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having recently watched the first ip man and reading about the rest of the movies in the series it’s funny what constitutes as propaganda for other countries. Every major antagonist is a foreigner defeated by Wing Chun, a style notorious for lacking a lot of KO power performed by a man who is borderline superhuman and in reality wasn’t even a fan of the PRC having been in a opposing faction who fled to Hong Kong to escape potential persecution. Like it doesn’t get more revisionist than that.
but of course I can turn off my brain and just enjoy watching Donnie Yen throw hands at everything that breathes and wins. Ip Man isn’t even pressured in a single fight the entire movie he’s like the juggernaut of kung fu. Nobody comes close to challenging not even the surprisingly noble if brutal Japanese general that you think would give him a tough fight but no Ip beats him so soundly it flashbacks to scenes of him practicing on a training dummy.
now that’s what you call real propaganda, making your folklore ubermensch beat up the embodiment of the culture that occupied and subjected your country to numerous unspeakable horrors while ignoring the vicious civil war that was going on beforehand.
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Oh man, you can use a bunch of different character voices in Halo: Reach Firefight and... I sat here and laughed way more than I thought I would at some of these in this compilation! Some of my favs:
Chief at :05 “That voice in my head... sounds hot.” YES, CHIEF/CORTANA CONFIRMED. *fistpump* 😂
Cortana at 1:15: “I believe the correct term is... HEADSHOT!” She just sounds so tickled about it, lol!
Cortana at 1:49: “Get the blue chick outta here” and at 1:51 “I’m a LIGHT basically, how can I feel this???”
Buck at 2:45″ “ODST - Other dudes severely terminated.” The way he says it always kills me, lol! 😂😂😂 (And now I tend to mumble it out-loud whenever I have some ODSTs with me in the games 🤣)
Cortana at 3:07: “An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.” Cortana is a Star Wars fan CONFIRMED. 😂👍
Cortana at 5:14: “Is SPNKr an acronym? It’s not in my database.” Ooo, giiiirl, hee!
Chief at 5:43: “Wake me when you need me” and proceeds to slump over as if just going to sleep on his feet in the middle of a fight. 😂
There are ton more but I didn’t want to quote the whole thing! 😂😂😂
#halo#halo: reach#halo reach#halo reach firefight#master chief#cortana#gunnery sergeant edward buck#odst#sgt avery johnson#lol#ageless aislynn
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#ive not watched it so take care in searching#just liked the thumbnail#very gunnery sgt hartman#r lee ermey#cats
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On February 23, 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima.
Pictured above is Gunnery Sgt. Tom Lovell’s painting of the second flag raising on top Mount Suribachi, as captured by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal’s famous photo at Iwo Jima.
Three of the six flag raised would be killed before the battle ended. Michael Strank, Harlon Block and Franklin Sousley would never see the photo or know the impact of the image back home.
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Photograph commonly known as "Reaching Out":
LIFE magazine's Larry Burrows photographed wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie reaching toward a stricken soldier after a firefight south of the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam, 1966.
Veterans Day (US)
Remembrance Day (Commonwealth of Nations)
November, 11
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Photographer Larry Burrows was later killed with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet (43), Kent Potter (23) and Keisaburo Shimamoto (34), when their helicopter was shot down over Laos in 1971, he was 44.
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I don’t know what army drill sergeants are like, but I have been through marine boot camp and I’ll tell you some drill instructor stories/facts if you wanna hear.
At the beginning of recruit training, you meet your drill instructors. They recite something called the drill instructor creed to you. You can google it, but one thing that really stuck out is that they say “thoroughly indoctrinated,” they actually use those words. Like they come out in front of you all and say they’ll indoctrinate you.
The stated purpose of the screaming and insults is to get you used to stress. They talk to everybody as if they’re gonna go infantry. Like, I’m just a pencil pusher in the air wing, but they will talk to everybody as if we’re all going to be in trenches someday with mortar rounds pouring down on us. “If you can’t handle drill instructor sergeant so-and-so screaming at you, you’re not going to be able to handle an actual battle”
I don’t think any of my drill instructors had combat MOS’s, but they would still talk it up like combat is a fact for every military member. I remember our senior saying something like “if you think boot camp is bad, maybe you should watch your best friend fucking burst into flames in front of you. Puts things into perspective.”
