Random Open Thread

| December 31, 2024 | 318 Comments

We’ve made it to the end of 2024! Tonight is a big night. If you’re going to drink your way to the countdown, and even after, use the water back method. Drink an equal or greater volume of water for every volume of alcoholic beverage that you drink. You’ll thank yourself when you wake up in the New Year with little to no hangover. Enjoy the rest of Christmastide!

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SFC D

First!

KoB

Good Job!, Lil’ Bro! Is this your 1st FIRST? Extry glory in EARNING the FIRST on what will, possibly, be the last Open Thread of the year? Was thinking there might be a ROT today and that I should be keeping a weather eye out for it, but…alas…The Gun Bunny was occupied making flapjacks and hickory smoked bacon for some Lady Friends that had dropped by to welcome him back home to Fire Base Magnolia, so…priorities and all of that. I will raise a toast of Jameson and Salute! you with a flapjack wrapped portion of bacon, rendering Honors to your FIRSTness.

SFC D

It’s been a minute or two since I scored a FIRST. Bar is open, feel free to consume mass quantities, or abstain if you wish. We won’t judge. Brisket is basking in smoke, fresh tamales are steaming. Happy new year from D’s Cantina!

RGR 4-78

King ROT of TAH. Salute!

Claw

D, it has been a good while (16 Nov 2018 and 21 Dec 2018) for you since you scored a First on some sort of an Open Thread, so a slap on the back and a hearty handshake are in the orders of the day.

Graybeard

What are the odds on various competitors for the FIRST (h/t SFC D) FIRST of 2025?

And who is running the betting pool?

SFC D

Ho Lee Chit, it’s a new year’s miracle!

Commissar Pooper's Narcissism

I tested my third eye by walking around blindfolded. I knew that sum ting wong when I felt those bang ding ows. I have a black eye, missing teeth, bumps, scrapes and a bill for the things that I ran into and destroyed. Ho lee fuk, the actual outcomes for this exercise were wi tu lo.

26Limabeans

Second?

Green Thumb

Phil Monkress works balls.

Hack Stone

Every time that another executive at All Points Logistics loses his job for defending Phil Monkress as to his claims of being a US Navy SEAL, Phil gets another SEAL Trident. They produced a movie about it, it was called It’s A Wonderful Lie.

Sparks

Every day, all day Phil works balls.

KoB

I heard that Phil was planning on being in The Big Apple tonight to work a dropping ball until he found out that it wasn’t one of “those” types of ballz.

Green Thumb

I imagine Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) is working hard on establishing a tribal affiliation claim. Trump was always pretty decent to the Tribes with recognition and such, so Phildo is looking to cash in, I am sure.

The Monkress Tribe.

A Proud Infidel®™

IMHO that’s like saying water is wet, fire is hot and shit stinks!

Fyrfighter

I’m guessing Mark L does too…

ChipNASA

This is now a thing.

Sam

Another ROT, and I’m not ready.

And I need to go pick some stuff up before so many drunks get out on the road this afternoon.

Graybeard

A number of decades (at least 4) ago I had to work New Years Eve for a private security job in Houston and shift end was 0200 New Years Day. (Mandatory bar-closing time in Texas at the time.)
Dad taught us to be defensive drivers, but I’d have taken a M1 Abrams if I had access to it. I was more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs and oh so thankful to make it home to Mrs. GB alive.

To date, I have never been out on the road late on NYE/NYD again.

Fyrfighter

Similar experiences here GB, though I was tending bar.. these days, if me and the missus go out for NYE, we make sure we’ve got a hotel within walking distance (or preferably adjacent to) whatever venue we’re going to.

MarineDad61

Again, running into this veteran’s photos online, now for 9 years.
Legit – At least 2 Purple Hearts and 1 Bronze Star,
as seen online in Getty photos, presented by Sec Def Gates in 2007.

Bragging 5 Purple Hearts and 5 Bronze Stars since 2015,
including this new medals pic Veterans Day 2024.

He also previously claimed that his namesake from Germany,
who led the July 20 plot in 1944,
was his GRANDFATHER.
However, it appears that he has since apparently deleted that claim.

His current Linked In is full of huge claims of glory.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claus-von-stauffenberg-15093927

Is there anyone from Iraq and/or Afghanistan
who earned 5 Purple Hearts AND 5 Bronze Stars?
IF so, is this guy Stauffenberg 1 of them?

5-Purple-Hearts-5-Bronze-Stars-Claus-Von-Stauffenberg
MarineDad61

His current and longtime FaceBook profile photo.
5 and 5.

5-Purple-Hearts-5-Bronze-Stars-Claus-Von-Stauffenberg-2
SFC D

When did he have time to get that Schützenschnur?

MarineDad61

SFC D,
It’s possible.
When? Who knows?
Here are others from the US Army receiving the same in December 2023.

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8167934/german-schutzenschnur-awarded-us-soldiers

26Limabeans

Why is he holding on to the table?

Anonymous

Son of?
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Army-Air Force Guy

Good ol’ soup sandwich. We hardly knew ye, which was probably a good thing.

Mark L.

Hilariously enough, that guy is the reason a lot of people are here in the first place. Honestly could be his son since in this pic he was at an Army Basic Training Graduation ceremony for his son at the time. That guy had children; jesus wept.

A Proud Infidel®™

Uhhhm NOPE, he showed up at his Stepson’s Graduation on Fort Benning GA dressed in that living abortion of a uniform and was soon removed from the ceremony and the post by the Fort Benning MP’s, you lose yet again, little troll!

Mark L.

