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"We do more before 9am than most people do in a day." US Army commercial from the 80's.

If you want to hunt submarines in the Baltic… speed matters. shallow draft matters. local knowledge matters. Enter the Swedish CB90.

How British soldiers were taught to clear houses in WW2. I can’t imagine CQB with a Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle and a bayonet. I guess war does change.

I never knew this was even a thing.

USS Franklin burning and listing after being hit by a Japanese bomb off Japan, 19 Mar 1945. Note firefighting water pouring off the hangar deck into the sea. Photo taken from USS Santa Fe.

Disagreement is not disloyalty, but undermining is. Military leaders should do well to remember that. Both uniformed and civilian alike. Police yourselves. Or risk being subject to policing by others.

The grave of Marine Ira Hayes at Arlington National Cemetery. Hayes was 22 years old when he and 5 other Marines raised the flag on Iwo Jima.

Lieutenant Commander Joseph O'Callahan performing the Catholic Last Rites ritual for the seriously injured crewman Robert C. Blanchard (who would survive the ordeal) aboard carrier USS Franklin, Pacific Ocean, 19 Mar 1945

@Fat_Electrician @BernieSanders You’re giving him way too much credit. This is entirely outside his understanding. Remember, he’s never worked a day in his life (at a real job)

“Spend $100 billion to fully automate.” AKA: pay $100 billion to • Engineers • Electricians • Technicians • Construction workers • Software companies • Maintenance crews Low-wage, low-skill jobs are getting phased out for higher-skill, higher-paying jobs. Shouldn’t you of all people be celebrating this? When they invented the excavator, did politicians get butthurt because one guy with a machine could replace 50 dudes with shovels?

Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.

3 drill sergeants 1 recruit it's a comedy of chaos 🤣 One's yelling about boot polish the second is questioning his life choices and the third is convinced he can make a soldier out of him with just a motivational poster! What could possibly go wrong?

watched a dude carry a screaming toddler across the parking lot. he noticed me looking at him and said "he's mine, i'm not stealing him" and then before i could reply he added "if i was gonna take one, it definitely wouldn't be this asshole"

@BradRTorgersen Pickup trucks peaked 20 years ago. New ones are overpriced, overcomplicated crap. Yeah they’ll make a lot of power, which is fun, but then the warranty runs out and you’re fooked.

My 2001 beater clamshell-cab Chevy 1500 LT 4x2 crossed 300K miles this afternoon. Original engine, original transmission. This thing has carried me through so much, and stands to carry me a lot farther still. 💪🛻

@S0craticMethod @OfAthenry They can have California. Win-win.

@OfAthenry The Japanese are still pissed we nuked them. They'll never let that go.

It's time to let Japan remilitarize and have a nuclear weapon. They learned their lesson and I think they still hate china enough to be useful. I would include germany in this statement but I don't believe islamic countries should have nuclear weapons.

USSOCOM to USASOC after the testimony about dropping leaflets:

@4nt1p4tt3rn @MorlockP Leaving @USAA after 30+ years. Just need to get a new carrier lined up. They used to be the gold standard, back in the day, but they’ve gone so far downhill that they’re unrecognizable now.

While everyone's once again on the whole "USAA is garbage" warpath (they are), it's time once again for me to share a little story from 2013: As some of you know, I do computer security stuff. Not just professionally, but for fun. One day in December 2013, I got some spam email. It was a phish. Purporting to be from USAA. Since I was taking 2 years off from working (voluntarily; I'd just gotten married and wanted to focus on me for a while), I had ample time on my hands. So, I started digging. Long story short: I located the threat actor -- full name, address, photo, front door, and all his infrastructure. I infiltrated that, and obtained full details of every USAA customer he's successfully tricked into handing over everything: PII, credentials, account details, credit/debit card info, the works. Along with his other campaigns running, pretending to be other banks. I packaged this all up professionally and approached the appropriate people in USAA about it. Explained who I was, that I'd done this professionally for decades, that I'd been a long-standing customer of USAA, etc. I was told, in no uncertain terms -- in fact, in these exact words -- "It's our policy not to pursue fraud". I was a bit taken aback. I had to have them repeat, and then explain that. I couldn't've possibly heard that right. Here I was, a security professional, handing them a fairly large threat actor on a silver platter, along with a decent-sized list of USAA customers that either had been victims of fraud, or were about to be. And they not only said they weren't interested, but that they intended to do quite literally nothing. Absolutely nothing. Earlier that year they'd stopped underwriting motorcycle policies, so I had already pulled my auto and bike insurance from them. So, I spent Christmas Eve night that year (because I wasn't about to wait) sitting in the office of a local bank opening new accounts, transferring everything out of USAA. The following week we took it to the State Police. They were interested, but had no idea what to do with the information, even after I politely suggested various avenues to pursue. And I was talking with the officer who was in charge of "all the computer stuff". The report remains on file. The threat actor remains at large. His victims remain screwed. USAA doesn't give two shits about you, and hasn't for quite some time.

Army vs Marines on that first bus ride to boot camp 😳😬

I've really appreciated in the Pentagon press briefings how Gen. Caine has used his opening remarks to recognize different members of our Joint Forces. The stories he shares about these young soldiers and the work they are doing, all with humility and bravery, are inspiring. We are the greatest country in the world. God bless our troops and God bless America.

@SetantaADV @Supersonic_Red @RSE_VB @TheBuddyCSM Worst jump I ever made. 6 dead. I was one of seven combat medics that made the jump and was still ambulatory from my battalion. Medi-vacted 147 injured. One very long day. But just one of many.