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Yep gotta love the Information warfare prevalent, especially with an account name "Conflict Alarm"!

Lol. Of course if was it was an accidental discharge. It was a P320!

Interesting take........ Former Special Forces Warrant Officer gives his take on Minnesota protests: "What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t 'protest.' It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook." [As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.] - Eric Shwalm

Yep. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is destroying the West from Within. Excellent read.

Eform4 submitted. Seamless process.

Just got my EForm 4 Ready to Submit email this morning. Fingers crossed...... I'll follow up

Was it?

Two words… Go Guard/Reserve. .you got 11 years invested don’t throw it away

This right here......

Almost looks like she tried to cut off the LEO’s vehicle.

Curious, how much savings ballpark?

Huh?

Yes. Very well said

I just spit out my coffee.....well played

Ball is in your court Sig.......your move. This will be interesting

Think I'll keep the M17 I purchased 6 mo. ago on the sidelines....after the watching the Wyoming Gun Project video on Youtube, Sig is in a lot of trouble. This is definitely concerning....

lol nah not defensive. Incredulous. I wanna know why I didn’t find those .70 eggs out there and now I’m paying 3-something

Where the f are you buying eggs lol

Was never an argument. The contrast between camaraderie and sense of mission accomplishment was my point. Of course the airlines are a better QOL for a family/raising kids long term, no denying that.

This right here fellas........just remember the almighty dollar/drug that is the airline career will NEVER compare to what we have accomplished in a 30+yr mil career which is why a preponderance of us still serve

What happened to the billions of dollars poured into Gaza the last few decades? That place should be thriving..... oh wait

Remember the mandatory DoD stand down day for DEI several years ago? How many millions/man hours/trng opportunities wasted sitting around in groups talking about this garbage...