Did you read my post? You literally just said exactly what I said but you added it was his stepson and it was at Fort Benning.

Rare to see someone agree with you while simultaneously arguing with you.

Hack Stone

Negative, he showed up to his mother’s current husband’s graduation from Army Basic Training. Sounds like Mother Soupsandwich would hook on to any random guy to keep her company at night, and she caught some of that Cougar Bait. No wonder Sergeant Soupsandwich was not SL-3 complete.

rgr769

SpoupeSammich, a blast from the past. He likely sported the greatest collection of badges and ribbons ever. Anyone know which three wars he claimed to have served in as an infantryman?

MarineDad61

From his Linked In (link above).
(paste)
United States Army Retired
Jan 1991 – Mar 2012 21 years 3 months
Ft Hood, Iraq and Afghanistan

• Retired after two decades with the United States Army, Honorable Discharge

• Longest serving Solider to do 3.5 years straight in two combat zones without a break (12 months in Afghanistan then straight to Iraq for 8 months and straight back to Afghanistan for 22 months).

• Started and funded the first Afghanistan Secret Service in Kabul, Afghanistan.

• Perhaps one of the most decorated combat Soldiers. Among the 22 awards awarded to me were 5 Bronze Star Medals for Bravely/Service as well 5 Purple Hearts for battlefield injuries.

• Personally, recognized by 263 different Generals,
30 Senators including two United States Presidents
and several times from the US Secretary of Defense.

• Picked out of 4,800 troops as only liaison to the Afghan coalition due to European language skills

(end paste)
And there’s more….

SFC D

This man needs medical help. He’s got a short in his headset somewhere.

Mark L.

• Longest serving Solider to do 3.5 years straight in two combat zones without a break (12 months in Afghanistan then straight to Iraq for 8 months and straight back to Afghanistan for 22 months).

This is just an outright lie. I know plenty of people who served 4 or more years continuously in a combat zone.

David

Quick look at Hackworth’s list shows 8 BS/vs and 8 PH.
And why would European languages be valuable where they speak Dari, Pashto, Uzbek…and a boatload of dialects

Hack Stone

Why would European languages be valuable in where has deployed? Obviously to translate the comments from the announcers during the soccer tournaments.

And speaking of 3rd World shitholes, the Taliban have now banned windows. It’s a good thing that they are using Mac Books. Next up, they’ll be banning outdated and overpriced Red Hat software.

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/taliban-window-ban-women-home-b2672070.html#

SFC D

4 years continuously? Something had to be seriously fucked up for that to happen.

Mike B

Nobody liked him and everyone was hoping his ass would get graveyarded, fragged, friendly fired, or something.

But nothing worked, because they didn’t know how much of a bad ass ninja warrior he was. Chuck Norris would later take lessons from him……

Mike
USAF Retired

Mark L.

Easy, deploy with one unit, transfer to the unit taking its place before they arrive in country. Repeat. Lots of people did this from 2005-2012.

RGR 4-78

Weren’t there pay/tax incentives during that time for being deployed to certain places?

Mark L.

Yea, in fact, for the first few years some people were getting PERSTEMPO pay bonuses until Rumsfeld stopped it. Hazardous Duty Pay and Combat Zone Tax Exclusion, plus SF guys weren’t paying taxes on their $100k re-up bonuses if they signed in a combat zone.

RGR 4-78

The tax thing alone is a lot of incentive to stay in theater.

Mark L.

Yea, and now there’s a new operational deployment pay of $240/mo. effective 1 Oct 24.

26Limabeans

I think my hfp was $69 per month but it may have been taxable.
Old soldiers never forget?

Claw

HFP-$65.00 per month, plus $13.50 a month in Foreign Duty Pay.

rgr769

And our entire paycheck in the RVN was non-taxable. I rarely spent more than ten to twenty bucks per month during my fifteen months there, except when I was on R&R and seven day leave.

SFC D

Nobody was paying taxes on reenlistment bonuses in a combat zone.

A Proud Infidel®™

Very true, that’s why I waited until I was in the litterbox to do so!

Mark L.

And SF bonuses were as high as $100,000 at the time. They literally were calling it the; “Blackwater Bonus,” because so many were leaving for those juicy private contractor salaries.

26Limabeans

My offer while in Viet of the Nam was $10K, E6 and Hauchuka for at least a year.
We would have met at some point for sure.
Happy New Year!

SFC D

We damn sure would’ve. Happy 2025 to
You!

Sapper3307

Recruiter, Chicago?

Mark L.

Guy joined in Jan 1991 (meaning he was still IET for months afterward), Desert Storm ended in Feb 1991, yet he still wears Kuwait Liberation Medal on his uniform.

Mike B

….and I was actually deployed (7th SOS, 39th SOW) in support of Desert Shield/Storm. All we (Support troops) got was the SWASM with 2 campaign stars and neither of the LOK medals. Why because we were in Turkey (Incirlik and Batman).

And this ass hat just awards himself the LOKs.

Mike
USAF Retired

Mark L.

Yea, the SWASM was still awarded for all sorts of operations in Kuwait well after Desert Storm ended, but the Liberation of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait medals meant you served before Feb 1991, because both those countries were no longer in danger after that.

SFC D

LOK and $15 gets you a small coffee at Starbucks.

MarineDad61

Mark L. (*and Mike B.),
It’s quite possible that he earned that foreign KLM.

The KLM issued by Kuwait was only issued beginning in 1994.
As you can see here, eligibility includes service in certain areas and regions up through August 31, 1993.

Even worse, only requires 1 DAY of eligible service to qualify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_Liberation_Medal_(Kuwait)

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Mark L.

