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Wednesday items
No single big item, but a lot of small ones. First up, senior Minnesota US attorneys, even a few appointed by President Trump, have resigned in the face of DOJ demands that they investigate the late Ms. Becca Good of ICE shooting fame. Veteran prosecutor Joseph Thompson, who was previously appointed by Donald Trump to […]
New Toys for the New Year
Happy New Year, all! A few new things in the world of weapons. The Chinese Jui Tian drone “mothership” we wrote about earlier in the year took its frist test flights this month. The massive remotely piloted jet carries up to 100 drones, which it can launch while airborne to reach faraway targets. Able to […]
Operation Cowboy
Military.com did a pretty interesting article on the real story of Operation Cowboy. Doesn’t sound familiar? To many of a certain age, “The Miracle of the White Stallions” was an entertaining Disney movie – like anything they did then, a but sanitized, but for Disney, not far from the real story. Let’s open with […]
The Christmas Truce
We’ve all heard of it, the Christmas miracle in 1914. On a cold clear Christmas Eve, German and British troops laid down their arms, sang “Silent Night” and “Kumbaya” together (I know, I know… just setting the mood) and peace reigned across the battle fields. Well, sort of. I had planned a somewhat saccharin retelling […]
Search for missing Air Force plane to reopen after 75 years
January 16, 1950. Almost 76 years ago. A Douglas C-54 Skymaster departed Elmendorf AFB with 44 people aboard. 42 service members, and a pregnant dependent, Joyce Espes, and her infant son, catching a hop to go get medical treatment. The plane never arrived, and was never found. A new search is going to start – […]
Monday – what?
Seemed a quiet weekend to me – dunno what my neighbor spread on his farm last week but it got dust ALL OVER every vehicle, so my main project was determining their original colors via washing. Mission accomplished – but you know, with a stock of clean cars, torrential rain has gotta be on the […]
A brief reminder
Today marks the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Many of us remember the Nine-Eleven attack on September 11, 2001. It killed 2,977 people, primarily because so many workers were trapped in the World Trade Center buildings. Pearl Harbor saw 2,403 killed, the vast majority of whom (2, 000+) […]
Memphis Man Arrested for Stolen Valor
In a plot twist that absolutely no one saw coming (except literally everyone), 30-year-old Damien Flowers has been arrested for pretending to be a member of the U.S. Air Force—a career path that apparently conflicted with his actual full-time job of getting arrested in Mississippi. Flowers’ elaborate military fantasy came crashing down after he submitted […]
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