The state of Western Civ.

Apparently Western Civilization is at the point where just the discovery of a head of state having attended a costume party in college will shake the country to it’s core.

This is what shakes us up now.

It’s gonna be FUN times when amateurs start dropping thermite bombs on our critical infrastructure using drones only slightly less sophisticated than these.

Thanks to Matt Bracken for passing that video along to us.

Remembering 9/11

I did not make a post this year for the 9/11 anniversary, as I usually do. Despite that, I did want to at least make a note and say that 9/11 is why I joined the Army, even if I waited until I was 24 to do it. I joined specifically to do two things, if nothing else. That was to join the intelligence community, and then go to Afghanistan.

I would have been happy to go to Iraq too, but I mainly joined to go to Afghanistan, and so I did. It may not have been the warzone it was in 2001, but when I went it still kind of the wild west, if you want to put it that way. I guess it always will be though. As of this writing, 17 US servicemen have died in Afghanistan this year, which is apparently the most in a year since 2014. I was in Afghanistan for OEF 13-14.

During the time I was there, during the missions I was on, we lost three men. I didn't know any of them particularly well myself. I was part of an intelligence HUMINT Collection Team (HCT) with 504th BfSB and assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment for a while during my deployment, and later was moved to a multi-function team (MFT) and reassigned to a group called "Task Force Black". We were frequently tasked to go out and perform whatever intelligence-related function a particular unit requested in RC South. Through this, we worked alongside Rangers from 3rd Battalion and men from 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), in addition to Navy Corpsmen and Air Force CI.

The three men who were killed on our missions were Specialist Cody Patterson and Sergeant Patrick Hawkins from 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and Staff Sergeant Richard Vazquez of the 7th SF Group (Airborne).

Never forget.

More soon.

I’m still here and writing will continue. Things have been extremely busy lately with a transition to a new Emergency Room job and wrapping up some household debts once and for all. My content will be back here soon, and will also be at American Partisan.

Thanks for being patient. In the meantime, here are a few of the pieces that are stirring my brain cells this morning:

CEOs write to Congress asking for gun control. No surprises here. But don’t worry, your boycotts aren’t going to work.

We live in an age of Insta-pseudo-profound bullshit. Image is more important than reality.

Viktor Orban is the kind of leader we need. He is who we wanted Trump to be.

Berkey Water Filters. Take your average pond scum and make it drinkable.

NCScout on building the scout team. This is how our fight will be fought.

“Swedish” rapper says blacks should shoot and enslave whites. He’s actually Nigerian though. If a rat is born in a horse stable, it doesn’t make it a horse. It’s still a rat.