Hires I'll accept over Schiano:
-Rehire butch
-Sark off the wagon
-Rehire Dooley
-Hoke
-David Beaty
-Charlie Weis
-Dave Clawson
-My 6-year-old neighbor (has 1 season of flag football experience)
-The Neyland statue
-a ham sandwich
End of an era.
The final flight of the AV-8B Harrier as a USMC and US military aircraft. Their last mission was in support of capturing Maduro.
VMA-223 will conduct the sundown ceremony at Cherry Point today. A few of the remaining airframes will be sold to Spain or be placed in museums, while the rest will be scrapped.
Farewell to La Muerta Negra, or the "Black Death" as the aircraft was nicknamed during the Falklands.
During World War II, Hitler was convinced that Americans lacked the will to fight and that any who did would be quickly overwhelmed.
When early reports arrived from the battles in North Africa, German observers noted that Americans fought differently from the Europeans.
Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available.
This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces.
In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment.
This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead.
It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand.
Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.
This is why the American military has been superior to European militaries for over a century.
To us, the man is more important than the equipment. The Europeans value the equipment over the man. We sacrificed 3 airframes for a single man BECAUSE WE CAN AFFORD TO. They cannot.
U.S. Navy divers performed the sacred duty of escorting the final remains of Boatswain's Mate Second Class John D. Anderson, returning this true American hero to the hallowed wreck of the USS Arizona (BB-39). Seventy-five years ago, John refused to leave the burning ship until he could find his twin brother, Delbert. He's one of the last man who survived, carrying the profound sorrow of separation for a lifetime of service and resilience. That agonizing wait ends. John's ashes now rest within Turret Four, finally reunited with the brother he never stopped searching for. The promise has been kept. He sleeps with the 1,177 crewmates who still stand silent watch. Together again, forever