Shoes and hair, always mit der shoes und hair.

@xoofxos.bsky.social please reference our earlier discussion of the use of haircuts in detecting Sov Block-era personnel. One point to the Germans, but I stand by my barbering position on the Bear.

“SOF operator on a day trip to the Hill” vibes.

(takes a long drag of a cigarette, flicks it into the street) “Some of us never gave up on the true faith, brother.”

I guess that whole ‘shipbuilding overseas’ thing is DOA.

Bye, weirdo.

Hangin’ in the barnyard
With my moms and brothers
All animals are equal
But some are more equal than others

I eagerly await them trying to pin this on the closest available whitehat.

when it’s going great

"Recruit, I am about to harmoniously adjust your psychic aperature, do you get me?" -Zen Drill Instructor

They’ve been sniffing around the use of Japan & Korean shipyards for a while; don’t see how they will overcome the significant OPSEC concerns that would come with this; partitioned construction seems unwieldy.

And building there would legitimize PLA targeting of those nations in 2027.

I remember, as part of a deploying shop, being part of the test bunnies for the anthrax series just before 9/11.

Different world. Hope the troops who decline vaccines are shunned by their peer groups.

Dafuq?

If you think this sounds outrageous, ask Pat Tillman how honest the DoD is about their fuckups.

Flight 93 was shot down by US fighters because they anticipated it turning into DC airspace and wanted it to descend in the countryside instead of over the city.

iShowerhead

its script kiddies pushing go buttons on executables written by contractors, all the way down

It’s fine to be anti-Palantir but no need to spread the myth of Service software development capabilities. It doesn’t exist, it’s just a CPFF coming out of a Service budget rather than a straight vendor purchase. There’s no cadre of uniforms writing Enterprise code.

What’s most realistic about The Pitt is its portrayal of being a burned-out, traumatized Gen X’r in charge of a workplace full of millennials who can’t get out of their own way.

But we’re SUPER serious about AI being the linchpin of future maritime war! We’re not just saying it! Check back in ten years!

One of my favorite stories is when we got saddled with finding missions for the LCS and the entire 2/6 Fleets told us to go fuck ourselves as they didn’t want to have those albatrosses hung around their necks.

The more significant piece of this reporting is the outcome of the Xi-KMT meetings, in that there is now an entire opposition party acting as the CCP’s willing puppet.

It’s 1999-2002 DPRK dwarf sub incursions all over again.

Tell me how many of those commandos made it back to the border without being shot to shit by ROK Marines with U.S. support.

The time for ODAs in Taipei is overdue.

me and the boys on the USS Abraham Lincoln eating boiled boot leather and sharing stories about the most Realistic Pussy we've ever seen

Reese Witherspoon is the real-world Jenna Maroney.

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?

3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”

Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

I ate much better via the Sodexo/KBR guys in AFG than I ever did at sea. Even the best boat meals were regularly outdone by Uzbeks serving up fried food.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had to survive on ketchup sandwiches because your mission got extended UFN and you ran out of food while in a comms blackout 🙋‍♂️

Consult your physician if you have a confederacy lasting more than 3-5
years.