Ryan Wadle
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Ryan Wadle
@rdwadle.bsky.social
Pronounced wad-lee

US naval history, OEF, and things that amuse me

Author of Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 from University of Oklahoma Press
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The Wild Bunch is incredibly romantic. The final walk of the doomed gunslingers is one of the most powerfully romantic images in modern cinema.
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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It’s 2046. The navy struggles to keep the last SLOC open to the allied Free State of Hawaii. There are still no frigates, so it’s up to the overstretched fleet Arleigh Burke Flight IX destroyers to provide convoy escort.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Same
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Took this in Exeter about an hour ago
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The version that says they invented a new character to avoid paying this eps writers royalties certainly qualifies as sinister.
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM