Matt Montazzoli

So, there is a theory that a GTC purchase can never violate the Anti-Deficiency Act, but I’m not sure we want to test it on a department-wide basis.

I don’t think you can use it for pay and allowances, unless you put SM on some truly batshit individual contracts to try and shoehorn into the statute, but never say never with the current crew.

I kinda wonder if this is a wink-and-nod at some Feed and Forage Act shenanigans… or just a disconnect from actual reality.

does he only own one shirt

This was the bit I was thinking of - understandably not indexed under 75RR, and again, distracted by the latest foibles of the Detroit Society for Blood Pressure Elevation.

Do we know the overlap on the “it’s bad” and “I’ve done it” portions of the Venn diagram? Wonder how much of this is fellas who touched the financial stove, as it were.

364 POSTSCRIPT It can be argued that the Second World War was the first time since the Revolutionary War era that America's military leadership incorporated special operators into combat zones at a large scale. Further, any detailed study of the 2nd and Sth Ranger Battalions following the Normandy invasion only reinforces the notion that army commanders just did not always know how to deploy an elite, if unique, fighting force. That said, the Rangers' ability to accomplish any combat mission that the war called for undoubtedly shaped their military doctrine, in particular their special skills as a lightning attack force on the battlefield. World War II was the crucible in which the Rangers birthed the future for special operations in the modern American army. It was the Ranger campaigns in the North African, Mediterranean, Euro-pean, and Pacific Theaters that, for better or worse, foreshadowed the shape of future United States military operations from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq. It is an interesting thought experiment to contemplate what the likes of Wild Bill Darby and Big Jim Rudder would make of that.

Cover of BOB DRURY AND TOM CLAVIN THE LAST HILL THE EPIC STORY OF A RANGER BATTALION AND THE BATTLE THAT DEFINED WWIL

The title of the book oversells the stakes of the battle, but it illustrates your thesis nicely.

Cisterna as a verb, a man after my own heart.

Rangers in the Heurtgenwald also illustrate your principle nicely - an elite infantry unit sent to take/hold a key objective, utterly annihilated in the process.

… but a quick scan while half-watching the Lions didn’t turn it up.

Snip is @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Hardest Place, which I think has some additional elaboration about how 75RR officers in Afghanistan felt more of an obligation to assist conventional units in AFG than other JSOC elements without deep connective tissue to the larger force.

One of the things I love about Ranger Regiment is that it remains tethered to the Big Army.

Officers regularly do command/staff in line units b/t 75RR tours. NCOs do “charter time” in reg army units (tho this is unevenly enforced).

Abram’s/Wickham’s Charters demand Rangers improve our whole Army.

I wish I could say with confidence that you’re wrong, but I can’t. Your point is well taken.

Counterpoint: if you convince a 19 year old he’s an elite paratrooper who cannot lose, he’ll fight like it.

The world’s tiniest stormtrooper here couldn’t hack it as a private in my Ranger Regiment.

Nobody who can do anything else works for Border Patrol or ICE in this day and age. Absolute bottom of the barrel trash behind a badge.

If old mate had a gun or a blade down his pants (I presume hand-behind-the-back will be the laughable justification for this brutality), the littlest stormtrooper would have been in for a nasty surprise when he tried that off-brand WWE nonsense.

Lee Cataluna: When Hate Speech Is Too Much. Even For The Aloha Spirit The University of Hawaiʻi once hosted a political provocateur under the banner of diversity. Here's what happened.

Story about when the proto-campus debate bigot visited Hawaii, and found bigotry was no match for Aloha.

Also wild Rockwell was doing neo-nazi, shoah-denying speaking tours *in living memory of vets who liberated the camps.*

Live footage of me piloting the rented pontoon boats from Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

Hawaii’s very reasonable gun laws are too good to be true with this court.

A good coin can be used by your successor because it encapsulates the unit, as opposed to a weird cult of personality totem.

Reminded me to smash the order button for 1.0>2.0 upgrade kit.

These masked dorks heard about Rangers laddering up into compounds and wanted to try it at home.

I for one am excited to receive a GWOD service ribbon in lieu of a retirement award.

Her stuff seems fine, except in my area of expertise when she’s wildly and floridly incorrect - which causes me to take with a grain of salt everything she asserts outside my area of expertise.

I'd love the vetbro "THE ROES MADE BY WOKE LAWYERS AND DESK JOCKEY OFFICERS MADE US LOSE" crowd to explain why neither the Russian military nor the Israeli military—despite having committed war crimes and killed civilians for years now—have achieved a single one of their military objectives.

Departures can be characterized as proof of “woke ideology” as opposed to objection to increasing politicization and misuse of the armed forces.

I worry it becomes a scarlet letter for future employment prospects or veterans benefits if we don’t come out of this.

It is good to be against fascism.
Fascism is bad.

INDOPACOM when they see CENTCOM arrive at quantico

Morons seem to think that mere exposure results in ritual uncleanliness.

The same lame-brained “dip the bullets in pig fat” trope from the Moro insurrection that resurfaced early in the “war on terror.”

“Never Shall I Fail to Lubricate the Drive System…”

Take two Turnpike albums and call me in the morning.