly. The EMP did not affect the USA military due to their hardening. WW III is starting up as the USA figures out who exploded the nuclear bomb in LEO and retaliates using the subs along with anti-satellite missiles.
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (176 reviews)
I’m about all prepped out with the related fiction and nonfiction stuff by now; call it Prepper Fatigue. I need a good long break from that end of it, while we continue to hack away at our five-page To-Do List here, which ONLY covers the repairs and ordinary maintenance, nothing at all regarding prep stuff. Meanwhile I’ve got a wife who has to get to a full MD checkup and probable eye surgery ASAP; a sister with cancer going through daily chemo and radiation; wife’s pay is now, three weeks worth of it, well overdue again. I’m also spending time each week with real-life war vets and it gets kinda heavy and stressful at times.
What will happen is what will happen; our government seems to be doing all it can to destroy the country and its people while retaining their own increasingly totalitarian power and wealth, and we face multiple major threats from hostile enemy forces and our own negligence, laziness and stupidity.
With all that in mind, we’re doing the best we can to get through each day and each week and then each month, while maintaining a kid still in college, evidently the six-year-with-foreign-travel-program, and worrying about our own kids and grandkids out in La-La Kalifornia.
We’ve got maybe a two-month supply currently of food, water, and soon, heating fuel of two kinds. We can make it through the winta OK, probably, assuming no Grid and continuous blizzards and ice storms. Or at least the worst of winta. I’m trying to get us up to six months, and then a year. Another income stream would be good, so I’m working that angle, too.
And between us, I hope we will soon have the capability to stand off multiple night-time invaders long enough for LE help to arrive.
This is one of those weeks when there ain’t enuff hours in the friggin’ day.
What will happen is what will happen; our government seems to be doing all it can to destroy the country and its people while retaining their own increasingly totalitarian power and wealth, and we face multiple major threats from hostile enemy forces and our own negligence, laziness and stupidity.
The transition from Republic to Socialist Utopia is rough. Just wait until Hillary is King XXXX President:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/19/totalitarian_hillary_threatens_comedians
I am praying that I am not the person that Hillary selects to be her personal footstool. My back is just not in good enough shape to handle those legs.
Wanna help me clean out some leaky windows?
“Wanna help me clean out some leaky windows?”
Hey, you buy and I’ll fly, amigo. We just cleaned out two kitchen windows and one living room window and put plastic up over one of the kitchen windows. Air was blowing in like the dickens in the kitchen last winta. All set now, at least until we get the rest of the new windows installed, plus shutters.
“My back is just not in good enough shape to handle those legs.”
Miles_Teg will fly up for that gig from Oz, on his own dime, too. He can’t wait.
“Wanna help me clean out some leaky windows?”
Hey, you buy and I’ll fly, amigo.
Too many bucks! I do need a new wet/dry vac as mine seems to have disappeared when the last sub-contractor left. It was really nasty for them though. I have found a new one on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EPH63K0
Plus a micro cleaning set for getting in those small side crevices that should be connected to the weep holes:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002ND4G
I am wondering if me and my 3/16 inch drill bit might be connecting the weep holes to the bottom window channel after the technician leaves. I am just worried about puncturing the bottom of the window frame and draining to the inner wall instead of the outside. That would suck real bad.
If I have to replace those windows then someone else is paying. That is a rip off the brick job and probably about a grand per window between all the subs.
@Lynn’s problem with his window weep holes has a lesson for all of us, those things can clog. I clean and flush mine out in the late fall each year. I am always surprised at the amount of little leaf bits/dust that I find, combined with the constant dust in our area and our fall rain and you have a plug in progress.
And any incidents where a nuclear weapon was accidentally dumped off a truck or something or any similar mishap would be known as either a “Bent Spear” or “Broken Arrow,” depending on severity, and us security police would have to cordon it off and everything within that area instantly came under martial law.
Unless they store both safe weapons and warshots in the same facility. The Air Force sent a B-52 around the US with live warshots instead on the safed (warhead removed) cruise missiles. Since they shut down SAC, they just don’t have the discipline they used to. I really don’t understand how you can get lax with nuclear weapons.
It’s the gummint; they’re pretty lax already with such basic concepts as national sovereignty and secure borders. Back in my day, SAC was considered a ball-busting branch of the AF for everybody, but most particularly for security police. (my sentence was served in the Aerospace Defense Command and PACAF).