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[Steve Clemans @Steve09812]

It is with profound sorrow that we bid farewell to Jeanne Gibson, our beloved Rosie the Riveter, has passed away today, July 29, 2026, at the remarkable age of 100. With her passing, we don't simply mourn the loss of a beloved friend, we honor the life of an American hero whose courage, dedication, and unwavering spirit helped shape history, and will continue to inspire generations to come.📷📷
At just 18 years old, Jeanne left her home in Minnesota in the summer of 1944 and answered her nation's call, becoming a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle. With determination and grit, she helped build destroyers that strengthened the Allied war effort during World War II. She later continued her service with the Army Transportation Corps in Juneau, Alaska, embodying the resilience and patriotism of the Greatest Generation.
Yet Jeanne's legacy extended far beyond the war. She earned her Ph.D., dedicated three decades to teaching, earned her private pilot license, and spent the rest of her life proving that courage, determination, and purpose know no age.
In 2024, Jeanne and her fellow Rosies were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, one of our nation's highest civilian honors, recognizing the extraordinary women whose sacrifices and determination helped secure victory during World War II.
To all of us at Pacific Historic Parks, Jeanne was far more than a Rosie, she was family. She traveled to Hawaiʻi time and again to share her remarkable story with visitors, inspire local students, and ensure that the sacrifices of the Home Front would never be forgotten. Her radiant smile, generous heart, and boundless enthusiasm touched every life she encountered.
She had a special gift for encouraging young girls, reminding them that no dream was too big and no obstacle too great. Through her words and her example, she inspired generations to believe in themselves and pursue lives of courage, service, and purpose.
Jeanne remained a tireless advocate for preserving the legacy of the Rosies, volunteering at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park on "Rosie Fridays" and ensuring the stories of the women who helped win the war would continue to inspire future generations.
In one of life's poignant moments, just days before her passing, Jeanne was celebrated with a Wall of Honor banner at the park she loved so dearly and recognized during a San Jose Earthquakes halftime ceremony honoring Bay Area heroes. It was a fitting tribute to a woman whose life was defined by selfless service, quiet strength, and extraordinary grace.
Though Jeanne has taken her final flight, her legacy will never fade. It lives on in every story she shared, every young person she inspired, every life she touched, and in the enduring example of courage she leaves behind.
Our hearts are with Jeanne's family, her fellow Rosies, and all who were blessed to know and love her.
Rest in peace, Jeanne Gibson.
Thank you for answering the call when your country needed you most. Thank you for showing generations what courage looks like. We will remember you always

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Video footage posted recently by the YouTube channel Project Fear, filmed near Area 51 at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), appears to have captured a new sixth-generation fighter aircraft, possibly the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD), known more commonly as the Boeing F-47.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship has successfully deployed our modified @Starlink satellites and simulators

[HIGH PLANES Drifter @the_engi_nerd]

The same people who were pounding their fists on tables 30 years ago demanding two engines in the JSF are probably demanding guns in modern fighters, if they’re still alive that is.

But when the JSF program did the analysis (and it was quite extensive), they decided they didn’t want to pay the costs in dollars, airframe weight, and complexity because the redundancy they would have gained equated to a projected number of airframe losses over the program life that wasn’t worth it

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Our oasis in space 🌎💙

Seeing Earth from this unique perspective reminds us how special our home planet is. Download the 2026 Earth Day poster for a daily dose of inspiration: https://t.co/4Ptd53EoFY

[U.S. Pacific Command @USPACOM]

Flight ops across the Indo-Pacific. ⚓️🇺🇸

U.S. Navy Sailors and Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct flight operations aboard USS Portland (LPD 27) in the Pacific Ocean. Seamless integration between Navy and Marine Corps forces ensures rapid response and operational dominance across the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. ✈️🌊

📍 Pacific Ocean
📸 Lance Cpl. Luke Rodriguez

#INDOPACOM #USNavy #USMC #FlightOps #PacificOcean

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

"Thanks to you and to the whole team on the ground for building on our Apollo legacy with Artemis."

In addition to a wake-up song this morning, the Artemis II astronauts were treated to an audio message from Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"

― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong....

"The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded.

USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this."

These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade"

And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that.

"We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing.

"Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991.

Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour.

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

This lady ate a surface-to-air missile, sustained a 12-14 G rocket-propelled ejection, likely hit the ground at 15+ miles per hour…

And then she popped up smiling at the locals who came to help her.

Tell me again that women don’t belong in combat.

[ThighNir @ThighNir]

Six hours, and we are knocking on Evil's door. SIX. #Helldivers2

[HII @WeAreHII]

We���re proud to share that John F. Kennedy (#CVN79) has successfully completed builder’s sea trials. The aircraft carrier returned to our #NewportNewShipbuilding division today after a week underway, testing the ship at sea for the first time. @USNavy @COMNAV_AIRLANT @USNavyNNPP

[NASA @NASA]

The wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission around the Moon began at 8:13pm ET on Jan. 31 and will continue tomorrow with @NASAKennedy teams fueling the rocket.

The results from this test will help inform teams about a possible launch date. https://t.co/8wBtyGUeh6

[HIGH PLANES Drifter @the_engi_nerd]

@pati_marins64 Absolute and completely uninformed nonsense

[Northrop Grumman @northropgrumman]

Interoperability creates capability. 🛰️ In just months, we rapidly demonstrated G/ATOR’s new capability to detect and track targets using space-based sensors.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails

[IGN @IGN]

Dispatch Art Director Derek Stratton confirms Beef is actually a Chihuahua and not a Corgi!

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

Never bet against Skunkworks

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

Typhoon Ragasa was raging in the Philippine Sea south of Taiwan and Typhoon Neoguri was spinning in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Japan on Sept. 21 when these photos were taken from the station.