Jack Semanoff

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

There are legends, and then there is Maj. Richard Meadows.

He enlisted in the Army in 1946 at age 15. He first saw combat as a paratrooper in Korea and was, by age 20, the youngest Master Sergeant in the Army at that time.

In 1953, he passed SF Selection and 7 years later, became one of the first Americans to participate the SAS exchange program. He completed SAS training, was an acting troop leader for 12 months, and participated in a field combat operation with his unit.

During Vietnam, he became a MAC V SOG member, running clandestine operations deep into Laos and North Vietnam. He was also a TL during the famous Son Tay raid which consisted of rescuing POWs deep behind enemy lines.

By the 1970s, he was a key part in the founding of Delta Force and participated in the Iranian Hostage rescue mission in 1980.

He received several medals for valor including the DSC, Silver Stars and more. Many in the SF community said that if the contents of Meadows' military record been disclosed, he would have been awarded the Medal of Honor several times.

The majority of Meadows' covert roles in Vietnam working with the CIA's Special Activities Division remain undisclosed to this day.

He died of leukemia in 1995

[Tex Sandlin @TexSandlin]

In honor of the 40th Anniversary re-release of Top Gun tomorrow, here's the "wrap photo" of the eight Tomcat crew who flew all of the aviation scenes in that movie...(I'm bottom right). Ultimate #TomcatTuesday 😎 LFG!

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

A Marine sniper with the 3rd Marine Division poses with his rifle on Guam in 1945. 🪖

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

“Trump’s reflecting pool looks ridiculous!”

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Footage of the 160th SOAR Night Stalkers and Delta Force in Venezuela during their historic mission to capture former president Nicolas Maduro on January 3, 2026

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A platoon of cooks, mechanics, and clerks drove into a Haditha ambush and walked away with a Navy Cross, a Silver Star, Bronze Star, almost a dozen Purple Hearts, and four empty racks back at the dam.

This is a story from Iraq that history almost forgot. While Fallujah and Ramadi became household names from the war, Mobile Assault Platoon 7 — a platoon of reservists cobbled together for the deployment — fought one of the most violent engagements of the war on a dark street outside a hospital in Haditha. A suicide bomber. A machine gun that wouldn't quit. A platoon sergeant who flatlined on the table. And a group of individuals who acted with extraordinary heroism amidst terrifying odds.

11 of 16 Marines were killed or wounded. The story has been a footnote for more than 20 years. Not anymore.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

World’s largest electronic blast at Caval Ridge Mine.

2,194 tonnes of explosives, 3,899 holes, and 4.7 million cubic metres of rock moved in a single shot.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

A Black Hawk with the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) offloading operators onto a rooftop during training without needing to land.

These boys could land a Hawk on a dime in the middle of a snowstorm

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Men will see this and say "Hell Yeah"

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Meet Master Sergeant Kevin Holland, former member of both Delta Force and DEVGRU.

He started his career off in the regular SEAL Teams, before assessing through Green Team; and serving as an assaulter for roughly 3 to 4 years, retiring in 1995.

Once Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) kicked off however, MSG Holland wished to return to his former Naval command but was urged by a former teammate to assess for the Army Special Missions Unit since its members were already boots on the ground in Afghanistan.

Before going to Army SMU, He completed the eight month Special Forces Qualification Course (Q Course) in 2005 and earned his Special Forces Tab and Green Beret.

Then after successful completion of A&S/OTC, MSG Holland served as an assaulter with 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force) for roughly 10 years.

MSG Holland deployed on countless missions and covert operations around the world.

During a 2011 raid in Iraq, he was wounded several times when an insurgent opened fire with a PKM machine gun from 20 yards, hitting him in the chest above his protective armor and paralyzing his left arm.

He dove into an irrigation ditch as the individual kept firing his 200-round belt of ammunition at him hitting his pack multiple times.

As the insurgent came running at him, MSG Holland rose from the water in the irrigation ditch, placed his weapon on its side on a mound of dirt and began returning fire, wounding the insurgent in the foot.

The insurgent was subsequently captured and MSG Holland was helped up and walked to the EXFIL helicopter like a boss.

[durvesh @BLackgold_5]

Cockpit view of AV-8 Harrier Vertical landing on aircraft carrier

[Matthew Modine @MatthewModine]

Shooting Boot Camp in 1986. We filmed FULL METAL JACKET backwards: Vietnam in '85 and basic training in '86.

Photo by Wayne Clarke.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

The Atlantic: “Kash Patel has a drinking problem”

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

Coming soon to Wokeflix.

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

TIM WALZ: "No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core." 

Your disgusting rhetoric is inciting these violent attacks on President Trump and his administration.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Here's actor Mark Ruffalo calling Trump a “rapist pedophiIe”

The guy who tried to kill Trump yesterday called him a “pedophile, rapist"

Connecting the dots yet?

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Imagine that.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

2.5 minutes of Democrats calling for the use of political vioIence

It's on them

[Aviation @xAviation]

The year is 2014, and a 747 captain sits in the cockpit with a mountain of binders, flight manuals, checklists, and performance charts next to him, once standard weight on every trip.

in his other hand: a single ipad, the electronic flight bag (efb) that now replaces it all. what once filled a seatback now fits in a tablet, turning tons of paper into just a few taps of glass.

📸: cn_mark_smith

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

The cockpit that changed everything!

​The F-16’s Side-Stick Controller and HOTAS weren’t just designed for ergonomics - they were built to give you everything you needed to fight and win a high-G dogfight right at your fingertips.

​Almost 50 years on, and it’s still the gold standard for fighter cockpit design. Pure lethal Viper efficiency.