microblog · @VetDadJoe · civilian · 21 February 2026, 16:00
Every serving person I know is reading that gaggle tonight and doing the same thing: working out whether their unit is in the troop list.
Mine is out. My daughter's godfather's is in.
Sir, you have about four days. Rule it out. Not for us — I know how that goes — for the nineteen year olds who cannot say anything and will go anyway.
Full hours again this week. Overtime Saturday. My wife asked me last night if I was going to feel bad about the money. I said I did not know. She said "I do", and we sat there. Anyway. Overtime Saturday.
Fifty-two days. I have watched all of it on this little screen my grandson set up. I have learned what a GIUK gap is. I am 74 and I did not need to learn that. Two goldfinches this morning. I am telling you because somebody should say something ordinary today.…
Fifty days ago I was writing about a procurement dispute. Since then I have watched an alliance walk out of its own chamber, stood on a ramp where nobody could buy fuel, and reported from an airfield where nine people were killed by an ally. And the strange pa…
I don't rule things out. That's the whole job.
Q: Mr President, the Phase III report is due on Tuesday. Are you going to invade Britain? A: I'm going to read the report on Tuesday. Q: Your own Strategic Command puts the chance of nuclear retaliation at ninety-five percent. A: Where did you get that number?…
"I don't rule things out. That's the whole job." Sir. My son is nineteen. He is at Bragg. XVIII Airborne Corps is in that plan and so is he. Rule it out. That is also the job. That is the part of the job where you tell a mother in Indiana that her boy is not g…
No jargon. No takes. Just the sequence. 10 Jan — The US switched off the data service that allied F-35s need. Half of Europe's stealth fleet stopped flying in three days. 17 Jan — The officials who said the money for this was illegal were f…
Tanya, I am 74 and I have nothing useful to offer you except that I am thinking about your boy tonight, and I will again tomorrow. That is not much. I am sending it anyway.