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Category: Philosophy
A seismic shift to open access papers
In an excellent move, the American Geophysical Union has made their Space Weather Quarterly open access.Click on the link to check it out. This comes at an excellent time as we are rediscovering just how important the Sun is, and how much of an impact it has on the Earth.
New Army NCO manual fails to include mental health for leaders
Link to TC 7-22.7 on armypubs.army.mil Doing a search through the new Army Noncommissioned Officer guide, the words PTSD, TBI, combat stress, or psychology are absent. How one can be expected to be a leader of soldiers but not be expected to have any clue what happens in a soldier's head is a dismal failure …
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Inside the Vultures nest – Extortion 17 and the paper airplane.
The following was written originally for a military community so I will try to add as much context as possible. I have been listening to the Extortion 17 audiobook and it really hits me hard. I was on my third deployment in Afghanistan when they were shot down. 2011 was a pretty hard damn year …
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Chapter 2 of JOTL on Wattpad
Chapter 2 has been posted to Wattpad, check it out.
A wartime comedy – The broken window theory
"Good afternoon sir, we are here to help you. How can we help you?" Well, a bullet came through my window. "Where is the window that is damaged?" Well, it used to be here, that was before a bomb blew up the rest of the house. "So you don't have a broken window?" I had …
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The potato head kids of the MENA
Our military absolutely refused to come to the comprehension that no matter how hard we train for it, we are not fighting the grand Soviet American slugfest that had been publicly masturbated after for years and years. Not since WWII, the GREATEST FUCKING GENERATION! (News flash, no, you're not) have we fought ourselves a proper …