As another, specific example of this. Our drill instructor was once counting us down, and somebody at the last second ran to the bathroom to grab something they forgot (I don’t remember what). DI says “BITCH WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING” and he says “SIR THIS RECRUIT FORGOT HIS BLAH BLAH BLAH” and our DI stopped screaming and just says “so, if an enemy plane was flying overhead, and you moved, and gave away your position, and got the motherfucker next to you killed, and he doesn’t get to go to home to his family… would you be able to take that back?”
The screaming is two-way. This is generally not accurately portrayed in movies, most likely because it would be profoundly unpleasant to listen to. The most you’ll see in movies is them saying something like “I can’t hear you maggot,” but they are actually demanding top volume screaming every time. Every single thing you say you have to scream as loud as you can, and they’ll scream at you while you do it. Everyone loses their voice in the first couple weeks
There are a lot of drill instructors who have perpetually raspy voices as a result of the screaming. At that point you never hear them scream, just whisper in a raspy voice. If you as a marine want to imitate a drill instructor, you just do a raspy voice and say something like “that’s crazy, recruit” and everyone will get what you’re doing
What you were calling “smoking” is technically called “ITing,” IT is short for Incentive Training. It is officially forbidden to IT an actual Marine, it’s considered hazing. You can only do it to recruits in boot camp. Our senior told us that it’s a punishment, but it will also make you stronger. ITing as a punishment often happens in groups, and/or you’ll often be overtly punished for someone else’s actions.
Doing things properly under stress is really emphasized in boot camp. Like, there is a proper way to address everyone, to hold things, to walk, to do ANYTHING, and if you fuck it up they immediately start screaming. For example, you have to refer to every single person by their full billet title and rank, like you can’t just say “Sgt XYZ” he’s “Drill Instructor Sgt XYZ.” Some titles get really long, because they’ll specify more stuff, like, try remembering under stress “lead series chief drill instructor gunnery sergeant so-and-so.” When you talk directly to people though, it’s just sir or ma’am. You have to say the proper greeting, and you have to request permission to speak before saying what you wanna say. You cannot say first person pronouns, you refer to yourself as “this recruit,” refer to everyone in a group as “these recruits,” and use third person pronouns for any following mentions. “Sir this recruit was filling his canteen sir,” for example. Here is an example of an ideal interaction which goes well, you’re a recruit who wants to go to the bathroom:
>“good morning sir, recruit max1461 requests permission to speak to senior drill instructor staff sergeant triviallytrue sir”
>“what bitch?”
>“sir, recruit max1461 requests permission to make a head call sir”
>“run.”
>“aye sir, received sir, good morning sir”
Now of course, you’re screaming at the top your lungs, your drill instructor is screaming at the top of their lungs, and they will start blasting the fuck out of you if any part of this ideal interaction breaks down. Suppose you don’t scream loud enough, suppose you forget to ask permission to speak, suppose you forget the proper greeting, suppose you say a proper greeting at the wrong time of day, like “good morning” when it’s the afternoon, suppose you say “I” or “me,” suppose you fuck up the billet or the rank or the name, suppose you say “yes sir” instead of “aye sir,” suppose you say “bathroom” or “toilet” or any other normal word besides “head,” suppose you add an extraneous word like “emergency head call” or “desperate head call,” suppose you say “thank you” or nothing instead of “received,” or forget the second proper greeting and just run off, all of these offenses could and would warrant a blasting from your drill instructor, and might lead you to a situation where they tell you to run, only to immediately scream “get baaaack” before telling you to run again
There’s a great book called Making The Corps where a Marine interviewed everyone he went to boot camp with including old DI’s and officers and he organized it all into a chronological narrative book. Highly recommend if this subject interests you. The movie Full Metal Jacket is very accurate portrayal of 60s boot camp (R. Lee Ermey was a real drill instructor), but boot camp got massively overhauled back in the 80s so even when the movie came out it was more a portrait of the past. Notice they’re all called “privates” instead of recruits,” and they don’t refer to themselves in the third person. Some of the obstacle courses you see aren’t used as frequently anymore, and they never go through Basic Warrior Training or the Crucible
Drill instructor school is a repeat of boot camp, except everyone takes turns being drill instructors. I saw a bit of it. They were all standing in a formation like recruits, and there was like, a chain of two drill instructors. One is screaming at the guys in formation, the other was screaming at the guy screaming at the guys in formation. “FUCKING CORRECT HIM! BLAST THEM! SCREEEAAAAM!”
