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[HU White Shadow @ED1ST84]

@RealAirPower1 When is the last confirmed flight of one of the Iranian Tomcats???

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

On this day in 1989, the Soviet Union stole the show. At the controls of a brand-new Sukhoi Su-27, test pilot Viktor Pugachyov stunned the crowd at the Paris Air Show with a maneuver that would forever be known as the Pugachev’s Cobra. Raw, deliberate, and dare I say impossible, the move became an instant showstopper for the Su-27 and cemented the Flanker family’s reputation as one of the most maneuverable fighters ever built.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🧐🫂This is Judge Julia Sebutinde of Uganda, the first African woman to serve on the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
During the hearings on accusations that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, she voted against all of them.
Her expression seems to say: “Here in Africa, we know very well what genocide looks like. And this? You call this genocide? Are you out of your minds?”

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

June 29, 1967 — America’s top generals quietly told Israel exactly which territory it needed just to survive.

In a classified memorandum to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (JCSM-373-67), the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave their strictly military assessment of “minimum territory” Israel would require for defensible borders against conventional attack and terrorist raids.

Their conclusion was blunt: “From a strictly military point of view, Israel would require the retention of some captured territory in order to provide militarily defensible borders.”

Key recommendations included:

• The high ground running through Judea & Samaria (the “West Bank”) east of the main north-south road — giving Israel control of commanding terrain overlooking the vulnerable coastal plain and Jerusalem.

• The Golan Heights plateau to stop Syrian shelling and terrorist raids from the overlooking heights.

• The Gaza Strip — trading a long, hostile border for a much shorter, more manageable one.

• Limited areas in Sinai to protect the port of Eilat and ensure access through the Strait of Tiran.

They stressed these were purely military judgments, based on classic principles like control of high ground, natural obstacles, and defense in depth. The pre-1967 armistice lines were simply indefensible.

57 years later — after repeated wars, intifadas, the Gaza withdrawal disaster, October 7, and ongoing rocket and terror threats from every direction — those same geographic realities remain unchanged.

Defensible borders were never about conquest. They were, and still are, about survival when your neighbors openly declare they want you gone.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.

When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.

However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.

Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."

Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.

For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.

Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.

[Al Galdi @AlGaldi]

Brandon Aiyuk can't stop posting about the Commanders.

Trae Young wanted to be traded to & is re-signing with the Wizards.

Jordan Kyrou waived his no-trade clause for the Capitals.

Alex Tuch agrees on a sign-and-trade with the Caps.

DC has become a destination city in sports.

[Raphousetv (RHTV) @raphousetv2]

Can yall relate 😭📺🙋🏾‍♂️⁉️

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🇱🇧 🚫 🇮🇷 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, in a fiery message to the Iranian regime:

“This is not your country. It’s our country. It’s not your job to interfere in our country. They are using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiations with the U.S. It’s unacceptable.”

@visegrad24

YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE ISRAEL’S WORD FOR IT. TAKE HIS: 👇

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

America should host the World Cup every single time.

We've got 40+ stadiums that hold 65,000+ spectators. The rest of the world combined can barely match that.

FIFA ticket sales?
2010 (South Africa): $300 million
2014 (Brazil): $527 million
2018 (Russia): $541 million
2022 (Qatar): $686 million
2026 (Mostly USA): >$3 billion projected

Even adjusted for more teams (48 vs 32) and more group stage matches, these numbers are off the charts, and exclude hospitality, F&B, travel, hotels, etc.

Just ask Freddy.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Wesley Snipes was so bad at baseball, that there’s no scene of him actually throwing a ball in Major League.

He is slow too. When they did his run scene at training camp they told the two runners to jog basically to make him look fast. One laughed and said i was almost walking lol. Thus the reason the scene was shot in slow motion.

[A'ja Smith @AjaSmith_]

She was the highest ranking Vietnamese American woman ever to command an operational brigade in the U.S. Army.

Her name is Danielle Ngo.

It was April 29, 1975. The day before Saigon fell.

Her mother, Thai-An, just 24 years old, carried Danielle and her baby sister Lan-Dinh up the ramp of a U.S. military cargo plane as North Vietnamese rockets rained down on Tan Son Nhat airport. Soldiers were pushing equipment off the back of the aircraft to make room for refugees.

They were among the last people to make it out of that airport.

Her father was not on that plane.

He was a captain in the South Vietnamese army and he stayed behind to keep fighting as his wife and two small daughters fled.

It would be years before he made it to America and saw his family again.

A week earlier, the South Vietnamese government had restricted travel. Danielle was in the seaside town of Vung Tau, away from her mother. Her grandfather refused to let the family be separated with the country collapsing around them.

So he took eight buses and scooters across a war zone to bring the three-year-old back to her mother's arms.

