Everyone hopes they will answer the test of fear and violence well, but you never know for certain. No one wants to be the coward but the line between hero and coward under fire is razor thin. Who takes what path often surprises you. Like K Troop at the Battle of the Greasy Grass
The Roman Legion buried nearly a million nails during their withdrawal from Scotland in 86 AD to keep the tribes from forging them into weapons.
So great was the fear of giving their enemy any advantage.
Now we just let them live here, go to our schools, and leave them MRAPs
Do you see them Marine? Waving their foreign flag while your city burns? Why don’t you grab that 240 and show them how your ancestors earned that blood stripe in the halls of Montezuma.
When the SNAP runs out and the residents of MLK blvd break through the front door of the Whole Foods and the boys and I rally at the meat counter to take it back.
So I can see why people didn’t like Civil War, but I did. Here’s why: the press are the main characters, but they are not the heroes. They are almost all portrayed as repugnant buffoons.
Grab a beer, we are going to talk markets and people who put their finger on the scale of them. (And no, this isn’t a thread about the small hat people, so just stop)
Almost all of Salt Lake City’s housing woes can be told in the story of this one house.
One night we were on an observation point, watching some route and some village and heard a bunch of small arms fire coming from an Iraqi Police outpost we worked with.
It had been kind of a wild month, so in the interest of teamwork I decided to go check it out. It was 4 am.
I’ve had a lot of my vet bros rightly point out that if they killed someone based on the same ROE in Afghanistan or Iraq (an active warzone), they’d be wasting away in Leavenworth
The WNBA is dumb…
That being said, I love that after watching Caitlin Clark get pummeled by black girls night after night they picked a corn fed white lady to be her enforcer and it just magically stopped
There is a difference between tactics and strategy: one that decides the fate of civilizations. Western war (the professional kind) is more than a collection of random battles won or lost. This is a thread on how Ukraine squandered it’s best chance to win the war in April 2022
This shit is hard. If your only answer is “well he felt fear he was justified” then the way of the gun isn’t for you
Try baking
Yes, cops get paid like shit and trained like shit. They don’t get a lot of decompression or therapy. I sympathize. And still expect better.
Fin
An entire generation of American males would have straight up died fighting for no other reason than if this lady’s voice asked them too and I never had any idea what she looked like
When the fat range Fudd says “to join this club you need to put 10 rounds on the 2 foot by 3 foot paper at 25 yards… are you sure you can handle that?”
I was pretty drunk at a bar by the Zeppelin hangers in Riga one night, some old Soviet veteran said to me “Your problem is you do not kill enough Afghans.”
I pointed out they lost in Afghanistan, he nodded and said “so will you, at least we can say we killed lots of afghans.”
Have had some Port, so we are going to talk about 1917… which is a great movie.
But mostly it’s great because every officer with a real role in the story is a good officer. The movie eschews the traditional out of touch and dumb officer trope for something better
Here we go
Band of Brothers is flawless from start to finish. Every episode is gripping, raw, and powerful—each one telling an unforgettable story of brotherhood and sacrifice. A true masterpiece of TV.
The stuff in the White House today between Trump and Zelinski and Vance is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in American politics. I don't even know how to process it. "Bullying" seems a weird adjective to use when talking about a president...but that's what it was.
Imagine being one of the best aviators in the world, flying one of the world’s most advanced, lethal planes…
Only to end up on the ground, prisoner to a little illiterate girl with a musket who had never seen a television
Midway into the hot part of Iraq when American troops had basically no defense against most IED's despite years of MDIC promises something was coming, a frustrated solitary troop bought a toaster from a local bazaar, broke it down, and stuck it on a long pole.
If you have ever spent much time in Japan, you’ll know that despite being massive xenophobic racists, the Japanese also love to appropriate American culture where they want. After WW2, Japan was struggling with the cultural impacts of American occupation
POV: you are a Chinese airborne troop dropped in the first wave of WW3. You missed your DZ and landed in some southern field: alone. It is night. Your Chinesium NVGs are dead. You only have 60 rounds… and from the dark you hear this.
I could have shot him right in the face and no one would ever have said anything.
I felt fear, I won’t lie. I felt the cold leemer run right into my heart.
But I was a professional. I pushed my fear and my self preservation down and did my job. And thankfully was right
The only accurate part of The Patriot is the dude who kept a “Go To War” box under his bed for like two decades and then only takes like three things out to go to actual war.
One day it will all be over. And everyone will forget that this was the moment. This was when it turned. It wasn't the mighty Trump, it wasn't some fancy new edgy pundit who had probably blown a troon. It was a mom on a playground, who was tired of their shit.
Trying out new masseuses
mid 50s, normie white lady, kind of small hands
45 minutes in, she’s telling me about how Obama got rid of Smith-Mundt so the globalists could brainwash us.
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Apparently we are giving CDLs to third worlders now, but ask any Iraq veteran and they will tell you why this is a terrible idea.
These people not only can not operate vehicles like this even in the best of conditions, but their disregard for human life is mind boggling
Let’s talk about Egypt…
This is Ali. He was one of two Egyptian officers in my class. (The man with the 240 is not me, but he is a current Infantry Battalion Commander)
Ali was one of two Egyptians in my class. Ali was an aristocrat, the other, Hasani, a soldier.
