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China production, US production, and more on the F-35

| December 10, 2024 | 22 Comments
China production, US production, and more on the F-35

Looking at American defense manufacturing today, and it ain’t pretty. China has unveiled a new method of smelting iron which gives an incredibly fast yield – typical blast furnaces can take up to six hours per batch. A new iron making technology developed in China is set to significantly impact the global steel industry. Developed […]

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Katt Williams’ Marine claims questioned

| November 20, 2024 | 65 Comments
Katt Williams’ Marine claims questioned

CBS News has a story today about comedian Katt Williams. The funnyman has long claimed to have earned his EGA by finishing Marine boot camp, only to be tossed when they found out he was underage. When CBS asked the Corps for their version of events, they said, “Who?” From CBS; Katt Williams, the Emmy-winning […]

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Marine SgtMaj steals valor, loses all four rockers

| October 29, 2024 | 114 Comments
Marine SgtMaj steals valor, loses all four rockers

Breaking news last night, of a Marine Corps sergeant major losing all of his rockers after pleading guilty to wearing awards that he was not entitled to. This included a CAR and Purple Heart, but he really fleshed out his fruit salad with a lot of extra awards. I don’t know how he ***edited to […]

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Valor Friday

| October 25, 2024 | 10 Comments
Valor Friday

This week brought sad news of the death of John Kinsel Sr. He was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talker. The Code Talkers weren’t all Navajo, but they were the most famous. Some of the languages other than Navajo that were used were Lakota, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Comanche, Tlingit, Hopi, Cree, and Crow. Code […]

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Delta deplanes Marine for anti-suicide shirt

| October 22, 2024 | 38 Comments
Delta deplanes Marine for anti-suicide shirt

Marine Catherine Banks was flying out of San Francisco International last week when the flight attendant (allegedly male) asked her to deplane. After getting off the plane, Banks said that the flight attendant told her that her shirt — which read “Do not give in to the war within. End veteran suicide” — was “threatening.” […]

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Columbus Day shorts, aka Monday Morsels

| October 14, 2024 | 28 Comments
Columbus Day shorts, aka Monday Morsels

Been almost a week since the news hit that potential First Gentleman Doug Emhoff smacked his lady friend around in Cannes back before he was married to Kamala. One would expect a media firestorm over it… after all, Justice Kavanaugh got grilled heavily over his behavior while still a teenager, right? Let’s be honest…since TAH […]

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Vets reunited 73 years after kidnapping

| September 25, 2024 | 7 Comments
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 […]

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Valor Friday

| August 23, 2024 | 9 Comments
Valor Friday

Thanksgiving Day is generally known in America as that last Thursday in November where we eat turkey and watch the Dallas Cowboys lose a football game, but it’s also the name for other holidays around the world. It’s celebrated on 25 October in the tiny Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The reason, if you can […]

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