Khan Noonien Singh

@billycanada Oh, that's flipping awful. I traded to get the poutine meals often, even though the fries left a lot to be desired.

In 1989 we were on a winter warfare exercise. Blackout conditions. Dude was eating "beans and weiners" and started gagging "I'm dying!". They put a flashlight on him His food was crawling. NASTY. Sad thing is the stores people knew the food expired but gave it to us anyway. He had his stomach pumped and served another 25 years in the regiment.

So you want to make sure your crate of MREs is safe to eat? Here's your tool to check the red target TTI on the outside of the box! The darker the center, the more heat stress (downrange or desert) it has seen. I'm a giver. You're welcome.

@Opus_Rexx I married the one woman who didn't disappoint me.

@wtfcetialpha5 Such a remarkable woman. It's a shame she turned out to be a tool of Satan spawn.

@DD_IDGAF_Vet LMAO love the other one.

@wtfcetialpha5 It’s much better than the original…

Wanted to give a shout to someone who’s been making their own product and rolling with the algorithms @wtfcetialpha5

@JrHopeless 🤣🤣🤣

Some nice flowers. A pretty butterfly.

@wbuppert Right around 5 years at cool room temp.

@wtfcetialpha5 Do you by chance know the lifespan of Humanitarian Rations?

@PMDesdenova Morning, David!

@wtfcetialpha5 Morning, Khan. Morning, all.

GM

@gregopad39 @carlaclewis

@carlaclewis @wtfcetialpha5 Seven of Nine did not want to be one of three.

@mikerichtaylor @strike_dr "Up the voltage." -Real Genius

@wtfcetialpha5 @strike_dr Not high enough, clearly.

@harry_the_k Facts.

@TruckUnicorn "Grammy?????"

@wtfcetialpha5 You're wrong, it's my Grandma making out with Benjamin Franklin.

I love Rorschach. I just wish his mask didn't have a picture of my parents fighting on it.

@projectxlence @infantrydort @DataRepublican <lightbulb moment> This is wisdom.

@infantrydort @DataRepublican The Army values are not structured or taught in such a way to resist ideological reframing and subversion.

This will be a long one. But since I'm an active duty officer addressing another higher ranking one, I have to be respectful. That being said, General Montague is correct that the Army needs thinking officers. I believe he is wrong to assume that sending them to Harvard necessarily accomplishes that purpose. The Harvard he entered in the 90s is not the Harvard officers enter in 2026. His article invokes George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard’s war dead and generations of citizen Soldiers to defend an institution that has spent decades consuming the inheritance those men created. The issue is not whether Army officers are intelligent enough to resist indoctrination. Indoctrination is rarely a professor hypnotizing a helpless student. It is an institutional environment in which one set of political assumptions governs admissions, hiring, instruction, social acceptance and administrative protection. The whole gambit. Dissent remains technically possible. But it now becomes professionally expensive. Ask me how I know... The results are no longer theoretical. For years, elite universities built an ideology that judges human beings first by racial, sexual and political category, then insists this is the cure for prejudice. Harvard’s admissions system was ultimately struck down because it used race as a negative, relied upon racial stereotypes and reduced the number of Asian-American students admitted. That was racial discrimination administered by people who had renamed themselves experts in inclusion. The prejudice did not end there. Harvard’s own reports documented Jewish and Israeli students facing hostility and exclusion, while Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, Black students and South Asian students described being harassed, misidentified, called terrorists, spat upon, doxxed and intimidated into silence. The university that promised safety through identity politics produced an environment in which nearly every identity group had reason to fear another. That is the verdict on DEI. It didn't teach students to see one another as individuals. It trained them to organize humanity into competing tribes, assign innocence and guilt by category, and determine whose suffering deserved institutional protection. At Columbia, students were pressured to profess political positions they did not hold, silenced or humiliated in classrooms, and subjected to faculty activism masquerading as instruction. Columbia’s own task force eventually had to warn professors against ideological litmus tests and remind them that students must not be coerced into conformity. When a university must formally instruct its faculty not to politically condition its students, the indoctrination is no longer an accusation. It is an internal finding. These habits are directly hostile to military values. The Army cannot function through racial preferences, collective guilt, ideological litmus tests, selective discipline or separate standards for politically favored groups. Soldiers must be judged as individuals. Standards must be common. Discipline must be impartial. The mission MUST outrank identity. Commanders must tell the truth even when the truth violates the reigning political fashion. The uniform is designed to subordinate tribe to country! DEI restores the tribes and places the institution between them as judge. The general argues that officers are intelligent enough to resist indoctrination. That misses the point. The Army does not owe public money, officers or prestige to institutions that reward conformity, excuse disorder, discriminate by race and turn classrooms into political organizing spaces. Officers SHOULD encounter hostile ideas. They should study Marxism, radical Islam, critical race theory, revolutionary movements and every ideology capable of shaping the battlefield. They should study them as objects of analysis. They should NOT be sent into institutions that have adopted their premises as articles of faith. Harvard once educated men who built and defended the republic. Its age does not grant it permanent immunity from judgment. Neither its war memorials nor the patriotism of its dead can excuse the ideological conduct of its living. The Army does not fear education. It fears an education system that calls racial discrimination equity, political conformity scholarship, selective prejudice inclusion, and institutional disorder courage. I hope this makes sense. Submit this to the general, with my compliments. -Dort