Well shit, thanks again. I didn’t know that.

MarineDad61

Mark L.,
My National Guard unit received ours at the December 1994 Company Christmas Party drill.

By that time, over 75% who were overseas with the unit in 1991 were no longer in the unit, most no longer in the National Guard, long gone, and obviously weren’t there to receive their KLM/Kuwait medal and ribbon boxes.

Not a good look for the Battalion Commander COL who showed up for the food, and got the duty of reading off the names.

NOTE – We received our KLM/Saudi Arabia medal and ribbon boxes by early Fall 1991.
These were only issued for that short period
of “Desert Storm” in January / February 1991.

And yes, 5 x Purple Heart 5 x Bronze Star guy is wearing and displaying this, too.
Both KLMs.

So, yes, he’s claiming he was in the area of eligibility between 17 January 1991 and 28 February 1991

FOIA military service records would prove (or disprove) many things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_Liberation_Medal_(Saudi_Arabia)

MarineDad61

KLM/Saudi. Issued 1991.

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Mark L.

True story: Iraq wanted to give American Soldiers the same type of award after 2003 (Liberation of Iraq), but U.S. Code states that the U.S. couldn’t pay for them and Iraq refused to do so, so it was never made. General Patraeus wore the ribbon on his uniform, though. What a fuckhead.

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SFC D

I’m gonna need more than just your word on that. I’m sure you understand.

Mike B

Good gawd just read his Linkedin page, talk about a “Bloated Bag of Monkey Spunk”.

Mike
USAF Retired

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Claw

I know I’ve been out of the Army loop for a while now (I retired 33 years ago today), but I don’t think it was ever authorized to stack Oak Leaf Clusters on an award. The way I always knew it the reg called for four in a row, not three across and then another one on top of those three.

If I’m wrong, please update me.

rgr769

I am sure it was just a coincidence that our hero received the same number of meritorious service BSM’s as the number of Purple Hearts–four each. I mean, what are the odds?

Mark L.

Also, too few knots on his bronze Good Conduct Medal device for his claimed 20 years of service, no OLCs on his two Achievement Award medals (implying he has more than ten, but then they are just the medals, so he forgot something).

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Claw

He doesn’t have the “more than ten” Army Achievement Medals. That medal hiding behind the Purple Heart and looks like the AAM) is the Joint Service Achievement Medal.

Mark L.

You’re right, good catch. Another tell-tale sign of phonies is having a joint award for every service-specific award, cause it makes the rack look more intimidating. Few people in active service that aren’t officers accrue that many individual joint awards.

Anonymous

True. Got awards, only two of which are joint, here.

SFC D

I’d say you’re correct.

Anonymous

Nice Sta-Brite medals there. Online decorations frequent flyer points– cha-ching!

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Mark L.

Those Sta-Brite build your own medal racks are ridiculously expensive. Even if I had to wear my Mess Dress Blues again I would still just wear my regular issued medals.

Milo Mindbender

Not first, but it is the renewal of another year of marriage. Myself and my wife haven’t killed each other yet, after 32 years.

Graybeard

Congratulations MM! May you have many many more

A Proud Infidel®™

Congratulations, Mrs. A Proud Infidel®™ and I recently celebrated out 15th, maybe we’ll be lucky enough to catch up with you and yours someday!

rgr769

The Army issued me a lovely 2LT nurse as a wife back in 1973. Still got her, but she does require a little PM.

Graybeard

As do all wives.

Excuse me as I shelter in place from the lovely ladies of TAH…

Odie

Just remember, not all wife PM services are terrible to perform. Some can be quite entertaining.

Fyrfighter

Coming up on 30 next year here. the chicom flu ruined our plans for our 25th, so expectations are high for 30..

Odie

Congratulations.

Fyrfighter

Thanks!

Graybeard

Congratulations Fyr. May you and your sweet patient bride enjoy many more together!

Odie

Top 10. Let the festivities begin.

BlueCord Dad

On this date in 1759, Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease and begins brewing at St. James Gate, Dublin🍺

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SFC D

A truly wonderful day! How can you not like a beer that’s older than our nation? I visited the brewery in 2007. There was a roster of names from the cooperage, early 1800’s. Lo and behold, the majority of them shared my last name.

BlueCord Dad

My only problem with Guinness is after two pints I feel like I’ve eaten an 8 course meal and need to take a nap🤣

SFC D

What’s the Irish word for “Siesta”?

Odie

Siesta in Ireland is pronounced the same but with a brough accent. But since a siesta is a nap, I found these for ya.

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/irish-word-for-c2640f79b4ed481b838ce4ad75330aa3f825d4d9.html

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A Proud Infidel®™

My thought about the delicious Guinness is that you want to have a fork handy to get the chunks from the bottom of your mug!

Odie

My first experience drinking (some) Guinness, but wearing most of it was from a glass called an English yard (?). Way younger me didn’t keep an eye on the level of beer in the glass, and when the level reached the little bulb on the bottom, air gladly took its place. I wasn’t prepared to chug beer that quickly.

SFC D

Kinda like quaffing German beer from a boot. Might accidentally baptize yourself.

Hack Stone

We haven’t made it to the end of the year yet. Somewhere out there, there is a team of crackheads with blowtorches and pliers, waiting to strike fear and pain upon the Adorable Deplorable Garbage. The only thing keeping them from completing their mission is that the check bounced from Psul of The Ballsack.

A Proud Infidel®™

Has Psul/Psulmer ever even written a check that didn’t bounce?

