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Zero Foxtrot, Austin, TX (2026)

07/14/2026

In 2007, 2nd Battalion 7th Marines had an unique way of rewarding the snipers for a successful mission. Instead of another challenge coin, they handed out a Battalion Commander's 72-hour Liberty Passes.
This first one came after the first mission of the deployment. A leaders recon to get oriented to the area that turned into an opportunity. As the sun rose they identified three insurgents placing an IED south of Saqlawiyah. Watching for 3 hours in the reeds along the rivers edge, finally 2 of them sat down 400m away, pulled AK's out of their jackets, and the green light was given. The certificate documented the engagement, then rewarded the Marines with three extra days of leave when they got home.
It sounded like a good idea at the time and the snipers certainly weren't complaining. The funny part is these were handed out several times during the opening weeks of the deployment. Then someone higher up apparently realized the battalion might be giving away a lot of 72-hour passes if things kept pace. The incentive quietly disappeared. Every unit had its own traditions. Some gave coins, handed out beers, but 2/7 decided combat effectiveness was worth a three-day weekend.

Curious what incentives or attaboys the rest of you got. Did your unit have any strange traditions, or memorable ways of recognizing a successful mission?

07/11/2026

Operation Fishbowl
JULY 8-9, 1962
Cold War
Johnston Atoll

The United States did not nuke the sky by accident. It put a thermonuclear warhead on a Thor missile, launched it from Johnston Island, and detonated it roughly 400 kilometers above the Pacific. The shot was Starfish Prime, part of Operation Fishbowl, and the yield was about 1.4 megatons.
The Cold War logic was clean enough on paper. If the Soviets were building missiles, America needed to know what nuclear explosions would do above the atmosphere. Could a high-altitude burst blind radar? Kill incoming warheads? Break communications? Fry electronics? Turn the upper atmosphere into a weapon? So they tested it.

The blast lit the Pacific and produced an electromagnetic pulse stronger than expected. Some instruments failed because the event outran the measurement plan. In Hawaii, about 900 miles away, streetlights went out, burglar alarms started screaming, and the telephone systems was damaged. Nobody dropped a bomb on Honolulu, the wiring got fried from space.

Then came the interesting part, the unintended consequences.
Starfish Prime injected charged particles into Earth’s magnetic field and helped create an artificial radiation belt. Satellites started dying early. NASA was learning how to operate inside the natural Van Allen belts. Washington had just unintentionally built a dirty training field overhead.

This is where the conspiracy version gets lazy. The CIA did not secretly launch the shot. The test belonged to the geniuses at the weapons and defense establishment and approved by JFK. But the intelligence world lived inside the consequences. It watched Soviet nuclear tests, measured foreign capabilities, and read signatures.
We’re all lucky that nuking the sky “only” burned out satellites and blacked out cities. If they’d kept going, I wonder how many nukes would it take to destroy the atmosphere and humanity with it.

07/08/2026

Tinian, Mariana Islands

24 July 1944.

WWII U.S. V Amphibious Corps

2ND and 4TH Marine Divisions vs. Japanese Army

Tinian sat three miles from Saipan, flat, hot, and valuable. The Marine Corps wanted it, and the Japanese knew it. The obvious beaches were near Tinian Town and Sunharon Harbor. It was wider, cleaner, and exactly where Japan focused their defenses to slaughter the Americans.

But the strategy was predictable, so they put the Recon teams to work. White Beach 1 and White Beach 2 were barely beaches. One was only 60 yards long with coral, reefs, tight lanes, and almost no room for men, vehicles, or mistakes. On paper, they were terrible ideas, but that was the point.

Recon Marines and Underwater Demolition Teams went in at night and checked whether infantry and vehicles could get ashore without everybody drowning. The answer was yes, barely, if they left the swim waivers in the motor pool, but it was doable.

On July 24, 1944, about 15,600 Marines landed and the plan worked. The Japanese had built their attention around the convenient beaches. By 0800, three battalions were ashore in about 20 minutes with bulldozers and tanks shortly after.

The fight was still ugly as the Japanese counter attack hit that night. Mines, caves, heat, and close terrain still had to be paid for in blood. The Americans lost 389 killed and 1,816 wounded. More than 5,000 Japanese troops were killed. Thousands of civilians died or were interned.

