Michael Stahlke

Massive spinal epidural abscess leading to systemic sepsis.

I was a big fan of the Red Sea mission last year. Hell yeah, wet warfighters, that’s what you should be doing.

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And I don’t know whether a thirty percent increase in the Navy’s budget at the expense of the Army starting in 2009 would have been wise or would have solved these problems.

I don’t know that twenty years of abortive ship procurement combined with searching for a mission following a decade of naval supremacy proves anyone right.

Yeah it sucks trying to accomplish nebulous objectives.

Not so fucking fun being the DO is it.

I have spent the last decade arguing with Naval officers on social media who have said that they hate, haaaaate playing second fiddle to the Army during the GWOT.

Your time to shine pendejo.

Got caked up before deciding to recover by getting caked up.

Smoke. Show.

Ain’t found a way to kill me yet.

You should see this guy now. Fuckin’ smokeshow.

If you look good in the immediate aftermath of emergency surgery to save you life you have the absolute right to call yourself handsome.

Look at that silver fox sonofabitch. Breathing under his own power and whatnot.

And rhetorical AND reasonable.

Yeah. Handsome too.

I have a lot of confidence in the hole cut into my neck.

You can tell that to Terry the next time he does or does not invite you for dinner.

If I didn’t have three titanium vertebrae embedded in my spine I’d let you know

Coded as dependent, sorry.

Motherfucker got the call to duty after 30 years and actually showed up.

When my reserve unit got activated in 2003 we got a number of IRR soldiers, including a Vietnam era E4 who claimed that his promotion to SGT was destroyed in the infamous fire at HRC. He had four teeth and was delightful.

God bless our superannuated Specs.

Well,,,,,,,,, a lot of shit has happened in CENTCOM in the last 40 years.

Fucked up thing is that if I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t. Probably I need another turn in the barrel. Get some wisdom knocked into me.

I have recurring dreams about trying to leave a place and never getting to my destination. And I fear that is because the violence I have facilitated means that I’m not going to nearvana, or farvana. I’m coming right back here to live out my Karma.

I first heard this song as a SPC/Cadet in the year of our lord 2004 and it fucking wrecked me. Because I knew, even then that I wouldn’t be able to do it. And, as it turns out, I wasn’t able to do it. But I know a lot of people who have.

“Injured” covers a whole lot of ground.

*nods*

The Malcolm Effect

It’s definitely in that No Man’s Land of unclass product meant for public release while also being created by an (almost certainly) Army FGO who simply cannot stop themself from crowding the map with squishy innumerate bullshit.

One vessel is “located and hit” then fifty more are “out of action”. You gotta go on your own personal scud hunt to locate the nuclear sites that are hidden beneath blams of varying size and intensity. What in the wide world of sports is this chart trying to convey.

Not one but two completely superfluous American flags, a North seeking arrow hidden in the lower left corner of the timeline which is uses EST instead of UTC for some fucking reason.

Report to the CoS with a water source and wet bulb thermometer.