Hack Stone

For all of you who invested early in the proud but humble woman owned business, the Vice President released the 2024 sales figures, and although there was no increase in sales, we managed to maintain our sales figures for the last ten consecutive years. Unfortunately, that amounts to $0 in sales, but he did find a $5 billion in that lime green spandex leisure suit he was given at the Bethesda Goodwill Thrift Shop.

A Proud Infidel®™

While on a job this week, we were in a semi-rural neighborhood doing a utility job when I saw this ragged-out old Jaguar that looked like it had a fresh coat of Wal mart brand spay paint on it, el cheapo tires, no front grill and thought of that outfit, but wait, the mailbox on the street in front of that trailer house had a door on it, and the elder man who lived there appeared to be someone who works and pays his bills.

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FIRST TWENTYSECOND

Sparks

Happy New Year Folks. Tip a beverage of your choice with me in spirit. I’m gonna take a pull from that old bottle of Pappy tonight.

26Limabeans

Woodford Reserve, double oaked. In a shot glass or two.
Happy New Year Sparks.

Graybeard

I’m gonna stay with one bottle of Shiner Bock. But I’ll raise a toast to all the miscreant TAHellions, ‘weeds, ‘weedettes, and lovely ladies of this fine blog.

Fyrfighter

Did a road trip for work to Indiana last week, and when passing through MO, picked up three cases of Yeungling! Plan on taking a 12 pack tom the wife when I visit in a few weeks for her moms 85th..

A Proud Infidel®™

Present and unaccountable! And yes, I award myself yet another Honorary First.

((((OVER))))

Graybeard

Present.
Beautiful day in the AO – fixin’ to get outside as soon as the office work is done.

Y’all have a safe & blessed New Year.

Amateur Historian

Good morning, all! Hope all of you enjoyed yourselves this past Christmas and are excited for New Years and the final countdown for when Biden finally effs off. My New Years resolution for TAH is to get back to my roots: I have a historical (sort of) topic for you guys later. I just need some time to write it out, but, in the meantime, here is a video that’ll make your internal manhoods scream (and is one of the major fears that drove me to abandon inpatient medicine and medical in general):

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z-GC1OJEkTc

Amateur Historian
Amateur Historian

My attempt to get it to embed. Guess the blog doesn’t like shorts.

Odie

Worked for me if it was about what paramedics have seen.

MarineDad61

AH,
This should work. Eliminate shorts, use the VIDEO URL.

Amateur Historian

Ah, thank you. I’ll keep that in mind in the future.

Mark L.

My New Years resolution for TAH is to get back to my roots

You mean like posting a Stolen Valor case more often than once every three months? We had like three a day back when Jonn was still alive. Guess we know who did all the work back then.

Graybeard

I think a lot of the research is done behind the scenes and reported elsewhere, and some of the sockpuppets got burned so bad here I ‘spect they spread the word – go up against TAH and you’ll get your adz handed to you on a paper plate.
With the slow-down in FOI responses it makes it harder to keep the daily flow going, as well.

One thing I’ve always admired about TAH, during and after Jonn’s reign, is that any phoney ousted was fully vetted, all the t’s crossed, all the i’s dotted, and a chance to come clean given.
Then, and only then, did the phoney get outted and mocked.

Still miss the sock puppets.

Mark L.

I’ve noticed that the stolen valor cases would break on this website then get picked up by others, and now it’s the complete opposite. Guys like you who were on 4chan twelve hours a day before The_Donald came around on reddit, turned this website from a wonderful, useful, stolen valor database into hyperpartisan political circle jerking.

Amateur Historian

Well, this site also doubles as a news site for stories that effects the military, veterans, and the nation at large. During my lurking days, I often used this site as such (I’d also get a kick out of the comment section). As for stolen valor, I don’t know how or where to look for those scum posers. The other side of it is that I and probably many others here lead busy lives. In saying that do I suggest it’s not worth going after and busting posers? Of course not! But finding time and balance in life to devote to that is key. As for me, well if everyone else wants me to try to help find and bust the posers, who are always worth less than leeches, I’ll figure it out.

Mark L.

You were already posting absolute garbage political memes from 4chan well before The_Donald infested this website. If you weren’t getting them from 4chan, then you got them from somewhere that was getting them from 4chan. I’m assuming it was the Corvette Forums or something similar.

I’m well aware of the work Dave Hardin, Jonn Lilyea, Mary, (and that weird E-5 guy who did a tour in England as his only overseas service and was constantly attacked himself over Stolen Valor who runs military phonies) did.

Mark L.

Which one of you idiots lost the admin password to the website after Jonn died, causing you to have to move the domain registration from thisainthell to valorguardians?

Mark L.

So you guys decided not to pay what Jonn was paying for it? I remember Jonn constantly bitching about the high cost of running the old site.

Mark L.

Honestly, I appreciate the info. No one ever mentioned any of this during the turnover. I, along with a lot of other people, assumed a bunch of people hijacked this website when Jonn passed.

E.conboy

You should know better. And it wasn’t a ‘turnover’. It is a continuation. If you are so dissatisfied, you should lurk other sites.

Graybeard

The Besig is correct.

I remember the process, discussion, and decisions made then.

Fyrfighter

I also remember the post from Dave asking where we all wanted the blog to go, and the transition to the new host.

SFC D

You seem unhappy. Why would you hang around a place where you aren’t happy?

Mark L.

Said with a complete lack of self awareness on a discussion board where 99% of the topics are old white guys bitching about woke shit.

Mark L.

