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So You Want to Know Military A Readers Guide to Theory and Practice for Beginners and Enthusiasts

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@sodrock.bsky.social I’ve read this three times now and I am in awe of your clarity.

F-4 phantom jet aircraft on display at HILL AFB museum. Aircraft is in brown-green camouflage

F-4C variant Phantom, all white livery on display at Hill AFB museum

So beautiful. So much raw power. *swoon #PhantomPhriday

Senate authorizes Trump to award Recon Marine the Medal of Honor James Capers Jr. led a small reconnaissance team through an ambush in Vietnam even though he had more than a dozen shrapnel and bullet wounds.

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Penguins Mobile: Penguins Acquire Forward Elmer Soderblom from the Detroit Red Wings in Exchange for a 2026 Third-Round Draft Pick

I’m looking forward to your thoughts on this

Yes, and it is no surprise of the quality of the document given the current CG there.

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Thanks for the good food and snowy mountains #Boise

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UPDATE on running an analog course at Rutgers-Newark -

Background: I changed my History of South Asia II class to be analog this term. This means:

No laptops, e-books, zoom, Canvas, pdfs, or online assignments.
Yes to handwritten notes, physical books, and in-class quizzes / exams.

Midway now...

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Announces 2026 Finalists CLEVELAND – [March 3, 2026] – The Cleveland Foundation announced 11 finalists for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), marking 91 years of honoring literature that contributes to our understand...

Delighted to learn that my new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, has been named as a finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize. www.anisfield-wolf.org/2026/03/anis... (A radio segment follows below.)

Yes!

The entire thread reads like Gorbachev just opening doors and going “WTF?!”

This whole thread is mind blowing

Do you think he’s on the trading block?

Why the national media has not caught on to the Penguins season yet Your best source for quality Pittsburgh Penguins news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.

This Pittsburgh Penguins team is, so far, really good. Legitimately good. It has not entirely been noticed yet nationally. I am not even sure locally, either. www.pensburgh.com/analysis/734...

James Salter Reads my Mind I went back to work at United Airlines one year ago. I’ve already forgotten what some switches did in my military airplane. What callsigns used to go with which airspace. Did that happen on t…

Thanks for posting this @shmof16.bsky.social . This tracks

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May 1st it is.

On to the next one.

I think I should write about LTG Ray Peers. #ethics #vietnamwar #OSS #Burma

Maybe I’ll get finger steaks on this trip #Idaho ✈️

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I kept hearing the phrase “all politics is local” but a lot of folks behavior does not sync to that.

Yeah, it’s been interesting reading about the arguments in local politics.

I haven’t carried for over a decade and I’m not sure I ever want to again.

Letter: Unlike Rep. Pierucci and her armed constituent, I’ve been braving the mean streets of Salt Lake City without fear for decades — The Salt Lake Tribune Letter: Candice Pierucci and her armed constituent cling to their guns like Linus clings to his security blanket.

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Why the U.S. and Israel Struck When They Did: A Chance to Kill Iran’s Leaders — The Wall Street Journal The allies’ intelligence agencies discovered a rare opportunity to target high-level officials, including the country’s supreme leader

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Reading the Ambrose biography (I know I know) and reading about his “sympathies for the Southern Cause” reminded me never to put people on a pedestal.

Actions speak though, and he did take action, even if it was forced.