Mike J

This town is nuts today.

Nope

Hold my beer.

Wait until we find out about American counter disease/pandemic.

It's still up.

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I have never seen such an incompetently worded, and frankly disrespectful, casualty notification message. And I have seen quite a few. It is difficult for me to believe that the Army I served in can fail so profoundly at a no fail task. You people have got to shape up. Michael Stahlke

Everything today is a Temu version of what came before.

You have my sword, sir.

HHC unit armorer. Won't take any questions

Also weird flex when 80% of forceable deportations are Catholics from South and Central America.

If you want to know why we stood up an office specifically to deal with CIVCAS (disbanded). Why we study the laws of war. Why we restrict ROE. Why we keep JAGs close in the targeting process. Why some of us who had to make hard decisions can still sleep at night. It was all there to prevent THIS.

A tale in four parts.

Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms.
My roomdog and I used to play that before we hit the rack every night at the academy.
A few years later I stood by his graveside after he was killed in OIF leading his infantry company.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

I talked with David Kay right after he came back from Iraq in late 2003.
What was the number one thing we got wrong, I asked.
His answer: the complete breakdown of societal trust among the Iraqis.

I don’t think that “accidentally” getting a Nazi tattoo means you have to be exiled from the whole of society, I do think it means you don’t get to be one of the hundred most powerful people in America. Sorry. I know that seems unfair. That’s just the way it works.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

He did really good shit for Veterans. And and genuinely opened lines of communication with the community for feedback.

Literal LMFAO

Dear God, please.

MilTwitter series Glup Shitto.

How I arrived on Bluesky

IT guy, but yes.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Exactly. Lost in all historical rationalization arguments is the voice of contemporary opposition.
"Well, everyone owned slaves then."
"All southerners joined the confederacy."
"Everyone was a Nazi."

The existence of those who said NO indicates choice
and makes the perfidy that much worse

The next Targaryen.

They love the troops™️
until they don't.

It's worse.
This is ODAs trucking Kurdish "liberators" during OIF I. Or later, deploying Kurdish IA divisions to secure Baghdad and Mosul pre-surge.
Just like the Brits, we love arming the minority somehow thinking the majority will welcome them as the liberators and new overlords. Madness.

If you are in the region, I cannot emphasize enough to enroll in the DoS STEP system.

Here is some info: