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Still get surveys from the district where I was long registered in Florida. Very conservative. This was today.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I feel like pretend you don't see the LT by looking at your watch so you don't have to salute should have made the top 5.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Your five bullets could literally be actions reacting to such emails and announcements. It's becoming a self licking ice cream cone of inefficiency.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Last week, my innie: 1. led his team in an ORTBO 2. visited the Posterity Wing 3. improved relations between the Optics and Design and the Macro Data Refinement Teams 4. was rewarded with a Music Dance Experience upon reaching 75% on Sienna 5. had an unsanctioned erotic entanglement

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Lost one of my closest army buddies to this. Game changer. It's why we fund science.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

We don’t need the Russian economy. Make a list of everything in your home made in Russia. Throw out the bottle of Vodka. Could you do without everything else? There’s your answer. Western business returning to Russia does not advance American interests; it makes Putin more powerful.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Executed resistance fighters, partisans and victims of course extermination camps. As seen in Bologna today. Me and women will always rise up and die to give their communities a better future free of oppression.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Joe Berger was my cadet company commander at West Point in 1991. A prior enlisted Soldier, later MP officer before he went to law school. A straight up, even keeled good guy who did not deserve this humiliation.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Re-endorsing @waitmanwbeorn.com 's book Marching into Darkness; he shreds the myth that the German Army had no role in the holocaust. One of the many insights was dispelling the rumor of consequences for those who refused to participate. The fact is, soldiers could refuse. Some did. Not enough. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This data is funny because it suggests it’s just the same generation of people buying houses over and over again.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

If you aren't following Jill, you aren't serious about defense.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 1 day ago • 188 comments

Look at this chart! Half of all homebuyers in 1981 were under 31?! And the median age has just gone steadily up by a *generation* since then?!

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Fellow veterans, former coworkers, former clients, my kid's best friend's dad, childhood friends, the girl that sat next to me during driver's ed...all federal employees - dedicated civil servants - all lost their jobs over the past 10 days at the whim of the richest man in the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

General Brown is a brilliant, amazing leader. I worked at the Air Staff for three years and it was known that he read everything the staff wrote for him. He believes if an analyst took the time to write it, it’s his responsibility to read it. Very few generals do this.

submitted 1 day ago • 213 comments

You still need to lead. You need to be there for people. My latest move is to walk around, full of false motivation, smile, and thunder, "how's morale?!" Today I engaged with one of our young marines. I let her know that despite what she might hear, there are many of us who cheer for her success.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am once again begging for a punk cover of "John Brown's Body," that shit would get a zillion plays on Spotify (99% of them from me alone) and would get the people pumped the fuck up to get to the polls for the midterms, plz and thnx

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This site is the only thing keeping me sane right now. Pure gold.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

FO phase has begun.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

US military personnel killed in the Europe/Atlantic theatre of war 1942-1945, that is, fighting the Nazis so they wouldn't salute a dictator like this anymore: About 250,000 (US Department of Defense, January 2025)

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Hey @uticaeric.bsky.social this one is for you.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I realize now the pic obscures the thumbnail of the attached article. Please read the article.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The press is not the enemy. For decades they have been sharing danger at our side to inform the American public per the 1st amendment. Here is a pic of ABCs Bob Woodruff and I, 15 minutes before he was severely injured in a complex ambush. We remain close. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The Roman stuff cracks me up. The Roman secret sauce was inclusivity. The Roman Empire and Republic was wildly multicultural and diverse. Massive freedom of movement. It also spent the equivalent of trillions of dollars in public sector infrastructure like roads and aqueducts.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Still slaps. "Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing and clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretence ever to diminish." www.west-point.org/academy/malo...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A country with 400,000,000 firearms should be more concerned.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This was all inevitable once Disney started retconning story arcs sympathetic to the empire stormtroopers.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We call them "the Greatest Generation" for shooting Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Pssst: The bureaucracy is the professional volunteer backbone that keeps the engine supplied and running and keeps crisis from boiling over into full scale war. Should big war come, the backbone quickly absorbs drafted citizens for the ranks. Worked for 80 years. Flipping the model will fail.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is smart.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Pretty much anyone who says anything about NYC. And sure, it was sporty in the 1970s and 1980s but it was still banging and most people around the world still thought a) they wanted to go there and b) was the U.S. capital.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

28% of federal workers are veterans per this story. www.newsweek.com/he-served-fo...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Britain coming around to their senses.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, but if we become friends they can get back to buying Harleys and Bourbon from us.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Again, there are about 3.5 million trips on the Subway on an average working day, substantially more than go through every airport in the country combined. MTA Mass Transit as a whole—Subways, Buses, and Commuter Rail—sees almost 5.5m trips on an average workday.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The abuse of Ukrainian POWs has been consistent grotesque and instigated from the very top of the Russian hierarchy down to individual soldiers.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Rereading the book and came across this quote last night and was thinking of posting it myself.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments