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M1-IP through M1A2 Tanker, UH-60 Mechanic/Crew Chief 94-04

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The first rule of Mime Club is: You don't talk about Mime Club.

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What went wrong.

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[菅野泰紀 Art Studio 楓 -fu- 鉛筆艦船画家 @ArtStudiofu1]

【ミッドウェー海戦84年】84年前の今日、大東亜戦争の戦局を大きく転換させる契機となった #ミッドウェー海戦 がありました。その敗北は、情報統制、人事（戦略的・戦術的思想も含め）、現場でのアクシデント、指揮官の判断など、さまざまな要因が複雑に絡み合って生じたものだったと思います。結果として、昭和17（1942）年6月5日・6日の両日、帝国海軍は主力空母4隻を一挙に失いました。そして、その喪失分の補填（艦艇や航空機の数だけでなく、搭乗員の数と技量レベルも含め）を、結局最後まで行うことができませんでした。大局的に見れば、大東亜戦争の敗北への道の起点は、開戦よりもずっと前まで遡ります。このあたりの詳しい解説は識者にお任せするとして、この歴史的戦闘により斃れた英霊たち、そして力尽きて波間に消えた艦たちの安らかなることを、心からお祈りいたします。今回掲載した作品は、昭和17（1942）年6月5日に戦没した #航空母艦「#加賀」「#蒼龍」、および「#赤城」の被弾シーンを描いた #鉛筆画 です。

【84th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway】 On this day 84 years ago, the #BattleOfMidway took place, marking a turning point that drastically altered the course of the Greater East Asia War. I believe that defeat resulted from a complex interplay of various factors, including information control, personnel decisions (including strategic and tactical thinking), on-site accidents, and the judgment of commanders. As a result, on June 5 and 6, 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy lost four of its main aircraft carriers in a single blow. Ultimately, it was unable to fully make up for those losses—not only in terms of the number of ships and aircraft, but also in terms of the number and skill level of the aircrews—until the very end. From a broader perspective, the starting point of the path leading to defeat in the Greater East Asia War dates back much further than the outbreak of hostilities. While I will leave detailed explanations of this matter to experts, I pray from the bottom of my heart for the peaceful rest of the heroic spirits who fell in this historic battle, and for the ships that vanished into the waves after exhausting their strength. The works featured here are #pencildrawings depicting the moments when the #aircraftcarriers #Kaga, #Soryu, and #Akagi were hit, all of which were lost in action on June 5, 1942 (Showa 17).

#鉛筆艦船画 #菅野泰紀 #pencildrawing #pencildrawings #pencilart #pencilarts #pencilartwork #pencilartworks #nauticalart #warship #warships #空母 #航空母艦赤城 #空母赤城 #aircraftcarrierakagi #IJNAkagi #HIJMSAkagi
#航空母艦加賀 #空母加賀 #aircraftcarrierkaga #IJNKaga #HIJMSKaga #航空母艦蒼龍 #空母蒼龍 #aircraftcarriersoryu #IJNSoryu #HIJMSSoryu

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 4, 1942, a US Navy pilot strapped into his dive bomber, took a breath from his oxygen canister, and inhaled caustic soda fumes.

The canister was defective. His lungs were already burning.

He flew the mission anyway.

By sunset, Dick Best had done something no pilot in history has done before or since. And he paid for it with everything.

Best was 31, commander of Bombing Squadron Six aboard USS Enterprise. Six months after Pearl Harbor, America was losing the Pacific. Four Japanese carriers, the same fleet that had attacked Hawaii, were steaming toward Midway to finish the US Navy for good.

His air group launched that morning and found nothing but empty ocean. Fuel running low, the formation was minutes from turning back when group commander Wade McClusky spotted a lone Japanese destroyer racing north at full speed. He made a gut call: follow it.

The destroyer led them straight to the entire Japanese fleet.

Then came the mistake that almost ruined everything. Doctrine said McClusky's group should take the far carrier and Best's squadron the near one. Instead, nearly all 30 dive bombers poured down on the same ship, Kaga.

Best watched his own squadron dive past him onto the wrong target. So he pulled out, signaled his two wingmen, and went after the other carrier with 3 planes instead of 15.

That carrier was Akagi. The flagship. The ship that had launched the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Best rolled into his dive through anti-aircraft fire and put a 1,000 lb bomb through the flight deck near the midship elevator. It exploded in the hangar below, packed with fueled and armed torpedo planes. The blast set off a chain reaction that no one aboard could stop.

One bomb. One hit. Akagi was finished.

In roughly five minutes that morning, three of Japan's four carriers were burning wrecks. Historians call it the most decisive five minutes of the entire war.

But one carrier was left. That afternoon, coughing and getting worse, Best climbed back into his cockpit and flew again. His squadron found Hiryu at dusk and sent her to the bottom too.

Two carriers in one day. The only pilot ever to do it.

That night, Best was coughing blood. The caustic fumes had activated latent tuberculosis in his ruined lungs. He spent 32 months in hospitals and never flew again.

June 4, 1942 was his last flight.

Japan never recovered. The empire that had been undefeated for centuries lost the initiative in a single morning and spent the rest of the war in retreat.

And the most consequential single bomb dropped before Hiroshima was delivered by a man who was slowly suffocating as he aimed it.

84 years ago today.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

@ChudCrentis We consulted several historians and at least one teenager. The findings were inconclusive.

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They took a B-17 that had been left for scrap, rebuilt it by hand, and bolted on so many extra machine guns it became one of the most heavily armed bombers in the Pacific.

Then they volunteered for a solo mission over enemy territory that few crews wanted.

Its tail number was 666.

This is the story of the Eager Beavers..🧵1/7

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

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@251tristannn @WVUfootball @CoachTTrickett @BlountFTB @BlountLeopards @ScoutFball @TheUCReport @bigmackmediatv @D1RecruitNation The hill ain't no joke. Kick the Hill's ass, don't let it kick yours! You got this!

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@PMWoodman @TRobinsonNewEra Yeah, you're a wastoid just floating out there...attempting to become relevavent, which you cannot do.

Honest question, how much is your zombie-ass paid for this?

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@AstronomyVibes I think it's been so many times that it's Old Hat. We've done it plenty of times. You just to get the NASA mission to Mars a go instear of shooting for the Moon.

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@PMWoodman @TRobinsonNewEra @grok 😂🤣😂🤣
Digging the fact that you cosplay everything. Do you dress like a little schoolgirl?
That's not good.

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@PMWoodman @TRobinsonNewEra @grok "Dear Grok, I have no valid argument that has been put to me. What should I say now?

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@miles_commodore Miss the hell outta Cheers

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@PMWoodman @TRobinsonNewEra @grok The hard thing (that you wish was in you) for you to understand i that I have in-laws in Alberta. You wannabe Dudly Do-Right ass is just needs to take a rest across the CN tracks, hero.

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@PMWoodman @TRobinsonNewEra @grok "Them", It's my own choice from now on! Ready to face you fairytale creature

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@PMWoodman @TRobinsonNewEra @grok "them"😂🤣😂🤣

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@GretchenPSmith Fishnets, YES, anything else, let it be a surprise 👍

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@miles_commodore It means television is over.