1/6 Happy #Juneteenth from a retired USAF historian!
Let's look at how Air Force bases in the south handled "Colored Enlisted Personnel" at the height of #WWII in 1944.
You'll learn a white officer can GO INSANE and it's no big deal, but if your skin pigmentation is… 😬
2/6 "Demotion or Separation of Unsatisfactory [White] Officers" begins on p.164. It was an issue, of course, but our young Air Force didn't see it as a terrible concern. It just … "was" an issue, if you know what I mean.
3/6 White officers' problems were such that in one case, "the findings of #insanity by a Medical Board were being considered in connection with another Second Lieutenant." Even cadets' problems were handled on an individual basis.
1/4 #TheBoys #FanTheory: we learn #Homelander has built up a truly insane cache of money
Homelander takes a day off from Vought to enjoy some "me" time. He flies over the Gulf of Mexico in search of narco subs. He finds one inbound to the U.S...
2/4 It reaches shore and narco team "A" unloads the cargo. Homelander watches patiently while carrying a strong cable. Team "B" loads the sub with money and it sets sail.
Homelander pounces on the sub! He kills the two-man crew and uses the cable to bind the water-tight boxes...
3/4 Homelander flies off with the money as the sub plunges to the abyss. He lands at some unknown desolate spot where he finds a huge metal hinged lid surrounded by shards of metal cables.
He turns over the lid to reveal a silo with 6' thick walls holding neatly stacked boxes...
Okay! It's #HappyVeteransDay and I'm about to bust a cap on a new bottle to make a Yukon Jack "Snakebite" mixed drink so I can toast all my military brethren.
So, let's talk about that time in 2003 in Iraq when the U.S. Air Force nearly went to war with the Dutch Marine Corps!
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I'll tag @KimZetter, @Doctrine_Man, and @doctrinatrix_C2 because I did promise to tell this story one day.
So, it's 2003. Iraq. The "war" is over and we're basically the mop-up crew. I'm the 3H0x1 assigned to document all air ops in Iraq. POW Jessica Lynch has been...
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retrieved, "Killer Chick" wiped out the ground forces who severed 1/3 of a wing from her A-10, and Saddam Hussein remains at large.
(Fun anecdote: contractors dismantled her A-10, packed it in boxes, and sent it home via Navy cargo.)
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It's been a while since I talked about the BarnOwl case study vs. Hootsuite.
So, let's talk.
BarnOwl repeatedly proved its point in many different ways, showing how Hootsuite makes #unnecessary work for PR folks who do it to justify their paychecks.
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…UI/UX disparity is unique in that its customer base would have fewer PR chairs in the office if they improved efficiency.
How efficient, you might ask?
I run (ran?) a half-dozen Twitter 'bots as a hobby and my personal & professional accounts sen[d|t] daily tweets…
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And I had just created @Digits_Analysis for folks playing a still-in-beta game from #NYTGames. Writing the analyzer took some effort; setting up its 'bot proved trivial. FACT: it took longer to create its Twitter account than to configure BarnOwl to run it as a 'bot…
Welp, Twitter is dying and I just poured my first Yukon Jack snakebite to celebrate!
So, let me tell you about the time I (a Master Sergeant) argued with the aircraft commander (a major) to divert his C-130 to avoid a missile attack in Iraq!
It's 2003 and BUFFALO 28 is flying 40 soldiers to Kuwait for a funeral ceremony. It's part of a two-ship with BUFFALO 30 carrying seven caskets. ⚰️
Wing commander Col (BGen select) Gibson has stopped BUFFALO 28 on the runway so I can board as Historian. nytimes.com/2003/11/02/int…
BGen-select Gibson understands the gravity of the situation and he's tossing me aboard to document the mission. As the only 3H0x1 in Iraq, I'm something of a diplomat to the other military services when we do casket transfers. Our presence lends the commander's gravitas.