John Ford

To paraphrase Heinlein; while there is no way to prevent a crime from happening once, there is only one sure way to keep it from happening twice.

@LeanHugeGraves He's smile despite everything he had on him.

27 weeks 2lbs Entire human. That’s my son. His life has not been a “painful decision”, or an inconvenience to me. In about an hour here I’ll wake him up for a trip to Dutch Bros and doing a crossword together. Because he’s a person, not a problem.

Women gestate for only 9 months per child. Women are moms and mothers to that child for 50-60 years. Why is that so difficult for progressives to understand??

The Battle of Midway is often told through the lens of aircraft carriers and dive bombers, but behind the tactical victory was a massive logistical feat. In this video, we dive into the "Four Rs"—Replenishment, Repair, Reinforcements, and Replacements—to show how the U.S. Navy sustained the fight and secured the Pacific. We take a look at the "forgotten" ships and crucial logistical hurdles that defined the campaign: Replenishment: Why the USS Kaloli (AOG-10) was vital for Midway's fuel stores and how Admiral Spruance faced a critical fuel shortage. Repair: The story of the USS Vireo (AT-144) and the desperate attempt to salvage the USS Yorktown. Reinforcements: How the USS Kitty Hawk and USS Nashville fortified the atoll with aircraft and Marine Raiders. Replacements: The role of the USS Saratoga in rebuilding the air groups of Enterprise and Hornet immediately following the battle. If you’re a fan of naval history or want to see the Battle of Midway from a perspective that almost never gets discussed, this deep dive is for you. 🚨This video is a clip from the larger Early U.S. Logistics in the Pacific, 1941-42🚨 Video: youtu.be/YpdN4i7lCYY

A man ended his unborn son this week because the boy had Down syndrome. Thousands of strangers called him brave. There is nothing new under the sun. Rome left its weak infants on the hill to die while rich women carried pampered lapdogs through the streets. We did not get kinder. We just moved the hill onto a screen and added applause. I wrote about it today. About that, and about my grandson Blake. Sixteen pounds, just off oxygen, and the reason three generations of my family are stronger than they have ever been. The weak are not the curse. The heart that refuses them is. Read it. Then send it to a father who needs to hear it. open.substack.com/pub/biblicalma…

@CyborgPeds Probably and old veteran working there.

Interacted with my first grumpy person at the Lovell VA. I made a mistake on a travel claim. I called to fix it. He sounded grumpy but was efficient and helpful. That’s about 10,000% better than at the area hospitals where a grumpy person might literally try to kill you.

LTCs who haven’t been in a deployable unit in over 5 years

With Afghanistan still fresh in the nation’s memory and D-Day upon us again, I’ve been thinking about a piece of paper that weighs more than most leadership books ever written. On this day in 1944, the night before the largest amphibious invasion in human history, Eisenhower sat staring into uncertainty. The weather was bad. His intelligence was incomplete. Thousands of ships were moving. Tens of thousands of men were preparing to climb down cargo nets into a black and angry sea. If the invasion failed, history itself would have bent in a different direction. So Eisenhower wrote a little known note. Not because he expected failure, but because he understood command. In a few short lines he accepted responsibility for a catastrophe that had not yet happened. No caveats or qualifiers. No carefully crafted language designed to spread blame across a dozen desks. If the operation failed, it was his fault. That was it. That was the entire note. What strikes me is not the courage required to launch D-Day. Everybody understands that part. What strikes me is how completely alien that level of accountability feels today. Somewhere along the way we built a culture where authority became a right and responsibility became optional. Everybody wants the title, the influence, the prestige. The moment things go wrong, however, the hunt begins for circumstances, systems, misunderstandings, subordinates, budgets, politics, weather, timing, or anyone else willing to stand still long enough to absorb the impact. Eisenhower understood that command is not a reward, but a burden. The rank exists because somebody must stand at the end of the line and say, “This belongs to me.” That little note may be one of the most important leadership documents ever written because it captured a truth that every generation eventually has to relearn: the higher you climb, the fewer excuses you are allowed to make. The men who landed on those beaches carried rifles. Eisenhower carried all of them.

“Somewhere along the way we built a culture where authority became a right and responsibility became optional.” @infantrydort 🎯 Everyone points the finger when things go wrong because: Humility is absent. Integrity is absent. Courage is absent. Consequently, the command insignia many wear so self-righteously needs to be absent.

@Rank1Apples Not surprised by either.

Does anybody else find it funny that the first ACTUAL Nazi is a Democrat and not a right winger? Or is the absolute irony lost on people? 🤣

He's right.

