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“Talk to me Goose” Navy Call Signs Explained
How U.S. Navy Pilots Really Get Their Callsigns A Super Hornet pilot gives us an inside look at how Naval Aviators get their often colorful but unflattering callsigns. BEN KOHLMANN Let’s reminisce about fighter pilot callsigns and how they come about. I’ll start with mine: ‘The Professor,’ eventually shortened to ‘Prof.’ How I got it: […]
Trans Health Department Admiral, “Wrong Puberty”
DHHS Admiral Rachel Levine and Friend ABC’s late night news program “Nightline” is pandering to the woke with their series entitled “Identity Denied: Trans in America.” In a recent installment the guest was Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary Admiral Rachel Lavine, formerly Pennsylvania’s Health Secretary during the Covid debacle and also formerly […]
SECDEF- Promotion Hold “National Security Crisis”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Promotion to Flag ain’t easy. Requirements just begin with age limits and duty on the altar of Jointness. DOD selection boards specific to general or flag officers provide names to the President, who then presents his list to the Senate for confirmation. Pass that and welcome to 0-7, same for […]
Thursday short takes – McCarthy, Alphabet issues, Starbucks
First up, a famous USAF vet has passed on. Cormac McCarthy, author and playwright, passed on June 13 (for real this time, back in ’16 there was a brief ‘Cormac McCarthy dead’ urban legend.) McCarthy was best known for works like “The Road” and “No Country For Old Men.” He became interested in writing after […]
Reparations TF: Repeal Cali Anti-Discrimination Amendment
California Reparations Task Force The California Reparations Task Force is a non-regulatory state agency created in 2020 to study reparation proposals for “African American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.” Black slaves, in not so many words. The purpose of the Task Force is threefold- to develop the proposals, to recommend ways to […]
Adams Plans Migrant Dumps
NYC Has a Plan New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced his plans for the city to relocate illegal migrants to hotels in outlying counties. This news was not well received by officials in those counties. At all. Rockland County Executive Ed Day (R) stated Adams didn’t inform local officials about his plan to […]
Happy Trails!
Former Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Being the first Chicago Mayor to be voted out of office in 40 years makes a statement. It’s been a stunning fall from grace. Lightfoot campaigned for mayor in 2019 by arguing crime was too high, saying she wanted to make Chicago the ‘safest big city in the country.’ She won […]
Vaccine Vets- No Thanks
The service branches will rescind COVID-19 vaccination policies by 17 March, according to a Pentagon memo. The memo also expunges personnel records of any flags and halts involuntary separations for those who have refused the jab. The new guidance follows SecDef Austin’s 10 Jan policy memo, which formally ended the vaccine mandate for all service […]
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