Bill Miller

Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Son, Uncle and buddy… aaaaaand USA/USAF vet, PMC, FI and professional chicken wrangler.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

Actually met one of the OG Wounded Warrior founders, and that dude had “wounded “ down pat! Been blown up and shot more times than I’ve watched Lonesome Dove.

Anyhow, he said they made the mistake of bringing in a pro to help with marketing. These are door kickers with good hearts, and why not rely on an SME? In short order that marketing pro had taken over and it took a couple of years to boot him.

I track the open source stuff pretty close; WW is back in the veteran help business again.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@GIdunno2 @EODHappyCaptain I left the 823d in 93 to go up on main; special duty crewing AC-130’s.

819th was my game, three tours.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@GIdunno2 @EODHappyCaptain In the field we wore the patrol cap or boony; nobody wears a red hat in a hostile environment. In garrison or on a deployed base, the beret would be as serviceable as the cap is.

Four RH tours; I knows The Horse!

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

Traditional we wear a red ball cap, in fact the only unit cap for a bit when we went to uniform headgear across the USAF.

Then in ‘02 Airborne RED HORSE (ARH) became a thing for a while. Then you had Airborne (Army and Naval in some cases) Air Assault and Pathfinder folks with no delineation.

Yes, I’m biased. I retired out of an ARH flight. All of my guys are retired now but one, and he hits his 30 I think this year.

But it would have been cool!

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@Ray5598113336 @kumacatfish @lporiginalg I think we’re on the same page.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

That is the market talking baby.

Build a better mousetrap…

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is pretty cool

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@Jalter_Says @lporiginalg Seems that 50’s culture thing maybe had some merit to it.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@Ray5598113336 @kumacatfish @lporiginalg Methinks I detect a wee pinch of sarcasm.

Well done!

[Brenda Ward America First @WardBrend50872]

@AtRealBen Without Trump we'd be up a creek without a boat or paddle. We must make Nov too big to rig.

[Neo @PepecoinMaxxer]

@AtRealBen A system is built to do what it does.

Nothing more, nothing less!

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@JeffBrownlow @agave_redux Harder than woodpecker lips, or Superman’s kneecap!

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@El_Notso @wayofftheres @7thForces Did some contracting with a recently retired drone pilot… you have no idea, according to him, how close you are.

[Gene @Goatfather111]

Japan is a collectivist society which values strong consideration for the group and has great faith in the commitment of government to protect them.

America is an individualistic society. While we have a sense of civic duty, we have a strong reliance on individual responsibility and freedom. We have little to no faith in governments ability to accomplish anything efficiently or competently and thus hold a strong distrust in it. We refuse to abdecate our responsibility and freedom of self defense to our government.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

America, and Americans, are born of a fiercely independent nature. Most of the colonists were getting away from the rule of monarchs and clergy. They were the most adventurous, capable and downright ornery men and women Europe had to offer. Tens of generations later, we see the result of the loss of that genetic strength in Europe.

The firearm, in the early days of this nation, was the essential tool, the great equalizer. It allowed the pioneer families to set out, alone or in groups, to tame a new frontier. Later, after fighting for and winning our independence, our founders recognized that those same firearms denoted equality of capabilities between the “government” and the people.

So today, we have hunting culture, “vet bro” culture, shooting sports enthusiasts and individuals who are perfectly capable of protecting themselves, their families and their possessions. In some places it’s a lot more accepted than others, but that’s internal laundry.

I am a gun guy. I grew up with a loaded shotgun leaning against the back door, to keep the predators away from the farring house (for baby pigs). I rarely hunt myself now, but I love taking my grandchildren out and watching them grow to love the woods as much as I do.

I also carried a firearm professionally for over 40 years of my life in various roles. I still train regularly, because I am responsible for the safety of my family, and as much respect as I have for law enforcement, I’m better at it than they are. As a federal LEO I was given 240 rounds annually; 40 practice and 40 qualifying rounds, three times a year. And I’m sure that cop with a young family knows where his priorities lie, and I do not blame him.

For a large portion of the US population, guns are just a thing that’s there, a tool, but both a fun and dreadful, tool if used improperly. For other parts, they are thought less of on the whole.

Long read, I got carried away.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@jeholmes5 @DerrickEvans4WV I worked for DHS at the time, asked my Firearms Instructor when we could expect to shoot more than 40 rounds three times a year…

Yeah, we never saw any of it.

That, and many other things, inspired my resignation soon after.

[MattyIce @MattyIce____]

Serve your country. Build something. Sacrifice. Die for it. Then be told your descendants have no special claim to your story, no right to take pride in your sacrifice.

Once you convince a people that inheritance linage, and prosperity mean nothing you’ve weakened one of the oldest reasons men sacrifice for a future they will never see.

This is fertile ground for any system that wants loyalty transfered from family and inheritance to the state.

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@jennyjupite @jaredkushner Diplomats are not elected.

They are appointed (Ambassadors) or civil service State Department employees.

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

If socialism worked as advertised, people wouldn’t have to keep explaining why every failure wasn’t “real socialism.”

[Bill Miller @BillMiller28109]

@RogueOle @army1325air SO from 92-97.

Good times!