“My friend Ray passed last year. He was a proud Korean veteran also. He able to wear the same uniform just before he passed that he wore when he was discharged!“
- Evad Gootools
#TheKoreanWar
Two years ago today Block IV Virginia-class submarine USS New Jersey (SSN-796) was commissioned.
Her commissioning pennant passed down from battleship New Jersey (BB 62). Passing of the Long Glass by RADM Ronald D. Tucker, BB 62's 19th & last Commanding Officer.
Remembering Sergeant Gareth Thursby, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, shot and fatally wounded by a rogue Afghan policeman, Checkpoint Tora, Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 15th September 2012 aged 29. Gareth was from Skipton. #Afghanistan
El Sargento Mayor del Ejército de EE.UU. Roddie Edmonds, 422º Regimiento de Infantería, 106 ª División de Infantería, fue capturado por fuerzas alemanas al inicio de la Batalla de las Ardenas. Nativo de Knoxville, Edmonds tenía 25 años y solo había estado en primera línea ⬇️
First American Ambassador murdered in more than half a century & they did literally nothing to help him & then lied about it. Were it not for two Delta operatives who collected money from people in the Embassy in Tripoli & hired a small plane, no Americas would hav made it out of the Annex & we may never have gotten Chris Stevens body out.
They ran in.
While the rest of the world ran out.
🚒 343 FDNY never came home.
🚓23 NYPD.
🚔37 Port Authority Police.
That’s the largest single-day loss any fire or police service has ever taken. 🇺🇸
Then the second wave started. Toxic dust. Cancers. Lung disease.
More than 450 additional FDNY members have died from 9/11-related illness. The pile is still killing them 25 years later.
Ottawa 🇨🇦 firefighters didn’t wait for orders. They threw their gear in a truck and drove south. Same with crews from Brampton, Vancouver, Montreal. Brothers showing up for brothers.
That’s the job.
First in. Last out.
Never forgotten.
#NeverForget #911 #FDNY #FirstResponders
Two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, CIA conducted Operation Jawbreaker, which had a team on the ground in Afghanistan with millions of dollars cash, an old Soviet helicopter, weapons, and U.S military air cover. They bribed the Northern Alliance rebels and tribal leaders, and took Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan with just Army Airborne and Special Forces + CIA contractors within one month.
Conversely, people forget that we took Iraq in 2003 within one month too. Captured the capital and the ruling party dissolved. We had a much larger military force in Iraq as they had a substantial military to deal with. We brought in 5 carrier battle groups and an entire Army Mechanized Division and a Marine Corps Tank Division. There was just a fatal miscalculation on the internal politics and ethnic religious Islamic tensions.
Congress should bring to the floor an Authorization of Military Force Against The Islamic Republic of Iran, the IRGC, and its allies, and back Ukraine in the war against Russia with sanctions and arms shipments. It's time for the Republican White House to start using power and rule the world. We are living in what history books with call The Crisis of the 21st Century.
Heartbreaking 🥀
The body of Yamam fighter First Sgt. Itay Person, 23, was found at a beach in Haifa after he went missing while swimming on Thursday.
May his memory be blessed forever.
XB-70 Valkyrie the Mach 3
Bomber that never entered service
The XB-70 Valkyrie was one of the most ambitious aircraft ever built. Developed by the U.S. Air Force and North American Aviation during the 1960s, it was designed as a massive high-altitude strategic bomber capable of flying at around Mach 3.
On November 27, 2018 Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Eric Emond, 39, succumbed to wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated while conducting combat operations on November 27th, 2018 in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Emond was assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group.
#Specialforces #Greenberets #Army #Airborne
Remembering former Navy SEAL Glen "Bub" Doherty, who came from Tripoli to Benghazi to help his teammates, Ambassador Stevens and fellow Americans without any orders from DC, died around 5:15AM on 9/12/12 from a mortar strike on the rooftop of CIA Annex Building C.
A soldier gave Bear Grylls his last capful of water.
The detail I cannot shake happened during Grylls’s time with 21 SAS.
His patrol was crossing a scorching desert. Their extraction point was about 20 miles away. Grylls was badly dehydrated and struggling to keep moving.
Sergeant Chris Carter stopped the patrol. Although he was thirsty too, he insisted that Grylls drink the final capful from his own bottle.
That choice floors me. Carter gave away the last of something his own body desperately needed, with no fuss and no audience.
Grylls said the kindness gave him more strength than the water itself. He went on to climb Everest, become a household name and serve as Honorary Colonel of the Army Foundation College, where young soldiers begin their Army lives.
Carter was later killed in Afghanistan. Grylls eventually told his family what their son had done in that desert.
That breaks my heart, but it also fills me with pride. His family learnt that when nobody was watching, Carter used what little he had left to keep another man going.
Armed Forces Day honours serving personnel, veterans, reservists, cadets and their families. I think this one quiet act explains why that whole community matters better than any slogan could.
The toughest man in the patrol chose kindness. Decades later, the man he helped is still telling us his name.
Latvian military exercise in 2021. They fired blanks all over the place. In front of people, at people, over people's head and in-between parked cars. Looks like the civilians were not very happy.
Army Master Sgt. Kevin N. Morehead
died September 12, 2003 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom when his unit executed a raid on enemy forces. Morehead was a Green Berets who helped seek out terror suspects in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11th attacks. A photo on the back of the memorial program showed him shaking hands with President Bush in March 2002 at Fort Bragg, N.C.
He is remembered as a man who loved his country and family.
📍 Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 20, 2026.
1st MAW #Marines test an AN/ALQ-231(V)3 Intrepid Tiger II electronic warfare system to ensure operability and individual familiarization.