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Nats are currently undefeated.

One thing I learned this weekend is that there’s a large part of the American population that HATES Veterans and hates seeing them getting any benefits. Unless you were a Navy Seal they’d prefer you throw yourself into an active volcano when you get out.

Getting a nose bleed as an adult is such an inconvenience. Like damn I’m just trying to eat in chilis and here I am, tissues in my nose.

3.84 a gallon?

Gas prices are legitimately getting insane

@terrancesavery @MyNameIsRickyM When ever I was in the back of an up armored humvee it was just curtains. We could be going down the most IED infested route of all times and I’d be like, “I’ll wake up when we hit the pressure plate, or fuck it, I won’t. It’s in gods hands now, goodnight.”

@MyNameIsRickyM Put my ass in the back of an MRAP 15 years ago and the very first thing I do is fall asleep lol

“You don’t just fall asleep on the way to a mission”

@EODHappyCaptain I knew a Lt that as a West Point cadet got a soldiers medal.

So I looked at this from an Army lens an assumed Army ROTC. As people have pointed out, it could be a different branch. I apologize. But the question still stands

If the ROTC cadet who stopped the active gunman at Old Dominion University was contracted (cadets can sign an enlistment contract so if they don’t graduate they still join the Army), would he be eligible for the Soldier’s Medal?

Guess I’m walking home.

@BradDuplessis I would appreciate if you would stop giving out bad information. HQDA polled board members last year and it was universal that officers that used baby oil were scored lower. The new standard is hairless below the eyebrows and a speedo.

@CasualArtyFan Eh, old Creighton might have been “shirt off at the pool party” ready but that 1 pull up might have done him in all the same. lol.

@CasualArtyFan I chuckled. I do wonder how Schwarzkopf, Patton, or Creighton Abrams would have looked in a “Tight fitting t-shirt.” AGR MAJ going through his cross-fit Sparta Gates of Fire phase.

Only one divorce allowed and you need to have $1.5 million by the time you become a GO. An interesting take on what makes the best kind of officer. Do you agree or disagree?

“I had a buddy of a guy I went to basic with who’s cousin got hit by an Iranian IED in 2008 and now I want my son make Iran pay for it.”

She sent me detailed directions except what I’m actually supposed to be making… fuck it we ball.

@BlastingThrough No, but really, where were you November 24, 1971?

The CIA sent me to Sudan to help the regime beef up their security and train officers in EOD. I used my real name, but I was “Captain” Mike Vining, because they wouldn’t be receptive to an NCO. This is what we call “low visibility” in Delta. I was issued a diplomatic passport.

Great googly moogly

Man I hate reading LLM writing.

@TheCriticalDri1 Sometimes the timeline provides

It is impossible to overstate how wonderful Phil Hartman was in this movie as an Alcatraz guard 😂

@storyandplot The tyranny of 4K digital remasters and upscales of movies is now you can clearly see where they sub out Ron Rifkin for a stuntman in this scene, but when you were watching this in a theater in ‘97 or the VHS you could barely tell.

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is a near-perfect film. The directing, the writing, the performances. I wouldn't change a thing about it. I don't think I have ever written a mystery or thriller that wasn't influenced in some way by my love for it. From a screenwriting perspective, two particularly interesting things: First, the inciting incident doesn't come until minute 30! The inciting incident! Next, it is also one of my favorite examples of what I call the “Theory Placeholder.” This is a screenwriting device for mysteries where the audience always has just enough information to think they know what’s going on. They’re never confused; they may even think they're half a step ahead of the protagonist. But they’re wrong every time until the end. The joy is that they’re never lied to; they just get more information as they go, with each theory replaced by a new one. It’s a robbery gone wrong. It’s about prostitutes cut up to look like movie stars. It’s about blackmail. It’s about the mob. It’s about corrupt cops. It’s about city council. It's about cops replacing the mob. Throw in the characters, the dialogue, the music, the look… What a great movie. What a great city. I love them both.

Special Envoy to where? The phantom zone with general Zod?