Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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Thank you all

 

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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

 

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

In person it looks very nice with the brilliant colors.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

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?

 

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What does it say?

God Bless R Troops

 

[BarnBuster]

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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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]

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

Gives all new meaning to the name Hathcock!

 

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Gives all new meaning to the name Hathcock!

Carlos was a Bad Ass no mater the category.