#noncommission

[mast3r-rainb0w]

Tossing Off the Red Cap by Mast3r-Rainb0w

It's the end of an era for our favorite mustachioed plumber, as Charles Martinet is "stepping back" from the leading role in voicing Mario, as well as the rest of gaming's most iconic plumbers. But even then, his legendary voice will always have a place in the hearts of gamers forever! May we wish the longtime voice actor well on his next big adventure! Enjoy the fanart I made here, as well!

[nightingaleflow]

hiii! 1, 3, 5, & 7 for the naruto ask game?

(1) favorite village

Suna. <3 Sand Village best village.

(3) which villain would you most like to fight

Deidara, though it's less "fight" and more "punch in the face really hard."

(5) how would you have cheated during the chunin exams

Already answered. <3

(7) which battle was your favorite

Gaara and Rock Lee vs Kimimaro. It's my husbands fighting side by side, what more could I ask for?

~

Thanks for the asks! <3

Naruto Asks

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[glimblshanks]

It's actually kind of odd to me that even in lower decks, where the main characters being low-level workers is literally the point, we never see enlisted starfleet members.

The warp core four are all ensigns. They're still officers, even if they're junior officers (and tbh, a lot of the work they do is actually work that should be done by noncommissioned petty officers, not ensigns).

This makes some sense for who the characters are. The daughter of a captain and an admiral is obviously going to attend the academy and start out as an officer. Similarly, the heiress of the 5th largest orion syndicate family simply isn't going to be enlisted, I don't care how egalitarian and post-scarcity your utopia is. And someone like boimler who's main goal is to become captain would need to be an officer to achieve that. These choices make sense for the characters in question.

But it does feel weird to me that we never see enlisted members in a show that is literally called lower decks. I mean it's confirmed in multiple episodes of TNG and DS9 that starfleet has enlisted members (which of course they do, starfleet is literally just U.S. Navy In Space) so that seems like an obvious thing to include in the show.

I think the actual reason for this is probably just that mike mcmahan didn't grow up in a military family, learned everything he knows about military rank from star trek, and then when he was first storyboarding and googled navy ranks it was officer ranks that came up first.

Like I'm fairly certain, based on every interview I've seen with mcmahan, and also some of the plots in lower decks, that he just isn't a guy who knows a lot about the military. But honestly, I think that's kind of a bummer because you could milk a lot of comedy out of there being an even lower lower decks that the main four interact with.

[recoveredzamboni]

Roddie Edmonds was a Master Sergeant in the United States Army. In late 1944, Edmonds was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and held at a German POW camp. In January 1945, the Nazis ordered all Jewish-American POWs to step forward. Edmonds, the highest-ranking noncommissioned officer at the camp, ordered all 1,000 US soldiers to step forward, regardless of their religion. A German commander demanded that Edmonds identify the Jewish soldiers. Edmonds replied, "We are all Jews here." The commander threatened to shoot him if he did not comply. Edmonds refused, saying, "If you shoot, you'll have to shoot us all." The commander backed down. Edmonds' actions are credited with saving the lives of 200 Jewish soldiers. In 2015, he was posthumously named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and was the first American soldier to receive the honor. Edmonds' story is a reminder of the courage and compassion of those who stood up to the Nazis during World War II. He is a true hero, and his legacy will never be forgotten.   @floridaboiler                                 

[girlactionfigure]

We Are All Jews – Sgt. Roddie Edmonds

He defied the Nazi's orders.

Roddie Edmonds was a U.S. Army Master Sergeant who put his life on the line in a German POW camp to protect the Jewish soldiers under his command.

Roddie was a devout  Christian from Tennessee who enlisted in the army in 1941 and was sent overseas. In 1944 he fought at the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive campaign of the war. At that battle, Roddie and over a thousand of his men were captured and sent to a German POW camp, Stalag IX-A. In the camp, he was the senior noncommissioned officer and was responsible for 1275 American POWs.

