@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social
Not an official account of anything or anyone other than a guy who never learned when to shut his mouth.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
Pinned
the kids are down at the creek, the dogs are asleep, my wife is taking a break from cooking, and I'm listening to the Great Courses course on the King Arthur story while taking a walk on a cold gray afternoon.
Can't ask for much more on a Thanksgiving day
Can't ask for much more on a Thanksgiving day
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
the kids are down at the creek, the dogs are asleep, my wife is taking a break from cooking, and I'm listening to the Great Courses course on the King Arthur story while taking a walk on a cold gray afternoon.
Can't ask for much more on a Thanksgiving day
Can't ask for much more on a Thanksgiving day
Anyway shit is about to get very real for this young man
2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Anyway shit is about to get very real for this young man
coda: the brigade commander I emailed, looking for help with getting a former terp out of Afghanistan? he considered himself a master COIN practitioner, the T.E. Lawrence of RC-East. He ate his soup with a knife and embraced the paradoxes.
Shana ba shana, until it's not anymore.
Shana ba shana, until it's not anymore.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
coda: the brigade commander I emailed, looking for help with getting a former terp out of Afghanistan? he considered himself a master COIN practitioner, the T.E. Lawrence of RC-East. He ate his soup with a knife and embraced the paradoxes.
Shana ba shana, until it's not anymore.
Shana ba shana, until it's not anymore.
The Afghanistan withdrawal was what finally broke me of any illusions that I had of one day really contributing something to defense policy.
He took so long to get back to me that I had even reached out to my former brigade commander, a man who I once said that I'd throw him out of a window the next time I saw him, to see if he could move the chains.
He responded 4 days later with two sentences, neither was helpful
He responded 4 days later with two sentences, neither was helpful
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The Afghanistan withdrawal was what finally broke me of any illusions that I had of one day really contributing something to defense policy.
I'll never forget reaching out to my dipshit brigade HHC commander - the terp manager on our deployment - to see if he could sign an affidavit on behalf of a terp who had worked at the BCT FOB. "Yeah, all these guys are emailing me asking for something" was the response I got two weeks later
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I'll never forget reaching out to my dipshit brigade HHC commander - the terp manager on our deployment - to see if he could sign an affidavit on behalf of a terp who had worked at the BCT FOB. "Yeah, all these guys are emailing me asking for something" was the response I got two weeks later
Remember when Tim Kennedy and the grunt style guy organized some sort of Afghan cannon ball run to Kabul to ground evac people without coordinating with any ISAF elements during the withdrawal? I wonder what they will have to say about this.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump calls for reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees who entered under Biden admin after National Guard shooting.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Remember when Tim Kennedy and the grunt style guy organized some sort of Afghan cannon ball run to Kabul to ground evac people without coordinating with any ISAF elements during the withdrawal? I wonder what they will have to say about this.
just remember, the first report is always wrong
BREAKING: Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says
Two National Guard soldiers were shot Wednesday near the White House and their conditions aren’t immediately known, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.Emergency vehicles were seen responding to the area.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
just remember, the first report is always wrong
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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We do Italian for Xmas - a giant bowl of spaghetti w/sausage and meatballs, and my personal fave: a giant bowl of carbonara 🤌🤌
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We do Italian for Xmas - a giant bowl of spaghetti w/sausage and meatballs, and my personal fave: a giant bowl of carbonara 🤌🤌
Loud and wrong. This is the worst food take I've yet seen On Here.
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Loud and wrong. This is the worst food take I've yet seen On Here.
A prestige animation treatment of Redwall, for starters. I'd also like a modern take on the Avengers series (Steed and Peel, obviously) and a Half-Life movie
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A prestige animation treatment of Redwall, for starters. I'd also like a modern take on the Avengers series (Steed and Peel, obviously) and a Half-Life movie
Many moons ago, we were so hard up for people that recruiters were pushing anyone they could get their hands on through the MEPS doors. I had an E-2 with obvious mental health issues who had to have an NCO verify that he showered on a daily basis. Stop lossed.
Then there's this fucking clown.
Then there's this fucking clown.
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Many moons ago, we were so hard up for people that recruiters were pushing anyone they could get their hands on through the MEPS doors. I had an E-2 with obvious mental health issues who had to have an NCO verify that he showered on a daily basis. Stop lossed.
Then there's this fucking clown.
Then there's this fucking clown.
bet you a dollar this will become a vignette in ROTC MS101 "intro to leadership" courses in a couple years
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
bet you a dollar this will become a vignette in ROTC MS101 "intro to leadership" courses in a couple years
surprised how easy it was to goad the administration into a wild overreaction. they're going to create the very candidate who takes them down 🤷♂️
My man
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
surprised how easy it was to goad the administration into a wild overreaction. they're going to create the very candidate who takes them down 🤷♂️
update: it was a girl, we regret the error
folks tell your teens not to text and drive, some kid just absolutely smoked 4 mailboxes next door to me (including a 3-in-1 combo stand) and is very lucky he didn't wrap himself around a tree on his way to school
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
update: it was a girl, we regret the error
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Fewer requirements.
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Fewer requirements.
fwiw I am long on the record that the best night of sleep I ever had in my entire life was on an inflatable puss pad at McKenna MOUT site at Benning many years ago. It was 19°, I had my winter sleeping bag, and I was snug as a fucking bug. Downright cozy, tbh.
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
fwiw I am long on the record that the best night of sleep I ever had in my entire life was on an inflatable puss pad at McKenna MOUT site at Benning many years ago. It was 19°, I had my winter sleeping bag, and I was snug as a fucking bug. Downright cozy, tbh.
this is not an exaggeration
I think often about how we fought in Afghanistan for 20 years and most Americans don’t have the foggiest idea that a defining part of the challenge for those who served was a culture that enables the widespread systemic rape of young boys.
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
this is not an exaggeration
one of us! one of us! one of us!
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
one of us! one of us! one of us!
fellas is it gay to have sex with women???? big if true!!
These schmucks are approaching what I like to call a "reverse Afghanistan" sexuality here:
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
fellas is it gay to have sex with women???? big if true!!
folks tell your teens not to text and drive, some kid just absolutely smoked 4 mailboxes next door to me (including a 3-in-1 combo stand) and is very lucky he didn't wrap himself around a tree on his way to school
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
folks tell your teens not to text and drive, some kid just absolutely smoked 4 mailboxes next door to me (including a 3-in-1 combo stand) and is very lucky he didn't wrap himself around a tree on his way to school
it's a light work week and I'm about to get lit* let's fucking gooooo
*eat a dove dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream bar immediately followed by a lime outshine popsicle because I like the flavor contrast
*eat a dove dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream bar immediately followed by a lime outshine popsicle because I like the flavor contrast
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
it's a light work week and I'm about to get lit* let's fucking gooooo
*eat a dove dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream bar immediately followed by a lime outshine popsicle because I like the flavor contrast
*eat a dove dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream bar immediately followed by a lime outshine popsicle because I like the flavor contrast
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The hooook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lieeee
The hooook brings you back
On that you can relyyyyy
I ain't tellin' you no lieeee
The hooook brings you back
On that you can relyyyyy
If I ruled the world
I’d free all my sons
Black diamonds and pearls
If I ruled the world
I’d free all my sons
Black diamonds and pearls
If I ruled the world
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The hooook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lieeee
The hooook brings you back
On that you can relyyyyy
I ain't tellin' you no lieeee
The hooook brings you back
On that you can relyyyyy