Jerry Rudisin

Serial tech startup CEO (Eternite Materials; Backdrop Health; Flybits; Schooner Info Tech; Agitar; NightFire), VP Mktg Rational Software, developer, UCLA, MIT.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Wow. That’s duty, honor, and leadership.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On a dark night in 1943, a wounded submarine captain, unable to climb down off his own bridge, gave a two word order that killed him and saved all 80 of his men. The order was "Take her down," and it became one of the most sacred phrases in the United States Navy.

His name was Commander Howard Gilmore, and here is the moment. On the night of February 6, in the southwest Pacific, Gilmore had his submarine, the USS Growler, running on the surface in the darkness, stalking a Japanese convoy for an attack. Then a Japanese escort ship spotted them and swung around to ram, charging straight out of the black. Gilmore reacted instantly, ordering a hard turn to strike first, and the Growler smashed into the enemy ship at speed, a collision violent enough to crumple 18 feet of the submarine's bow over to one side.

At that same instant, the Japanese crew raked the Growler's exposed bridge with machine gun fire. The officer of the deck and a lookout were killed outright, and Gilmore himself was cut down, badly wounded on his own bridge.

Now understand the situation. A submarine's bridge is a tiny platform on top of the conning tower, and to dive, the crew scrambles down a hatch into the hull and seals it. The wounded men who could still move began dropping down the hatch. But Gilmore, hit and unable to climb down, understood the arithmetic instantly. The submarine was still on the surface, exposed, being fired on, and every second it stayed up it might be sunk with every man aboard. The only way to save the boat was to dive right now. But you cannot dive with the hatch open, and he could not reach the hatch.

So he gave the order that would kill him and save everyone else. Clinging to the bridge, bleeding, he called down into the hull, "Take her down." He was ordering his own crew to seal the hatch and submerge the submarine while he was still on top of it, knowing it left him on the surface to die. His officers hesitated at the sheer horror of the command. Then they obeyed their captain. They closed the hatch and took the Growler down. Gilmore was never seen again.

The battered submarine survived, submerged, and limped home, alive because her captain had traded his life for hers in the space of a few seconds. Howard Gilmore became the first submariner of the war to receive the Medal of Honor, and his final order, "Take her down," lives on in the United States Submarine Force as the ultimate expression of a commander who put his crew and his ship above his own life.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Awesome, and so worth it!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

I don’t care about or follow soccer (football) but even I find this so cool.

[ARINZE @arinzechukwum_]

AT&T Stadium: Another Architectural Engineering Marvel by the Americans

​America keeps proving why they are the absolute best in the world when it comes to sports entertainment. It’s genuinely hilarious how they rebranded and reconstructed a massive American football dome in under six months just to meet strict FIFA standards for the World Cup.

​AT&T Stadium (temporarily renamed "Dallas Stadium" due to FIFA’s strict anti-sponsor rules) is an absolute titan of modern engineering. Built for a staggering $1.3 billion by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, this 3-million-square-foot monster in Texas is officially the largest roofed stadium on earth.

​While it comfortably seats 80,000 fans, its flexible design allows it to expand to over 100,000 capacity. The arena is structurally supported by two of the longest single-span steel arches on the planet, features retractable glass walls, and is famous for its legendary, 1.2-million-pound Mitsubishi HD video board hanging directly over the center circle.

​But what makes it truly fascinating right now is how it completely transformed its identity to host elite international football, like the Netherlands vs. Japan match tonight.

​Because the stadium permanently uses artificial turf for the NFL and FIFA strictly demands real grass, engineers spent over 45,000 intense man-hours executing a high-tech pitch overhaul. They hauled in 15,000 tons of material, starting with subsurface ventilation and irrigation networks laid right over the concrete floor, followed by layers of specialized sand.

​They then brought in 24 refrigerated trucks carrying massive rolls of premium hybrid Kentucky bluegrass and ryegrass grown in Colorado. To make the pitch sturdy enough to survive nine grueling World Cup matches, specialized machinery literally stitched millions of synthetic nylon fibers directly into the natural sod.

