None of this is surprising. Though apparently I love saying "its" and ™️! Good to know the old MilTwitter friend group is still out here trying to positively influence the profession---tho we are prob just taking to each other. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Quick, give this vEtErAn a Glock and have him protect our schools. Yes, you need to understand that having served does not exclude you from being a complete shit for brains grifter.

First video I recall watching.

Stumbled on this piece of history today. Was the only one there. Saw an empty parking lot on the side of the highway and what looked like a trail head. Then, this. Was cool to pay respects to a fellow Grad, a world away.

Photo by me. Time, now. Reykjavik.

Investors continuously undervalue consumer sentiment. A majority in Europe and China, and not less than 51% of US citizens, would rather walk ten miles than even be seen next to a Tesla. This won't change any time soon.

Had a no-notice NTC rotation just before my no notice field trip to Afghanistan with CJSOTF. I made my kids fly the living shit out our Ravens. Near continuous operations. Show where it breaks. Show me how you can fix it in the dark with numb hands. That was 2011.

MilTwitter alumni airing out their Army GO grievances should be the new way to close out the year. Fun, affirming AND therapeutic!

There was a time that I wanted to research and write about mentorship DNA and tribes, meaning the patronage links. It really crystalized after the Vanessa Guillen murder and other SA scandals, Kept seeing the same DNA network--mentors and mentees. Then Branch and Division patronage-- the Tribes.

Eric is on to something. I advise transitioning folks often. The rule of thumb I tell them is, unless you are a lawyer, pilot or doctor, your marketability is as an 01A---branch immaterial staff officer. You will need to be trained, quit looking for the perfect prom dress. Or get a hard skill.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Kicked off the holidays paying my respects to a good one.

Right. He was right there as part of the campaign. Everyone knew this. His stance was widely reported as was the likelihood that he would end up in the cabinet. And yet 80,000,000 Americans lined up and pulled the lever.

About time.

Take a loving and breathing bipartisan conspiracy in popular colture. Add gasoline. Add more gasoline. Add more gasoline. Start playing with matches for lolz. See what happens.

he #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. It's gonna be ok. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Congress: release the Epstein files. All Of them. Millions of documents. Unredacted. Or else. DOJ: here is a picture of Bill Clinton.

The peer beatings will continue until fellow veterans start acting like decent productive effing citizens. This is what professions are supposed to do: police behavior that goes against our norms--else this bullshit becomes the norms. See the whole thread on wannabe operator NG mechanic.

Any of you boys seen any Epstein files around here?

Plus one.

I’ve found it remarkably simple not to be in the same place as Jeffrey Epstein

AI just replaces the new LT supply officer who has to learn the hard way what Unit of Issue means after you receive a tractor trailer full of mop wringers---or a ship anchor. * *true stories.

Starting a war over oil in 2025 is like starting a war horse feed in 1925.

You get this, right? The technology exists NOW so that with basic public investments in infrastructure electricity becomes practically free and infinite? You get this, right?

Also, if you are a Mil profession "influencer" with a huge following, be a little more judicious if not outright cynical about the problematic legal and ethical questions surrounding this "awesome" bonus.

No one: Absolutely no one: Me being forced to watch the new Emily in Paris: WHY the F$&@ is she taking a bus at Piramide if she lives off Via Arenula and is going to Parioli??!?

So we are bringing back the Phil Donahue and Jerry Springer formats. Slow clap. How original. How f$&@inf lame.

Update: still no socks.

Amen. Connected with so many great folks. Still in touch with many of you here and elsewhere. It was fun. It was professionally encouraged. It was a way to develop ideas and arguments. It was rewarding.

Dodge Chargers just flying off the lots today.

The troops™️ are very well compensated. Even have comprehensive medial care for their families and tax free housing stipends. That check should have gone to low ranks only including NG enlisted who lost regular jobs while mobilized. Best to struggling US families. Will enflame CIV MIL divide.

This was almost a decade ago.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Stood in his foxhole when I was 21 on a staff ride. When you read Charles McDonald's Bulge classic you learn Bouck would eventually be overrun and captured. While laying on a stretcher the clock would chime midnight and his 21st birthday. I knew then what kind of PL I wanted to be like.

See Cisterna.

Good thread. Ties a lot of thoughts together in one quick place. Pull the treads and you can see the problems with vetbro culture, conspiracy radicalization, veteran suicide, etc. It's all there, exacerbated by grifters who should know better.

That's how you know the real ones. The failure to not have done enough or done too much. The intense personal reckoning they do every day that nothing was perfect and maybe, just maybe, they could have brought one more person home or in one piece. Everything else is cosplay.

Every time my bros and I parted for another deployment---there would be 17 of them for the four of us. We loved that movie. And every time my guys were going to LD for an operation OIF...

This line...

It's really hard to overstate how for many of us, Rob Reiner's films were a companion throughout our lives. They were the lessons and quotes we used often. Stand by Me was adolescence. Harry met Sally, Princess Bride about relationships, divorce, hope. Few Good Men,honor as we became officers...

And just like that, the GWOT never happens.

Cappuccino, after dinner?

They love the troops™️ until they don't.

There isn't even a reason behind American gun massacres. Not a turf war, drugs, politically motivated, nothing. Just some random person who didn't get enough attention shooting people in defenseless situations.

Absolutely gutted by the news of the fatal mass shooting at Brown University. Looking forward to all the thoughts and prayers to help prevent the next one.

There is only one asshole in all of Rome wearing an Army hat this weekend. It me, I am the asshole. Beat Navy.

"And when the tank needs a new LRU, it just arrives on a truck because the software knows." --the "just in time logistics" bros before the OIF invasion [author's note: 3ID didn't get a single part from LD until weeks later when closed in Baghdad]