RiverDawg_Dad24

Retired

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth.

I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy?

Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon.

He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in.

I laughed. I feel a little bad about that.

Then I explained to him what “Devil Doc” means. The Marine Corps doesn’t have medics. They use Navy Corpsmen.

I told him: when you get out to the fleet, find a Marine sergeant with a couple of Purple Hearts and tell him Devil Docs “aren’t real Marines.”

Be prepared to duck.

Marines are violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy Corpsmen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them in combat qualify. Full stop.

My dad was Air Force. Not even Navy. I remember going to VFW halls with him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service, he’d say Air Force, and the room would chuckle a little. Then they’d find out he was a medic, and the air in the room changed. Something close to reverence.

Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used to deflect it:

“I didn’t do much. Save your praise for my cousin the PJ.”

That always broke the ice.

PJs are the Air Force special operators who go into hell to pull downed pilots out.

They will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman.

The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties to rescue one air force jet jockey?

What the padre is about to learn is that the military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with rank, and nothing to do with the service stitched on your chest.

Have you deployed?

Have you seen combat?

In every firefight there are men who move toward the guns and men who hang back. And when the guy at the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding, with rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word he screams into the radio.

“Medic.”

Here is the catch, and it is the whole reason America fights the way America fights.

That Marine is willing to push forward into fire BECAUSE he knows the Corpsman is coming. He knows the medevac birds will land in the hot LZ.

He knows the Devil Doc will drag him out by his plate carrier if it comes to that.

And, if the medic can’t help, if he has what Dad called “injuries incompatible with life,” he knows that chaplain will crawl on his belly to administer last rights and deliver him to heaven.

The F-15 pilot punching out over enemy territory knows the same thing. He knows the PJs will move heaven and earth to reach him, and turn whatever is shooting at him into a smoking crater of hell on earth on the way in.

This is the quiet math underneath American violence.

Our warriors are the fiercest on earth not because they are more aggressive, not just because they are better trained, or better equipped, though they are all of those things. They are the fiercest because they know, in their bones, that when they key the mic and call for help, help is coming in hot.

Take that away, and you don’t have the U.S. military anymore. You have a security force.

[Barstool High Point @BarstoolHPU]

Gotta say- Arkansas is an awesome fanbase. Nothing but respect, something you don’t see much of nowadays. Woo Pig Sooie, rooting for them going forward.

[RiverDawg_Dad24 @DoyleWatkins]

Yesterday was my 55th birthday. And my son gave me the absolute BEST present. @MTyrell2025

[RiverDawg_Dad24 @DoyleWatkins]

Let’s go!! Great job Talan!!!

[Alicia Case @Case_mom_4]

So glad I got to be there for opening weekend! Go Raiders!

[ASUMH Baseball @ASUMHBSBL]

Our inaugural athlete of the week brought to you by Servpro of Mountain Home is Ty Watkins!

Ty had a big weekend at the place for TrailBlazer Baseball as they opened their season in Texas last week!

Congrats Ty!

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

Good morning. It's baseball season.

[RiverDawg_Dad24 @DoyleWatkins]

AB’s 5 and 6

[RiverDawg_Dad24 @DoyleWatkins]

First college game ever. 1st at bat an rbi triple. Followed by 3 singles. Second game he went 1/2 going 5/5 in his first 5 AB’s as a college athlete. Beyond proud. @MTyrell2025 @ASUMHBSBL @ASUMountainHome

[RiverDawg_Dad24 @DoyleWatkins]

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[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

For no reason at all Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly shot-for-shot recreated David Bowie and Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy" duet 😂 wait for the end

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The Hall of Fame Era Committee meets this Sunday, December 7th. Dale Murphy needs 12 of 16 votes. You never know who will see this and their vote may be the one that puts Murph over the top. Please retweet if you love Murph and believe he deserves to be honored in Cooperstown.

[ASUMH Baseball @ASUMHBSBL]

Who’s ready for some TrailBlazer Baseball this spring?!

Check out our 2026 Schedule Poster!

Interested in hanging a schedule poster in your business? Email [email protected]

[Kevin Bohannon @KBoBaseballGuru]

The next big time lefty to sign with the Hogs hails from RussVegas!!

Big fan of Newberry and think if he makes it to campus he can contribute as a freshman!!

[Jaco @DoaJacobellis]

パヘズの押し出しに吹っ飛ぶキケ #Dodgers #LetsGoDodgers #Postseason #WorldSeries

[JD Vance @JDVance]

The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you.

[RiverDawg_Dad24 @DoyleWatkins]

@RichieMartin4

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Sources: Little Rock is leaving the OVC and will join the United Athletic Conference on July 1, 2026.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

If you watch anything from today's Charlie Kirk memorial service, let it be these words from @MrsErikaKirk.

This is the Gospel in real life. Just... wow.

[Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick]

My dear American friends,

We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address.

In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard:
- Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith
- Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home
- Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers
- Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family
- Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked
- Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost
- Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent
- More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count
- And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross.

All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world.

You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world.

Never stop fighting for it.

[Russell Hendrix @BigA_501]

Arkansas football program is like that big booty toxic chick that you know is no good for you, but her ass is so big and it’s got you in a chokehold! But I’m freeing myself!🤣🤣🤣