Airborne Veteran

Conservative. Veteran. For those who know me, no bio is necessary. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

[Lewis Miles @Maga4liberty]

I'm shocked the French are actually standing up for themselves for once.

Took long enough.

Who else is surprised? 👀🔥

**#FranceWakesUp**

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🚨 NEW: Fox’s Joe Concha CALLS OUT California’s long-winded election count: “Think how far away July 4th feels right now. You still won’t have an answer to who won the Governor’s race or the L.A. Mayor race by then!”

“If I lived in Florida, I would know on a presidential election night who wins the state by about 10pm. I would also know that in Ohio and in Texas. That’s the way it should be for all 59 states. It ain’t hard!”

“In India, 640 million votes can be counted in the same day. And we can’t count Mayor of LA or Governor of California for 35 days?!” adds @JoeConchaTV.

[WPEC CBS12 News @CBS12]

ICE CLASH | Four people were arrested after allegedly assaulting law enforcement during a chaotic protest outside a New Jersey ICE detention center, DHS says.
https://t.co/DKV6pyOL2J

[🎹 Ames™ 🎹 @Real_Ames]

"Touch me and see what happens."

Those words matter.

If you have time to issue a warning, you have time to make a choice.

By that point, Karmelo Anthony could have walked away from the confrontation. Instead, the situation escalated and Austin Metcalf lost his life.

Then there are the questions many people still have:

If this was truly self-defense, why run?

Why get rid of the knife?

Why ask an officer, "Can I say it was self-defense?"

Most people who act in legitimate self-defense call 911, stay at the scene, cooperate with police, and explain what happened.

Self-defense is about necessity, not retaliation. When there is an opportunity to disengage, jurors have to ask a simple question:

Was deadly force truly the only option?

Those are some of the reasons many people believe this was not a case of self-defense.

[Stella X @Stellaaa]

@ksorbs @ChaneWheels17 Mathematical impossibility

LA election officials belong in prison

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@nicksortor These are the SAME PEOPLE who will tell you that every institution in America is systemically racist…

Then scream racial slurs at Black officers the second they don’t agree with their politics.

Mock them endlessly, they believe in nothing and stand for no one.

[Airborne Veteran @rsteade]

@Maga4liberty @FFT1776 The stupidity of someone who has clearly NEVER purchased a gun is stunningly breathtaking.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

😂😂😂

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

"You know what's racist is the fact that every detainee in Delaney Hall is a person of color."

-Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ)

Just so we're all clear on this...

Delaney Hall is an ICE-IMMIGRATION DETENTION FACILITY in Newark

How is it even possible to be this stupid?

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

💯😂

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Democrats are the party of:

Hatred
Lies
Communists
Socialists
Deceivers
Baby killers
Liars
Radical Islamists
Sexual perverts
Anti-Americans
And Racists

I don't care who this offends!!

Sometimes the TRUTH HURTS!!!

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

So ~100 organizations (including the ACLU, Indivisible, Democratic Socialists of America) are behind the ICE protests that we've been seeing...

And yet Democrats still want you to believe these are spontaneous grass-roots protests

NOTHING about the Democrat party is real!!!

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

The Democrat party is in full free-fall...

The aggression and rhetoric is going to get MUCH WORSE and we're going to see more violence coming out of them because they're like a caged animal that knows what's coming

STAND STRONG!!

Your children and grandchildren are at stake!!

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Many died for the things you enjoy today...

Don't take them for granted!!

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Should John Bolton go to prison?

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

This makes liberals angry.

If they hate everything about our country, why don’t they just leave?

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

June 6th, 1944.

The English Channel is angry and half the men in the landing craft are seasick. Diesel fumes mix with saltwater and vomit while rifles are checked for the fifth or sixth time by hands that need something to do. Nobody talks much anymore because the jokes have all been told and the bravado has finally burned away somewhere behind the English coast.

You are nineteen years old and carrying more weight than you’ve ever carried in your life. You don’t know it yet, but it’s the most weight you will EVER carry in this life. However long or short it may be.

Your rifle rests across your knees. Your life hangs from a few pounds of steel, wood, and training. Somewhere beyond the gray horizon sits a continent that has spent five years tearing itself apart, and in a few minutes you are going to step into the middle of it.

Across from you sits another kid. He can’t be much older than you. His jaw is clenched. His knuckles are white around his weapon. Neither of you says a word because there is nothing left to say.

Then your eyes drift toward his shoulder.

That red numeral catches your eye: “1”.

You’ve seen it a thousand times before. In barracks hallways, on training fields, in motor pools, and on long marches. It never meant much beyond belonging to the same outfit.

Now it means everything.

Because in a few minutes the world is going to ask something terrible of both of you, and there is comfort in knowing that whatever waits on that beach, neither of you will face it alone.

The historians will eventually reduce this day to arrows on maps and casualty figures. Politicians will give speeches. Journalists will write books. None of that exists inside the landing craft.

What exists is fear, and duty.

What exists is the understanding that courage was never the absence of fear. Courage was always charging into the maelstrom anyway.

The shoreline emerges through the smoke. You can see flashes now. You can hear the distant percussion of artillery. Men stop checking their equipment because there is no point anymore. Whatever mistakes were made are already made. Whatever prayers were going to be said have already been said.

The coxswain throttles down.

The boat grinds forward.

The ramp is about to drop.

Into the abyss.

Overlord.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I always think of Eisenhower on June 6th. I think of the men in the breach too. But inevitably my thoughts always trace back to him and the fact that he was really just a spectator on that day in 1944.

Meticulous planning and preparation. He pored over every detail with painstaking precision. His nicotine and caffeine consumption off the charts.

His staff, rowing like heroes to be sure. But on D-Day, all Ike could do is watch the pucksters move icons on a map amidst the feverish clicking sound of reports coming in.

But his ability to manage the fight in that moment? Negligible.

I think that’s the difference between his generation of general versus GWOT. We plan in the modern age, sure. But not always well.

Modern leaders in the back of their mind always know they can use instant communication to make adjustments at the highest levels on the fly. A general can become a squad leader in seconds. Micromanagement is often ubiquitous.

It is so difficult to take an appetite suppressant to just let the force fight.

Ike had little choice once the wheels were in motion though. And maybe that’s the lesson. Plan, prepare, let it consume your very soul up to the moment of execution.

But when you cry havoc and slip your dogs of war, let them hunt.

Because if you as a leader, have done your job, they will never disappoint you.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.”

Civilization destroying filth.

What is with these people? Treating one culture like it’s boring. Are you serious right now?

They talk about diversity being good because the opposite is…. boring?

What’s exciting to you then? The rape of the West? Women being stabbed to death and burnt alive on public transit?

Honor killings where a mother and father take their daughter out of school and try stoning her to death in the parking lot because she wouldn’t accept an arranged marriage?

Truck drivers who can’t speak English plowing through families on the interstate?

That’s…. the opposite of boring to you? That’s exciting?

[Nameless G @RealTmDaddy]

Lets not forget that Eisenhower made a lot of mistakes in previous campaigns. His chain of command deserves credit for not relieving him the first time he had any sort of setback. He grew as a leader learning from those mistakes. In todays culture he would have been relieved & a new commander would have started at the bottom of the learning curve