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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

"what the fuck just happened"

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 1d

We're never giving up on the dream...

(the dream is a really heavy "smart" rifle-grenade that works better than rifles, grenades or machine guns about .1% of the time)

www.armytimes.com/news/your-mi...

FN to continue developing Army’s next-gen precision grenadier system

Creation of the next-gen system was influenced by real-time soldier feedback and battlefield priorities that continue to evolve in places like Ukraine.

www.armytimes.com

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 2d

At least they came away with the field goal, but why did LaFleuer have them throw on 3rd and 2, in side 2 minutes? Worst case, run is stuffed and the bengals have to burn their last time out

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

basically the issue with sun tzu is that most people don't think china is real

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 6d

It's a similar argument though for tabs/skill badge. Soldiers being soldiers, they are way more likely to volunteer for a course or qualification if it get them a neat badge.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 6d

This Op Ed is from June 2020, following the photo op at Lafayette Square. It's not about any current events

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 11d

My latest on Sora, disinformation, and how I was right years ago about all of this.

“No longer is fake content the exception to our feeds; it’s the default. Humanity has taken up residency inside the uncanny valley.”
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

When Reality Bends Back

AI-Generated Disinformation for Profit and War

open.substack.com

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 17d

The legacy of the French Revolution? It's too early to say

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 18d

While it was a good twist, I think it makes his dimensional choice a lot easier.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 18d

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Literally read this as a PME case study:

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · Sep 6

FWIW: "Before a raid one day, [Hegseth] recalled, “I went to Captain Hart and I said, ‘Sir, I don’t feel comfortable telling my guys to go into that door hot.’ ..... '[N]obody else goes in hot—nobody. And if we go in hot we are going to kill civilians.’ ”

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The Kill Company - The New Yorker

Three years ago, at a hastily built command center in the Iraqi desert, near Samarra, a U.S. Army colonel knelt over a dust-caked body bag. Inside were the remains of a man who had just been killed by...

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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 19d

Nice GAO report on weapons system sustainment just dropped
www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 20d

A few followers saying baby fingernails are like bird talons as if we've never been picked up by large birds off a volcano after completing a life-altering quest that required great personal resilience and sacrifice and while it was happening thought wow these talons are really dangerous.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 20d

I'd recommend Poker Face (on Peacock) for a good, throwback "case of the week" type show

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 23d

The Corps also can skip some levels of coordination when they own their own aviation element

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 23d

You have individual companys integrate into the 96HR JFACC ATO cycle, manage air space, and successfully get JFC assets, or they just plan for immediate CAS? Because Army
FSOs also plan/call for immediate CAS. We (usually) get TACP as well to help coordinate CAS for BNs and BDEs

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 23d

(Obligatory "I'm not a JTAC!") I'm not really sure what you mean. The Army division-run, AF ASOC integrated JAGIC is pretty much the standard for operations this century. It and the ATO cycle are too slow right now, but that's more of a joint not Army doctrine problem

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 23d

Funny that people will spend days arguing F35s vs A10s, but no one is arguing to get more JTAC slots

www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-ai...

Air Force looks to cut nearly 50% of tactical air control party jobs

The move would significantly limit the number of officers and enlisted airmen trained to plan attacks and call in airstrikes on the front lines.

www.airforcetimes.com

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 24d

There's a direct line of causation between the admirals who approved/encouraged Lone Survivor and tactical baby carriers

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 25d

courses.westpoint.edu/static/index...

FWIW, at USMA, MX400 is the capstone course on Officership. Civ-Mil is also hit in several other core curriculum classes, including a Military law class and another required American Politics class. The other academies are probably similar

USMA Academic Program

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 25d

Can you have a SOFA with and an AUMF against the same group?

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Sep 12

The inside of his brain at least once a series

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · Sep 6

How much do you think the wording of this NDS matters in influencing the actual policies (or just actions) taken by the dept/admin?

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · Sep 6

FWIW: "Before a raid one day, [Hegseth] recalled, “I went to Captain Hart and I said, ‘Sir, I don’t feel comfortable telling my guys to go into that door hot.’ ..... '[N]obody else goes in hot—nobody. And if we go in hot we are going to kill civilians.’ ”

web.archive.org/web/20141113...

The Kill Company - The New Yorker

Three years ago, at a hastily built command center in the Iraqi desert, near Samarra, a U.S. Army colonel knelt over a dust-caked body bag. Inside were the remains of a man who had just been killed by...

web.archive.org

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Chad O'Carroll @chadocl.bsky.social · Sep 4

So what does it all mean?

– Denuclearization is dead. Beijing now hosts Kim without nuclear caveats.
– Russia-DPRK ties are deepening, with China tolerating it.
– Seoul is sidelined.
– Trump faces a harder negotiating landscape than in 2018.

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