Prior Marine. Adjunct Prof of Snark. Published in the Duffel Blog and PDB. War stories 72% true. If it doesn’t have a well deck, it isn’t an Amphib.

Joined October 2010
My friend took his own life. I wrote about it. If you are struggling, there is a number at the bottom of the article. taskandpurpose.com/my-friend…
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When I was in Kabul, I recall the moment of silence we had for the fallen and how many of the names they read were NATO allies. When I was in Helmand, I got shot at with the Brits. My friends got shot at with the Danes and the Estonians. The SECDEF is a child.
Hegseth on Afghanistan: I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters. It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there. Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations. In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
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Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths. t.co/x4tGhxJiFG
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Katie Zacharia was Press Secretary approximately as long as Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer series runtime.
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Iron Capt, Katie Zacharia’s LSAT Tutor retweeted
NEW: “The Tesla [Roadster] vehicle does not meet the FAA’s definition of an aircraft,” the agency told me this morning. FAA didn’t immediately respond to a follow-up request asking about its general jurisdiction over the airspace. politi.co/4ymc5CZ w/ @SamOgozalek
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That is the official car of Bond villains.
EXCLUSIVE: New revelations... In mid-2025, just as Kimberly Guilfoyle was scrambling to clear massive American Express credit card bills, she solicited a $250,000 car loan payment from several wealthy Greek businessmen. They were approached by Guilfoyle to help her pay off her luxury Mercedes G-Wagon. FULL STORY HERE: dailymail.com/news/us-politi…
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How it started… and how it’s going.
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Iron Capt, Katie Zacharia’s LSAT Tutor retweeted
Here is an official with the U.S. Border Patrol posting an image of a Kirov-class Russian battlecruiser
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Trump is going out like he came in, asking Russia for help with an election.
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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It will be after November 3rd, so that live-stream might not happen.
VP Vance says he's not sure that the scheduled execution of the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be live-streamed, and if it is, he will not be watching "I don't know that that's actually going to happen,” Vance told reporters "If it's all through live stream, I'm not going to be watching it,” Vance said
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So, are people going to have to upload an ID to watch this snuff film or is that just for porn?
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Iron Capt, Katie Zacharia’s LSAT Tutor retweeted
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society. We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
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A friend of mine was the Public Affairs Officer for the Blue Angels. After a show, Mr Haskins showed up and invited them out for a night of partying. Of course, they said yes. My friend remembered thinking “What is my life that I am drinking with the Blue Angels and Mr Belding?”
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TIL, the upcoming Nathan Fielder documentary “You Can See Everything” is rated R for graphic nudity. I don’t know what to do with that information.
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This week my dream of 6 years came true and I finally mustered the courage to ask my neighbor if he'd allow me to take down the rusted old chain link fence that surrounds his house and borders our driveway. I finally made my pitch since we are getting our driveway repaved soon and *must* remove our section of the fence to do so. He VERY cheerfully said if I'm willing to do it, that would be fine. 20 minutes later I was outside with pliers taking that sucker apart. Bolts threadlocked from 75 years of rust were no match for my pure joy and enthusiasm to get it done as a surprise for my husband. I also didn't want it to be HIS project to do when I'm the one who hated the fence and he could care less. I was already exhausted when I triumphantly dragged a rolled up pile of chain link to the curb, but then came the fence posts. Sweet Lord. I used what is best described as the "mud method" of clearing the dirt from around the post down to the concrete, setting a hose on it for a few minutes, then wiggling it around before pulling it out. It worked great and reminded me a lot of being in labor with my first baby (IYKYK). I got TWO out in about 40 minutes. I was about to give up on the third when my daughter, sitting on the grass watching me, said "Jesus, please help mama do it!" and I knew I couldn't throw in the towel quite yet. I do thank the Lord for giving me that last bit of strength but I was SPENT after that. I looked down the yard to see six more posts left to remove (and this is just one of three fence sections) and wanted to cry. Reader, it took my husband less than 20 seconds to pull out each post. When I told him how difficult it had been for me and cheered his first removal, he chuckled and seemed to be motivated to pull them even faster. The last one was pulled so quickly he was clearly just showing off. Oh and he did this after coming home from the gym. Later I went out and found our local scrap guy filling up his trailer with the posts and chain link rolls, picking them up and tossing them like they were cotton candy. Vive la différence.
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I plan on using my $5,000 tariff rebate to put in a deck for the $2,000 grill I bought with my DOGE check.
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