Yeah I only remember him because my grandfather had an LP of him telling patriotic stories and reading the Gettysburg Address and stuff (plus there’s an office building named after him). Quite the voice!
(Field artillery officer with a bunch of Iraq/Afg tours, starting with the 2003 invasion)
What archaeology cannot tell us is whether Mycenaean soldiers wore this stuff for real, or just until their sergeant major was out of sight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendra_...
(Absurd unnecessary use of fire as part of training has a rich history in jihadi groups, fwiw…a trope of insurgent training camp propaganda videos…first two photos here are Taliban, second two Hamas and Hezbollah)
Boko Haram fighters asked AI chatbots for advice about how to train up and how to modify their motorcycles to jump over defensive trenches…and *it worked* (allegedly, according to defectors)
Two forthcoming Gaza books by serious, credible authors that I’m looking forward to: CROSSING THE RED LINE by @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social, who did some of the best coverage of the Biden administration’s role in 2023-24, and THE WAR IN GAZA by retired Marine Raider colonel Andrew Milburn, who…
Biden admin to Mexico: US government played no role in orchestrating arrest of El Mayo and it was not a US government plane or US government operation FBI to the museum it has loaned the plane to (with a plaque about its agents’ role in “Operation Air Kings”): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...
1. The lunch buffet at Kashmir in downtown Boston (RIP) 2. Edy’s Swiss Orange Sherbet (RIP)
So freaking good. Every year I have a St Crispin’s Day party, and the two scenes where I make everyone shut up and listen silently are are this one and the day-of-battle speech
Now this is what I call a compelling detective drama. “Crusader Kings II” fans, take heed of this tale youtu.be/bxKiQcKvzjQ
Weird use of LinkedIn. This retired cop summarizes Iraq/Afg combat true stories, but with the details fucked up (by AI?)—the Shok valley fight was actually 3rd SFG, not 1/75 Rangers, and the Ramadi fight involved 1/1 ID, not 1/4, and was in 2004, not 2003 (the guys’ names are correct for 1/1 ID).
Good @thehighside.bsky.social report on the “HEU raid” bandied about on TV this spring as if it would be a quick, easy thing. Key: JSOC has trained for versions of this for years—but *not* for a version where the target facilities have been pulverized first. Yet JSOC generals still pushed for it.
Now the B-1 is doing racetracks waiting for Trump to finish speaking
I think that one B-1 is still coming for the afterburner pass—it’s refueling from a KC-46 off Ocean City now (there were two but one went home)
I don’t watch a lot of local news, and didn’t realize that the hosts on Fox 5 DC are now Tony P and a guy who looks like a Vegas magician
Happy Fourth of July from this Toby-Keith-singing early-GWOT teddy bear that I found propped up next to a random tree stump in Cambridge a few years ago!
I’m more of a weird-beverage guy. The last one that I really liked and everyone I gave it to hated was cumin soda (preferred brand I’ve had in India is Rim Zim but came across this one here)
Now where did the Air and Space Museum get a gremlin to stuff? Seems like this should be a bigger story! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Do they even have the E4 Mafia in the Marines like they do in the Army? I don’t think so. (I’m aware of the related Lance Corporal Underground for E3s.) Guessing that’s why the joke fell flat…cultural illiteracy about your own military branch…
“I went and asked the people swimming and fishing at the public access if they saw which way the bird flew and if it dropped a ball and am glad I'm back in Alaska because nobody looked at me like I was that crazy”