ClassicXT

Husband, Dad, and Great Grandpa
⚓️Fast Attack Submarine Veteran
Faith | Family | Freedom

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This is pretty cool. I did not know this. I can’t imagine having to stay locked down for months at a time.
Wanted to share with y’all.

The Rare Sunlight of a Submarine Patrol, A U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine breaks the surface, and for a few hours her crew trades the fluorescent glow of the control room for something they rarely see on patrol: direct sunlight. Towels line the long, flat missile deck from the sail almost to the stern.

Submariners can go weeks, sometimes months, without stepping into daylight. When the mission allows, the captain calls the crew topside for what the fleet informally calls a "steel beach" break. It is less a party than a physiological reset.

Navy medical researchers have actually studied this. Data from the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory found submarine crews consistently come back from patrol vitamin D deficient, and that just a handful of days of sun exposure can offset weeks spent without it. The image is not just downtime. It is closer to a prescribed dose of sunlight.

The Navy has run dry ships for over a century, but there is one narrow exception. After 45 or more continuous days at sea, a commanding officer can authorize a single "beer day," often timed to coincide with a break like this one. Rare, brief, and earned. The Rare Sunlight of a Submarine Patrol, A U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine breaks the surface, and for a few hours her crew trades the fluorescent glow of the control room for something they rarely see on patrol: direct sunlight. Towels line the long, flat missile deck from the sail almost to the stern.

Submariners can go weeks, sometimes months, without stepping into daylight. When the mission allows, the captain calls the crew topside for what the fleet informally calls a "steel beach" break. It is less a party than a physiological reset.

Navy medical researchers have actually studied this. Data from the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory found submarine crews consistently come back from patrol vitamin D deficient, and that just a handful of days of sun exposure can offset weeks spent without it. The image is not just downtime. It is closer to a prescribed dose of sunlight.

The Navy has run dry ships for over a century, but there is one narrow exception. After 45 or more continuous days at sea, a commanding officer can authorize a single "beer day," often timed to coincide with a break like this one. Rare, brief, and earned.

PC on fb to: World warships.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

You know, if I were a sitting Congressman who had spent his whole term undermining his own party’s President, and as a result I was booted from office via a party primary where I was roundly rejected by the same voters who had first put me into office, I would have a moment of self-reflection. In that period of self-reflection I would decide that I had failed my constituents by not listening to them or doing the things they sent me to Congress to do, so therefore during my lame duck period I would do everything I could to support the agenda of my constituents and make amends.

But I’m a normal, decent human being.

OTOH, if I were a toxic narcissist I would have zero moments of self-reflection and would do everything I could during my lame duck period to spite and punish my constituents while also trying to destroy the party that first sent me to office, because I’m more important than the ordinary citizen and that party and I get to do whatever I want.

The problem is, of course, that normal, decent human beings often want nothing to do with political office whereas toxic narcissists are attracted to politics like moths to a flame.

[🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ @USN_Submariner]

OTD 1942: a 23-year-old Pharmacist's Mate made history.
While in hostile waters on a war patrol, Wheeler B. Lipes performed the first successful emergency appendectomy ever conducted aboard a submerged boat. While minor procedures like sutures had been done, this was the first major undersea surgery.
On September 11, 1942, USS Seadragon (SS-194) was on her fourth war patrol in the South China Sea running submerged at a depth of 120 feet. 19-year-old Darrell D. Rector was suffering from acute appendicitis with his appendix dangerously close to bursting. Without a medical officer on board and positioned thousands of miles from any safe harbor, Rector was in trouble.
PhM1 Lipes had worked as a hospital lab technician before the war and had assisted a Navy surgeon, observing several appendectomies, but he was not a doctor. Knowing that a ruptured appendix would be fatal, Lipes told CO William E. Ferrall that surgery was the only option. The CO granted permission and Rector consented to the unprecedented procedure.
The crew quickly transformed the wardroom into a makeshift operating room, the wardroom table serving as the operating table. Rector was so tall that his feet were placed inside an open cabinet drawer so he could lay flat. Surgical tools weren't available, so retractors were made from five bent stainless steel galley spoons and the surgical scalpel was just a blade gripped tightly by a hemostat. For an anesthesia mask, the crew used a tea strainer lined with gauze. They used boiling water and alcohol from the torpedo fuel tanks for sterilization and the surgical team wore pajamas sterilized with it.
Franz P. Hoskins, a crewman who later became a commanding officer, acted as the anesthesiologist despite having no formal medical training. He administered ether through the tea strainer. The cramped space filled with ether fumes, making everyone in the room groggy.
When Lipes opened the patient, he found the appendix worse than expected but was able to carefully detach and removed it. After more than two and a half hours, Rector's incision was successfully sutured shut.
The operation a success, Rector fully recovered and was back on regular duty in just 13 days. Tragically, he didn't survive the war though. In October of 1944, he was killed aboard USS Tang (SS-306) when she was sunk by her own circular-running torpedo.
Instead of a hero's welcome, Navy Surgeon General RADM Ross McIntire was furious that Lipes had performed a major surgery outside his scope of care and threatened him with a court-martial. Ultimately he received no punishment. George Weller of the Chicago Daily News won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the operation.
Following the war, Lipes received a commission in the Medical Service Corps and spent decades working in hospital administration. Unfortunately it took the Navy over 60 years to formally recognize his heroism. in February 2005, Wheeler B. Lipes was awarded a Navy Commendation Medal for his life-saving actions aboard Seadragon. He passed away just two months later at the age of 84.

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

I know I’m not for everyone. I’ve never expected to be.

Most of the people who follow me are Gen X and Boomers, and I appreciate every one of you. Maybe we understand each other because many of us grew up in a time when being blunt wasn’t automatically considered being rude. I’m straightforward. I don’t mince words. Sometimes I’m brash. Sometimes I’m funny. And sometimes I talk about things that are anything but funny.

I talk about difficult subjects because I’ve lived some of them. Childhood abuse. Adult abuse. Depression. Anxiety. The things people survive that aren’t always visible from the outside. I don’t believe pretending those things didn’t happen makes them disappear, and sometimes talking about them lets someone else know they aren’t the only one who has been there.

I also have a fire in my blood that I call patriotism.

My maternal family came to this country as legal immigrants and coal miners. They started over. They learned English. They worked. They bought homes. They became citizens and productive members of their communities.

My paternal family has been in America since before the Revolutionary War, with the exception of some who came during the Irish famine. They became citizens too. They became farmers and railroad men. Some arrived speaking Gaelic, and yes, they learned English.

Military service runs throughout my family. I am the only woman in my family who ever served.

I went into the United States Marine Corps at a time when women were not always welcomed with open arms. Our opportunities were more limited, our duties were restricted in ways they aren't today, and there were certainly male Marines who weren't thrilled about having women in their Corps.

I went anyway.

I loved my country, and I was damn proud to wear that uniform. I was proud to earn the title Marine, and I remained proud of it throughout my seven years of service, even when the attitude from some of my fellow Marines made it clear that women weren't always considered their equals.

Some of that attitude didn't magically disappear when I became a veteran either. I've occasionally encountered it even in veterans organizations all these years later.

But here's something people eventually learn about me.

I'm a fighter.

I fought to earn my place then, and I will fight for my place now. And if I know you're fighting for yourself, I'll fight for you too. I don't care whether you're exactly like me, believe everything I believe or come from the same background I do. If you're willing to stand up and fight for yourself, you'll find me standing beside you.

Those seven years in the Marine Corps also taught me something you cannot always learn from a textbook. I served alongside men and women from all over the United States and with people whose families came from Central and South America. I learned about people by actually knowing them, working beside them, depending on them and having them depend on me.

I did go to college. I earned a degree in criminal justice. But after all these years, I trust a lifetime of experience at least as much as I trust what I learned sitting in a classroom.

