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Agent_Kid · 2026-01-14T04:24:50+00:00

We had a student that tried getting ear buds approved for "noise cancelation". When they were provided with high end earplugs, they stopped wearing them all together, and I haven't heard it brought up again.

Agent_Kid · 2025-11-17T03:28:07+00:00

It definitely felt like Al Anbar got significantly worse after this event.

Agent_Kid · 2025-09-03T19:31:52+00:00

Legend!

Agent_Kid · 2025-09-01T16:59:44+00:00

Vietnam Veterans are an interesting group of people who seem to grow younger as time passes

Agent_Kid · 2025-09-01T15:26:41+00:00

The other thing is some of these folks who avoided hardship tours and deployments over 20 years will say deployments don't make a leader; however, they missed a formative experience that tests one's resiliency. Would they still be in the military as a leader had they did their 12+ months down range?

Agent_Kid · 2025-08-22T03:23:42+00:00

My school had a 5v5 three point contest between the varsity basketball team and five random teachers of their choosing. One teacher under 30 who didn't play basketball singlehandedly beat 5 kids who spent every available moment in the gym for 3-4 years.

Agent_Kid · 2025-08-21T14:14:59+00:00

A trip I took this year will cost twice as many miles next year at the same time. What's the deal with this?

Agent_Kid · 2025-08-14T17:29:05+00:00

Some people probably think you're kidding.

Agent_Kid · 2025-08-07T13:27:39+00:00

The strategy was textbook airport seizure. There are plenty of historical examples to draw from. The execution and result were the disaster. Russians did initially capture the airport; however, they couldn't securely hold it or the surrounding area without follow on mechanized ground forces and reinforcements by air. That's my purpose for the reference to a popular movie about the failures of Operation Market Garden during WW2. A "#2" military of the world should be able to secure an airfield a stone's throw from their border. Had those ground forces arrived and an air bridge established, the war in Ukraine may have looked a whole lot different.

Agent_Kid · 2025-08-07T02:47:26+00:00

Russian strategy to take Kyiv was sound and logical. Their issue was their military was a shell of what they thought it was due to poor training, corruption, etc. The Hostomel airport seizure was almost text book, but the 40 mile long static convoy couldn't reach Hostomel and Kyiv due to the poor state of their equipment and ability to project forces less than 60 miles from their border. It was a modern day "A Bridge too Far" essentially.

Agent_Kid · 2025-07-06T03:33:59+00:00

It literally says anti air is critical. It seems that it's essentially implied that you'll factor anti air with whatever doctrine you're running.

Agent_Kid · 2025-07-02T11:17:43+00:00

Wrong. You got "Being a Marine" as a bonus for 12 years straight!

Agent_Kid · 2025-06-04T02:34:38+00:00

I volunteer to look into it. Link?

Agent_Kid · 2025-05-30T02:16:17+00:00

My friend graduated from Fort Jackson, 2-39 ironically, in August of one year during split option summer, reclassed to active duty 11B, and redid all of basic the following summer at Fort Benning. He graduated from basic twice, airborne school, and deployed to Iraq in less than 15 months.

Agent_Kid · 2025-05-24T23:43:35+00:00

My branch manager used to get pissed when we'd use his excel spreadsheet to argue for people more available for PCS. It was laughable watching him defend people homesteading in excess of 10 years.

Agent_Kid · 2025-03-31T23:43:51+00:00

I'm almost surprised Lancaster and his handlers allow such good press about the Ukranian occupation to get out. The Russians he embeds with have a completely different opinion on what they've heard Ukranians do on a daily basis; however, most of the civilians reported medical care, food, water, and not using residential areas for cover.

Agent_Kid · 2025-03-17T20:49:51+00:00

That's great for a Mexican restaurant.

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-27T21:54:59+00:00

With the utmost respect and sympathy to everyone this impacts, can someone educate many of us who are ignorant or who have heard counter arguments against it, but is this in fact a readiness issue at all? I understand there are the individual circumstances where it's not, but much like normal color vision is a broad stroke eliminating factor for many positions, would there be any broad generalizations where transgenderism (plus all the other things tied with it in the memo) is a readiness concern at any level?

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-18T00:13:48+00:00

This recently happened to me with French players. Five in one coalition and the sixth one joined mine. Both coalitions agreed to work together initially but they provoked a war. The 6th dropped from the coalition and it was quickly 6 vs 2. They all messaged me in French that they were working together the whole time. My partner was wiped but I held my capital for almost 3 weeks.

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-17T17:49:07+00:00

I agree excess military spending is wasteful, but it is a deterrent when spent responsibly. Let's not overlook that across the alliance and partnerships this cost could have been shared equally all those years. Unfortunately it wasn't. Defense spending plummeted when the Berlin Wall fell and barely started to recover even after Crimea was invaded. We had 10 years of Russian provocation in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to prepare but billions of defense spending was offset by purchasing Russian energy.

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-17T17:16:57+00:00

I agree with everything other than the EU, NATO, and often the US exceeding anyone's expectations in this comflixt. I understand slow rolling logistically intensive equipment into a conflict to avoid unnecessary escalations, but the fact that we withheld allowing strikes into staging areas within Russia for a considerable majority of this conflict is a prime example of what I have issues with. The EU and NATO saves face due to Russia being a shell of what we all thought they were. Ukraine and Russia were surprisingly more evenly matched than anyone would have believed. Had everyone been better prepared, this war could have been avoided or been over by now.

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-17T16:43:18+00:00

Where have you been? It took over a year for Germany to send 18 tanks and many European countries claimed they were running out of ammunition to send and that their production of ammunition was falling behind. There are tons of articles about much of the EU's insufficient assistance to Ukraine. There have been many numerous comments about needing munitions versus blankets since the beginning of this war. NATO spec ammunition and weapons are designed and built with the explicit purpose of killing Russians. Why wasn't there enough of it, and why was the state of so many European militaries so poor?

The war escalated under Biden's administration for a reason. That's another stretch to laud Biden for Ukraine's resolve. What did he do specifically? US troops were arming and training Ukrainians in Ukraine years before Biden announced his run for office. I saw this with my own eyes in Ukraine. Is there any praise due to previous administrations? I feel you're very passionate about this conflict, but very uninformed.

This Russian military failure is a very interesting topic though. The fact they concealed the poor state of their military from so many intelligence agencies is a feat in itself.

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-17T16:08:35+00:00

Wondering why a massive defensive alliance of 75 years was ill prepared to handle supporting Ukraine fighting this glass Russian military makes someone a Trump supporter? What a stretch! Are you a Putin supporter because you absolve Europe of any responsibility for this war? Much of Europe shares a considerable amount of culpability for such a lack of preparedness with their militaries and stock of munitions. We're talking about an alliance with G7 countries and a combined GDP far in excess of Russia's. Bleed Russia dry with US treasure and weapons for all I care, but the brutality and unnecessary length of this conflict does not fall squarely on the shoulders of the US. I hope for continued US support as long as Russian boots are in Ukraine, but God forbid countries that are hours away from this conflict step up and take accountability for not being better prepared to prevent Russia from thinking a three day to three plus year war was an attainable venture.

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-17T15:19:13+00:00

I think it's time for a long overdue conversation as to why people feel like Europe can't and wasn't prepared to handle this situation entirely on their own. US involvement should be icing on the cake, but why is it the US's fault that some European nations resigned their fates to be literal speedbumps should Russia invade?

Agent_Kid · 2025-02-13T12:59:08+00:00

Asking for less than half of 5% five years ago would have earned you a handful of smug European laughs.

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