I’m wearing its Airborne twin right now while getting this little man to bed

Not in the C-47 one I have nor has @sebastianbae.bsky.social ever complained (to me at least).

Though I suspect the limited editions get particular care.

I have 2x Bulovas (A-15 Pilot and a Hack) and a Hamilton (Khaki Field King Auto) and while I switch them around constantly, my new go-to is a Praedidus A-11 made from a C-47 door that dropped Paratroopers in WWII. The same company made a version with sand from Iwo for @sebastianbae.bsky.social

I am shocked!

Hamilton. Amiright @ctreese2.bsky.social ?

Happy LTPL Day to all who celebrate it, especially the Goodyears in my garage

I have so many thoughts, in these professionally trying days

I’m gonna call it “Steve”

100% Army-made Linchpins (TM)

And USMA predates any existing commissioning program. Suggesting we go back to a pre-professional commission system circa 1775-1802 is… well something.

And if you’re worried about USMA being a lightning rod for politicization, *gestures wildly at the rest of the university system*

Well this is fruitless.

Relegating (how when there isn’t a meaningful hierarchy) or reducing the budget would have zero effect on the policies (still dictated by government) and the football team (which brings in more private money and subsidizes other athletic and extracurricular programs).

Public Pol analysis aside, seems to me that it’s more appropriate to call on institutions to do a better job rectifying past sins than calling for abolition. Esp when the body politic acts on USMA a hell of a lot more than the reverse.

Seems like that standard would leave us w/o any institutions.

It is impossible to judge as the Academies have existed for the entirety of any other commissioning program.
Are grad better officers or better networked/favored by boards? Impossible to separate the two.

This is my selection of just CAA and Strategic Wargaming Division Aloha shirts from many USINDOPACOM and USARPAC wargames

What a very broad brush to paint with considering this decision is not being undertaken by any current Academy administrator, former administrator, or graduate.

Remind me, as a poor civil-military relations scholar: Congress doesn’t have any oversight authority over the military or the Academy, right?

It’s perfectly fair to try to take an account of both the direct and indirect costs of the US led invasion of Iraq, but to pretend that there was no widespread violence in Iraq prior to 2003 when there was a whole no fly zone for a decade to stop the gassing of Kurds and bombing of Shia is just wild

Hate this for you Russ