Chris Gingerich

[𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧 ~🎙️🇺🇸 @RogueLou18]

I’m going to keep smashing the numbers so you understand:

Springfield Ohio has 15,000 Haitians

30% own homes- that’s 5k homes opening up

52% on welfare- that’s 7,800 people’s benefits you’ll save in taxes

[Johan Christian Sollid @sollidnuclear]

After public demand, all y-axes have now been placed on the same scale

[Joshua Val Marner @MarnerJoshua]

@sollidnuclear @peterrhague Please post this nonstop anytime someone mentions solar. I want to see Illinois’

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

If you are “at risk of deportation” then by definition you are not a New Yorker.

[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

I’ve always said mass immigration acts like communism in practice.

Here’s the proof in NYC. Rent freeze for 1M units, 44% going to foreign-born while Americans foot the bill.

You’re squeezed paying bills and can’t afford kids while they’re subsidized and outbreeding you.

Ungrateful illegal aliens get priority in our financial capital.

Enforce mass deportations now, free up housing, and drive prices down for actual Americans. Who’s with me on fixing this?

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of people residing in our country creates a revenue crisis for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

@SecMullinDHS @POTUS Where are the mass deportations, bud.

[U.S. Air Force @usairforce]

What’s better than a rare Super Delta formation featuring the Thunderbirds and the @USNavy Blue Angels over Washington, D.C.?

Watching it from four different views for #UFCWhiteHouse as part of #Freedom250. 🇺🇸

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

@HillaryClinton

Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years.

While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable.

You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off.

And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.”

The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls.

Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.

[Chris Gingerich @cgingerich84]

Yup. I was in the same spot you are. All my instructors coming up were career guys with thousands of hours of real world experience and I felt like there’s no way I could ever pass on that same level of knowledge and instruction to my students if I tried to instruct. Didn’t feel like it would be fair to them. I had my CFI written tests done but never completed the flight training. I went to A&P school instead and then turned wrenches for several years while building additional flight time. Ended up moving into the flight department of the same company where I was a mechanic as an SIC in the Lear 45 with 1100 hrs total time. 14 years, 4 type ratings, and 5000 hrs later I have no regrets on my career path. There are many different ways to get there and the CFI route does not have to be one of them. Keep your head up and it’ll all come together.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[Chris Gingerich @cgingerich84]

This is the benefit of corporate flying. My clubs ride along on every trip where there’s a chance I might have time to play. I’m regularly able to play fantastic courses in every corner of this beautiful country that I’d never be able to visit with a “normal” job. It sure beats the heck out of rotting away in a hotel room.

[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.

[Chris Gingerich @cgingerich84]

Boy, do I have some stories for you while we’re still in the throes of finishing a new build in southwestern Missouri by the “best builder in the 4-states area” that’s a year past the contracted finish date for a very simple and straightforward project and we’re still dealing with all the f-ups their subs provided us. This is what I we found just this week. The list of major issues we’ve had is very very long. The quality and pride of workmanship of even the “best” trades and builders have gone to complete dog 💩, it appears. It includes the framers, plumbers, hvac, countertops, flooring…all of them. Major problems with tons of very expensive rework and repairs required.

[Tiffany Alaniz @TiffanyAlaniz]

USPS, authorities conducting huge seizure in southwest Missouri.
Our team has been on the scene for hours this morning watching as large trucks are bringing out cars, trucks, side by sides, and other items.
https://t.co/RCKXdcLbZI

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

I've been out in the woods for about a month so far this season doing cleanup around my property and this is the 6th tick I've found on me.

I've lived in this house for 15 years and until maybe 2019 I had never seen a single tick here. It has gotten markedly worse every year.

Something is going on and whoever's responsible should be cut into pieces on live TV in front of the world.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

"It was the time sheets that made people look into him...."

I wish people could see what the Army finance office will do when a soldier gets overpaid $20.00. Then I would like to show them the oversight that our Travel System (DTS) has for a soldier to get paid for spending one night in a hotel. Next I would show them the weekly Battalion meeting where every leader can see the names of every soldier in their unit who owes money for travel cards/DTS/paychecks. Finally I will show them the withdrawal and clearing process for the various OPFUNDS that are used during overseas operations.

The army will crush a soldier for owing a single penny and this dude signs for $40 Million in Gold bars and puts them in his house....and the ONLY reason they found them was because he cheated on his time sheets.

We have soldiers and their families living in trailers and we will go through their finances with a fine tooth comb.

We have Illegals, Child care center operators, and senior executive band people bilking the Government for MILLIONS/BILLIONS and people seem to discover it by "chance".

Every last fraudster caught with over a million dollars should be dropped from a space shuttle and allowed to re-enter the earth's atmosphere so we can watch them turn into a ball of flame for our entertainment.

[Chris Gingerich @cgingerich84]

@shelmuth85 Here, you dropped this, #vagueking 👑

[Chris Gingerich @cgingerich84]

@BowTiedCFI Memphghanistan

[Chris Gingerich @cgingerich84]

@EliteGolfDad No swing tips from this 12 handicap but man, Deerfield and Rock Manor in Wilmington, DE were absolutely delightful this week. Visiting from out of town. What a treat these two were!