I am reminded of my first weekend in the National Guard, which was a bit of a culture shock coming in from active duty USMC Recon, fresh back from the war ( like 2 months prior).

https://twitter.com/jasoncolavito/status/1761091441013493817

We are sitting around the campfire ( much to my horror and disgust) with no adult supervision. After “completing” a children’s level land nav exercise. Mind you, national guard SF has two things- a Special Forces Company, and a non qual platoon. 95% of the non qual platoon

This came out on thursday on @zerohedge , finally got around to it. no link, but its easy to find w a simple search.

like I've said before, it doesn't matter if you belief hocus pocus etc is real. it matters if they do. and they do. this is the same as us not believing in Islam. Our lack of belief didn't stop the guys with S vests and a winning attitude. it didn't stop ISIS from burning people in cages. superstitious nonsense to us or not, belief is a powerful weapon. and what an enemy believes tells us a damn lot about them.

Update- Badger Ordinance reached out this morning, and we had a very nice conversation. The guy that called me knew his shit too, and customer service like this is one of the reasons Badger is one of my favorite brands. Before we get to the meat of that call, why was I so invested in Badger Ordinance to start with?

https://twitter.com/wayofftheres/status/1729107748946640951

Experience. Not only being a two service sniper, but teaching both SOTIC and the USMC Urban Sniper course, I saw a lot of equipment failures. 90% of the time, in bolt guns, that failure was scope rings. An assload of R&D money plus time lead to a conclusion- if it doesn’t say Larue or

SR-25 story- while I make breakfast. Aka, “mil spec” is not exactly confidence inspiring if you know what’s up. Year of our Lord 2007 or so, doing a raid into Sadr City. You know , going to ole SC, it’s going to be a party. Everytime. Like bring spare mags and grenades, possibly up The life insurance kinda party. Assault goes down, snipers to the roof, as per SOP. Keep the Mongolian horde off the assault teams while they do whatever inside the tgt, bay clean up and try to keep the zombies out of machine gun range. ( MGs are on trucks, street level obv, this

1) this does feel like a setup. Manifesto already out, Christ Church style writing on gun, etc

2) even if it’s not, this is part of THEIR goal. If you want to ensure a high body count, a race war is the one to start. Prairie Fire talks about this, as does Concrete Jungle. 3) it’s easy to manipulate this into being. Tensions are already high, and the sides have been fed enough propaganda to start on at least small scale, and it’s escalating. Backlash was / is inevitable, and it’s a cycle that is near impossible to stop once it starts in earnest. A

Did they learn nothing from @budlight and @Ford ? Lol, @thenorthface just committed brand suicide. Or did they? Many of you are looking at this from a tactical lens, not a strategic lens, and you need to expand your vision. This is the ad in question so we are all caught up . And a video link from the @newyorkpost . nypost.com/2023/05/24/dra…

Some of you may remember when I lost my house to a fire in Jan 2020, which I haven’t said much about since. With good reason. I was still waiting on something to happen. But today, we are free to do so. So let’s talk about the “veterans” insurance company @USAA . And tag … @USAA_help , wouldn’t want them to miss this. So after dragging it out for 3 years, @USAA has denied my claim. Which is all the more stunning since my wife’s “cut rate plebe” insurance company paid their half. Thanks to TBI, you see, I had a full policy on the house. And my wife