Mike Jason

To be clear for anyone not familiar with security operations. For 24:7 coverage, it takes more than 4 X the force you want on the ground. Usually 3 shifts of duty/rest/prepare. Than add another 1/4+of admin/log support.

300 troops put two platoons on the ground.

When "legal" American tourists go to foreign ERs, the host nation taxpayers pay for the care.

The more you know...

Paging Eric Shinseki.

French knights arguing about their virility on the eve of facing the British Long bow.

In another part of the camp they showed me the children, hundreds of them. Some were only six. One rolled up his sleeve, showed me his number. It was tattooed on his arm. B-6030, it was. The others showed me their numbers. They will carry them till they die. An elderly man standing beside me said, 'The children–enemies of the state!' I could see their ribs through their thin shirts. The old man said, 'I am Professor Charles Richer of the Sorbonne.' The children clung to my hands and stared. We crossed to the courtyard. Men kept coming up to me to speak to me and touch me, professors from Poland, doctors from Vienna, men from all of Europe. Men from the countries that made America.

An excerpt from the transcript of CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow's broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945

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Ahh skulls and the Punisher. Symbolism used first by the SS, then by Iraqi federal police death squads.

Also didn't the punisher like hate cops and the justice system?

a little girl in a red coat is walking down the street with a man in a black coat . ALT: a little girl in a red coat is walking down the street with a man in a black coat .

This scene in Schindler's List was a pretty good depiction of ghetto clearing operations.

Worth your time.

You can also talk to a GWOT veteran who participated in countless midnight raids to family homes and compounds.

It takes a real sociopath to not be impacted by these missions.

When I was considering buying my first e-bike, the King St metro in Alexandria had like 4 bike boxes.

That left picture? The bikes you see are the commuter equivalent of the entire Pentagon South parking lot.
The efficiency of minor bike infrastructure investment is mind boggling.

My friend Fred.
The real deal.
Great to see someone of this caliber throw his hat in the political ring.

Duty, Honor Country.

Go get 'em.

But also a lot of ex Bathists got to have their knee caps drilled. So not everything is hunky dory when regimes fall.

The people who design our uniforms think this is a good look.

Look at that.
Once again, for the folks in the back:
Logistics.

There are multiple volumes making up the after action review of the two simultaneous multi-year conflicts we fought after 9-11. Both in some pretty unforgiving environments.
Our Soldier's physical fitness or lack thereof cannot be found in said tomes.

The next worst day is when you write the letter to the family.
The next worst day is the unit memorial or ramp ceremony.
The next worst day is when you redeploy and go visit them and attempt to console them.
The next worst day is the day you cannot stop thinking about them, which is every day.

Could offset climate change losses.

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

Once again, Mark Twain nails it.

If you love the Troops™️ you need to care about firearms policy.

Did you known suicide attempts for military and veterans are actually down?
But "successful" completion is at over 90%. Because they use firearms. Because as a community we own way more than civilian counterparts.

Plus 1.

And besides the combat, when you had to make that phone call and then write that letter to the next of kin, lemme tell you, this stuff really pisses you off.

[taps 🎙️]: since the beginning of recorded time, disaffected young men have swooned to radical ideas like moths to a flame. What's unique in this moment is it's happening in a culture awash with 400,000,000 firearms.

Fantastic. Super fun. Lots of topics I have railed on. Great discussion on the brief case carriers---or as I dubbed them, the smile and nod club.

Thanks for this. Helpful.

Can you expand?

One man’s memory sparks search for US soldiers he saw executed in WWII Retired firefighter Benjamin Broadwell Hagans, 96, has emerged as an eyewitness to the savage executions of three soldiers in 1942, The War Horse reports.

This is remarkable.

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I literally shouted WTF in my office.

"Until Valhalla"

No, it's retiree's first day as a GS in the Pentagon collection.

This English dude also wrote about in 1603.

[stares in Sunni-Shia schism]

Apple Pay.
Have used it in dozens of countries. Even in a remote outpost in the middle of the Kenyan bush. No cash. No more getting ripped off at exchange kiosks.

My first real mission in Iraq was cleaning up a rolling mass execution north of Baghdad. U.S. forces closed the highway due to a helicopter downing forcing Shia workers to use backroads. Sunnis set up moving checkpoints, stopping cars and executing the drivers then taking the cars. Took Al day.