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Nobody’s talking reclass or MEB *yet* but it’s now at the Division level for “Hey why has this guy been on and off profile all last year for the same condition?”

Ya know, on the plus side, couldn’t really pick a better time for my hip to get bad enough that the Guard is noticing and asking questions

About halfway through my Afghanistan rotation, the locals decided they’d had enough of everyone’s shit and closed off their villages to us and the Taliban. Real “Player 3 has entered the match” moment for us

I like to think I’m a relatively well-informed person, and I have NO fuckin clue what the goal here is. What is the political and strategic objective Trump et al want to achieve?*

*yes I know there’s no strategy beyond generating Content for the meme wars because we’re in Hell

This was two weeks ago!!!!

This is all extremely stupid and horrific, but I feel like the stupidest part of it is how quickly we went from zero to here. GWB at least spent time trying to build popular support and a semi-plausible casus belli! There was months of prep work! Trump makes GWB look like Marshall

My hot take is that everyone says schools don't teach you how to do your taxes, but the way you do your taxes is to hang on to important paperwork and then follow the directions on a form while performing arithmetic, which actually is what they spend a fair amount of time teaching.

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Know what, I had a kind of shit day and the entire internet is horrific today so I think I’m gonna just disengage from that tonight

Seabee officer in the Pacific and some kind of technician in England were mine

Naval officer in the USN and enlisted USAF

So help me god I thought that was a sucker fish in the washing machine

Funny aside, I think I figured out where this percentage split came from and of course it’s business majors and MBA types applying something they half-remembered from school to real life

If one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently

IF ONE CAN GET A NAZI TATTOO INNOCENTLY???????

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Reconstruction 2.0 needs to be far more swift and brutal.

Okay so the treadmill had the little handholds to monitor your heart rate and I felt like I wanted to die (because, again, cardiac distress) so I decided to see where I was at and I VERY VERY STRONGLY DO NOT RECOMMEND IT

A cigarette in the gym parking lot is but the control rod of the middle-aged NCO

Nuclear reactors routinely operate at >100% capacity, there’s no reason I, a middle-aged guy, should not be able to do the same

So. Good news bad news. Good news is I posted my best 5k time since I was last deployed. Bad news is it turns out my heart rate was right on the cusp between “max recommended for my age group” and “cardiac distress” the entire time

In some ways the cold logistics make it that much more quietly honourable. The strength to agree to sit in a trench and have endless high explosive poured upon you and remain in position, not because your trench is particularly important, but because it is crucial that everyone do their part.

live Sharon reaction to modern geopolitics:

If you’re not scavenging your kids’ leftovers are you even really A Father

I dunno man, I’ve been on the business end of someone trying to kill me a few times and like. Yeah, brains do weird things and people have weird reactions. Not a good thing or a bad thing, just a thing

Truly astounding how much Trump makes me yearn for the halcyon days of sober, considered military planning under George W. Fucking Bush

Gonna become a RETVRN guy for 5 speed standard transmissions

The time before that I was going down the PA turnpike at speed and a bald eagle flew parallel to me for a few seconds before it suddenly veered in front of my truck and I almost did vehicular birdslaughter

I just saw a bald eagle come down from the sky and try to land on a frozen pond and completely botch the landing and skid it out like an idiot. I swear to god every time I see a bald eagle in real life it's doing the least majestic and dignified thing possible.

The way I cackled

Spring training game on in the background, perfect white noise for writing