It’s always nice to spend time alone on the battlefield preparing for a student tour. Need more be said about Greene’s value to the cause.
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Rope Bent Press: The Key Drill for Learning the Bent Press
The rope keeps your hand from rising, teaching you to move your body underneath it as your arm straightens. You practice the movement, feel the connection between your upper arm and lat, and learn to get under the bell instead of pressing it upward.
It also helps you find YOUR bent press style: Saxon, with same-side support for your free forearm, or Ansorge, with a crossover and your armpit resting on your knee. You can fine-tune your stance and find a solid position as you squat under the weight before standing up.
The bent press rack, rope bent press, and see-saw bent press are my go-to drills for teaching the “King of All Lifts.” Together, they cover 80% of the bent press in no time.
Anyone can learn it and get STRONG. @BeStrongFirst
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Everyone is praising the armed bystander who shot the attacker in Bend, but we need to talk about the teacher. She was completely unarmed. Facing an active gunman, she didn't hesitate—she threw her phone and tackled him to the ground, wrestling him for control of the weapon. Charging at a shooter with your bare hands takes an incredible level of bravery. She physically disrupted the attack and bought the critical seconds needed to stop further tragedy. A true hero.
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These are attacks for which the Ukrainians received no warning through the normal notification and against which their interceptors have been limited by starlink.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
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The Great John Eager Howard.
Hero of the Battle of Cowpens, perhaps the best infantry leader of the Revolution.
Monument in Baltimore City, in the shadow of the Washington monument. 🇺🇸
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On April 6, 1967, 20-year-old Douglas Hegdahl, a farm kid from South Dakota, was knocked overboard from the USS Canberra in the South China Sea. By dawn, he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Unlike the captured pilots who arrived in Hanoi, Doug had little military training or intelligence experience. His captors saw a confused, inexperienced young sailor and assumed he was too simple to be dangerous. Doug made a decision that would change his life and the lives of hundreds of others: he let them believe it. He acted clumsy, confused, and almost comically incompetent. His captors mocked him, gave him humiliating nicknames, and eventually stopped watching him closely.
While the North Vietnamese underestimated him, Doug quietly gathered intelligence. He sabotaged equipment when opportunities arose, but his most important mission was collecting information about fellow American prisoners of war. He memorized their names, ranks, capture dates, military units, and hometowns. Unable to write anything down, he devised an extraordinary solution: he encoded the information into a song using the melody of Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Through constant mental rehearsal, he memorized the details of 256 American POWs, ensuring their identities and circumstances would not be forgotten. Among those who recognized the significance of his achievement were senior officers, including future Senator John McCain.
On August 5, 1969, North Vietnam released three American prisoners, including Doug, believing his release would serve their propaganda purposes. Instead, they had unknowingly freed a remarkable intelligence asset. The moment he reached friendly territory, Doug delivered the information he had painstakingly memorized. The 256 names gave the U.S. government concrete evidence of American prisoners being held in North Vietnam. Families who had endured years of uncertainty gained vital information about their loved ones, and officials had specific cases to raise with the North Vietnamese. Doug later received the Silver Star and testified before Congress about the treatment of American POWs.
Think about the price he was willing to pay. Doug endured ridicule and humiliation, sacrificing his pride so other men would not be forgotten. He understood that appearing weak could be more powerful than trying to look strong, and that being underestimated could become an extraordinary advantage. His story is a reminder that courage doesn’t always look like defiance, and intelligence doesn’t always announce itself. Sometimes, the bravest person in the room is the one everyone else dismisses. Douglas Hegdahl proved that a young man armed with patience, discipline, and a song could carry the identities of 256 men out of a prison—and help bring hope to the families waiting for them back home.
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If you're going to take or recommend testosterone therapy of any kind, you should watch this.
Hematocrit is the percentage of your blood that is red blood cells, essentially how thick and viscous your blood is. It costs a couple of dollars and it's on basically every blood panel ever run.
When you go on testosterone, your red blood cell count will very likely increase and, consequently, your hematocrit. That sounds great, and it's part of why you feel physically different and might experience an increase in energy. But it can get out of control fast.
Once you start getting north of 52 to 54 percent on hematocrit, you increase your risk of developing heart disease or suffering a serious cardiovascular event.
This is the cost of doing business with testosterone therapy. Pay attention to it.
