Brian E. Wish

Scholar/Cop/Engineer/Officer/Teacher/Writer/Father/Corvette Owner/Avatar of Inquisitiveness

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

I like "lust for relevance." It's hard when you retire. You've been successful. You feel like you have so much to say and give. So you claw and scratch to be heard. Maybe you post obsessively on X or LinkedIn to try to become a mil influencer. Maybe you get on Fox, MSNBC, whatever. Maybe you hit the conference circuit. Maybe you become a leadership consultant. Maybe you start a podcast. None of us is immune.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

Hey, @CivGame , now that you’ve fixed the structure, how about slimming Civ 7 down so that it doesn’t take 15 minutes to load a save? Or so that turns don’t take forever in the modern age? So that the large maps are actually playable?

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@ToddZywicki @derektmuller Gen X may still get their turn…Rubio, DeSantis, etc.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

Yes, but…in most cities the people generating the wealth in the urban core actually live in the suburbs, or in affluent non-core neighborhoods of the central city.

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

The urban core generates almost all of a typical U.S. city's tax revenue but most of it goes to fund roads, sewer lines, power lines et al in suburbs.

If suburbs paid for themselves, rather than leaching off the city, I think a lot more people would be live and let live on this.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

That’s not how it works. The $500k is Serviceman’s Group Life Insurance (SGLI), which will pay regardless of ILOD or non-ILOD. The $100k death gratuity will also likely pay, though might not. The only benefits like;y to be affected would be for surviving dependents, of which he doesn’t appear to have any. In fact, I would guess that the SGLI has already paid out.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@BDHerzinger Ok, largely true, but…

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

I disagree. Sure, there are boxes to check. Do your PME. Get a Masters degree. Command. Staff. Bonus points for deployments. Do these things, do your jobs well, and you can probably make O-6.

Make sure every eval bullet is perfect, get the “right” in-residence PME, spend your live being aligned, politic for the hi-vis political jobs…odds are you will still retire as an O-6.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Actually, this isn’t true for the U.S. military.

“Leadership” is a matter of:

>meeting career benchmarks
>checking KD boxes
>chasing broadening assignments
>avoiding risk at all costs
>never making waves
>saying the right things at the right time
>protecting your rater’s profile
>managing perception over performance
>optimizing OER narratives
>staying aligned with prevailing narratives
>prioritizing compliance over competence
>building a “safe” file, not a lethal formation

I know I know. It’s complicated.

Seems retarded right? Good. Because it is.

It’ll stay this way until The Great Turnover occurs.

Don’t worry, it’s inevitable. Then maybe we can dumb this thing back down to Tom Landry’s definition again.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

Joe’s lemonade stand
Joe buys lemons and produces lemonade following Lily’s model.
Gregor, one of joes customer’s, pays one coin, drinks his lemonade, but demands a refill at no extra cost.
Joe won’t give him a second glass because that’s not what they contracted for.
Gregor sues Joe in court for denial of coverage.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@iopq @cremieuxrecueil Rich is relative. If you start counting around the abolition of serfdom, I think the overall pattern holds well.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

The fact that she’s a woman doesn’t matter. Combat experience doesn’t matter. All that matters is whether this was a good decision. It likely wasn’t.

You shouldn’t bar a retiree from base forever for simply violating rules. The question is not what can he be punished with, but what’s appropriate. Is he an ongoing threat? Doesn’t sound like it, so make a human decision.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@RobGreen1010 Heavy handed and overkill, especially denying access to medical and dental facilities.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

Your freedom of speech and worship, your rule of law, your freedom to sip lattes and bitch about foreign wars, is only secured by one thing: naked force and the willingness to use it in defense of those values.

"A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stwert Mill

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

Odd. I just spent two weeks traveling around Germany, and everyone seemed very friendly.

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Just boarded Budapest flight, fell into talk w/fellow middle aged US conservative. He headed in for Danube cruise. He sd “I love Trump, but…” then expressed deep disgust w/Iran war and president’s conduct of it. I told him to prepare for strong anti-U.S. feelings in Europe.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@MikeyDiMercurio @USAA I left @USAA when they randomly raised my home insurance 29%, got it 1K lower than USAA’s original price.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@elonmusk I’m a fan, but on a routine day it’s more like dozens than millions. Looking forward to airport and strip options.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

Not really how that works. 50 years ago, LEOs mostly carried revolvers, which were rarely/never built with manual safeties. Most LEO automatics today have a double action trigger pull, simulating a revolver. Mechanical safeties mostly make sense for single action only weapons where they might be carried with the hammer already cocked, like an M1911.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

If you read nothing else today about the Iran war, read this:

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@utenafan338 @flex_nihilo If you travel 3 weeks a month for your job, tracking points is your only hobby.

[Brian E. Wish @BrianEWish]

@ShamashAran Here’s an example…sleep apnea starts you at 50%. If you don’t have it at 18-25 when you join, but have it when you retire in your 40’s, you’re already half disabled.