Air Force
Vets reunited 73 years after kidnapping
Hard to believe this one. A young lad of 6, Luis Armando Albino, was kidnapped from the Oakland CA park in which he was playing with his brother and never found. Albino and five of his siblings, brought by their mother from Puerto Rico, had just moved to Oakland the summer before his abduction in […]
Wednesday updates
Came on to read all the morning good stuff and find my scheduled column didn’t drop….damn. Better late than never! Remember the Navy ship commander who was famously photographed on his fantail firing an M-4 with the scope rear mounted forward? The image brought the Navy considerable ridicule on social media. The San Diego […]
KC-46 suffers ED
Apparently there is a limpness issue in the Air Force. No, not among male airmen per se….but with their newest fleet refueling plane, the KC-46. There have been multiple incidents, the most recent August 21, involving the KC-46 boom. The KC-46 involved in the mishap was from the 931st Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air […]
Valor Friday
In the first couple of years of World War II, many Americans disagreed with the isolationist stance of the federal government. A lot of young men would hear the call to service pre-war, and enlisted into the American military. The armed forces were rapidly expanding long before the Attack at Pearl Harbor, with America already […]
Veterans’ service dog provider accused of SV
In the complete works of Gilbert and Sullivan, one can find a song that starts thusly; I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical. Kirk Lanam fancies himself a major general, but a local news organization […]
Tuesday follow-ups
As predicted, Ellsworth AFB is going to suffer in the aftermath of the damning report on the B-1 bomber crash we talked about last week. Col. Mark Kimball, the 28th Operations Group commander, was relieved of command Friday “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command, based on the findings […]
Follow-up Friday- Quantico spies, AR ban, Osprey crash
Let’s start with the Jordanian fellas who wandered onto Quantico May 3. Illegal, trespassing on a military base… throw the book at ’em, no? Uh…no. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hasan Yousef Hamdan and Mohammad Khair Dabous were allowed to bond out by an immigration judge in […]
Thursday updates – Warren, Ohio, B1, dog flights
Well, yesterday thebesig wrote about what Kamala wants to do on gun control. Today, let’s visit someone related, Fauxcahontas. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants on Sunday, arguing Vice President Kamala Harris is the candidate to “get it done.” Jake Tapper commented that illegal immigration […]
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