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USN Vet- SAR-AW. Cold Warrior who outlived the USSR. Sometimes funny, always sarcastic. Yeah, I'm a Boomer go ahead and call HR

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Joined December 2016
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Without digging it up on line, why do you imagine the Navy likes shotguns for shipboard security and boarding operations?
Live fire training is critical to keeping the ship safe out at sea and in port. George Washington is deployed to the @US5thFleet area of operation in support of the @CENTCOM mission.
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In SE Asian countries occupied by the Japanese 50,000 people a month were dying of forced labor and starvation. Planners for the invasion of Japan expected 1 million US casualties, 6 million Japanese casualties and 2 more years of war. Paul Tibets helped stop all that. RIP
"I"ve never lost a night’s sleep." This man dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. When he died, he asked for no funeral and no headstone. Watch his face when the interviewer brings up the people who called him a killer. Paul Tibbets was 30. The night before the mission, he named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay. On August 6, 1945, tens of thousands of people in Hiroshima died in a single moment. By the end of the year, the count was around 140,000. Asked how he wanted to be remembered, he said: “I did what I was told to do, and I was damn proud of it.” His answer never changed. No regrets. This was war. He didn’t start it. He died in 2007 at 92. He was afraid protesters would turn his grave into a target, so his ashes were scattered over the English Channel. At what number of dead does "I followed orders" stop being an answer?
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Oh, I think all "mystery" regarding this matter have now been solved. Scoobie and Shaggy can return to the van now.
Mystery deepens in Blue Angels scandal as officer mentored by disgraced pilot is also scrubbed trib.al/mmGUmtS
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Sorry, but Republicans still haven't gotten over the way Democrats assassinated Lincoln either.
Even if you think making tasteless jokes about Charlie Kirk is morally wrong, there is literally nothing wrong with Dave Chappelle feeling this way or saying this. Most people strongly disliked Charlie Kirk and you’re just going to have to deal with that
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It never even occurs to this untrained intel 'expert' that this picture is 5 yrs old and this Tomcat is a box of scraps now.
An Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) F-14A Tomcat (3-6072) pictured before takeoff for a patrol mission in recent nights.
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So as soon as her principles effected her paycheck Jennifer Welch repudiated them.
🚨 JUST IN: Leftist witch podcaster Jennifer Welch and her show have issued a PATHETIC apology after companies like Cash App and Chewy pulled their sponsorship of the show due to their Charlie Kirk m*rder remarks EVERY COMPANY should IMMEDIATELY pull out of this scumbag's show or they are complicit in political violence! They laughed for about 30 seconds at "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again" and expect us all to think it's an innocent joke Cash App said, "We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast." Boll & Branch and Lola Blankets have cut ties too.
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"Illegal war" is a contrived, meaningless term. There is no statute on the books to prosecute an elected official for waging "illegal war" against a country.
Pete Hegseth isn’t fit to lead a row boat, let alone the greatest fighting force on the planet. He led us into an illegal war that has drained our resources, wrecked our economy, and killed American service members and countless civilians. And this just scratches the surface of his crimes against the American people. He WILL be held accountable.
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The first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket.
What is the single most funniest film you have ever seen?
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May be the worse Skin-Job I've ever seen on an alien from Zeta Reticuli too.
This bitch is evil, hideous and retarded.
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Funny, a couple of us were just talking about this at the bar the other night.
It is so tempting to make a 500 ton thrust Raptor 4 in place of the 250 ton Raptor 3 for the outer ring of the Starship booster
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I think Miller is right here. The fundamental divide of Right and Left is between people who want to live their lives as they see best and those who want to make you live your life the way they want you to live it.
.@StephenM: “The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred. The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids, that goes to church every Sunday, and is filled with a feeling of inadequacy and jealousy — and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress, and to inflict pain and suffering. It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who are assembled — to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They’re all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerisms... Their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred.”
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Ahh the Midterm Elections. Assuring Government of the Crazies, by the Crazies, for the Crazies shall not perish from the Earth.
Seems stable… this is who America just handed power to btw.
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Rumor is they found pictures of the Thunderbirds on his phone.
Marine Corps Major Scott Laux, the Blue Angels’ No. 6 opposing solo pilot, has been removed from the team “for failing to uphold the standards expected of members of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron,” the Chief of Naval Air Training confirmed to the Pensacola News Journal on November 6th. The Navy gave no date for the removal and did not say what led to it. This weekend’s NAS Pensacola Homecoming Air Show is the team’s final performance of the 2026 season and celebrates the base’s 200th anniversary. The statement says Laux will not take part in the team’s remaining performance, and the team flew five jets instead of the usual six during today's performance. His photo and biography also appear to have been removed from the Blue Angels’ website listing officers. Laux, a 2012 Naval Academy graduate, joined the team in 2024 and served as its narrator last season before flying the No. 6 solo this season.
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Trump after the Mid-terms, "Let's see. What kind of message should I send Democrats right now? That I'm sorry and we'll be friends and I'll do things their way from now on? Or, do I send this? Yeah, it's definitely going to be this."
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The People of Texas elected the prior governor for his full term of office. He should remind Hinojosa she holds no public office, wields no power under the state constitution and just should busy herself picking out the drapes and furniture for her office until she does.
Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa is asking state officials to pause land negotiations with Elon Musk's SpaceX. She wants officials to hold off on taking any action involving the proposed deal until she takes office in January. The land in question includes Boca Chica State Park, near SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas.
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This is the way...
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Who wants to bet this guy is under a court order forbidding him access to the internet or come within 1000 feet of an elementary school?
Replying to @smcroasters
Good luck keeping your guns. It’s our country now. You play by our rules.
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And within hours Dems have gone from elation at regaining power to fear of what Democrats will now do with it.
Democrats, don't fuck this up. Focus on the economy & ending wars Don't go back to bringing men into women's bathrooms and DEI racism Let Americans be able to take care of their families based on meritocracy & hard work
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After Dems win elections they put their opponents in prison for running against them.
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The Dem form of cope in the morning will be that because Donalds did not win by 20pts, Democrats actually won.
🚨 FLORIDA: Byron Donalds has WON the governor's race, per DDHQ. He was down SIX points early tonight and came all the way back. Donalds raised $176 MILLION and outspent David Jolly seven to one. DeSantis is term limited, and the machine he built just kept rolling. The blue wave hit Florida and died in the surf. GOOD!
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Byron Donalds just took the lead in FL and the RED panhandle isn't in yet.
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