I had a great time discussing the role of #OperationalPlanners and the Marine Corps University's School of Advanced Warfighting on @thestrategybridge.bsky.social podcast with @prbeckman.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/5fYA...

In the latest @thestrategybridge.bsky.social Podcast, our host @prbeckman.bsky.social sits down for a conversation with @briankerg.bsky.social about the School of Advanced Warfighting and the training of operational planners. thestrategybridge.org/the-podcast

Join host @prbeckman.bsky.social for a conversation with @briankerg.bsky.social about the School of Advanced Warfighting and the training of operational planners. thestrategybridge.org/the-podcast

Tune in tomorrow for new @thestrategybridge.bsky.social podcast; @prbeckman.bsky.social never disappoints==>

Turns out sanctions work. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

How it started. How it’s going.

How it started. How it’s going.

Be still, my heart.

Everything Just Got Better.

Cycling Klausenpass, had to take an impromptu break for an Alpabzug (traditional alpine movement of cows from the high summer grazing fields to the valley)

one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye

Job Description: People Management. Supervise and serve as a mentor for a team of more than a dozen staff and interns and several dozen nonresident fellows. Me: You mean... there's less than 50 of them? Like, I could actually know all their names?

Spotted in the wild, hidden in the back corner of dental clinic x-ray room. Part of me wanted to plug it in, stamp my dental record and see what year it was…

Everything Just Got Better.

Fascinating

Everything Just Got Better.

Was just introduced as “Ty the Pol-Mil Guy” and I guess that’s not wrong.

Drove an hour to have a three hour lunch with a buddy. It was everything I needed it to be. Call your friends; make time.

Unlike my old office, this office has a dog. Her name is Holly.

Math People, rejoice! @ericmmurphy.bsky.social

Heavy Metall www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

Hey @dansukman.bsky.social I thank you for your note and am honored to have been (a small) part of your success story. The #Profession is advanced through peer-to-peer development—and you’ve done more than your share.

I am not an economist, but it looks like something happened to the economy in January and it looks bad. *Source: U.S. Govt, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.

Approved.

Wrecked. “The church bell chimed, it rang 29 times.. for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

Be still my heart.

Everything Just Got Better. Thanks, @bartenderhemry.bsky.social !

Everything Just Got Better.

Everything Just Got Better.

Everything Just Got Better.

Just walked out of the building for the last time. Three decades in uniform seems to have gone by in a flash. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to serve my country, confident I've left my team in good hands, and ready for the road ahead. Thanks to all in the #Profession.

Phase Line POTOMAC Time Now.

Relatable.

Everything Just Got Better.

Everybody needs an editor.

Your thoughts are not commands.

Been working in the shop. Covered Bridge is less than two months out, but I’m way ahead on inventory at this point. Gotta keep rolling it out, though. Quilts, pumpkins, candy corn, wall-sized scrabble boards, and wood bowls.

Approved.

Steve Martin is a banjo god. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers - Paul Revere [Loft Feature Pt 3] youtu.be/LGjZU-7D6Gk

If there's any doubt American boomers are divorced from the reality of America... this older dude in the diner I'm at just started to chide a younger dude (early 40s... maybe, but could have been 20s) for wearing a VFW hat. "There's no way you're old enough to be a veteran of a foreign war"

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

This is not an aircraft carrier.

I did not know the Spanish Navy used Catamarans as frigates.

Everything Just Got Better.

Be still, my heart. www.negroniweek.com

GDP of Russia $2.2T. GDP of Texas $2.6T. Why is this war not over? www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...

Prolly not the last thing you want to see out your turret peep hole.

I am here to write about soup.

Question: Are you PMP Certified? Me: I have three Master’s Degrees; why would I get a certification that requires a High School Diploma? Would you like me to build you a Gannt Chart that explains this?

SHOT OVER.