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IraqNoPhobia | 11B - OIF || I joined for the war, Stayed for the friends. || Roll that beautiful bean footage. |

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@norarm_tactical @igorsushko

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@srsattern Down here in Choctaw country brother. Would love to get a patch. Was ironically in Choctaw county AL not too long ago and thought its time for me to snag a patch. I also help locals get gear and train so I’d love to get out to an event you host at some point in the future.

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@IfindRetards He's legit retarded.

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@HavocTwoOne About time, ready for the MODCAN to launch.

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@AmyMcGrathKY @IfindRetards found another one

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@handleitgrips Tag

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@GerryConnolly cry harder bitch

[War Doll @thewardoll]

⚡️RACE WAR MEGA THREAD⚡️

Stranded almost 2,000 miles from home in the disastrous Juan de Valdivia shipwreck in the shallows of Las Víboras, twenty men managed to cling desperately to a life boat and survive drowning.

Of the twenty men, only eight survived the arduous trip; being dragged by the currents of the northern Caribbean sea to the coast of Yucatán.

Of those eight who reached the coast, all but two, Jerónimo de Aguilar and Gonzalo Guerrero, were violently sacrificed and cannibalized in religious rituals by the Mayans.

The two men fled inland where they found safety in the welcoming arms of a peaceful tribe, who they lived among for eight long years.

It was after almost a decade in a foreign land that, upon hearing of Hernan Cortes arrival, the priest Jerónimo paddled out to meet the newly landed conquistadors on the coast of Cozumel.

Despite approaching them with the appearance of a Mayan, now dark with tanned skin, long hair and wearing loin cloths, he cried out from the boat to the soldiers with four simple words in broken Spanish, which made the cautious Spaniards immediately lower their weapons and welcome their brother with many tears and warm embraces.

Those four simple words, to be fully understood, must be contrasted with the story of the other fellow survivor, Gonzalo Guerrero, who himself became fully assimilated into the rival culture.

While Gonzalo married a Mayan woman who bore him three children, Jerónimo remained faithful to his priestly vows and refused the young attractive women whom the chief presented him with.

While Gonzalo covered his body with tribal tattoos, pierced his ears and wore a hunk of jade in his lower lip, Jerónimo always held out hope of rescue; having kept his mind sharp by counting the days since he landed on the shores of this foreign land.

Under the torn rags of his outer cloak, Jerónimo kept an old tattered prayer book thay had survived the shipwreck so many years ago.

Gonzalo on the other hand, refused to even set out with Jerónimo to investigate the claim that conquistadors had landed, and had no interest in meeting with the men of his former homeland or of ever returning there.

And so Jerónimo set off in a small boat, prayer book clutched tightly to his chest, to find his fellow countrymen.

That morning, on the shores of Cozumel he caught sight of massive Brigantines that had been anchored. His heart stirred within him, and what was once a distant memory of rescue was now finally within reach.

He paddled out within earshot of the men unloading the giant ships.

He could see they were clad in armor that shimmered in the light of the rising sun, but he couldn't make out their features.

So he cried out those 4 famous words which no other words could so succinctly define who he was, who he was seeking to find, and the driving force which supercedes all other forces that define a man.

He could have cried out that he was a fellow Spaniard, but so was his compatriot Gonzalo. Yet Gonzalo became so fully immersed in the Mayan culture that he would later die by Spanish swords while fighting alongside Mayan warriors.

Clearly there is a driving force spurring Jerónimo on that superceded ethnicity or even culture.

And so after the immense hardships of living eight years in a foreign land, and resisting all attempts at assimilation into a foreign culture and ethinic group, Jerónimo cried out in disjointed Spanish from years of disuse:

"Brothers, are you Christian?"

Beyond the geography of being European, and even beyond the culture of the Spaniards at the time, the cry revealed a deep seated morality, bound within the larger framework of Christianity that gives all those other things their foundation, their origin, and is the very source from which those ideals are derived.

But you see, this story isn't really about Jerónimo.

It's about the fate of our Western society as a whole.

(Cont'd below)

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@thewardoll Empire of the summer moon is also a good add for reading as well. Lots of good books in your prior lists. I see I have a lot to catch up on.

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@GBNT1952 11B, OIF/US Army. Love your posts. your posts are on point.

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@smcroasters

[Thomas Roccia 🤘 @fr0gger_]

New LOL project, LOLAD a collection of Active Directory techniques! 👇

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@LouisvilleGun Own these, used these. for those who don't know you can't go wrong with the cost of this unit for what it can provide. I love my H2GO Global. best $114.00 you can spend. @AquaResearchInc is the place to snag one. also this: https://t.co/oJi8C6iAO6

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@appathfinders 220GR should cycle fine (.300BLK) in the MCX, I'm running the MCX Spear LT 9" barrel. but I'm curious to hear about this 6 ARC. I've been eyeballing a build for a while.

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@thewardoll I think mine arrive soon. Excited to finally snag some of this. As always the insurgency flag remains flying.

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@appathfinders

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@appathfinders off to 1k we go.

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@Will_Tanner_1 @threadreaderapp unroll

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@batsheIter @DolioJ @amazon @ExUmbrisDesigns makes one too in conjunction with Tactical Wisdom.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

I have no idea who made this Paul Harrell mash up but it's excellent 🤌🏽

#PaulHarrell