By August 1, Tinian was secured. Then Seabees turned it into one of the busiest airfields of the war. B-29s launched from there against Japan, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Sometimes when you know you're in a fight, and you know that they know, you know what they know, you know they know. You can catch em with their kimono down.

07/06/2026

Medic!

Your libo brief was simple. Do not turn your hand inside out because you want to impress people who drink Truly's. Fireworks are not toys. They are tiny bombs, sold next to folding tables and beef jerky by a guy without enough teeth to eat beef jerky. Respect the math.

Do not hold them.

Do not relight duds.

Do not lean over them like you are negotiating with a drunk woman.

Do not mix booze, lighters, and confidence.

Do not let your buddy named Kyle “just see what happens.”

Put the fireworks on the ground. Back up. Keep water nearby. Watch your kids. Keep your dog inside unless you want him to experience Fallujah in the laundry room.

Enjoy you all enjoyed the weekend. Its hard to fight without fingers... Stay capable.

07/02/2026

Tech Sgt John A. Chapman
U.S. Air Force Special Tactics Combat Controller attached to a Navy SEAL team

4 March 2002 War in Afghanistan

Posthumously promoted to Master Sergeant (MSgt) after his Medal of Honor award and Hall of Heroes induction.

Takur Ghar sat around 10,000 feet, cold and occupied. During Operation Anaconda, a special operations recon team tried to insert by MH-47 Chinook onto the peak. The bird came in. The mountain answered with RPGs and machine guns.

Razor 03 was hit. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts fell from the aircraft onto an enemy-held mountaintop. The damaged helicopter limped away and made an emergency landing miles off. John Chapman, an Air Force combat controller who was attached to the SEAL team, coordinated air support and the rescue effort on their way back to recover Roberts. They knew the hill was occupied. They chose to climb back into the fight.

Chapman came off the helicopter and moved uphill through thigh-deep snow under fire from multiple directions. He charged the closest bunker, closed with the enemy, cleared it, and killed the fighters inside. Then another machine gun opened up from a second bunker only 12 meters away.

Chapman left cover again and attacked the second position where he was hit hard. The team believed he was dead and broke contact. Thats the part that get's controversial.

Years later, overhead ISR footage forced the story back open. The grainy feed showed Chapman was still alive. He regained himself, moved, fought alone, and engaged enemy positions firing on the incoming QRF aboard Razor 01. A man written off by the chaos of the moment was still buying time for men who had not even reached the ground yet.

Chapman was later killed on that mountain. His Air Force Cross was upgraded to the Medal of Honor in 2018, making him the first Airman recognized with the medal for combat actions after Vietnam and the first Special Tactics Airman to receive it.

The hill doesn’t care what we write about it. But if we’re going to talk about Takur Ghar, we owe it to Chapman to keep the story as unforgiving as the ridge itself. RIP

06/30/2026

Marvin Heemeyer Bulldozer Rampage
June 2004.
Granby, Colorado.

Marvin Heemeyer was a muffler shop owner in a mountain town of 2,000 people. He was in an ongoing property dispute with a growing belief that the town had sided against him.

The fight started over the land nextdoor. The Docheff family wanted to put a concrete batch plant beside him. Heemeyer fought it through town meetings, lawsuits, and code dispute that is supposed to make citizens feel heard.
In his mind, the channels were fake. The board, the concrete plant, the courts, the fines, all of it became one machine grinding him down. Then came the sewer issue with access problems, code violations, and fines. He paid one city check with a single word written on it. “Cowards.”

For more than a year, Heemeyer worked inside a steel shed. He armored a Komatsu bulldozer with steel and concrete, sealed himself inside, mounted cameras to see, and strolled into town in his private war machine. No escape hatch and no surrender plan.

On June 4, 2004, he sent it.

Marvin crawled for more than 2 hours, crushing the town hall, local newspaper, concrete company, homes, and businesses linked to people he believed had targeted him. The police fired at him but it did nothing. He was probably having a pretty awesome time. I'm curious what playlist he went with. 🤔

No one other than Marvin died, but it wasn't for lack of effort. Five children were rushed out of the library just before he hit town hall. He had a 50 cal M82 mounted and fired at police.

