Craig Proctor

Miami Dolphin Fan ,Hard Core Gamer,Dead Shot with a Rifle

[Craig Proctor @Craig1338]

@FinsG28 Sorry is not enough I am very glad you and her went to the game

[🇺🇸 Blade 🇮🇹 @BladeLivesOn]

#davechappelle #funny #lol #humor

[Sheldon Fox-7 News @fox_sheldon]

Policewoman resigns before being fired by Miami PD, for not getting out of her cruiser when watching a gang of young men beating a driver in the middle of Biscayne Blvd., 3/16/25. We now have the body cam. @wsvn #Exclusive story:

[Paul Dellegatto⚡️FOX @PaulFox13]

If the 1973 Belmont shows up in your timeline, you stop and watch.

[Fauna Natural @MiguelM73104161]

"Me vi a mí mismo en ti. ” // MICKEY ROURKE y KIM BASINGER en “9 1/2 semanas” (1986) 🥀

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

He died in 2016 at the age of 100, the last surviving Midway dive-bomber pilot.

Seventy-four years earlier he had done something no other American pilot at Midway managed. He scored direct hits on three enemy ships over three days, and all three sank.

He never wanted the credit. The title of his memoir was a plea. Never Call Me a Hero.

This is the story of Dusty Kleiss..🧵1/7

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

USS YORKTOWN
Rest easy old gal...

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

84 years ago today, four Japanese aircraft carriers were burning in the Pacific because of a man who went to work in a smoking jacket and slippers.

Washington took his job, buried his name, and blocked his medal for 44 years.

This is the story of Joseph Rochefort, the codebreaker who saved Midway.

December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor burns. Rochefort, head of a Navy codebreaking unit on Oahu, takes it personally. He tells a colleague that an intelligence officer has exactly one job: to tell his commander today what the enemy will do tomorrow. On December 7, he believes he failed at it.

He decides he will never fail at it again.

His unit is Station HYPO, hidden in a windowless basement at Pearl Harbor that his men call "the Dungeon." It is cold, damp, and lit like a morgue. Rochefort wears a smoking jacket over his uniform to fight the chill and slippers because the concrete floor wrecks his feet. He works 20 hour days, sleeps on a cot in the basement, and lives on coffee.

His team is just as strange. Brilliant misfit cryptanalysts like Joe Finnegan and Ham Wright, plus the surviving bandsmen of the battleship USS California, sunk on December 7. The musicians turn out to be naturals at running the IBM punch card machines. Sailors who played trombones in November are reconstructing an enemy cipher by March.

Their target: JN-25, the Imperial Japanese Navy's operational code. Tens of thousands of code groups, layered with additives, changed regularly. On a good day HYPO can read maybe 10 to 15 percent of any message. They rebuild the rest from fragments, traffic patterns, callsigns, and Rochefort's freakish memory. He had spent three years in Japan learning the language. He could hold months of intercepts in his head at once.

By May 1942, processing up to 140 decrypts a day, HYPO sees something enormous taking shape. Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, is massing nearly 200 ships for one decisive battle. The target appears in the intercepts as two letters: AF.

Rochefort is certain AF is Midway Atoll.

Washington is certain he is wrong. The Navy's own codebreaking office, OP-20-G, argues for the South Pacific. Others fear Hawaii again, or even the West Coast. The Army wants planes held back to defend San Francisco. If Nimitz bets his last carriers on Midway and Rochefort is wrong, the Pacific is lost.

So HYPO sets one of the great traps in the history of intelligence.

The idea comes from staffer Jasper Holmes. The order goes to Midway by undersea cable, which the Japanese cannot tap: broadcast by radio, in plain language, that your water distillation plant has broken down.

Midway sends the fake distress call.

Two days later, HYPO decrypts a Japanese intelligence report to fleet commanders: AF is short of fresh water.

Two letters, confirmed. The argument is over.

Now Nimitz goes all in. The carrier Yorktown, mauled in the Coral Sea and given 90 days of repairs, is patched up in 72 hours and sent back out. Three American carriers slip northeast of Midway and wait at a spot on the map they name Point Luck.

On May 27, HYPO cracks the Japanese date and time cipher, the final piece. Nimitz's intelligence officer Edwin Layton, Rochefort's closest friend and partner, gives Nimitz a prediction of nearly insane precision: the Japanese carriers will be spotted on bearing 325 degrees, 175 miles from Midway, around 0600 on June 4.

On the morning of June 4, 1942, a PBY scout plane radios in the sighting. Nimitz turns to Layton and says: well, you were only five minutes, five degrees, and five miles out.

What follows are the most consequential ten minutes of the Pacific war. American dive bombers catch the Japanese carriers with fueled planes and stacked ordnance on their decks. By nightfall, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, four of the six carriers that hit Pearl Harbor, are gone, along with thousands of men and the irreplaceable core of Japan's elite naval aviators. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's advance across the Pacific is broken. It never recovers.

A basement full of misfits had handed the US Navy the greatest ambush in its history.

Then came the knives.

The same Washington officers who had called Midway wrong now claimed the credit. They whispered that Rochefort was difficult, an ex-enlisted man without the right pedigree. Nimitz recommended him for the Distinguished Service Medal. Washington killed it. Nimitz tried again. Killed again.

In October 1942, four months after the victory he made possible, Rochefort was pulled from HYPO. The man who outwitted Yamamoto spent much of the rest of the war commanding a floating dry dock in San Francisco Bay.

He never lobbied for himself, never wrote a self-serving memoir, and rarely spoke of it. He said his real reward came at Midway itself. He died in 1976, unknown to the public, medal denied.

His old shipmates refused to let it go. Layton and others fought the Navy bureaucracy for years with the declassified record. In 1985 the Navy relented, and on May 30, 1986, President Reagan presented the Distinguished Service Medal to Rochefort's children in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

44 years late.

One man in slippers, in a basement, out-thought an empire and was punished for being right.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

96 Candles 🎂 today for the multi-Oscar winning legend that is CLINT EASTWOOD

SUDDEN IMPACT (1983)

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🔥 BREAKING: Miami Coach Mario Cristobal just dropped a POWER MOVE — he’s bringing PRESIDENT TRUMP to speak to the team!
“I want them to learn something from one of my friends. When you fail… don’t give up.”

Real ones teaching resilience. This is how you build winners. 💪🇺🇸
#Trump #Cristobal #MiamiHurricanes

[Craig Proctor @Craig1338]

@emraslnn Her dad

[Craig Proctor @Craig1338]

@SleeperMiami Year 12 into a 5 year plan

[Craig Proctor @Craig1338]

@KingOfPhinland 4 wins long year

[TMZ @TMZ]

Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos break down the legal questions raised in Netflix’s The Crash, debating whether Mackenzie Shirilla’s actions amounted to murder or manslaughter.

Full episode of '2 Angry Men' here: https://t.co/ahVWxmTcfw

[Spica @CasseCool]

1945年8月6日の再現ビデオ
https://t.co/PRME6KLOLd

[TMZ @TMZ]

The viral one-handed woman Katie Thomas says the officer who ticketed her needs training! https://t.co/4M5tG2JtkJ

[104.3 WQAM @1043wqam]

Dan Marino took losses so personally, he'd argue with coaches about staying in a game they were losing by 14! That's the intensity of a true competitor who never gave up, little different from #Tua #NFL #DanMarino #FootballHistory

[Craig Proctor @Craig1338]

@RealJorgeSBeach Dolphin games were fun