Recent content by hawk

Also, if someone will point out where I "Impugned the whole of Army senior leadership" I will happily retract it...

If that was the take away, then I was not clear. Certainly not my intent nor point. And maybe explains some of the defensiveness. This is not that hard. Several potential answers that would make the whole question go away: 1) It's not that unusual to do day one recycles for officers after...

The debate definitions Ad Hominem and Genetic Fallacy come to mind. And by the way, I look good in my Pearls! :-) Not worth wasting further time over this discussion. It's really just a philosophical corallary of Godwin's law... the longer a discussion goes on the more likely shift personal...

Toxic subject, I'm done Just was surprised to hear someone from what I assumed was still aviation speaking on behalf of RTB. I'd love to have done your job, I had to pay for my flight time. Glad to hear. I would never have been concerned until you showed the level of venom in a comment...

Fair enough. Though you'd think you'd think public statements by RTB leadership and PAO would not be out of alignment with your privy info. Really. Attack my son now??? He sure did his share of trash details while waiting for class. Its what the non-privy folks had to do while waiting for...

Point being, while the odds are lower, a substantial number of non IN, or even non maneuver types manage well enough at patrols to graduate. So the "they were not used to doing Infantry Patrolling" public comments did not help. Fair enough... Except... it was information that was very publicly...

I actually agree with your core point you ended up with, but your "And what position are you in to question it?" comment speaks for itself. Fair enough, it does appear to be common. But primarily from those that did not make it. "I was 48'ed", etc. But it was interesting to me that DS, when...

Knowing multiple YG2014 & 2015 LT's who tabbed, failed to tab, or are still trying to tab... there definitely appear to have been anomalies. Not compromising the "standards" per se. But opportunities rarely (if ever) provided to male officers. Ex: - Not being dropped for failing the same phase...

Fort Benning suppliers were saying June a couple of weeks ago (some still are). I'd have to assume similar for USMA. Belleville 310 & C390 are both a bit old school. But many folks love the 390's, and some swear by the 310's for comfy Garrison stuff (milder tread). Khybers are more aggressive...

Apparently nine 2016 female grads headed for Infantry (ROTC and USMA). I think I read somewhere that 7 were from USMA. No read yet on how many 2014 & 2015 applied.

Great Mexican taquira hidden in the back of a Mexican grocery just outside of the Northwest gate. Best Mexican food I've ever had. (Real Mexican, not tex-mex, Cali-mex, corporate-mex) If interested I'll dig out a street address, it's not obvious.

Anyone thinking of sandbagging the validation/placement exams, USMA will often resection plebe courses midterm and you'll be move up to a harder section. Just take the exam, do your best and it'll be fine.

I don't understand the 5 guys love either. The one cult burger (in TX anyway) that I found to be good is whaddaburger. Whitecastle, Varsity (Atlanta), etc to me is sub burger king or Wendy's! (heresy, I know)

Not a new thing, but the recent buzzing of a destroyer by Russian attack planes in an attack type run is certainly interesting: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-denies-simulate-attack-on-u-s-navy-destroyer-uss-donald-cook/...

Thanks for the clarification, the BCT flavors are hard for outsiders to keep straight. And did I mislabeled the ABCT? I keep hearing them referred to as heavy BCTs (HBCT)s and I've seen serving officers and even publications refer to them. Old terminology? Likewise, I hear light guys...