You’re a 70 year old man posting memes. I’ve always said that memes were the language of idiots because they were used by dipshit college kids to communicate due to their limited attention spans. The fact that you started posting them while in your 60’s is sad. Are you one of those dumbass old people who have an emoji of someone who looks 30 despite being almost three times older than that?

Mark L.

You don’t internet much, don’t you?

Of course not. Like Trump before he was elected President in 2016, I hate the internet. I despise the replacement of traditional media such as books and newspapers for pictures of Spongebob with text at the top.

You’ve been posting regularly on here since 2010, so at least since you were supposedly 42, so did you even serve in the military? I’ve never once heard you refer to your own service.

Mark L.

Trump was ONLY posting to Twitter before 2016 and to this day he still has yet to send an email. He DESPISES technology. His staff do most of his tweeting (like that recent Jimmy Carter one) and do all of his digital correspondence.

rgr769

How the eff would you know what he “despises?” Are you a mind reader?

Roh-Dog

Mister Krabs sings a bop:

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Amateur Historian

Thank you, Roh-Dog, for the Mister Krabs song. I’m saving this!

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Roh-Dog

Memes are the digital cannon in 5GW.

Thank us for our service!

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E.conboy

Hmmmm…could be. Why? Does that possibility frighten you?

Odie

The only “corvette forums” I looked at, or could find, are about, umm, you know, corvettes.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Ships? Or cars?

Cars.

SFC D

I’m very self-aware. And yes, we do bitch about “woke shit” and how it degrades our government and military. Are we all white guys? I have no clue, nor do I care. It just doesn’t matter. Let me ask you some questions. Why are you here? Why are you making feeble attempts at trolling? Frankly, you suck at it.

Mark L.

Most of you haven’t been in for DECADES, you don’t know shit about the current military aside from what you read on Gateway Pundit and shit. One thing that you should know is that with the recent revelations of just how fucking terrible Russia’s and China’s militaries truly are, ours barely even has a near-peer enemy anymore.

Also, it’s pathetic that you guys simp for Russia when most of you spent decades fighting a cold war against them.

SFC D

Don’t try to educate people here, Junior. You don’t pack the gear.

A Proud Infidel®™

IMHO that Boy has a Ten Gallon Hat on a half-pint head!

Mark L.

Still waiting for those other deployments you went on, shithead.

SFC D

Are we gonna have a dick measuring contest too? We can schedule it for right after you tell us all how you defeated all the nation’s enemies and made it home in time for dinner. Your shtick has grown tiresome.

A Proud Infidel®️™️

He sounds just like someone who got chaptered out and now tries to make one’s Military Career comparison a dick measuring contest!

Mark L.

All that typing and I don’t see a second deployment. You’re a fucking liar, and I’m just going to start stating that in every reply I make to you from now on.

A Proud Infidel®™

Oh little boy, every comment you make like that makes me see you as some malcontent barracks lawyer! 😀

E.conboy

Mark L., perhaps you can find another target for your malcontent…when you grow up!

A Proud Infidel®™

Junior, you are all hat and no cattle! 😀

Mark L.

Trolling is trying to get a rise out of people. I’m not trying to do any of that because I’m well aware this website is an echo chamber. Just like Truth Social, Gab, Parler, and Voat, you guys never get any new users (other than spambots) because this is a dead website that just hasn’t been put out of it’s misery yet. Maybe when I’m done with my military service, I’ll volunteer to actually go after Stolen Valor people like Jonn did and perhaps bring this website back to its former glory.

A Proud Infidel®™

Oh Good Grief, you sound like Major Moonbat aka Commissar when you bawl about this site being “an echo chamber”.

SFC D

He’s not nearly up to Commissar’s level. Amateurish at best. Amateurish at best. Holy shit, there’s a bad echo in here!

Mark L.

Said with a complete lack of self awareness by a guy who calls everyone who doesn’t agree with him a troll.

E.conboy

Not ‘everyone’. Just YOU.

SFC D

Bravo, three cheers for you! Get out there and fight the good fight.

Odie

Triumph .. Fight the good fight. Circa 1981.

A Proud Infidel®™

IMHO he’s much like that little angry nerd in high school who keeps talking trash after the Jocks have given him multiple swirlies and wedgies!

SFC D

I’m thinking that he was the jock in high school that peaked at 18 and never excelled again. Like Al Bundy.

A Proud Infidel®™

I have to respectfully disagree with you, to me he sounds like that sub-par JV Athlete who was never picked to play and is still bitter about getting wedgied and swirlied by the big Jocks.

Mark L.

Why am I here? Why the fuck are YOU here? You post articles that get maybe 100 views at the most, moderate a board that has MAYBE 20 active commentators. Shit, if anything you should be GLAD I’m here because now you actually have to do your fucking job,

Odie

I suppose a thank you is in order now that you haven entered the room?

Amateur Historian

Why are views important? I do admit, whenever people like my posts, I do get the fuzzies. But it is NOT the most important thing. If I were to guess what is important while posting, it’s truth and content.

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E.conboy

e.conboy

E.conboy

One: It’s NOT a job.
Two: You looked this site up. You are not a part or member. Your opinion is worthless. Have a nice day.

E.conboy

Hey! Watch your language!

Mark L.

Sock puppets are used for people defending others accused of stolen valor and I’ve done none of that. Be pretty hard to do anyway since this website almost never covers stolen valor anymore.

Graybeard

In the absence of a sock puppet, trolls like you will do for the nonce.
But you make it so easy to point and laugh.
Your ignorance is only outstripped by your arrogance and lack of self-awareness.

