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Navy (ret) Surface Warfare Officer & missile defender with a side of fries. I taught Zach Mayo everything he knows. A perfectly flawed human. Opinions = my own.
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Interesting testimony from Secretary of Defense after questioning by Senator Kelly. I don’t want to focus on Golden Dome. The outcome of that program is far from clear & controversial. But I want to talk about DoD testing & what it all means. A thread… youtu.be/3SaBT2jSEGs?...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

About to get spicy

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Thunderstorms but she doesn’t care.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

World going to hell in a handbasket… take your dog for a walk in the drizzling rain.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Father’s Day is hard for my brother and I - lots of reasons why. By unspoken agreement, we get something for one another on this day. I got him bourbon, he got me Legos. Here’s to all the Dads, & Moms who stand in for Dad, that have unconventional roles as fathers.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Army’s 250th celebration parade can be seen in 2 separate ways: 1. It was a sad affair for the US Army & it couldn’t match with similar military parades in other countries. 2. Or, it was a demonstration that the US Army is not a show pony for the amusement of people. I prefer option number 2.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

For Father’s Day, Zola thought I should get a new vacuum because my 10 year old refurbished Dyson decided to die a glorious black fur filled death.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Went hiking, did I miss anything?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Timeline cleanse Something, something dogs rescue you…

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

How Chris got his groove back…

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

On this day in 1942, a young girl received a diary for her birthday. On this day in 1967, a young couple learned their marriage was legal and not unconstitutional. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s happiness

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The face of a dog happy that she got to do 3 out of the 4 most favorite things to do: - Go for a walk - Play in the water - Roll around incessantly in something dead and quite smelly She will get to do her fourth favorite thing after she gets a bath.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Took a stupid nature walk for my stupid mental health…

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

What a week. I’m gonna drown my sorrows with pizza, wings, and a Lord of the Rings movie night.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

My out of office has been turned on: My position has been terminated and I am no longer the Missile Defense System/Guam Defense System/LTAMDS/Patriot Missile Action Officer for OSD/DOT&E. I am on admin leave. Please direct all inquiries to the DOT&E front office at [redacted]. That’s all folks…

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Pretty damn sad when one person forks out over $290 million but can’t buy a presidency and control of a useful idiot and legion of followers when the idiot and followers want to do the dumb things they want to do. How the founding fathers would lament this situation.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Me over on Twitter today:

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I completed 3 of the most tasks associated with being laid off by the government: - Turned in my gov cellphone - Moved all my memes from my government computer to my Google drive - Wrote my “My position has been terminated and I’m on admin leave pending RIF actions by DoD” MS Outlook notification.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Eating my feelings

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Zola spied a new friend this morning

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I received my Reduction in Force (aka layoff) notice last night. Gonna take some time to process and recover from this. I am numb.

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

Instead of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance I have decided that my stages of professional grief are depression, hope, ambivalence, swing on a bitch, and gallows humor.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments