Puddles the Dog

A dog that loves Ducks 🦆🏈 (closet ASU fan)

[Puddles the Dog @PuddlesDog]

@TexasChance I try to always watch the episodes on their corresponding date, I spread BoB out throughout the year and it’s really fun

[Sheldon Miller @SheldonMiller]

The fact England hasn’t been selected to stage the World Cup since 1966 is (literally) criminal.

There is not a country on the planet that has a higher volume, value, quality and concentration of World class stadiums, grounds, training facilities, infrastructure, diverse community, culture, history, hospitality and overall fan fever pitch to host the World’s beautiful game.

Due to the FIFA continental host rules we probably can’t expect earlier than a 2042 window. If that’s the case we should go ALL IN for 2042.

A joint England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland bid.

Jesus wept, I’ll be 67. Guess the best things come to those who wait 😬😬😬

[War Times @wartirnes]

D-Day in Color: Reinforcements Secure the Beachhead 🇺🇸🇬🇧

The Normandy beachhead is now firmly in Allied hands as supply convoys, DUKWs, and fresh troops continue moving inland after the initial assault.

German prisoners are gathered under guard while Coast Guard rescue boats and hospital ships work offshore to recover survivors and evacuate the wounded.

A sweeping panoramic view reveals the massive scale of the secured beachhead, now packed with ships, vehicles, supply depots, and the wreckage left behind by the invasion.

The largest amphibious invasion in history was now firmly underway.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong.

[Puddles the Dog @PuddlesDog]

@DANNYonPC Battlefield

[Ross Elder @RossElderWrites]

Funny story: SWAT teams don't need camouflage uniforms. In fact, not one police officer in the USA needs to wear camouflage. The GWOT didn't just break the military. It also broke American law enforcement.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[England of Old @englandofold]

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." - Captain James Cook 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Democratic Shiomi Yoru (D-HS) 🇺🇳 (RATE LIMITED) @fulbrightdotdll]

you too (reader) should download Battlestations Pacific

[Fore Play @ForePlayPod]

Jordan Spieth with his back to the flag.

Just an ABSURD putt 🤯

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

As others have said, there should really be a pass/fail, 0.5 credit hour class taught at law and business school covering things like this for those who don’t know them. I’m not talking super high-brow advice. I’m talking:
- belt and shoes have to match (and, yes, always wear a belt)
- if wearing a navy suit and brown shoes, you wear navy socks (not brown socks!!!!)
- not every shoe that’s nicer than a sneaker should be worn with a suit. Loafers aren’t to be worn with a suit.
- how to tie a tie—and tie it well
- what side of the plate your bread plate and drink go when out to eat (“BMW”)
- purpose of most common cutlery at restaurants
- how a suit should fit generally

[James Jefferies @jamesjhistory]

Them: What are you thinking about, James?

Me:

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

During WW2, some American high schoolers were working for companies like Lockheed Martin helping support wartime manufacturing.

When you watch interviews of teenagers from the 1940s–1960s and compare them to modern TikTok brainrot culture and the difference in maturity, vocabulary, and composure feels surreal

[Puddles the Dog @PuddlesDog]

@hell_let_loose We support you! Great decision! Very excited

[Lone @gaisericss]

Really miss the aggressive orange tints from Cod 4’s optics

[IGN @IGN]

007 First Light is demonstrably obsessed with bringing the Bond fantasy to life in a way no one has ever managed before.

Our review: https://t.co/G36UxgQNvv

[Puddles the Dog @PuddlesDog]

@BoNixTruther @Jason_R_Burt Elite ball knowledge

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

This is what this app was made for.

[Lucas Evan Fryman @LucasFryman]

I’d make Dooku show up atleast once to set him up as a villain in Attack of the Clones.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

We're off to the @FIFAWorldCup 🛫

#FIFAWorldCup