…to put the weapon down. He dropped it, and ran up to hug me.
Some bad guys had rolled up to the checkpoint and shot it up. Everyone else had fled, or gone to the hospital, and he was left behind. Just one dude still at his post.
Happy someone came for him in the night.
In this date 189 years ago, the Mexican Army stormed the Alamo.
The battle serves as a constant reminder to Americans that if you absolutely need a sentry to stay awake, don’t pick a Texan.
There were only two ways to "win" in Afghanistan:
1. Bomb the Taliban and AQ, put a few boots on the ground to so some more damage and be out the door by 2002
2. Hard reset everything. Disrespect their culture and crush it. But then build a new one. The British style.
Sometimes at night I think about those American soldiers in Afghanistan during the war who had to listen to Afghan generals raping and sodomizing little boys who were screaming in nearby quarters, and were told by their superiors not to interfere because it would negatively impact our nation building efforts.
Nothing happened to Ali
I honestly thought Hasani (who was as hard a dude as any Muslim I ever met) was going to kill him
But he just shrugged. Hasani would never be promoted above Captain because of his poor roots. Ali became a Colonel
You people don’t have a fucking chance
Drove around with a dude from the 95th for a bit. He refused to put his rifle on safe because he "didn't think he could transition it in time to defend himself"...
We let him. Made him feel safer, and it made us feel safer that we had removed his firing pin when he was sleeping
Drug traffickers. Gun runners. Child rapists. Hit men. This guy who just tried to kill his wife disguised as an Amazon driver. They all come from Fort Bragg's secretive, little-known 95th Civil Affairs Brigade, one of the most toxic units in the US Army.
POV, you’re a jacked up US marine who needs two ballistic plates just to cover your overgrown chest muscles.
You are forward deployed on a small Japanese island near Taiwan, only to get yeeted by one of these girls with a 500kg guided bomb from 100km away.
Tesla with NY plates just pulled up for a showing of the neighbor’s house…
Gonna crack a beer, strip to the waist, put out the Battle Flag and porch max to scare them off.
BRB
One of my favorite WW2 stories is that of Me 262 pilot Unteroffizier Eduard Schallmoser who, after his 3rd kill (all by ramming) was forced to bail out of his plane, parachuted into his mother's garden in Memmingen, had breakfast, and went back to war.
What? Anti Drone missiles are more expensive than the drones, harder to make, and we are losing the war on the balance sheet???
Well, allow me to offer a solution:
Imagine enlisting to serve your country, growing up dreaming of mighty ships named Enterprise, Yorktown, Constitution, and Gambier Bay, and fictional ones Forward Unto Dawn, Galactica, and Prometheus only to be sent to fight the enemies of freedom on the USS Gaby fucking Giffords
Black Assistant Principal
Black Principal
Black Student
Two White Teachers
The black administrators destroyed the student's disciplinary records before investigators came... he had assaulted one teacher before he shot another.
Nothing was done to protect her. Wonder why
I’ll make you a deal. To assuage the anguish of our Libertarian and Liberal countrymen, I am willing to capture and try foreign drug and human smugglers who are destroying our country… if they agree to bring back gibbeting
I love the Right
In 48 hours we have come together to defend the right of some OnlyFan twink to own a raccoon and squirrel
and trashed a FoxNews SEAL for being a cringe boy loving pederast.
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No one under 40 knows who Mike Dukakis was.
They don’t know what a “Dukakis moment” even is.
No one outside of political junkies does.
Go watch your Matlock and eat your tapioca boomer.
But Voödoo, people use rentals as investments.
Fine. Set the threshold at 5 properties.
Our housing market has real problems. If you don’t fix the core problems, then expanding the scope will just make it worse. It is no different than immigration or student loans.
So if they bought the house for 120k, and plan to sell it for 320, they could hold it for 250 years before they lost money. That’s right. And it isn’t one house, or one Karl. It is dozens, and hundreds of them. It is the “we’ll buy your home for cash” people, and the flippers
It is called a Homestead vs non Homestead tax. If you want to stop this and drive down prices today, Fran that non-homestead tax up to 10-15x what the homestead tax is. Make this investment prohibitively expensive. Hell, even lower the homestead tax to zero.
Alright rag bags listen up, I hate this and boats and the water, so let’s get this over with.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding of why Battleships stopped being used after WW2. Blame the pre-Aliens History Channel.
I get it, you hate the government. It lies to us. You are right. But holding up a guy who was at best an ineffective journalist, and at worst helped to kill Americans is not the middle finger to the man you think it is.
Julian Assange is not the hero you make him out to be
I don't want to tell people how to do revolution...
But if you are going out to do gunplay with a dirty ol' heater, maybe lose the white headlamp attached to your forehead.
Private Xi sat by the river with his head in his hands. He had parachuted in last night and never found his unit. His chinesium radio was dead, and he was lost
Suddenly from the murky depths came something that sounded like music, and as the water began to part, he began to run