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@KTB_500 Ive defended it a time or two with the Blackhorse (Eaglehorse). Definitely good times.

@Tanker_Stache Do not tempt us with a Good time

It's not our Equipment, still using 40yr old M113 It's not our Size, only 40% strength of an ABCT It's our Troopers, Simple Operational Approach, and Empowering our Leaders that make us lethal! We Must invest in Troopers and Leaders and acknowledgethe BattlefieldGeometryhas changed. ALLONS!

@emkenobi When I left you I was but the learner; now I am the master. Well, both times before this i suppose. Leias message to Obi introducing herself so he knows who she is. Why if they met before?

The issue was that it was a dog shit show that didn’t care at all about one of the biggest legacy characters in Star Wars. The writing was bad, it arguably broke canon multiple times for the sake of fan service, the episodes were inconsistent and rushed, the story didn’t even focus on Obi-Wan most of the time, and the “rematch or the century” didn’t even include Hayden and Ewan fighting. It also ended with Obi-Wan once again leaving Anakin suffering in pain despite apologizing for doing it the first time minutes before that. There were so many things in that show that did not make sense for Obi-Wan at all. There’s fan fiction out there with a better story than what lucasfilm gave us. They had a guy who didn’t even watch ROTS till he was hired write the story and the creative department gave it the lowest budget of all the shows despite it being about one of the most well known and loved characters. Yes it was nice having Ewan and Hayden back on screen again but I would have preferred them being brought back for a show that actually cared about the integrity of their characters. It was such a waste of an opportunity to make an incredible show. Honestly it shouldn’t even have been a show. With characters as big as Obi-Wan and Vader they easily could have made it a movie that would have done insane numbers at the box office. Especially after the disappointment of ROS. They shit the bed massively and it’s so frustrating because Ewan clearly wants to return for more but they took the criticism as fans saying they weren’t interested in more Obi-Wan. We just want a well written Obi story.

@CynicalPublius Imagine what sleeping on the back deck of an Abrams for years does to your back. I do however think there is an issue with people getting high ratings and all they did was Basic and then got chaptered after 18 months.

Somehow there is an X debate going on right now about VA disability ratings. I'm hearing some idiots saying if it's not from a combat wound, you should not get a disability rating. To which I rebut with the following; 20+ years of: -12 mile ruck marches. -5k/10k/10 mile/every other distance runs. -Parachute landing falls. -Obstacle and confidence courses. -Vehicle rollovers. -Helicopter hard landings. -Heat injuries/cold injuries. -Anthrax shots, COVID shots, all other kinds of shots. -"Here, take some Motrin, you'll be fine." -Weeks/Months/Years of high stress and little sleep. -Extended periods of poor nutrition. -Weird diseases you can only get in places like Afghanistan or Korea. -Burn pits. -All other manner of training injuries. -Never telling anybody you are injured because if you do they might pull you from that leadership position you fought so hard to earn. You do all that for 20+ years, your body will be torn up, I promise. The US military is a physically demanding place, no matter what your branch of service or MOS. Training accidents happen routinely. People die in peacetime accidents, routinely. The idea that a VA disability rating should only come from something that also earns a Purple Heart is nonsense. If anything, our warriors are consistently denied VA disability ratings for what are clearly service-connected ailments.

@FBGreatMoments The A-Traaaaaaaaaiiiiiiin! Mike Alstott.

Name a fullback you actually remember by name.

@arsenal_signal If you read Truce at Bakura, that's basically what happens. She listens to him but tells him to get lost.

Anakin Skywalker force ghost talks to Leia Organa.

@Fat_Electrician Culvers?

What do you wanna see on fat files?

@jondelarroz 2014 when they announced the EU was non-canon. Decades of stories and Fandom suddenly didn't matter because people that didn't even like SW wanted to put their own spin and their own name on things. Sorry you read all these books and played these games, we are doing it different

I've been saying Star Wars was DEAD for years and people told me I was wrong. The Mandalorian and Grogu is tracking BELOW Solo. Solo was the movie that made Disney panic in 2018. Solo had a $275M budget. This one has $166M and they're still sweating it. Kathleen Kennedy turned a franchise that opened to $247M into one that can't crack $85M. Filoni can't even start his own movie until this one makes enough money. Baby Yoda was the last good thing they made, and they spent six years making it feel small on Disney+. Now they want you to buy a ticket. I'll probably see it for content purposes, but this is the direct result of years of garbage storytelling and brand destruction. Was there any point where you bailed on Star Wars? For me it was Boba Fett.

@jondelarroz Either recast the roles, or go with New Jedi Order time. Make that a trilogy with the big 3 and THEN recast to do everything in between ROTJ and NJO. Transition to Jacen, Jaina, Anakin, Ben Skywalker as the new faces of the franchise for the new generation.

All Disney had to do with Star Wars was this and they would have had the most profitable franchise going strong for another 20 years. Do you agree?

@shanaka86 15 months in the sandbox. Plenty of people deployed for up to 18 months. Ya it sucks but its not abnormal. You signed the dotted line.

