The L in LMTV is for Lethality.
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The L in LMTV is for Lethality.
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One of my officers was a platoon leader in the 82nd sent to NO. We sat there one night in Iraq as he told us about watching in NVGs all the corrupt cops loot homes while the city was still under evacuation orders. It continues to radicalize us.
Nuance is how we got here. We need balance in the force. So fuck that guy. He sucked.
All true. But the prevailing historiography of Bobby Lee is almost exclusively fanboi worship brought to us by the 100 years of lost cause. So I am absolutely in favor of pushing the themes that he was an asshole and a traitor and unworthy of serious additional study.
Accurate.
I see you.
I guess we can also debate full military honors for [checks notes]: Lee Harvey Oswald Charles Whitman James Earl Ray
It's Joever. Am I doing this right?
I feel like Templeton's gas station is a must see roadtrip destination when I get back. Like giant ball of twine level.
Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom
Right? Logic you can drive a truck through.
Never going to "well akshually" or "both sides" that traitor slaver POS Colonel Bobby Lee. Never. Not giving him an inch. Fuck that guy.
Yes! Like a "general" who didn't suck.
1) NO. esp in context of U.S. Army---West Point statues, paintings, barracks; Army bases. This is the point. 2) He sucked as a GO. Maybe a good colonel--maybe. Generals have to understand the political, economic, societal forces backing their efforts. He fundamentally did not. 3) Agreed.
1812 tactics in 1863. It's like using WWI tactics on Vietnam.
Hollywood and HBO owe us a redo. Band of brothers style. With some enslaved people uprisings and everything.
Did not know this.
Facts. Col Lee was an ambitious traitorous slaver. He also got his ass kicked. Sucks to suck.
Huh.
History will look back on the "drill baby drill" yams like we look at "doctors" using leaches to balance the humors.
Your comment is more precise.
truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence
Col Lee was the only colonel of his cohort to join the treasonous rebellion---surprising even his family. The rest of his southern peers maintained their oaths to the Constitution and stayed in the U.S. Army. Contrary to his genteel facade, he was also a cruel slaver. Aka a piece of shit.
If you're worried about school shootings, give it 24 hours. It will be out of the news cycle by then. *Until the next one.
Just don't bring back the soft porn captain.
Same. And damn it.
Facts. We always hated it. Thank you for your service, said the nice lady at the airport, while the nation was obsessed with Honey Boo Boo, and I was burying my people.
I had to go look. Aaaaand I regret it. Thanks, classmate.
Here to point out his GS shirt.
Wait is this...the same one? The assistant s2 type who was writing a book about comparing the army to her childhood religious cult? Yikes.
The Chinese ones are sub 30k here and loaded with tech and long ranges.
That cigarette you tried behind the bleachers in HS? Just might save your life.
Chinese electric cars will soon completely overtake the market. Self inflicted.
Right? Guys who got out before GWOT at my 10th reunion: you guys are heroes, thanks for your service. At my 20th: you guys are deep state and can't be trusted.
New "thoughts and prayers" just dropped.
The same bros cheering CEO pay are absolutely apoplectic that a platoon leader makes 25% more than team leader.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Need to see that Duffleblog piece on a Captain drinking tea with the chairman of the Kennedy-Warren tenant association.
CNN has "Former Prosecutor Weighs In On Possible Taylor/Travis Prenup" My brothers and sisters in Christ what are u doin
Lethal Weapon 5
Thats what Maryland is for. lol
Finna see a lot more Chargers in NOVA!
Ready to invest on U st? Soon on every block: "Dance" club Pawn shop Tattoo Parlor Buffalo Wild Wings Now accepting applications.
Band of Garbagemen.
Great thread. Government is serious business for serious people. And you are going to hear "awful but lawful" a lot.
Soon we will be able to turn waste management green.
Gonna tell my kids this is the Hurt Locker. Clearly much more accurate than the Hollywood version.
Literally our 2005-2006 MiTT soundtrack. Also, @uticaeric.bsky.social here is us recreating the Hatari! poster but hunting Fobbits (purposefully wearing 4ID patch).
OMFG. Takes me back.
5. Not being serious about National security---or, welcoming those who are.
As I like to put it: They love they troops™️ until they don't.
At first glance I was like, nah. Then I read the whole thing and it's a solid course of action.
In some parts of Virginia, it costs more to send your child to daycare than to a 4-year public university. That’s unacceptable. We need to give parents more breathing room. As Governor, I’ll work to bring down child care costs.
