TMZ reports that bayonet makers are none too happy with President Obama today.
According to the official U.S. Marine Corps website, every Marine is STILL required to complete a bayonet training program … because “the weapon becomes just as effective [as a rifle] in close combat situations.”
We spoke with Dan Riker from Bayonet Inc. — a leading military surplus outlet that specializes in bayonets — who tells us he believes Obama’s comment was “ignorant … because our soldiers still use bayonets.”
He adds, “[Bayonets] are still distributed to the military all the time — he should get educated on it”
For the record, Riker says he won’t be voting for Obama … “and I didn’t vote for him last election either.”
More: So it turns out that we probably have more bayonets now than we did in 1916. Obama — fail!
Obviously a rehearsed zinger – Obama couldn’t wait to launch it. It is revealing because nobody on the campaign staff has any military experience or even passing knowledge of what we do. They let him go out with his little joke that reveals his ignorance because they don’t know better and are too lazy to check.
You got that right. I bet Stephanie Cutter loved that line.
Bet Stephanie Cutter loves every line she can get, bait, hook, or spinner be damned. “Neo-Lib intellectuals” is an oxymoron. Ms. “Clutter” is just that!
Speaking of bayonets…a moment in American history that should not be forgot. We live in our world of the present because men living in their own worlds, now long passed, made it for us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDhAmjmxYk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
How ironic was it that yesterday’s Huffington Post featured a story on the statue of a modern horseman honoring the Special Forces that was dedicated Friday at the new WTC in New York?
People who think about tomorrow’s battles suspect the technology that replaced horses on the modern battlefield is itself now largely obsolete. Satellites, drones and laser guided weaponry all mean the great tank against tank battles that the armored beasts were designed for aren’t likely to ever take place. On the other hand horses and mules remain quite useful in irregular warfare in remote places.