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latest rumor around Washington has the generals calling hegseth and trumps speach... (Original Post) Javaman Oct 2025 OP
No words vapor2 Oct 2025 #1
Last estimate I read was it cost $6 million. That sounds like a lowball. SunSeeker Oct 2025 #5
The fart smelled round the world lame54 Oct 2025 #2
I could believe that. soldierant Oct 2025 #3
Knr UTUSN Oct 2025 #4
The fallout will be epic Hekate Oct 2025 #6
It appears to be an internet meme Kaleva Oct 2025 #7
Generalissimo Bone Spurs lectures generals on "warrior ethos" hvn_nbr_2 Oct 2025 #8

SunSeeker

(58,354 posts)
5. Last estimate I read was it cost $6 million. That sounds like a lowball.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 12:44 AM
Oct 2025

800 admirals and generals, and their advisors, flown from around the world on short notice to Quantico, VA. First class airfare (security needed) or military flights (even more expensive than commercial first class). Hotels. Cars. Food. Times at least 1600. You do the math.

soldierant

(9,365 posts)
3. I could believe that.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:14 PM
Oct 2025

Generals tend to know a lot about military history, including from before they were born. This reference goes back to just barely after I was born, but I recognize it, from my reading, and from an opera (Doctor Atomic) in which I don't think the names were mentioned, but it called up related memories

hvn_nbr_2

(6,807 posts)
8. Generalissimo Bone Spurs lectures generals on "warrior ethos"
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:48 AM
Oct 2025

Generalissimo Bone Spurs and a drunken fool whose closest ever contact with combat was mouthing off to a microphone on Faux Noise lecture hundreds of generals on "warrior ethos."

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