🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸

Proactive. Engaged. Life is not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. Honored to service 🇺🇸 🪖

[National Guard @USNationalGuard]

“If you have a goal, why not go for it? You never know what you’re capable of unless you try.”

@IDNationalGuard Maj. Annelise Rowe fulfilled a childhood dream this year by following in her mother's footsteps and completing the Boston Marathon. 🔗https://t.co/d9qQfKbaNi

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

Nurse Stuart of the US Army 5th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital has a much needed sleep with a cuddly bear sent by her family

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

Breaking records with unstoppable technology.

This battery-powered small-unmanned aircraft system has shattered a world endurance record, flying for over eight hours in the desert heat. This remarkable milestone was achieved through the exceptional propulsion components expertly assembled by the Army’s Organic Industrial Base.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

Astronaut, physician, and former Navy SEAL Jonny Kim has left NASA after nearly a decade to continue his service in the U.S. Navy.

Kim, a lieutenant commander, will spend the remainder of his military career working in naval aviation training. He became a dual-designated naval aviator and flight surgeon after previously serving with SEAL Team Three on more than 100 combat operations as a medic, sniper, navigator, and point man.

Kim was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017 and spent eight months aboard the International Space Station in 2025, orbiting the Earth 3,920 times and traveling nearly 104 million miles. He also holds a mathematics degree from the University of San Diego and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

When wildfires threaten our communities, the U.S. Army answers the call.

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

I've got one already. With me in the middle of enemy territory, brave, smart and courageous. Trained to be a soldier.

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

YES!

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

There's no such thing as fear.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

“My husband, Angelo Venniro was born in Sicily, Italy in 1940.

His family immigrated to the United States when he was 14 years old, settling in Rochester, NY.

Many of his family members served in the military, his brothers served in the Air Force and the Navy. Our grandson Joshua enlisted in the Air Force right after 9–11 and served for 14 years. He was sent to Iraq 5 times and suffered serious injuries and is currently battling the VA for benefits.

During my husband’s first tour of duty in Vietnam he was a forward observer attached to a Marine battalion. He spent weeks exploring the jungles looking for enemy locations and reporting enemy movements. He was in the location where Agent Orange was in use and never talked about the war. Angelo would only say that it was a useless war. This picture was taken of him in Vietnam, location unknown.

He would suffer through horrible nightmares, but he would never talk about it. Angelo contracted severe jungle rot from endless marching in rice paddies and hot steamy jungles. He had some other injuries most of them minor.

Right off the troop ship on his first day in Vietnam, he was asked to give blood to a critically injured Marine. The blood was transfused directly from his arm into the other mans. My husband always wondered if that Marine survived. He was very unhappy about the way the Military Veterans were treated when they came back home. They did their duty, fought and died, and then they were spit on and ignored. He truly didn’t dwell on it much and even then, he kept his thoughts to himself. He just moved forward living his life. He served in the Army for 20 years and went to college and earned two degrees.

He spoke highly of the men he served with and formed some friendships and exchanged phone calls with his brothers in Arms. After retirement, the men of the 1st Battalion 40th Artillery decided to organize re-unions once a year, at various locations across the U.S.

The first symptoms appeared on November 3, 2013. It started out as a usual day. But suddenly he started slurring his words and having great difficulty speaking. We rushed to the hospital, thinking he was having a stroke. Immediate testing showed he did not have a stroke, but he had a tumor in his brain. The biopsy and further testing confirmed GBM 4. There were no more usual days after that and the worst journey of our life began. He had the standard treatment for GBM, immediate surgery followed by 6 weeks of Chemo and Radiation. The Chemo lasted for another 6 months. My husband died a slow, torturous death at the local VA Center.

The physical wounds are attended to, but the invisible
emotional wounds need just as much attention and care. Most of all the VA needs to do a better job to take care of soldiers and their families. The waiting time to get a VA rating is way too long.

We need some change within the VA.”
- Ellen Venniro

#TheVietnamWar #GBM #Cancer #AgentOrange
#RIP

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

Discipline shows in the details.

@USMC recruits at Parris Island, S.C. put their precision and coordination to the test during Final Drill.

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

Hello there sexy mama. You're going global. Where are you posing from mi lady. Pardon me I'm in Iraq.
@Brendacriss3

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

Lethality starts with fitness.

Texas Army National Guard Soldier conducts the 3-repetition maximum deadlift during the Army Fitness Test in Austin, Texas.

📸 Spc. Robert Vondersaar

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

“My father, John Cavanaugh passed away August 2016.

He was a proud member of the 1st Division. We got to meet so many amazing people in the last few years of his life. He was only 18 in 1945 and was in Germany but only for a short time.. He spoke of the Garmisch Mountains and said he was only there because his brother Robert who was killed on June 23, 1944 during the second wave near Cherbourg and is buried over there.

My father said he did for a while guard a German prisoner. His other two brothers also served in the army in the Korean War, but are all now deceased.

Although there are five of us children none of us served but Dad would be very proud that two of his grandsons served in Iraq and Afghanistan and we now have a niece that is a Marine.”
- Jack Cavanaugh
#MilitaryFamily

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

@chaos_cat 👍

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

Train hard. Fight harder.

25th Infantry Division Soldiers move across a training area during a combined arms live-fire exercise (CALFEX) at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Aug. 25, 2026.

📷 Lt. Col. Andrew Batule

[🇷🇴🇺🇸 Max Fawcett 🇺🇸🇷🇴 @maxfawcett269]

Karma reporting for duty. Always ready to protect you at all cost. 💂♥️

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

Thank you for your service 🫡

[🇺🇸🇺🇸Lance Mario🇺🇸🇺🇸 @mariolance269]

Happy Heavenly Birthday MJ 🕊️