Marines
CEO and Marine Fred Smith, 80, died Saturday
Classic bit of urban legend: student submits a thesis with a business plan to set up package delivery on a hub-and-spoke system with guaranteed fast delivery – and the professor rejects the concept as unworkable and fails the student’s paper. The student founds FedEx and becomes a billionaire. We, actually Fred Smith DID submit his […]
Monday Shorts
A raft of little ones today: Remember the CIA analyst, Asif Rahman, who was indicted last November for sending Israeli plans and other classified stuff out on Telegram t0 unauthorized recipients? Asif William Rahman, 34, will be spending more than three years in jail for giving Top Secret national defense information to unauthorized viewers, according […]
Marine scores first combined win in Marine competition since 1959
Marine Staff Sgt. Payton Garcia (a fuel specialist!) matched a 66-year-old Marine Corps marksmanship record by taking the overall first prize in the Marine Corps Championships – in Pistol, Rifle, and Multi-Gun events with the highest overall score.. “We were curious about that during the actual conduct of the match, and we dug through all of […]
Hegseth’s body man’s qualifications questioned
SECDEF Hegseth’s office is in the midst of a couple of scandals. We talked recently about his troubles with using the app Signal for potentially sensitive information, but there’s also an IG investigation in leaks to the media. This has led to a few people in Hegseth’s inner circle being fired or reassigned. Of those […]
Dakota Meyer reups with the USMCR
It’s been a decade and a half since Dakota Meyer left active duty. Shortly after he left the service he was called back into uniform to go to the White House to get the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan during the Battle of Ganjgal in 2009. He’s now returning to the service, […]
Marine Corps News
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Every Marine A Drone Pilot: Individual Lethality To Go From Meters To Kilometers General highlights how drones and small guided munitions are about to give each Marine exponentially more reach than the traditional rifle. Joseph Trevithick The increasing prevalence of weaponized drones, especially first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze types, and other man-portable precision munitions […]
Fired F-35 pilot speaks out
2023, an F-35 made the news when the pilot ejected from it in North Carolina and the plane flew pilotless for another 12 miles. You might be interested in the final outcome. COL Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo was flying the fighter, familiarizing in preparation to take command of VMX-1 squadron in Yuma, Arizona, starting […]
Marine vet accused of faking deployment for free flights
A Marine veteran that currently works as a Federal Air Marshal stands accused of several crimes in relation to defrauding an American airline out of hundreds of free flights. I have a lot of questions as to how this happened. Chief among them is how did the TSA/Federal Air Marshals Service not know that this […]
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