@fwmarqix Thanks Nigerian scammer.

My son called me from jail at 2AM and the first thing he said was "don't tell mom." I told mom. Right after I hung up, I rolled over and said "your son's in jail" and she sat straight up like she'd never been asleep a day in her life. Now. My son is 29. Not a kid. Owns a truck, pays his bills, shows up to things on time. This wasn't a pattern. This was a Tuesday night going completely sideways for reasons I was about to hear. We drove to the station. On the way, my wife asked questions I didn't have answers to. Her: What did he do? Me: He didn't say. Her: Was he alone? Me: He didn't say that either. Her: What did he say? Me: Don't tell mom. She stared at the windshield for the rest of the drive. We got there. Talked to an officer who had the energy of a man who deeply regretted his career. He explained that my son and two of his friends had been arrested for trespassing. On a golf course. At midnight. With a shopping cart. I had to ask him to repeat it. The officer did not enjoy repeating it. Apparently the three of them had taken a shopping cart from a nearby grocery store, brought it to the golf course after closing, and were racing it down the hills in the dark. For fun. Grown men. One of them is an accountant. My wife stood next to me absorbing this information like a woman being slowly lowered into cold water. Her: A shopping cart. Officer: Yes ma'am. Her: On a golf course. Officer: Correct. Her: Why? Officer: Ma'am I stopped asking why about ten years into this job. They released him into our custody because technically nothing was damaged, the cart was returned, and the golf course manager was more confused than angry. My son walked out looking like exactly what he was: a 29-year-old man who had just spent four hours in a holding cell rethinking a decision made at 10:30 PM. He saw my wife's face and immediately said: Son: Before you say anything— Her: Don't. Son: It was Marcus's idea. Her: Don't do that either. We drove home in silence so thick you could park in it. Around the third traffic light my son said quietly from the back seat: Son: We were actually going pretty fast on that third hill. I made a noise that was not quite a laugh. My wife turned and looked at me with a face that said if you laugh I will divorce you in this car. I did not laugh. I waited until I got to the bathroom. My son paid a small fine. Did some community service. Still brings up the speed of the third hill like it's something to be proud of. His friend the accountant put it on his calendar as an annual tradition. My wife has not forgiven Marcus. She forgave my son by Christmas because she always does. But every time he visits now, she looks at him for just a second longer than necessary. Like she's calculating the odds.

@carlaclewis "leaked" correct.

@wtfcetialpha5 Her divorce papers were leaked and that’s how BHO got elected.

@SciOpGoth Same. You have exquisite taste.

@thewspdpodcast He was in Shadowzone, a truly terrible B-grade sci-fi horror that I love so very much.

@wtfcetialpha5 I was binging the old 80s drama Tour of Duty (at an entirely too late hour) last night and there’s James Hong, playing an NVA colonel in a season 1 episode. The man was in EVERYthing.

@StevenJBurns @pnshdvermonster No shit. We have basements here in New England. Oklahoma? You squat in your bathtub praying that God's Vengeance doesn't tear your roof off or throw a cow at your ass.

@wtfcetialpha5 @pnshdvermonster these people had 200 years to build tornado bunkers. I don't feel bad for them in any way

Any advice for New England? We rarely have Tornadoes or hurricanes.

we get it, every man get it

One of the nice things about having your own garden is that you know what you’re eating, where it came from, and how it was handled. This outbreak sounds like it’s more of an issue for the landless urbans, so I’m gonna call it “God’s Judgement”