I've lived all over this country. The Midwest. The Deep South. The East Coast. The Wild West of Colorado and Wyoming. I've met people from backgrounds completely different from mine, and all of those experiences became part of who I am.

I've seen some ugly parts of life. I saw them as a cop. I saw them during my years working as a paralegal. I've seen them as a wife, an aunt and a daughter. But I've also seen some absolutely wonderful parts of life, and I know enough by now to understand that both can exist in the same lifetime.

I'm also a nerd and make no apologies for it. Give me history, nostalgia and something new to learn and I'm happy. And give me dogs. I love dogs because, quite simply, they have never let me down.

I firmly believe in God. I was raised Catholic, and for most of my adult life I attended a Methodist church. I know the Bible very well. But I do not believe in organized religion for myself anymore.

I also firmly believe in the First Amendment.

As long as your religion is not being used to harm people or animals, I can accept that you believe differently than I do. I will not try to force you to believe what I believe, and I expect the same respect in return. Your faith belongs to you. Mine belongs to me.

All of that probably explains why I'm not easily put into a box.

I can be patriotic without agreeing with everything my government does. I can believe deeply in God while defending your right not to. I can be tough and still struggle. I can laugh at ridiculous things one minute and talk about some very painful things the next. I can love history and nostalgia while still being curious about what comes next.

And yes, I can be difficult for some people to take.

That's okay.

I am grateful for everyone here who chooses to follow me. I'm especially grateful for those who subscribe, because the net proceeds from those subscriptions allow me to help abandoned dogs right here in my county. That means more to me than you probably realize.

Like everyone else, I fail sometimes. I make mistakes. I have periods of depression and anxiety. Being strong does not mean those things magically disappear.

But one thing life has taught me is that I am extremely strong.

I've been knocked down before. I've gotten back up before. I've had to fight for my place more than once in this life, and I suspect I'll have to do it again.

That's fine.

Because whatever person, circumstance or hardship thinks it is finally going to be the thing that takes me down permanently is going to discover something about me that people who know me already understand.

I rise.

Every damn time.

[🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ @USN_Submariner]

Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle Mystic (DSRV-1) and what it looked like underneath the outer hull.
Inside Mystic, the pressure hull was not a single long cylinder but a trispheric design. It consisted of three interconnected 7.5-foot diameter spheres constructed from HY-140 steel, designed to withstand immense pressure while housed inside a lightweight fiberglass outer fairing.
Each sphere served a distinct operational purpose during a rescue mission:
⚪️ Forward Sphere: Control room. It housed the pilot and co-pilot along with steering controls, sonar interfaces, and life support monitoring panels. Space was extremely tight, with the crew surrounded by dense instrument racks.
⚪️ Mid Sphere: This was the primary rescue chamber. It featured a hemispherical transfer skirt attached to its bottom. During a rescue, Mystic mated this skirt directly to the escape trunk of a distressed boat. Once a watertight seal was pumped dry, the hatch was opened to allow crew to climb up into this sphere.
⚪️ Aft Sphere: Connected directly to the mid sphere via a pressure hatch, this area served as the overflow for rescued crew. A Navy corpsman operated from this space to provide immediate medical triage to incoming survivors.
Together, the mid and aft spheres could hold up to 24 rescued crew at a time per trip.

[ClassicXT @ClassicXT]

@CoffeeNGrit I use 𝕏 to get real time takes from people with similar interests. A little from people that have different interests to kinda balance it out. I mostly follow those who align with me.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I finally figured out what's wrong with "everything."

It's a system problem. The introduction of Trump into the system(s) broke almost everything, and in multiple ways.

The fake news created a White Supremacist hysteria, which led to the Fine People Hoax and the George Floyd Hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence in all of our systems at once.

Add wokeness and cancelation and we can't discuss the issue, much less fix it. That's a system problem. The corrective mechanism (free speech) has been removed.

On top of that, the Trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt. They probably always were, but as long as we didn't notice, things limped along okay.

Now we notice.

