Tudor has a longstanding connection to militaries around the world, and I've spent a decent bit of time living in a time zone different from where a mission is taking place while all of us use Z-time to keep track of things, so a Tudor GMT checks all my legacy boxes. Looks the business as well.
Cigar box tops with a couple coats of spray on polyurethane makes a decent valet.
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
...and in 10 days the latitude granted by the War Powers Act will expire, and we'll go from having a deeply unpopular and dubious military operation to a deeply unpopular and illegal military operation.
I'm ashamed of our country.
this admin? yes. this is the work of twisted craven men.
but the whole country. for decades, we simply didn't care enough. collectively. caring about the destruction we left in our wake, was simply too much of a bother
Sad and ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Sounds like socialism.
"I thought you guys only gave, like, 20 of those out every year, and that's why it was so hard to even get in! I mean, I tried. I did! No, I mean it, but for a NG in 2003-2005? Forget it! No way was I getting in! Really? I could've? Oh well, water over the bridge as they say."
RTB + Ranger Training Battalion, the units that oversee Ranger school, a very tough small-unit tactics leadership school. Completely it grants the Soldier the right to wear a "RANGER" tab on their uniform. It's not an absolute prerequisite for leadership as an infantry officer, but it's close.
I've thought about what the driving ethos (such as it is) of these guys, and I keep coming back to "I want the credit for having done by virtue of having been." The more he didn't do, the more he wants to invalidate those who did, until having been is indiscernible from having done.
Beeswax has a long history of being used to waterproof leather and canvas. For leather boots, it has the added benefit of making for a very smooth final surface, often used as a pre-treatment for shoes & boots you're trying to bring to a mirror polish.
Non-kinetic fires
RF effects
Cyber and cyber-adjacent D4M
Electromagnetic spectrum operations (EMSO)
Cyber and Electromagnetic Actions (CEMA)
Special Purpose Electromagnetic Attack (SPEA)
We contain multitudes.
That shit'll make you think brick walls are there to run through, tho.
Back when Jack3d had the stuff that killed that baseball player (ephedra) I doubled up for deadlift day only to find out MWR closed the gym so I had nothing to do but go back to my CHU and suffer through the face-itchies.
I get to call my hypertension "service-related."
Next Chief of Staff needs to come from the fires community, given that that's how we conduct "military operations" these days.
And my fires I actually mean Cyber.
There's already an Army Secretary, who leads the T2COM GEN (an acting one after Hodne was fired) who commands the MCOE, who commands ABN & Ranger School.
It's Sec. Hegseth just can't stop obsessing around stuff far beneath his position.
Fellows assigned to 75th Ranger Regiment. If Sec. Hegseth revokes "lowered standard" Ranger classes, that would include a lot of dudes currently assigned to 75th who will assure you their class was no less tough just because there were women in the classes with them.
Ireland saw more immigrants from America than emigrants to America for the first time ever last year. I expect Irish food servers to be asked a lot of questions about haggis soon.
I love that all these dudes have deeply problematic shit they promise to take care of if they're nominated. There's no such thing as a "probationary nomination." They get to flip the bird to the Senate as soon as they're nominated. There is zero obligation to "sell assets" or "quit drinking."
Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth: “The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.” Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fans
Behind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen.
The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze.
An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War Boston National Historical Park During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.
That site has the juice.
Dudes joined the military and I'm supposed to trust their judgement on what to do with their bodies?
For a dude who has made it his whole personality, he is absolutely does not know ball.
So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.
Mundus vult decipi
A marketing still for the game Pragamata
Marketing still from the game Bioshock 2
Corporate needs you to tell the differences between these pictures:
The idea that the A-10 gets an extension while several other more modern programs get a haircut is a pleasant reminder that the SECDEF's idea of lethality is out of step with the 21st century.
Am I the only person who remembers playing Bioshock and being a dude who ends up taking care of a bunch of school aged girl characters? Like, the concept of Pragmata isn't entirely novel.
The concept that military contracts don't get renewed with each administration seems to escape some people.
Imagine being 77 and instead of spending more time with your grandkids and trying to shoot your age at the golf course you still get two barrels from the makeup gun to be racist on camera.
A very good school is giving my son scholarship money to play lacrosse up there, so while I agree in theory, we need it's actual expiration date to be at least 4.5 years from now.