On their first day at Stalag IX-A, the German commandant told Roddie that the next morning, all the Jewish soldiers should assemble outside their barracks. Roddie had heard rumors that European Jews were being sent to death camps, and he was determined to protect the Jewish servicemen under his command. Instead of following the Nazi’s orders, Roddie issued his own: ALL 1275 American POWs would assemble outside the barracks in the morning.

The next day, when the Nazi officer saw that all the soldiers were outside, he angrily demanded that Roddie identify the Jews. Roddie told his men that they would not obey the order. Then he turned to the commander and said, “We are all Jews here.”

Furious, the Nazi officer took out his pistol and threatened to shoot Roddie. “They cannot all be Jews!” he said, insisting again that Roddie identify the Jewish soldiers.

Even with a gun to his head, Roddie did not back down.

“WE ARE ALL JEWS,” he repeated. “If you shoot me, you’ll have to shoot all of us and after the war, you’ll be tried for war crimes.”

The Nazi backed down and the 200 Jewish soldiers in the group remained with their comrades until they were liberated.

Incredibly, Roddie never told anybody about his wartime heroism.

It wasn’t until long after Roddie’s death in 1985 that the story came out. His children, curious about their father’s wartime experiences, started reading the diary he’d kept in Stalag IX-A. Mostly it contained the names and addresses of the soldiers under his command.

Roddie’s son Chris started searching the names online and found an old article about Lester Tanner, who became a prominent lawyer in New York. In the article, Tanner said that he and many other Jewish soldiers owed their lives to Sergeant Roddie Edmonds. Amazed, Chris contacted other soldiers from Roddie’s unit, and pieced together the story of his father’s stubborn heroism in Stalag IX-A.

In 2015, Roddie Edmonds was honored by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. 26,000 non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust have been so honored, but Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is the only U.S. serviceman on that list.

For bravely defying the orders of a Nazi officer to protect the Jewish soldiers in his care, we honor Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds as this week’s Thursday Hero.

[joachimnapoleon]

It’s been a while since I’ve done some Gourgaudposting. Here is his entry from 18 September 1817, featuring Napoleon’s commentary on Junot, which shares some noticeable parallels to Napoleon’s St Helena rants about Murat—he committed nothing but sottises (follies/stupidities), he was a womanizer, he never should’ve been promoted so high etc.

***

Thursday, 18 (September 1817) – At 5 o’clock, the Emperor pays a visit to Mme de Montholon. The colonel of the 12th Regiment, arriving to the island from France, goes to Bertrand’s, asks to be received, but His Majesty responds that he is indisposed.

After my dinner, His Majesty summons me, treats me well, and speaks to me of the Russian campaign. “At Ostrowo and Witebsk, I managed to cut the Russian army off from the road to Petersburg. At Smolensk, Junot committed nothing but follies, as well as at Valoutina; I sent you there. It was you who came to tell me he could cut off the Russian rearguard, but that he couldn’t decide to go ahead with it. You asked him: Monsieur le Duc, if the Emperor inquires why you have not marched, how should I answer him? He replied in an embarrassed tone: ‘You say that night has come and that I’ve taken position.’ So, I dismissed him at night.” – “In the morning, Your Majesty, on horseback, sent General Denorval to prevent me from waking up, because I was tired. This surprised everyone, and they thought my fortune had been made.”

The Emperor, after a moment of silence, resumed the conversation: “I met Junot at the siege of Toulon. He was quartermaster in a battalion of the Côte-d’Or; I needed writers, I had requested one from Gavais, commandant at Fontainebleau in 1814, who was then at the head of this battalion. He sent me two of them. Junot arrived first, I took him, he pleased me. Being, the same day, in my battery, I had him write a letter; a cannonball covered us with earth, and he exclaimed: Good, there’s the ash for the letter! He had a superb hand, and he remained with me. The other quartermaster was, a long time afterwards, still a noncommissioned officer, while Junot had a great advancement. Such is fate. Junot has never been anything but a swashbuckler, a ferocious philanderer. He loved to surround himself with nobles. I never should have given him command; in the last days, he wanted to be marshal. At Valoutina, he was already insane.”

