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Yesterday President Biden presented the Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt Larry Taylor, now 81, who disobeyed a direct order and flew his Cobra helicopter into a firefight to rescue four US troops from near certain death in 1968.
On the night of June 18, 1968, the long range reconnaissance patrol team that then-1st Lt Taylor saved came under heavy fire and was surrounded by enemy troops outside Ho Chi Minh City.
Running low on fuel and ammunition, he made low-level attack runs as the enemy returned intense ground fire for about half an hour.
Upon realising that the team's escape route was a death trap, he radioed with a new extraction point.
When the men arrived at the location, 1st Lt Taylor landed the helicopter "with complete disregard for his personal safety" to pick up the four troops, the White House said.
The men had to cling to the outside of the two-person aircraft as there wasn't room inside.
President Biden said at Tuesday's medal ceremony: "The rescue helicopter was not coming.
Instead, Lieutenant Taylor received a direct order: Return to base. His response was just as direct: 'I'm getting my men out. I'm getting my men out.'
"Lieutenant Taylor would perform the extraction himself, a move never before accomplished in a Cobra."
Congratulations, Captain Taylor, and thank you for your service!
#TubervilleHasNoDefense
This press conference was tailor made for Tommy Tuberville‘s own ears…
When asked for next steps to get us out of Tuberville’s confirmation blockade, Pentagon Press Secretary General Pat Ryder must have heard the question as — “explain it to Coach Tuberville like he’s five.” 🤣
Gen Ryder ~ “Imagine going into the football season with a bunch of acting coaches for each of our teams, with a regulation that limits any of those acting coaches from presuming that he or she was actually going to officially lead the team, and those acting coaches who come up through the organization are now responsible for not only being the offensive and defensive coordinators but also acting as the head coach…who are the fans going to hold accountable?”
BREAKING: Trumper Senator Tommy Tuberville is hit with devastating news as the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force publish a brutal op-ed demanding that he end his “dangerous hold” on the confirmations of hundreds of military leaders.
I’m their blistering op-ed, the secretaries accused Tuberville of “attacking” the “men and women” who serve our country —- and of causing them personal and professional hardships simply because “a single senator wants to “politicize” our armed forces.
They wrote:
“We know officers who have incurred significant unforeseen expenses and are facing genuine financial stress because they have had to relocate their families or unexpectedly maintain two residences.
Military spouses who have worked to build careers of their own are unable to look for jobs because they don't know when or if they will move. Children haven’t known where they will go to school, which is particularly hard given how frequently military children change schools already.
These military leaders are being forced to endure costly separations from their families — a painful experience they have come to know from nearly 20 years of deployments to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
All because of the actions of a single senator.
Rather than seeking a resolution to this impasse in that spirit, Tuberville has suggested he is going to further escalate this confrontation by launching baseless political attacks against these men and women."
You know that it’s bad when the secretaries or three major branches of the Armed Forces are publicly calling you out. Senator Tuberville bit off way more than he could chew — and American voters will make him pay for it.
Please retweet and ❤️ to thank the Navy, Army, and Air Force Secretaries for setting Trumper Senator Tuberville straight — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/0c9FDbByU8