"You kids might be thinking you'll be too scared to do all this, but don't worry, the same way we talked about how they'll probably be in shock, you'll be in shock too, which will make it way easier to deal with the blood and screaming and stuff."

For all the veterans reflecting that the value of their service was in terms of the people on their left and right because OEF was a disaster and OIF was only a success in that the govt became stable enough to ask us to leave, reminder that we're just assuming OIF/OEF were the big wars of our lives.

After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<

wow. WOW.

Good news! you're not the first to think of that xD youtu.be/WKYVk8K_Uxc?...

Every Elon post sounds like Wheatley in Portal 2:

2 weeks! Drink!

Would you donate?

So, you went through a bunch of hardships and privation for nothing because your government is led by jackasses? I know exactly what will fix that: Receiving a cursory "thank you for your service" from someone disinterested in the details of that hardship and some FREE pancakes.

Records of Hawaii Marines from November, 1942. Less than one year since Pearl Harbor. Their time is spent training the new defense battalions, and inspecting new facilities in places like then-NAS Kaneohe. Still made time at 1000 to celebrate the birthday.

If Alex Karp was accused of being a high-testosterone dude, I don't think there's a jury that would convict him.

Is anything more satisfying than hiding all stories from a source on Google News?

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

A Morgna wes core!

At some point we need to have a discussion about how INWO's reputation has only gotten better over time, when it stopped being satire, and maybe whether it was ever satire.

Do you know what’s a counterintelligence concern? Our armed forces living with day to day financial uncertainty.

"Fire in the Lake" with Volko and Mark, giants of the #wargaming field. @volko.bsky.social

- #Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa & Foreign Minister @AsaadHShaibani playing basketball with @CENTCOM Commander Admiral Cooper & @CJTFOIR Commander BG Kevin Lambert.

Okay so Zulu (1964), but it’s Star Wars would be both excellent and perhaps less problematic, but the premise might require the heroes to be Imperials

Even though I think adding Jedi is a great way to ruin a Star Wars show, my vote is Knightfall, but also Star Wars. So I guess what I really want is more of the Dark Horse Tales of the Jedi.

I assume next he's going to recommend this for the US military's discretionary budget. If so, I'm going to use my $2600 share to fund all the meritorious awards the Marine Corps gives out in a year.

Me, when I was a DoD employee, accepting a cloth tote bag from a university where I gave a talk:

I would make the PLAN build a dozen more of these if I could. Every dollar they spend on them is a dollar that isn't going to something relevant.

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We're all on the same page that, setting aside whether or not Hegseth's statement is correct, the only possible motivation for this administration to change this process is to facilitate corruption, right?

So to clarify it - is it the weapons system works 85% of the time or is it that the system is 85% of the way towards working at all? Because those are different.

Evan Wright. Was just talking about this earlier today.

I was the bad guy in a PME course that will remain nameless, because I guess they wrote their scenario when Qaddafi was still alive, and I was like "Libya got its act together enough to invade Tunisia? That's great news!"

Doesn't look great. At some point people might need to mentally prepare themselves for the possibility that it requires the expertise of veterans to effectively criticize both the military and militarism.

First thought:

AI may have reached the scale of a Brawndo-level problem, where it's the source of multiple serious problems for society, but corruption and greed have now integrated it so deeply into everything that fixing those problems may now crash the economy.

why does RFK just zoom off instead of helping the dude

I guess right now we just have concepts of concepts of operations, the elusive fifth level of plan below a commander's estimate.

if you're in line to bribe Eric Adams, stay in line

Mike Johnson read the news? Man, really buried the lede on this one.

Every now and then Hallmark gets one right. www.hallmark.com/ornaments/ke...

stay tuned

An unnamed White House spokesperson told me “the pope doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” I then asked if Trump has read the gospel. They declined comment. This enraged Letters from Leo reader JD Vance who requested I unmask the person. Full story: www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/breaking-p...

I think tomorrow he's going to need another MRI, a CT scan, an ECG, and more labs that will find he's now 34 years younger than his chronological age.

The crashouts are already in progress and they are delicious.

Bill Ackman has begun writing a tweet that he will finish at midnight.

Man, the “point blank sandwich” discourse made it feel almost like Olde Twitter which of course made me realize how much I miss Olde Twitter Thanks, @johnrogers.bsky.social, for bringing a reminder of the joys we once had

The CIA didn't have to rig the election, the population of Northern Virginia is 70% CIA or retired CIA.

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

Everything old is new again.

“the most empowering act in Miss Universe history" is kind of damning this with faint praise, but it's pretty satisfying watching Nawat realize what's happening and frantically try to get them to stop.