His Majesty critiques the book attributed to him.

***

Source: General Gourgaud, Sainte-Hélène - journal inedit de 1815 à 1818.

[usafphantom2]

From the very beginning of the SR 71 program in 1965…The frequent in-flight loss of generators was particularly vexing. The subsequent ground check often showed no malfunctions. Everyone was trying to fix the problem—a few years later, a very bright young NCO (noncommissioned officer) was working on the flight line figured it out. The SOLDER ON CERTAIN WIRES WAS MELTING, at the high temperatures that were normally obtained during the flight then RE-SOLIDIFYING before the SR-71 landed! The solution was a change to the high-temperature soldering this finally solved the problem for the SR 71 fleet.

I would like to know who this man is and congratulate him!

Linda Sheffield Miller

Source; “Velocity with Speed and Direction” by Aloysius and Patrick Casey.

@Habubrats71 via X

[freetheshit-outofyou]

For the "Well Regulated Militia" Crowd

57th CONGRESS, 1st Session H. R. 11 ,654. The "Dick" Bill by Gen. Charles Dick (Ohio), Chairman of the House Militia Committee, and in the Senate by Gen. Joseph R. Hawley (Connecticut), Chairman of the Senate Military Committee.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 21, 1902.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the militia shall consist of every able-bodied male citizen of the respective States, Territories, and the district of Columbia, and every able- bodied male of foreign birth who has declared his intention to become a citizen, who is more than eighteen and less than forty- five years of age, and shall be divided into two classes —

The organized militia, Territory, or District of Columbia, or by such other designations as may be given them by the laws of the respective States or Territories, and the remainder to be known as the Enrolled Militia. Changed from:

SEC. 1625. Every able-bodied male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is of the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty-five years, shall be enrolled in the militia.

SEC. 1626. It shall be the duty of every captain or commanding officer of a company to enroll every such citizen residing within the bounds of his company, and all those who may, from time to time, arrive at the age of eighteen years, or who, being at the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty-five years, come to reside within his bounds.

Sac. 1627. Each captain or commanding officer shall, without delay, notify every such citizen of his enrollment by a proper noncommissioned officer of his company, who may prove the notice. And any notice or warning to a citizen enrolled to attend a company, battalion, or regimental muster, which is according 57TH CONGRESS, to the laws of the State in which it is given for that purpose, shall be deemed a legal notice of his enrollment.

1628. Every citizen shall, after notice of his enrollment, be constantly provided with a good musket or firelock, of a sufficient bore for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot pouch, and powderhorn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder, and shall appear so armed, accoutered, and provided when called out to exercise or into service, except that when called out on company days to exercise only he may appear without knapsack; and all arms, ammunition, and accouterments so provided and required shall be held exempted from all suits, distresses, executions, or sales for debt or for the payment of taxes. Each commissioned officer shall be armed with a sword or hanger and spontoon. For the "Source" crowd who can't Google.

[mast3r-rainb0w]

Thank You, Akira Toriyama! (RIP THE GOAT) by Mast3r-Rainb0w

My tribute to the influential anime/manga artist Akira Toriyama (1955-2024), known the world over for his unique artstyle and iconic creations such as Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump. Thank you Mr. Toriyama for blessing the world with your timeless masterpieces! May King Yemma roll out the red carpet and reserve a special place for you in Heaven. Rest easy in Other World, King! You will always be a legend among legends, now and forever!

[ridenwithbiden]

Military.com "Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says. An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism.

The report released Thursday by the Defense Department inspector general revealed that in fiscal 2023 there were 183 allegations of extremism across all the branches of military, broken down not only into efforts to overthrow the government and terrorism but also advocating for widespread discrimination or violence to achieve political goals.

The statistics indicate the military continues to grapple with extremism following its public denunciations and a stand-down across the services ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in 2021. Furthermore, the numbers do not make it clear whether the military's approach is working. In 2021, the year the data was first released to Congress, there were 270 allegations of extremist activities. In 2022, that figure dropped to 146 before rebounding over the past year.

The Army had the most allegations in fiscal 2023 with 130 soldiers suspected of participation in extremist activity. The Air Force suspected 29 airmen; the Navy and Marine Corps reported 10 service members each. For the first time, the inspector general also reported numbers for the Space Force as a separate entity from the other services -- it suspected four Guardians of extremism.

The IG report also included instances of alleged criminal gang activity: There were 58 allegations of gang activity across the military.

However, the report did note that, out of all the suspected extremism and criminal gang activity, 68 of the total cases were investigated and cleared or deemed unsubstantiated.

In the U.S., extremist activity, including neo-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-government movements, has been growing, and numerous violent plots by veterans and even active-duty troops have been thwarted in recent years. Experts on extremist movements have warned about the growing potential of more violence and future attacks, similar to the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995 that killed 168 and was carried out by an Army veteran.

In February, a former National Guardsman, Brandon Russell, who founded the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi hate group, was charged with plotting to blow up Baltimore's electrical grid and cause as much suffering as possible. Russell, who allegedly kept a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018 after an arrest in Florida for possessing explosives.

In the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol building, the Pentagon tried to make a show of dealing with the problem of extremism among troops after it became clear that veterans as well as some active-duty troops were among the mob that stormed the halls of Congress in an effort to halt the certification of the 2020 election.

Military.com has reported that many of those efforts -- including the military-wide extremism training stand-down ordered by Austin -- were largely symbolic and were widely considered as just another box for commanders to check.

One active-duty noncommissioned officer said that, aside from the fact that no one was paying attention at the stand-down briefing he attended, the commander giving the lecture was "talking about what he thought were radical groups like Black Lives Matter."

The idea that far-left groups are just as problematic as far-right ones is a popular talking point among conservatives and Republican lawmakers. However, law enforcement officials and experts who study the topic have consistently noted that far-right groups espousing anti-government and white supremacist views are the biggest threat to the U.S. today.

The report also revealed that other efforts such as screening prospective recruits before enlistment are not working as well as intended.

Some recruiters did not complete all of the screening steps and "as a result, military service recruiters may not have identified all applications with extremist or criminal gang associations," according to the inspector general report.

"Further, the audit found that one military service entered data indicating applicants disclosed extremist or gang associations even though the applicants had not made such disclosures," the IG said, but it did not reveal which of the services falsely accused some of its recruits of having extremist ties.

What the report does make clear, however, is that when allegations are made, they are being referred for investigation, and when allegations are substantiated, some action is taken.

Of all the extremist and gang activity allegations, 135 were reported to military or civilian law enforcement, and 109 of the allegations were reported to another DoD organization or official.

Furthermore, 69 of all the allegations were substantiated at the time the report was written and the vast majority of those -- 50 -- were handled through administrative actions. That included involuntary discharge for 19 and counseling in three instances, while 17 more were handled by nonjudicial punishment and two went to court-martial.

There were no substantiated cases of extremism or gang activity where no action was taken.

While these figures, compared with the overall size of the services, are small, research and experts say that military service members and veterans pose an outsized danger to communities when they go down the path of extremism, given their increased familiarity with firearms and ability to organize and plan effectively.

In 2020, an Air Force sergeant at Travis Air Force Base in California pulled up to a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, in a white van and opened fire on security guards, killing one before going on the run and murdering a county sheriff's deputy a week later as part of a larger plan to incite a civil war.

Also in 2020, members of a group that included two Marines and styled itself as a "modern day SS" were arrested on allegations that they were plotting to destroy the power grid in the northwest. U.S. court records in that case say members discussed recruiting other veterans, stole military equipment, asked others to buy explosives, and discussed plans to manufacture firearms."