I like that triviallytrue is the drill sergeant
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Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 9th Cavalry Regiment from Fort Hood, Texas and multinational partner forces engage in a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEX) that was attended by the U.S. Emassador to Lithuania, Robert Gilchrist, on Feb. 12, 202… (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)
PABRADE, Lithuania - Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 9th U.S. Cavalry Regiment from Fort Hood, Texas, working side by side with multinational and allied forces, concluded their Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise training Feb 13, 2020.
Dutch artillery, Croatian mortar, Lithuanian and Norwegian fire support and the Baltic Air Police were some of the major assets involved in the execution of this enormous military exercise.
"A successful CALFEX is when my company commander walks out of here with a standard operating procedure and every single one of my leaders, whether it's a tank commander, a Bradley commander, a squad leader, a team leader…They walk out of here understanding their SOP's, having codified the lessons that they've learned throughout the entire train-up," said Lt. Col. Stephen Johnson, commander of the 1-9 CAV.
This large scale combined exercise involved assets from across the entire battlefield spectrum operating in a seamless, synchronous fashion.
Mortar teams working cooperatively were no exception.
"The goal for mortars here is to enable the maneuver elements in the company CALFEX to be able to get onto their objectives with ease," said 1st Lt. Alexander Shuler, a 1-9 CAV mortar platoon leader. "The thing that's really cool about working with the European nations, including Croatia, is that they're so used to working with other nations. A large part of us coming here to Europe is building upon that interoperability."
Indeed, Croatian Soldiers were an essential component of the mortar exercises as they worked closely with 1-9 CAV Soldiers throughout the CALFEX.
"The non-commissioned officers that we work closely with were really helpful," said 2nd Lt. Ante Validzic, with the 3rd mechanized infantry of the Croatian Land Forces. "They assisted us with everything we needed. If we combine our strengths, and work on our weaknesses, we can be strong together."
Training in Lithuania offered the Soldiers many tactical benefits that are not as readily available back in the United States.
"One of the great things about the 1-9 being up here in Lithuania is that they have the training facilities right here at their doorstep," said Brigade Command Sgt. Maj. Alexander Yazzie. "During this exercise, they had the fuelers come, they brought in ammo, they executed a Logistics Resupply Point (LRP) after contact. They were able to not only incorporate the fire maneuver, the shoot - move - communicate portion, but they incorporated the sustainment portion as well which was great because that's the first time I've seen that done in a CALFEX."
Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher Carey, the battalion command sergeant major was equally impressed with his Soldiers' ability to engage and take down potential enemy opposition.
"The one thing that really stood out to me was the violent execution of Battle Drill Six (room clearing exercise) by our infantry. There's a lot of training that leads up going into that live fire drill," said Carey. "They've trained for several weeks in preparation for this, and again the violence of action was very impressive. We're here to train and we're here to deter our adversaries. We don't have any distractors, that's our focus here."
The CALFEX is an enormous undertaking in scale and scope. This exercise allows leadership to assess and increase the military readiness and lethality of all the joint participants. Combining forces on such an enormous scale showcases our interoperability, and promotes regional stability, thereby enhancing relationships with our allies.
"We actually got to shoot gunnery with the Germans and the Norwegians, just being able to interact with them - I actually got to grade them, I got to VCE (Vehicle Crew Evaluator) them through their gunnery," said Staff Sgt. John Waite, an M1A2 B Co., 3rd platoon tank commander. "They were phenomenal. Their platforms and tank crews were amazing. They're always just thirsting for knowledge, the same as us. It's been one of the most amazing experiences during my time in the army."
The CALFEX is a very fast paced, multi faceted, strategic exercise. The ability of Soldiers to adapt and adjust to a fluid, ever changing battlefield environment is key to their success.
Of course, everything doesn't always go as planned.
"A Platoon leader's track (U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle) went down, just cut off on him. He worked through it, and what was great is the battalion commander let him work through it, he didn't give him the answer," said Yazzie. "So when a platoon sergeant's vehicle goes down, you have to jump track. Ultimately, he worked through it, he did really well and continued on with the mission."
Countless hours of training, endless logistics and the Soldiers' collective fighting spirit make for a very formidable fighting force that continues to protect the freedoms and independence of all within the European theater.
