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Mike J

@mikejason.bsky.social

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Once a Soldier; NATO and Allies matter. History, Food and Typos. CivMil & Professional Ethic. Government is Serious Business for Serious People. Tanks. Decency. St. Francis stan account. I delete and block liberally. Not Stanley Tucci. All views own.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · Jan 23

I think the only reason I kept my Twitter account up was to save my leadership thread. I wrote it while still in the Army and was one of my favorite tweets. May be time to deactivate the account, so am going to rewrite the thread here.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 20h

My thesis has long been that all of us was this was an overcorrection after the 507th Maintenance debacle. That's when we got the "warrior ethos," combatives, the notion that EVERY soldier had to be kitted out like an 11B etc.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 23h

Speaking of bad looks.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

What??! Why?!

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

US Army accepting roughly $1 million donation to bring senior leaders to DC conference as troops brace for missed paycheck | CNN Politics

The US Army is accepting a donation of roughly $1 million for the travel and lodging of senior leaders to a professional development conference in Washington, DC, next week, as active duty forces are ...

edition.cnn.com

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

...baker, whatever, can't keep up with the fact that a large org just has to be synchronized and run a certain way. And what you did to get to the point of being in charge, is no longer relevant to your organization's success. You have to Manage and Lead.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

This is happening everywhere. A newspaper, a tech company, a clothing company. At some point organizations grow to the point where they have to face the same challenges: strategy, budget, hiring, training, real estate, maintenance, tech upgrade, property, IT. And the best reporter, coder 1/2

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

Right. If you can't comprehend the concept of "span of control," maybe you shouldn't run anything bigger than a Dairy Queen.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

I am begging the corporate world to hire some retired military officer as your chief of staff and have him do a transition plan for you.

Like seriously, organizational leadership is a thing and most of you suck at it.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

Why did I miss?
Impossible to get local news over here.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

Been waiting three decades for this moment:

The f$&&ing Lee Greenwood song.

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 8d

question for the timeline

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

"Don't be an asshole."
----Pope Leo

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

Live long enough to see your heroes become the villains...

Heart breaking coda to my last deployment.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?

www.nytimes.com

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible tough but important read. I was in CJSOTF-A in 2012. Reading here about my then commanders and new context to what was happening to the left and right of our task force.

Bales, Gant, Haas, Kunduz, Thomas...
Hell of a trip down memory lane...

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

How War-Crime Accusations Against Green Berets Were Denied and Buried

www.nytimes.com

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

I began organizing a group of military veteran la and volunteers to help Afghan Allies get to the Kabul airport which turned into a nonprofit that raised over 7 figures and rescued nearly 3000 human beings.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

Proof:
The girlfriend AND one of the original founders of AntiFa.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

See 2008 housing crisis.
You may not be interested in globalism but globalism is interested in you.

Stock market is great, until it isn't.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Bank of England warns of growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets - financial crash.

AI boom will burst.
Share prices inflated
Real economy weak.
Trump creating uncertainties.
Shadow banking unregulated.
Govt deregulating banking.

Bankers get bonuses, people will pick up the tab.

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

You know what ruins anything?

Lee Greenwood.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

Every five years Lee Greenwood crawls out of an American Flag Snuggy from his top secret bunker hidden deep below a Cracker Barrel to trend again.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

Saw the same at USMA in 1994 when a classmate barely tapped a new cadet to adjust a formation. Long saga and investigation.
Nearly kicked out.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

Aberdeen? FT Meade? FT Benning? Like DIs went to jail and shit. Massive investigations and congressional hearings.
Shit was all settled and baked by 2000.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

Shit yeah. Would argue the 1993-2000 Army did very well in 2001. But we can't possibly say it was some kind old corps toughness.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

What a day.
@really seansmith.bsky.social and I waxing intellectually about our RELEVANT military experiences as
[checks notes]
Fucking drill cadets.

a man with a beard is sitting at a table with his hands up

ALT: a man with a beard is sitting at a table with his hands up

media.tenor.com

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

I know, right?

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

I was an HHC company commander in 2000. Inclusive of infantry, scout, and armor Soldiers. It was a common complaint at the time that basic had gone too soft.
Though less abusive, basic would get much more demanding and realistic past 9-11.
2000 was in the salad days.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3d

*correction summer of 1993.
Want to be accurate here.
1-38 Infantry under LTC Cardinal.