LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️

USMC O311 A 1/8
Veteran

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@Keithhambone @v_Slik_

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

This is the perfect description of the Western "man". It's time we let our nuts drop and restore order.

[Unclean @CoyoteUnclean]

@dsonoiki [Nods in Solzhenitsyn]

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@v_Slik_ @FoodPleaser The Dutch

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Ballplayers: Combat Veteran Edition #1 Hank Bauer

Hank Bauer, United States Marine and eight-time World Series champion, was one badass ballplayer.

Born July 31, 1922, in East St. Louis, Illinois.

One month after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

He volunteered for the elite Marine Raiders and was sent to the Pacific Theater.

He fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, including Guadalcanal, Guam, and Okinawa.

On Guam, Bauer went ashore on the very first day.

He earned his first Bronze Star for demonstrating exceptional valor during intense, close-quarters jungle warfare.

He was wounded in the back by enemy shrapnel from an exploding shell. He refused to leave the battlefield.

It was his first Purple Heart.

Years later, pieces of shrapnel from that wound were still embedded in his back. His Yankees teammates would sometimes pick metal fragments out of him in the clubhouse.

The fighting he experienced on Okinawa was even more brutal.

Bauer was a platoon sergeant leading 64 Marines.

Only six of them survived the battle.

On April 15, 1945, under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire, he repeatedly exposed himself to evacuate wounded men.

When stretcher bearers were no longer available, he carried casualties himself to the aid station. For that action he earned a second Bronze Star.

He was also wounded in the thigh by an artillery shell, tearing a massive hole in his left thigh. He received his second Purple Heart.

As he was being carried off, he turned to a buddy and said, “There goes my baseball career.”

Throughout his time in the Pacific, Bauer also battled malaria, contracting it twenty-four separate times (that’s not a typo).

After the war he returned to baseball.

He made the Yankees in 1948 and became a key part of their dynasty, winning seven World Series titles as a player over 14 seasons.

He hit safely in a then record 17 straight World Series games.

He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Orioles to a World Series championship in 1966.

32 months of combat. 11 campaign ribbons. 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts. 8 World Series Championships.

Thank you, Hank! 🫡🇺🇸⚾

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@v_Slik_ @AMAZlNGNATURE Damn near spitting image of me!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces the Iranians have SHOT DOWN a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, both pilots are SAFE

Thank God!

"The United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack." 🇺🇸

"I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured."

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@v_Slik_ @hmcrem Gorilla glue hurts!

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@v_Slik_ @JayJosephVet @USAMilConnect As it should be

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Keep doubting. Keep watching.

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@v_Slik_ @Onerighteusdude It's delicious. Bought you a case.

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@army1325air @v_Slik_ one big ass field and you land on a Humvee. This is why we don't have nice things.

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@FBIDirectorKash @FBI_Response @v_Slik_

[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

Thank you, @POTUS for Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful.

Great to see people out enjoying the best capital city in the world. 🇺🇸

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@v_Slik_ @C_3C_3 @RileyRooTwo "Doors need to be kicked in" damn straight!

[Hey Marine! @Hey_Marine_1775]

End of an Era: The Marine Corps Says Farewell to the Legendary AV-8B Harrier Jump Jet Yesterday, on June 3, 2026, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, the U.S. Marine Corps held a heartfelt “Sundown Ceremony” for the AV-8B Harrier II — the iconic “Jump Jet” that defined Marine aviation for over 40 years. VMA-223 “Bulldogs,” the last operational Harrier squadron, led the final salute with a five-ship formation flyover before touching down for the last time.

Few aircraft captured the imagination like the Harrier. With its revolutionary vectored thrust nozzles, it could take off and land vertically from amphibious ships, short makeshift runways, or forward austere bases where no other fast jet could operate. That unique capability made it the ultimate close air support platform for Marines on the ground — delivering precision strikes exactly when and where they were needed. From the skies over Desert Storm, through Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, to later fights against ISIS and beyond, the AV-8B racked up thousands of combat sorties. It proved time and again that flexibility and toughness win battles.

Now the Harrier makes way for the F-35B Lightning II, which brings stealth, sensor fusion, and next-generation capabilities while preserving that critical STOVL (short takeoff and vertical landing) mission the Marines pioneered. The skills, tactics, and institutional knowledge built over decades of Harrier operations will live on in the new jet. To every Marine who maintained, flew, and fought in the Harrier: thank you. You operated one of the most demanding, distinctive aircraft ever built — and you did it with excellence. The roar of those Pegasus engines may have faded at Cherry Point, but the legend of the Jump Jet never will.
Semper Fi!

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@muhalif_dayi @v_Slik_ you need an Egyptian woman!

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@realSellers1 @v_Slik_ @Blueberrier0341

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

@Hey_Marine_1775 They should bring it back. That's bad ass.

[LouRah 🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓️ @AlphaOneEight]

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