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Valor Friday
I’m once more letting Military Times do my week’s work for me. They posted up an article the other day about the five Americans who have received Britain’s highest honor, the Victoria Cross. For comparison’s sake, here’s the breakdown for foreign born recipients of the Medal of Honor; Out of 3,536 total awards, 568 were […]
Floaty Friday
We’ll start with a piece of good news. Darn near lost us a perfectly good handcar airplane back in November 2023. The plane in the scenario is an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. On November 27, the pilot was coming in for a routine landing when one of the arresting wires […]
U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive
The U.S. Army announced that it shattered previous recruiting records last year. In December 2024, the Army averaged nearly 350 enlistments a day. On X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth highlighted the desire for Americans, from the targeted recruiting demographic, to serve under bold & strong leadership. The Army also cut its force by 24,000, […]
El Salvador accepting deportees, any nationality including Americans, from the United States
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently visited El Salvador. He obtained an agreement from El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, to take deported illegal aliens from the United States. Bukele’s offer went further… These deportees could be of any nationality including Americans convicted of violent crimes. For the latter, Bukele asks for a housing fee, […]
Education DEI layoffs
NBC News reports that up to 55 Education Department employees have been placed on paid leave: Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents hundreds of Education Department employees, said that at least 55 employees had been placed on leave as of Friday evening and that she expected the number […]
Tuskegee Airman, 100, passes
Tuskegee airman Harry Stewart died at his home in Bloomfield Hills, MI on Sunday. Harry T. Stewart Jr. was born July 4, 1924, in Newport News, Virginia. His family moved to New York City two years later. Stewart told the National World War II Memorial he used to walk over to nearby North Beach […]



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