Ed

Retired Coast Guard Chief, retired high school English teacher, and avid trailer sailor living the good life out in the woods of North Georgia.

[Ed @STCUSCGRet]

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[diane mckenzie @dianemc34717099]

What an interesting read...........

On Jeopardy the other night, the final question asked: “How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the Tomb of the Unknown?”
All three contestants missed it.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
1. How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the Tomb and why?
He takes 21 steps — symbolizing the 21-gun salute, the highest military and foreign tribute.
2. How long does he pause before turning to walk back and why?
He waits 21 seconds, again in honor of the same tradition.
3. Why are his gloves damp?
They are lightly moistened to ensure he never loses his grip on his rifle.
4. Does he keep his rifle on the same shoulder, and if not, why?
He always carries it on the shoulder farthest from the Tomb. After each crossing, he performs an about-face and moves it to the outside shoulder.
5. How often are the guards changed?
Every 30 minutes, 24/7, 365 days a year.
6. What are the physical requirements for a Tomb Guard?
Applicants must be between 5'10" and 6'2" and have a waist no larger than 30".
Other expectations of the Guard:
They devote two years to the Tomb, live in the barracks beneath it, and must refrain from drinking alcohol on or off duty for the rest of their lives.
They can never swear in public or dishonor the uniform or the Tomb.
After two years, they earn a wreath pin signifying their service — fewer than 400 are currently worn.
If they violate the code, they must relinquish the pin.
Their shoes have thick soles to protect against extreme temperatures and metal heel plates that create the crisp click when they halt.
Uniforms must have zero wrinkles or lint and are inspected in a full-length mirror.
For the first six months, guards do not speak to anyone and do not watch television.
Their off-duty time is spent studying the 175 notable individuals buried at Arlington National Cemetery, memorizing who they are and where they rest.
Among them: President Taft, Joe E. Lewis, and Audie Murphy, the most decorated WWII soldier.
Every guard spends five hours daily preparing their uniform.
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM, O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
When Hurricane Isabel approached Washington, D.C. in 2003, Congress shut down for two days. The guards were offered permission to suspend duty due to danger.
They replied: “No way, Sir!”
Drenched and marching through the storm, they insisted that guarding the Tomb is the highest honor, not just a task.
The Tomb has been continuously guarded — day and night — since 1930.
God Bless and Keep Them
I don’t often encourage sharing posts, but I would be honored if this one reached as many people as possible. We should always feel proud of the men and women who serve, wherever they are stationed.
Duty – Honor – Country
IN GOD WE TRUST — with Herbert F Wieland.

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[Eric Deters @bulllaw]

🚨BREAKING: Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz BLASTS Cuban official who tried to intimidate him during his speech

"BACK AWAY. THIS ISN'T HAVANA. You're NOT gonna intimidate ME! Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is AMERICA...SIT DOWN."

[Midnight Leaks @MidnightLeaksHQ]

For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

[Red Lives Matter @RedLivesMatterQ]

🚨Rosie O'Donnell won't be returning to the US anytime soon after US Customs learned she entered the country illegally to guest-host Jimmy Kimmel Live for a week over the summer.

"Ms. O'Donnell entered the country by a ferry from Nova Scotia to Maine without proper documentation, meaning she was here unlawfully," said US Attorney Malcom Reynolds of the Eastern District of Maine. "She's on a nationwide ban at all ports because of it."

Rosie forfeited her US citizenship and burned her passport on social media before learning that she didn't qualify for permanent residency in Ireland.

Now she's just a no-talent loser without a country.

[Red Lives Matter @RedLivesMatterQ]

🚨You blew up your career. Deal with it.

Bruce Springsteen issued a desperate apology to his working-class fans yesterday, but the damage is already done.

"I let my Hollywood friends convince me to hate my own audience," the Born-in-the-USA singer admitted. "I forgot who built this career."

