GruntDoc

Miscellaneous Ramblings from an Emergency Physician in Texas.

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@davegreenidge57 There are a thousand aliens wondering why we are ghosting them.

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@NoStrings_on_Me Nice!

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Happy Veterans Day to all those who served, and those who supported them.

Iwo Jima Memorial atop Mt. Suribachi.

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@NoStrings_on_Me Rolls and butter. Truly excellent.

[𝕃𝕚𝕖𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕥 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕝 ℙ 🪖 @TheLtColUSMC]

You can sing the Marines’ Hymn, but I bet you can’t play it on an instrument.

The instrument…🦅🌎⚓️

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@DrunkRepub The poors can take screenshots from the link tweet activity.

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@Spamsammich69 It was 1994 or 5. Yes.

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@thenewarea51 @theATCapp @FlightDeckAI I guess on a plane you’d much rather have a flood than a fire.

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Is anybody covering the logistics of this? I mean, I’m sure El Salvador has some C1 30s so maybe that’s all you need to assemble this expeditionary force, I wonder how long they can sustain it.

[Chimkin Wrangler @BudLightSadness]

They have MD500’s. And rockets. Which makes them cool as shit

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

The crew from Tradewinds Towing posted this on their Facebook page, conducting the last tow of SS United States.

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@DocStrangelove2 Served.

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@HLC_actual @USMC And crayons!

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@VikingSeaDub That is an expensive concrete job.

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@ChrisCillizza D+ nearly 20 in Tarrant County, the last 'red' major metro county. Historic blowout.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Every Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., the sun lines up perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona.

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@ghoast59 @japan_nobunaga Why not both?

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@CoyoteUnclean When this is over, and not before, I would enjoy seeing their ROE. I'm not a rifleman, but I'm given to understand the US ties all the hands. I suspect theirs might be different.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

Six weeks ago, the captain of a Japanese container ship was hit by severe abdominal pain in the North Pacific. The nearest U.S. rescue helicopter was more than 1,000 miles away.

His ship, the One Majesty, was 58 miles south of Adak, Alaska. He was 58 years old and he needed a hospital.

There was no hospital. There was ocean in every direction.

The U.S. Coast Guard in Kodiak launched an MH-60 Jayhawk anyway.

A thousand miles is Tampa to New York. No helicopter flies that in one hop.

So the Jayhawk hopped down the Aleutian Islands, refueling at Dutch Harbor and again at Adak.

That solved the fuel. It did not solve the crew. Nobody should fly a thousand miles through Aleutian weather and then hold a hover over a moving ship.

So the Alaska Air National Guard sent an HC-130J. It carried a fresh Coast Guard helicopter crew and two pararescuemen out to Adak to take over.

And if that one helicopter broke down out there?

A second Jayhawk flew to Cold Bay just to stand by.

The fresh crew flew the last 58 miles over open water with the HC-130J watching from above. They lowered the hoist to the deck and lifted the captain off.

Back at Adak he was moved onto the HC-130J and flown to Anchorage.

Two Coast Guard helicopters. One Air Guard rescue plane. A relief crew. Two pararescuemen. More than a thousand miles.

All of it for one Japanese sailor none of them had ever met.

From Japan: we saw this. Thank you.

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@ReaperKilo I didn't have 'Expeditionary El Salvadoran military' on this year's bingo card.

Bet Costa Rica is pissed they got rid of their army a century ago.

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@SteveRob Wonder how many card companies would just fold up

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@ClementLeeMD Dang it. As long as the spy doesn’t have venous stasis, though…