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Thanks!
The outpouring of support for the site is amazing. Thanks to y’all’s generosity we are good for another year and even have a bit for the occasional rainy day. Individual thanks have been offered by our money guru who actually cracked a smile, which frightened us all. I’ll add a blanket thankyou to all our […]
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E-Ticket Ride Transportation Secretary Duffy Delivers a Reality Check to Blue Origin Lady ‘Astronauts’ By Bob Hoge The ladies of the highly publicized 11-minute “Blue Origin” rocket trip might have wished they’d stayed in space a little longer, because after their cringeworthy antics upon returning to Earth, they’ve been the subject of widespread mockery. Singer […]
USNA- DEI No Longer Enrollment Criteria
US Naval Academy, Annapolis MD US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions By Brian Witte, The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald Trump, according to […]
Gentle Reminder, with BUFFs
B-52 Stratofortress B-52s Fly Across Middle East, Drop Live Munitions Feb. 18, 2025 | By Chris Gordon Two U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratrofortress bombers flew over the Middle East in a “force projection” demonstration Feb. 17, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced. The two B-52s began their mission at RAF Fairford, U.K., before flying across Europe […]
FAA Hires the Best and Brightest
FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities FAA says people with ‘severe’ disabilities are most underrepresented segment of federal workforce By Emma Colton The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity […]
US Military Killing the Planet
North Pole Today ‘Elephant in the room’: The US military’s devastating carbon footprint The US military emits more than entire industrialised nations like Portugal and Denmark, yet evades scrutiny. By Lorraine Mallinder The US military is vast in scale, with a carbon footprint larger than any other institution on earth. But when it comes to […]
Spate of Deadly Marine Aircraft Accidents
I was waiting for the word on the F/A-18 incident when I heard of the Osprey. Preliminary investigations are underway of course. US military aircraft carrying more than 20 Marines crashes over Australia, killing 3 and injuring others The MV-22B Osprey helicopter crashed near Melville Island off the coast of the city of Darwin in […]
Navy Centenarian Flys Again
Donald Muncy, 100 Years Young Sent by a fellow flyer. Navy veteran airman, age 100, flies again on vintage World War II pilot-training biplane ‘I live to fly,” Donald Muncy said after soaring over central Ohio with Dream Flights By Kerry J. Byrne | Fox News A U.S. Navy veteran airman who served the nation […]
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