Samuel Smith

Naval Aviator, UNC'17

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

Comfortable.

Of course, tickets cost 2-4 times as much back then (adjusted for inflation), airlines crashed around 6.5 times per million flights compared to around 0.3 now & we have WiFi.

Americans are ≈ 30 lbs heavier now, taking up seat space. Maybe it’s not the airlines.

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog]

The US Navy has published a draft environmental assessment for the new home base of the Atlantic based E-130J Phoenix II TACAMO fleet at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC.

MCAS Cherry Point was selected from 80 installations across the joint force.

[Raheem J. Kassam @RaheemKassam]

We can’t let this happen. Mostly because it increases the likelihood of Spirit customers being on the airlines I fly.

[𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨 🟥⬛️STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS @JamesInCLT]

Crossing the border from NC into SC

[FriendlyFrench Boi @FrenlyFrenchBoi]

Go my Chud son

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Hubert Davis will not return as North Carolina’s men's basketball head coach, sources tell @PeteThamel and @JeffBorzello.

He spent the last five years leading the Tar Heels as head coach.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

I am pleading with the forces of the universe to convince Villeneuve to tackle yet another "unfilmable" sci-fi series.

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

There is a detachment of these planes in California, at Travis AFB. They were doing touch & go training in Fresno, because it’s close to Travis & not too busy. You can probably spot them there a few times a week. Remain calm.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Video just now released showing the sinking of the IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka with an Mk. 48 torpedo.

[HIGH PLANES Drifter @the_engi_nerd]

The Iranian Foreign Minister told me that Israel keeps killing his generals so I asked how many generals he has and he said he goes to the HQ and gets a new general afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding generals to the Mossad and then his daughter started crying

[Jon Del Arroz | Sci-Fi And Fantasy @jondelarroz]

Legendary sci-fi writer Dan Simmons has passed away of a stroke.

Hyperion is one of science fiction's greatest literary works. He was amazing and inspirational, and he kept out of the public eye in recent years after the left went after him for questioning climate change.

He will be missed.

[🎣 #killAraujo 🇦🇷 #b2b #victorylap @n0thatdeep]

suicide bombing in an age where drones exist, pure love for the game, you have to respect this dedication

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

Three boats ran and now all three have been captured.

Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Bertha without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The vessel was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and attempted to evade.

From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, we tracked it and stopped it. No other nation has the global reach, endurance, or will to enforce sanctions at this distance.

International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned actors. By land, air, or sea, our forces will find you and deliver justice.

The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

This form of identification is good enough to buy a firearm in all 50 states. It is good enough to board an airplane with hundreds of Americans on it. But somehow it’s not good enough to validate identification? Not even clear this stop is supported by reasonable suspicion.

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

The European mind can’t comprehend slightly prophetic groundhogs

[Alejandro Alvarez @WhyNotAlvarez]

Americans will use anything but the metric system

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has reportedly detected an “unidentified high-altitude, hypersonic contact” approaching U.S. Airspace from the direction of the Northern Atlantic, with F-22 Raptors being scrambled from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.

[katie @katefeetie]

my husband has been stuck taxiing on the runway for 4 hours

[Michael Rainey @mikerainey82]

Guy rules. I don’t care what anybody says.