Bryan McGrath
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Bryan McGrath (The Conservative Wahoo). American Exceptionalist. Great Power Competitor. Globalist, Primacist. Seapower. Cuck. It/We/They
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I'm hoping the
@thedispatch
suits (
@JonahDispatch
,
@stephenfhayes
) take this Kevin Williamson piece from behind the paywall. It is the single greatest political takedown essay I've ever seen, and it isn't even close. That the target is the execrable J.D.
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1. This ship is 29 years old and has been ridden relentlessly in that time. 2. It has been ridden relentlessly because what it does is valued by our combatant commanders. 3. The number of ships we have like BOXER is insufficient for the demand levied on these ships by combatant
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@gtconway3d
The casual irresponsibility of his language is purposeful. Allows him the thrill of incendiary mob-bating and the escape hatch of a proximate clause.
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I received this notification letter from HASC Chairman Rep. Rogers (R-AL) office today. Serving on the National Commission on the Future of The Navy is an honor beyond comprehension, and I am eager to get to work.
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@DavidSacks
Deep down, you are despicable. On the surface, you are despicable. In between, you are despicable.
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Buh-bye.
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The Rubicon is crossed. I will not vote for anyone who is not committed to Russia's defeat in Ukraine.
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Utterly idiotic view. For one-tenth of our annual defense budget, for one fifth of the cost to assume student loans, we have bled Russia white. One of our two, main, strategic challengers.
For $80 Billion (And Counting) U.S. Taxpayers Have Bought A Bloody Stalemate In Ukraine
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This is correct.
The US Navy should bolt missiles onto everything that floats
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@dieworkwear
This is a really great thread. I do think there are acceptable "emergency" uses of a suit jacket as a sport coat, but these are limited.
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We said goodbye to my nearly 13 year old black lab Baloo today. I am emptied.
This is a box of sadness.
I never wanted to own a dog. I was always afraid of the idea of having to deal with a pet dying, so I vowed to never have a dog. Too much emotional work.
As many of you know, this fear was realized a couple of weeks ago. 1/ 🧵
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We buy and operate these machines for fifty years each. It is a nuclear-powered airport, that moves. No other ship in the Navy is as easily upgraded--fly one group of planes off, fly a new group on. No other instrument of war is as useful across the spectrum of conflict. And in a
More US Navy aircraft carriers are underway right now than at any point in quite some years - 8 of 11. Four are deployed: GERALD R FORD CVN78 in the Mediterranean Sea; DWIGHT D EISENHOWER CVN69 in the Red Sea; RONALD REAGAN CVN76 and CARL VINSON CVN70 in the western Pacific...
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So, I'm the Australian government, and I am setting out on an ambitious program to build nuclear attack submarines domestically from scratch. I consider it a national security priority. I look around the world to find where the MOST ACCOMPLISHED operators of submarines and their
Exclusive: The Australian government has hired a dozen of retired officers and former civilian leaders from the U.S. Navy as high-dollar consultants while it negotiates a nuclear sub deal with Washington.
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I'm gonna vent a little. Do you mind? I have been appointed to a Congressional Commission, the National Commission on the Future of the Navy. It was supposed to begin deliberations 90 days after the enabling legislation was passed (2023 NDAA). That would have been 22 March,
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because one rich Silicon Valley douchebag thinks other rich Silicon Valley douchebags are making too much money." In a million years I couldn't write something this perfect.
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Hey Siri, what happens when you have 11 carriers in a 16 carrier world?
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Sailing Just Outside Persian Gulf, Ford Strike Group Nearing 200 Days Deployed - USNI News
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Remember this when you read that ships are obsolete, that aircraft carriers are obsolete, and that we really oughta just build a bunch of drones and be done with it.
Carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Carl Vinson Deploy; 4 Strike Groups Now Underway - USNI News
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Bulls-eye.
"Maybe MAGA voters require their politicians to act like buffoons and propose outlandish ideas and alienate the dominant culture because that alienation is the core of the appeal."
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Jennifer Connally is six feet away from me on this flight and I have never been this starstruck in my life. I feel like I'm 13 years old.
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Someday, SOMEDAY, I will understand how this Secretary and his team can so thoroughly denigrate the concept of naval presence in force structure debates while cryin' to momma Navy when the s**t gets real.
SECDEF Austin Again Extends USS Gerald R. Ford Deployment
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At this point, perhaps the most important plane flying off the FORD near Israel. Also--this plane and the things it provides--is (in my view) the thing that makes an aircraft carrier an aircraft carrier in the US Navy.
