Ryan Collins

Connoisseur of fine liqueurs. Curator. Extensive collection of accoutrements. Ready and available for panels on bourbon and national security. Pirate 🏴‍☠️

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

Amen

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

@Airbnb thanks Airbnb for leaving me out in the cold tonight...

Apparently there is NOTHING that can be done about your algorithm that makes me a “party risk,” a 36 y/o soldier on a PCS move...

@AirbnbHelp “helped me out” by sending me a link: https://t.co/qXPOxBuM4Q

Thanks🙄

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

@AirbnbHelp Thank you! I responded!

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

@Airbnb I’m a PCS’ing service member trying to use Airbnb but I’m getting error message saying I cannot book anything except hotels. Please help.

[Josh @LostLT1]

At what point does prepping for an inspection whose goal is to get an accurate feel for unit status negate the entire point of the inspection as it’s been dog and pony showed up so the inspected unit looks 💯

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I want to say “lol” but seriously... stop dying...

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

“Strategy,” One of the many terms bandied about in professional settings that leads to muddled thinking

Others include:
Integration
Interoperability
[Insert level of war]

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We could use a little more style...

[fill your boots @MilitaryBanter]

Is this the best dressed man in nato?

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Great trolling...

[Tania.P.Donovan @Tania_P_Donovan]

If you’ve been to CGSC, what’s been most important to you in selecting a follow-on assignment? @USArmy @ArmyWarCollege @USACGSC @TradocDCG @TRADOC @FieldGradeLead @MeganJantos @AgileLDR Shares welcome!

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@Tania_P_Donovan @AgileLDR @USArmy @ArmyWarCollege @USACGSC @TradocDCG @TRADOC @FieldGradeLead @MeganJantos Hey Tania! I would say #2 and #3. Location might disqualify under certain circumstances, but otherwise is not much of a factor. Frankly, I don’t care about unit legacy or history. I’m more concerned about the present and future.

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Awesome graphic! I’ve been explaining this for years with the DIKW Pyramid, but this is better

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@Eric_M_Murphy @KaurinShanks “I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace....Let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.”

This Always stuck with me. Not well-delivered, but well-written.

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Need an extra helping of this!

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

[Josh Powers @PowersLead]

For all my fellow over thinkers out there

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@ogiovetti Now I’m picturing a case of Caymus from Wagner vineyards....

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@TheWWImuseum @NKFinney Pillars of the Earth.
Hopefully I can make it to see one of the author’s inspirations, Salisbury Cathedral.

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@AgileLDR Dang that looks good. Looks like a cezve.

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

@yeuxde_musidora Love alaska and the scarlet pimpernel! The one with Jane Seymour and Ian McKellen.

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Wow. Couldn’t have said this better...

[Ryan Collins @RECollins]

Agreed. What is it about bureaucracy that twists our thinking? This wasn’t done out of malice, so WTF?!