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Thursday various
The Frontier pedestrian sucking incident in Denver last week? They’re already on it. Not Frontier or the airport – Austin law firms DJC and Rojas law firms are suing Frontier for $10,000,000 on behalf of some of the passengers. Dunno if that is a speed record, but has to be close. Authorities identified the […]
Iran targets Diego Garcia
A report Saturday says Iran launched a couple of weapons at Diego Garcia, our joint base with the UK in the Chagos Islands, 2400 miles from Iran. The missiles thought to have been used may have been Khorramshahr-4 rockets, which typically carry up to 80 cluster-bomb warheads (theoretically gas or nuclear warheads instead, but as […]
Mines
Happy St. Patty’s to all you Irish ba****** out there. Sláinte! Seems like all we ever hear about lately is drones causing damage and mines helping close the Straits of Hormuz. At least mines can be cleared, right? Barely two months ago, a striking and slightly forlorn naval convoy made its way out of […]
Stolen Valor, UK Edition
We got us another Walter Mitty as they say across the pond, which is to say another chap who tells tall tales of derring-do. To wit, he claimed to be a lord, have received an MBE (a prestigious award from the King), served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles (except he’s too young to have […]
Bonus Walt
We normally don’t have that much on the Brit Walts (Walter Mittys who dress up and play pretend ‘over there’), but today Mason ran across a doozy. The folks on the Foggy Isle go one better than we do this time of year – we do Veteran’s Day as a catchall for all of […]
Another bomber found
The wreck of an Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Martin 187 “Baltimore” bomber lost in WWII has been found in the Aegean in 61 meter-deep water after 82 years. They were returning from a photo-reconnaissance mission December 3, 1943, when they were attacked by two Messerschmidt Bf-109 fighters and shot down. Three of the multinational […]
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 […]
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