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Verification Producer at @CBSNews Confirmed | Past: National Security & Investigative Reporter to @AP , @Frontlinepbs , @Newsweek | @USMC Afghanistan veteran
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New
@AP
reporting tonight: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer. An American official tells me Zelenskyy said, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”
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For those who may not know: no regulation specifies that the president or vice president should salute or return the salute of military personnel. Army regulations state that neither civilians nor those wearing civilian attire are required to render salutes.
As a Marine, I am sick and tired of this President FAILING to return their salutes. Total disrespect. And this is NOT the first time he has failed to do this. My last count was 11.
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John Kirby gets emotional talking about war atrocities and Putin—“It's difficult to look at some of the images and imagine that any well-thinking, serious mature leader would do that. I can't talk to his psychology, but I think we can all speak to his depravity”
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Before the day is done —
@USMC
Sgt. Nicole Gee would have been 24-years-old today. She was one of the 13 American service members killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. She posted this photo to her Instagram from Kabul. She wrote simply: “I love my job.”
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A senior American intelligence official tells me for both Ukraine and U.S. intelligence, it’s a “watch and see if they destroy themselves sort of situation.” They said it was going to be a long night of watching how this develops. Said Wagner is preparing* to mobilize—it’s…
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Ex-wife accuses Missouri GOP Senate candidate and former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens of physical abuse in affidavit made public Monday.
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Hypothetical: an American reporter has embedded with an enemy unit of the United States during war and they are preparing to ambush an American platoon. Do you film/report it or do you warn the American platoon of the ambush? Westmoreland, Scowcroft, Jennings, and Wallace discuss
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2017: Tucker Carlson on Reality Winner: “that’s a felony by the way.”
Tucker: The news media are celebrating the capture of the kid who told Americans what is actually happening in Ukraine.
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New: JR Majewski’s campaign said last week that he was punished and demoted after getting in a “brawl” in an Air Force dormitory in 2001. Military records obtained since then by The Associated Press show he received a DUI in 2001.
w/
@BrianSlodysko
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List of Marines whose promotions are blocked by Sen. Tuberville.
LTG James Bierman
LTG Michael Cederholm
MG Bradford Gering
MG Gregory Masiello
MG Ryan Heritage
MG Roger Turner
MG Leonard Anderson
MG James Adams
Also, 8 Marines nominated for brigadier general.
For 248 years, the
@USMC
has valiantly protected our great nation.
To all our Marines, thank you for your service — and Semper fi.
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I just got laid off. One would expect to learn this news from their employer but instead,
@TheMessenger
employees learned of it via
@nytimes
and
@semafor
- there is no severance. Healthcare will cease. I have to go clean out my desk from the DC office.
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I guess there’s a lot of mines and improvised explosive devices out there in *checks notes* Washington State.
The Pullman Police Department is proud to improve public safety response through the deployment of an urban rescue vehicle!
Learn more:
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This U.S. Army soldier lives across from Marine barracks. This is what he hears every night after taps.
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A reminder: Drew Carey is a U.S. Marine.
EXCLUSIVE: Drew Carey picks up $20K lunch tab for striking writers
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Hi. I’m an investigative reporter on the—let’s call it—free agent list. Despite that status, I have news to report. The voiceless still need a voice. The powerful still need to be held accountable. I’ve turned on tips for the first time, no pressure at all but it would help out.
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What is this? An MRAP for ants? How can we expect Marines to travel if they can't even fit inside the vehicle? It needs to be at least…….three times bigger than this!
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Interesting. The Emily Grace Rainey in this article is the same Emily Grace Rainey me
@StorytellerSBM
and
@JZBleiberg
wrote about for the
@AP
- she was a psychological operations officer who led a group of people from NC to DC on Jan. 6.
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“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.” —
@sebastianjunger
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We lost a legend.
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
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.
@JRMajewski
claimed in a press conference just now that his deployments are classified.
A number of people have asked to see the documentation the
@AP
obtained about GOP House nominee JR Majewski’s military record. We have updated this story with a embedded link, so readers can view the records for themselves.
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I see that its ALAN ALDA birthday today. Here’s my favorite scene from MASH. “War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.”
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#BREAKING
- The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan has been evacuated by American special operations, sources tell me.
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This isn’t a new thing. It’s been policy for at least 20 years.
US military offers legal migrants path to citizenship amid recruiting shortfall
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A number of people have asked to see the documentation the
@AP
obtained about GOP House nominee JR Majewski’s military record. We have updated this story with a embedded link, so readers can view the records for themselves.
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New
@Militarydotcom
investigation: the USS Boxer contaminated its own water supply after it intentionally and potentially illegally dumped diesel fuel into the ocean. Marines and sailors report ailments but
@USNavy
has not confirmed the incident until now.