The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at sea for 241 days. Her deployment has been extended twice. She is now heading back toward the Middle East for a third time, and the Wall Street Journal just published what the Pentagon does not want you to read. Sailors are missing funerals. Missing births. Missing their children’s first steps. The ship’s sewage system is failing, requiring maintenance calls every single day and acid flushes costing $400,000 each. Crew members are telling reporters they want to quit the Navy. Morale is described in terms that defense journalists have not used since Vietnam-era reporting. This deployment is on track to reach 11 months. The post-Vietnam record is 294 days, set by the USS Abraham Lincoln during COVID in 2020. The Ford will break it. And she is not coming home. Here is what the human toll tells you about the strike calculus that no OSINT flight tracker can. The United States Navy operates 11 aircraft carriers. The Ford carries approximately 5,000 sailors and over 75 aircraft. Extending her deployment twice, at enormous cost to crew retention, family stability, and mechanical readiness, is not something the Navy does for leverage. The Navy fights extensions. Carrier strike group commanders fight extensions. The families lobby Congress against extensions. Extensions happen over institutional resistance when the mission authority, in this case the Commander in Chief, has determined that the asset cannot leave theater. The Ford cannot leave theater because nothing has replaced her and the mission she was sent to support has not been completed or cancelled. Think about what “extended twice” means operationally. The first extension signals that the original timeline was optimistic. The second extension signals that the mission itself has changed. You do not burn through crew morale, defer scheduled maintenance, and risk retention crises across your most advanced warship for a contingency. You do it for a commitment. Now connect the dots. The Ford crossed into the Mediterranean on February 20, adding her air wing to the 500-plus aircraft already in theater. Nine C-17s carrying 700 tonnes of munitions are en route. Hundreds of personnel evacuated from Al Udeid. A P-8A is mapping the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC is massing at the Iraqi border. Khamenei has activated shadow government protocols. Graham is lobbying for strikes. Trump’s deadline expires in days. And Witkoff just told Fox that Iran is one week from bomb-making material. The Ford’s sailors are paying the human cost of a decision that has already been made in everything but name. You do not break a post-Vietnam deployment record, destroy your crew’s families, and risk the readiness of your most expensive warship to park it in the Mediterranean as a prop. The $13.3 billion ship is not a negotiating tactic. She is a weapons delivery platform. And she has been held in place, at extraordinary cost, because someone in the chain of command has determined she will be needed. Sailors do not miss their children’s births for bluffs. The stage is not being set. The stage was set weeks ago. What you are watching now is the cost of holding the curtain.

@lukesoutpost Well there were 30 years of stories that fans loved. 30 years of stories between the movies. Then Disney said screw your stories and characters. "There is no source material". There aren't over 150 novels and countless comics and games? Disney flushed our childhood.

I genuinely find it hilarious how some fans say: “Disney Star Wars isn’t Star Wars” • Rogue One • Star Wars Rebels • Clone Wars Season 7 • Mando season 1 & 2 • The Bad batch • The tales series • Ahsoka Season 1 • Andor Season 1 & 2 HOW ARE THESE PROJECTS NOT STAR WARS ENOUGH?!? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!

@ManaByte It was well done. BUT, it makes no sense when Leia sent the video as if they had never met before and the Obi/Vader dialog on the Death Star was as if Mustafar was their last meeting. Also, Leia has 2 sons, Jacen and Anakin. Ben is Luke and Maras.

I still say this show was the perfect epilogue to the Prequels. Too many people were brainwashed by rage grifters into ignoring it. Obi-Wan telling Leia what qualities she got from her parents remains one of the best scenes in all of Star Wars. Filoni should allow Ewan to make as many seasons of Obi-Wan he wants.

@SandyofCthulhu As much as I look at the Army today and think its not as good as when I first started out. I see these EU Armies that we train with and I realize, "never mind, we are still exponentially better than them." We don't use half trained conscripts. We have an actual NCO Corps

Sure. Bring it. First let's look at air forces: the US has technologically superior planes. We have 1300 fifth-generation fighters. They have zero. (They are working on some though.) Nearly half Europe's warplanes are US-made. This means they depend on US software & upkeep. The EU's air forces operates a little under 2000 aircraft. If we include transports & helicopters, it's about 9000. The US has over 14,000. How about navies? The USN has 7.4 million tons of ships. The EU has about 3 million tons. While some European navies can operate far from their shores, overall they are lower tech and reliant on US support. We have more aircraft carriers, more destroyers, and our ships have more missile magazines per capita. Army? Well, here the EU actually has more troops. But again they are dependent on the USA for advanced weaponry and deployment. The EU has a lot more tanks too, though tanks seem to have lost some luster with their performance in the Ukraine. I'd say that the EU's armies are their best bet vs. the USA. Too bad they won't have air cover or be able to block our landings. Economy? Well from 2008-2023 the EU's GDP grew by 13.5%. The US economy grew by 87%. If you can believe it, in 2008 the EU had a higher GDP than the US. In 2025 the US's GDP is 50% higher than the EU's. And they don't seem to be making decisions that will help them grow faster. So not sure where this "sword" is they're planning to pull out on us. Heck, we even have more railroad tracks laid than the EU.

