The military are nice I’m guessing because they were in your shoes once but I just noticed that all the civilians contractors there were just blatant assholes, they did nothing to me but I noticed with other people. Being rude and cold doesn’t have any equivalence to efficiency and productivity & let me communicate once more that all the military personnel in the liaisons offices and at the...

• Who owned King James Burger in Kabul?
• Did he get out of the country when we surrendered?
• Did he open any other restaurants?

His food was fantastic, even by non-deployment standards.

I’ve always thought about joining. As a kid I knew it was what I wanted to do, and knew for sure then that I wanted to be infantry but I basically allowed myself to be talked out of it by my parents and others. I’m generally not very sure of myself and trust others judgement over mine, so when adults told me I shouldn’t do it when I was just a kid/teenager I listened. Fast forward to today and now...

As im sure you all probably know, Tuberville is a US senator that is protesting against the current house's stance on abortion (among a few other things) and his form of protest is not allowing military promotions through, and it can mess up the US militaries leadership. So recently I saw on Twitter that the USN cheif of naval operations (CNO) (Adm. Mike Gilday) just retired his position, and am...

I'm working on a piece of fiction that's going to involve a few scenes with Navy and Air Force pilots carrying out a few mission. I want the conversations between the pilots and with air traffic controllers or commanders to add realism and authenticity to it.

I've been trying to find some transcripts or audio recordings to use as reference for the sort of terminology and conversation style to use...