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Ben Lyman
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THE Ohio State University Alum. Runner. Military Historian. Army. Former West Point Prof. Current 10th Mountaineer. Dad of 4. Frequently seen doing intel work in the present. Occasionally seen studying intel work of the past.
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I’m convinced the “do audiobooks count as reading?” argument all derives from those mid-90s summer reading pizza challenges.

Folks - we’re all in our 30s and 40s now. It’s no longer a competition.

Go buy your favorite pie with your adult money and let people enjoy books however they want.
She gonna get bodied out there.
Did some preworkout this morning and warmed up on the treadmill. Now it feels like my skin is on fire.
Being gone for four months really made me forget how many more calories I consume simply from hoovering up the food my kids don’t eat.
Not working Friday and today was so much better than working would have been.

I need to take more vacation days.
The best part about walking around NYC is you can unleash the nastiest farts imaginable and the people on the sidewalk around you will neither hear nor smell the evidence.
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US Service members should not bear insignia if our historic enemies:

Nazi Germany

Imperial Japan

Confederate States of America
What would Smedley think?
I need a job where I can work remote one day a week just to keep up with the laundry.
I love paying more now for coffee - literally a life source more important to my body than water - NOT because there is a supply side shortage, but simply because SOMEBODY thinks blanket tariffs are some sort of free money hack.

Love that for me.
The Aiden Hutchinson US Army commercial is some of the worst advertising I’ve ever seen.

What are we doing here? This won’t make anyone want to join.

Just bring back the 80s jingle you cowards.
The local library had a book sale and had these boxes to take your books home 🤣
After four days off I simply never want to go back to work again.
My kids are playing school and are reenacting a lockdown drill.

Not in a traumatized way just in a playtime way, like if they were play acting a field trip or school play.

Broken ass society we live in.
Kpop Demon Hunters is proof the Korean War was worth it.
If I were running for governor of the Buckeye State I’d simply have my media crew film me talking ball with the people at Columbus tailgates.

There is one true religion in Ohio and its God is Brutus, its temple the Shoe, and its prophet Coach Ryan Day.

Votes would follow.
his inability to pivot and just talk about the Buckeyes‘ matchup against Illinois this weekend says all you need to know about him
The government shutdown and this whole not getting paid thing is really putting a damper on my plans to buy a new car for the first time in 8 years after I get home from the border.
Being thanked for my service by a nice old lady in the hotel lobby during my final days “deployed” to the southern border sure is something.
One episode in and I’m loving Chad Powers.
Don’t fret the the Troops™️ might not get paid during an extended shutdown - they won’t go hungry.

Though after yesterday maybe they should go hungry.
Can we go one day without this country embarrassing itself?
We already do this with Warfighter Exercises.

And let me tell you when you put an entire Division staff + all the BN and BDE staffs for 3x BDEs in support of the exercise not much gets done at the company level.
If I’ve learned one thing in my military career it’s that you can grind through anything with sheer stubbornness and copious amounts of caffeine.
There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think “wow, the internet is a mistake.”