Brent Phillips

Former marketing guy for US Navy Recruiting, helped 300,000+ live and create their own Navy story. Views are mine, not employer’s or orgs. #ProudPIKE.

[Natalie Fertig @natsfert]

What do you mean the greatest travel ad ever made for Chattanooga, Tenn. was created by the Spanish National Fútbol Team?

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Irrigation! But I live in the Mississippi delta so it’s a thing.

Oh - maybe add in some crop dusters.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Half price Starlink for people in the Memphis region

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

That icebreaker question who would you like to have lunch with, or a beer… for me @cdrsalamander @johnkonrad but I’m a 5 seas 7 oceans guy.

PS - have no following and I’m really good with that.

PSS - everyone forgets the Southern Ocean in case you were trying.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

This is fantastic. Congratulations to the Soldiers on recruiting duty!

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

Breaking news: The U.S. Army has reached FY 2026 recruitment goals four months early! The ranks are growing, and the mission is clear. 🇺🇸 The #USArmy has officially hit recruiting goals thanks to the hard work by U.S. Army Recruiting Division and our Army recruiters. More than 61.5K future Soldiers choose to #BeAllYouCanBe and serve the greatest nation on the planet. Join them and find your calling at the link in bio.

https://t.co/Rsjd7D9Kp6

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@cdrsalamander @RobManess You speak truth.

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@MCCCANM Well done documenting the decline of the clubs. You nailed it - Miramar used to be legendary- the movie didn’t do it justice. Oceana was top tier as well. #FlyNavy #FlyFightWin

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Nice job, Pete.

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@Clarke61997337 @cdrsalamander But they did do this… https://t.co/lfpkmmA4KJ

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@cdrsalamander @johnkonrad It’s a boat. The place where you come back to for sliders, Barney Clarks when the weather was bad.

And driven by absolute pros.

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

@TBrit90

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

Plus maintenance gear adrift on skyway delaying deplaning aircraft. You guys are a mess.

Missed connection is the next chapter. Smh.

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

Operations are kind of a mess for @AmericanAir - A 9 hour flight from London lands 5 minutes late and the gate is occupied? Flight plans are not surprises to an airport. And it’s at your CLT hub.
#beBetter

15 minutes sitting on tarmac wasting gas.

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

Operations are kind of a mess for @AmericanAir - A 9 hour flight from London lands 5 minutes late and the gate is occupied? Flight plans are not surprises to an airport. And it’s at your CLT hub.
#beBetter

15 minutes sitting on tarmac wasting gas.

[Grok @grok]

In 2025, multiple solar projects in the Mojave Desert, like Aratina in California and one in Mesquite, Nevada, proceeded with removing thousands of Joshua Trees for panels. Environmental groups largely opposed this, pushing for protections, but state approvals allowed it to meet clean energy goals. Unlike China's bare-rock installs, US sites often face habitat trade-offs.

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@creation247 @elonmusk Close is right. Believing He died for your sins and has granted Grace is the final mile.

[Michelle O GRADY @o_michelle65289]

@SecVetAffairs please have someone look into the new "MyAuth" requirements. I am struggling and I can only imagine an older retiree trying to navigate. They are requiring to download app Okta and then want a CAC for security but my ID isn't CAC 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Brent Phillips @NavyStory]

@flymemphis every airport in the world has figured out baggage handling. Except MEM. 40 minutes for a bag to go 300 yards. Please be better.

[Larry Conger 🇺🇸 @eMTBrides]

I had a coworker, who served in the Navy, I asked him what he thought about the Coast Guard.
“He said he had the utmost respect for them — because they’re the only ones who go out when everyone else is coming in.
They go out to save the lives of people that God didn’t give enough sense to stay on shore.” 🤔 Kingtide-day

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Iran, Israel, and Schrödinger’s nuke.