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Week 3 of Modern Warfare 3 Season 3 is now live and as per usual‚ there are brand new Weekly challenges up for players to complete. One of those will have you use your gun in a very primitive but very effective way – and may even get you to chuckle a bit. Here is how to get Gun-But kills in Modern Warfare 3. Modern Warfare 3: How to get Gun-Butt Kills If you plan on getting the Week 3 Aftermarket part – the JAK Cutthroat -‚ then going for the Gun-But kills is probably a good idea given how simple it is. You see‚ Gun-Butt kills are performed by defeating and killing enemy Operators by using the Gun-Butt of your weapons‚ making them melee kills in essence. So‚ as long as you equip any Recommended Weapon‚ then you should be good to go‚ right&;#63; Well‚ not quite. Screenshot: PC Invasion You see‚ if you happen to have the Throwing Knife equipped as your Lethal Equipment‚ your character will instead use said knife to perform melee kills. These won’t count toward th...

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The military is rightly understood as an apolitical institution‚ managed on the basis of merit‚ yet accountable at the highest level to democratically elected civilians. The Biden administration has demonstrated‚ however‚ the extent to which military affairs are enmeshed with politics‚ to the detriment of national security. Conservative groups and elected officials have caught on to the decay in institutional credibility. Ironically‚ though predictably‚ progressives and the media now decry conservative attempts to preserve the military’s institutional integrity as “politicized.” Of late‚ media outlets like The Washington Post and Yahoo came to the defense of Air Force Col. Ben Jonsson‚ an officer whose promotion Sen. Eric Schmitt‚ R-Mo.‚ is holding up. In Foreign Affairs‚ Marquette political science professor Risa Brooks used Schmitt’s hold on Jonsson’s promotion to warn Americans of the Right’s politicization of the military. Even the NAACP released a statement in support of Jonsson’s promotion. Schmitt’s hold came after two pieces of reporting from The Daily Signal revealed that Jonsson’s leadership tenure has been defined by critical race theory and diversity‚ equity‚ and inclusion‚ to the point where his personnel choices were based on race. As in other domains‚ the Right has become a target for opposing the Left’s 60-year effort to mold the military in its ideological image. But Schmitt’s action regarding Jonsson‚ far from the politicization of military promotion‚ is a modest effort to restore professionalism to a heavily politicized institution. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964‚ then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara explicitly determined that the military would embody the principle of racial proportionality. To McNamara‚ this meant the military would ensure the demographics of the military mirrored that of the nation‚ even if natural processes would not produce such results. Proportional inequality would necessarily indicate the presumption of injustice. In the 1960s‚ this mandate began with a system of expectations for race-based unit and organizational composition. As University of Kansas professor Beth Bailey discusses in her book “An Army Afire‚” this manifested itself throughout the Army officer corps and at critical institutions such as the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. This system of racial quotas has continued in the form of Air Force officer applicant goals‚ and still at West Point in the name of “class composition goals.” No matter the euphemism‚ these policies display how the military has been politicized to serve the prevailing political ideology of equity. But things could have gone differently. Bailey highlights the Army’s implementation of President Harry Truman’s 1948 Executive Order 9981‚ which integrated the Army. In the years between 1948 and the civil rights era‚ the Army pursued radical equal opportunity by eliminating—not foregrounding—race as a category in Army personnel files. And in fact‚ some of the greatest increases in black representation in the officer ranks happened during this era. But that was not enough for those who sought a rapid and radical implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act into the whole of American government and society. Policymakers like McNamara embraced the belief that the military must reflect the society it existed to defend. But if McNamara had read Samuel P. Huntington’s 1957 book‚ “Soldier and the State‚” he would have realized how problematic this assumption would become to the integrity of civil-military relations. Since the McNamara Pentagon‚ the military has become increasingly politicized‚ as leadership has adopted policies to mirror the ideologies found across civilian life. Quotas continue as Pentagon policy‚ women have unrestricted opportunities for combat service even as the Army struggles to build gender-neutral physical assessments‚ and the Department of Defense now hosts official “Pride” events. As Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s holds on military officer promotions revealed‚ the senior ranks of the military have embraced politicization as a fact of service. According to research published by the Center for Renewing America‚ 42% of general and flag officers who received promotions in 2023 have publicly supported ideologies such as DEI and critical race theory. To call military leaders to a higher standard of apolitical military professionalism is not a lurch toward politicization as establishment progressives believe. Steps toward accountability‚ like Sen. Schmitt’s hold on Jonsson’s promotion‚ are important markers in the responsibility elected officials have to oversee and preserve the integrity of the United States military. Originally published by the Daily Caller The post Biden Is Building a Military Based on DEI And Wokeness. It Needs Merit And Preparedness. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Where are our wise elders&;#63; Reality TV stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist‚ who charmed Americans on “The Golden Bachelor‚” announced Friday that their marriage was over‚ just three months after 7 million watched their emotional wedding. “I truly thought it was going to last forever‚” Nist wrote of her marriage in an Instagram post Monday. “It turns out‚ even at the age of 70‚ you don’t know everything.” What a disappointment. Of course‚ I have no idea what led to Turner and Nist’s divorce—and perhaps their failed marriage says more about the insanity of reality TV marriages than anything else. But for a moment‚ it looked like “The Golden Bachelor” was a different kind of reality TV show. Featuring exclusively contestants aged 60 and older‚ the show suggested that perhaps older Americans would be wiser—and more successful—in love than their younger counterparts. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Theresa Nist (@theresa_nist) Turner had been married for 43 years to his high school sweetheart‚ Toni‚ before she died in 2017. Nist‚ who won Turner’s heart‚ similarly had been married for 42 years to her high school sweetheart before his death in 2015. Turner and Nist may have been teens during the Summer of Love and part of the first generation to grow up amid the rapidly changing mores of the sexual revolution. But their personal lives and seemingly successful long marriages were old-fashioned. Viewers were hooked. Dubbed “fall TV’s biggest hit” by Yahoo Entertainment‚ “The Golden Bachelor” was ratings gold from the beginning‚ including on streaming‚ where younger viewers tend to watch. The show’s finale was the most-watched “Bachelor” episode in four years. But now “Golden Bachelor” has a more ignominious record: Nist and Turner had “the shortest marriage in franchise history‚” according to Vanity Fair. Sure‚ that’s in part because few “Bachelor” franchise contestants rush to the altar. Although virtually every “Bachelor” or “Bachelorette” finale involves an engagement‚ few couples ever make it to the wedding day. Sadly‚ Turner and Nist’s divorce‚ not their long previous marriages‚ may make them more realistic representations of their baby boomer generation. Although Nist had had a long marriage‚ had lived “‘til death do us part‚” many other female contestants on “Golden Bachelor” had experienced divorce. Nor were they outliers. The “gray divorce” phenomenon is real: “Well over a third of people who are getting divorced now are over the age of 50‚” researcher Susan L. Brown told CNN. Brown is co-director of the National Center for Family &; Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University‚ which tracks divorce by age. “Between 1990 and 2021‚ the divorce rate decreased for those aged 15 to 44‚ whereas it increased for those aged 45 and older‚” the center found. Among those 65 and older‚ the divorce rate has tripled since 1990.   Seniors are still divorcing at lower rates than young adults: Among those over 65‚ the divorce rate is 5.5%‚ while for those 25 to 34‚ it’s 19.4%. But seniors are trending toward a higher divorce rate while young adults are moving to a lower rate. Nor do seniors seem to be following old-fashioned mores about sex. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise among Americans 55 and older. Between 2012 and 2022‚ “the number of syphilis cases among people ages 55 and up increased sevenfold … while gonorrhea cases increased nearly fivefold and chlamydia cases more than tripled during that time‚” reports NBC News‚ citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. None of this suggests the boomers learned much from the aftershocks of the sexual revolution. Yet‚ for a while there‚ “The Golden Bachelor‚” suggested that maybe older Americans could set an example for young and middle-aged Americans about how to get‚ and stay‚ married. After all‚ although it’s immature to assume marriage will lead to a fairy-tale ending‚ it is true that marriage seems to be correlated with happiness. “The odds that men and women are ‘very happy’ with their lives are 151% higher for those who are married‚ compared to those who are unmarried‚ according to the General Social Survey‚” writes University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox in his new book “Get Married.” Yet younger Americans‚ facing an often toxic dating atmosphere and seeing the fallout of older generations’ divorces‚ are shrinking from marriage. A quarter of 40-year-olds have never been married‚ according to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey. That’s up from 20% in 2010 and a mere 6% in 1980. For a moment‚ it looked like “The Golden Bachelor” may have shown Americans of all ages that marriage could be great. Sadly‚ it was just another reality TV mirage. The post ‘Golden Bachelor’ Divorce Par for the Course for Baby Boomers appeared first on The Daily Signal.