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.
@jonstewart
and State Sen.
@NathanDahm
(R-OK) talk gun control and the Second Amendment. I fact checked Jon’s stats about firearm-related deaths among kids—here’s the April 2022 report from The New England Journal of Medicine which also cites CDC stats.
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I’m at the DC office and I can’t get up to the newsroom to clean out my desk because my badge isn’t working. Add that to getting laid off. Also no severance with healthcare ceasing.
@TheMessenger
also deleted the entire website so any exclusives or features I’ve written are gone
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Traditionally, military officers never salute an enlisted person first, as it is the duty of the enlisted to pay respect to the officers appointed over them. Here, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the JCS, is the first to salute a former Army private from World War II.
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For the past 2 years, I’ve tweeted out the names of the fallen from the American war in Afghanistan. The 1st time was around the fall of Kabul. The 2nd around Memorial Day. I will start again on Friday at 5 pm ET. Many attach personals stories and photos.
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Drew Carey is a former Marine. There’s an expression among Marines—officer and enlisted— that says “leaders eat last.” It’s not just a saying. In practice, Marines are served food by rank, with the highest ranking Marines eating only after everyone else has been served.
At the start of the strike, Drew Carey announced he would foot the bill for writers at two LA restaurants until the strike was over
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Darrik Carlyle Benson
CPO Benson was from Angwin, CA. He was 28 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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Some personal news: I’ve been hired by
@TheMessenger
to cover national security and military affairs as a full time employee. My first day will be May 15, 2023, the same day The Messenger launches. In the coming weeks, I’ll be moving to Washington, D.C.
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We lost another brother: George M. Todd Jr. - Doc to us - died on May 12 at the age of 38. He was a Navy Corpsman but to us, he was a Marine.
@CNN
wrote a profile about him a few years ago. If you're in a veteran in crisis: call 988 press 1. Doc's obit
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.
@USArmy
Maj. Dick Winters, who commanded Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during World War II, talks about transitioning back to civilian life and a particular walk he took one day.
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Ashley Irene White
1LT White was from Alliance, OH. She was 24 when she died in Afghanistan on Oct. 22, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company C, 230th Brigade Support Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, Goldsboro, NC.
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I’m sitting here watching The Hunt for the Red October. God do I love
@CourtneyBVance
as Sonar Technician Submarines Second Class Ronald Jones. His performance is simply outstanding.
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I’d like to thank the multitude of journalists, editors and long-time readers that have reached out to me with words of encouragement and kindness. It sincerely means the world.
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I’ll take unemployment any day of the week and twice on Sunday over the company Jack keeps.
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His sister wanted me to add this photograph.
Gene Arden Vance Jr.
SSG Vance was from Morgantown, WV. He was 38 when he died in Afghanistan on May 19, 2002 while serving in the U.S. Army with Support Company, 2nd Battalion 19th Special Forces Group, Kenova, WV.
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To my friends over at
@CBSNews
- Mr. Paul Whelan is not a “retired U.S. Marine. He was tried by court-martial in 2008 and received a Bad Conduct Discharge. You can read about it here:
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Rodolfo Rodriguez Jr.
SGT Rodriguez was from Pharr, TX. He was 26 when he died in Afghanistan on Sept. 14, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, AK.
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I’ve never seen this colorized photo before. I love everything about it. A U.S. Marine corporal sleeping at Union Station in 1948. At this point, Black men had only been allowed to serve in the Marines for the past six years which means this Marine served at Montford Point in NC.
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It’s still not quite clear if Wagner has captured the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov but to put this into perspective for a general audience: imagine Blackwater taking over U.S. Southern Command in Florida while the U.S. was at war with Mexico.
New from me
@TheMessenger
- a senior American intelligence official said Ukraine and the U.S. intelligence community were adopting a “watch and see if they destroy themselves” stance on Moscow and Wagner. A senior U.S. Marine intelligence official agreed.
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Jamal Hasan Bowers
MSG Bowers was from Raleigh, NC. He was 41 when he died in Djibouti as a result of injuries related to OEF on March 18, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company A, 6th Psy Ops Battalion (Airborne), 4th Military Information Support Group, Fort Bragg, NC.
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This is U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michelle Young (MichelleYoung17 on Instagram). The military and veteran community lost her to suicide last night. A single mother, she is survived by her daughter Gracie. Her friends have set up a Go Fund Me:
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Sarina Nicole Butcher
SPC Butcher was from Checotah, OK. She was 19 when she died in Afghanistan on Nov. 1, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company F, 700th Brigade Support Battalion, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Tulsa, OK.