"This was just a world class amazing exercise, and I'm really proud of the Soldiers. Moving forward, we're going to document all the lessons learned. We're going to make sure that we don't make the same mistakes that we learned from this time, and that we can pass them off to the future leaders," said Johnson. "We all transition. We're going to switch out leaders, we're going to switch out Soldiers and they've got to be able to pick up where we left off. We're going to continue to be lethal, we're going to continue to train and continue to get better."
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Albert Blithe
Alex Penkala
Alice
Alton More
Anna
Anthony 'Manimal' Jacks
Antonio 'Poke' Espera
Antonio Garcia
Army Chaplain Teska
Baba Karamanlis
Bernard DeMarco
Bill 'Hoosier' Smith
Bill Leyden
Billy Taylor
Brad 'Iceman' Colbert
Burton Christenson
Capt. Andrew Haldane
Carwood Lipton
Charles (Chuck) Grant
Charles Bean Cruikshank
Charles K. Bailey
Col. Robert Sink
Cpt. Bryan Patterson
Cpt. Craig 'Encino Man' Schwetje
Cpt. Dave 'Captain America' McGraw
Curtis Biddick
Darrell (Shifty) Powers
David Solomon
David Webster
Denver (Bull) Randleman
Donald Hoobler
Dr. Sledge
Edward (Babe) Heffron
Elmo 'Gunny' Haney
Eric Kocher
Eugene Jackson
Eugene Roe
Eugene Sledge
Evan 'Q-Tip' Stafford
Evan 'Scribe' Wright
Everett Blakely
Father John Maloney
Floyd (Tab) Talbert
Frank Murphy
Frank Perconte
Frederick (Moose) Heyliger
Gabe Garza
Gale 'Buck' Cleven
George Luz
Glenn Graham
Gunnery Sgt. Mike 'Gunny' Wynn
Gunnery Sgt. Ray 'Casey Kasem' Griego
Hamm
Harry Crosby
Harry Welsh
Helen
Herbert Sobel
Howard 'Hambone' Hamilton
Jack Kidd
James (Mo) Alley
James Chaffin
James Douglass
James Gibson
James Miller
Jason Lilley
Jean Achten
Jeffrey 'Dirty Earl' Carisalez
John 'Bucky' Egan
John Basilone
John Christeson
John D. Brady
John Fredrick
John Janovec
John Julian
John Martin
Joseph 'Bubbles' Payne
Joseph Liebgott
Joseph Toye
Josh Ray Person
Katherine 'Tatty' Spaatz
Ken Lemmons
Lance Cpl. Harold James Trombley
Larry Shawn 'Pappy' Patrick
Leandro 'Shady B' Baptista
Lena Basilone
Lew 'Chuckler' Juergens
Lewis Nixon
Lt. Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones
Lt. Henry Jones
Lt. Nathaniel Fick
Lt. Thomas Peacock
Lynn (Buck) Compton
Maj. 'Red' Bowman
Maj. John Sixta
Mama Karamanlis
Manuel Rodriguez
Mary Frank Sledge
Meesh
Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton
Navy Hm2 Robert Timothy 'Doc' Bryan
Neil 'Chick' Harding
Norman Dike
Old Man on Bicycle
Patrick O'Keefe
Phyllis
R.V. Burgin
Ralph (Doc) Spina
Renee Lemaire
Richard Winters
Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal
Robert 'Stormy' Becker
Robert (Popeye) Wynn
Robert Leckie
Rodolfo 'Rudy' Reyes
Ronald Speirs
Roy Claytor
Roy Cobb
Sammy
Sgt. Mallard
Sidney Phillips
Stella Karamanlis
Teren 'T' Holsey
Vera Keller
Walt Hasser
Walter (Smokey) Gordon
Warren (Skip) Muck
Wayne (Skinny) Sisk
Wilbur 'Runner' Conley
William Guarnere
William Hinton
William J. DeBlasio
William Quinn
Winifred 'Pappy' Lewis
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MEANWHILE IN HAWAII
KANEOHE BAY MARINE CORPS AIR STATION A US Navy Boeing P-8A overshot the runway at a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, said U.S. Marine Corps spokesperson Gunnery Sgt. Orlando Perez.
All 9 crew members were reported to have safely swam ashore.
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Over the moonlit Sorpe dam in Germany the Lancaster bomber known as T-Tommy made nine aborted runs. Three dams, the Möhne and Sorpe in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Eder in Hesse, were under attack from allied planes on the night of 16-17 May 1943.
