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02.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The word of the day is:
Interoperability.
Oh yeah. And the White Russians are loved by the people, and will overthrow the Reds. Oh yeah, and Chalabi. Oh and Karzai. We will just be bamboozeld by any expat grifter who speaks perfect English.
02.03.2026 10:36 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0See Archduke Ferdinand. Ngo Diem. Tito. Qaddafi. Saddam Hussein. Pretty long list, if you look.
02.03.2026 10:30 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I haven't unboxed mine yet.
01.03.2026 17:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I spent three years in Killeen, TX and another five years in Hinesville, GA so basically I am like George Strait.
01.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Three of us have given the "last full measure of devotion."
Three families have lost everything.
This is the remnant of Milley's "readiness to fight tonight" fever dream that drove foscom units (and leaders) into the dirt.
Because it was completely divorced from the reality of actually getting the forces there inside like three months.
My MiTT team was 9th Division, 1st BDE, 1st BN. Yep.
Team 9-1-1. Can't make this shit up.
The only people cheering today's are the never has beens.
01.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I did the same and then was asked to turn my thread into an oped.
The result was my best attempt at a professional mea culpa for OEF and my role in it as an Army Officer.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
GREAT.
28.02.2026 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Self inflicted. Just like when universities kicked out ROTC programs.
Military officers provide a much needed civ-mil ambassadorial function in universities. As much as they get out of the program, their civilian peers who may never otherwise meet a uniform, gain much much more.
This.
27.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Normies expressing concerns on the fighting between Pakistan and the Taliban.
OEF veterans today:
Half of the corps of cadets:
"Sir, this is Friday."
"Pivot. PIVOT!"
26.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Friends is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults - Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
26.02.2026 14:07 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
Bound to happen.
But it's still bad.
Recall we stopped supporting this with resources.
In this essay I will tell you how all of this is downstream from the 207th Maintenance debacle in 2003.
25.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is what has been behind my drumbeat since the miltwitter days:
"They love the troops™️ until they don't."
Had a CG back in 2009 who constantly cautioned that the love affair with troopz is both ahistoric and temporary---and must be continuously earned.
This is the way.
25.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Yikes.
24.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He...posted...this pathetic humble brag on ...linked in? Like he volunteered this? With his name on it? JFC
23.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Competition for scarce resources.
This goes ALL the way down to the asshole dad on the T-ball field, because if education is affordable Kyle and Karen don't have to push 4 year old Timmy to make the traveling team.
Better link.
Check out this video, "jesse jackson speech" share.google/xNSUELzwHuHg...