Eventually, the machine buried itself inside a hardware store and stopped moving. SWAT moved in and Marvin shot himself while inside the cab. The internet still praises his legacy while Granby got left with the rubble, reputation, and the bill.

The sh!tty part is that Marvin was not imagining it. Small towns can quietly close ranks and become personal very quickly.

He felt cornered, fined, and unheard. So he made the choice that guaranteed nobody could ignore him. That is the tragedy. He jumped through all of the hoops and filed all of the documents. Somehow the system and community failed to notice or care that a man was drowning.

06/27/2026

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06/26/2026

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques "EIT"
2002-2008
Global War of Terroer
Overseas CIA Detention Facilities
Al- Qaeda Detainees

The torture program did not start with a hooded prisoner and a waterboard. It started with paperwork. After 9/11, the CIA wanted a way to break high-value detainees without calling it torture. So the language got cleaned up with things like "attention grasp, walling, stress positions, and cramped confinement. The official pitch was control, with time limits, medical monitoring, and approved techniques. Then the black sites did what black sites do.

Detainees were stripped naked, shackled, slapped, slammed into walls, stuffed into boxes, and kept awake for days. Up to 180 hours. More than a week, often standing, chained with their hands over their head, as the hallucinations started, the program kept rolling.
Waterboarding was not a splash of water and a tough question. Abu Zubaydah became completely unresponsive. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s sessions were described internally as near drownings. Controlled panic with a doctor nearby so the machine can restart.
At COBALT, the prison was later described as a dungeon, where detainees sat in darkness with loud noise, shackles, buckets for toilets, and no heat. Gul Rahman was left partly naked, chained to a concrete floor, and died of hypothermia.

Then came the parts that never fit the brochure. Re**al feeding and rehydration without documented medical need. Threats against families. Unauthorized rough takedowns. People held who did not meet the CIA’s own detention standard.
And the kicker: the Senate found the CIA’s effectiveness claims were wrong in fundamental ways. Some intelligence came before the torture. Some came from other sources. Some plots were barely plots at all.
The ugliest part was not that the CIA crossed the line. It's that the line moves every time the paperwork needs it to.

06/23/2026

The Field Delivery
1990s NATO Peacekeeping Operations
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA.

Anyone who has served knows one universal truth. No matter how serious the mission, some junior enlisted guy is trying to figure out how to get pizza delivered.
It happens on field exercises. It happens during land navigation. It happened in 29 palms for a fact where the pizza delivery guy kept a GPS for these order specifically.
Somewhere, right now, a boot lieutenant is explaining the tactical situation while a private is whispering to DoorDash driver in the port-a-jon.
During peacekeeping operations in Bosnia during the 1990s, that tradition reached a level worthy of military history.
As the story goes, troops operating in the region managed to arrange pizza deliveries despite being deployed in an active post-war environment. It's not completely unrealistic to think that if supplies could reach them, pepperoni could too.

The military can move tanks across continents. It can establish airfields in deserts. It can build logistics networks spanning oceans. But none of those systems are as determined as a bored and hungry Lance Corporal. Every unit has a legend about somebody ordering Chinese food to a range. Somebody getting a case of beer into a place it absolutely wasn't supposed to be.
The funny part isn't the pizza. The funny part is that human nature never changes. Give people advanced communications, transportation assets, and a complicated military operation, and sooner or later somebody is going to use all of it to solve a lunch problem.
History books remember campaigns, battles, and treaties. The guys who were there usually remember who figured out how to get pizza and beer delivered to the hidesite.

Just like combat, you only get in trouble if you get caught!

And since a bunch of guys whine about AI making an image here's a back up of some Army Maj

06/20/2026

TOP 10 SMEDLEY BUTLER QUOTES

Major General Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in American history. He earned two Medals of Honor, spent more than three decades fighting America's wars, and then spent the rest of his life questioning who those wars truly served.

Here are 10 of Smedley Butler's most famous quotes on war, government, money, and power.

1. "War is a racket. It always has been."

2. "I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service... and during that period I spent most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."

3. "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914."

4. "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in."

5. "I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912."

6. "I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916."

7. "I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903."

8. "Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents."

9. "The flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."

10. "There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."

Whether you agree with Butler or not, these weren't the words of a protester, politician, or college professor. They were the words of a Marine General looking back on the wars he fought and the truth he saw.

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