Ex-infantry NCO, CIB recipient,sci-fi & military history nerd. Ole Miss '98, Norwich MMH, '12. Writes "Athenaeum Inc" and more. 100% personal bullshit account.
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Dan Kemp Author retweeted
I fundamentally disagree with this take on soldiering. It’s spiritually wrong and LinkedIn-coded.
The American Soldier is not a “customer”. He is where every cowardly decision, every untested leader, every bureaucratic lie, and every failed theory finally comes due, and the invoice is paid in blood.
Markets can perhaps fix military procurement. They can’t manufacture courage, judgment, or combat leadership after the shooting starts.
This is Silicon Valley technocrat speak. It may be fit to contribute a perspective on the way an Army can run. But it cannot command one. For it is martially soulless.
“The way to fix the brokenness of the system is to allow market forces in,” Driscoll says in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
"In this instance, the customer is the American soldier who has to go fight for our nation, and the cost of inadequacy could be their lives."
Read: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Then there's the A-7: a Crusader that gave up jogging in order to lift heavy and fuck bitches 🫡
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Fred Fields paints a gorgeous woman riding a dragon wearing approximately eleven square inches of armor…
…and calls it Bareback.
God, I miss old school fantasy art.
🖼️ Fred Fields, Bareback (1993)
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WHEN YOU REMEMBER BLACK HAWK DOWN, REMEMBER THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT THEIR WAY IN. 🇺🇸
October 3–4, 1993. Mogadishu.
Rangers and Delta operators were pinned down. Americans were wounded. Two Black Hawks were down.
The 10th Mountain Division answered the call.
The Golden Dragons of 2-14 Infantry, alongside attached infantrymen and engineers, fought through ambushes, barricades, and heavy fire. Malaysian armored vehicles and Pakistani tanks helped the rescue force reach the trapped Americans.
This wasn’t a convoy rolling in after the fighting stopped. They fought their way in and helped get the wounded and survivors out.
SGT Cornell Houston and PFC James Martin lost their lives. More than 20 other 10th Mountain soldiers were wounded.
Remember their names. Remember the men who went back into those streets.
@Boots_N_Chutes
@cmrowe77
@TheIOGuy
👇 Did you know the 10th Mountain’s role in the rescue?
#10thMountain #Mogadishu #BlackHawkDown #ClimbToGlory #neverforget
Dan Kemp Author retweeted
Does anyone else find it interesting that everyone wants to talk about why JFK was assassinated and who may have been behind it BUT never about who actually pulled the trigger?
Everyone also knows (that has a functional brain) that LHO didn’t kill JFK even if he fired a gun that day. But if they can keep you arguing about that you never get to the part of: WHO ACTUALLY PULLED THE TRIGGER? SEVERAL TIMES?
JFK’s assassination is one of THE most important reasons why almost no one in America has ever heard about NATO’s secret armies and Operation Gladio. Why? Because once you understand it and read the information already available you will unequivocally conclude that NATO secret army assassins killed JFK. Period. They pulled the triggers.
They don’t want you to conclude that bc you’d notice immediately that Gen Lyman Lemnitzer was NATO’s military commander at the time. The same guy that signed Operation Northwood. The plan to use our Gladio element in the US (Cuban exiles) to kill Americans dressed up as Castro’s Cubans in false flag operations to justify a ground invasion. That plan was written in coordination with the CIA. Allen Dulles sat in the alternate command post watching his operation take place 22 Nov 1963 as the PREVIOUS CIA director. Someone should figure out just when the first draft of Northwood was written.
Lemnitzer also sat beside Dulles at Operation Sunrise with Nazi Gen Wolfe where the agreement was reached to transfer the stay behind Nazi unit ls to the US control which morphed into Operation Gladio: NATO’s secret armies via Detachment Alpha which Gen Eisenhower and Lemnitzer oversaw in Europe.
Pile on the fact that the oil magnates in Texas, through cutouts, paid for Eisenhower’s farm and the Rockefeller’s (oil) funded his presidential campaign and the picture becomes even clearer.
The cover up of the JFK was deemed so important by every president, why? Because it exposes NATO, the US military, CIA, FBI, LBJ, Congress, big oil, even a Supreme Court justice.
My only question at this point is how many French OAS assassins were on the ground in Dallas? I’m working on an article that will answer that question using all the information I’ve uncovered with source documents and you can decide for yourselves. My only question remaining is why won’t anyone else even talk about any of this?
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Afwan, whayn al hamam, ya saidi.
Arabic version. “Excuse me, where is the bathroom, sir?”
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Most of the blood is the same as those “famine Irish” though, the plantations drew heavily from southwest Scotland, Ayshire etc.
Those regions have very high Gael/Insular Celtic descent
I’d estimate the Scots Irish coming to America were probably 60-70% Insular Celtic stock
Most Americans who call themselves Irish aren’t talking about the same thing as the famine Irish of Boston and New York.
A huge number are really Scots-Irish — English and Scottish border stock, Protestant frontier people whose ancestors came out of the borderlands, were planted in Ulster, then pushed into Appalachia, Tennessee, Kentucky and the South.
Not Dublin. Not Cork. Not the tenements. A harder, older story of border clans, rifles, honour, feuds, distrust of authority and life on the edge of empire.