Odie

Please tell us what you consider NOT to be an echo chamber. Maybe some of us will wander over there and see what you consider to not to be an echo chamber.

Maybe become enlightened like you.

Amateur Historian

Tonight at midnight, I’m going to become very much enlightened with copious doses of C2H5OH. I will care not for what “enlightens” him.

A Proud Infidel®™

Who else calls this place an “Echo Chamber”? yeah, Major Moonbat aka Commissar.

E.conboy

Sooooooo? I bet you intend to rewrite the Declaration of Independence while in your hyper sensitive/analytical /revisionist state of mind? Whatyasmokin’?

A Proud Infidel®™

IMHO he’s living proof that liberalism causes brain damage!

Graybeard

It’s enlightening to me to see where the charges of being of some particular race come in and from which world-view.

Logic and reason are not those folks’ strong points, are they? Most of us don’t give a rat’s adz about skin color.

Those who drink the (D)emon-rat koolaid, however, seem unable to think of much else.

A Proud Infidel®™

GB, IMHO those who guzzle the D-rat Kool-Aid are either incapable or scared shitless of either thinking for themselves or diverting from what the rest of the herd thinks.

Mark L.

You are all indeed 100% white guys. I think the last woman died off when Sara died.

SFC D

And you would be 100% incorrect. But I do applaud your consistency. Try harder.

Mark L.

Okay, gimme the screen name of a woman who’s posted in the past month. And don’t give me any shit about how it’s doxxing to disclose someone’s sex.

Mark L.

Category: Pointless blather

Well, shit. That’s a woman, alright. Cheers on your DEI initiative.

KoB

You may want to tread very lightly in re of OAM comments.

SFC D

Yup.

Fyrfighter

This

Mark L.

Good poiint, as you guys say it’s only DEI when it’s a woman AND she’s black, like the VP. Unless somehow you guys actually managed to dig up a black woman to post here.

ChipNASA

I’m a Black Woman 👩🏾.

😳🥹

E.conboy

Me too! Who cares?

A Proud Infidel®™

WOW, do you TRY to be an idiot of that degree, or does it come to you naturally? Kamala Harris is of Indian descent, AND she is a descendant of slaveowners as well, she is about as black as Lieawatha is Cherokee.

Mark L.

Black people can call themselves black if they have any percent of black in their race unless the deployment liar, A ProudBoy Infidel says otherwise. Good to know.

Odie

Didn’t the VP also claim to be Indian? Can’t remember if it was the dot or feather variety, but she claimed Indian before black.

Whose culture was she trying to cash in on?

E.conboy

Wasn’t that shortly after she learned how to uncap a beer bottle?

rgr769

“Gonna get me a beer.” I might have believed her propensity to drink beer if she popped the cap off with a plastic cigarette lighter.

Mark L.

Good point, it’s impossible to come from two parents of a different race. Thanks for clearing that up.

A Proud Infidel®™

It was Dot ancestry that she claimed, and IMO she is about as black as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.

A Proud Infidel®™

Hey Boy, she’s also a Gold Star Mother, so watch what you say about her.

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SFC D

I’m not giving you anything. Put in the work, pay attention, close your mouth and open your mind.

E.conboy

Not true wise guy. Ask me how I know.

Odie

20 more days, and you too can be happy once more.

A Proud Infidel®™

Hey yeah, ONLY 19 Shopping days left until the DJT inauguration, MAGA!!

Mark L.

Only if Kamala certifies the election. You guys didn’t forget about that one, did you?

Graybeard

And we add the category “Election Denier” to the mound of stupid being spewed.

Mark L.

I didn’t deny Trump won and as Trump’s own lawyers argued in over 20 cases to the Federal Courts, the Vice President has the authority to not certify the election. Or were Trump’s lawyers lying to judges and their own client?

SFC D

The VP has the authority, you’re correct. Now, here’s my question for you, who is so wise in all things:

What legitimate grounds would she have to not certify?

Mark L.

Trump pointed out a lot of irregularities before he realized he was going to win then just forgot about them. Let’s start there.

SFC D

Sounds good, let’s start. Expand on your statement. And answer my question. What grounds? Take your time, I’ll wait. After all, I’m a geriatric white male. I’ve got nothing else to do.

Amateur Historian

FJB certified the 2016 one, so…

Roh-Dog

And Al “father of the internets and climate savior” Gore in 2001 (for 2000’s hotly contested hanging chad thingy.

Amateur Historian

Yes and the Bush administration sucked in it’s own special way (I’m one to talk because I was still a kid then, but still).

Roh-Dog

the Bush administration sucked in it’s own special way

No argument here.

Odie

You mean this kamala?

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Mark L.

Oh shit haha that’s so funny because she doesn’t wear that shirt in real life holy shit you’re a grown fucking man posting shopped pics.

Odie

So the vodka bottle is real?

SFC D

It’s called “humor”. Look it up.

Graybeard

Like most (D)emon-rats, Sparkle Mark L does not understand humor.

E.conboy

Yeah. Hillary is in charge.

E.conboy

“Old white guys”? Why do you make that assumption? Many are neither.

KoB

Been waiting on you to show up, gurlfren’. Too bad that OAM, ninja, farm girl, and a few of the other usual suspects have decided to ignore this spapos #2. I usually don’t get very involved in the peeing contest when these types show up. Not like we haven’t seen plenty of them before. Maybe he’ll go back to making love to himself and leave us alone for another year or so. Flip side is…we got a good comment count out of it, so there is that.

Happy New Year, Mi’Lady.

Mark L.

Many? Dude this board is so white you could use a dry erase marker on it.

