Yes. An army marches on its stomach. An army with motivated young black soldiers who volunteered to serve doing the cooking is already a step ahead of the enemy.
On my very first combat flight, a CW3 told me to “find your fucking radio voice and use it.” Best advice I ever got.
Warrant officers are a national treasure.
Forgot to mention:
- former McKinsey EM ($350k annually)
- former Strategy & Innovation Director for Ohio Health
- Five years as CEO with 2x VC funding rounds
- Husband “works in manufacturing” as Sr Manager of a steel facility (also former McK)
Used Honda though! Just like you!
Hi, I’m Lindsey. A bit about me:
- Ohio mother of 4
- I employ a team of 15 as a start-up founder & CEO of Strongsuit
- drive a used Honda Odessey
- husband works in manufacturing
- The financial future of my company, team and family are at risk w/ the collapse of SVB (1/23)
Never taken any American fighter pilot in the GWOT who talks about “being in combat” seriously. They faced literally no danger from the enemy. None. Not even in OIF I.
Sorry guys, you were a bomb truck for dropping JDAMs on people in sandals. End of story.
1. Take inaccurate small arms fire
2. Retreat to MRAPs
3. Call pilots in aluminium helicopters to engage with and destroy the enemy using precision gun, rocket, and missile fires
4. RTB
5. Collect CIB
6. Refer to pilots as “fuckin POGs”
Transatlantic red-eye last night. Sat next to a Boomer dad in jorts. He raw-dogged the entire flight. No book. No iPad. No computer. No iphone. Refused the free headphones. Didn’t even get a drink with dinner. I don’t mean no booze. He got no LIQUID. Hardest shit I’ve ever seen.
Honest to god former O6s on LinkedIn are so embarrassing.
“I felt totally LOST during my transition from the military. I didn’t know how I was going to navigate this change or even WHERE to start.”
My god. You make like $90k/yr just for waking up. Spend some on self-awareness.
I am once again asking field grade officers who leave the military, with tears in my eyes, to stop thinking the world needs another “leadership development consultancy” and that you are the one to teach the secret of effective team leadership to managers.
Jack is not only widely disliked by many of his former peers, but also had convicted child sex predator Scott Ritter on his podcast…so maybe nobody needs to really give a shit about anything he says.
@GhostHostJustin
The primary difference between flying an airplane and flying a helicopter. When shit goes wrong in a helicopter, it usually happens in a flight regime that leaves you about 3 secs to fix it. If it’s fixable (which I’d guess this was not).
Yemen didn’t kill a single person when they were taking over those ships and rerouting them out of the Red Sea.
America killed an entire crew of Yemenis in the water today.
Muslims have always done everything possible to avoid unnecessary killing while America tries to kill
Real talk: one of the reasons a lot of veterans—*especially officers*—struggle in post-military careers is that the work-life balance in the military is actually really, really great about 90% of the time. If you want to make great money after the military you have two ways… 1/
I know nothing of this gentleman. I offer this picture for no reason other than he, too, is from Ohio. He rests in the bosom of the French soil where he fell. He should—for at least a moment—be thought of and remembered.
If you let this play long enough, it reaches the 5-year point and it’s ROTC & OCS grads with communications degrees from Directional State A&M realizing they’re going to be financial advisors at Northwestern Mutual.
Real talk: way too many of y’all like being able to say you’re in the military without wanting to do military stuff like be in shape or learn doctrine or lead by example.
Elon has stated that he plants to quintuple Twitter revenue. He also said he wants to reduce the importance of advertising. Revenue today is 90% from advertising. Elon is aiming for 50%. That still requires 2.5x ad spend vs. today. This place isn’t turning into Parler. Chill.
I get that they never will, but USMA needs to stop jerking off so thoroughly to a guy who graduated at the height of Vietnam and spent his entire Army career coaching pointless exhibition basketball teams before ETSing at the first opportunity.
Guys, do NOT let your wife have a personal trainer. She’ll sleep with him while she “goes to the gym.”
Be like Dale. Let her have a boyfriend she bangs in your bed while you quietly yank it in the bathroom, muttering “there are only two genders” as you climax.
#alphamalebetadale
@BuckHusky
I love how not a single one of these crybabies explains why they used SVB and had no risk controls. Why is a Honda-driving, salt-of-the-earth, hubby-works-down-the-steel-mill Ohio startup CEO using SVB (which has no offices in Ohio)? Because all the cool kids were doing it.