​The absolute coolest piece of wizardry here is how they keep the grass alive inside a closed dome. Because the roof blocks vital sunlight, they installed a groundbreaking, automated grow-light system suspended directly from the ceiling.

​When turned on, these massive overhead rigs bathe the pitch in a vibrant, glowing pink hue to power photosynthesis. On match days, the entire light system is hoisted 290 feet into the rafters completely out of the fans' sightlines, and once the final whistle blows, they are lowered back down to nurse the grass.

​Just like SoFi, this entire engineering feat is temporary. Once the World Cup wraps up, the hybrid grass will be entirely recycled, and the stadium will shift right back to its standard synthetic turf just in time for the NFL season. The sheer level of flexibility and execution is unreal.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

There’s a genuine sickness in the envy and hatred that so many in today’s Democrat party show toward people who achieve. Sanders, like so many of his colleagues, is a loathsome human being.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Awesome. I had no idea that this was the first ship sunk by torpedo since WW II. Very cool.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

This Iranian warship thought it was safe in international waters. It wasn't.

The @DeptofWar is fighting to win. 🇺🇸

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Yes and very well said.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

It will never not be hilarious that the same retarded, SSRI-gobbling weirdos who walked around dressed as handmaidens are now collectively wetting themselves because Donald Trump killed the guy who literally made women walk around dressed as handmaidens.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

One can only imagine how much corruption there is at all level in CA, which is so much more populous than MN.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

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We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

This is hilarious and right on point!

[Just Jen ℞ 🫡🇺🇸 @JustJenRX]

WHO DID THIS?! 🤣 “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans- AI OUTRAGE PARODY SONG ” music video 🤣🤣🤣🤣

OH MY FVCK! Lmaaaaaooo!!!!!

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

This is a very thoughtful analysis.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: The American Military

As many of my followers know, I talk a lot about the decline in our nation's military that Trump and Hegseth and the Service secretaries have been chartered to fix.

Lately I have also been active in Infantrydort’s threads on the philosophical problems in today’s military.

Basically, I have been giving these issues a lot of thought, and I have recently decided that most of our problems stem from our own good intentions.

Specifically:

1. Our well-intended commitment to racial equality in the military has resulted in DEI as a core military ethos, where “diversity” trumps competence and senior leaders will defy a President over DEI policies.

2. Our well-intended commitment to provide women better military opportunities has resulted in the mommyfication of senior military leaders, where the feminine tendency to favor emotion over logic and the desire to have collaborative solutions for all problems has stifled the masculine, aggressive decision-making process that has been the hallmark of successful, lethal militaries since before Alexander the Great.

3. Our well-intended desire to fix the cross-department intelligence failures of 9/11 has resulted in the deification of the ��interagency” process, making military leaders think they are in the State Department and greatly reducing lethality and effective warfighting as a result. We have thus created an army of Alexander “Chow Thief” Vindmans.

4. Our well-intended goal to have mid-level officers think more strategically via professional military education has turned too many officers into wannabe Ivy League “strategists” who value process over results, seek the perfect solution instead of the good enough solution and who end up trying to fight a national-level campaign at the battalion level. Reduced lethality is the result.

5. Our well-intended goal to have our troops treated with respect has resulted in the military services interpreting decisive, effective leadership as being “toxic leadership.” In today’s military, Patton, Halsey, LeMay, Hackworth, Puller and a host of other immortal American warriors would have never made it past O-4, and instead we now have legions of commanders selected by psychiatrists for their mommy energy. Reduced combat effectiveness is the result.

6. Our well-intentioned desire to maintain continuity of operations at the senior level has resulted in key strategic decisions being made by unfireable civilian members of the “Senior Executive Service,” all of whom place their own position in the hierarchy as being more important than national defense. The result is fiscal waste, endlessly delayed weapons systems and a moribund national level decision making process that is usually vastly more reactive than proactive.