A recent poll shows 75% of Springsteen's former fans now view him as just another coastal elite who sold out his Jersey roots for cocktail party invitations.

You can't apologize your way back from betrayal.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

A guy I am sitting near said this is an arrowhead sniper tower. He said every NFL game has snipers at them. Please say it ain’t so. #arrowhead

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🚨 BREAKING: Alabama prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for all eight people charged in the torture and execution of 20-year-old Mahogany Jackson in Birmingham.

Jackson was handcuffed, stripped, and subjected to hours of abuse that the suspects filmed. She texted family early on February 25 that she was being held hostage. Video later showed her being stomped on, spit on, dragged naked by her hair toward a car trunk, and forced to perform sex acts at gunpoint.

She was shot in the back of the head and her body dumped at a site known locally as “Dead Man’s Road.”
The eight indicted on capital murder, kidnapping, and sodomy: Giovonnie Clapp, Blair Green, Teja Lewis, Si’Niya McCall, Airana Robinson, Brandon Pope, Francis Harris, and Jeremiah McDowell.

Veteran investigators called it one of the most gruesome cases they’ve ever seen.

Prosecutors are moving forward with no mercy.

Death penalty for all of them.
#MahoganyJackson #DeathPenalty #Birmingham

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@FmrRepMTG F$ck off Marge, you Chinese tool

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 THEY SAID THE FBI DIRECTOR WAS “MISSING IN ACTION.”
Then Kash Patel dropped THIS on the Senate.
Watch the media bury it.
Predecessors took 33 days off a year.
Kash: 4 days this year.
They used Reagan National like a personal lily pad — $3.5 MILLION of YOUR money.
He killed that. Andrews and government fields only. Taxpayers off the hook.
Least personal travel of ANY FBI Director in history.
Highest work days. Highest results.
📉 Murder rate down 20 points
💊 Enough fentanyl seized to kill a quarter million Americans — 20% fewer kids dying of overdoses
🎯 ALL 10 of the FBI’s Most Wanted captured
💰 Six of the world’s top fraudsters — $2 BILLION stolen from Americans
👶 11,000 child victims found and located
🚔 54,000 violent felons arrested by the FBI alone — 90% increase in 18 months
That is making America safer than it’s ever been.
Media won’t run this. You will.
🎥 Watch him say it. Then RT it.
#MAGA #FBI #KashPatel #AmericaFirst #DrainTheSwamp

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 CNN JUST GOT DESTROYED LIVE 🚨
Dana Bash sat across from RFK Jr. and declared the COVID shot “protected children” and “prevented deaths.”
RFK didn’t flinch.
“Show me ONE study.”
She couldn’t.
Not one.
Instead she pivoted to measles, “disinformation,” and 100–200 thousand “lives that could have been saved”… while never producing the data she claimed existed.
Watch her squirm. Watch him refuse to let her lecture without evidence.
This is why they hate him.
The same network that pushed the shot on kids for years still can’t cite a single study that it did more good than harm to children.
Measles at a 35-year high. Trust in public health in the toilet. And CNN is still running the same script.
America sees it.
RT this if you’re done with the lecture and want the receipts. 🔥🇺🇸
#RFKJr #CNN #DanaBash #MAHA #Trump2028 #DrainTheSwamp

[STORM NEWS 📰🗞️ @storm1news]

A California man saw an ICE operation unfolding at Home Depot and decided to slash the tires of the agents’ vehicle.

He then got ragdolled, maced in the face, and arrested.

This is what I voted for.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

I'll say this slowly for the retards in the back...

-Iran was already found to have missiles with a range much longer than anyone thought
-Iran HAD Uranium that was close to 60% weapons grade
-If Iran got a nuke and hit our east coast ~40 MILLION Americans could die
-Iran has PROMISED to nuke America
-Iran has been chanting "DEATH TO AMERICA" FOR 40 YEARS!!

So instead of talking shit about Trump nonstop just STFU and say THANK YOU!!!