El Jefe MI

To improve is to change, so, to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill #DefeatALS
#Lions #Tigers #RedWings #Spartans #ALSAssociation

[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.

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

Hey @PAStatePolice what is going on on the Turnpike at the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel westbound??? Been stopped by a trooper for 15 minutes now. ???

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

Currently stopped outside the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel on the @PATurnpikeAlert Anyone know why????

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

Man, this @Lions game is a challenge. Haven't looked in-sync much at all this year. More defensive breakdowns in the first half than in any game this year. Offense has no identity. Need to pound the rock and get the O-line its swagger back. #onepride

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

LFG @tigers!!! Tied it up, finish it off! #MLB

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

The Tigers take Game 1 in Cleveland! 🐅

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

When you silence voices, you silence ideas. We're blessed to have the right to gather and listen to someone speaking passionately at the top of their voice a position that you may spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. That is true freedom. No one wins when either voice falls silent.

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

When you silence voices, you silence ideas. We're blessed to have the right to gather and listen to someone speaking passionately at the top of their voice a position that you may spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. That is true freedom. No one wins when either voice falls silent. #CharlieKirk

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

Today is grey and rainy here, very different from the beautiful day 24 years ago that changed America. #NeverForget911 and the heroes of that day, and the years that have followed. God Bless America and all she stands for.

[No Moore @NoMooreMD]

The @mddems are terrified of @GovLarryHogan — clearly. BUT ANSWER THIS: If @GovWesMoore’s own staff is running far away from him, why shouldn’t Marylanders do the same? 🤔

[No Moore @NoMooreMD]

.@GovWesMoore’s Gaslight Tour continues… He rammed through the largest tax and fee hike in state history — $1.67 BILLION — torched a surplus, and now claims he “cut taxes.” 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗻.

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

#IronMountainRocks

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

@SteveMariuuccci It would allow me to start my business! Be a game changer in life.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." Please Share

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

@emmnastics Me

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

@JohnFetterman Thank you Senator!

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

These are "Tree Ears" and are found all over. Trees can hear everything, and they maintain secrets eternally. We could learn a lot from trees. Listen more, hold things close to the heart, keep secrets, and enjoy nature. #lifelesson #love

[El Jefe MI @jbrainard]

Always be 100% honest with me, even if it hurts. If I know where I stand, I know where to step next and move forward. #life #truth #honesty #leadership

[Garrett Armbrust @4thandsaturday]

Coastal Carolina was robbed of a top 8 national seed.

Their RPI is 3.

They sold out the palace at the regional.

They have a 23 game win streak.

The Chants are the hottest team in America right now. Nobody should be surprised if they take it all.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Let me get this right.

Senator Van Hollen will fly to another country to console a human trafficker and vow to move mountains to bring him back to America.

But 50 White Christians are so bad that he does a whole seminar about it the day it’s announced.

Make it make sense.