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I assumed he was a platoon leader as a butter bar, but I've never heard any evidence that he ever commanded a company.

It never occurred to me that my "betters" in terms of educational and career achievement would have a tougher time seeing right and wrong clearly than the guy who dropped out of college to join the Army. I can't believe I took rocket fire in Afghanistan and they're the ones who are afraid.

It's me. I'm ANTIFA.

Every day we are further and further from DB being satire.

ICE partners with Taliban to round up Afghan interpreters Under the agreement, the Taliban will offer “on-the-ground expertise” in displacing and shattering the lives of former allies.

It's hard to tell what's satire these days.
www.duffelblog.com/ice-partners...

I love Christmas more than the average Joe, but jeez it's not even Labor Day yet. And my wife hates that specific song with the fire of a thousand suns.

This is so, so bad. We have reached the point of the president's supporters calling other human beings cockroaches.

It is making me lose my mind that evangelical Christians support this.

My nemesis was a fellow Sergeant/squad leader in my platoon. Aggressively stupid, disliked by subordinates and peers. I PCSed and saw his name on the WOCS Selection List. It motivated me to get off my own ass and finish my WOCS packet. I reported to WOBOLC and he was on BN staff. He had washed out.

I mean, if it's as responsive as J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man with an LCD, sign me up. But not in a public office setting. That's asinine.

If you're looking at equipment at all, don't snooze on OEM attachments for your grill. I've got a griddle top and a smoker box for my grill and it's really raised my outdoor cooking game. I don't have to have 3 different devices on my patio.

He's retired military working on his second career.

He's retired military. I guess this phrasing is throwing people off because it seems to be a theme in the comments. His second career is running a coffee company. I've seen his LinkedIn posts IRL and he's right.

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Why should I feel my feelings? Can't I just be a good dad/husband/employee by white-knuckling my anxiety every day and self medicating with booze and THC gummies? And you want me to feel my feelings ALL THE TIME?

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I'm of two minds about that. Just like "only Nixon could go to China", only Manchin could get elected in WV. It's not unreasonable that a CA. Dem looks different than an Alabama Dem. Is that better than having a second GOP WV Senator? Especially when we struggle to just get to a Senate majority.

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Coming from Group, multiple CW3/4s at the CO and BN-level, me being the senior for the Brigade and only one other CW3 total (who's down in the motor pool) was a little weird. Making it worse, all the junior WOs looked at me like I walked on water because I had Airborne Wings and a SF SSI-FWTS.

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What was wild is I was coming back to that unit after 3 years in SF as the SENIOR WO and got tasked by the BDE CO to lead WOPD. I was a CW3 with maybe a year in grade and somehow I was the responsible adult. IIRC, we had 5 WOs under investigation/flagged/pending discipline out of maybe 12 deployed.

Nine-soldier crime ring linked to death of Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale A nine-soldier crime ring that began in Afghanistan has been tied to the 2012 shooting death of a well-respected Fort Bragg officer, according to federal court documents. Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale was s…

The ex-Warrant, now a convicted federal felon, certainly bears some tangential responsibility. The unit got back from Afg in spring of 2011 as I joined. There were multiple (unrelated) serious discipline problems including several Warrants who, deservedly, got hemmed up. share.google/r3uz0hVM1kXy...

Fort Bragg, 2012. We lost my Battalion Commander. Roy Tisdale, RIP.

What are your other Top 5? I have to assume Defying Gravity is there somewhere.

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I've spent more than 2 hours today fighting to get insurance to properly process payments for treatments from two different providers. I STG if more people could wrap their brains around the idea that single payer/universal healthcare would eliminate all this extra hassle, we'd all be better off.

The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.

A special Daily with a remembrance of my mother in the PS at the end on what would have been her 91st birthday:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I feel for the kids though. Their parents gross stupidity is literally endangering their entire futures.

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Saw Superman with the wife this evening. Enjoyable. Silly, at times, even a little dorky. Nathan Fillon steals every scene he's in. Krypto the dog was fun too. Overall, adorable and, IMO, a worthy addition to Superman's canon.

I downloaded Baldur's Gate I, II, and Icewind Dale a few months ago. When I get tired of them, I guess I'll have to finally finish KOTOR.

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My unit at Fort Hood in the late 1990s shared a motor pool with an ADA Battalion. Got to sit in an Avenger once. Nearly 30 years ago now.