Digging through the after action review documents for the battle of Iwo Jima, and I found example #47813 of 'soldiers will be soldiers'

PFC Poole: Injured disassembling a Japanese shell despite previous warnings to the contrary.

Would you preffer:

Mack Random point, but I keep doing double takes for US political acronyms because of my time in the army.

The J6 is the lead signals officer for a joint command (a job I’ve had).

AOC means Army Operations Course (which I’ve taken).

We deserve what’s coming…..

The collapse of the British empire post ww2 did more harm than good.

Allan Bloom was a friend and Machiavelli was an enemy.

Also, I hated communism; but it turns out I didn’t hate it enough.

I'm on the verge of breaking 1,000 views on a video for the first time on the new channel.

Thanks so much to everyone in our sphere who has promoted the re-launch.

I'll have news shortly about the perks for a paid substack option.

youtu.be/MV-oFZVmdO8

You may recall a number of headlines a year ago that Ukraine's burn rate on UAVs was 10,000 per month.

Two VERY key points that didn't make it into most reporting:

1. The UAV losses were predominantly to electronic warfare
2. This little gem

I admire his restraint

writing about ideals of virtuous masculinity and realizing that Sam Gamgee is basically it

Post the last Monarch you/your ancestors lived under.

De Jure (Left)
De Facto (Right)

Counterpoint

The 6th episode is out. I hope you find it worth the wait.

youtube.com/watch?v=4X1QOP…

At the end of the episode 6 premier someone asked for recommendations of other good channels about the Ukraine war.

In terms of very technical analysis of thanks Red Effect is quite good.

youtube.com/@RedEffectChan…

Live in 5 mins. Tune in for the first fully new episode.

For those of you waiting for the re-release of old episodes to be over..... the first entirely new episode premiers tonight in 6 hours.