Jay Gunn

Esse quam videri

[Nate Bargatze @natebargatze]

Nobody knows

[Tara LaRosa @TaraLaRosa]

Greatest new song to come out of the World Cup! ⚽️❤️🇺🇸 Welcome To The Land Of The Free!🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[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.

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

@Sachinettiyil He’s a bro! @Shanemgillis

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

Just witnessed the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Breathtaking.

As a bonus, I was standing next to either @BostonRob or his doppelgänger.

Good times!

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

@NickDiFabio1 AI

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

@AndrewBolis GPT

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

@Maxwell_Coder YouTube

[Elwë Singollo 🌻🧝🏻‍♀️ @Strangeland_Elf]

Halftime show that is Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan dressed like Pippin and Merry and singing hobbit songs

[Jesse Case @jessecase]

"she could tighten up that triple-axel" I mumble to the television, cracking open my second sleeve of Oreos.

[Jon 🔬 @JonnyMicro]

Elon, this is a chance for you to cement your legacy forever

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

Seems like a good area for a @Tesla dealership!

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

@TheOnlyRobmdk Hell yeah!

[Jay Gunn @LightBurdens]

@courtneyknill Herbed butter trio to go with the rolls and an autumny punch!

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on just about everything. But, we shared an opposition to "gender identity" and the abolition of sex.

He once had me on his show to discuss it. He was polite, outgoing, and funny.

During the interview, I said something about the "TQIA." He exclaimed, "I don't know what any of that means!" I said, "Don't worry, nobody does."

He and his entire audience laughed.

I am not a Republican, and I am certainly not MAGA. But I am grieving his death in part because he was a human being, in part because he leaves behind a wife and two children, and in part because of what this says about American society.

I will not take any part in any political violence, and I will stand with anyone, wherever they stand on the political spectrum, who will denounce it.

I hope America can recover from this.

#RIP

EDIT: I will block anyone who comes on here to glorify violence.

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Rampage Jackson reacts to news of Charlie Kirk’s death after the shooting at Utah Valley University

“He died for having an opinion… this is sad.” 😔

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

This is a tragic, horrific day. For those of us who work in this space, we shouldn’t have to worry about our safety, simply because we share our opinions. Charlie Kirk spent his career inviting and engaging in civil DEBATE, sitting at a table on college campuses and talking with anyone who approached. You might not have liked what he said, but the answer to speech you don’t like has to be more speech, and never violence. This is lunacy. So incredibly heartbroken for his wife and children. 💔

[mermaidmusin 🧜‍♀️ PHOEBE IS BACK 🗣️ @mermaidmusin]

is this how citizens in district 12 felt about peeta and katniss at the end of mockingjay

[NASA @NASA]

We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran.

Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. https://t.co/AjT8qmxsZI