There are likely more such examples of good intentions backfiring.

But the end result is we now lose wars instead of winning them, all while patting ourselves on our backs and thanking ourselves for our service.

All of this needs to be reversed. The US military’s job is to slaughter our nation’s military foes in as lethal and expeditious a manner as possible. There is no other purpose.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Excellent news for the US armed forces and the security of our country!

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

America's sons and daughters who serve in our military deserve the best leaders.

Which is why we are reforming the promotion system at DOD. @stuartscheller

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Happy Independence Day!

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

It’s almost 4th of July.. 🤣🤣

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Good! It’s often the case that when you have to get the attention of someone, it’s best to hit them in the face using the side of the 2x4 with the nails sticking out. As President Trump did to Canadian P.M. Carney.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Canada is rescinding its digital services tax on tech firms in a bid to salvage trade talks with the U.S. after Trump paused negotiations on Friday https://t.co/tclySe5VUc

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Well said; I fully agree.

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

We have made Punitive Expeditions Great Again.

In the weeks following 911, those of us involved in the initial operations in AFG thought that is what we would have--a punitive expedition. But then, The Smartest People in the Room™ thought we were "better than that", would quote all sorts of "international law" and "muh norms" that said we "couldn't do that" and then would chant, "You break it you buy it" every 5 minutes. Then they rolled out this Age of Aquarius concept that if you educated the daughters of the Pashtun enough, they'll apply for admission to Brown.

After a quarter century of blood and treasure, we seem to have excised the, "that is icky" blob crowd enough to open this up as an acceptable option--again.

We are a republic, not an empire. You hit us, we crush you and go home. We're not going to stay and make you us.

At last.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Well done, Israel and President Trump.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

I know some people are so broken they will never be able to muster a compliment for Trump, but the level of misdirection and coordination with Israel on this Iran attack was brilliant. Trump used his public platforms to lull Iran into complacency while privately coordinating with Israel. Trump and Netanyahu went so far as to meet privately this week to finalize things while publicly both leaking that Trump was urging restraint.

The problem here for the press corps is that so many of them hate Trump so much, they cannot nuance the cleverness of this. They must either approach it as Trump is a failure who even Israel does not respect or Trump is a liar who lied to everyone to get Iran.

The reality is everyone honest knows Iran has always been the liar, claiming it had no nuclear ambitions even as it plotted a bomb. The Obama/Biden policies helped Iran, which embedded agents within the Biden Administration. And Trump has turned the tables on it all, including probably taking advantage of Iran's embedded agents to amplify his misdirection.

And now Iran has been set back significantly and the world is safer today.

But scream about Orange Man Bad if you must. The press corps that does not deal with the truth of what happened is just going to further discredit itself. They couldn't detect Biden's decline and cannot accept Trump's calculated misdirection.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Yes!

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

. @SecDef "No more social engineering. No more climate change worship. No more electric tanks. No more gender confusion. No more pronouns. No more excuses. No more quotas.

No more WOKE bullsh*t that undermines commanders and command climates. We are laser focused on our mission of warfighting."

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Well done, DOGE, Secretary of State Rubio, and President Trump.

[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

It's official: USAID is dead.

This is a huge win — not just for America, but for all of Western civilization.

Here’s why. 🧵

[Jack @jackunheard]

Can we get it trending?

Everyone comment #StandWithTesla

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

One has to have followed U.K. and other European papers for a while to see how far these countries are going in suppressing free speech. I applaud VP Vance’s speech.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

JD Vance's criticism of EU censorship was outrageous, say Europe's leaders. In fact, it was wholly justified. The only solution to misinformation is accurate information. While BBC sometimes spreads misinformation, it would never occur to me to demand its censorship. Me on @BBC

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Ha! Yes, what a fine idea!

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Trump welcoming RFK JR. to his White House swearing in.

[Jerry Rudisin @JRudisin]

Ha. I love this.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Like and share if you agree that drag shows don’t belong at the Kennedy Center