Chuck Tucker

Retired Soldier. Army Civilian. Volunteer Firefighter.

[Mat Best @MatBest11x]

Mat Best - Folded Flag (Official Music Video)

This song was written for the men and women who stepped into the fire for this country and never made it home, and for the families, friends, and brothers left carrying their memory forward.

Memorial Day isn’t just a long weekend. Behind every folded flag is a name, a story, and a sacrifice that built the freedom we live in every day.

This song proudly supports the Major Brent Taylor Foundation and the Gold Star families it supports.

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

One of the toughest cases I ever had as a psychologist was a Navy corpsman who deployed to Helmand in 2010 for Operation Moshtarak, also known as the Battle of Marja.

His trauma was not rooted in what he saw. It was rooted in what he believed he failed to do. He carried the burden of not being able to save the Marines in his charge.

One case in particular haunted him. Nearly literally. One of the Marines he could not save became a constant presence in his life. He would see him as a ghost who stood in the corner of rooms watching. Not in anger. Not in judgment. But as a kind of spectral standard. A measure of the man the corpsman believed he should have been that day, and the man he still tried to become every single day.

To be clear, only God Himself could have saved that Marine. The wounds were catastrophic and the outcome was inevitable. But none of that mattered to him. What he remembered was looking into his brother’s eyes, hearing the words, “help me, doc,” and then watching the life slip away in his hands.

He would worried that his Marine died hating him, believing he had failed.

One day, after a particularly hard session, he looked me square in the eyes and said, “but I’d do it all again to be by their side.”

He meant it with every fiber of his being. He would willingly carry the pain, the memories, the doubt, and the weight of that moment again and again if it meant he might have the chance to serve alongside his Marines one more time.

I never told him but in 2010, we were both in Afghanistan at the same time. Back then I led an aerial delivery detachment that helped resupply many of the units in the fight...I resupplied his unit.

There was something sacred in that realization.

If you have never lived it, it is hard to explain the depths of any of this. But those who have understand.

[Chuck Tucker @ctucker28]

@CJ19158695 @DarrinKnowles1 Not accurate. His Individual Deceased Personnel File(IDPF) and the unit morning reports will still record what happened. Neither was affected by the fire.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Too few Americans understand that the whole time we were fighting in Afghanistan, and Iraq, and in the Horn of Africa, that we were actually fighting Iran all along.

Not sure why this is a mystery to so many Americans.

Finally, instead of fighting the claws of the lion, we are chopping off its head.

[Secretary of the Army @SecArmy]

This holiday season, some Soldiers are carrying more than we know.
From now through 15 January, leaders will check in on every Soldier, every day.
Call, text, or visit—just pick up and reach out.
If you need help now, dial 988 and press 1.

[Chuck Tucker @ctucker28]

TI’m not sure u in

[Duffel Blog @DuffelBlog]

NEW: Suspicious OPM email ignored by entire government thanks to cyber awareness training https://t.co/igc4vWmMHF

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

What’s in your control:

1. what you do
2. what you say
3. what you think

What isn’t:

1. what other people do
2. what other people say
3. what other people think

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

9 Stoic rules for a better life:

1. Wake up early
2. Focus on effort, not results
3. Read every day
4. Strict with yourself, forgiving of others
5. Seek out challenges
6. Stay a student
7. Cut toxic people out of your life
8. Think about death
9. Focus on what you can control

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

The choice is always yours.

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

Everything that happens to us, good or bad, is an opportunity. An opportunity to practice kindness, an opportunity to practice patience, an opportunity to practice resilience. Every obstacle and setback can improve us if we focus on using it rather than letting it overtake us.

[Chuck Tucker @ctucker28]

@EODHappyCaptain @TheIOGuy @Chuck_Ritter92 Before circa 2001, I always heard it as Pogue which apparently dates back to WW2 or before.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

"Just push the 'Update All Windows Devices' button, Akimov! How hard can it be?"

[Yowilly @nesafety343]

RIP Granite Mountain Hotshots. Brothers never forgotten. June 30, 2013

[Chuck Tucker @ctucker28]

@Doctrine_Man Seats? There were seats in there?