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HERE WE GOOO Hook’Em Cowboys 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 Go Cougs

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

we did it. #CFBPlayDontPay

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@bordeauxyoutube @EASPORTSCollege Xp*

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@bordeauxyoutube @EASPORTSCollege I don’t have a problem with lower do for lower difficulty. Really their whole statement is fine, makes sense. The problem is not having the option to choose, it’s offline so you should be able to do whatever you want really.
#CFBPlayDontPay

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

Made some quick #edits to that red card

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@bordeauxyoutube @EASPORTSCollege #CFB27

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

I’m teaming up with @EASportsCollege to give away some College Football 27 codes!

Just repost and reply with #CFB27 for a chance to win. I’ll also be giving away 16 more codes in a couple days outta my own pocket so stay followed 🫡

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@JoshPateCFB Are you saying “Jesse, here is the endpoint”, or “Jesse here is the in-point”??

I guess the latter for cuts/shorts. But I gotta know! 😂

[Brooks Austin @BrooksAustinBA]

The take isn't "The NCAA has no authority."

No duh, it's been that way for a while.

The new line we've threatened to cross is "This sport has no morality."

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The idea was brilliant. The execution was catastrophic.

Allied planners knew that the men hitting the beaches of Normandy would be cut apart without armor support in those first critical minutes. The solution was the DD tank. The Duplex Drive Sherman. A standard 33-ton Sherman tank fitted with a collapsible canvas flotation screen and two small propellers bolted to the rear. Raise the screen, drop into the water, swim to shore, lower the screen, start shooting. Tanks arriving with the first wave, ahead of the infantry, suppressing German positions before the ramps even dropped.

The concept worked perfectly in testing. The designers had one requirement: waves no higher than one foot.

On the morning of June 6th, 1944, the waves off Omaha Beach were six feet high.

Nobody stopped the launch.

At 5:40 AM, the 741st Tank Battalion began dropping their DD tanks into the English Channel, six thousand yards from shore. More than three miles of open water, in seas that were six times rougher than the tanks were designed to handle. The first tank hit the water. The canvas screen, designed to hold the weight of a Sherman afloat, was immediately overwhelmed. Waves crashed over the top. Water flooded in. The tank went down.

Then another. Then another.

The canvas screens collapsed like paper bags in the swell. Tanks that had been designed to float became 33-ton anchors the moment they hit the water. Crews inside had seconds. Some got out through the hatches. Many did not. The tanks took them straight to the bottom of the English Channel.

Some crews managed to get a radio signal out as their tank went under, warning the following units not to launch. The warnings either did not get through or came too late.

29 DD tanks were launched by the 741st Tank Battalion that morning. 27 sank before reaching the beach. The entire left flank of Omaha Beach, where the 1st Infantry Division was assaulting, had five tanks to support it. Five. Against fortified German positions housing hundreds of machine guns, 88mm guns, and mortars zeroed on every inch of that sand.

The infantry arrived first. Alone.

What happened next at Omaha Beach, the 2,400 casualties, the slaughter in the first ten minutes, the near-total destruction of Company A, is inseparable from the loss of those tanks. They were supposed to be there. They were supposed to be firing at German positions while the ramps were still closed. Instead they were on the bottom of the Channel with their crews.

The story of the 743rd Tank Battalion makes it worse.

The 743rd was assigned to the western sector of Omaha Beach. Their LCT flotilla commander looked at the sea conditions that morning, looked at the waves, and made a different decision. He refused to launch his tanks into the water. Instead he drove his LCTs directly onto the beach and dropped the ramps in the shallows. The tanks rolled off onto sand.

Nine tanks were knocked out by German fire during the assault. But they were there. They were fighting. The infantry had armor.

At Utah Beach, the sea was calmer, protected from the prevailing winds. 28 of 32 DD tanks launched there made it ashore. The infantry had support. Utah Beach cost 197 casualties. Omaha cost 2,400.

The sunken tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion still lie on the bottom of the English Channel off Omaha Beach. They have never been raised. Divers have visited them. Inside some of the wrecks, they found what they expected.

They are still there today, 82 years later, three miles off the coast of Normandy, on the bottom of the sea.

Today is June 6th.

Remember them.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Eighty-two years ago today, freedom stood on the edge of extinction, and Allied forces stormed into hell to help save the world.

We will never forget the courage, the sacrifice, and the blood spilled on that fateful day.

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@grok @intr3pico @EvanAKilgore Grok how likely is it that an intern at JPL worked with someone at Goddard? Who are two separate subsections of NASA?

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@kyleumlang Marry: OU
Fuck: Tech
Kill: TAMU

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

To the broken, to the lost, to the undeserving, there’s hope In Jesus. Repent and believe in The Gospel(Good News).

“But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.”
Isaiah 53:5-6

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@FB_Helmet_Guy No.

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@SoonerVirginia I like Sam Bradford, AD, Baker (after he left) 😂, Ceedee, Gerald McCoy

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@NBrasing @Lench_o @04nbod @Reasons_4Faith @RandalRauser No I haven’t I’ll check it out. Appreciate the constructive convo

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@NBrasing @Lench_o @04nbod @Reasons_4Faith @RandalRauser This is a good video to I think:

https://t.co/4VEMZGBnPA

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@Lench_o @NBrasing @04nbod @Reasons_4Faith @RandalRauser Do you think Christians use this Levitical law?

You can disagree with Christianity but you are lacking in understanding on how Christian’s view Leviticus and how it should be applied.