Flying War Hobbit

Retired Colonel of Marines
MAGA Constitutional Conservative Patriot 🇺🇸

[Caleb Hull @CalebJHull]

On the way from Dallas to DC, our @AmericanAir pilot announced there was a special passenger on board.

Awesome. 🦅

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

Last night, I made a simple request on X. I asked if anybody visiting Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day would stop by Alan’s grave and leave a photo for our family.

What happened next honestly caught me off guard.

By this afternoon, dozens of Americans from all walks of life had made the walk to Section 60 to visit SSG Alan W. Shaw. Veterans. Families. Complete strangers. People who had never met Alan, but chose to honor him anyway.

For one day on social media, people put aside the constant noise and negativity and came together for something bigger than themselves. My notifications filled with photos, kind messages, prayers, and stories from people honoring not just Alan, but so many of our fallen heroes.

I don’t think people fully understand what moments like this mean to Gold Star families. The fear is never just losing them. It’s losing them slowly over time as the world moves on and fewer people remember their name.

But today showed me that Alan will never be forgotten.

After years of watching social media reward some of the worst parts of humanity, today gave me a reminder that the good is still out there too.

Thank you to every single person who stopped by to visit Alan today, said his name, shared his story, or took a moment to honor the fallen.

This right here is the America Alan knew and loved enough to fight and die for.

And today, y’all showed us all that it’s still here and it’s still worth fighting for. 🇺🇸

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov 🫡🙏

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

America knew him as the man who couldn't outsmart a pig. The Marines knew him as the man who drove into hell 47 times to bring them home.
For six seasons, Eddie Albert made millions laugh as Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres — the eternally optimistic city lawyer hopelessly lost on a farm. He argued with tractors. He lost battles to chickens. Each week, he faced absurd defeat with unshakable dignity. The show climbed to number six in the ratings. He became a household name.
But two decades before Hooterville, Eddie Albert stood in the bloodstained waters of the Pacific, pulling dying men from the surf while machine-gun fire tore through the air around him.
November 20, 1943. Tarawa. Betio Island.
The assault became a massacre within minutes. Coral reefs trapped landing craft hundreds of yards offshore. Marines abandoned their boats and waded through chest-deep water in full combat gear — completely exposed. Japanese machine guns opened fire instantly. Men fell by the dozens. The wounded floated helplessly, too injured to move, waiting to drown or be executed by snipers.
Eddie Albert was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the USS Sheridan. His orders didn't include rescue operations.
He didn't wait for orders.
He commandeered a Higgins boat and drove straight into the gunfire.
Japanese forces fired from fortified pillboxes, destroyed vehicles, and the pier. Bullets punched through his hull. Water erupted in deadly geysers around him. Albert kept going. Trip after trip, he loaded wounded Marines onto his craft while enemy snipers tried to kill him. When his boat filled, he turned around and went back for more.
47 Marines. That's how many he personally pulled from death. He coordinated the rescue of 30 more.
The U.S. Navy awarded him the Bronze Star with Combat "V" — a medal reserved exclusively for valor under direct enemy fire.
Afterward, when people asked about Tarawa, he never spoke about himself. He only mentioned the men who didn't make it home.
After the war, Albert returned to acting. He earned an Oscar nomination in 1953 for Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn. He built a respected career in serious dramatic films throughout the 1950s and 60s.
Then in 1965, he made a decision that baffled Hollywood: he accepted the lead in a television sitcom about a lawyer who abandons New York City to become a farmer.
Green Acres became a cultural phenomenon. For six years, America watched Oliver Wendell Douglas lose every argument with rural logic, his wife, and a pig named Arnold. The show was absurd, surreal, and wildly popular. It ran 170 episodes before CBS cancelled it in 1971.
Most actors would have been typecast forever.
Not Albert. In 1972, he earned his second Oscar nomination for The Heartbreak Kid. He worked for three more decades. He became a passionate environmental activist, dedicating his later years to conservation causes.
Eddie Albert died in 2005 at age 99.
Here's what haunts me.
Millions watched him as a gentle, perpetually defeated optimist who couldn't keep chickens out of his living room. They laughed at a man who seemed permanently overwhelmed by life's absurdities.
They never knew that same man had driven a fragile boat into a hurricane of machine-gun fire — not once, but 47 times — refusing to leave until every wounded Marine within reach was safe.
Oliver Wendell Douglas never surrendered, no matter how impossible the odds. He stayed kind. He kept trying. He refused to quit even when everything screamed at him to stop.
Eddie Albert didn't need to study that character.
He'd already become him on the bloodiest beach of the Pacific War, when the only thing that mattered was bringing one more man home alive.
That wasn't acting.
That was his soul.

