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Tuesday tidbits
Let’s open with Jack Texeira, the enlisted Air Force kid who posted thousands of pages of classified material for his game=playing buddies to read. He got 15 years for that little trick last fall – but he’s back. Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information […]
Valor Friday
BBC (by way of AOL), has a story about a museum appealing for donations to purchase medals related to a grizzly WWII battle I’m ashamed to say I was unfamiliar with. It is the Battle of Geilenkirchen, which was a British-led endeavor, but was the first combat action of the war for the American 84th […]
Americans could get arrested in the UK for posts made in the US
Made a post on social media in the United States that could be considered hate speech in the United Kingdom? You could get arrested as soon as you step foot in the UK. If your posts in the US could be interpreted as affecting UK interests within their country, you could be arrested once you […]
FrankenSAMs getting to Ukraine
Quite a little cottage industry now, repackaging existing missiles as Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) to make them more portable and/or more available to Ukraine. The battlefield is a lot different now – the airspace is an “if it flies, it dies” zone occupied by multiple drones and counterdrone equipment. We now have our first […]
Thursday sound bites
First up…let’s talk about the Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman (Manhattan/Queens area. Am I the only one who hears the old “Old El Paso” cows bawling “Noo Yawk City” in my head?) Mr. Goldman had to interject during a hearing on the impact of illegals on law enforcement, especially Nassau County police. “Can’t say I’m going […]
Friday shorts
Space Command’s headquarters may once again move. Donald Trump originally selected Huntsville, AL’s Redstone Arsenal as the headquarters, but after Alabama passed a restrictive abortion law, a Biden-caused pissing contest between Colorado and Alabama ensued. Each state has legitimate cred as a center for space-related headquarters given the NASA presence in Alabama and NORAD in […]
More new toys, and one olde one
China has unveiled a largish drone…ten TONs’ worth. The drone is expected to be a “mothership” for smaller drone swarms. While initially it can look like a normal attack aircraft, its central payload section is labeled as ‘Isomerism Hive Module’. This reveals that the mothership could have the capability to launch drones mid-air and then […]
John Thompson, SAS vet of Iran Embassy takedown, dead
John Thompson was 82 when he passed Saturday. Mr Thompson, originally from Liverpool, began his decorated military career in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers. He later served with the 16 Parachute Brigade and was also a member of the SAS squadron that stormed the Iranian embassy in Operation Nimrod in 1980. The SAS-led operation […]
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