Dick Scuttlebutt

#Defense #NatSec jokes, @USArmy EOD. OIF/OEF/OND/OIR vet. @DuffelBlog writer. You know who I am. BUY MY BOOK:

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@BridgetPhetasy Conan O'Brien tells this story about meeting the Pope along with Colbert, one of those Catholics who is SO Catholic he's turned into a lefty. He was SO excited to meet the Pope and tried to engage him in conversation...and the Pope literally physically shoved him away. Hilarious.

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"or the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17"
WRONG. wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. It was not a "crash," it was a shootdown, @joshuarothman, and @bellingcat and the JIT proved it like 10 years ago. YOU KNOW THIS.

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@BradRTorgersen And God help you if you point out that all this has led to us winning precisely ZERO wars in the last, I don't know, 80 years? I saw guys go from an A+ average to a middle B avg just because they pointed that out. The instructors don't like hearing they're failures.

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@BradRTorgersen Staff College also stopped primarily studying actual battles that happened in the past and started focusing on: "tactics" which are instructor-graded, not objective, wargame iterations; and "ethics" which is also graded by the instructors and is mostly topical garbage.

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Not only a good dad, but an EOD Tech?

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Who is trying to kill Darkflame? Perhaps more importantly: HOW?! The superhero's sidekick races to find the assassin, but things might be more complicated than he realizes.
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Coming very soon, a standalone story about the price of service. Stay tuned!

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You can enjoy these stories even if you aren't a pogue! They're all great!

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@Doctrine_Man Like the shadow RIF that has been happening the last few yrs, the CSP program has been effectively shadowbanned in some commands as well. While I'm not happy it's occurring, I'm at least gratified to see a service actually admit what it has been doing.

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Life is too short to buy subpar socks.

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@EODHappyCaptain This was one of the main reasons I didn't want the new uniforms (other than it's just Winning Army Cosplay). If you're going to wear it you need to take care of it, and most younger guys don't know how and don't want to. Don't wear leather if you're not going to polish it.

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You're going to be okay.

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@kbiegel I write what my sons will enjoy, and having them tell me they loved one of my stories is worth way more to me than the money I have made. Would I like for my writing to make so much that I can build a mansion out of smaller mansions? Sure, but that's incidental for me.

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@callsigncowgirl Insanely, wildly wrong. It's going to tank your career, unless you've got a rabbi with wasta. But it doesn't matter: get help. The damage to your career that it causes it worth it for the benefit to you, your family, and your future.

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@EODHappyCaptain You guys gotta stop doing this. I know it comes from optimism, not dishonesty, but we've all been told to take a guy's clearance or take him off the ARMAG access roster because he got help.

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@EODHappyCaptain I thought the rarest badge was the McMurdo overwinter badge?

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@EODHappyCaptain If branch ever asks you the one place you do NOT want for your next PCS, do NOT tell him the truth.

When interviewing for jobs, say you'll curtail your current assignment to report early. It might put you over the top.

And play politics. This is not a meritocracy.

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Some of yall want to be fat slob retired veterans until it's time to do fat slob retired veteran shit

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