"Rigorous safety culture."

In 1998, near Cavalese, Italy, a U.S. Marine Prowler was performing hot dog maneuvers outside of the arranged training exercise. Flying up a well known ski valley, he clipped a gondola cable and sent 20 people to their deaths. 1/2

I got news for you, Doublename Plumberfailson with a high school degree, these armed yokels weren't antifa, and, chances are, their information habits are quite easy to determine.

When you bury your best officer because he is killed as a direct result of safety infractions, I think you are allowed to say that this guy is a fucking idiot and an absolutely horrible example of an officer. I am seething.

Put me in, coach. Start building the team now to root this stuff out. Hell, make Joe Barger the lead prosecutor.

Me, a simpleton, asking our lawyers if I can accept a glass paperweight from my counterpart. Meanwhile the highest "impartial" judges in the land go on gifted private yacht vacations.

America is so wild now that meth dealers routinely put their merchandise on their dashboard when driving around dealing. In other words, c'mon man.

Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money.

The Soviet Union collapsed on December 26, 1991. Russia is heading toward an inevitable collapse as well. While many will say this is similar, it is not. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they still had full capabilities of their oil industry, Russia has lost ~45% and every day it is increasing.

West Point emailed me personally, again, to ask for money. My response:

'95 got the USMA Supe! Congrats, Jay B!

The first live on TV trial is this guy.

My wife said something similar to me in alarm last night. It's not like we don't already have a sexual assault problem.

Looks like 2010 mental health waiver. Totally tracks. Now, if he was such a badass, why did he pick MI? And who gave this guy the associated clearance required? I mean, it's not like infantry back then was closed out, brah. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...

The loudest "but mAh pTsD" excuse card bros are always the dudes who never did or saw shit. Real ones, IMHO, deal with their trauma and experiences, or, sadly, suffer in silence. We need a new category: #StolenTrauma

Once again, Bluesky was all over this when it was reported that DHS accelerated hiring and reduced training. Especially our Milsky community because we all saw thus with the "Surge" enlistments debacle.

The Ven diagram depicting these guys and the "run good" PT types is a flat circle.

Wish I hadn't deleted those emails from Nigerian princes. Will never know now.

The flyovers will continue until this happens. Because there is a long history of military aviation mishaps where the causal thread is someone thinking that the rules—always written in someone else’s blood—don’t apply to them, and they push the rules until someone new bleeds.

Them: we can't take this heatwave anymore! It has to rain! Me washing my car today:

Folks have no idea how many many small policy and regulatory changes could instantly change our collective quality of life for the better.

Dont worry, we are interviewing the best of the best to be the new DNI.

M absolute pet peeve is bikers who do this. Yeet them into the sun.

Funny how no one complains this movie wasn't set in Africa.

T injections? Sounds like gender affirming care to me.

Pour one out for our cOnStiTuShOnAl sKolAh cUnseRvaHtiV friends.

Sir, this is a war crime. ---former Law of Armed Conflict adjunct instructor, at U.S. Defense Institute of International Legal Studies.

When it comes to tax rates, I am an Eisenhower conservative.

Are the Communists in the room with you right now?

Great lessons to be absorbed from what is happening in Hungary.

Thomas took a job abroad. Cultural misunderstandings and shenanigans ensued. Starting Peter O'Toole.

That's a big mistake that should be disqualifying for confirmation to a cabinet position that is designed to handle those issues. I can't think of anything worse, you? Like grounding a ship onto a public beach and then seeking to run the Coast Guard?

What are we doing? Why are we treating immigrants like this in the first place? What kind of an idiot thinks we need to terrorize American citizens to fix immigration? What kind of an idiot thinks we need a military force to handle immigration

Salutary to remember that 18 and 19 year old soldiers and Marines patrolled Kabul and Fallujah with more restraint and good judgment than ICE has shown in any American city.

They love the troops™️ Until they don't.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

They are not trained.

First thing I am buying when I get back CONUS.

Nah. Have faith. This is shark jumping. It's all about to burst.

Cant claim you are terrified of "weaponization of the vehicle" if you casually stroll right in front of it.

Came here to say this.

Have long been a firm believer, even on social media, that I should stay in my lane---only have deeply held opinions based on deeply held values and / or professional expertise. So I don't weigh Lindsey Graham as a politician, but as a senior military officer, a Colonel, and I find him wanting.

Credit to Bluesky, “Nazi tattoo bad” managed to nail the litmus test on the first go-round.

Important. A great read. I, for one, think you should never lose the right to vote.

I am right here.

As I noted yesterday.

Will never forget receiving a DM from a black USAF officer shortly after publishing an oped with 2 other retired officers calling for changing U.S. Army bases named after confederate traitors, thanking me and telling me about his fear driving his family to the USAF Staff Course in Alabama.

It's an old article, but still relevant. US Army bases are all over the Deep South. Many of us came of age living in, by, or driving through these communities. It's true. It's all true.

Pretty proud of Milsky and the stewards of the profession here. When the whole "we should to overlook [gestures at all this mess] because we need an angry veteran in the senate," most of us closed ranks and said, nope not this guy. The maladapted veteran is a trope. 1/2