What if instead of these troops doing the work themselves, we use them to assist the local forces. By, with and through them. So as to not bear the burden ourselves?

The year is 2056, your BC - a 78A (Vibe Coder) just called you into his office because one of your guys got a DUI on the way to PT

You signed up for TECH, not to be a babysitter.

JAG vs “TECH” is the issue I have. One is a known quantity and skillset for a specific need

We have the GS system, we have Warrant Officers, hell we could make something new…

The Army hopes to lure civilian tech workers by letting some join as captains The focus on direct commissions expands on a program that saw four Silicon Valley executives join as lieutenant colonels last year.

My counter-offer:

Let them join as 2LTs instead. Do the work. Learn the lessons. Take the hits. Figure it out first.

They are not special and valorizing "tech" is some Brotherhood of Steel cult behavior.

Anyone involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.

I’ve spent a lot of time in two of these places and let me tell you…not exactly ideal.

So basically, they want to collapse the state into anarchy like Afghanistan, Syria, or Somalia. Great strategy guys.

If you want to know why we stood up an office specifically to deal with CIVCAS (disbanded). Why we study the laws of war. Why we restrict ROE. Why we keep JAGs close in the targeting process. Why some of us who had to make hard decisions can still sleep at night. It was all there to prevent THIS.

Exactly! This specific situation- what happens when they punch back? - was THE thing everyone was supposed to be thinking about. I don’t know who’s fault it is or what hat the outcome should be, but 100% to your point, why is a log cell trying to man a TOC rn? Why was that considered necessary?

The last two years of OIR is so incredibly different than the GWOT era many seem to be comparing this to. Nearly every dumb defense tech solution or kill chain theory revolved around this specific situation. It’s just hard to emphasize how different this is from “this is why you jump TOCs”

The only issue I have with the “what is a TOC?” discourse is that this very specific problem was so heavily highlighted for this very very very specific reason. I don’t think it is a binary issue of could it or could it not have been avoided but it just seemed so careless.

The reason we typically don't give military operations silly or hollywood names is because then when a husband loses a wife and children lose their mother, the casualty notification officer doesn't have to say "your loved one died supporting operation epic fury"

10/10 run.

Maybe I'm kirking out but the unreality of this war is wild. People posting that thousands of Kurds are fighting the regime for the CIA, while the Kurds say it isn't happening. Every video of a missile attack I just have to assume is AI whether it is real or not.

Clearly they didn’t think they would go as far as they did.

The sheer hypocrisy re: Benghazi/abbey gate also doesn’t help

It’s also true that this specific threat to these specific places were very much top of mind for this AO. And to say it wasn’t the number 1 issue coming from the force is an outright lie

Not saying a secdef/gcc cdr is on the hook for forcepro, but this specific problem set was so top of mind

There was never enough force protection. During my time there, we took a direct hit from a shaheed. These issues were not unknown

Everyone knew the drill, if the US/Israel hit Iran then they or their proxies would hit us. Clearly there was a miscalculation/failure on how far they would go this time

This is one of the most underrated GO/FO subtweets

Get the heck outta here! You have catholics there too? You know it’s like huge here in America…

“Sure buddy…it’s the same thing 😉

I love this

Too many of the guys relitigate the Iraq war in their minds and think what is happening today is like in first blood part 2 where Rambo goes back to nam to get some payback for our boys.

Very unpopular opinion, but if this war somehow gives you closure as a GWOT vet then you need to really think about therapy or some additional forms of help

I shed no tears for the regime or their allies. But for me to say those three service members died to bring me closure seems way off

A lot of people talking about Venezuela and Iran as if it’s over and done with. Failing to mention that in Venezuela the dictators VP is now in charge (basically endorsed by the US now) and Iran doesn’t seem to have a flourishing democracy just yet…

That’s actually an incredibly accurate depiction of his theory

Dems will try to take the pragmatic POV and say: “see! The republicans pretend to love capitalism but actually hate it! You can’t run a business in this environment! Etc etc”

Industry will see this and say: “all Dario had to do was shut up and make money” or “we just need to be transactional”

All that being said, I remember first walking into the connex where our CRAM operators sat - I looked around and thought to myself “I’m really glad someone else is doing this job” - it’s not a comfortable deployment in my mind. Kudos to you and your team.

Yes but other than first hand experience and years and years and years of training on this system…why should I listen to you vs Palmer?

They hate you so much they want you to attend their institutions, but don’t worry, we won’t let you. I mean we won’t let them….i mean…they are woke and we don’t like them…even though you tried to go there…but you can’t now…because they hate you…but we won’t let the hate you now…HOOAH

Yeah the problem is people like Palmer try to use very generic definitions/scenarios to talk about very specific things and then hope nobody knows the difference

It’s the confidence that impresses me. He just says things.

Guarantee that if he was ever corrected and had those systems explained to him he’d just say something like “you know what I mean” and then move on