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Heath Michael Robinson
SCPO Robinson was from Boyne Falls, MI. He was 34 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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This is quite the quote from President Trump’s former defense secretary, Mark Esper: “He is an unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service.” Story from
@maggieNYT
of
@nytimes
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Jordan Lee Chrobot
LCPL Chrobot was from Frederick, MD. He was 24 when he died in Afghanistan on Sept. 26, 2009 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, (RCT-3, II MEB Forward), 2nd Marine Division, CLNC. — Miss you, Jordan.
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#BREAKING
A big scoop I’ve been sitting on: President Biden Makes Surprise Visit to Ukraine.
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This is the first
@NBCThisisUs
episode where I’m actually thankful for the commercial breaks so I can have a break from crying.
#ThisIsUs
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UNBELIEVABLE! I asked Joel a question this afternoon in the Pentagon press briefing room and he said, “I’m not going to answer hypotheticals or speak about operational details from the podium.”
.
@JimLaPorta
brought his kiddo to the Pentagon. As we're walking the halls Joel tells him: "You're a boot. You work here, so you're a boot."
*chefs kiss*
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I’ve been working on this since yesterday afternoon and into the early Friday morning hours. An American Navy SEAL deserter died fighting in the embattled city of Bakhmut, Ukraine. This is my first
@RollingStone
byline
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I just finished cleaning out my desk at the
@TheMessenger
DC bureau. I forgot about this little art piece on my desk. In screenwriting, we would call this foreshadowing.
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KYIV, Ukraine (
@AP
) — Kyiv officials say street fighting is underway against Russian invaders, urge residents to seek shelter.
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Does “Dr. Sebastian Gorka” need to get a “real MD” or “work on [his] self-esteem” as well?
Announcers for this Eagles-49ers game just spotted the First Lady in a box and of course call her “Dr. Jill Biden.” Wonder if she realizes what a wannabe she looks like insisting on this fake title. Get a real MD or just work on your self-esteem.
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Pentagon doesn’t have that kind of money.
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Johnathan Wesley Taylor
CPL Taylor was from Homosassa, FL. He was 23 when he died in Afghanistan on Feb. 22, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, (1st Marine Division, I MEF Forward), 2nd Marine Division, CLNC. — Miss you, Taylor
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I sure hope
@JesseBWatters
didn’t use that McDonald’s straw when he posted this photo from 2016 with the caption: “Sometimes you just gotta do it
#imlovinit
#quarterpounder
#fatboy
#getinmybelly
🍟🍔”
Watters: Joe Biden used a straw… it’s unbecoming the way a man’s lip purse. The way your fingers clasp on it.
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Jason Ray Workman
CPO Workman was from Blanding, UT. He was 32 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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Not a bad scoop for a guy without a job. Hat tip to my sources
#BREAKING
- The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan has been evacuated by American special operations, sources tell me.
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Danny Chen
PV2 Chen was from New York, NY. He was 19 when he died in Afghanistan on Oct. 3, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, AK.
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Adam Joseph Buyes
CPL Buyes was from Salem, OR. He was 21 when he died in Afghanistan on Nov. 26, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, (2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force Forward), 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa, Japan.
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James Scott Ochsner
SFC Ochsner was from Waukegan, IL. He was 36 when he died in Afghanistan on Nov. 15, 2005 while serving in the U.S. Army with Co. A, 2nd BN, 3rd SFG (CJSOTF-A), FBNC. - your son
@NickOchsnerWBTV
and daughter-in-law
@StorytellerSBM
are doing great things.
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James LaPorta Sr., my grandfather who died in 2014, was one of the many who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He later fought at the Battle of the Bulge.
#DDay
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Hegseth went to both Princeton and Harvard.
Hegseth: The more elite the university and advanced a graduate is, the dumber they are. If you went to the Ivy League, prove to me you have any common sense at all
Jessica: You went Ivy League
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1. The size of the U.S. is greater than Israel so it would be hard for an Iron Dome system to defend the U.S. geographically 2. The U.S. isn’t under any sort of short range missile threat. 3. Iron Dome wouldn’t do anything against ICBMs.
BREAKING: Donald Trump promises “Iron Dome” for the United States in second term as president.
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Tonight’s episode of
@NBCThisisUs
has flooded back so many memories. My dad died two hours after my son was born in 2015. In 2016,
#ThisisUs
came on and it was the first thing I had in my life where I could begin to grieve. Thank you for this wonderful gift
@Dan_Fogelman
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Krystal Marie Fitts
SPC Fitts was from Almeda, CA. She was 26 when she died in Afghanistan on July 17, 2012 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company E, 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, Fort Bragg, NC.