On paper, you can be outnumbered and outclassed, but papers do not win battles. Men do. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalaman…

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” - Jeremiah 1:5

what the heck kind of reason is "it would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase" to cancel a show, you want the og fans to be excited, it's how you drive engagement. it just boggles the mind #SaveStargate

When we found out Win has Down syndrome, I remember about 5 seconds of panic because of how this might change our plans for the future and then I remembered I don’t have greater plans than to do right by my kids.

Article 5 is live. This one takes on the concerns many of you will have after reading Article 4. Specifically, it addresses whether the three-track model threatens the standards, the schoolhouse, or what makes Special Forces distinct in the first place. I wrote it because I know how quickly conversations like this can turn into accusations that we are lowering the bar or walking away from who we are. Article 5 lays out why I believe the opposite is true, provided we are deliberate about how we structure the model and protect the things that actually matter. If you have not read the earlier articles in the series, I recommend starting there. This piece builds on the problems we identified and the model we proposed. It will make more sense in that context. Article 6 will follow and will focus on how we could realistically move in this direction without breaking readiness or cohesion along the way. Read it when you have the time. Think it through. Then bring your perspective. I am not asking anyone to agree with the model. I am asking for honest input from people who have earned the right to have an opinion on where we go from here.

I’m sitting here, reading and playing with my baby, and I can’t stop thinking about the influencer who publicly wrote about choosing to kill his unborn child because they could possibly have Downs Syndrome. The public declaration becomes more and more vile the more I consider it

@cavannastan GM Cav

GM my frens! It's quite sinply an amazing day today. I hope all of you have the best day you can. Everyone except elf disrespectors. Really, do better. GM GM GM

Discussing abortion as if it’s the right of a mother is the wrong conversation. I’d like to tell you a story about how I became “pro life” If you’re not an active pro abortionist & are passively pro choice, hopefully, this post is for you. Growing up I was passively pro choice. I knew it was never going to be for me, but I believed the hype that it doesn’t affect me, so it’s not my fight. My mind was drastically changed in 2020. I married my lovely wife Ashley in 2019. We decided to have our first child together right away. It took a couple months but eventually we got it right. At the beginning of the “pandemic” we were delighted to find out my wife was carrying our daughter, Rylianne. 7 months in, my wife wasn’t feeling good. She felt pain all around her body when she was moving around. She was struggling to use the restroom & she rapidly gained a bunch of weight. She drove herself to the hospital & I met her there. They quickly brought her in, checked her blood pressure 250/150. That’s… really high. The nurse pulled out the Ultra sound gear, and put it to her belly. Silence…..is all we heard. For minutes that felt like an eternity, she searched for the heartbeat of our daughter to no avail. I’ll never forget the look Ash gave me. It was a hopeless plea, as if I could reassure her… tell her everything will be ok, that our daughter is fine. We sat there, holding hands, coming to grips with the fact that we had lost our daughter. There was nothing I could do to help. Turns out Ash developed HELLP syndrome, the advanced stage of pre eclampsia. Days later after the Dr’s stabilized Ash, she gave birth to our stillborn daughter. We held her, told her we loved her, and that we’ll see her in the next life. The wound in my heart created that day may never heal. To this day it still hurts, but I have learned to deal with the pain. My point in telling you this is that I know my daughter was alive. She kicked, she listened, and for the short time she was here on this earth, she felt the love and warmth from my wife while residing in her womb. I can now, never deny the humanity of those residing in the womb. The zinc spark at fertilization, is the first sign of life we can detect. I believe that’s when we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights that we, as a good and moral people, should absolutely recognize. They’re humans, and we should treat them as such, because not all of us can make it long enough to withstand the world outside the womb. Since the 1960’s when abortions have become legal, over 3,000 babies are terminated daily. A genocide that we can’t see, that we can’t hear because the crying souls of the babies have no ability to speak for themselves. Somebody should. We should. For a happy ending to this dreadful story, my wife and I were able to try again. We were blessed to be granted the ability & opportunity to have another child, & I thank God everyday for that. Raylan was born in 2022. Ash once again developed HELLP syndrome but this time, we caught it. Raylan was born a bit early but at 5lbs 5oz & healthy, we couldn’t be happier. The only way to change this debate about pro choice or pro life, is to recognize when human rights begin, and it begins at fertilization. That’s when we should recognize the right to life we all enjoy today. That’s the only way to save 3,000 American lives that get aborted daily. God Bless You All & God Bless America *below is the photo of Rylianne’s nursery she never got to use. A hopeful dream that never came to fruition.

Aborting your child because you don’t like that it has special needs and then posting about it for social media attention has got to be the most messed up thing I’ve ever seen. Satanic.