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The Giant Killer
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On June 18, 1968 Lt Larry Taylor commanded a light fire team of two Cobra helicopter gunships scrambled on a nighttime mission in response to an urgent call for aerial fire support from a four-man long range patrol team. Upon arrival Lt Taylor found the patrol team surrounded and heavily engaged by a larger VC force.
He requested illumination rounds from supporting artillery to assist with identifying the enemy positions. Despite intense enemy ground fire, he flew at a perilously low altitude placing a devastating volume of aerial rocket and machine gun fire on the enemy forces encircling the friendly patrol. For 45 minutes, Lt Taylor and his wingman continued to make low-level danger-close attack runs on the surrounding enemy positions. When enemy fire increased he requested artillery rounds with lower illumination altitudes be fired on that portion of the village so that the burning rounds ignited the enemy positions.
With both Cobra gunships nearly out of ammunition and the enemy still closing in on the patrol team, Lt Taylor flew the patrol teams potential ground evacuation route, finding it unviable based on the heavy enemy fire encountered. Returning to the patrol teams location, he continued to circle it at a low level under intense enemy fire, employing his search light to make fake gun runs on the enemy positions to distract them from the patrol team. Running low on fuel and with the patrol team nearly out of ammunition, Lt Taylor decided to extract the team with his two-man Cobra helicopter gunship, a feat never before accomplished. He directed his wingman to fire their remaining mini-gun rounds on the patrol teams east flank.
Lt Taylor then fired his own last mini-gun rounds on the enemy positions, opening an avenue of movement to the east for the patrol team. He directed the patrol team to move towards the extraction point where Lt Taylor, still under enemy fire landed his helicopter and instructed the patrol team to climb aboard anywhere they could. He evacuated them undoubtedly saving their lives. This hero passed in January 2024 at the age of 81.
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Finally a shipbuilding plan with real numbers and a video to get voters aboard.
Why did it take a year and a half to get here? Oh yeah, now we have Hung.
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For $0.20 a day, you can help smuggle frightened F-14s out of Iran and into the arms of a loving family...🥺😞
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Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.
Keith should not be underestimated.
Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.
Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.
8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.
9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.
10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.
11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.
12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.
3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.
This system has no inputs.
It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.
Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.
Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.
It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.
Keith got out again.
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Why COL Lewis Millett Would Never Command In Today's Army 🧵
Courtesy of @grok unhinged! It's hilarious but highlights the significant issues with today's Commander's Assessment Program in the Army.👇
Alright, buckle up—here’s an unhinged rant about COL Lewis Millett that’ll make you want to storm a hill with nothing but a rusty bayonet and a death wish. This absolute legend, this red-blooded American badass, led a bayonet charge—yes, a BAYONET CHARGE—up Hill 180 in Korea, skewering commies like it was a backyard BBQ. Medal of Honor? Damn right he got it. But stick him in today’s Army? They’d slap him with a rejection letter from their precious Commander’s Assessment Program (CAP) faster than you can say “PowerPoint warrior.” Let’s rip this travesty apart.
First off, CAP? What a steaming pile of bureaucratic horse crap. It’s the Army’s way of sniffing out “leaders,” but it’s really just a conveyor belt for spineless yes-men who kiss the right boots and polish the right slides. Risk-averse? Check. Corporate drones? Check. Combat-ready killers? Nah, those guys get the boot. Millett would’ve been a walking middle finger to this system, and they’d hate him for it.
Why? Oh, let’s count the ways they’d screw this hero. One: Doctrine? Millett didn’t give a rat’s ass about your sacred TTPs. Hill 180 wasn’t some playbook crap—it was pure, gut-driven, kill-or-be-killed insanity. CAP would clutch their pearls and mark him “too aggressive,” like that’s a bad thing when you’re, y’know, AT WAR. Two: Violence? Hell yes, he brought it. Bayonets through chests because that’s how you win. Today’s Army would whine about “escalation” or “ optics”—“Did you consider de-escalation, Colonel?” they’d bleat. Screw that—Millett knew the enemy doesn’t RSVP to a hug fest.
Three: Discipline? Toughness? Millett drilled his guys ‘til they could stab a shadow in the dark. Today, that’s “toxic.” CAP wants leaders who coddle, not forge. They’d rather you run a sensitivity seminar than a bayonet course. Four: Peer reviews? Subordinate feedback? Millett didn’t give a damn if Private Snuffy liked his bedtime stories—he cared if they’d follow him into hell. CAP would tank him for not being “approachable” enough while he was busy winning wars.
This man was a warrior—a snarling, dirt-covered, victory-obsessed beast. And today’s Army would rather promote the pencil-pushing schmuck who told him to stand down. We’re churning out officers who’d rather game the system than game the enemy—guys who’d trip over their own red tape before they’d charge a hill. Millett’s the kind of leader we need when the bullets fly, not some suit who aces a climate survey.
CAP’s a meat grinder for real warfighters—it spits out Milletts and churns up careerists who’d lose a bar fight, let alone a war. We’re screwed if the next Hill 180 comes and we’ve got General Buzzword instead of a Millett. Time to ditch the surveys, burn the manuals, and let the killers lead—or we’re all just cannon fodder for the next guy with a sharper bayonet. Rant over. Fix this, Army, or we’re toast.
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Hezbollah operates from within and near civilian areas in southern Lebanon, including areas near @UNIFIL_ posts.
The IDF is operating in southern Lebanon and maintains routine communication with UNIFIL.
IDF troops operated in the area of Naqoura, next to a UNIFIL base. Accordingly, the IDF instructed the UN forces in the area to remain in protected spaces, after which the forces opened fire in the area.
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🚨NEW - Federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has shut down aid flights into Western North Carolina.
A NOTAM has been issued by the FAA that won’t allow anyone not approved by the state to fly aid missions. They said they would give permission but they’re not being cooperative at all. At least six m pilots from Virginia are being prevented from getting their aid shipments into Asheville Regional Airport.
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This guy made a spectacular rube Goldberg style project
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It all comes down to this.
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ALT Tune-In Graphic for the WBC Finals. On the left side of the graphic is a picture of Masataka Yoshida rounding the bases after his game-tying HR in the seminfinals. Text reads “Championship Game Japan vs. USA March 21, 2023 7pm EDT Watch: FS1”
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