Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

raratt

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Nov 10, 2020

• #2,261

Air Force A-10 pilot earns prestigious award for pulling off an 'extraordinary' belly landing with no cockpit canopy and damaged landing gear

A gun failure caused an explosion that sent his cockpit canopy flying as he tore through the air at 400 mph. It also wrecked part of the landing gear.

www.businessinsider.com

 

BarnBuster

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Nov 10, 2020

• #2,262

Veterans, Gold Star Families get free entrance to national parks, refuges, other public lands - VA News

Veterans and Gold Star Families will be granted free access to national parks, wildlife refuges and other Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior starting on Veterans Day this year and every day onward.

www.blogs.va.gov

Veterans And Gold Star Families Granted Lifetime Passes To National Parks

Former service members and families of those killed on active duty will have "free access to the iconic and treasured lands they fought to protect."

www.npr.org

 

raratt

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Nov 10, 2020

• #2,263

Hey, Wanna Buy a Real, Flyable F-4 Phantom?

This legendary test jet set the low-altitude speed record in 1961. Now it can be all yours.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

BarnBuster

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Nov 11, 2020

• #2,264

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DarkWeb

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Nov 11, 2020

• #2,265

Thank you all

 

BarnBuster

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Nov 14, 2020

• #2,266

Israeli agents killed al-Qaeda’s No. 2 on Iran street, at behest of US: NY Times

Abu Muhammad al-Masri said gunned down in August; he allegedly orchestrated 1998 US African embassy bombings, 2002 attack on Israeli-owned Kenyan hotel, in which over 200 killed

www.timesofisrael.com

 

raratt

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Nov 19, 2020

• #2,267

 

BarnBuster

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Nov 25, 2020

• #2,268

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cannabineer

Ursus marijanus

Nov 30, 2020

• #2,269

I figured here was a good place. Neighbors did this.

In person it looks very nice with the brilliant colors.

 

GreatwhiteNorth

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Dec 1, 2020

• #2,270

cannabineer said:

I figured here was a good place. Neighbors did this.

In person it looks very nice with the brilliant colors.

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What does it say?

 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus

Dec 1, 2020

• #2,271

GreatwhiteNorth said:

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God Bless R Troops

 

BarnBuster

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Dec 3, 2020

• #2,272

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The remains of a pair of brothers who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified.

DOD identifies remains of Indiana brothers who died aboard USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor

Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Harold F. Trapp, who died at age 24, and Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class William H. Trapp, 23 at the time of his death, were officially accounted for Nov. 24, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced.

www.stripes.com

https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/casualty/Documents/POW%20MIA/USS%20OKLAHOMA%20(BB-37).pdf

https://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/Salvage%20of%20USS%20Oklahoma.pdf

 

raratt

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Dec 4, 2020

• #2,273

 

BarnBuster

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Dec 7, 2020

• #2,274

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BarnBuster

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Dec 8, 2020

• #2,275

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BarnBuster

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Dec 8, 2020

• #2,276

A woman will take command of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for the first time in US Navy history

The Navy has selected Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt as the first woman to command a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

taskandpurpose.com

 

curious2garden

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Dec 8, 2020

• #2,277

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Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97 (Published 2020)

A World War II fighter ace and Air Force general, he was, according to Tom Wolfe, “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.”

www.nytimes.com

 

curious2garden

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Dec 8, 2020

• #2,278

We salute the Marine scout sniper who snuck up on an enemy completely naked except for a pair of boots

An expert sniper can sneak up on an enemy naked as the day he was born. It's not particularly advised, but one top sharpshooter did exactly that just to prove a point, Marine snipers told Insider

taskandpurpose.com

 

BarnBuster

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Dec 8, 2020

• #2,279

curious2garden said:

We salute the Marine scout sniper who snuck up on an enemy completely naked except for a pair of boots

An expert sniper can sneak up on an enemy naked as the day he was born. It's not particularly advised, but one top sharpshooter did exactly that just to prove a point, Marine snipers told Insider

taskandpurpose.com

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Gives all new meaning to the name Hathcock!

 

GreatwhiteNorth

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Dec 8, 2020

• #2,280

BarnBuster said:

Gives all new meaning to the name Hathcock!

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Carlos was a Bad Ass no mater the category.