Nine Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers were detailed to attack the Möhne and the Eder, five were held in reserve. Five of the nine were targeted on the Sorpe, but just one got through. T-Tommy was piloted by the sole American of 617 Squadron, Flt Lt Joe McCarthy. His bomb-aimer, Sgt George “Johnny” Johnson, who has died aged 101, was the last survivor of the raid. McCarthy was the only officer among the seven-strong crew.
“On the tenth run in,” wrote Johnson “both Joe and I were satisfied we were right on track. I pushed the button and called ‘bomb gone’. And from the rear turret was heard, ‘thank Christ for that’.”
The Dambusters’ bouncing bomb technique, invented by the engineer Barnes Wallis, could not be used on the Sorpe. It had to be dropped by T-Tommy halfway along the length of the dam. In The Last British Dambuster (2014), Johnson wrote that he was convinced he heard Wallis say: “It would take six bombs to crack the Sorpe.”
The dam was hit above the waterline, but not seriously so. However, flying back, at near-ground altitude, Johnson could see that the Möhne, like the Eder, had been severely breached. Just before 3.30am T-Tommy’s crew were back on the ground at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire.
Some 133 fliers took part in the raid; 53 of them never returned, and three became prisoners of war. Around 1,300 people died in the resulting floods, the majority of them slave labourers from the Soviet Union. The Nazi minister of armaments, Albert Speer, observed later that to make the Möhne-Katastrophe truly successful the RAF should have conducted further raids.
Born in the Lincolnshire village of Hameringham, George was the fifth son and last child of Charles Johnson, a farm worker, and Mary Ellen (nee Henfrey), who died just before George’s third birthday.
He remembered a brutal early childhood, thanks to his father. He was raised by his sister, Lena – his salvation, he wrote later. By 1926 all his brothers had left home and, soon after a move to Langford in Nottinghamshire, Lena went into service, and Johnson Sr married a “vicious and hellish woman”, as Johnson Jr recalled her, who left in summer 1928. George was initially educated at a primary school in nearby Winthorpe, and with the full-time return of his sister, life began to improve.
At the age of 11 he won a boarding place to Lord Wandsworth college in Long Sutton, Hampshire. In December 1939 he left it with his school certificate. Having volunteered for the RAF in 1940, by early 1941 he was in Torquay, Devon, and met his wife-to-be, Gwyneth Morgan. She and her family were to be a great influence on his life.
The RAF supplied his “Johnny” nickname. Having failed a pilot’s course in Florida, once back in Britain Johnson moved to air gunnery, and in July 1942 was posted to 97 Squadron in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. There he stayed until spring 1943, initially as a “spare gunner”. During those months, raids took him across Germany and down into Italy.
It was in 1942 that planners separated the roles of navigator and bomb-aimer, for the RAF’s three new four-engined bombers, the Stirling, the Halifax and the Lancaster. The normal crew of a Lancaster was seven: pilot, flight engineer, navigator, wireless operator, mid-upper gunner (missing on 617’s Lancasters), “tail-end charlie” gunner, and, from that year, bomb aimer-cum-front turret gunner. “The difference in pay was from 7 shillings and 6 pence to 12 shillings and 6 pence,” Johnson wrote. “I thought I would have a go.” He took the bomb–aimer’s course. Then he was back on 97 Squadron, “this time as a spare bomb-aimer”.
Soon after, McCarthy, then a pilot officer, was looking for a new bomb-aimer. An initial suspicion from Johnson, wary of his experiences with Americans, gave way to respect. He would come to believe that the Long Islander was the best pilot in 617 Squadron.
Meanwhile he joined his 97 Squadron crew, and on the night of 22-23 December 1942 flew on his first sortie, to Nuremberg. Nineteen raids followed, mostly to Germany, but also taking in Turin, Italy, and the Nazi U-boat pens of Saint-Nazaire, western France.
Then, in mid-March 1943, Wg Cmdr Guy Gibson, commander of 106 Squadron, and known to many of his 106 crews as the “Arch Bastard”, was called to the HQ of 5 Group, in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
There Gibson was asked, according to his own account in Enemy Coast Ahead (1946), by the 5 Group commander, Ralph Cochrane, how he would “like the idea of doing one more trip”? Gibson got the job of heading “Squadron X”, based at Scampton, just north of Lincoln. The squadron would spend two months practising flying Lancasters at very low levels, down to 100ft, and then 60ft.
