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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 18h

I used to have the soundtrack on CD (!) and it slapped. Alas, Apple Music only offers the score which… doesn’t.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 18h

Thoughts and prayers.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 18h

Genuinely curious: what is the party line on this?

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

So, there is a theory that a GTC purchase can never violate the Anti-Deficiency Act, but I’m not sure we want to test it on a department-wide basis.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think you can use it for pay and allowances, unless you put SM on some truly batshit individual contracts to try and shoehorn into the statute, but never say never with the current crew.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda wonder if this is a wink-and-nod at some Feed and Forage Act shenanigans… or just a disconnect from actual reality.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

does he only own one shirt

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

This was the bit I was thinking of - understandably not indexed under 75RR, and again, distracted by the latest foibles of the Detroit Society for Blood Pressure Elevation.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

Do we know the overlap on the “it’s bad” and “I’ve done it” portions of the Venn diagram? Wonder how much of this is fellas who touched the financial stove, as it were.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

The title of the book oversells the stakes of the battle, but it illustrates your thesis nicely.

364
POSTSCRIPT
It can be argued that the Second World War was the first time since the Revolutionary War era that America's military leadership incorporated special operators into combat zones at a large scale.
Further, any detailed study of the 2nd and Sth Ranger Battalions following the Normandy invasion only reinforces the notion that army commanders just did not always know how to deploy an elite, if unique, fighting force. That said, the Rangers' ability to accomplish any combat mission that the war called for undoubtedly shaped their military doctrine, in particular their special skills as a lightning attack force on the battlefield.
World War II was the crucible in which the Rangers birthed the future for special operations in the modern American army. It was the Ranger campaigns in the North African, Mediterranean, Euro-pean, and Pacific Theaters that, for better or worse, foreshadowed the shape of future United States military operations from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq. It is an interesting thought experiment to contemplate what the likes of Wild Bill Darby and Big Jim Rudder would make of that.

Cover of
BOB DRURY
AND
TOM CLAVIN
THE
LAST HILL
THE EPIC STORY OF
A RANGER BATTALION AND THE BATTLE THAT DEFINED WWIL

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

Cisterna as a verb, a man after my own heart.

Rangers in the Heurtgenwald also illustrate your principle nicely - an elite infantry unit sent to take/hold a key objective, utterly annihilated in the process.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

… but a quick scan while half-watching the Lions didn’t turn it up.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

Snip is @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Hardest Place, which I think has some additional elaboration about how 75RR officers in Afghanistan felt more of an obligation to assist conventional units in AFG than other JSOC elements without deep connective tissue to the larger force.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I love about Ranger Regiment is that it remains tethered to the Big Army.

Officers regularly do command/staff in line units b/t 75RR tours. NCOs do “charter time” in reg army units (tho this is unevenly enforced).

Abram’s/Wickham’s Charters demand Rangers improve our whole Army.

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THE HARDEST PLACE
“.. Now, like all upward-moving Ranger officers, he had returned to the conventional Army for the next rung on the ladder, battalion command.”

The Wickham Charter outlines the regiment's role in shaping the Army's light infantry tactics and training.
It emphasizes the importance of returning Rangers to line units, spreading the Ranger philosophy throughout the Army.
The charter encourages experimentation with new equipment and techniques, fostering innovation within the light infantry community.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I could say with confidence that you’re wrong, but I can’t. Your point is well taken.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

Counterpoint: if you convince a 19 year old he’s an elite paratrooper who cannot lose, he’ll fight like it.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

The world’s tiniest stormtrooper here couldn’t hack it as a private in my Ranger Regiment.

Nobody who can do anything else works for Border Patrol or ICE in this day and age. Absolute bottom of the barrel trash behind a badge.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

If old mate had a gun or a blade down his pants (I presume hand-behind-the-back will be the laughable justification for this brutality), the littlest stormtrooper would have been in for a nasty surprise when he tried that off-brand WWE nonsense.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 4d

Story about when the proto-campus debate bigot visited Hawaii, and found bigotry was no match for Aloha.

Also wild Rockwell was doing neo-nazi, shoah-denying speaking tours *in living memory of vets who liberated the camps.*

Lee Cataluna: When Hate Speech Is Too Much. Even For The Aloha Spirit

The University of Hawaiʻi once hosted a political provocateur under the banner of diversity. Here's what happened.

www.civilbeat.org

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 4d

Live footage of me piloting the rented pontoon boats from Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 4d

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

Hawaii’s very reasonable gun laws are too good to be true with this court.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

SCOTUS this morning announced the following grants out of the long conference — including the following question over a challenge to Hawaii's gun restrictions that bar guns from private spaces open to the public unless the owner expressly allows guns.

(ORDER LIST: 606 U.S.)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2025
24-699
24-983
24-1046
24-1238
25-95
CERTIORARI GRANTED
EXXON MOBIL CORP. V. CORPORACIÓN CIMEX, ET AL.
HAVANA DOCKS CORP. V. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES, ET AL.
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.
WOLFORD, JASON, ET AL. V. LOPEZ, ATT'Y GEN. OF HI
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
MONTGOMERY, SHAWN V. CARIBE TRANSPORT II, LLC, ET AL.
PUNG, MICHAEL V. ISABELLA COUNTY, MICHIGAN
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.

The questions presented are:
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the Second Circuit, that Hawaii may presumptively prohibit the carry of handguns by licensed concealed carry permit holders on private property open to the public unless the property owner affirmatively gives express permission to the handgun carrier?

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

A good coin can be used by your successor because it encapsulates the unit, as opposed to a weird cult of personality totem.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

Reminded me to smash the order button for 1.0>2.0 upgrade kit.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

These masked dorks heard about Rangers laddering up into compounds and wanted to try it at home.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

I for one am excited to receive a GWOD service ribbon in lieu of a retirement award.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 6d

“This is not stretching the envelope,” Geoffrey Corn said. “This is shredding it."

On administration's confidential note to Congress

Completely right.

Drug cartels not = "armed conflict"
The people killed are civilians

Corn is retired judge advocate general, former Army law-of-war senior adviser

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

www.nytimes.com

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