[Matthew Modine @MatthewModine]

My uncle, Captain Wylder Modine, was a real B-17 "Flying Fortress" pilot during WWII. After returning from a bombing mission, he got hit by anti-aircraft fire and almost had his right arm taken off. He had his crew bail, but his co-pilot was shot up really bad and couldn’t parachute, so my uncle, with one arm, landed the heavily damaged B-17 in a field behind enemy lines. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart. I talked with him before making MEMPHIS BELLE in 1989. He gave me his dress uniform to wear in the film and said, “when you put that on, don't disrespect it.”

[Ajay Joe @joedelhi]

Left behind in Kabul. Alone. He waited 47 days.

K-9 Chaos was not a dog who did his job. He was a dog who had DECIDED, completely, permanently, without reservation, that Lieutenant Marcus Webb was coming back for him. No matter how long it took.

At Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, on the morning of August 30th, 2021, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois sat in an empty aircraft hangar. The last American plane had left six hours ago. The evacuation was over.

Chaos had been left behind.

Not intentionally. The chaos of the withdrawal. The panic. The rush. Webb had been separated from Chaos during the final evacuation. Put on a different plane. Told Chaos would be on the next flight.

There was no next flight.

Chaos survived the first day alone. Waiting at the hangar where Webb had left him.

Chaos survived the first week. Scavenging food from abandoned military supplies.

Chaos survived 47 days in Taliban-controlled Kabul. Alone. Hiding. Waiting.

Because Chaos survived on the belief that Webb wouldn't leave him forever.

Back in the United States, Webb was losing his mind. Filed reports. Called congressmen. Contacted rescue organizations. Went on the news.

"I left my dog in Afghanistan," he said on CNN, his voice breaking. "I left my brother. And I'm going to get him back."

The military said it was impossible. Kabul had fallen. Taliban controlled the airport. No way to extract a dog.

Webb didn't care about impossible.

He contacted Pineapple Express, a veteran-run extraction operation. Gave them Chaos's last known location. Sent photos. Videos. Anything that could help.

For 47 days, Webb didn't sleep. Didn't eat properly. Just waited for news.

On October 16th, 2021, his phone rang.

"We found him," the voice said. "We found Chaos."

A rescue team had infiltrated Kabul. Used Webb's intel. Found Chaos still at the hangar. Still waiting. Forty-seven days later.

Chaos was emaciated. Dehydrated. Traumatized.

But alive.

The extraction took three days. Smuggling Chaos out of Taliban-controlled territory. Through checkpoints. Through danger.

But they got him out.

On October 19th, 2021, Chaos landed at Dulles International Airport. Webb was waiting on the tarmac.

When they opened the crate, Chaos didn't move. Stared at Webb like he was seeing a ghost.

"It's me, brother," Webb said, kneeling down. "I came back. I promised I'd come back."

Chaos stepped out slowly. Walked to Webb. Collapsed into his arms.

The reunion video went viral. Seventeen million views in three days.

But what people didn't see was what happened after.

For six months, Chaos wouldn't sleep unless Webb was in the room. Wouldn't eat unless Webb fed him. Wouldn't go outside unless Webb went first.

"He's terrified I'll leave him again," Webb said in an interview. "And I don't blame him. I left him once. In the worst place. At the worst time. He waited 47 days for me. And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure he knows I'm never leaving again."

Three years later, Chaos still sleeps with his head on Webb's chest. Still follows him everywhere.

Still making sure Webb doesn't disappear.

