As appropriate for the Christmas season, it's time for Star Wars: A New Hope

Someone is not as excited as I am and is already falling asleep
Man, that white interior of the Rebel ship must've been a nightmare to keep clean

Probably had the crew spending all the time cleaning it rather than working on boarding drills

Explains why they couldn't hit anything
Altho the marksmanship thing, not their fault. Obi Wan says it almost right away - "Not as clumsy or random as a blaster"

Energy weapons are all sorta problematic, apparently
Giving stormtrooper NCOs and commanders the heavy weapons for the squad is one sign that the corps is in trouble and has gotten lazy. You can't run the gun while also directing movements. Sad to see the institutional knowledge of the GAR completely dissipated
With all the times that homing beacons have led to bad things in the Star Wars universe, I don't understand why scanning for them isn't a part of every preventative maintenance check
Why I love Star Wars

I can be like, yes, serious things, serious thing, tactical analysis, blah, blah, blah

Then the X-Wings do a wingover in their first attack on the Death Star and I'm suddenly 8 years old again and absolutely entranced
That said, I'm SO thankful that the awards ceremony is the last time we see that stupid yellow jacket of Luke's

That thing needed to perish in the first blast of the Death Star

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23 Dec
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.
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22 Dec
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"
Vermont with a "get lost"
timesargus.com/news/local/vt-…
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19 Dec
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):
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18 Dec
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
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19 Nov
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

That is just begging for satire...
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19 Nov
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"
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