Finally someone doing the math right. 200 dudes is one company plus a battalion c2 node with some pieces of HHC--commo, mechanic, medics etc. Then take out company C2. Maybe you got three not fully manned platoons. Each platoon gets a checkpoint to man 24/7. So, 200=3 squads.
Because the new Outback is basically the Homer Canyonero.
You for some reason hate public transit and would never take it? Ok, but what if our taxes made it high quality, leading to more people abandoning their cars and utilizing it, freeing up the open road for you to more easily commute by car? Yeah, it's that simple.
The children's crusade did less damage than these guys.
I see that. But am talking about aspiring appointee types and "sitting awkwardly in the family" as you so aptly put it. Of course there are many of us who GS and maybe SES---working back in the engine room---but other than John N and his time at CNAS where does one go who wants to do more?
And god forbid former uniforms want a role to play.
AI is the Betamax tapes of Beany Babies. Discuss.
Most of whom. Damn it.
Active duty members number around 1,300,000. Most of which are not residing in their home states/towns---so they vote by mail. I have done so in every election but one, when I happened to reside in my voting district after retirement. Now add diplomats. What is the answer for these groups?
AI could have been successful if it had been treated as a science and developed with rigorous ethical standards focused on solving problems for humanity instead of being treated as a speed run on an exploitative capitalist growth tool focused on solving problems for trillion dollar corporations.
Would add that he Italians have been running the Strade Sicure program for a decade. Putting soldiers at key tourist sites for added security. The units are 100% in non tactical vehicles (NTVs). A mix of old LR Defenders and new Silver Jeep Wr with Army branding. www.lecceprima.it/cronaca/stra...
Precisely. The fatal accident I described had no ground guide. The vehicle above has an CROWS system---so no turret gunner. Mine (SOF variant) were the same. These units should be in 100% NTVs.
Also, this is National Guard. How many driving hours you think this unit's operators have on these vehicles? Assuming they are licensed properly. lol.
Nope.
Look at this. The entire vehicle and rescue efforts are not visible to the driver and TC. Expect more of this.
One of my best people was run over and killed by this type of vehicle. At slow speed. Anything can happen. If you trip in front of it, or lean down to pick up a dropped iPhone, NO ONE on board can see you.
The vision out of the MRAP is really really and for the crew. It's not made for this type of driving. It was common in Iraq and Afghanistan to run over locals on scooters---they were brazen and erratic around us. But our guys also ran over kids, causing not just deaths but trauma for our Soldiers.
Agree. Faith in the military has been built up on the left in drops since Vietnam and DADT. It's tenuous. Faith from the right has been eroding through culture wars. The military can rapidly find itself on the outs on all sides.
I think yes. But if there isn't my argument is moot.
Concur. Not mutually exclusive. I was trying to fit all that nuance in one skeet.
You know my standard line, they love the troops, until they don't. I think "support the troops™️" is very very fragile.
Oh no. The opposite. They would never do that. I am positing this is an unintended effect.
Right.
I suspect it's community dependent. And maybe my argument is improved by stating "the soft support for NG troops of those looking at images from the outside"
I am bouncing this half baked argument in my brain: The soft support for NG Soldiers appearing in our cities as an indictment on the collapse of faith in our civilian LE enterprise. Communities still trust the U.S. Army as LE is increasingly seen as partisan. It's not good. Thoughts?
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
There is a difference between grabbing peasants and handing them a spear/musket vs the professionalization of private citizens into a large scale force. From the civil war on, Union side, and through the 20th/21st century with the Total Army concept, would argue there is no historical parallel.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
The United States has a "citizen soldier" culture. We practically invented it.
1935 Nazi Nuremberg Laws were cribbed from the American South's Jim Crow laws.
This is really good messaging.
Want to hear all about it.
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!
Here to say that the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws were cribbed from US Jim Crow laws. Yes, we inspired the Nazis. Oh, and ISIS. Ask me how.
Americans will visit Japan and post on social media, “Japan is living in 2075,” and meanwhile they’re just talking about a functioning public transportation system and healthcare not bankrupting people.
This.
This is our Trolley Problem, and the military can't solve it. Only citizens exercising political pressure on civilian leaders can solve this problem.
Either: 1) Russian military is so incompetent they are unable to target 2) They are deliberately committing war crimes by targeting noncombatants. Probably a bit of both.
Damnit. Lost another one. Reach out to your people. Things are tough all over. May you find the peace that eluded you for so long, Shawn.
They are good at this.
Look at us becoming originalists.
The era of fear is over. The Sandwich Thrower has finally been caught.
So a DOJ employee chucks a sandwich at another DOJ employee. Isn't this something HR should handle?
They love the troops™️ Until they don't. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...