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Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper.bsky.social

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History person, Army officer, transplanted Buckeye, not really that angry anymore. Writes stuff. Some Star Wars. Refugee from Twitter. Views do not reflect or represent the DoD's. He/him/his. angrystaffofficer.com

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · Nov 15

This was my pinned tweet over on Twitter. It will remain my pinned tweet here. Because the issue of sexual harassment and assault in the Army still persists. We must do better.

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I Didn’t Know

She had a senior non-commissioned officer buy her lingerie, passing it off as a joke. I didn’t know. She was mentally broken down and denigrated, day after day, by a male officer who was her comman…

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 4d

See the response to the first post, I dropped the link there

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, I know who John Brown was, thanks

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 4d

Apropos of nothing, here’s the link to the shirt: theblackestco.com/products/nev...

Never Argue John Brown Would Have Shot Unisex Staple T-Shirt

Never Argue With Someone John Brown Would Have Shot tee. Bold and uncompromising for history lovers. Designed, printed and shipped in the USA. Black owned biz.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 4d

Wore my “don’t argue with anyone John Brown would’ve shot” T-shirt today

Bartender at a casual prominent DC bar

“Who’s John Brown?”

Reader, I despair.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 7d

He, like the country, ain’t well

Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 16d

a close up of a woman 's face with a ponytail and a purple shirt .

Alt: “The limit does not exist” from the movie Mean Girls

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 16d

Not the first time Rogers had been arrested. He was thrown in jail on suspicion of murder in New York in 1764, only to be busted out by drunken Royal American Regiment dudes who wounded the jailer with a bayonet. NY militia arrested 6 Regulars while Rogers took off on horseback

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 16d

Narrator voice: He did not, in fact, keep that promise

Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 16d

22 SEPTEMBER 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Pennsylvania committee of safety imprison the French & Indian War hero Robert Rogers, but the Continental Congress order him released on condition of giving his parole that he will not bear arms against the colonies in the current war.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 16d

That’s the one

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

It was something Meta fed me and I noped out of it hard after Gen George swigged the energy drink

Something something we don’t do product endorsements something something code of ethics

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

This evening’s absolute random-ass posting brought to you by me seeing the Army Chief of Staff (our highest ranking officer) doing a podcast with some energy drink brofluincers which made me think about the state of the “Profession” and blech

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

He then spent the rest of his life trying to define masculinity and war.

He would have absolutely been an internet influencer and would have been incredibly insufferable.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

William Faulkner was too short to join the US Army Air Service in WWI, so went to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Flying Corps but they were like “no, too short” so he was a maintainer and never left Canada

Returned to the US after the war, wearing unearned wings, medals, & bragged of a wound

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

A good example of “yes, your career CAN recover from a bad tactical day that turns into a strategic problem, ask me how”

Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

Never meet your Civil War heroes after the war is pretty much the sum of it. Highly egotistical general in 1898 and beyond, oversaw bad stuff in the Philippines, and obstructed William Howard Taft’s attempts of build a civil government for the country

Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

As historian Brian Linn points out, had MacArthur not been coddled by the army because of his important daddy (also a jackass), he would’ve been kicked out as a lieutenant for failing to meet the standards brought on by the Elihu Root reforms to the Army

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

I mean…yeah, that about sums it up

NONFICTION
Robert McNamara Loved Efficiency. Then Came the Vietnam War.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

(Oh and of course Doug MacArthur stayed quiet the whole time because Doug, if presented a list of options that weren’t ending hazing at USMA, Island Hopping, and Inchon, could always be expected to pick the worst of all possible options)

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

HW Bush did a helluva lotta damage when he brought them into the GOP

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

He did finally give voice, but too late, I agree. Especially for someone like Marshall.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

I reappraised my image after reading “Stilwell in China”

Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

Well, sort of. He first attacked him in 1951 and kept at it until his downfall in 1954

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

And also partly because McCarthy was such a loser that he couldn’t handle it when people were more talented than he was. Which was almost everyone.

Give someone like that any bit of power and they will rapidly spiral into personal attacks out of spite

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

Mostly because Marshall had integrity and because the right wing evangelical pro-nationalist China focus groups were trying to smear both Marshall and Gen Stilwell for daring to point out that Chiang Kai-shel kinda sucked and that the Communist forces were far better trained

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17d

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

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