SFC D

Ok, now that’s funny. And I’m stealing it.

Graybeard

Happy New Year M’Lady.

ChipNASA

I mean, I’m not a rocket scientist, but I play one on TV and I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, however, I’m gonna think that it’s not imprudent to make a logical observation here that, it’s very apparent that we finally possibly have a recent photographic capture of Mark L….

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Mark L.

Aw, you poor man I’ve invaded your safe space. Did I somehow interrupt your fucking Jane Fonda jokes you’re still making in the year of our lord 2024?

SFC D

Lighten up, Frances. Did someone here bang your girlfriend? Wizz in your cheerios?

Odie

Maybe someone banged his girlfriend but finished in his cheerios?

SFC D

Oh, the humanity! That’s just cruel!

A Proud Infidel®™

And a righteously-deserved insult!

Mark L.

Cheerios is the only food most of you geriatric fucks can eat. Usually with lactose free milk.

SFC D

C’mon man, show me some effort, up your game!

A Proud Infidel®™

Oh, Junior!

E.conboy

No boy. We eat Shredded Wheat, the big ones! No milk! Just out of the box!
Now, git!

Mark L.

Found that pic of you that you posted a long time ago:

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A Proud Infidel®™

AWWWWW, pookums get his feewings hurt?

Graybeard

I’m thinking sparkle “Mark L”

  • got into the Kickapoo Joy juice a bit early
  • -or-
  • is Lars trying to be incognito
  • -or-
  • is Lars’ boyfriend
  • -or-
  • ….

The accusations without logic or evidence and the adolescent accusations are so much alike.

The wonderful thing about free speech is that dingusii like Sparkle Mark L self-identify.
As Jeff Foxworthy said:

“Here’s your sign.”

A Proud Infidel®™

I gotta disagree with you GB, Jeff Foxworthy’s shtick was “You might be a Redneck …:, it was Bill Engvall who used “Here’s your sign”.

Graybeard

Crap, API, is my memory failing me?

OK, I stand corrected. THX

A Proud Infidel®™

It’s all good, Happy New year!

Graybeard

Happy New Year API! (and everyone else)

Mark L.

The fact that you are OLDER than the guy in that pic and just as open about your fondness for memes is so goddamn cringe.

Mark L.

Old people are losing their money to Nigerian Price scams and drinking their own piss to cure COVID. I’m scared as shit of people who can barely operate a car despite 60 years of driving using the internet. And OF COURSE I don’t use Facebook. Why the fuck do you? It’s like 90% ads and spam now. I’ll bet you’re one of those people bitching everyday about the government spying on you but you proudly admit to using like dozens of social media sites.

Graybeard

Mark L.

I’m scared as shit of people who can barely operate a car despite 60 years of driving using the internet.

How, praytell, does one spend 60 years driving using the internet?

Boy, Ah say boy!!! You gotta learn to write English some day. But first, learn to use your brain to think, reason. Go study some Aristotelian logic, son.

E.conboy

Bet his grandpappy left him out of his will.

Fyrfighter

More likely that his mom made him stop suckling when he went to high school..

Graybeard

I suspect fallacious reasoning is the only kind he knows.

SFC D

I suspect he’s more interested in a reasonable phallus than fallacious reasoning.

Graybeard

::snerk::

Mark L.

Haha that’s funny because they rhyme you’re smart.

E.conboy

No they don’t rhyme!

Mark L.

Then I’m in good company.

E.conboy

Watch your damn language! I told you once!

Fyrfighter

And anyone who repeatedly uses “cringe” is a brainless twit.. so what’s your point child?

Have to agree with others, if you did / do actually serve (highly unlikely), there’s no question that you’re that one shit weasel that hide sin almost every unit, doing next to nothing other than fucking shit up and making life more difficult for those that actually do the job.

Prove me wrong.

Graybeard

In ‘Nam he’d’a been fragged.
In the Sandbox he’d be on permanent shit-burning duty.

Fyrfighter

And in reality, he’s most likely in his moms basement..

His fixation with older men is likely just unresolved daddy issues, probably because he (or his mom) has no idea who that might be…

RGR 4-78

His fixation with older men is likely just unresolved daddy issues”

Sounds more and more like Commiesaur every day.

A Proud Infidel®™

In the early 90’s he’d be Chapter 13 material.

A Proud Infidel®™

You’re right FF, I bet he’s his Unit’s barracks lawer who does shit like getting drunk and doing something extra-stupid, like spray painting “Slayer” on the shower walls of the barracks.

Graybeard

And I can believe that.

Slow Joe

Present!

Sapper3307

SOON!

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Claw

That troop looks like Mike Wolfe from American Pickers. /s/

Jimbojszz

I saw this in chat group. It is a bit of European humor.

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Graybeard

::snerk::

A Proud Infidel®™

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yes, FIRST comment of the New Year, it’s 0001 GMT!

KoB

You serving up Fish & Chips…and room temp beer?

Jimbojszz

Actually The New years starts at the international date line near Australia. Not at Zulu time.

Graybeard

That’s almost as pedantic as I get.

Mark L.

Unless you’re in England, I have no idea what this means.

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A Proud Infidel®™

*WHOOSH!*, there it all went, straight over your pointy little pin-head! 😀🤣😁

E.conboy

Well….YOU wouldn’t understand… go back to bed.

Roh-Dog

Oh man. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

This is freaking awesome. I don’t know who this guy is but I called this months ago.

Grabbing popcorn and reading the whole freaking thing!

Aside, sure glad there’s an SME on all things here now. We needed the supervision! (/hudge s)

Mark L.

