@247. Chuck Pelto: - I knew of it as the Presidio.
That too. They sent me there to learn a language I already knew. I’d requested Russian when they changed my MOS during BCT. Got sent for German. Go figger. So I bought a motorcycle and a 12-string, toured the coast and learned my daily dialogs at breakfast. Wrote my final essay in Sütterlin Schrift (which I don’t think any of the instructors could read). It was a fun time. I often wonder if that donut shop on the other side of town – the one with the fully-automated donut factory inside – is still there. I still have the 12-string.

Defense Language Institute, West Coast. — goy

I knew of it as the Presidio.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
P.S. They also taught ORSA. I was interested in it, but then I’d learned it was all about sadistics.

[Life is a bowl of s--- and statistics is the spoon.]

Oh, I do…I do!

Especially how you get filthy and stinking by your “man-to man” business.

(You KNEW you walked right into that one, didn’t you?)

Do you use a pressure washer and a shop-vac to get all that “genetic shampoo” out of your hair, or what?

I’d be mightily surprised if they were not, especially the old line outfits like the Michigan Militia and the Militia of Montana.

While I was, and am still, fairly supportive of their constitutional complaints, and defended their rights to keep and bear arms WHILE freely associating and peaceably assembling, I always kept them at arm’s length.

I’ve just never been a big “joiner”.

And the FLE (Fed Law Enforcement) hierarchy is designed to infiltrate and subvert other hierarchical organizations, so anything open to the public must already be considered compromised.
Now what further recruitment may go on from once inside the outer organization is the real question. Are you being set up for a sting? Are you being fitted for a “patsy-jacket” by criminals, or are these guys the real deal?
Every step on the path is fraught with its’ own perils.

Wouldn’t surprise me if somewhere along the way, while watching your own back, you lose sight of what made you join in the first place.

Does that mean these militias wouldn’t be effective?
No, but it depends on what the definition of effectiveness is. If they go down fighting loudly, then that’s a pretty effective alarm for the rest of us.
Note that in the 1990′s Clinton’s Goons never went after an established militia organization openly…never.
They nibbled around the edges, and they’d bust two goobers in the back 40 with an SKS with alacrity, but they not once engaged a militia orgnization head on.
Because the Feds were smart enough to have some inkling of what kind of counter-punch such a direct attack MIGHT have drawn.

And in the end, the militias outlasted Clinton and his badged gangsters.

What really, REALLY scares the piss out of the FLE’s is the “Lone Wolf”-types or the family cells…very hard to get an informant into a “Militia of One”.

It wouldn’t surprise me if back in the day, I myself caused a few “Rolaids Lunches” for some poor goob somewhere with my odd posting schedule…as prolific as I am now for months, and then months of utter silence while I was at sea…I could imagine some paranoid GS-# boob reading all kinds of scary stuff into the silences.