I think we can all agree that in the Year of Our Lord 2022, a Pentagon spokesman getting choked up about war crimes during a briefing is a solidly good thing.
I am shocked and delighted that Biden acknowledged his son’s drug problem and said he’s proud of him for getting help. This is the kind of messaging I wish all comms pros would get on board with.
Fox News host Sandra Smith dismisses McConaughey's heart-wrenching call for gun control: "Someone from Hollywood calling to restore our family values."
Gen. Milley responds to a question about a shortage of behavioral health staff by saying that there is a "behavioral health specialist" in every unit, and "that's the squad leader." Sigh.
The
@USNavy
's latest COVID update reports that 80% of active-duty sailors are vaccinated, for 75% of the entire force. That's heads and shoulders above the other services.
I want to be clear. I believe that squad leaders are the key to a LOT of issues in the military. But the fact that suicides, sexual assaults, etc. are so rampant just proves that squad leaders are NOT behavioral health specialists.
Tucker Carlson hosts a Navy commander who claims mandatory vaccination is a "national security threat," cites the disputed VAERS database to claim covid vaccines are dangerous, and is worried that vaccines are "manufactured gene therapy" developed from "aborted fetal cells."
If after celebrating a new child, men suffered from weeks of hemorrhoids, hand/foot/face swelling, and genital bleeding, Paid Family Leave wouldn’t be up for debate. It would be in the Bill of Rights.
#PaidLeaveForAll
Also important to note that these people are not “illegal,” because otherwise DeSantis would be facing federal human trafficking charges. They have been processed by DHS and have legal status.
A hit tweet! To be clear, I also lean toward diagnosing this as satire, which only makes Nextdoor more unhinged — meta-unhinged — because now people are using the neighborhood app to troll.
The Afghan baby born on the C-17 en route to Germany was named Reach, per
@US_EUCOM
boss, based on the call sign of the aircraft and I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Caleb Williams isn’t “just a kid.” He’s an adult man fair to criticize.
My uncle flew a bomber over Nazi held Europe at his age, and later died in Korea.
My buddies in Black Hawk Down washed their friends’ guts and blood out of humvees at his age.
Were they “just kids”?
This is completely untrue. Gender transition in the military is (like everything else in the military) a regimented process that requires a detailed plan and a military doctor’s sign-off.
“Anybody who sent a religious exemption has to sit down with a chaplain to assess whether their beliefs are sincere enough...Meanwhile, if one of my soldiers walked in my door tomorrow...wearing a dress and told me that he was a female, I would have to accept that w/o question."
Not a retired chaplain emailing me to say that the Army's sexual assault problem is a "moral" issue developed in "public school" that can't be solved by a "secular program." Guys.
So this ended up being my last story for Military Times, as I was laid off today. I hope that guy asking me about his Air Force wife stuck in Syria actually listened to me this time.
NEW: After our reporting on armor unit overwork,
@Meghann_MT
and I wanted to know — how often does SECDEF sign waivers allowing units to deploy with less rest than the Pentagon’s (expired) policy requires?
That’s “classified,” DOD says.
The Pentagon Press Association has sent a letter to
@PentagonPresSec
with concerns over how it’s possible that a senior member of the presidential cabinet was hospitalized without public notification, breaking norms across the federal government.
Holy shit.
To “prove” he isn’t racist — Ohio U.S. Senate candidate
@JoshMandelOhio
put a photo of himself standing with black soldiers in his latest campaign ad.
Problem is he forgot to Photoshop the hands that clearly show he put his face on the body of a black soldier
It looks like the Army removing identifying info from promotion packets increased the number of minority officers moving up the ranks. I'll be discussing this report on our Early Bird Brief podcast tomorrow.()
More than half of the 90 howitzers sent to Eastern Europe have made it to Ukraine,
@PentagonPresSec
says. The first round of training outside Ukraine has finished and a second will start up soon.
Senior defense official says Russia has deployed nearly 100% of the 190,000 troops it amassed along the Ukraine border last month. But little progress has been made in taking over major population centers.
These are the first Afghanistan KIAs since Feb. 2020. It’s one of the deadliest days for U.S. troops of the 20-year conflict, only surpassed by Operation Red Wings (19 KIA) and the downing of Extortion 17 (30 KIA).
@EsperDoD
@NorahODonnell
@TheRealCVN71
This has become a major theme of this administration. A bombshell report comes out, reporters ask Esper about it, and he says he's unfamiliar. See also: The Afghanistan papers and others.
Is it perhaps possible that these helicopters were thoroughly disabled so that they will never fly again? Could
@JoeBiden
have perhaps traded these helicopters for a few Americans he left behind?
Canada's minister of national defense confirms that Canadians are training Ukrainians on the M777 howitzers both Canada and the US have sent to Eastern Europe. DoD has previously hesitated to confirm who is doing the training.
If Navy service members don’t get vaxxed by the deadline, the Navy “may seek recoupment of applicable bonuses, special and incentive pays, and the cost of training and education for service members refusing the vaccine.”
Is this real life?
Breakin' news, kids: We've got a woman in Special Forces.
"Each and every one of you demonstrated the ability to meet the baseline standards and competencies for admission to our Regiment.” -
@USASOCNews
commander Lt. Gen. Fran Beaudette.
Sen. Cotton, citing his and Rep. Crenshaw's whistleblower website, said some Marine officers are leaving a unit because of a diversity and inclusion training session, which is...not how that works.
Pentagon says the "dispersal" of the much-ballyhooed convoy is probably a force protection measure, because Ukraine keeps attacking it, rather than part of a larger tactical plan.
It’s important to take care of your parents in their retirement. For example, my mom paid my cell phone bill for way longer than is probably appropriate, and I repay her by giving her the logins to all of my streaming services.
In the Mondayest Monday thing to ever Monday, I've got a retired 0-5 in my inbox with a letter to a base commander about not getting a salute at the gate.
CNN's Rick Santorum: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"
Who agrees that President Biden should abolish Trump’s Space Force and use all of that money to provide Covid relief payments to struggling American families and hard-pressed states?
I went to my first post-quarantine get together tonight and someone was talking about drinking beer out of random objects, so I asked if anyone had ever drunk Bailey’s out of a shoe and everyone was horrified so this is going well.
Just spoke to some people that I respect and trust. I should have been more educated on the topic and not tweeted out of emotion for my family and other who have served. For that I apologize. Also if what I’m told about the attempts to bring Ret Marine Paul Whelan home are true
I can’t explain the potency I just felt walking past about 30 people standing around the Pentagon Starbucks to grab my pick-up order. Get the app, guys. Adapt and overcome.
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen, unimplanted embryos qualify as human children under state law.
IVF has long been in the crosshairs of the anti-abortion movement, and this unprecedented decision immediately imperils all IVF access throughout Alabama.
Examples of minor infractions include underage drinking, an unprofessional relationship with the accused or violation of other lawful orders, which can include curfews, off-limits businesses and housing policies.
Just got an email from a woman asking if "her soldier, Gen. William Coleman," has been evacuated from Afghanistan. Happy to tell her that her boyfriend isn't in danger because her boyfriend doesn't exist.
Imagine your brain being so broken that you blame “luxury spending” and not the fact that home prices are up 1,600% from 1970 while wages are up 9% (in the US at least).
I am a Vietnam combat veteran - no left wing smear campaign will ever deny that fact. These people doing this are doing to me what the liberals did to my fellow Vietnam veterans decades ago when they returned - spitting on them and mocking them. These are the same people who
Cruz: Have one door… and have that one door, armed police officers at that door. If that had happened.. when that psychopath had arrived, the armed police officers could’ve taken him out…