Among the pilots selected by Gibson was McCarthy. The American asked his crew whether they wished to join X. And that is how Johnson, the Lincolnshire lad, joined what became the most famous squadron in the RAF. For Johnson the next problem was his wedding, scheduled for 3 May 1943, but all leave had been cancelled. McCarthy appealed to Gibson, and Johnson got his wedding.
After the dams raid he was commissioned as an officer and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. With McCarthy he took part in a further 19 raids, before becoming an instructor. After the war, as a navigator, he remained in the RAF, flying Lincoln bombers and Shackleton naval patrol planes.
Sqn Ldr Johnson quit the RAF in 1962. He then became a teacher, first of primary children, then in adult education, working with people with mental health problems.
In retirement he lived in Torquay, and then Bristol. He was active in local Conservative politics, and in 2017 was appointed MBE. That year too he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lincoln, and the following year had a train named after him.
Gwyneth died in 2005. Johnson is survived by three children, eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
🔔 George Leonard “Johnny” Johnson, airman, born 25 November 1921; died 7 December 2022
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Tiptoeing through “The Reckoning” guest cast
Scott Christopher as CIA Officer Chris Behr
Returns from season 12's "Through The Looking Glass".
Jere Burns as Arnold Blume/Howard Pembrook
While appearing in flashbacks and photos in more recent episodes, Burns is back from "Genesis" in season 13.
Milissa Sears as Leah Novak
David DeSantos as Anthony Beltran
Both are back from "Sleeping Dogs" in late March.
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as CIA Officer Rafael Cortes
Played Bernardo Castro in The City, Kyle Duarte in Jake 2.0, Ruben Enriquez in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Marcus Rispoli in Grimm and Miguel Garcia on Days of Our Lives.
Guest roles include Third Watch, Law & Order, Street Time, Becker, Dragnet (2003), Star Trek: Enterprise, CSI: Miami, In Justice, Shark, Privileged, CSI: NY, Eli Stone, 24, Numb3rs, Meet the Browns, Dark Blue, Castle, Shake it Up, Person of Interest, Burn Notice, Madam Secretary, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Mentalist, Gang Related, Mike & Molly, Rosewood, Queen of the South, Hawaii Five-0 (2018), Reverie, Homecoming, Alex Inc., Modern Family, Why Women Kill, The Morning Show, the Resident, Cherish the Day, Tommy, Shameless, 9-1-1, SWAT (2022), SEAL Team, Magnum P.I. (2022) and Good Trouble.
Was Gunnery Sgt. Mark Burrell in the season 10 "Corporate Raiders" JAG episode, Lloyd Jackson in season four "Skeletons" NCIS episode and Navy Capt. Michael Dawson in season one "The Insider" NCIS: New Orleans episode.
Written and directed by: Frank Military
Military wrote "Little Angels", "Deliverance", "Lockup", "The Job", "Greed", "Betrayal", "Crimeleon", "Vengeance", "Out of the Past" Part One, "Rude Awakenings" Part Two, season four’s finale "Descent", season five’s premiere "Ascension", "Allegiance", "Spoils of War" (directed by Military), "Black Budget", "SEAL Hunter", "Rage" (directed by Military), "Unspoken", "Unlocked Mind", "Revenge Deferred", "The Seventh Child" (directed by Military), "Crazy Train", "Uncaged" (directed by Military), "The Silo", "Monster", "Line in the Sand" (directed by Military), season ten opener "To Live and Die in Mexico" (directed by Military), "The Patton Project", "Better Angels", "False Flag" (the season 10 finale), "A Bloody Brilliant Plan", season 11 finale "Code of Conduct" (directed by Military), "Raising the Dead", "Through the Looking Glass" (directed by Military), "Indentured", "Down the Rabbit Hole" (directed by Military) and "The Body Stitchers".
Military directed one episode he did not write, season 11’s holiday episode "Answers".
He also appeared as Donald Kessler in "Raising the Dead" and several other episodes in photos.
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A U.S. Marine conducts river-crossing techniques during Korean Marine Exchange Program (KMEP) 15 at Mountain Warfare Training Center, near Pohang, South Korea.
The U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Ismael Pena (2015).
