Tom Loper

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@MCCCANM If you’ve ever watched the last 10 people get off an airplane there is no way you’d let them go first.

[The Forgotten War @ForgottenWarPic]

Lloyd Burke, a lieutenant from Arkansas that everybody called Scooter, was done with Korea. His thirteen month tour was over. He was standing at the command post with his orders in hand and a plane waiting to fly him home. All he had to do was get on it.

Then word came back that his old company was stuck. G Company of the 5th Cavalry was trying to take a hill near Chong-dong and the Chinese had them pinned down cold, dug into bunkers, chewing the attack to pieces. The company was exhausted, bleeding, and going nowhere. Scooter Burke had a ticket out of the war in his pocket. He put it down and went forward to his men instead.

What he did next reads like something out of a movie that nobody would believe. The attack was stalled by three enemy bunkers, so Burke went after them himself. He charged the first one alone and killed the crew. He charged the second one alone and killed that crew too. At the third bunker he threw grenades in, and when the enemy threw their grenades back at him, he caught them and threw them right back before they went off.

Then he really got going. He grabbed a light machine gun, tore it off its mount, and started firing it from the hip as he walked into the enemy, carrying it in his arms like a rifle. He pulled the shattered company back together, got them up and moving again behind him, and led them up and over the hill.

By the time it was finished, Scooter Burke had personally killed more than a hundred of the enemy and been wounded doing it, and the hill that had stopped a whole company was taken because one man who was supposed to be on a plane home decided he could not leave.

And he lived. Burke got the Medal of Honor for it, stayed in the Army, and retired decades later as a full colonel with five Purple Hearts to go with the medal. The man who tore up his ticket home became a legend precisely because, when it counted, going home was the one thing he would not do.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@kilmeade @EWErickson What was the actual disagreement about?

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@MCCCANM Counterfeit parts?

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@rpierry @CaptBob_Nomadic @KarlenePetitt Yes

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@conor64 I was in the military we had plans on the shelf to deal emerg like hurricane. Just adjust the details. How is it that after previous outbreaks such as BirdFlu CDC didn’t have a basic plan to pull off the shelf? Instead they just started making stuff up. 6’/masks good/bad/good…

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@miami_rick Can’t wait to see the training center “attempt” to embrace the new tech.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@BuzzPatterson I saw him take the already cooked bacon under the warmer, put it in the fry basket and put it in the fry oil to “warm” it up for a cheeseburger.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@drich82 If you ever saw the last 10 people leave the plane, you’d never suggest this.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

“What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

Excellent @Johnny_Joey

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@bdomenech @PrizePicks Don't do that or Joe will start telling us all how he played in the NFL.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@ClayTravis SEC, Big 10 and ACC can solve this ND problem by refusing to play ND if they don’t join a conference.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@HumanityFirstX_ @sentdefender Or if there is a bunch of small/mid-sized stuff. This is overblown with no proof of something “big”

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@MCCCANM I call them witnesses, not wing walkers.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@ScottHamiltonPC He looked like he knew it last night

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@EWErickson @BenBauman79 Service members are already required to get permission from Public Affairs Office before talking to the press.

[Tom Loper @TomLoper1]

@EWErickson Did you know it's already against the rules for military members to talk to the press without permission of Public Affairs Office.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

.@ClayTravis has a blunt response to Barack Obama’s claim that he “doesn’t know” what motivated Charlie Kirk’s murder.

In just two minutes, Travis summed up what every angry American is feeling right now.

“YOU CAUSED THIS!”

“You can’t call the president of the United States Adolf Hitler for 10 years… you cannot say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him like you, me, Riley, and Charlie Kirk are Nazis, and then when someone tries to kill us, suddenly say, ‘We condemn this violence.’ You caused it!”

“Look at me right now! You caused this! When you tell people that someone is Hitler, you are telling crazy people: go kill them. And I’m sick of pretending that is anything other than what they are doing. … Charlie Kirk bore the brunt of that left-wing violence.”