Most of you crusty fucks haven’t served since Carter was President, so it’s good to have a younger perspective on things. I’ve actually been posting here since 2010, I just check in every few years to see if this site is still here or not.

Roh-Dog

…[I]t’s good to have a younger perspective on things

{I must be old….} Like fuck it is!

Btw, BASD 28JAN02.

I miss the wisdom of folks like Poe and Jonn. We haven’t seen hard times and we’re going to need that granular knowledge soon I fear.

KoB

Continue Mission…Prepare

Roh-Dog

Shit yeah, homie.

Graybeard

Roger that.

Graybeard

And the Lioness.

All we can do is our duty with the light now given us.

Roh-Dog

Of course.

Hold me to account brother and I promise you the same: They shall be rememberéd.

Graybeard

Will do, brother.

E.conboy

Honor them in our service.

SgtM

We’ll just go away for a few years…. TROLL

Graybeard

“Sparkle Mark L” sounds like the hippies of the 1960s – nothing anyone over 30 said was worth listening to, according to that mind[less]set.

The young pup thinking it knows more than the old wolf. Until the fertilizer hits the ventilator and they don’t know what to do. (Except call names and whine)

A Proud Infidel®™

Mark Loogey, I have served since then and had a successful career with a break in service. I don’t give even a rabbit fart of a half-assed rabbit-fuck of a chihuahua shit what you say or think about it; you’re like the asinine little junior high school nerd who still talks shit even after getting wedgies and swirlies.

Mark L.

Still waiting for that second deployment info, 8-year SGT. Anytime now.

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A Proud Infidel®™

You’re quite a bitter little man, Junior. I served in the early 90’s and came back in after a 9-year break in service to get deployed and did so twice, in A-stan and Kuwait, I took what I could get and ate dimwits like you for a snack. Did you ever even serve, period? You rant like someone with a big inferiority complex trying to compensate for feelings of not having accomplished enough. And yes, I served in Korea in the early 90’s, when in the rear we were less than 2 1/2 miles from the Southern Tier of the DMZ.

Mark L.

Did you ever even serve, period? You rant like someone with a big inferiority complex trying to compensate for feelings of not having accomplished

Of course, I’m in right now. I joined before you and am still in decades after you quit.

A Proud Infidel®™

Really, Junior? You truly sound to me like someone with a very serious underachiever’s complex, you sound like someone I knew in my AD days that got himself chaptered, yet he told everyone about himself like it wasn’t his fault and the US Army was after him. Come to think of it, IMHO you talk shit like a damned Barracks Lawyer!

OH, and “decades after I quit”? NO Junior, I retired a few years ago after a successful career, you lose yet again.

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Graybeard

DEI hire, Sparkle Mark L?

Fyrfighter

I’m calling bullshit

SFC D

So tell me, Junior. When did you enlist? You’ve been in “decades”… just how many? You must have some rank. C’mon kid, dazzle me with your history.

A Proud Infidel®™

SFC D, my bet is that he won’t say SHIT about the Military Service he claims to have, and I stand by my claim that he talks shit like some Barracks Lawyer with a batch of Article 15’s to his name!

SFC D

He needs to stay at the kid’s table until he learns how to behave around grownups.

Graybeard

For all of you:



Roh-Dog

I regret to inform,

Harry Chandler, Navy medic who survived Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, dies at 103 (link)-

…a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base…

May God grant his family comfort in their time of mourning and reflection of a life well-lived.

KoB

Rest Easy, Good Sir. We’ve got The Watch. May God bring His Peace to give The Family His Comfort.

Mr.Chandler’s advice still rings true today. “…he said: “Be prepared.” “

Slow Salute…

Graybeard

Especially relevant advice after Bourbon St and The Trump Las Vegas incidents.

E.conboy

Such courage! May he rest in heavenly peace.

AW1Ed

I won’t rehash the past, it’s all been said. A few people stood up and worked pretty hard to keep the site alive. They still do, and pro bono at that.
Mark L., aspirin, B vitamins with plenty of fluids today and you’ll feel much better. Happy new year.

KoB

I gots plenty of fluids stocked piled in my bladder I’m willing to donate onto him. May even be some residue of my daily 81mg aspirin in there.

SFC D

Wouldn’t piss on the guy if he was on fire.

A Proud Infidel®™

IMHO, that boy talks shit like a Barracks Lawyer who’s about to get an Article 15.

MarineDad61

Las Vegas Cybertruck BBQ update…. with new special claims.

  • He served over 19 years in the Army – 18 of which were spent with Special Forces, according to his LinkedIn profile.

“according to his LinkedIn” ????
Sure. Sure.

Just scroll up, to see SSGT 5 Purple Hearts 5 Bronze Stars
and piles of his self proclaimed glory, all “according to his LinkedIn”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14243295/Pictured-Las-Vegas-bomber-blew-Cybertruck.html

A Proud Infidel®™

I find this interesting, found it in the link you gave:

“His second wife’s new husband, Dwayne Marsh, said Jabbar had begun to convert to Islam within the last year and was ‘being all crazy,’ reported The New York Times.”
So I wonder if the Vegas Bomber wasn’t a recent convert to the religion of pieces as well? He definitely was at least a liberal wacko.

RGR 4-78

From watching the video of the “Las Vegas Cybertruck BBQ” it seems underwhelming of what a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier would be capable of.

I would also like to see some conformation of his service other than LinkedIn.

MarineDad61

RGR 4-78 and A Proud Infidel@,
I added more here, at today’s new article.

Las Vegas and New Orleans attackers identified as Army veterans
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=164934