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AOD DOGE=Department of Government Efficiency. Heard it used today as a verb when an online training event in the US Army went south and someone commented "we've been doged"

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QOD "I regard Vladimir Putin as a villain and a war criminal." Clifford May www.fdd.org/analysis/op_...

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AOD SCB=ships characteristics board. Recreate this org, which had replaced the General Board as the one stop shopping design approval authority. Goldwater Nichols etc.killed SCB.

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QOD "A people's capacity to govern itself democratically is thus proportionate to the degree of its understanding of the structure and functioning of the whole social body." Arthur Koestler, from _A Darkness at Noon_ (1941)

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AOD Emergent Repair Availability (ERAV) open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalaman…

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Two Hapless Russian Drone Operators Rolled Out In An Unarmored Truck. The Ukrainians Blasted Them With HIMARS And Drones. - Forbes

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QOD “No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn. Her hands are cold, but her lips are warm.” Mark knopfler From “Down to the Waterline” I always liked this song

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AOD OPINTREP-Operational Intelligence Report. Some are quite formal, others, like those I used to write in the Navy were analytical fused products after EP3 & ES3 missions. I wrote literally hundreds of these.

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QOD "...because we are the things called selves. For really there is nothing else in us to love: creatures like us who actually find hatred such a pleasure that to give it up is like giving up beer or tobacco..." C.S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity, Book III, chapter 7, entitled "Forgiveness"

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AOD NSA=National Security Agency. Founded post-World War II in a series of organizational reforms that laid the foundations of today's intelligence community. NSA was established in 1952, November as the Korean War was winding down and just before Eisenhower was elected President.

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AOD DIA=Defense Intelligence Agency--the intelligence arm of the Department of Defense, located across the Anacostia River at Bolling Air Force Base.

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QOD “Although there have been comparatively mild autocrats, Stalin was not one of those.” Robert Conquest, from The Great Terror. The same can be said of Putin. We live in an age of neo-autocracy.

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Let me be clear, I fully support Ukraine and my recommendation is fight (and US support that fight) until the pre-2022 border is reestablished vis-a-vis Ukraine's territory. However, I do not support NATO membership foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...

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QOD "The present U.S objective in Vietnam is to avoid humiliation." John C. McNaughton, Asst Secretary of Defense, January 19, 1966.

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AOD DNI=Director of National Intelligence. Now Tulsi Gabbard

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QOD “Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.” Psalm. 77:19

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Overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked a gas processing plant in Astrakhan. While Russian officials claimed to have successfully intercepted and shot down all of the drones, a video emerged that contradicted their claims. 👇

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AOD GRE=Graduate Record Exam. I think I've taken this exam almost as much as anyone alive. 5 Times. Did well all five times. First time in 1979, last time in 1999 when I applied for the Navy's Permanent Military Professor program (which I was NOT selected for, but go my Ph.D. on my own time..)

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QOD "They mistook God given talent, skill, and intelligence for components of character and integrity." John T. Kuehn, five seconds ago to a colleague

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my latest gig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qt...

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AOD LCT (R)=landing craft tank (rockets). An LCT modified to fire rockets as fire support in amphibious landings. Basically the WW II version of a sea-based MRLS (multiple rocket launch system)

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QOD “I’m just saying that the idea that Trump is some special gift to our adversaries doesn’t wash with me. And he may surprise them on alliances and on rebuilding American power. It might well cut in multiple directions at once.” Stephen Kotkin www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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AOD OPM=Office of Personnel Managment. Fed agency in the news much these days and sending emails to people like me.

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QOD "If you choose not to continue in your current role in the federal workforce, we thank you for your service to your country and you will be provided with a dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program." OPM email today

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George Orwell. That time has arrived, more so than ever.

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AOD LCI=landing ship infantry, nicknamed "lousy civilian idea" because its seaworthiness at places like D-Day landings at Normandie was so poor.

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QOD "Only the brawling, bumbling ringleader of the great circus that is today’s Republican Party could break open our sclerotic overclass and lay it bare for the whole republic to see not simply its emptiness but its rot.” Peter Savodnik, from: t.co/K8PKi8pS7x

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AOD Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) We used to call these PASSEX’s, meaning passing exercises. I guess they needed a new sexier name for folks up the chain to include in their Fitness. Reports. www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/D...

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Not the whole story. In 2020 the issue was damage to economy & price due to Covid & supply chains interruptions. Act of God 2nd case was flawed Dem housing/credit policies that led to real estate securities bubble.

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QOD “But life he’d come to realize was also memory. The recollection of moments often prove richer than the moments themselves.” Dennis Lehane Fm The Given Day

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AOD CGSC=Command and General Staff College. Located at Fort Leavenworth Ks

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QOD "“I want to reach an agreement, and the only way you’re going to reach an agreement is not to abandon [Ukraine]” Donald Trump www.fdd.org/analysis/202...

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The Last Cruise: German East Asian Squadron | National WWI Museum and Memorial my.theworldwar.org/16350/16351

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California fires are a catastrophe & I have nothing but prayers for these people who’ve lost so much.

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So far it appears the UA operation in Kursk was quite limited in its aims and scale, intended to gain better positions in the pocket. There was a Russian attack conducted at the same time, which was similarly limited in scope. I won't speak to how they reconciled.

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