All I want to know is one thing:

[AverageOldGuy]

I’m an old soldier, 28 years active duty (1967-1995); one tour in the bush in Vietnam. Listening to Secretary of War (as he calls himself) Hegseth, really, really pissed me off. I can’t decide which is the more incompetent dumbass boob – Hegseth or Trump.

I spent a year in Vietnam with a 60-pd rucksack on my back and an M-16 in my hand and I had a lot of opportunities to use it.

About Gender. I don’t care if you stand up to pee or sit down to pee. What I want to know is: WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, CAN I COUNT ON YOU?

Shaving. We carried basic shaving stuff in our rucksacks – razor, soap – would heat water in a canteen cup over a burning ball of C4 plastic explosive – when we could. I have gone as long as 12 days without a shave or a shower (unless you count wading through rivers or walking through the monsoon). I don’t care is you have a beard, a mustache, are a Sikh with a turban, a woman with a ponytail, or someone with a shaved head and face. What I want to know is: WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, CAN I COUNT ON YOU?

Fat generals and admirals, doing PT every morning. I’m 81; 6’1”, 175, work out 5 days a week. I don’t care how many pushups, pull-ups, or whatever else you do I don’t care if there’s a bit of a roll around your waist. What I want to know is: WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, CAN I COUNT ON YOU?

The audience for the Two Stooges Show was 800 generals and admirals and their senior enlisted advisors. Every one of the generals or admirals holds at least one advanced degree, some of them are PhD; all are graduates of their service Command Staff College and War College. Most of the senior enlisted advisors hold advanced college degrees. Every one of them has more time in the latrine than Hegseth had in combat (if you can call what he did in Iraq “combat”) and we all know Trump was a draft dodger (of course, he was a cadet at a military school, so there’s that).

All I ever cared about and still all I care about is: WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, CAN I COUNT ON YOU? In the case of Trump and Hegseth, we all know the answer to that.