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18 Apr

Look, it's April 17, and that means we drink for Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, ok

I don't make the rules, I just enforce em

Now, you might ask WHY we do such a thing, and I say, we drink for DDP because OTD in '63, the Rebs in Vicksburg, MS had a VERY BAD MORNING INDEED

First up, an apology to the US Navy because an Army guy is gonna talk navy stuff. But only a small apology. Because reasons. With that out of the way:

D Squared Porter. What a dude. Weren't allowed to be in his family unless you were a naval hero. Straight up.

Like, to the point of his dad, Commodore David Porter, adopting a kid named James whose mom had died and that kids changes his name to David, too, joins the Navy and becomes the first full admiral in US Navy history

David motherflippin damn your torpedoes Farragut

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7 Apr

Two COAs diverged in MDMP
And sorry I could not choose them both
But be one decision-maker, long I stood
And looked at one as long as I could
Till it was come my time to brief

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was feasible, distinguishable too,
Tho as for that, the acceptability there
Had worn them really about the same

I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Sometime, many orders and orders hence,
Two COAs diverged and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
The throwaway COA didn't make a difference

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29 Mar

My 11 year old niece has been writing comics of Loki and Severus Snape

She's actually fairly awesome

More Severus and Loki. Niece says that this is derivative of something already in existence, but I think it's delightful

More adventures of Loki and Snape. The niece has introduced Mcgonagall to the mix

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Angry Staff Officer

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26 Mar

I need gin

A memoir of ASO

Official Army accounts whenever I mention gin:

Hello, yes, ASO here, I'd like to order some more gin

Wait is this not the gin window

There should totally be such a thing as a gin window.

Anyways while I've got you here

DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT OUR FAVORITE ASSCLOWN, GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN

#drunjhistory

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Angry Staff Officer

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21 Mar

Due to my weird-ass self giving up TV for lent in 2003, I have no memories of watching the invasion of Iraq

I do, however, remember seeing B-52s flying over when I visited England in that timeframe

What a strange era. I was so trusting of government.

I began college in the fall of 2004 at a very conservative school. We were told by professors that it was a just war. A necessary war. One professor, in 2006, scoffed at the insurgency, saying it couldn't even manage to get the 18 US troops KIA per day that Vietnam had

We were so disconnected. One of my friends came back from a deployment with his reserve unit. One Sunday at Mass, the mic popped during the priest's sermon and he dove for cover under a pew. He emerged shamefacedly laughing it off. We all thought it was "cool"

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19 Mar

Always good to remember that the US Army "broke the Klan's back" in the early 1870s. But the compromise to end Reconstruction 1876-77 and begin "Reconciliation" allowed them right back in, and the terror and intimidation began again

When we say "institutionalized racism" we mean a world where a traitor can become Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the 20th century and use that position to ensure the continuation of segregation. He was 1 of 3 ex-Confederates to serve on SCOTUS after the war

Until you realize and accept that 1865-1964 was a continuation of the Civil War via an insurgency from outside the political system (KKK, paramilitary violence, lynching) and inside it, you cannot hope to understand the United States of today

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