#military 1st#military#army#united states marines#u.s. marine corps#us marine corps#us marines#marine
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My Spelljammer party almost got arrested
The PCs: Xathyr (Astral Elf Captain); Sap (Plasmoid First Mate); Hex (Human Gunnery Sgt - my character and basically space Jinx because I have an obsession with Arcane.) ; Cornelius (Hadozee Bosun); B(l)ob (Plasmoid Helmsman - and yes the l is silent)
Background: The Cianamuri empire is at war with the Hadozee Liberation Army (HLA). Basically the Cianamuri is racist and they took Hadozee land which they now want back. Additionally, Cornelius, literally a farmer and one of the sweetest characters you will ever meet, accidentally got caught up in a drug deal with some Dohwar at our previous stop.
Open to our ship, the Mysttery Nutt (Yes I spelled that correctly), crossing the boarder into Cianamuri space. We get flagged down by empire ships wanting to board and do a customs check before we can continue. Cornelius looks at the ships and then loudly proclaims he is going to go downstairs and take a nap. He does not nap. Instead he jumps in a pile of hay and tries to hide. When the inspectors board they ask to see a ship manifest. It needs to be noted that Hex had immediately chosen chaos and decided to pretend to be captain of the ship, much to the chagrin of Xathyr. Additionally, B(l)ob had also chosen chaos and looked to the nearest crewman and says within earshot "Hey, you better hide your firearms." Strike number 1.
As the inspector's peruse the manifest of course they see that Cornelius is in fact Hadozee. (To no one's) Surprise, they want to speak with him to make sure he's "alright". o.O
Sap kindly offers to go downstairs and find him, whereupon she sees the top of Cornelius's head poking out from atop the hay. "Napping." he says. With a sigh, she tells Cornelius that he is needed upstairs. Without the ability to protest, Cornelius finds his way out of the hay while adeptly hiding one bottle of illegal alcohol and one bag of illegal drugs inside the hay.
Flash back to upstairs, Xathyr has about had it with Hex getting in the way and he knows she's exactly 0.2 seconds away from saying something that gets them blown out of the sky.
"You know, Hex, I think I saw some odd parts downstairs. If you could--"
Odd and parts. Her two favorite words, upon which she bolts downstairs passing Cornelius and Sap to search the hay stack...that has the drugs. (Spoiler alert: I rolled a Nat 20 on investigation.)
"Howdy there officers, name's Cornelius and I heard you wanted to speak with me?" (Like I told you. So sweet. Also probably terrified of the Cianamuri. Rightfully so.)
They ask him some questions, the prime one being "have you heard of and are you a member of the HLA?"
"No sir," (Lie) "Absolutely not. I would never...." (Lie)
Multiple crewmembers start to speak to his character.
The questions continue until soon, up on the deck, comes Hex carrying a bottle and a bag of illegal substances. "Xathyr! Look what I found!" Strike Number 2.
Xathyr is quick and is able to moderately block the inspectors view of the substances by standing in front of me. However, Cornelius saw. And now he's panicking. His eyes keep darting toward glimpses of bottle and bag that poke out from behind Xathyr. Sap also steps in front trying to help mitigate while Xathyr talks Hex down and tries to get her to go back downstairs.
B(l)ob also realizes what's going on and decides, it's time to help! To create a distraction, B(l)ob casts minor illusion, creating a firework on the other side of the deck. However, experienced players will know if you make an image with minor illusion it doesn't also get sound. Panicking, the imaged firework rises to the sky, and B(l)ob shouts as loud as he can "POP!"
The combination of the firework and B(l)ob's mouth confuses the inspectors and draws their attention away from Cornelius for just a moment, upon which he RUNS toward Hex, grabs the bottle and throws it out into space, and EATS the baggie of drugs.
Cornelius is running back up towards the inspectors, panting and obviously sweating now from eating an entire bag of a very potent drug when they turn to see him. Strike 3?
The inspectors blink as Hex leans around Xathyr and smiles broadly at them.
"Okay... well.. just stay away from trouble and the HLA and we should be good."
We all nod. Of course we would stay out of trouble. Well mostly. Haha...ha. Not like we cart surfed Club Penguin Style to an Underground rave, bought illegal drugs off a Dohwar, or shot a bunch of space pigeons just because. No, no trouble for us.
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Gunnery Sgt. Troy W. Gans, platoon sergeant for Combined Anti-Armor Team 1, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, walks through a dry irrigation canal on February 14, 2010, during a patrol with Marines of Charlie Company, 1/3.
During the patrol, Marines made their first contact with village elders in the Five Points area before engaging with Taliban fighters.
(Photo courtesy of USMC)
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