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We met our 2020 WP last month as he returned to now Fort Liberty from Special Forces selection (SFAS). He said there were more than a handful of otherwise-very-capable candidates that froze on the Nasty Nick obstacle course, mostly fear-of-heights related. Some didn't know they had these phobias...

I trust you mean that the other occupants were (possibly) innocents. This guy was certainly not. If the "shot down by air defense" claim is true, the ultimate irony will be if they used the same SA-11 battery he used to shoot down Malaysian Flt 17 over Ukraine in 2014.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the horrors of the war thus far. Skip to minute 1:25 for his summary. Sobering stuff

Same politics-baiters ****ting up the forum, a forum which exists merely to help young people navigate the Service Academies. Take it somewhere else.

This is actually a really disturbing share. And sad. So many patriotic, earnest, almost to the point of corny, young men found some purpose in Civil Air Patrol or JROTC… I imagine they’re probably “safe” in their parents basements these days. Good job, parents.

“Complaints by veteran soldiers about younger generations who lack discipline and traditional values are as old as war itself. Grizzled veterans in the Greek phalanx, Roman legions, and Napoleon’s elite corps all believed that the failings of the young would be the ruin of their armies. This is...

Father Matt is an inspirational man and his vocation is a gift. Not too many priests out there have the Ranger tab! We miss attending an occasional Mass at MHT now that our son graduated and our Parent Passes expired.

Pardon me if this was already posted elsewhere in the 2,400 replies. And Merry Christmas to you all.😃

The more time goes on, the more I’m glad I grew up when I did. Perhaps this is how each generation feels…

WestCoast, I would echo the above paragraph in particular out of an abundance of concern for your son. Their young bodies respond remarkably to exercise and nutrition. When my son was at USMA, he would text me every 2 weeks it seemed like with “Dad, I deadlifted 275!” “Dad, I deadlifted 315!”...

Good stuff. Who remembers the Readers Digest “Humor in Uniform” short stories? This thread dug that up from the dustbin of my before-the-internet childhood.

News of training deaths are devastating in their own unique way. Our thoughts go out to their loved ones and comrades who, instead of getting to proudly pin that tab on at Victory Pond, now have to process these unspeakable losses. I mourn for them as well.

Happy to be corrected, but I thought the USMA Supe position was understood to be the last stop in a distinguished career. And yet- “The outgoing Superintendent Lieutenant Gen. Darryl A. Williams will be promoted to General at the U.S. Military Academy and will assume command of U.S. Army Europe...

Awful for all of the families involved. Stateside training deaths are their own special kind of unspeakable nightmares.

I went by the house that I grew up in, and asked if I could go in and look around. They said No, and slammed the door in my face. My parents can be so rude!

This is a topic that I am working through right now and don’t know where quite I stand. If I’m honest with myself, I have some regrets very much along the Cat and the Cradle lines. That profession has left me with the ability to retire now if I had to; my wife and I would leave our absurdly...

When you watch 4,000 cadets or Mids walk by, one after the other for about 20 minutes, you realize right away it’s OK to toss out a few cheaters, drop some for failure to meet standards, or let a few pursue a professional sports deferment. There’s more than enough of them (not even counting OCS...

Just to be clear, two things can be true at once: 1. military members need to follow orders with respect to inoculations, and 2. military members can attempt to seek redress for perceived wrongs I’m not disputing #1, as the last 3 posters may have interpreted. Decisions have consequences. My...

Meaning: if I was on the SCOTUS, I would vote (rule?) to discard any vaccine requirement mandates for the reasons I stated in my first post. (“Mandates”, since in fact these aren’t laws; they weren’t bills that were voted on by a Legislative body, passed by both Houses, and signed by the...