THIS! The atrophy of R&S experience, skill, and knowledge is heartbreaking. I see it ALL the time - BCT and BN CDRs do not know the fundamentals of R&S, or how to issue CDR Guidance for R&S. JrNCOs have never learned “slope of a hill, radius of a curve, bridge classification.”

US logistics systems are designed, in detail, for tactical excellence. But on the modern battlefield, their design features are likely to leave them incapable of supporting maneuver units. Here's why. mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-…

Designing Judgment: Leadership under Uncertainty on the Modern Battlefield mwi.westpoint.edu/designing-…

Doc Gooden’s Lord Charles curveball 😳

Please help me honor US Army Delta Force Sergeant Major Christopher A. Nelms. Chris was a legend among warriors. Combat Diver, Ranger tab, Master Parachutist, multiple Silver Stars, Soldier’s Medal, 6 Bronze Stars (one with “V”), and a Joint Service Commendation Medal with “V.” He joined the Army in 1990, served in Infantry and National Guard SF, and later CAG (Delta Force), deploying countless times. He even competed in the Best Ranger Competition. In 2013, he earned his first Silver Star on an assault mission to capture a high value target in Afghanistan. While still in country, Nelms also received his Soldier's Medal after rushing into a burning building on Camp Marmal when he learned two soldiers were still asleep inside the structure. Nelms found them and brought them out to safety. On June 27, 2018, Nelms participated in military free fall training in North Carolina. During one jump, his parachute failed to deploy completely. He died 4 days later from the injuries sustained in the fall. He was 46 years old. Retired operators remember him as one of the very best they ever served with. Not forgotten.

Bringing this back up from FIVE years ago… China is watching us not training at the tactical edge…

THIS!

Make a couple replies to some posts and watch your LinkedIn profile views pop off. I can send you my DD214, ORB, Characterization of Service, Bio, Resume or offer a Reference or facilitate an Introduction - I got you homie.

The squad got the opportunity to play at historic Bosse Field in Evansville, IN tonight. #ALeagueOfTheirOwn

Completed about 4hrs of annual mandatory corporate on-line training yesterday and just know that ~80% of the answers are to go snitch to HR - instead of just mind your own business. 🤦‍♂️

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

THIS! Pat Work - one of our very best at warfighting… ***checks notes*** something, something Battle for Mosul (2017).

REPORT: Michael Jordan’s $70M Gulfstream G650ER private jet has touched down in Chapel Hill, sources tell me. Jordan is rumored to meet with UNC AD Bubba Cunningham at 2pm to discuss potentially becoming the next men’s basketball head coach.

back when the internet was pure

There’s a reason Paul Skenes resonates with so many people. Baseball fans respect the talent. Americans respect the patriotism. Service members respect the path he almost took. Originally, America was getting a soldier. Instead, it got an ace. 🫡 🇺🇸

Team USA Paul Skenes is DEALING against Dominican Republic, while having the Bible verse 2 Timothy 1:7 on his glove 👏 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7

Just know, if you recline your seat on a Basic Economy Flight… That is all I need to know about you.

"The next war will be won by the side that first perfects the use of drones in offensive, maneuver warfare" - The Coming Blitzkrieg: Adapting Armored Formations for the Future of Warfare armyupress.army.mil/Journals…

Can we take the screen play off the play card please!?!? @Broncos @DailyBroncos #broncoscountry

Textbook PI right here Not called But had this been moss every flag on field would’ve been thrown @NFLOfficiating YALL SOME BLIND BUMS