The green beer version of Irish-American identity hides a lot. For millions, the real roots are English, Scottish, Ulster, frontier, Presbyterian, hill country and rebellion.
Different people. Different history. Different temperament. 🏴🏴🇬🇧
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There was a grim dignity to the "You are to be hung by the neck until dead, may God have mercy on your soul" way of doing things. Just saying.
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.@SECWAR “Today—at my direction—we are launching FORTRESS America—a national insurance policy for the American homeland.
FORTRESS stands for: Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability.
And here is what FORTRESS calls for:
Every major military installation in America is going to generate its own power. Independent of the civilian grid. If an adversary takes down the grid—by cyberattack, by sabotage, by any means—our bases stay lit. Our aircraft keep flying. Our command centers never go dark.
We are bringing our critical supply chains home. The rare earths, the specialty metals, the semiconductors, the propellants—mined in America, refined in America, built in America, by American workers.”
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One of the oldest gun memes out there really influenced me.
"HEY, that's a GUN!" is a great joke because it's stretch.
I really push the limit of "This is PG-13/SFW" in @woafterdark ads
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I have a request. I need to contact members of my old unit, the one I went to Desert Storm with. I need to contact members of 2nd Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division. Especially members of D/2-504. I was their first sergeant.
If you know of or have contact with Desert Storm veterans of this battalion, please DM me and I will give my contact info.
This is a request for reposts as well. I have information about the VA's ability to provide healthcare for my brothers. Our battalion was the one who occupied this area and I'm paying the price with neuropathy and fibromyalgia. My symptoms are under control. I would like to see that all of my troops get the same care.
In March of 1991, following the end of Operation Desert Storm, paratroopers from 2-504 were occupying the area in southeastern Iraq encompassing Khamisiyah conducted two large scale demolition operations to destroy the Iraqi munitions and facilities in the area. Before the demolition, the Khamisiyah facility was a large ammunition storage depot and it was believed to house only conventional ammunition. When these operations were carried out, it apparently was unknown that the rockets stored in the facilities contained weaponized sarin and cyclosarin chemicals.
Please help me get in contact with my troops.
And all those tankers are drone targets unless we figure out ADA real fast again.
Fuel is the bill payer we keep cutting. In LSCO it is the thing that stops the ABCT.
We talk CPs.
We talk PAAs.
We talk rehearsals.
We talk drones.
We still treat Class III like a supporting cast member.
That is malpractice.
An M1 does not care about your slide. It burns ~17 gallons an hour sitting still and 45–57 gallons an hour moving. A current ABCT is planned at ~65,000 gallons a day average and ~100,000 at the high end. A heavy CAB can out-drink the brigade. Stack three ABCTs plus aviation and you are back in the same neighborhood as 24th Infantry Division on G-Day: four hundred thousand gallons a day and climbing.
Desert Storm is the case study we quote and then refuse to finish reading.
VII Corps wanted 2.4–2.5 million gallons a day. XVIII Airborne Corps wanted 2.1 million. That was ~900 tanker loads a day. 3d Armored Division did not fight on the MTOE. It stole the Army’s extra tankers, nearly doubled the MSB from 34 to 66, stuffed 20 more 5,000-gallon trailers into each FSB, and ran a round-robin of full trucks forward and empties back because the 5k tanker could not keep up with M1s off-road. 24th ID FSBs had to stop and recharge three times in 36 hours and pulled more than 100 COSCOM tankers forward to do it. Thirty 5,000-gallon trailers sat unemployed in one sector because nobody had the cross-country prime movers to pull them.
That machine still needed host-nation tankers, Saudi refineries, uncontested MSRs, convoy support centers every 150 miles, and C-130s dumping 100–120k gallons a day into Log Base Charlie.
And it was a 100-hour push.
Not sustained LSCO.
Not a peer who can see every BSA, LRP, and tanker column to the depth of the corps.
Not a battlefield where the log base is an HPT and the MSR is a kill zone.
We took that war, called logistics a solved problem, and spent the next thirty years chopping the force that made it possible. COSCOM mass became modular attachments. Bag farms came out of the BSB. Static Class III now lives one echelon higher at the DSSB, if that battalion can reach you. The FSC is a better retail link than 1991. The haul behind it is thinner unless someone attaches a petroleum company. TRMs and M978s are not a substitute for 320 five-thousand-gallon tankers sitting in a COSCOM. Lean logistics is a kind-world hobby.
You live or die by logistics.
Armor leaders have to be logistical geniuses or the formation dies in the first fuel halt. Strength starts with fuel. Operational reach is not a talking point. It is gallons on wheels that can survive the geometry of a lethal, deep battlefield.
Study Desert Storm carefully. Then subtract the sanctuary. Subtract the 100 hours. Subtract the Saudi truck fleet. Add SUAS, long-range fires, and a peer who will hunt every tanker.
That is the war we say we are building for.
Stop making sustainment the bill payer for other slots.
Stop training “just in time” so the rotation stays green.
Put fuel, trucks, and protected distribution back on the MTOE and into the dirt at the CTC.
Or keep pretending.
The enemy will not.
#LSCO #RaiseTheBlack
Dan Kemp Author retweeted
Rank says one thing. Reality says another.
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When it comes to know how with fighting rifles, the Viking Tactics guy (you probably are familiar with the VTAC barricade) wrote a literal book on being deadly with em.
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