I want to ask the CGs of Army Cyber (
@ArmyChiefCyber
) and Cyber CoE (
@CG_CyberForge
) why their BCAP process made this guy, Joe Marty, a Bn commander. That any Army leader—esp. in Cyber—would not only hold these values but post them online is an indictment of BCAP and the branch.
If you went to a private school for college, the yellow portion represents how much time per day you’re allowed to spend complaining about your student debt:
Gonna annoy Jack with a screenshot.
I love giving the Navy shit for its failings. Jack & his pals rightfully do the same to the Army. However, I spent a lot of time on Navy flat tops. One area where the Navy is unimpeachable is safety procedures during flight quarters. 1/
Show me an “iron major” and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t know how to delegate, doesn’t trust anyone, and hordes things he thinks are important to his image/eval.
Kids, if you build a good team and develop your people into , a task passed is a task completed.
A note to the FGOs and whomstever else is about to announce their selection to command the 9-32nds Wrench Repair Battalion (Airborne) or some similarly obscure—but no doubt storied—formation.
You are honored.
Not humbled.
Not honored and humbled.
Honored.
If you’re a former FGO who used one of those military transition programs to get a job you could never otherwise hope to be hired into, don’t you dare badmouth the military or the people who enabled your career and the unearned opportunity you’ve been handed.
Call-aheads happen.
Officers are really on this site complaining about having to meet the standards of the profession of arms. If you think your MOS-specific technical capabilities are so exceptional that you should be judged on those alone, there’s an entire private sector for that.
@Snakeeater36
Love that gun pilot approach…”hey we took a bunch of fire over there and I’m shot up bad…my guns are inop…so I’m gonna go back and work ‘em over with rockets.”
@FunnyLikeAClown
“No riches.” She and her hubs didn’t leave McKinsey for less comp, that’s for sure.
And she lives in Powell, OH. A Cbus suburb where the median home costs $500,000.
No riches.
Pro-tip for junior officers:
Maybe you don't want to pick fights with senior NCOs because they've been around a minute and would not risk getting heat or looking stupid against a baby Captain. If you push them into an argument, they will (crush you, I mean) defend themselves...
One of the best ways you can prepare yourself for competitive private sector jobs is to build efficiency in your daily routine. Measure yourself by what you got done today—decisions made, actions taken, outcomes achieved. The stuff that adds value. Not just keeping the lights on.
@Kiptong
With a steady reduction in thrust combined with appropriate cyclic and pedal inputs to maintain attitude as necessary to affect a descent and landing.
Rocked up at a Notting Hill boozer with a half-American pal and proceeded win a pub quiz against 10 teams of 6 or more.
Named ourselves “The Jennings’” and started swinging our American public school educations around like unregistered firearms.
The military is not a demanding work environment from that perspective. Everything is slow. Costs aren’t real. Time is fungible. Most days in the military demand nothing of you in terms of output. Lots of admin tasks, sure. But little or no value creation. 5/
In the wake of the
@PatDonahoeArmy
“scandal” for “unprofessional” social media posts…how can you in good conscience turn around and assess this individual as a leader worthy of soldiers? Is this what
@ARCYBER
thinks is acceptable?
In the last week I’ve seen
@LethalityJane
and
@TheIOGuy
and other accs highlight stories like this guy & the NCOs in Poland.
But like…where is OCPA on this? Why is no one in the
#Army
promoting Army stories. You have more money and resources than us. New chief but same OCPA?
On October 2nd, 1835 – The first battle of the Texas Revolution began near Gonzales.
Every day in the Senate, I wear my boots which are emblazoned with the Gonzales Battle Flag – as a reminder to stand up and fight for the 30 million Texans that I proudly represent.
Literally no American gets to tell these dudes shit about their engagement methods. There isn’t an American RW pilot in uniform who’s flown in anything remotely close to what’s happening in Ukraine.
@a_lshtshfum
@UAWeapons
It doesn’t matter how well they’re maintained. They’re not designed for that duty/heat. Even a brand new one will fail in that scenario.
Leadership isn’t a distinct skill. Ops is bog standard stuff. Intel? Reading & repackaging emails isn’t a skill. LinkedIn makes it obvious how real this problem is. You can’t swing a dead cat without seeing an O5 who “builds high performance teams.” Good luck selling that... 3/
@O3hasbeen
As someone with a ton of experience across the joint SOF enterprise, making people learn, fuck up, and grow in the conventional force before joining a SOF formation makes all the difference in the world. NSW and AFSOC can trace so much of their culture failure to that.
