Mark 3rdforce

husband, father, grandfather vietnam marine vet, geo finder & seeker

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

Sick people and sicker religious cult 🤯

[THE 17th LETTER @17thletter101]

A young girl in Pakistan was FORCED to sign a marriage contract with a FORTY year old MAN

Should America BAN Islamic Sharia Law in all 50 states immediately?! 🚨

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

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[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

As our Nation marks five years since the attack at Abbey Gate, we honor the memory of the thirteen service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Their memory will forever live in the heart of a grateful nation.

[Patriot Lady2026 @jean_kime]

I Voted For This! And I agree: "How can I help?" 🇺🇸

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

50% more to go. Worthless bureaucrats 🤡🤡

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy (jnr) @jfkinexile]

WHAT'S YOUR RESPONSE ??

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

Semper Fi to all these American Heros 🫡 God Bless their families 🙏🙏🙏

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Five years ago today, 13 brave American service members were taken from their families and their country by an Islamic terrorist in Kabul, Afghanistan.

We will never forget them, and never again allow our men and women in uniform to be so utterly betrayed.

[TONYT™ @iTONYTM]

🚨BREAKING: Unvaccinated Chief Warrant Officer 5 Kennie Kelly — a Master Aviator — has officially been reinstated to the US military, with full backpay, entitlements, station preference and benefits.

He had been removed due to refusing the COVID jab under Biden.

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

Good riddance don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out

[Ailany💍💁‍♀️ @ailanyus]

Are you okay with them quitting? 😂

[Remember All The Fallen @KoreyG80]

Georgia Marine Corporal Lewis Lamar Biggers passed away on August 26, 1968 from wounds sustained the previous day in South Vietnam. Lewis was 19 years old with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. Remember Lewis today. #American Hero🇺🇸

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

“This is my son who was killed by an Islamic Taliban supporting Afghan by shooting him in the back because he was an "infidel".

If any of you can even imagine for one moment the tears I have shed… Please help honor and remember my son.

I’m just a humble Gold Star father who wrote a childrens book for my grandson and for the kids who have lost someone also. The book is called,
My Daddy's Heart is Purple, available on Amazon.

- Karl Porfirio
#goldstarfamily #TheAfghanistanWar
#KIA #RIP #Military #GriefSupport #militarychildrensbooks

[Rep. Harriet Hageman @RepHageman]

On the fifth anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack, Wyoming remembers Marine Rylee McCollum and his 12 fellow service members who gave everything in service to our country. We honor their sacrifice today and always.

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

Yes 💩

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Yes

[Isabella🙋‍♀️ @meisabella32]

Should they be given the Death penalty?

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

Yes 100 💯 % ASAP

[Donald Trump Jr Q @DonaldTrumpJrQ2]

This dad blocked this person from entering the girls' bathroom.

"My daughter is in there." You can't enter. Do you agree with the father's attitude?

YES OR NO??

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

Good riddance to evil not soon enough

[RedWhiteBite @RedWhiteBite]

Saw this:

TO BE EXECUTED MAJOR NIDAL HASSAN
I remember when Nidal Hassan murdered 14 U.S. troops, yelling “Alahu Akkbar” as he poured fire out on defenseless troops. Apparently his time is coming!

First U.S Military Execution in 64 Years — Army Major Nidal Hasan To Be Executed, 13 Never Came Home

The United States military is on the precipice of a historic and solemn milestone. For the first time in sixty-four years, the nation is preparing to carry out a military execution. The man awaiting this ultimate penalty sits in a wheelchair inside the maximum-security United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. For sixteen years, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan has lived on death row, stripped of his rank, his uniform, and his freedom, yet entirely devoid of remorse. He is the architect of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre—a horrifying bloodbath that claimed the lives of thirteen innocent people and shattered the lives of dozens more.

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently announced the push to finally execute Hasan, it sent shockwaves across the country, reopening wounds that have never truly healed. It forces us to look back not only at the sheer brutality of that dark day in November but at the colossal, systemic failures that allowed a self-proclaimed enemy of the state to operate freely within the ranks of the American military. The tragedy of Fort Hood is not just a story of domestic terrorism; it is an agonizing case study of bureaucratic cowardice, ignored warnings, and an unforgivable betrayal of the men and women who volunteered to serve their country.

The Safe Haven That Became a Slaughterhouse

To understand the sheer horror of November 5, 2009, one must first understand the setting. The Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, was the farthest thing from a combat zone. It was a mundane, bureaucratic space—a paperwork room where soldiers sat at folding tables to fill out forms and complete final medical evaluations before deploying overseas. It was an environment built on routine, order, and above all, safety. The men and women inside were completely unarmed, trusting in the security of an American military installation.

