Peter C.

I love it when it's foggy all day long.

This is my favorite picture of the week.💖 They had a beat-up 90s Mustang soft top w/ duct tape on parts of it. I thought it was pretty cool that they were fishing together, then she got a baby girl from the back seat. Nastolgia slammed into me. They were Margaret and me.

My favorite part of the VA discussion tonight is that not even five months ago I watched one of my Marines rapidly develop and get destroyed by rectal cancer that was linked to swimming in burn pits. He was one of several guys from that deployment that died that way almost twenty years later. Me and the boys are all pretty much waiting our turn at this stage. We had a company Gunnery Sergeant that was an absolute piece of shit on my first deployment. His hobbies included eating all of the Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, and finding menial and pointless tasks for the Marines to do when they could instead be sleeping. One of his favorite ways to pass the time was to sit on the hood of his gator inside of FOB Omar while the React Marines police called the burn pit looking for “non-burnables.” You see, the cool thing about a burn pit is that after a while they just stay on fire, like pretty much forever. They get real soupy in the less hot parts, and you can walk on top of the plastic soup. Sometimes, lazy Marines will throw pen flares, lithium batteries, SAW drums full of 5.56, and other random fun things in there instead of disposing of them properly. It was easier to toss the shit than it was to deal with Gunny interrogating you on why you needed to get rid of a dead battery. Most of the time, those things just pop on their own anyways. It’s no big deal, since it’s all just trash and it’s usually sequestered away from sleeping areas. For Gunny Diaz though, this was unsightly. You could see the “non-burnables” in the burn pit. What if the Battalion Commander, or someone from higher up the chain of command were on the OP when one of those things popped, or worse, what if they saw a radio battery!? Well, that would bring Gunny Diaz’s reputation as a Company Gunnery Sergeant into question. Can’t have that. His solution was pretty simple. Take the Marines from react, whenever they weren’t busy escorting Iraqis into the OP to get free money from “Captain Tom,” and have them wade into the burn pit to pick out the non-burnables. Easy. Gunny got a Navy Commendation Medal. We all get to have cancer twenty years later. Fuck you Gunny Diaz. You were and always will be a useless fat piece of shit, undeserving of the 0369 MOS and title of Company Guns. It wasn’t a very kinetic deployment. It wasn’t just us infantrymen that got to swim in the burning plastics. The cooks got a turn. The comm guys got a turn. The mechanics got a turn. Everyone got a bit of cancer swimming in. Great fun for everyone. Kevin died in November. He left behind a family who was entirely abandoned by the VA once he passed. They haven’t received any of the help his widow was promised. But yeah, financial Jerry Springer really do be doing the hard hitting investigative journalism on the massive VA fraud numbers.

@ChadMiller9899 You could hit the Blue Line Lotto. Legally park Get out Video their car all around, and photos of their smug ass grins as they get pissed off. Then the real fun starts...

Apparently telling 2 Huron P.D. cops that they can't park in the fire lane at the gas station is frowned upon. The one wasn't impressed. 😆😆😆😆

I don't know how to quote-tweet this enough!

🚨 THEY’RE COMING FOR YOUR KIDS’ FISHING POLES NEXT I’m standing right here at one of Oregon’s favorite family fishing spots Cleveland Rapids in Roseburg where dads, moms, and kids have made memories for generations. But radical IP28 (the so-called “PEACE Act”) will make this whole lifestyle a CRIME. No more teaching your kids to fish. No more fresh dinner from the river. No more freedom. This isn’t “animal rights” it’s a full-on BAN on fishing, hunting, and our way of life. Oregon’s fish populations depend on ODFW hatcheries that stock millions of salmon, steelhead, and trout every year. These programs eat up over one-third of the Fish Division’s budget ($95 million per two-year cycle) funded almost entirely by fishing license sales. Banning fishing sounds ‘pro-fish’ but leads to overcrowding, stunted fish, & disease. Managed harvest keeps populations healthy IP28 throws that out! Watch the full video before they take it away too 👇

You should start by visiting your local recruiter's office. If you won't do that, or, as it appears, you are medically disqualified, I recommend you write to your Congressmen and Senators to have them change the laws that very clearly and explicitly define what constitutes specific disability compensation ratings and how those ratings are calculated. Keep in mind, I (and every other vet) made a bet with our nation: I will sign on the dotted line, and, if I make it to the end of my service, I will have earned certain benefits (including those offered by the VA). If not? I get a military funeral, and my wife gets a folded flag. The fact that you are going out of your way to find the <1% who may have defrauded the system is an interesting thing for someone who has never made the aforementioned bet to do. Now, why do we offer such benefits? Because we are an all-volunteer military, and these kinds of benefits are what is required to attract and retain the kind of talent that is required to defend this nation and your right to sh!t all over them with your baseless accusations.

@PitTalkPodcast1 Yes! That and the crayon crumbs on the blouse; that, too.

Marine Arrogance 101 What truly sets Marines apart—is that rare and powerful quality we call esprit de corps. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we carry the ghosts of every Marine. We stand with the Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood—the Teufelshunde—We stand with the warriors who stormed the blood-soaked beaches and islands of the Pacific: Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and countless others where the sand ran red. We stand with the Frozen Chosin, who fought and marched out of hell in sub-zero darkness. We stand with the Marines who clawed through Hue City, held Khe Sanh against impossible odds, and slogged through the mud and rice paddies of Southeast Asia. We stand with those who rolled across the desert in Desert Storm, fought house-to-house in Iraqi Freedom, and held the line in the long war of GWOT in Afghanistan. That’s why, no matter where we are on November 10th, every Marine raises a glass to the Corps’ birthday, we’ll never settle for being an Army of one. For most of us, it’s not something we were—it’s something we are. It is the single most defining part of who and what we are. Some call it arrogance. We call it pride—and we have every right to it. We are the most feared, most ferocious warriors to ever walk this earth. We are what every other branch wishes they could be. Modern Day Spartans! This isn’t bragging but Some will still whisper “arrogance” and then we smile. So, why are Marines special? Hell if I know—we just are. Respectfully, The Few. The Proud. The Marines. 🦅🌎⚓️

@WDNR Leucistic twins in Grant County.

Went fishing and got a gift today. Didn't catch any fish, no bites. Coming home, I see two white spots on the bluff wall🦌. I thought, " Trash bags, weird. Get close, hit the brakes, and pull over half off the road; the creek was right there. All pics in order in comments⬇️

It's one of the coolest things I've seen while driving around.

It was getting darker by the second, but at one point, he was right across the road, and his momma was behind me in the woods calling to him.

...up the other side. Momma and twin still on the other side of County O.

Wasn't sticking around to see what I was up to, and jumped the fence, ran across the road and...

Ran to the fence and bleeted a few times. I didn't see any cars coming, so I tried to get closer. It was getting dark fast, and my camera sucks in low light.

I followed this one because it headed for the road. It hid behind the utility pole for a second before deciding I could still see it.

As soon as I got out of my truck, the two yearlings spooked in different directions. So I was spooked, too.😆

@BlueHeronBass The @megabassamerica Vision 110 is about the only jerk I buy. I'm not a great jerkbait fisherman, and it might be a confidence thing. Still love mine.

I love the sneaky little details with Megabass lures. Look at that little chartreuse spot on the tip of the tail on the bottom.