He was a Marine, not a soldier.

Easy on the vitriol. I hear it’s bad for your health.

And genuinely having lived that life for awhile, I would rather be moving many times every day than being stuck on a FOB just running CBR.

Well, maybe they are using tiny mal-nourished North Korean chauffeurs in China. IDK.

Uh... WW2 was a different story, because it had multiple fronts with multiple peer and near-peer ally networks fighting on just about every continent, rather than an, again, limited conflict/proxy war in a tiny country. But, at the most basic, yes in WW2, we geared up for total war, and were willing to accept total…

It’s better than the K Car

Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin, RIP and thank you and your family for your ultimate sacrifice... blasting ISIS into the ground is a worthy fight. I would proudly stand on that line with you. Let’s not let our mistaken interventions of the past fog the correct decision here. The Iraqi Army is succeeding right now, and they…

Flagged and reported for denigrating Our Dearest Leader.

The only thing that doesn’t change is the utter incoherence of our current policy.

The BRRRTT was strong that day my friends

You either commit to go to war or you do NOT. No Half measures.

Mission creep? Ah, nothing better than half-assing it.

A base so secret that only the enemy knows where it is.

South Vietnam welcomes their new advisors!

I wish you the best of luck at a good job away from Gawker media. I hope all the Jezebel writers remain unemployed.

Wear a suit to traffic court. Everyone will confuse you for a lawyer. Judge included.

only reason i can tell is so people can see the turbo when it’s sitting on the tow truck.

That is clearly ‘sounding’, a crucial part of the submarine mating dance. I saw a nature documentary about that.

“The exercise will last five weeks.”