Random Interesting Bits of History

[Devildoc]

What do you call the goat?




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This gets extrapolated out: what do you call the person who graduated last in medical school? Doctor. I see this every day. Etc, etc.

Someone has to be last. I get it. But celebrating it? That I don't get.

 

[AWP]

The only response to being last is change: Either improve or find something else to do.

For the first time in my life I find myself around a group so intelligent and so experienced that I'm in the bottom half of my peer group. It is humbling.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

For the first time in my life I find myself around a group so intelligent and so experienced that I'm in the bottom half of my peer group. It is humbling.

Said with no sarcasm… I’m super happy for you, it has to be nice to be in an environment where you don’t literally feel like everyone around you is a self-promoting, backstabbing moron.

 

[Devildoc]

The only response to being last is change: Either improve or find something else to do.

For the first time in my life I find myself around a group so intelligent and so experienced that I'm in the bottom half of my peer group. It is humbling.

If you are not growing and evolving, you are stagnating.

I would not know what that is like; I am in the 99th percentile among my peers. OK, I kid. One of the things I do love about my job is being in a group that constantly makes me strive to learn and do better.

 

[Marauder06]

My bad. I didn't intend to erroneously peg you as a ring knocker.

I would have been proud to go to West Point. But it was probably best for all involved, especially me, that I didn't :)

 

[Marauder06]

The only response to being last is change: Either improve or find something else to do.

For the first time in my life I find myself around a group so intelligent and so experienced that I'm in the bottom half of my peer group. It is humbling.

For about the last half of my career I felt the exact same way. SOF, grad school, West Point.

...but then I spent some time on the USARPAC staff and was reminded "Nope, there are definitely still a lot of people out there a lot less intelligent and competent than me."

And unfortunately, many of them were in charge.

 

[AWP]

you don’t literally feel like everyone around you is a self-promoting, backstabbing moron.

Slow down, let's not get carried away.



Seriously, we have a few bad apples, as will any organization, but by and large we're a group of men and women just doing a job. I'm a little upset some of them know my name. Grey man accomplishment: failed.

 

[Devildoc]

I would have been proud to go to West Point. But it was probably best for all involved, especially me, that I didn't :)

One of my good friends and I applied at Annapolis. He got in, I did not. It took me about one week after school started to thank God for unanswered prayers. He was getting his ass kicked; I was in a constant state of being hungover and going from party to party.

Would I have been proud to have gone? Absolutely. But I ended up where I needed to be.

 

[Box]

I feel pretty confident that I am in the top three of my section - and the forth guy really isn't all that motivated, so I've got a pretty good lock on being #3.

 

[Blizzard]

It's pretty interesting to see how people innovate (we're seeing this now with drones in the Ukraine) and how their solutions evolve:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1719780428016697727

 

[Jaknight]

I found this fascinating

 

[Blizzard]

This is one hellufa friend/brother:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1730283324994887750

 

[DA SWO]

This is one hellufa friend/brother:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1730283324994887750

There was a movie last year about it.
Interesting what happened to him.

 

[Blizzard]

There was a movie last year about it.
Interesting what happened to him.

I know he wrote a book (I haven't read it) and didn't know there was a movie. So, I don't know much more than what the article mentions.

 

[AWP]

1967: Mad man, absolute hero, gangster, legend.

2003: Criminal, Article 15, loss of pay/ rank, career ended. Still a legend.

 

[Box]

1967: Mad man, absolute hero, gangster, legend.

2003: Criminal, Article 15, loss of pay/ rank, career ended. Still a legend.

2023: forced out for traveling without his COVID passport - NJP for breaking "General Order #1" - doxxed on social media by a coworker that has since undergone service funded transition, with a book tour and guest spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about toxic masculinity and how white extremism has become rampant in the US military - BUT...
...still a legend

 

[Topkick]

Amelia Earhart's story has always fascinated me. She was a badass. Interesting recent development.

Amelia Earhart's missing plane seemingly appears in new SONAR image

 

[AWP]

Amelia Earhart's story has always fascinated me. She was a badass. Interesting recent development.

Amelia Earhart's missing plane seemingly appears in new SONAR image

I want to believe, but until someone pulls a serial number or the like off the seabed...

See also: DB Cooper (I still think he went in, no pull, high speed dirt)

 

[Topkick]

I want to believe

Agree. An old plane sitting on the bottom of the Pacific? That's not exactly a shocking discovery.

 

[Devildoc]

Does it have a VIN?