Tag Archives: Army

Three Guiding Principles of Enlisted Leadership

Posted on July 5, 2018 by psessum

By: Peter Sessum I’ll bet if you put the authors of books on military leadership in one room you would get a bunch of former field grade officers jacking each other off about how great they are. Every book on … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Military Leadership | Tagged Army, Fort Knox, Leadership, Life Skills, Military, Military leadership, Service | Leave a comment

Posted on June 9, 2018 by psessum

Sometimes the Military Does Some Good: Healing Over Hurting By Peter Sessum Hollywood loves a good war movie. They focus on invasions or combat, but the reconstruction doesn’t make the box office, or headlines. Like many other vets, I can … Continue reading →

Link | Posted on June 9, 2018 by psessum | Tagged Afghan, Afghanistan, Army, dogtag chronicles, GWOT, Kids, Medics, Military, My Deployment, Psychological Operations, PSYOP, So There I Was, Soldiers, Stuffed Animal, Village | Leave a comment

Don’t Thank Vets on Memorial Day

Posted on May 26, 2017 by psessum

By Peter Sessum This is one of those things that drives veterans crazy, admittedly some take it too far. Civilians don’t see why it matters and while they don’t intend to offend, some do not fully grasp why it bothers … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge, Never Forget | Tagged Afghan, Afghanistan, Air Force, Armed Forces Day, Army, current-events, dogtag chronicles, Fallen, Memorial Day, Military, Navy, Remember the Fallen, Service, Soldier, Thank a vet, Veteran's Day, Veterans, Vets | Leave a comment

You fight on your terms but you win on their terms

Posted on May 4, 2017 by psessum

By: Peter Sessum Why did the U.S. win WWII? it wasn’t because we coordinated with the Soviets to overrun Berlin or we dropped a couple atom bombs over Japan. That is how we fought the war, we won because both Germany and Japan surrendered. That is … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge | Tagged Army, current-events, dogtag chronicles, Enlisted, Fight on your terms, Life Skills, Military, Military leadership, North Korea, North Korea Tunnel, Officers, politics, Special Forces, Veterans, Vets, win on their terms, WWII, Zombies | Leave a comment

Why the Marines United situation is so messed up

Posted on April 5, 2017 by psessum

Some 30,000 people joined the Marines United Facebook group to share porn or images of women without their consent and to name and harass the women who appeared on their site. After it was successfully shut down, MU 2.0 formed … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge | Tagged Army, Boobs, current-events, deployhment, dogtag chronicles, Grunt, Infantry, Mad DogMattis, Marines, Marines United, Porn, Veterans, Vets | 1 Comment

ROE and why civilians scare me

Posted on February 18, 2017 by psessum

By Peter Sessum People tend to think that other people think like them. So when a civilian says he is worried about vets becoming violent I know it is not because he has an insight into the military mind. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge | Tagged Aaron Ybarra, active shooter, Afghan, Afghanistan, Allen Ivanov, Army, Centcom, Civilians, Combat Zone, current-events, dogtag chronicles, Kabul, Mass Shooting, Military, ROE, Rules of Engagement, School Shooting, Seattle Pacific University, SPU, the dogtag chronicles, Training, UN, United Nations, Veterans, Vets | 1 Comment

No matter what you think you are made of, you are most likely wrong

Posted on February 16, 2017 by psessum

By: Peter Sessum The History Channel recently completed the first season of The Selection, their social experiment where they took 30 civilian through a mock special operations selection course. I know it wasn’t their intention, but my veteran friends and … Continue reading →

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Sometimes the military does some good

Posted on February 4, 2017 by psessum

BY: Peter Sessum Every veteran I know has stories about discussions with young, idealistic civilians that didn’t go well. At some point we have all been lectured about all the babies that we are killing, all the countries we are invading … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge, So There I Was | Tagged Afghan, Afghanistan, Army, Civilian, Combat Zone, dogtag chronicles, Enlisted, Grunt, Hearts and Minds, Infantry, Kandahar, Life Skills, Military, Mission, My Deployment, OEF, Operation Enduring Freedom, PSYOP, reconstruction, So There I Was, Taliban, Veterans, Village | Leave a comment

Protesting the national anthem distracts from your cause but you have the right to do it

Posted on September 10, 2016 by psessum

As patriot, proud of my service, I can say without reservation that I don’t give a good damn if a football player stands for the national anthem or not. In fact, having the choice to stand or not it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge | Tagged 49ers, American, Army, Colin Kaepernick, Colin Kaepernick protest, current-events, dogtag chronicles, douchenozzle, Flag, Football, Grunt, Kaepernick, Military, National Anthem, protest, Soldier, Veterans, Vets | Leave a comment

Random Memory: The Power of the Sham Shield

Posted on November 6, 2015 by psessum

By Peter Sessum A recent post on social media about the attitudes of the enlisted ranks in the Army prompted me to write this. The breakdown of ranks were pretty accurate but I thought the Specialist one was too limiting … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Kicking Some Knowledge, Military Leadership, Random Memories | Tagged AR 670-1, Army, CSM, dogtag chronicles, E-4, E4, Enlisted, Experiences, Germany, Leadership, Life Skills, Management, Military, Military leadership, Rank, Rnadom Memory, Sergeant Major, Sham Shield, So There I Was, Spec-4 Mafia, Specialist, Veterans, Vets | Leave a comment