Posted on 04/10/2020 7:21:13 PM PDT by knak
Washington (AFP) - With an aircraft carrier forced into port and staff at bases handling nuclear missiles hit by COVID-19, the US military wants rivals to understand: don't test us, we have not been weakened.
Statement after statement from the Pentagon has sought to deliver that message amid questions this week over whether the US fighting force can maintain full readiness, with cases among service members now at 2,031.
"We're still capable and we're still ready no matter what the threat," Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley said Thursday.
"I wouldn't want any mixed messages going out there to any adversaries that they can take advantage of an opportunity, if you will, at a time of crisis," he added.
"That would be a terrible and tragic mistake if they thought that."
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And considering this same government murdered between 40 to 80 million depending on who you listen to and how you count. The true number can never be known. Hell, in China they call murdering a few thousand people “Tuesday”.
“Convince me this is a biological weapon from the Chicoms.”
Convince you that it IS, or convince you that it isn’t?
Exactly right.
It is a bit concerning that we are staffing our warships with old folk. I thought that was a young mans game./s <<<
That its not a bio weapon.
Loved that book!
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