Among them was Private First Class Francheska Velez, a twenty-one-year-old from Chicago who had returned from a grueling deployment in Iraq just three days prior. She was three months pregnant, looking forward to the future. Beside her was Specialist Kham Xiong, twenty-three, a devoted husband and father of three young children from Minnesota. Sergeant Amy Krueger, twenty-nine, had enlisted in the Army specifically in response to the September 11 attacks, driven by a fierce belief in her country and preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. At just nineteen years old, Private First Class Aaron Nemelka from Utah was the youngest in the room. Andy Whittaker there was Michael Grant Cahill, a sixty-two-year-old civilian physician assistant and grandfather who had returned to work a mere week after suffering a heart attack....

[The Forgotten War @ForgottenWarPic]

He stood straight up in the middle of a massacre to steady his men, fixed a broken flamethrower with his own hands under fire, and hauled the last working machine gun around the position while bleeding from his wounds. Half his platoon was dead. Then the Chinese took the hill, and took him prisoner. And nearly two years later, James Stone walked out of a POW camp alive.

Stone was an Army first lieutenant from Arkansas, commanding a forty eight man platoon holding a vital outpost hilltop near Sokkogae in November 1951, during the stalemate fighting. On the night of November 21, a Chinese force many times his platoon's size came for that hill.

What Stone did during that defense is a study in leadership under the worst conditions. When his men needed steadying, he stood fully upright, deliberately exposing himself to the storm of fire, and calmly directed the fight so his soldiers could see that their commander was not rattled. When one of the platoon's flamethrowers, a critical weapon, jammed and stopped working, Stone crawled to it under fire and personally repaired the weapon himself so it could keep the enemy back. When he was painfully wounded, he did not stop. He picked up the platoon's last working light machine gun and carried it from position to position by hand, moving it to wherever the Chinese were pushing hardest, bringing fire on attackers coming from two directions at once.

His platoon fought until it was almost destroyed. Half the men were killed, and most of the survivors were wounded. Eventually the position was overrun, and Stone, wounded, was captured.

For him the ordeal was only beginning. He was taken into the Chinese prison camp system and held as a prisoner of war for nearly two years, through the endless interrogations, the cold, the starvation, and the pressure that killed so many POWs. He endured it. He was finally released and exchanged in September 1953, after the armistice.

James Stone came home. President Eisenhower awarded him the Medal of Honor in the fall of 1953, one of the relatively rare men who earned it, survived the battle, survived captivity, and lived to receive it in person. He stayed in the Army, made it a career, and lived into his late eighties, the lieutenant who stood up straight when everything was falling apart, and did not stop leading even after the hill was lost.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

My Dad, Leonard L Alvarado eating ice cream with a little Vietnamese boy. He was KIA in Vietnam 1969.🕊️

Dad received the Medal of Honor posthumously (March 2014) for his bravery and selflessness in Vietnam 1968-1969
#RIP #Military #TheVietnamWar

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

God Bless American Hero Rocko 🫡🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Just call me Gunny @JRM58506966]

Frank Fratellenico was a kid from Albany, New York, called Rocko by everyone who knew him. He joined the Army in 1969, and by the summer of 1970 he was a 19-year-old corporal with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry, in the 101st Airborne Division, fighting in Quang Tri Province, the northern ground this whole series keeps returning to.

On August 19, 1970, his squad got pinned down flat by heavy fire coming from two well built enemy bunkers. Nobody could move. So Rocko Fratellenico decided to move. He crawled forward alone, out ahead of his squad and into the fire, worked his way up to the first bunker, and knocked it out with hand grenades, taking out the enemy soldiers inside it.

Then he went after the second bunker. As he closed on it, enemy fire hit him, and he fell. In his hand was a grenade he had already armed and was about to throw, and when he went down, it dropped to the ground beside him, live, its fuse burning, right next to four of his fellow soldiers.

Fratellenico had maybe a second, wounded and on the ground, to understand what was happening. He used it to reach out, pull the grenade in, and throw his own body over it. It exploded underneath him. His body absorbed the blast.

The four men next to him lived, unhurt, because a 19-year-old who was already wounded chose in his last instant to cover a grenade rather than roll away from it. Fired up by what they had just seen him do, his unit surged forward and overran the enemy position.

Rocko Fratellenico was awarded the Medal of Honor for those final seconds, given to his family in his name. He never turned 20. It is one of the most common and most staggering kinds of Medal of Honor story from this war, a young man throwing himself on a grenade to buy life for the men beside him, and it happened on this day, August 19, in the hills of Quang Tri.

[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

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[Mark 3rdforce @mark_baile39171]

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[Remember All The Fallen @KoreyG80]

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Charlie Edward Kemp was killed in action August 23, 1968 in Vic Ha Thanh SF Camp, South Vietnam. Charlie was 27 with 8yrs service from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 11th Light Infantry BGD, 3rd BN, 1st Infantry, B Co. Silver Star, BSM #American Hero🎖️🇺🇸