2 Silver Stars, 10 Bronze Stars and 3 Purple Hearts: US Army Ranger Patrick Gavin Tadina is pictured here in an undated photo wearing N. Vietnamese Army fatigues and carrying an AK-47. A 30-year Army vet who was the longest continuously serving Ranger in Vietnam and one of the war's most decorated enlisted soldier.
Tadina served in Vietnam for over five years straight between 1965 and 1970, leading long range reconnaissance patrols deep into enemy territory
His small stature and dark complexion helped him pass for a VC soldier on patrols deep into the Central Highlands, during which he preferred to be in the point position. His citations describe him walking to within feet of enemies he knew to be lying in wait for him and leading a pursuing enemy patrol into an ambush set by his team.
Tadina joined the Army in 1962 and served in the Dominican Republic before going to Southeast Asia. He also served with the 82nd Airborne Division in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury in 1983 and with the 1st Infantry Division during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
A 1995 inductee into the Ranger Hall of Fame, he served with "extreme valor," never losing a man during his years as a team leader in Vietnam, a hall of fame profile at Fort Benning said.
Some 200 men had served under him without "so much as a scratch," said a newspaper clipping his daughter shared, published while Tadina was serving at Landing Zone English in Vietnam's Binh Dinh province, likely in 1969. Tadina himself was shot three times and his only brother was also killed in combat in Vietnam, Stars and Stripes later reported.
The last time he was shot was during an enemy ambush in which he earned his second Silver Star, and the wounds nearly forced him to be evacuated from the country, the LZ English story said.
As the point man, Tadina was already inside the kill zone when he sensed something was wrong, but the enemy did not fire on him, apparently confused about who he was. After spotting the enemy, Tadina opened fire and called out the ambush to his teammates before falling to the ground and being shot in both calves.
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@LSPmatt@GregAbbott_TX@bofrench Not racist at all…Muslims have no intentions on upholding the Laws of Land under the US Constitution..and should be banned from holding any elected positions in local, state, and federal. Show me where one has pledged allegiance to the United Sates.
O’KEEFE INFILTRATES NJ ANTIFA: Inside “NJ BURN” — Rutgers University Director, T-Mobile AI Leaders, OpenAI /ChatGPT Engineer, Reverend From Princeton Theological Seminary, and ACLU Board Member Discuss Port Newark–Elizabeth Blockade Riot, Road Spikes, Tire-Slashing of New Jersey Police Vehicles, “Ukrainian-Style” Protest Tactics, and Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder.
NJ ANTIFA INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED:
• Alexyss P. - New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member @NJ_CASA
• Jim Keady @JWKeady - Former New Jersey Democratic Candidate
• Woojin Ko - OpenAI Research Engineer @OpenAI
• Beleckecom Moffouk - T-Mobile AI Automation Expert @TMobile
• Zainab Tanvir - Imaging Director at Rutgers University @RutgersU
• Amanda Marie Dominguez - Rutgers University PHD Student in Education @RutgersU
• Aditi Rao @aditilrao - Princeton University Classics @Princeton
• Shannon Smythe - Princeton Theological Seminary Field Education Director @Princeton
• Cres Vellucci @CresVellucci - National Lawyers Guild Co-Founder/Co-Member & ACLU Board Of Directors @NLGnews@ACLU
• Celine Semaan @celinecelines - Co-Founder Slow Factory Labs @theslowfactory
An OMG journalist spent the past eight months undercover inside New Jersey ANTIFA, infiltrating the private Signal chats of a group known as NJ BURN.
What we uncovered proves ANTIFA is not just an idea. It is a network of real people organizing, coordinating, and operating inside America.
Inside the group's Signal chats, members discussed plans for port blockades, riot activity, support networks for criminal defendants, and celebrated acts of political violence. Using names, profile photos, and digital receipts, OMG traced individuals to positions throughout some of America's most influential organizations.
The same network connected to disruptive port blockades in New Jersey was also active during the unrest surrounding Delaney Hall, where activists confronted law enforcement and journalists outside the immigration detention facility.
Among those identified were an engineer affiliated with @OpenAI & @OpenAINewsroom, an AI Automation Leader at T-Mobile, Rutgers University students and personnel, a Princeton doctoral candidate, a former New Jersey congressional candidate and city councilman, board members connected to the American Civil Liberties Union, and National Lawyers Guild, and nonprofit executives with ties to United Nations-affiliated initiatives.
Some messages in the Signal chats showed these individuals celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination and hoped that the past attempts on President Trump were successful.
The American people deserve to know when individuals involved in activist networks also hold positions within institutions that shape public policy, technology, education, and culture.
These are not simply anonymous individuals organizing online. OMG identified numerous individuals and organizations connected to members of the NJ BURN network and reached out to them for comment. We will update our reporting with any responses we receive.
The identities referenced in this report are based on evidence gathered during our investigation, including social media activity, public records, and other corroborating information. Some identifications remain unknown, and additional information may emerge following publication.
The United Kingdom is now seeing the consequences of not having protections like those provided by the First Amendment.
If Democrats had their way, they’d enact similar laws here in the U.S.
America must never become Europe.
Protect Free Speech.
The Air Force headline was A-10 will fly through 2030.
The budget says otherwise.
$0 of A-10 modernization in 2027 budget requests. By year's end the jet has no depot, no schoolhouse, no test capacity.
Billions invested by Congress is being written off. 1/
2/ "Divest to invest" ignores the bill.
The missions don't go away. They migrate to higher-cost platforms with more flight hours and more sustainment.
Congress already spent ~$2.1B re-winging this fleet to fly into the late 2030s. The service is treating that as a write-off.
3/ The math:
162 jets this year → 54 next year → 36 through 2030.
The Air National Guard's 47 disappear entirely this year.
Active duty bottoms out at one squadron of 17 aircraft, no spares.
This isn't a drawdown. It's a liquidation.
4/ The community is already collapsing.
The 357th Fighter Squadron, the only formal A-10 training unit and home of Sandy combat search-and-rescue, graduated its final class in April. It's set to inactivate.
No successor Sandy program exists. The Air Force confirmed none is in development.
5/ This is proven combat power being abandoned.
March: A-10s defend the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian fast attack craft.
April: they flew the escort that recovered F-15E aircrew inside Iran.
Active, relevant, deployed. Retired anyway, with no replacement and no plan.
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