One episode in and I’m loving Chad Powers.

Don’t fret the the Troops™️ might not get paid during an extended shutdown - they won’t go hungry. Though after yesterday maybe they should go hungry.

Can we go one day without this country embarrassing itself?

If I’ve learned one thing in my military career it’s that you can grind through anything with sheer stubbornness and copious amounts of caffeine.

There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think “wow, the internet is a mistake.”

No, you move.

I’ve been to Bagram and have no desire to go back.

Everyday.

“DoD” rolled off the tongue nicely but “DoW” does not so I’ve been saying “DoWar” which sounds stupid so I think I’m just going to call it “the War Office.”

That the NYT is calling this Wilson’s end gives me confidence the G-men will win this weekend.

Not much enrages me more than watching the CBS Sports US ARMY SPONSORED post game show while the US ARMY forces me to share a dorm room on a CONUS “deployment” with another mid-30s man.

I’m at a sports bar that doesn’t have the BTN and so I’m watching the game on my phone. Pathetic.

The older my kids get the more firmly I believe that elementary school teachers are the lynchpin to our society’s future.

The news media interviewing a 5th grader whose friends were gunned down next to him in the middle of the school day is peak dystopia.

Dear Microsoft Word, I do not need a copilot for my writing. I already have multiple personalities floating around in here. Best, Ben, Benjamin, Benny, and Lyman

The Ohio State University plays football this week.

I’ve never been more convinced that Power Point is ruining the military than I am as a member of a division staff.

Imagine missing the start of CFB season because your governor sent you to DC for funsies. Yikes.

If I lived in DC I wouldn’t fly all the way to the west coast to meet my handler I’d make him drag his ass to see ME. #knowyourworth

I have to drive up to Tucson to swap the rental car I’m paying out of pocket for because otherwise I’m foot bound on an American military base (which means basically stuck) and will steadily go insane. Elections have consequences and they often suck for Benny boy here. At least there’s In-N-Out.

Maybe I’m old fashioned but I think our society would be better if we had more people willing to sacrifice their lives for their brothers and sisters in arms and less people who talk on podcasts.

Three more weeks until my mental and emotional well being rests on how well a bunch of 18-22 year olds at one of my alma maters play a sport.

Don’t tell me wife but I absolutely got sunburned on my 75 minute run on Sunday and now it’s itchy.

I played 18 holes of golf in 100 degree dry heat and I feel like I lost every morsel of moisture in my body without sweating at all.

I sat in meetings from 930a to 230p then immediately ate a 2lbs burrito. This is how I’m securing your border. You can thank me later.

I’m getting close to pounding a half dozen hard seltzers and unloading on this butterfly app about the border mission.

Happy Gilmore 2 was fun and exactly the kind of movie I needed today.

Sometimes I read the comments on Facebook posts from my local news outlets and wonder if the expansion of the franchise was not a mistake. Or is this is just the price we must pay for the internet and dank memes?

I know it’s probably time for me to hang up the boots because I’m consistently the only person I work with that doesn’t like to shovel lunch into their pie hole while sitting at their desk staring into their computer screen.

Very happy Apple renewed Stick for a second season otherwise I was ditching the iPhone and switching to Android.

You ever think about how sick troop transport will be for WWIII? Sure, you'll sail away from your loved ones to probably die in a trench outside a microchip factory - if you're not killed by an anti-ship missile on your way there. But you'll be crossing the oceans in a Carnival cruise liner!!!!

I don’t know what the question is but I know the answer IS NOT to start a podcast.

This could be controversial but I’ve never been a big fan of blousing my boots in uniform.

Stick on Apple TV+ might be one of the last threads holding my sanity together. Love that show.

Nutter butter cookies are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

There is nothing quite like being very far away from your family, for what will be a quite long period of time, for the dumbest possible reason, to really put things into perspective.

Men want only one thing and it’s to defend Cemetery Ridge on July 3rd, 1863.

Of all my favorite lines in my favorite movie - the 1993 cinematic masterpiece Gettysburg - I think my top is the one about John Reynolds, “He was a Soldier. And a good friend.”

I walked around the Gardens of the Gods today and to be honest I expected to see more perfectly chiseled demigod men and jaw droppingly beautiful demigod women.

Wow Sinners has to be the best movie I’ve seen in a long time.

Did everyone at the Travelers watch the latest episodes of Stick and just decided to be as obnoxious as possible?

I’m not worried about going to war with Iran (as a nation or me personally) but I’m very worried about my friends in Iraq that might very well be targets in the next 24-48 hours.

There is something surreal about being an Army officer at a frontier Army post 150 years after its establishment yet still performing a “frontier” mission. And I’m not even in the cavalry. Anyway it’s going to be another hot one in Arizona.

Between Rory finally winning the Masters and JJ winning the US Open, 2025 is clearly the year for mid-30s guys achieving what they thought might be impossible. Maybe I’ll finally learn how to swim.

When you’re a field grade officer and your deployment orders say to hand carry your weapon system….you bring the big guns.

This is brilliant, spot-on, and….beautiful?

The United States Army needs a word to replace brief/briefing as a noun. Brief implies short and they never, ever, EVER are.

By and large I'm a very empathetic parent EXCEPT when my kids come crying to me because they stepped on THEIR Legos with bare feet. You reap what you sow CHILDREN.

My On-Demand Generation children are enamored with the concept of the ice cream truck but they misunderstand its fundamental nature - IT COMES WHEN IT COMES, KIDS. IF IT EVEN COMES AT ALL.

As soon as possible after I go to the border I’m going to propose a helmet trade with a DHS guy. Because they clearly want to play GWOT and will probably love gear that’s “been there,” and I desperately what to get a high cut helmet to replace the ACH I rocked in Afghanistan 12 years ago.