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New:
@USMC
has made the argument that beards prevent the proper functioning of a gas mask. Well, Pfc. Jaskirat Singh, who graduated recruit training today told me he had no issues in the gas chamber. Singh is contracted to be a Marine infantry rifleman.
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Who is Walt Nauta – the Alleged Co-Conspirator in the Trump Indictment? Here's his biographical data I got from the Navy today.
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Kevin Arthur Houston
CPO Houston was from West Hyannisport, MA. He was 35 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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Personally, I thought a good name for Fort Bragg would be Fort Winters after Maj. Richard Winters from Band of Brothers given that Bragg is the home of the Airborne.
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Aaron Rawlings, a former Navy corpsman assigned to a Marine reconnaissance platoon, is a hero among the Boxer crew members in this story. Navy said they couldn’t find any records of this mishap since 2018. Rawlings was concerned for his Marines after being exposed to fuel in…
@JimLaPorta
@Militarydotcom
@USNavy
Thanks for the dogged diligence on this, yall.
And Doc Rawlins, printing the email and putting it in his dude's medical records... what great foresight.
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Jeremy Scott Lasher
LCPL Lasher was from Oneida, NY. He was 27 when he died in Afghanistan on July 23, 2009 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, (II MEB Forward), 2nd Marine Division, CLNC. — I miss you, Jeremy
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A month ago, I gifted my 8-year-old son an iPad so we could stay in touch (he doesn’t have a cell phone yet). We live in different states and it’s moments like this that ease the difficulty. These are the only moments that matter.
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New from me
@TheMessenger
- a senior American intelligence official said Ukraine and the U.S. intelligence community were adopting a “watch and see if they destroy themselves” stance on Moscow and Wagner. A senior U.S. Marine intelligence official agreed.
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Nasrat Ahmad Yar, a 31-year-old father of four, who served as interpreter in Afghanistan, escaped after Taliban takeover, killed in DC working as Lyft driver.
D.C. area Veterans — Can we make sure he gets a proper send off?
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Benjamin Brian Wise
SFC Wise was from Little Rock, AR. He was 34 when he died in Germany as a result of injuries related to OEF on Jan. 15, 2012 while serving in the U.S. Army with Co. A, 3rd Battalion, 1st SFG (A), Army Special Operations Command, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA.
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Kraig Michael Kaleolani Vickers
CPO Vickers was from Kokomo, HI. He was 36 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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Danial Ronald Adams
MSG Adams was from Portland, OR. He was 35 when he died in Afghanistan on Sept. 13, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Army with Company B, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Panzer Kaserne, Boeblingen, Germany.
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John Weston Faas
CPO Faas was from Minneapolis, MN. He was 31 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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William Chapman Stacey
SGT Stacey was from Redding, CA. He was 23 when he died in Afghanistan on Jan. 31, 2012 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, (RCT-6, 2nd Marine Division, II MEF Forward), 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA.
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I’m watching Waco: American Apocalypse on
@netflix
right now and this quote from Kathy Schroeder in defense of David Koresh is insane.
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Louis James Langlais
SCPO Langlais was from Santa Barbara, CA. He was 44 when he died in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011 while serving in the U.S. Navy with Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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Xhacob Latorre
CPL Latorre was from Waterbury, CT. He was 21 when he died in the United States as a result of injuries related to OEF on Dec. 8, 2009 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with Co. F, 2nd BN, 8th Mar Reg, (RCT-3, II MEB - Forward), 2nd Mar Div, CLNC. — Miss you.
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The Army’s 101st Airborne Division is not a unit under the Marine Corps therefore they are not U.S. Marines. Also, this is not Israel. These are soldiers landing in Romania on June 28, 2022.
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Tomorrow’s a new day: 1) find job. 2) Review entries for the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Awards, I’m a judge this year. 3) I have an investigation into a war crime that I’ve been working on for years, maybe I can find a home for it/finished it? 4) remember to be grateful.
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This story has been updated. Maj. Gen. Ryder tells me the Defense Department notified Congress “late this afternoon.” So for five days, neither Congress, the Pentagon Press Corps nor the American people knew the Defense Secretary had been hospitalized.
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This is also not correct and not what I reported.
#BREAKING
: American Delta Force and SEAL Team Six said to assist the IDF in finding and extracting American hostages in upcoming Gaza incursion.
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After the baseball game, I went over to this hallowed place: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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I’m watching some history tonight at
@MBWDC
- Marine Corps Capt. Kelsey M. Hastings is the first woman to command the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon for its 2023 season. .
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Here’s that article related to the above tweet:
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New: Elements of the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Group participated in the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, sources tell me.
#BREAKING
- The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan has been evacuated by American special operations, sources tell me.
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