Also SLA Marshall “study” that showed few soldiers actually fired their weapons has been questioned. David Hackworth found he falsified or skewed his writing to match whatever thesis he wanted. He basically wanted to sell books.

Word. All my DIs were black or Hispanic. I had the honor of serving with some of the greatest and diverse group of humans I’ll ever know and the only reason I was exposed to them was because of my time in the service.

That seems contradictory to the point of his book On Killing. In the book he tried to warn us that military training has made it too easy for people to kill and urged more training in restraint. I kind of lost respect for the book when he equated shooting someone in the face with ejaculating on their face.

His real callsign is Chaos. Only people who don’t know him call him Mad Dog. He cares far more about the lives of service people than any of the other draft dodging sunshine patriots POTUS has surrounded himself with.

It would be interesting to see what happened to the panda 🐼 population if the Internet spread the rumor that panda parts were powerful medicine. I bet only high party officials would dine on them then. Maybe they already do.

I sure as hell didn’t!

It’s Seven Days in May in reverse but Marines are still the heroes.

I’m a fan of these concrete canvas shelters. Inflate and hydrate. Put sod all over it and you have a hobbit house.

I thought Dr Tyrell pretty thoroughly explained why you can’t bring a replicant back to life.

First and last time I had durian was on the beach in Thailand. Given to me by off duty bar girls with a questionable bottle of coke. Oh to be young again.

He was probably hoping for some kind of eyes wide shut orgy. The military did invent swinging after all.

Warrior Monk Mattis disagrees.

I still have this on my car. I hope 45 sees it if he visits my base

It reminds me of other staffs under bad COs. After awhile you do your best not to protect or save the boss. You do your best because you don’t want the command itself to fail.

Hail Mattis! And he is really known as Chaos not Mad Dog like Trump calls him. How ironic.

Willie Nelson, KD Lang, Lyle Lovett, The Dixie Chicks, Woody Guthrie, et al would disagree with you lumping them into a political group I suspect.

They are starting to think the generals are part of the deep state resisting Trump. Thank God for St Mattis et al.

I can’t remember if upgrade in uniform is a policy but I do think it’s bad form. I also have a bone to pick about people who travel in camouflage. Having been a Marine - camis were not authorized in public. Had to be in either service or dress uniform. And the only people who do that are brand new graduates or body…

It’s weird they don’t have similar policies like Dod Joint Travel Regulations. All dod employees are only allowed to fly contracted GSA fares for economy seats. Although they do accumulate miles which leads to upgrades for some .

Did you get a CMP one? I’ve been wanting to pick one up since that’s what my father carried in WW2. I can remember a bunch with Korean writing on the stock being like $150 back in the 90s and thinking I’ll get one later. Then they disappeared and people all want $1000 for their Inlands.