Christian Beekman

@TacBeekman

Political Science, Military Studies. Video games. BBWarz Hero.

Joined May 2012
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  1. Retweeted
    Apr 27

    Now downloadable on DVIDS: That cool clip of soldiers from 4th Bn, 23rd Infantry Rgt, 2nd Stryker BCT, 7th Infantry Division conducting a platoon live fire April 19 using the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars at JBLM. (U.S. Army video: 1st Lt. Egor Krasnonosenkikh)

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    Apr 20

    Hard drugs and murder in JSOC: “‘We have a lot of Delta Force members in our community,’ says Ballard, the police detective...’Some of them are really great. Nice, normal people.’ Others, she says, are ‘narcissistic’...like they can get away with anything”

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  3. Mar 26

    Good overview of the Sig Tango 6T 1-6x optic, in the configuration that recently won the US Army's DVO (Direct View Optic) contract to replace the venerable ACOG.

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  4. Mar 17

    Interesting thought exercise on what a new lightweight fighter to complement to the F-22 and F-35 would look like . Not the first time I've seen the F-16XL mentioned as a starting point.

    Move over Viper! The F-36 Kingsnake: the ‘fifth-generation-minus’ fighter USAF wants
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    Mar 8

    Recently posted to DVIDS, a January briefing on the Marine QRF for the withdrawal from Baledogle Military Airfield in Somalia earlier this month, part of Operation Octave Quartz. The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group & 15th MEU supported OOQ.

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    Jan 28

    Operation Eagle Claw was amazingly complex with incredible risks at every turn. Here is exactly how it was supposed to go down, step by step. How the Iran hostage rescue was supposed to go down if it hadn't ended early in disaster:

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    Jan 21

    What is fascinating about this is what is not ideal about the much-vaunted F-35 cockpit:

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  8. Jan 15

    A look at SIG's NGSW rile entry:

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  9. Jan 1

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    22 Dec 2020

    To reach French’s conclusions on the Blackwater guys you have to a) believe the testimony of the accused, b) disbelieve the testimony of Iraqi witnesses (who he sees as presenting a monolithic false story), & c) ignore the FBI’s conclusion that 14 of 17 killings were unjustified

    The Blackwater pardons should NOT be lumped in with the pardons of Trump allies. Last year I took a close look at the Blackwater cases, and I was deeply troubled by what I saw. I wrote it up at length last year. Trump made the right call:
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    5 Dec 2020

    An embellished, inaccurate narrative about a 2014 battle in Ukraine—attributing to new Russian weapons/tactics what was really the result of Ukrainian negligence—has spread far and wide in the US Army, even into FM 3-0, explains here

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  12. 3 Nov 2020

    Fvf r

    With the added bonus of if it came to this there would 100% be blue on green violence. And y'all who know what that means...know what that means if you get called up
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  13. 29 Oct 2020

    Footage of the NGSW prototypes being evaluated begins at about 15:48

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  14. 12 Oct 2020

    Seems the ACOG's time may be coming to an end:

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  15. 9 Oct 2020

    Not a surprise, given the stakes for HK.

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  16. 26 Sep 2020

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  17. 14 Sep 2020

    Hmmmmm. Hard imagine the H&K entries would have been selected after the political row over the G36 in Germany the past few years...

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    13 Sep 2020

    recommending a three and a half hour youtube video is a level of audacious i'm not sure i have words for. forgive me. but this review of DOOM is worth making such a faux pas over. it is earnestly beautiful and i love it.

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  19. 7 Jul 2020

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    23 Jun 2020

    Thread: vehicles have begun staging for the Victory Day Parade across Red Square that will involve 13k servicemen from Russia and 13 other countries, 216 pieces of ground equipment, and 75 aircraft. Ground Forces CINC Oleg Salyukov will command the parade.

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