Bobby Tyner has crossed the bar. He served with the US Army 53rd Combat Demolition Engineers as a "Tunnel Rat" in Vietnam where he was exposed to Agent Orange.
Bobby would have wanted everyone in the world to know of the terrible consequences of agent orange exposure & what the Orange Heart Medal Foundation is doing for Veterans & their families.
Our connection to God is often revealed in our connection to each other. In moments of conviction when you're called to make an impact on someone's life and lift up a community. Faith reminds us that even during our hardest days, under the worst conditions, we are grounded, guided and one. In service to others we find our purpose, our mission and our faith.
It was an honor to sit down with an incredible community of folks who believe in these core principles recently and reflect on my personal journey through faith and fellowship.
I've spent the last two weeks traveling across the state talking to voters about the issues that matter to them. Tune in LIVE for the SCGOP Debate tonight at 7PM to hear about my plan for South Carolina families.
🔗 Watch online at https://t.co/KocJ76Oog1 or on your local Gray Media station.
South Carolina deserves someone who will fight for YOU and deliver results — let's go! 🇺🇸
The price of freedom isn’t free.
This weekend, Private Isabella Gonzales, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, Sgt. Angel Rampersad and 1st. Lt. Tyler James Feehan paid the ultimate sacrifice defending our nation. Please join me in praying for their families and their loved ones.
America will forever be indebted to your service. 🇺🇸
The Coast Guard mourns the passing, and honors the courage, of Aviation Survival Technician (AST) Tyler Jaggers. On February 27, he was critically injured during a medical evacuation mission offshore from Cape Flattery, Washington, and later succumbed to his injuries and passed away at Madigan Army Medical Center.
Prior to his passing, he was meritoriously advanced to AST2 for his relentless drive in qualifications, the mentorship he consistently provided to swimmer candidates, and his exceptional performance across operational missions. Additionally, the Commandant of the Coast Guard awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross – one of our Nation’s highest awards for heroism in aerial flight.
Through his selfless service and sacrifice, AST2 Jaggers exemplified the finest legacies of Coast Guard service, and the sacred oath of the Aviation Rescue Swimmer community: "So Others May Live".
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Fair Winds and following seas.
- Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Lakeland, Florida
• Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota
• Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska
• Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of Des Moines, Iowa
O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.
For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.
Sgt 1st Class Nicole Amor is survived by her husband, Joey Amor, and two children: a teenage son who is a high school senior and a daughter in the fourth-grade.
Sgt 1st Class Noel Tietjens is survived by his wife and his son.
NEW: Emergency call released of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee telling authorities to get a helicopter after he swam for four hours to reach the shore.
Appelbee was heard calmly telling authorities that his mom and siblings were stranded at sea.
The boy was heard explaining that his mom told him to swim to shore after they had been swept out about 2.5 miles.
After four hours of swimming, Appelbee had to run about 1.25 miles to reach a phone.
"I’m sitting on the beach right now, and I have to also explain. I think I need an ambulance because I think I have hypothermia … I feel like I’m about to pass out."
Swims for four hours, sprints 1.25 miles, his body is failing, and he calmly instructs emergency responders to send out a helicopter.
Wild.
NEW: 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore.
The family was on kayaks & paddleboards when they were swept about 2.5 miles out to sea.
After a conversation with his mother, Austin Appelbee decided he would swim back to shore to find help.
Appelbee says he prayed throughout the four-hour swim and told God he would get baptized if he made it out alive.
"I don't think it was actually me [swimming]... It was God the whole time. I kept on praying, kept on praying. I said to God, 'I'll get baptized.'"
"The waves are massive, and I have no life jacket on… I just kept thinking 'just keep swimming, just keep swimming,'" he said.
"And then I finally made it to shore, and I hit the bottom of the beach, and I just collapsed."
Appelbee says when he got to shore, he had to sprint for about a mile to find help.
According to AP, the family drifted 9 miles from Quindalup and spent 10 hours in the water.
When he reached the shore, Appelbee alerted authorities, who then sent out a helicopter to find his mom, 12-year-old brother, and 8-year-old sister.
Austin's mother, Joanne Appelbee, said one of the hardest decisions of her life was sending her son to shore.
"One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make was to say to Austin: 'Try and get to shore and get some help. This could get really serious really quickly,'" she said.
What a remarkable kid.
Video: 7 News.
Antiochian Patriarchate: for days now in Syria there has been a systematic & unprecedented massacre of Christians, the killing of monks, the burning of monasteries, the looting and burning of entire Orthodox villages, while the authorities in Syria are doing nothing to prevent it
🚨 I wanted to share a paise report from TPUSA. The organization has received over 32,000 inquiries in the last 48-hours to start new campus chapters. To put that in perspective, TPUSA currently has 900 official college chapters and around 1,200 high school chapters, with a presence on 3,500 total. Charlie's vision to have a Club America chapter (our high school brand) in every high school in America (around 23,000) will come true much much faster than he could have ever possibly imagined.
Truly incredible.
Focus on the billionaires finding these terrorist networks. They’d all like to see us get radical on street goons while they watched. Then they’ll roll up their surveillance tech. NO THANK YOU.
The billionaires did this to Charlie.
We won’t forget.