And when the moment came to say goodbye, knowing he could not go with them, her grandfather knelt down, folded a U.S. one-dollar bill, and tucked it into her little shirt pocket.

It is the only thing she remembers from the day she became a refugee.

The plane landed on Wake Island, a speck in the Pacific 2,300 miles from Hawaii. They spent three months there in a refugee camp, waiting to learn if any country would take them.

America did.

After camps in Hawaii and Arkansas, an uncle sponsored them, and the family finally settled in Massachusetts. They lived in subsidized housing for eight years. Danielle and Lan-Dinh were the only Vietnamese girls in their school. Their mother worked her way through an associate's, a bachelor's, and a master's degree, and insisted the children speak only English at home so she could learn it through them.

When Danielle was seventeen, she asked her mother to sign her enlistment papers so she could join the Army Reserve.

Her mother resisted with a sentence only a refugee mother could say:

"I didn't pull you out of a war for you to go back into a war."

But Danielle had already decided. As she put it: "I signed up for the Army because my mother said it was the Army that rescued us."

The Army had carried her out of Saigon. She was going to give it her life in return.

She enlisted in 1990 and earned her degree from UMass and her commission from Boston University in 1994, choosing one of the hardest, most male-dominated paths in the force: combat engineering.

She didn't want the safer assignments. She wanted airborne. She wanted combat units.

In 2001, she became the first female company commander in a combat engineer battalion attached directly to a combat brigade.

She deployed to Bosnia. To Iraq, where her brigade was part of the 4th Infantry Division during the operations that captured Saddam Hussein. To Afghanistan to help plan the surge.

She commanded the 52nd Engineer Battalion at Fort Carson, whose soldiers cut fire lines through the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest wildfires, two of the most destructive in Colorado history. "I guess you could call us the natural disaster battalion," she said.

In 2016, she took command of the 130th Engineer Brigade in Hawaii, becoming the highest-ranking woman of Vietnamese descent ever to command an operational brigade in the U.S. Army.

By 2021, the Army described her as the highest-ranking active-duty woman of Vietnamese descent in the entire force, second only to Major General Viet Xuan Luong.

She retired in April 2023, after 33 years.

She went back to Vietnam years later and found her grandfather, the man who took eight buses and gave her a dollar. They could barely speak, her Vietnamese had faded, his English was thin, so they sat in his little art shop and passed handwritten notes back and forth.

[The Boabie @TheBoabie]

We were told we'd be shot by ICE, we never saw them
We were told the police would be tough, they partied with us
We were told the Americans didn't want us, they embraced us like family

Stop listening to the 'media' trying to divide us! live your lives and make memories! 🧡

[US Homeland Security News @defense_civil25]

🇺🇸This Is What An American Hero Looks Like! United States Marine Corps Major James Capers, Jr.!

Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Trump yesterday for his valiant service in Vietnam!

Semper Fi, Marine! 🇺🇸

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. posts:

“Imagine how long it takes to carve a tunnel network like this into a mountain.

Don't be fooled - this is who Hezbollah is - terrorists occupying Lebanon at the behest of Iran in order to attack Israel.”

[HU White Shadow @ED1ST84]

@AircraftJunky @xAviation @RAFLakenheath1 @Hush_Kit @thewarzonewire @A10TheHog I honestly don’t see ANYTHING “sensitive” here not already in all kinds of open source reporting of air missions. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️. Unless I missed one indicating support of boots on the ground in Iran 🇮🇷 other than the CSAR missions????

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Today on June 18, President Trump will award the Medal of Honor to retired Recon Marine Major James Capers Jr. for his heroism during a 1967 ambush in Vietnam.

Major Capers was shot twice and suffered 17 shrapnel wounds and other injuries during the April 1967 ambush.

Not only did Capers lead his team to safety, but he twice tried to get out of the helicopter carrying the rest of his teammates so that it would be light enough to take off, and had to be pulled back inside by his men.

Major Capers is the first Black Marine to lead a reconnaissance company and to receive a battlefield commission.

The 1967 ambush began when hidden explosives detonated. Capers suffered shrapnel wounds to his abdomen and other parts of his body and a broken leg. Despite his wounds, he ordered a mortar strike on the team’s position to keep the enemy at bay.

Then, even after losing a significant amount of blood and being administered morphine, he led his team to a helicopter landing zone. When a helicopter landed, Capers refused to get on board unless the crew took the body of the team’s military working dog.

Capers was originally awarded the Bronze Star with “V” device for his heroism, which was upgraded to the Silver Star in 2010.

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

A Jacksonville officer makes a split-second decision to use a PIT maneuver to stop a suspected drunk driver who repeatedly breached the Ironman Jacksonville race course, nearly striking athletes.

[Mr. Potato Head ⚡️ @MrPotatoHeadUSA]

Built from more than 600,000 LEGO pieces, this massive USS Missouri model stretches an incredible 28 meters in length