Now we don't accept "the science" we know is corrupt. We don't accept the omnibus bills we know are corrupt. We don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy. We don't accept elections we can't fully audit. We don't trust the news, for good reason. We don't trust our intel services to not be agents of one party. And we see the justice departments weaponized.

While all that happened Soros found a way to take control of all American systems via funding of non-government entities and integrating them into the American systems.

But at the head of the snake is the fake news and fake science. There is no correcting mechanism.

The X platform is the only counterforce, and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out, and Musk at the same time.

[🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ @USN_Submariner]

68 years ago today USS Seawolf (SSN 575) got underway to prove "the ability of the nuclear-powered submarine to remain independent of the earth's atmosphere for the period of a normal war patrol".

[ClassicXT @ClassicXT]

@USN_Submariner Great memory! Loved it!

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸One of the most enlightening videos you will hear on this platform.🇺🇸

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Yea. The gaslighting was off the chain. Never forget.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Many years have passed since the Vietnam War, but the images and actions of Jane Fonda sitting on that anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi remain burned into the memory of millions of Americans — especially those who served, fought, and lost loved ones in that conflict.
She is still an American traitor in my book. Her decision to pose with enemy forces while American POWs were being tortured in the very same city was a betrayal that can never be washed away with time, apologies, or Hollywood awards.
Some things aren’t forgiven just because decades go by. Loyalty to your country during wartime matters.
What do you think? Is Jane Fonda still a traitor in your eyes too?

[Margo @MargoinWNC]

Start a pandemic and push fake mail in votes….

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon has launched an INVESTIGATION at DOJ Civil Rights after MULTIPLE Fort Worth, Texas officers were spotted threatening to ARREST or cite a Christian preacher, and exposed by @libsoftiktok

PROTECT CHRISTIANS! 🙏🏻

They should be FIRED.

This is UNACCEPTABLE from any police department nationwide.

@WFCPreacher

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Today, I'll be sworn in as "Special Envoy For American Landowners" by President Trump at The Oval. My family will be there with me! (My Dad bought his first new suit in 25 years) I greatly thank @realDonaldTrump for giving me the opportunity to fight for my fellow Americans🇺🇸

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

CENTCOM has release video of our strikes tonight. It’s over for now. We targeted over 80 locations and more than 60 IRGC small boats.

We hit them HARD tonight but all targets were military installations or equipment.

Bridge and Power Day is standing by, Iran. I think I’d quit shooting at oil tankers. We’re chomping at the bit over here.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

The Egyptian soccer team shot a video from their locker room,“The Secret to Victory.”

Their game preparation includes starting each game cursing Christians and Jews, Quran passages calling Christians and Jews “infidels” and encouraging Allah’s wrath.

For example, as Dr. Malouf points out, Coptic Christians make up 15% of Egypt’s population yet they are not allowed on the national team.

Now, the Islamic team of Egypt has been eliminated by the ‘infidel’ nation of Argentina. Apparently, Allah’s a loser. 🤣

H/T @realMaalouf.

https://t.co/CZBShkvvXM

[ClassicXT @ClassicXT]

When I got my license to carry in Texas years ago, 45 minutes of a required 3 hour class was spent on preparing for the test. The rest were reps from US Law Shield talking about legal cases. It was successful I guess. Probably half of the class signed up. It seemed underhanded to me at the time.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

It’s kinda crazy that the Epstein hardliners are extremely quiet about what has happened in the United Kingdom with the rape gang report today.

It’s almost like some bought into a psyop.

Both are equally evil but it makes you wonder…

[JennX @JennX7080]

🔴 Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC in Alabama secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including:
•Ku Klux Klan
•United Klans of America
•Unite the Right
•National Alliance
•National Socialist Movement
•Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club
•National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party)
•American Front

Arraignment delayed until July 2026.

Southern Poverty Law Center paid hate groups to hate & hate groups accepted. They started with fighting legal battles for civil rights but over the years they’ve morphed into more of a “hate group watchdog” that tracks extremists, issues reports, and sues the hell outta people and orgs they label as problematic.

https://t.co/D2mfdrP7tq