As Artemis II continues its journey, it’s a good moment to recognize the army of a team behind that it takes to undertake such a mission.
From the engineers and technicians who built the systems, to the launch team, Mission Control, and the recovery crews preparing for splashdown - and everyone behind this mission.
Thank you to the workforce making this mission possible every single day.
I haven’t done this in a little while.
I’m following/following back the first 400 that repost this.
If I have to get back 10k of you that so be it; I’m no better than anyone here.
That’s my stance and I am sticking to it.
Drop your handle and find some friends.
If you are AD military and you dislike Pete, he was chosen specifically because of people like you infecting our ranks.
If you aren’t in the military and never served, your opinion is meaningless.
That is all.
Retired Army colonel here. Three combat tours. 60% disabled per the VA. Spent most of my tactical career in the 82nd Airborne.
Please read what I am about to say with the sneering condescension with which I intend it:
Mr. Kristol, you are a grifter. Worse, you are a lying grifter devoid of morals who lets his beliefs change with whatever winds point to more filthy lucre. Today's speech by Secretary Hegseth was both entirely necessary and entirely spectacular. Those of us rank and file who fought in the wars you and your yellow, slobbering neocon chickenhawk buddies sent us off to die in applaud this effort with the utmost enthusiasm. These clownish, dangerous, senior generals and admirals have been the architects of American military failure for 20+ years. Their silence is indicative of nothing more than the fact that they know the gig is up and their fatcat days of being Perfumed Princes are no more. So howzabout you shut your trap and let us warriors decide what this speech meant? Good day, sir.
My fellow Americans. Listen to me.
I'll explain it in a different way. There’s a reason we in the military act so harshly when people celebrate the deaths of innocent Americans. Forget the Constitution for a moment. Forget the laws. Let’s talk about values. American values.
We value life. Period. Just as much as others in the Middle East value death. And the reason this shakes us so deeply in uniform is because we have seen this behavior before.
Your War Department is run by GWOT veterans. We spent years in wars with no end, surrounded by populations that rejoiced at death. It wasn’t just insurgents. It was entire villages. Death was the goal. They butchered each other for sport, chopped each other into pieces, and then danced in the streets as if it were the 4th of July. That was alien to us. And many who witnessed it never made it home in spirit. Some took their own lives, unable to reconcile what they saw.
In those dark days overseas, we survived by escaping in our minds. Thinking of home: loved ones, clean streets, apple pie, Toby Keith on the 4th of July. A place where all was well and good under the sun. A place where life and love were worth not just dying for, but living for.
So when we come home and see celebrations of American death.... when children cheer the killing of a president, or when adults in uniform worship death as unhinged as the terrorists we fought.... it rips us apart. It throws us back into the world where everything was backwards. And in a fight-or-flight response, we set ourselves to defeat that thinking, because this is the only place we have left.
It makes no sense to us: why fight a war in lands where death reigned supreme, only to come home a few years later and see the same obsession with death happen here? Do you understand now? Do you see how horrifying this is?
This isn’t just about breaking the oath. It’s about breaking the very fabric of what we fought to preserve. This thinking is a cancer, and it must be cut out. For those still salvageable: find the light. Find God. Find anything that brings you back to sanity.
Because the alternative is the death of America’s soul, and no constitution can save a nation that no longer values life.
My fellow Americans. Listen to me.
I'll explain it in a different way. There’s a reason we in the military act so harshly when people celebrate the deaths of innocent Americans. Forget the Constitution for a moment. Forget the laws. Let’s talk about values. American values.
We value life. Period. Just as much as others in the Middle East value death. And the reason this shakes us so deeply in uniform is because we have seen this behavior before.
Your War Department is run by GWOT veterans. We spent years in wars with no end, surrounded by populations that rejoiced at death. It wasn’t just insurgents. It was entire villages. Death was the goal. They butchered each other for sport, chopped each other into pieces, and then danced in the streets as if it were the 4th of July. That was alien to us. And many who witnessed it never made it home in spirit. Some took their own lives, unable to reconcile what they saw.
In those dark days overseas, we survived by escaping in our minds. Thinking of home: loved ones, clean streets, apple pie, Toby Keith on the 4th of July. A place where all was well and good under the sun. A place where life and love were worth not just dying for, but living for.
So when we come home and see celebrations of American death.... when children cheer the killing of a president, or when adults in uniform worship death as unhinged as the terrorists we fought.... it rips us apart. It throws us back into the world where everything was backwards. And in a fight-or-flight response, we set ourselves to defeat that thinking, because this is the only place we have left.
It makes no sense to us: why fight a war in lands where death reigned supreme, only to come home a few years later and see the same obsession with death happen here? Do you understand now? Do you see how horrifying this is?
This isn’t just about breaking the oath. It’s about breaking the very fabric of what we fought to preserve. This thinking is a cancer, and it must be cut out. For those still salvageable: find the light. Find God. Find anything that brings you back to sanity.
Because the alternative is the death of America’s soul, and no constitution can save a nation that no longer values life.