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Casimir Pulaski had already lost one country before he ever set foot in America.
He fought the Russian Empire across Poland for five years in the Bar Confederation. Won battles he had no right to win. Became the most celebrated cavalry commander the uprising produced. Then the confederation collapsed, the Russians put a price on his head, and he fled with nothing but his skill and his reputation.
He crossed an ocean and showed up at Washington’s headquarters with a letter from Benjamin Franklin.
Washington gave him a horse and an assignment.
Within a year Pulaski had built the Continental cavalry from nothing. Wrote the regulations. Drilled men who had never been drilled. Took farmers on horses and turned them into a fighting force. He clashed with Congress, clashed with officers who outranked him and understood cavalry far less, eventually resigned the main command and petitioned to form his own independent legion.
Congress said yes.
He spent 1778 and 1779 running that legion across the southern theater, raiding and screening and keeping British forces from moving freely. He was doing the unglamorous work that made the celebrated victories possible.
On October 9, 1779, the Franco-American assault on Savannah collapsed. Allied troops cut down crossing open ground. The attack turning into a rout.
Pulaski led a cavalry charge into the breach.
He was hit by grapeshot and fell from his horse. He died two days later. He was thirty-four years old.
He had already given everything for one lost cause. He crossed an ocean and gave everything again for a cause that had a chance. He did not survive to see it win.
The men who give everything twice are the ones history remembers.
Rule 22 of 76 Rules of Command is live on Substack. Give everything for a country not yet yours. 👇🇺🇸 #AmRev
Good on this armed citizen for stepping up and preventing greater tragedy.
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In 2003, National Guard soldiers Sgt. David Borell and Sgt. 1st Class Bryan Pacholski shared a raw, unscripted moment after an Iraqi family brought three children burned by leftover explosive powder to the gate.
Doctors refused treatment because the injuries weren’t life threatening and hadn’t been caused by US forces, leaving Borell overcome as he thought of his own daughters.
Pacholski simply held him while an AP photographer captured the scene that later ran on front pages across America.
Sad to see that ECU has a classroom shortage and that the sex education classes are held in the parking garage.
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The defund the police movement in Austin had the effect of forcing taxpayers to spend a lot more for less policing.
Through early September, APD spent $38 million on overtime, or $11 million over budget.
Last year the city admitted it was taking the salary money from empty police positions ($31 million) and using it to pay overtime instead. Austin has essentially turned unfilled jobs into a funding source and just getting fewer cops on the street for the money.
APD currently has a 16% vacancy rate. In some parts of the city it's far worse. In a patrol sector in southeast Austin, a third of the patrol jobs are empty. Downtown, more than a quarter are empty (in case you didn't notice).
So the same officers keep working longer shifts to cover the gaps. That's expensive, and it's how departments burn people out and lose the people they do have.
Meanwhile, the City Council keeps finding money for other things: art classes, $7 mil in immigration legal service, random $75,000 consultant contracts that haven't been evaluated. Somehow the money never gets to hiring enough cops.
I get a kick out of this commercial. My mum was Canadian and refused to make iced tea between September and May.
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I am from White Bear, Minnesota, went to high school in near Hayward, Wisconsin. Native Americans have a very proud and distinguished history of serving in our military.
1. Highest per-capita service rates: American Indians and Alaska Natives have historically served in the U.S. Armed Forces at higher rates per capita than any other ethnic group.
2. World War II enlistment: Of roughly 350,000 Native Americans in the United States at the time, about 44,000–45,000 served during World War II (including nearly 800 women). In some tribes, as many as 70% of eligible men enlisted. This was the highest rate of voluntary enlistment of any demographic group during the war.
3. Code Talkers: Native American service members used their languages as unbreakable codes in both World Wars. The best-known were the Navajo Code Talkers (about 400 in the Marines during WWII), whose complex code based on the Navajo language was never cracked by the Japanese.
4. Vietnam War volunteers: More than 42,000 Native Americans served in the Vietnam era. Approximately 90% of them were volunteers (rather than draftees), a notably high voluntary rate compared with the general population.
5. Service before full citizenship: Native Americans served in U.S. conflicts for generations before the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted citizenship to all Native Americans. Many served in World War I while still non-citizens; Congress later rewarded Native veterans with citizenship eligibility in 1919, years before the broader 1924 act.
