Jennifer Borthwick

[Flygirlpainter 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @ShayneB52]

The U.S. Navy identified the missing Sailor following an MH-60s Sea Hawk helicopter’s emergency landing in the Arabian Sea, July 1, as Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards, commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5. Rest In Peace Sir. Prayers to his family. 😭😭🇺🇸💔💔

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@hurricanetrack Humidity 32%??
I wish we could have that in Florida!!! Dang it!Hang in there!!❤️

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@SoldiersWhisper God bless him💔❤️🇺🇸

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@JackCarrUSA @prattprattpratt @TerminalListPV I hate to wish my life away but, I’m having a little trouble waiting!!!

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@hurricanetrack @foxweather Are you in Pensacola?

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@EricLDaugh Why did you have to ruin a Monumental Day with comments about things that you deem important.

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@MoviesMerica Oh, thanks for that.

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@CovertRecon_17 EVERY DAY SHOULD BE VETERANS DAY!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@AvPOdysseyDB Die Hard, of course!

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@FoxNews @marcorubio Happy Birthday Mr. Secretary! Please consider running for President!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@JackCarrUSA @USATODAY You deserve it!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸❤️

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@GodandCountryy AMEN!!!🙏❤️

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@Sassafrass_84 I’m in!❤️🙏

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov Director Gabbard, Sending all the blessings our family can muster. 💔❤️🙏We have so much respect for you! I pray for the best and healing for your husband. We will keep y’all in our prayers!

[Rich @Ruddman23]

It’s time we remember

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

April 29, 1975

One of the most iconic photographs taken during the fall of Saigon was shot by Dutch photographer Hubert Van Es.  It captures a CIA Air America UH-1 flown by Robert Caron and co-pilot Jack “Pogo” Hunter on the roof of a building, one of the pilots assisting a group of refugees up a ladder.

Often misidentified as being the roof of the U.S. Embassy, the building was actually the Pittman Apartments, a CIA safehouse on 22 Gia Long Street, and home to the man in charge of the evacuation effort, Conrad “Connie” Edward LaGueux, the CIA’s Deputy Chief of Station in Saigon, which was at that time the largest CIA station in the world.

LaGueux had served in the OSS in the Second World War, leading a 15-man Operations Group team and parachuting into occupied France to fight with the Resistance.  He was then part of a team training Chinese paratroopers of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Army in their fight against the Japanese.

The photo above was taken on the day a complete American evacuation of South Vietnam was ordered - April 29, 1975 - as the NVA converged on Saigon.

The following morning, April 30, LaGueux, along with the CIA Chief of Station Thomas Polgar and Ambassador Graham Martin, sent the final cable from Vietnam to CIA Headquarters.  It read: “…this will be the final message from Saigon … It has been a long and hard fight and we have lost.”

A helicopter would evacuate them from the embassy later that afternoon.

Conrad “Connie” Edward LaGueux passed away on June 26, 2001.  He was 79. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@NHC_Atlantic Thank you!!❤️

[Jennifer Borthwick @jamb57]

@NHC_Atlantic Thank you!!❤️

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@AvPOdysseyDB Such a wonderful ride!!!

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@AvPOdysseyDB I MISS BILL💔❤️