K-9 Chaos. Survived 47 days alone in Kabul. Extracted by heroes. Reunited with his handler. Home.
https://t.co/t4eYGPJPrk

#LostAndFound
#doglover #seniordogs #animalwelfare #militarydog #k9hero #dogrescue #Kabul #47Days #LeftBehind #BroughtHome

[⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ @EnergyAbsurdity]

🚨 Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION

No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof. @VDHanson.

In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going - Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving.

Hanson’s Key Points:

• Europeans: They never touch a conflict until they smell victory. Early on? Crickets. Now they’re quietly moving assets and offering support. Pure calculation — they’ve read the battlefield and decided which side wins.

• Gulf petro-states: Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris survive by reading the room perfectly. They’re expelling Iranian attachés, silently intercepting Iranian missiles over their capitals, and the UAE just reaffirmed its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the U.S. mid-war. These are not gestures — they’re bets. And they’re all-in on America.

• Al Jazeera: The Qatari state network that usually bashes U.S. actions (and hosts Hamas offices) is now calling America’s bombing campaign “brilliant” and “underestimated.” When the outlet that hosts both the biggest U.S. air base and Hamas praises U.S. effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: they think we’re winning.

• Military reality: A-10 Warthogs and Apache gunships are now flying strike missions inside Iranian airspace at will. These slow, low-flying platforms only appear when enemy air defenses are effectively gone. Confirms what’s really happening on the ground.

Iran’s only play left is rope-a-dope: drag it out, hope U.S. public opinion flips, pray midterms pressure Trump to quit.

VDH’s verdict: If Trump sees it through — and he will — the regime falls. Not in years. Pretty soon.

Bottom line: Watch what people do, not what they say. Every player with skin in the game is betting on America. The signals don’t lie.

#Iran #Europe #Warthogs #Trump @AlJazeera

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

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[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@JeremyAllenMoss Good luck with that, cupcake 😂

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@JessieJaneDuff @rip8654 OOH RAH! Love this and LONG overdue! Semper Fidelis to one of my all time personal heroes, Colonel John Walter Ripley, USMC. 🫡

[Jayroo @jayroo69]

OK, I'm officially gutted already on this Sunday 😥😥😥

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@LeftismForU Reported this ideological discriminatory and possibly racist grifter!

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - Smoothie King is facing mass calls to fire the entire crew at its Ann Arbor, Michigan location after they refused to serve two customers simply for being Trump supporters.

Black privilege at its finest.

Number provided, you know what to do.

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@libsoftiktok @SecWar Always the culturally appropriated hair dye and hyphenated name.....

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@CaptMarkKelly Cannot wait for you to be demoted to Commander and stripped of your Security Clearance. You're an absolute disgrace to the uniform and Naval Officers as a whole. I say this as an (ret) O-6 Colonel of Marines who has NOT made seditious statements or turned his back on our flag!

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@SenatorSlotkin OMG you weren't a "CIA Officer' you greasy pig...you were an "Analyst" which means you were sheltered in a hardened bunker jamming out powerpoint presentations framing the intel that ACTUAL agents gathered at great peril. Such a poser, always a carpetbagger, soon to be fired!

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@RepDebDingell You partisan hack...if congress would have been briefed or consulted on any of the plans, they would have been immediately leaked to our enemies from the radical democrat leftists in your party and the element of surprise lost due to the massive TDS infection of your "colleagues"

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@goyarmy @_WilliamsonBen Keep skyscreaming, cupcake. Maybe the scary thoughts of America emerging as the pre-eminent beacon of freedom and lawful order will go away and you can go back to planning to embrace the warmth of collectivism once again in the dystopian hellscape of communism you so dearly crave

[Jimmy’s Famous Seafood @JimmysSeafood]

🇺🇸 For bringing home the gold and delivering an overwhelming sense of pride throughout America, we hereby grant FREE CRABCAKES FOR LIFE to all members of the 2026 USA Men’s & Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Teams! This applies to both dine-in and shipping for all time. God Bless America! Johnny Hockey Forever! 🇺🇸

[Flying War Hobbit @flyingwarhobbit]

@lizziejohnsonnn Boo Hoo, Cupcake...sky scream harder. Maybe it'll attract a Russian drone.....