@BuckHusky
Literally got $3-4M in free SV VC money to build something that already exists, brags about paying her people in illiquid, valueless equity and was writing $10,000 personal checks with 4 kids because her husband’s salary is enough.
Not the “tech elite” though.
This is why so many vets end up in big, slow corporations—especially those that serve the DoD or other government entities. They have cultures that are very similar to the military. Lots of branding. Lots of values on the wall. Lots of cubicles. Not much done on any given day. 6/
Honestly one of the biggest failures of the GCC model is that the Theatre Special Operations Commands (e.g. SOCEUR, SOCPAC) get filled with people who have no special operations experience or expertise. That, and the SOF enterprise long made TSOCs dumping grounds for flameouts.
The first is to have a very specific, technical, and sought-after skillset. Lawyer. Doctor. Pilot. Cybersecurity. Network ops. That sort of stuff. This is why many officers struggle to find their next thing and to be good at it: most officers have few distinct skills. 2/
In the Army, ordnance is boring. The stakes are generally low. In the Navy they’re a ruthless cult of standards, because one fuck-up can lead to the Forrestal. Or worse. So when something like this happens it is as close to an act of god as anything reasonably can be. 4/
The same people who try to tell you the military has worse work-life balance than well-paid private sector roles had a late work call today because—let me check my notes here—there was a big football game last night.
If you arrive at a Navy ship with an aircraft, you’d better know your shit. Radio calls. Requests. Approach & dep patterns. Deck ops. LSE signals. The human skittles and how each of them serves the mission—and what you owe them. The JSHIPS/NATOPS manuals are biblical. 2/
Vet on LinkedIn: “Master Sgts not Master’s Degrees! Discipline! Strategy! Operations! CEOing! Comms! Green Beret! Behoove! How dare you even *suggest* vets aren’t the best talent in the market?!”
Also Vet: “I deserve Skillbridge to make me competitive after my years of service.”
Tired: simping the A-10 forever because one yeeted some Talib with an AK out of his Jerusalem cruisers for you and you think Russia’s shit air defense means it has a future
Wired: realizing how badly the US needs an upgraded VADS/Avenger/Linebacker/Chapparal SHORAD capability
One of the things I respect about the Navy so much is the rigor and professionalism on the flight deck. They are always working and training. Flight quarters is serious business, where nothing is left to chance. 3/
America making a toilet: “The answer is porcelain. Non-porous, non-stick, and stain resistant. Very durable. The perfect choice.”
Europe: “What does shit stick to? Like REALLY STICK. Not just a bad one. Literally *any* poop. Use that.”
Honestly you have to respect the absolute temerity it takes to call yourself a national security & military expert after a career at Deloitte and refereeing hockey.
Levels of shamelessness here I hadn’t even considered before.
@terrancesavery
I love OCS grads because so many of them have weird ass backgrounds like “I was a bond trader in Hong Kong until the financial crisis” or “I played professional jai alai and was a machinist’s mate on a crab boat in the offseason” and whatnot.
I had to give up a soldier for 3 months from a USASOC unit to be a lifeguard at an on-post swim facility. Shut up, you soft-headed waste of two functioning kidneys.
@LethalityJane
I can’t believe the Army would do this. We had 3 kids while I served, and my wife’s mom and grandma flew to us to help. How do you run a unit with folks out for 3 months?
Pro-tip: don’t be afraid to email someone’s boss—especially someone junior to you—to report on what a good job they’re doing. People need that encouragement. Young people really need encouragement, and to feel seen.
Emails are free.
Lol your service bought its own entire automatic rifle you pissbabies. And LCpl Chud is great at flat range marksmanship because his only deployments are on MEU exercises teaching random African partners to shoot.
Short story about Prince Harry and combat.
Prince Harry joined the British Army as an officer in 2006. When I was in Iraq in 2007, Prince Harry personally was not there. He was somewhere else doing whatever he was supposed to be doing.
The end.
#PrinceHarry
The Remnants of an Army, Jellalabad, January 13, 1842
William Brydon, assistant surgeon in the Bengal Army, arrives at the gates of Jalalabad as the assumed sole survivor of the retreat from Kabul.