No, the country is on fire sale. They’re loading up to head to greener pastures. Destroying US flight means that an alternative they’ve invested in can rise. Just wait until ATC globally is done in Chinese instead, then it’ll make sense.

My family was on the Mayflower but if Ireland would like to take me back on account of the generational sin and all that I’d be happy to get on the plane.

He’s dead, she can move on whenever she wants…

He, on the other hand, is still married and needs to at least have the balls to divorce his wife before he moves on her.

She’s garbage but, in this situation, he’s entirely responsible for his actions.

She said it herself, her kids’ insurance rates will go up. That’s money out of her pocket, therefore bad, therefore we should reconvene the house to prevent it.

Straight from Fort Knox, obviously.

The entire public affairs career field knows this. It’s how you can tell VP Bowman sucked at his job - the reporters will show up to a firefight with Special Forces. They don’t need to hear it from you.

Once you’ve watched a Captain get relieved of his command and get sent to the sandbox to count ammo in a connex and then get PROMOTED to Major, you know that it’s all made up.

O-1 through O-4 are basically the same as E-1 through E-4, Automatic.

Look, the test is really bad about detecting weight issues so if you score high enough on the annual fitness test, you don’t have to take it. So that leaves all the soldiers with much more muscle out of the outliers. Meaning the soldiers who are overweight and don’t have high enough scores can waste the rest of the afternoon getting tape tested.

The Army tests Height and Weight every year. Those rucks will take an inch or two off you as your vertebrae get crushed.

But, yeah, army already does annual height and weight.

To tell the Sec Def “No, I won’t be showing up” is deny a lawful order. Your boss can tell you to be somewhere.

If the US Military starts to play political games, like denying an otherwise lawful order because it came from an asshole, they’re breaking different parts of their own internal rules.

That said, if the civilian arm in charge of the military, e.g. the executive branch, decides to say that the Army can, and should, unilaterally bomb unidentified boats in their region for ‘defence purposes’, that’s now a lawful order so you can’t deny that one.

And as an average joe, you can beat the rap (in thirty years when they pardon you) but you can’t beat the ride. Enjoy your DD.

I should clarify - the U.S. Army Warrior Ethos is

I will always place the mission first.

I will never accept defeat.

I will never quit.

I will never leave a fallen comrade.

So… Flying everyone back to D.C. for a pep rally is quite literally making them not place the mission first and violating the first line…

So, yeah, he’s planning a coup.

As an empath, I’m really in tune with other people’s emotions, and I cry all the time, so I know that you’re super broken up about not knowing about the empath card - even if you can’t stand to admit it to anyone but me, who’s more in tune with your emotions than you are… Because I’m an empath.

No shit Susan, getting sad at the commercials for starving children doesn’t make you an empath.

That was a police force, not the Fed. The Police are allowed to judiciously kill within the US. The Fed is allowed to judiciously kill outside the US.

Sheesh man, learn geography. And sarcasm.

You got it all wrong. Extra judicial killings outside the US are Gucci. Inside the US you’re only allowed judicial killings and obvious ‘suicides’.

My fear is him.

Sorry to Steven but with a last name like that, you gotta work to get me to trust you. If Jesus came back as a Prager, I’d be the first to sell his ass for a shekel.

What you’re saying it that we all must be careful, lest we turn into cops.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

BCT is just about making you react and listen to orders in high stress situations, like when a machine gun is clacking right over your head. That does mean overriding fear responses and making you quick to react but they don’t have you stand up and drop down a hundred times because it makes you more likely to spit on the Constitution if an orange turd tells you to. Hell, I remember Obama’s inauguration a dude was running around with his official photo cheering.

Leave Poland alone and get to the polls, dammit.

The Taliban has Guns and Mountains though, so only the Rockies and the Appalachians stand a chance. The Midwest would get rolled so hard.