Happy Anniversary to our lovely Second Lady. 12 years and almost 4 kids later, and we're still going strong. Love you Usha!

"On second thought, I guess I do like to brag. 'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag." Happy Flag Day my fellow Americans 🇺🇸

Happy birthday to the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF DONALD J. TRUMP.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤—𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥—𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?⁣ ⁣ As one of the few senior officers still active on X, I’ve been attacked, downgraded, and hit with whisper campaigns meant to soften what I’ve seen and said from the front seat of command.⁣ ⁣ I do it because I care. Deeply. Because I’m committed to authenticity and relentless about truth. Not for clicks or applause, but for one purpose: to build the lethality and warfighting edge our Army will need if the balloon goes up. And more importantly, to strengthen deterrence—so we never have to fight. ⁣ ⁣ Peace comes through real, credible strength. Not dog-and-pony shows.⁣ ⁣ I’ve been “informed” my authenticity upsets people. Damn right it does. That’s the job. Our profession demands abrasiveness when softness gets Soldiers killed.⁣ I’ve written the professional articles, recorded the podcasts, spoken at the symposiums. Observations from 55 NTC rotations, Blackhorse command, and hard lessons from the modern battlefield. They get filed away like every other rotational AAR—only for us to repeat the same mistakes and ignore the same gaps.⁣ ⁣ 𝐗 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐞. ⁣ ⁣ That’s why I stay in the fight here.⁣ Our Army deserves leaders who prioritize winning over comfort. I’m all in on that mission.⁣ #Blackhorse #Lethality #MissionCommand

I grew up during, and fully aware of the events of the Iranian Revolution in the 70’s. For decades I’ve listened to “Death to America!” Chants. During those decades my country took a mostly “hands-off / no direct-action” approach and focused more on diplomatic solutions to the Iranian problem. Iran was placated, paid off, and tolerated- none of it worked, Iran kept wanting and demanding more. Then came Iran’s nuclear program, and all of a sudden my Country was facing the idea of the Islamic-extremist Mullahs arming themselves with nukes. TERRIFYING! I am a career-long defender of my Country. I began as a Combat MP in the US Army. After a decade of deployments it was on to become a street-cop in NY (not NYC). The events of 9/11 created another fork in my career path and I found myself going into US DHS as a Counter-terrorism Agent. During that time, I also served as the first Intel Head for my Field Office (DC). I am retired now, but I would like to say that based upon my life experience I fully support President Trump in his mission to put an end, once and for all, to the threat posed by Iran. Godspeed, Mr. President! foxnews.com/live-news/israel…

Feel the cultural shift? The Left demonized Patriotism as racist. So people would be afraid to fight back as they destroyed America. But… Patriotism is cool again. It started with USA Hockey and Jimmy’s Famous Seafood. Then Trump making DC monuments beautiful. To Team SpaceX launches in from of American flags. Now the US National Team standing proudly during the anthem. They might seem like little things. But they’re not. Winning the Culture War will lead to saving America. And America must be saved.🇺🇸

We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.