@GBNT1952 As a "Surge Baby", I agree. Most of the people I came in with are gone now. Im almost there myself. As a PSG, I was the only one that had "done" anything. One other guy had a Combat patch and it came from deploying to the same place I went on R&R from Iraq.

It is likely higher, I would think, especially in the earlier years, but also… there is combat, and then there is combat. Sad part is, most of the dudes that did the latter are either in staff positions or completely out. We are realistically 5 years away from having no significant combat experience in our leadership nor our actual fighting force. Some will say this is a good thing, as no one wants endless wars, but there is also no experience like combat experience… so, it’s kind of a catch 22 in my opinion. We are, after all, a volunteer force. While I was in, I wanted to be deployed as much as possible.

@razorfist It had been like 20 years without SW. It was hyped. Most kids that age, like me, weren't super fans because we were too young. Unless your parents got you into it like mine. Nobody was talking SW stuff or having clubs before the PT came out. It was our parents that were the fans

The revisionism is that the Phantom Menace was hated when it came out. It wasn't. The hype was real. I was there. The Duel of the Fates, the Podrace sequence and on and on. It was AFTER—around the time of Attack of the Clones—when the internet rewrote history to dump on it.

@The_Kyle_Mann Not caring about characters is a you problem. As a kid that age when EP1 came out I was one of the only SW fans I knew of that age. We were too young to have seen the OT so unless you got into it later, you didn't care. The PT is what got most our age INTO SW.

I will not accept this newfangled historical revisionism claiming the prequels are good. They are not good. We knew they weren't good when we saw them opening night in the theaters. I was 12 years old when TPM came out and I was the biggest Star Wars nerd on the planet. Had all the EU books, toys, video games, you name it. I got Star Wars "banned" from my elementary school because we started two opposing Star Wars clubs and one kid ended up getting so mad arguing about Star Wars he punched another kid. Lol. The principal called us into the office and said "Today, you're joining Star Wars clubs. Tomorrow, you're joining gangs." I had to duct-tape over my Darth Vader backpack to take it to school. All of that, and when we went to see Phantom Menace, we were bored out of our skulls. There's this narrative that hating the prequels is "reddit-coded" or just cynical people who saw some YouTube video about them and decided they're bad. Nope. We knew they were bad at the time. We kind of ironically enjoyed the second 2 films, going in knowing they would be bad and everything, in the same way prequel memes ironically revere the film. The prequels have good elements - the technology was super-impressive for the time. Duel of the Fates. Maul/Qui-Gon/Obi duel. Interesting ideas and some interesting new worlds. There is maybe the bones of a good story buried somewhere in there. But they are painful to watch. Dialog, acting, plot, characters - none of them work. We should care that this teenager is turning into Darth Vader. But we do not care. That's failure on an epic scale. Yes, Disney Star Wars sucked. Yes, Disney Star Wars failed to clear the very low bar of "do not make a Star Wars movie that clearly hates Star Wars." That does not magically make the prequels good. I've heard it said that the prequels are good ideas, poorly done, while the Disney films are bad ideas, well done. I'm not sure if that's quite right, but what I think it means is if George had handed writing, maybe some directing, casting, editing, etc. off to experts, they could have been great. By way of contrast, most individual scenes of the Disney films are well-shot and acted and competently done. There's just no saving the story they tried to tell.

@thatstarwarsgrl I looked forward to Dunkirk so much. It was incredibly boring. Air raids by a handful of planes? No sense of urgency felt at all. Nothing about the guys holding the line so others could escape. It was terrible.

It’s ironic that it took race swapping for the world to see Christopher Nolan is shit. I’ve been saying it for years. Dude is the most overrated director in Hollywood who thinks his farts don’t stink

@BuzzPatterson I watched French Leclercs do a FoF exercise and they never took the tri-color off their antennas. Hiding in the bushes with those things flapping in the breeze overhead. They were the only NATO guys I've seen regularly doing PT though.

If you’ve ever been an American military officer working with NATO you immediately realize that they’re great guys and they can’t do shit.

@FDSportsbook Tampa

NO CHEATING. Which NFL offense is this? 🧐

@IterIntellectus People think going to college the make you an expert in a subject. No they just teach how to lesson plan and operate a classroom. I can read out of the same textbook and teachers guide they do. Plus with YouTube and online programs for things like higher math its fine.

the “you’re not smart enough to teach your kids” line is pure credentialist delusion. anyone with an IQ above room temperature can follow a curriculum and read a book. teachers aren’t selected for intelligence, or teaching ability, or competence, or for some magical gift they received upon graduation, they’re only selected for compliance and credentials after wasting four years of life in college studying some useless major like social sciences the actual differentiator is whether you care. a parent who cares will outperform a teacher who doesn’t, every time. the “but socialization” argument assumes public school socialization is good (it isn’t) and that homeschool kids can’t do sports, church, neighborhood friends or have siblings (they can). the system needs you dependent on it to employ otherwise unemployable people and to indoctrinate your kids homeschooled kids outperform on every metric btw