Just another Putin-inflator…YMMV but I have *no* interest in (or patience with) Kremlin narratives…especially from ‘Americans’. FTR Putin’s nuclear extortion is the outcome of nuclear proliferation that has ALWAYS existed since those weapons & their technology spread: the possibility that an international bully would destabilize and/or invade other nations, using the threat of a nuclear end-game as a ploy to ‘ease’ their path to conquest.
The only options are to just *let* Russia do what Putin wants while we sit on our hands…or support the survival chances of their targets while working to disrupt their free hand in the affairs of other nations.
As someone who regularly suffered nuclear nightmares from age 8-19, a nuclear exchange has never been off the table: now that Putin has made it plain he’s “the *real* Hitler”, we need to be cold as ice…not another slushy puddle on the road to his czarist dreams
The mans a living legend. He does talk about how the media makes people like yourself believe the propaganda. Perhaps you should watch the video.
Early life[edit]
Black was born in northern Virginia in 1944 and grew up in Miami as the middle of three children.
[2] His father was an IRS agent who helped investigate organized crime.
[3] Black's first job was working at the Miami Serpentarium, importing cobras, vipers and other venomous snakes, and preparing them for transport to zoos throughout the world.
[3] He graduated from high school in 1962 and studied at the
University of Miami for a year before enlisting in the
Marine Corps.
[2] After completing his service in the Vietnam War, Black returned to school, earning a BSBA in Accounting in 1973 and a JD in 1976, both from the University of Florida.
Military career[edit]
Black was a career military officer. He served in both the U.S. Marines and in the U.S. Army JAG Corps. He served a total of 31 years active and reserve, rising from the rank of private to full colonel.
[3] He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College,
Command and General Staff College, and Naval Aviator's Flight School.
[4]
Black enlisted in the Marines in 1963 at the age of 19.
[3] He graduated from
Parris Island as a
PFC and entered the Marine Aviation Cadet Program at
Naval Air Station Pensacola. He was commissioned a
2nd Lt. in 1965.
[3]
Vietnam[edit]
Black served as a pilot in the
US Marines during the
Vietnam War, earning the
Purple Heart medal.
[1] He flew 269 combat helicopter missions with
HMM-362, which operated out of
Ky Ha, Vietnam.
[3]
From 11 February to 17 June 1967, he served as
Forward Air Controller for the
1st Marine Regiment, making 70 combat patrols in the jungle. He engaged in intense combat around Nui Loc Son in April 1967.
[5] He received the
Navy Commendation Medal with
"V" for valor, while serving as Forward Air Controller for
2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. Lt. Black volunteered to join Fox Company, 1st Marines, which held the ridgeline at Nui Loc Son—an extremely dangerous and remote outpost in the
Que Son Valley.
[5]
Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps[edit]
After the war, he left the service and graduated from law school, returning to military service as a prosecutor with the
U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.
[1] Black later headed the Army's Criminal Law Division at
the Pentagon, before retiring from the military in 1994.
In 1996, Dick Black was practicing military law in Northern Virginia. In an interview with
The Washington Times, Black said despite evidence that mixed gender training leads to sexual misconduct, the Pentagon will not revert to same-sex assignments between instructors and recruits. Black said doing so "would be inconsistent with this tremendous drive to feminize the military today, to pretend there is no difference between the sexes."
[6]