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Mattis' 2017 Message To Troops Is Worth Remembering: 'Just Hold The Line'

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has resigned from his post — leaving many to freak out about what's to come in the defense world — but a message he personally delivered last year to troops under his command is worth heeding before he departs in February.

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8 Of The Worst Places To Sleep

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Benjamin Franklin nailed it when he said, "Fatigue is the best pillow." True story, Benny. There's nothing like pushing your body so far past exhaustion that you'd willingly, even longingly, take a nap on a concrete slab.

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And no one knows that better than military service members and we have the pictures to prove it.

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Mattis Reportedly Has The Dumbest New Nickname I've Ever Heard

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It's generally well known that Secretary of Defense James Mattis hates the "Mad Dog" nickname that U.S. Marines affectionately bestowed upon him during the Iraq War, but apparently that didn't stop his boss from giving him an even crappier new moniker: "Moderate Dog."

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Want To Know How Mattis Got The Callsign 'Chaos'? Here's The Story

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James. Jim, sure. Jimbo, maybe. Mad Dog, never. "Chaos," always.

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5 Perfect Birthday Gifts For The Mad Dog Who Has Everything

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Before he was “Mad Dog” and “Chaos,” before he commanded divisions in Baghdad and Fallujah, and before he assumed his rightful place at the helm of the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense James Norman Mattis was just little Jim from Richland, Washington.

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Mattis Tried To Kill Plan To Bar Transgender Surgery For Troops

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On July 13, as the House debated an amendment to the 2018 Pentagon budget bill that would have barred the military from funding servicemembers’ gender reassignment surgeries, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis privately intervened, calling the amendment’s Republican sponsor and asking her to withdraw it from consideration, CNN reports.

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