Yeah. The humor in the military back then and now is best described as “It’s not gay if you say no homo!” And yet somehow also very homophobic. (Less so now than when I was in the army) It wouldn’t be hard at all to find a private flirting as a joke.

I turned 18 in basic training. You can ship to basic while you’re 17. And then go to a unit. You are not deployable to a contingency zone (the widest definition of “place you could be injured by enemy fire”) until you’re 18.

Later on we got a private who actually made it all the way to the unit and to wait until his 18th birthday to join us on deployment.

Ironically that’s a good recruiter. Anything that looks like fraternizing with potential recruits outside official activities is a huge no no.

If you’d have joined then you’d realize your mistake. They just assumed you already had the same sense of humor somehow.

The recruiter lied. We believe you. But they lied to you.

They need 2/3rds to override a Veto. In opposition it’s going to be much more about putting the brakes on Trump. Anyone publicly expecting forward movement on progressive goals without a progressive president is not speaking in good faith.

So this is why they’re turning VA lawyers into part time prosecutors. Great.

Vibe Coding

That’s uhhh, not how that works. You can’t hold ground with bombs and missiles. And the Army is absolutely capable of holding ground against bombs and missiles. Nukes are, obviously, another story.

No. The stove causes pollution. This is the same as smoking around children. And it’s not addictive. Getting rid of it should be easy.