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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper

15 Dec

Welp, I finished grading. I got my booster, so I'm kinda out of it. My coworker gave me some awesome rum-filled eggnog.

Guess I'll lay in bed and watch "Patton" because it's been a while since I had a good laugh

It's important to remember that Patton did not have George C Scott's gravelly voice. He had almost an academic, nasally, higher-pitched drawl

And that makes all these lines absolutely *hilarious*

Real Cold War flex going on here, using M-60s as US tanks versus Soviet T-55s as German tanks. This will never not crack me up

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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper

15 Nov

My dad, 1955

This would explain why we always had about 15 dogs when I was growing up...

It's really, really, really a massive relief to find out that your dad wasn't a racist in 1956. Racism was never anything he modeled when I was growing up, but it's good to see it in his letters that he is disgusted with the actions of white southerners while he's at UNC

When my dad wrote, sarcastically, "The south is on the move" and put an arrow pointing to "south" with the caption "not worth capitalizing" he was commenting on the actions of students at the University of Alabama on Feb 7, '56 re: Autherine Lucy, a Black coed

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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper

13 Nov

https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1456030793961181190

ok so i know it's been a hot minute since i yeeted this meme into the internet but i've only just now had enough bourbon to explain it in its full glory

https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1456030793961181190

right, so this whole story revolves around my dude clarence ransom edwards from the great STATE OF OHIO. Born in the Land of Cleve, he's a bit of an irascible SOB, so I guess that's why he runs of to West Point to do whatever it is that they do there to make ossifers

My boi doesn't go great at the point of west. Like, not great at all. Fully last in his class. And not gonna lie, kinda respect him for that

the reason? Dude has a tongue sharper than a razor and isn't cray about the rules. Which yeah, would make time at WP pretty tough

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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper

13 Nov

https://twitter.com/ArmyTimes/status/1459300914079092738

Looking forward to reenacting 1986 when states who didn't want to their troops deployed outside the US suddenly discovered that the DOD was very willing to let them do whatever they wanted...minus, you know, all the federal equipment and money that the states relief on

https://twitter.com/ArmyTimes/status/1459300914079092738

Weirdly, states backed down when they realized, "oh, yeah, we'd actually have to pay for stuff if we went rogue"

Not sure how many people realize that since legislation in 1903, 1916, & 1920, states don't really pay much towards their National Guard

Court cases followed, namely Perpich vs DOD, but the states kept losing. Also, Congress passed the Montgomery Act that said governors didn't have a say in the deployment of their troops under federal authorities, since all Guard troops have dual status under the law

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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper

11 Nov

Okay, bear with me, I'm about to get super sentimental about doughboys, Y-girls, Red Cross workers, Hello Girls, and all those of that incredible generation who answered the call. These amazing men and women - ordinary kids, so many of them - who did extraordinary things

Sure, we can look at stats: how the US Army surged from just over 200,000 regulars and Guardsmen in 1917 to nearly 4 million in a year and a half. How women volunteered in numbers never seen before in this nation.

But that doesn't show the humanity of these people

Doughboys are one of the funniest, most sardonic groups in US Army history. Engaged in one of the deadliest wars in human history, they spent their spare hours teasing each other, playing pranks on each other, and just, well, being goofs

You can almost hear the laughter in this

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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper

11 Nov

in THIS house we celebrate Armistice Day - "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace" - and what could be more peaceful than the animals that Doughboys befriended, rescued, or otherwise glommed on to during WWI because, well, animals are just terrific

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Hi Mutt! Mutt's a YMCA cigarette delivery dog because hey, what's good when you've just survived a gas attack? Giving those scarred lungs a smoke delivered by a delightful French bulldog who only desires head scritches in payment