Kimberly ~ Spud Queen

World traveller 🌍
not a wordsmith 🧠
challenge coin 🪙 collector

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

HONORING THE LIFE OF MASTER DEPUTY JILLIAN OLSON: May you rest in God's eternal peace. A member of the Lexington County Sheriff's Department's dive team died Thursday during an underwater training session on Lake Murray.

Jillian Olson, 29, began her career as a Lexington County deputy in 2021. After more than a year as a patrol deputy, she transferred to a warrant deputy position. Olson was promoted to master deputy in the Warrant Division in 2025. She has been a member of the LCSD dive team since 2024.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Dudes didn’t plan on an “Marine” being in the store! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Aub @Agbinaux]

Look like the restaurant owner is a motorsport fan

[EAA @EAA]

It's not every day you get the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff flying into Oshkosh in an F-22! But that's exactly what happened last Tuesday, and we couldn't have been happier to welcome him to #OSH26. 🫡

Gen. Ken Wilsbach, EAA 1079683, was our recent guest on The Green Dot to talk about his path in aviation and experiences as a fighter pilot, his priorities as the senior uniformed Air Force officer, and his passion for general aviation and excitement to attend EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026. Listen here ➡️ https://t.co/5AHEW6k0Jq

F-22 📸: Christopher Lohff

#aviation #USAF #F22 #Oshkosh #planespotting

[Arlington National Cemetery @ArlingtonNatl]

Air Force Vietnam POW, Featured in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photo, Laid to Rest | https://t.co/pepxJkl4j5

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

One thing you will NEVER, EVER forget. Being on a commercial flight, & the crew makes an announcement that it is their HONOR to be a part of escorting a fallen soldier home.

They ask that after landing, everyone remain seated while the military escort team disembarks. Of course, during this time, the plane is SILENT, except for the sound of the coffin being unloaded from the cargo hold.

Pray for our heroes and their families.

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Tonight's stunning 97% Buck Moon rising behind Stonehenge 🤩🌕🌙🦌
Photo credit Nick Bull 🙏
#moon #buckmoon #July #summer #lunar

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

Robert Howard may have been the most decorated American soldier of the entire Vietnam War, and almost nobody outside the Army has heard of him, because most of what he did was too secret to talk about.

He was an Alabama kid from a family of paratroopers, and he enlisted at 17 in 1956. By the late 1960s he was a Green Beret in MACV-SOG, the Studies and Observations Group, a bland name that hid the most dangerous job in the war. SOG ran tiny teams on top secret missions across the borders into Laos and Cambodia, deep into enemy sanctuaries where they were massively outnumbered and where, officially, no Americans were operating at all. Over 54 months of that work, Robert Howard was wounded 14 times.

Here is how good he was. The Army tried to give Robert Howard the Medal of Honor three separate times, for three separate actions, inside just thirteen months. The first two nominations had to be downgraded to a Silver Star and a Distinguished Service Cross, not because he had done less, but because the missions were so classified the paperwork could not describe where he actually was.

The third one stuck. On December 30, 1968, Howard was second in command of a platoon sized force in Cambodia, sent to find a missing American soldier named Robert Scherdin. They walked into a much larger enemy force, and an explosion, a mine or a grenade, tore into Howard, destroyed his weapon, mangled his hands, and left him unable to walk. His platoon leader went down wounded too. So Howard, unable to stand, with his hands torn up, crawled. He dragged himself to his wounded lieutenant, gave him aid, then moved up and down the line for three and a half hours directing his men's fire and calling in airstrikes, holding off the enemy until helicopters could get everyone out. He refused to be evacuated until his men were safe.

He actually found out he had been approved for the Medal of Honor while lying wounded under fire, hearing it come over a two way radio, right after taking one of his eight Purple Hearts.

Howard did not leave when the war ended. He stayed a soldier for 36 years and retired a full colonel. He spent his later life visiting wounded troops in hospitals and standing up for veterans. When he died in 2009, they buried him at Arlington. Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, eight Purple Hearts, wounded 14 times, and three separate nominations for the nation's highest award. A quiet Alabama man who did the most dangerous work of the war and almost never got to tell anyone about it.

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

If your government asked you to fight in a war, would you do it?
This is the case that stayed with me from our new @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds series, #LadyonTrial.
With female conscription in World War Two, came female conscientious objectors - like parlourmaid Connie Bolam from Newcastle in 1942.
The new episode's out now!
https://t.co/4c04Uw8Yva

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (28th July) was at 5.26am, sunset is at 9.00pm ☀️

[TheHouseoftheMuse @HouseoftheMuse_]

You go girl! 🔥🔥🔥
@USArmy

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Design and architecture

[brainbloom✨✨ @brainbloom567]

Cute 🥰 maize 🌽 dance💕💕

[funny videos🕶️ @miliondouga]

何が驚きって、レーサーの受け身テクが神レベル。

素人なら確実に大ケガ...。

[Kitten @0nlyk1tt3n]

let's push the water away instead of creating a 12" trench so it can drain on its own

[moose @mooseincrisis]

DELETE THIS NOW YOU STUPID HIPPO!!!

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Activist Erin Brockovich who won
PG&E case and won $333 million as settlement for the poisoned families, is now coming after big Al data centres for damaging nature.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Art Nouveau

[Dogman @Dogman1013]

Good evening from my fields and forest in Northern Maine.
This is one of my favorite videos from my property.