[wttcsms]

the noncommission fics ive been happy to work on lately 🤭

[taxxpayermoney]

My father, a noncommissioned officer in the cavalry of the Imperial Guard, was at that time stationed in the capital; he sympathized with this underground party, which demanded “bread and liberty” for the people of Russia, and had no more than about sixty members and two or three hundred sympathizers. Among those responsible for the assassination, Nikolai Kibalchich, a chemist and distant relative of my father, was arrested and hanged, together with Zhelyabov, Ryssakov, Mikhailov, and Sophia Perovskaya, daughter of a former Governor of St. Petersburg. In court, four of the five condemned to death defended their libertarian demands with dignity and courage; on the scaffold, they embraced one another and died calmly.

Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary

[walkingthroughthisworld]

FORT BENNING, Ga., (April 16, 2014) -- As students from the 19K Armor Advanced Leader Course get closer to graduation, their final field training exercise April 8-11 on Harmony Church tested their knowledge and abilities to serve as future platoons sergeants. Part of the Noncommissioned Officer Academy, the AR-ALC conducts field training exercises to train and educate NCOs from various installations to conduct land operations through a combination of offensive and defensive tactics. Sgt. 1st Class Brian Ditzler, assistant branch chief for the AR-ALC, said the seven-week course includes classroom instruction on tank defensive and offensive operations. During the culminating exercise, students established reconnaissance to identify the enemy's attack time and location, occupied a screen-line position along dominating terrain and conducted mass direct and indirect fire. "When they're out in the field, they apply everything that they have learned in those areas," Ditzler said. "They remember certain things through written exams and they move into the application of what they have learned through hands-on training."

(via Armor NCOs learn platoon tank operations | Article | The United States Army)

[startrekprodigyfan]

Vice Admiral's Log, Stardate 61408.8.

A new day dawns.

It's been hardly a week in San Francisco, and the young crew of the Protostar have already settled into a bold new era of possibilities. Their heroism in the face of astonishing odds has moved even the sternest admirals at Starfleet Command.

Though they could not enroll in the Academy, I have faith that time spent training in a noncommissioned role will serve them well... especially if they still hope to apply one day.

The exception made for Dal has widened the rights of Augments left ambiguous by Bashir v. Starfleet Medical. Times are changing, it seems, especially as we open our minds to the young and the new perspectives they bring.

But the case of Chakotay remains unanswered. The rift created by the Protostar's detonation - and the alternate future awaiting us on the other side - - have been classified by Starfleet under the Temporal Prime Directive.

But that doesn't mean I've given up. We will find you, Chakotay..

somehow.

[unibrawn]

i love ur art!!!!!!!!! do u have a particular process?

hello !!!

for most paintings, it's

gather refs i want to inspire the piece and learn from! having goals and a foundation to pull from is very very very helpful. keep an insp folder! 🌞

sketch in pencil or monotone paint (i like working over either a wet white ground, or a dry dark grey) (i use titanium white, an orange-ish deep cad yellow, alizarin crimsom/quinacridone/pyrolle whatever cold transparent red i can find, ultramarine blue, and phthalo green, mixed with gamsol/galkyd medium)

block in monotone highlights + darks

start layering in colors, stick with big brushes as long as possible. i tend to alternate between sessions of "drawing" and "painting" with my brushes, starting chunky and gradually refining lines

slowly pick at it! give it time! i tend to work on a few paintings at a time, often I'll mix one color and fit it onto a multiple pictures.

but, I'm not particularly strict about this! most important thing is to enioy the process of making, wherever that takes you! for noncommissioned work, it can take me months of slowly adding bits and bobs, making just a stroke or two, maybe painting over the whole thing and starting again. i keep about 6 "sketchbooks" that i work in nonlinearly, letting the images develop as they will