@Moronius, the Younger

#Navy #Veteran 28 years of Service for this? #1A #2A Marxists, political and cultural, are wreaking havoc on our country. 🇺🇲🗽🪖⚓️

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@cavannastan The sacrifices one makes in service to country.

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@howcoryseesit

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@FarmGirlCarrie Right there with you sister! They make great products too

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1775, around 1,200 colonial militia crept up a hill outside Boston in the dark and dug an entire dirt fort in a single night. They were tired, they were untrained, and most of them were farmers, blacksmiths, and shopkeepers who had left their families weeks earlier. When the sun came up on June 17, the British fleet sitting in the harbor could not believe what they were staring at. A homemade fortress had appeared on the high ground overnight, aimed straight at them.

This was only two months after Lexington and Concord. The British still figured these colonists were a disorganized mob that would scatter the moment real soldiers showed up. So they made a decision that they would regret for the rest of the war. Instead of going around, they would march straight up the hill in the open and frighten the rebels off the field.

They did it in the worst way possible. Full wool uniforms in the June heat, heavy packs on their backs, marching uphill in tight formation across open grass. The colonists were dangerously low on gunpowder, so the word passed down the line was simple. Do not waste a single shot. Hold your fire until you can see their faces. Wait until you cannot miss.

The British came up the first time and walked into a wall of musket fire at point blank range. Whole front lines went down. They fell back, regrouped, and came again. Same result. The grass was covered with red coats. Officers were dropping at a shocking rate because the colonists were aiming for the men giving orders.

On the third charge the Americans finally ran out of powder. With nothing left to fire, they fought with rocks and swung their empty muskets like clubs before falling back across the neck of land behind them. The British took the hill. On paper it was their victory. In reality it was a slaughter of their own men. More than 1,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded, including a staggering number of officers, the heaviest single day of losses they would suffer in the entire Revolution.

The cost did not stop there. During the fight the British set the town of Charlestown on fire, and people in Boston climbed onto rooftops to watch the whole thing burn while the battle raged. The Americans lost good men too, including Dr. Joseph Warren, a leader of the rebellion who could have sat safely in command but instead grabbed a musket and fought in the front line as an ordinary volunteer. He was killed in the final assault.

One British general wrote afterward that a few more victories like that one would have put an end to British rule in America. That single line says everything. The rebels lost the ground, lost the hill, and lost the battle, and they still walked away having proved to the entire world that ordinary colonists could stand toe to toe with the most powerful army on earth and make it bleed. The legend that they were too weak to fight died on that hillside. That was Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.

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@thestinkeye @cavannastan @X

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@WMcluskey Iran has been getting away with killing our people since its founding. I've been an unwilling target since my first deployment into the ME, and I'm seriously pissed off at them. The UK? They wont even see off their own POS government, not sure they'd appreciate the effort.

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@cavannastan @thestinkeye @X That was my first thought

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@TomcatJunkie This was labeled as adult content! 🤣

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@elsathora I agree. It's not as good as people like to loudly claim it is

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Back of the south pasture, this hawk was definitely hunting something. Beautiful to watch fly.

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@Supersonic_Red That F4 must have struggled to fly that slow

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

As the Wisconsin moved in close to bombard enemy positions, a North Korean artillery crew — whether out of desperation, bravado, or a catastrophic lapse in judgment — opened fire on her. Their shells struck. One punched through the shield of a 40mm gun mount, injured three sailors, and left a scar on the ship's hull.
That was the first and only time in her entire career the Wisconsin was ever hit by an enemy.
She did not take it well.
Within moments, the crew of Big Wisky swung all three of her massive turrets toward the shore. All nine barrels. Nine guns, each one wider than a grown man is tall, each one loaded with a 2,700-pound shell the size of a small car. The order was given. The ship shuddered. The coastline shook. The North Korean battery — along with quite a lot of real estate around it — ceased to exist.
The response had been so fast, so total, and so wildly disproportionate that the officers aboard USS Buck, the destroyer escorting the Wisconsin, could barely believe what they had just witnessed. They reached for their signal lamp and sent a short, dry message blinking across the water toward the battleship:
"TEMPER TEMPER."
Wisconsin's crew, apparently not done, signaled right back:
"But they started it."
And that was that. No North Korean or Chinese force attempted to hit the USS Wisconsin for the remainder of the Korean War. When you fire a full broadside from the most heavily armed battleship in the world in response to a single artillery round, you tend to discourage future attempts.

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@RSE_VB I used to live in Scripps Ranch. It tried to burn down in 2003 right after I got back from my first OIF deployment.

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@howcoryseesit Future rescue swimmer?

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I dunno. Supervision or company? You decide. This is Maggie

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@sentdefender You didnt read the MOU, did you? Its crystal clear its access to money, aka loans, and from countries in the region.

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@TheBuddyCSM New upper I'm building. Heh... port is closed.

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@CowboyShepherd2 Iconic moment in a movie full of them

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@Jringo1508 And man, did we appreciate these books forward. One of my memorable reads? Ayn Rands, "When Atlas Shrugged", minus the hundred or so pages of monolog.

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@thequeenofrust @rorotrader Ouch, that hurts just to read. And to think, the monuments to "progress" are in large urban areas.