I’ve assigned that book….

Funny, my Thanksgiving guests requested my apple pie as their preferred desert……

With another lieutenant co-hosted a T-day dinner for our soldiers with nowhere to go. She was doing the mashed potatoes. “I can’t get these smooth,” she tells me. “ Add some more milk a little at a time” I reply. She stares at me in confusion. “What milk?”

Prayers headed your way

Well let’s put it this way. SOCOM prominently displays a thin blue line flag in the room/auditorium they do war games in. Though the map floor is awesome

Paul Krugman has written based on his experience that Americans would be shocked at the poor to almost nonexistent work passing for “analysis” within the U.S. government.

I just completed Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands last evening. Must reading for everyone. Thank you for sharing and reminding us.

The Worst Hard Times

There’s a section of trail in the woods at the Petersburg Battlefield that I stopped using. It felt completely wrong to be there.

When my wife graduated Georgia Tech in the early 90s, she was one of only four women engineers in a class of 740.

Having a named operation unlocks additional authorities for the JTF and SOUTHCOM. That the JTF and operation have the same name doesn’t really mean anything. The JTF has the lead for the operation

22 months of cancer treatment. In excess of $2m has now been billed to my insurance.

I’ve only paid my $2k deductible

5 surgeries
A litany of procedures, CT/MRI scans, and hospitalizations
Chemo drugs that were $30k a dose with $10k co-pays

Insanity

Trying to understand how what Hegseth is saying differs from spiral development that’s already a fairly entrenched approach.

Amen to trashing PPBE and JCIDS processes. I sat through to many FCBs, JCBs and even the occasional JROC wondering what the hell are we doing here?

He was the primary author

Unless they choose to ignore it, the law says furloughed workers do get back pay.