Is it even the Christmas season without a full Star Wars rewatch?
Rogue One, tonight. One of the finest war movies ever made.
Just a terrific film all-around, really.
I love that you can see Chopper, the droid from Rebels, in the background on Yavin 4
I still can't believe that K2SO isn't the official mascot for SAMS
@AlanTudyk does such a great job voicing K2SO. Just as he does with everything, really.
I love this movie because it shows how the Rebellion was such a complete mess of disparate groups with differing goals, morals, and ends/means
Just like every rebellion
Krennic's "So I'm still in command" remark to Vader is like when you've just finished counseling a subordinate on some dumb shit they've done and at the end they're like, "Hey, why don't I ever get awards?"
Blue Squadron's close air support knocking out the AT-ACTs is just sort of beautiful from this ground pounder's heart
This is such a beautifully shot film, too
Oh K2SO
Ah, @XOofXOs favorite scene, where Y-Wings finally do something and destroy a Star Destroyer after the X-Wings have been carrying the burden of the fight
As usual
That last shot of Jyn and Cassian tho
Rogue One is a thoroughly beautiful film that is also a Star Wars movie and it gets better every time I see it. Thanks @chrisweitz and everyone who worked on it
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Since the Lee monument was FINALLY removed from the Capital today, I thought it would be fun to look back at the moment of national unity in 1910 that brought it there in first pla- oh, wait, no, the opposite happened.
Here's New York's GAR with a WTF and a GH Thomas namedrop
Here's Indiana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a double shotted "aw hell no"
Lol Horatio Gates wanted to invade Canada again in the DEAD OF WINTER in 1778, putting Lafayette in charge - who finally got to Albany in Feb & found a tiny, ill-equipped invasion force. L wrote to GW about the insane plan, the first GW had heard of it. GW then wrote Gates to
Gates was such a moron when it came to field operations. Gawd. What an incompetent buffoon.
Washington, sitting in Valley Forge, freezing his ass off, trying to keep his army together, reading Gates' plans to invade Canada in the winter (again):
There's a special type of rage that exists when you go to leave in the morning and find that the snow plow has made yet *another* pass and left a berm of hard-packed snow blocking the driveway
I know they don't mean to do it but
They totally do
You see, winter is a campaign. And you have to fight it as such, using combined arms operations to survive. It is a months-long combined arms breach. First you create a lane in your driveway. Then you improve the lane. Then you breach footpaths for your dismounts
You also have to create sustainment lanes - for your CL III and your CL I/VI. Your enemy, the snow, only cares about countermobility. It will sometimes work in concert with the snow plow to repair a breach if you don't provide overwatch, forcing a hasty breach IOT get to work
How the HELL had I never heard of August Bondi, "Enthusiastic Jew & lover of humanity," Austrian, part of the failed '48 revolt in Vienna, settled in Kansas, become a Free Soiler, ran Underground RR, fought slavers alongside John Brown, & was WIA as 1SG of Co K, 5th Kansas Cav?
This dude wrote an autobiography
Well there's me for the afternoon
Holy crap, it is GOOD: "my parents always impressed upon their children that Jews or Christians, high or low, all are children of a common Father. These principles affected my conduct all through life"
Reading his accounts of the students forming a national guard in Vienne in 1848, organized by colleges of study is just WILD. He joined the 5th Company of the Battalion of the Philosophy Faculty
CBS is airing the results of its year and a half long investigation into the US military's broken sexual harassment and assault prevention system, I wanted to relay a few thoughts:
1) they're absolutely right. It's broken
2)most male servicemembers have no idea how broken it is
TW: sexual assault/harassment
A little while back, I was an investigating officer on a case of sexual harassment/assault. I can't share any specifics on it. But I wanted to share observations that might be helpful for people who think "it doesn't happen in my unit"
1) commanders are often oblivious but think they know everything going on in the unit 2) Sr unit members say things like "that's just the way x is, he wouldn't actually do anything" 3) victims are usually jr (E4-O1) 4) assaulters hide behind reputation of "being really competent"