Six months ago I would have been champing at the bit to apply.

If this is dad rock, I’m dad.

MTA (maybe Thanksgiving appropriate) rapid prototype.

Miss me with this crap when Volvo won’t fix a known engine issue on a V60 I bought new because it was *1 month* past the “courtesy recall” date. My American love story burns a quart a month because CCP-owned Swedes can’t make a piston ring.

Not stunting on Cav, but taking the opportunity to flog a hobby horse of mine: “funny” objective or operation names are funny until it comes time for a Primary Next of Kin brief for the kid killed on the op.

The dumbest people in the world shout for Bellum Romanum because they think it’s all “the ram has touched the gate” & “salt the earth” but can’t find enough brain cells to rub together to learn context.

I inherited a campaign button in high school that said “come back Truman, all is forgiven.”

Stamina/durability is key, even in “modern” war. Even during ‘drone’ heavy campaign in AFG as a lawyer, 18-20 hour days & broken sleep were absolutely the norm. Our cognition software runs on biological hardware - doesn’t matter how smart/technically good you are if you can’t hang.

Almost every time I drop off my kids I tell them “be safe and have fun!” Like the idea a similarly cringe Roman dad had that sentiment put into the floor of his villa a couple millennium ago.

Seems to me if one can safely do it, it would be an effective tactic to mock any and all masked state agents one encounters like the woulda-enlisted, needle-dick losers they know they are.

you can dress it up all kinds of ways but the argument basically boils down to this guy putting his commitment to being a soldier over his commitment to the values of the constitution it's a fundamentally morally vacuous position

when i unfollow all the heat sucks people

A fun heuristic for how a commander is going to treat their JA is the recency of their most recent divorce. With one notable exception, JAG-haters I have run across have been very mediocre officers.

“The Caribbean Strikes and the Collapse of Legal Oversight in U.S. Military Operations” By @seharrison7.bsky.social and @marknevitt.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/123172/carib...

International Humanitarian Law/Law of War is a balance b/t military necessity & humanity. Francis Lieber, who wrote foundational treatise, said “[t]he more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief.”

"Lethality and honor must coexist in a democratic society’s armed forces."

“All law is fiscal law” he muttered to himself, scratching another hash mark into the unseen bricks, joining dozen of its fellow travelers in the darkness.

Vote curlew or GTFO.

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.

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.

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

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

I’m not solid on age verification as a panacea, but I firmly believe if engineers as talented as those at Apple & other tech companies wanted parental controls to be intuitive & functional… they would be. wapo.st/4nOaelx

Everything else may be… what it is, and it’s only week 3, but Detroit versus Everybody is fun this year.

Question for tax lawyer friends: if the feds hand me a $50k bribe, but my friends get into power and kill the investigation, do I keep the taxpayer dollars? Is that reportable as income?

Barracks lawyering at the highest levels.

may God give us a double portion of the Spirit that the Freedom Riders had

Go Rainbow Warriors!

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Picked this up from the library on a whim and it was *fantastic.*

When the 10 year old wants an Oreo flavored cat cake, you get to work on a cookies and cream cat cake.

“Operational Law was woke so we beat it to death.”

As case names go this is top tier. Like, up there with United States v 95 Barrels of Vinegar (1924) and Ward v Rock Against Racism (1989).

A great way to get “officer discretion” severely curtailed is for the public to learn how 👮‍♀️ use their discretion. *assumes a functional judiciary/legislature, individual experience may vary, offer not currently available in the U.S. mainland.

Epitaph of the mountain west

Unholstering/brandishing a weapon is almost certainly covered by the agency’s use of force policy, & for mine required a report. The lack of patches/clear agency identification mean holding this bozo to account is not straightforward. Body type, poor training scream ICE or Border Patrol to me.

This, combined with the immunity ruling in Trump v United States and the pardon power, keeps me up at night.

Like, the 2025 version of a photograph reflecting “the power of the law” is totally different and it depresses the hell out of me.

RLTW, regardless of occupational specialty.

Quick question, does anybody know how this worked out for this Nixon character?

It’s wild that the “benefit of the doubt” position is a ruthless war with shocking indifference to civilian harm.

The idea that US-PRC Pacific conflict would produce catastrophic casualties is not a surprise. Article highlights US Army Pacific view of battlefield 🚑 as possible ‘hole’ in allied swing. Baked into this quote is assumption that CCP would not adhere to Law of War protections for medical folks.🧵

Thoughts and prayers.

I’ve been looking into post-Army careers where I can continue to be of service. Cops here start at $20k more than EMTs. Wild.

🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 Proof positive of the ability to develop and deploy credible, land-based, long-range precision fires to hold maritime targets at risk and complicate the calculus of those who seek to coerce neighbors and threaten regional peace and stability.