Raconteur Report

People have been posting this news with outrage, but the sensible response should be loud cheering and the sound of popping champagne corks....

  h/t  WRSA Discuss in comments the odds that Hegseth already knows that answer. And after that, the over/under odds he'll do anything t...

h/t  Divemedic I didn't know Cash Sales sold OCPs in 5XL.

It's far past time our worthless, shiftless congressweasels called Gen. Anthony Cotton (the irony of a black man named "cotton...

It should be understood from the outset that I have no actual animus or disdain for the airedale aviators of the brownshoe navy, the bubbleh...

h/t ASM@  Borepatch Mosey over to Borepatch's blog, and read ASM's epiphany on a  classic scene in  Full Metal Jacket.   My take? Y...

  Besides myself, and two tours with the guys whose birthday I talked about yesterday: Neice who pulled a tour as an Army medic during the G...

  We noted that any 27 blogs yesterday (find them yourself, we won't point fingers) reported breathlessly (and witlessly, which we'l...

  h/t  daily timewaster This was a recruiting video all right. For butt pirates, not the Navy. Old salts: If this causes your last meal to m...

  Video presented because it's even-handedly "Just the facts, ma'am." Takeaways 1) Russia has a lot of artillery shells. 2...

  Word to your mother: Video Guy nails it out of the park. Back in the day, I owned (on behalf of the Bn CO) not one, but two howitzers. A 1...

  Oberst Reisner of the OB just uploaded another briefing, this time in English. Not much up-to-the-minute info, but two takeaway factoids w...

  It's foolishly suggested   that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has shifted the paradigm of war, demonstrating Russia's grasp of t...

  h/t  Daily Timewaster And I suppose they recruit pilots from the deserts of BFE who used to bullseye womp rats in their T-16s, right? CW p...

  Angus  has undertaken to give historical background to the Ukrainian artillery tactics we described last week . I am sure his artillery hi...

  (Shout out: I forget who tipped me off about this source,  but many thanks. Pure gold.) Assuming there are folks out there still intereste...

h/t  Common Cents blog   A few pointers on this clip from ITV: 1) This is a militia artillery unit. So what?   My posted estimate at BCE...