Veterans...Get the hell in here now!
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raratt
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Been inside of one at Hurlburt field. Saw one at the range there also doing the slow left turns and burning stupid amounts of gunpowder. The control capsule slides in the cargo bay and looks like a box. IR cameras and laser guidance for the guns. I'd hate to have the job of chucking shells into the 105. There is a pad on the floor with a seatbelt to hold the guy in place. The rounds have proximity fuses and one malfunctioned during the gulf war and detonated after it left the barrel, blew the wing off. The trip to Hurlburt was kind of a boondoggle when I was an instructor. We went to the Naval Air Museum at Pensacola while we were down there. Highly recommended. They had a flight of Blue Angels hanging from the ceiling.
injinji
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My BIL got a small still for Christmas this year. He is buying cheap wine and practicing making brandy for now.
injinji
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I'm still pissed with the Cherokee for siding with Jackson against the Creek at Horseshoe Bend. (I'm 98.5% western european and my creek cousins were not even red sticks, but I still find it hard to forgive and forget)On this Sad Day in Military History:
On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the Ghost Dance spiritual movement, which taught that Native Americans had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs. Many Sioux believed that if they practiced the Ghost Dance and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers, including non-Indians. On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux leader, who they mistakenly believed was a Ghost Dancer, and killed him in the process, increasing the tensions at Pine Ridge.
On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under the Sioux Chief Big Foot near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it’s unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men.
The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre. Surrounded by heavily armed troops, it’s unlikely that Big Foot’s band would have intentionally started a fight. Some historians speculate that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were deliberately taking revenge for the regiment’s defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876. Whatever the motives, the massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was the last major confrontation in America’s deadly war against the Plains Indians.
Conflict came to Wounded Knee again in February 1973 when it was the site of a 71-day occupation by the activist group AIM (American Indian Movement) and its supporters, who were protesting the U.S. government’s mistreatment of Native Americans. During the standoff, two Native Americans were killed, one federal marshal was seriously wounded and numerous people were arrested.
(18 Medal's of Honor were awarded during this massacre. There is a bill in congress "Remove the Stain Act" to rescind the Medals. bb)
'Remove the Stain Act' Moves Forward as House Passes Defense Bill | Currents
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes legislation to address the slaughter of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children at the Wounded Knee massacre a century ago. ...nativenewsonline.net
Setting the Record Straight Regarding ‘Remove the Stain Act’
The Honorable John F. Reed, ChairmanThe Honorable James M. Inhofe, Ranking MemberSenate Armed Services CommitteeU.S. SenateWashington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Reed and Ranking Member Inhofe: I am wr…armyatwoundedknee.com
Our longest FOD walk was the length of the (Helo) flight deck on ships.
My husband got in trouble regularly because he wouldn't pick up cigarette butts. He said he didn't smoke them so he wasn't cleaning them up
raratt
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I always had the smokers clean up around the smoke pit for that very reason.My husband got in trouble regularly because he wouldn't pick up cigarette butts. He said he didn't smoke them so he wasn't cleaning them up
BarnBuster
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U.S. Air Force Maj. Katie Lunning of the 133rd Medical Group receives the Distinguished Flying Cross Decoration from Lt. Gen. Michael Loh on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, in St. Paul. Lunning was presented the nation’s highest-flying award for her extraordinary actions during the evacuation of Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021
MN Air National Guard member receives Distinguished Flying Cross for efforts after Kabul Airport bombing
Katie Lunning is the first Air National Guard flight nurse to receive the award.
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I think they should have also given the DFC to the female pilot who when told she had too much weight to make it off the runaway replied, "Watch me".View attachment 5246552
U.S. Air Force Maj. Katie Lunning of the 133rd Medical Group receives the Distinguished Flying Cross Decoration from Lt. Gen. Michael Loh on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, in St. Paul. Lunning was presented the nation’s highest-flying award for her extraordinary actions during the evacuation of Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021
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MN Air National Guard member receives Distinguished Flying Cross for efforts after Kabul Airport bombing
Katie Lunning is the first Air National Guard flight nurse to receive the award.
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was that the C-17 that had 800 SOB?
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FirstCavApache64
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We got rewards for finding stuff during those from the squad leaders. They'd try to make it fun but Ft Hood, TX in the summer was not the place to be. It would be 115 degrees out on the flight line and anything black on the helicopter would get so hot you'd get blisters if you touched it with your bare hands. You learned to drink water pretty quickly or you bounced off the concrete when you passed out. Ahhh....good times.
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"Royce Williams was a real-life “Top Gun” 10 years before Tom Cruise was even born. On a cold November day in 1952, Williams shot down four Soviet fighter jets – and became a legend no one would hear about for more than 50 years. The now 97-year-old former naval aviator was presented with the Navy Cross, the service’s second-highest military honor at a ceremony Friday in California."
sh0wtime
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What a boss, and he's not even a bit arrogant about it, just proud.
Today kids get a C- on a test and want a medal and a parade...