🔍 👀 Eyes in the sky
#DYK
the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye’s 24-foot diameter radar provides 360-degree coverage for a variety of missions, including airborne battle management, command and control, communications relay, and close air support coordination.
#FlyingFriday
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I'd like to think someone at DESRON 50 is dusting off the Presidential Unit Citation template for CARNEY.
Crew of M/V Marlin Luanda nearly ran out of fire fighting foam but USS Carney, first on scene, transferred more than a 100 cans of the foam, and French did same to successfully put out fire. Huge coordinated response to Houthi terror attack on this ship carrying liquid hydrogen.
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Before I draw my terminal breath, I hope to see this terribly unfortunate tree-suit eliminated from from the uniform inventory.
Adm. Stephen T. Koehler, commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, meets with Vice Adm. Fred W. Kacher, commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, and Capt. Nicholas C. DeLeo, commanding officer, USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) aboard the 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge.
#USNavy
|
#ForgedByTheSea
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One can believe that the climate is changing. One can believe that human beings are contributing. One can believe that there are adaptive measures that humans can take. And one can believe that combatting climate change is not a military function. All at the same time.
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Let's make a deal, mmmkay? If this platform is still in business, and I am still alive on 31 December 2029, and China has not initiated a cross-strait attack on Taiwan, I will eat crow here that my kvetching about our flaccid conventional deterrence posture in the Indo-Pacific
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Here's an extended quote: "There is some evidence that the U.S.-led liberal order creates opportunity for “the type of people he represents in post-industrial Ohio.” The career of one J.D. Vance, for example. Vance by his own account here is willing to break
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This is incredible. As in "not credible".
Canada Announces Plan to Buy 12 Under Ice Submarines - USNI News
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I'm sorry in advance to a lot of people who will disagree. This is a ship that the country can and MUST get useful and important service from. If you cannot figure out how to employ this platform effectively in a fleet architecture, you have the wrong job.
USS Cincinnati (LCS 20) Independence-variant littoral combat ship coming into San Diego - March 28, 2023
#usscincinnati
#lcs20
SRC: webcam
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the world because he doesn’t think refrigerator repairmen in Columbiana County make enough money relative to his old venture capital buddies in California. Which is to say, the United States may very well end up allowing Russia to romp across Europe
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It was absolutely an insurrection. A crowd was summoned, briefed, whipped up, and directed on the only day possible for their efforts to disrupt the Constitutionally designated process for turnover of power. A failed insurrection is still very much an insurrection.
There was no insurrection. That is a left/media talking point. It was a riot, yes. It was not an insurrection. Those who believe this don't actually care about the truth though.
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Oh hey, sorry I missed this the other day, but as of Dec. 22, the fifteen month term for the National Commission on the Future of the Navy has six months left, and the Commission has never met because several Commissioners have yet to be appointed. Don't sweat it though,
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Senator--I applaud your continuing interest and leadership on these subjects, and I think your amendments are pointing in the right direction. But rather than making NAVSEA a four-star and giving him/her an 8 year term, I would like to recommend Congress re-commission the
Over the past few years, China’s Navy has grown rapidly. They currently have about 370 warships and are on pace to have more than 400 by 2027—the year Xi Jinping has directed his forces to be ready to invade Taiwan. Meanwhile under Biden, the U.S. Navy has shrunk to just 293
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Tell me again how the Navy we need is unaffordable...
The Biden administration announced another $5 billion in debt forgiveness for 74,000 student loan borrowers.
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Congressional earmarks are a good thing, and their decline has tracked with the decline of the legislative branch.
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My previous effort is apparently too difficult for some to read, so I chopped it up for the spoon eaters.
Two cheers for
@ElbridgeColby
in this
@NavalInstitute
Proceedings piece. It is worth the read, and I found myself agreeing with much of it.
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Oh hey, look here. It is now 4 months 2 days since the National Commission on the Future of the Navy was supposed to begin its work. With four of eight members not appointed, 27% of the Commission's allotted time has passed. This is not optimal.
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@EWErickson
Because the online and DC "conservative movement" types stop being anything that resembled traditional American conservatism and have adopted Nationalist/Populism as their bag while they continue to call it conservatism.
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@stuartpstevens
@ScottJenningsKY
@KamalaHarris
Hadn't Romney been running for President for a considerable period of time when the Ryan nom was made, and hadn't he given a considerable number of interviews at that point? Jennings' choice of words blow, but I'm not sure your defense is compelling.
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TBQH, the US Navy needs more of everything. Winter is coming.
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Department of Energy--hell, the White House--are all elbows deep in wanting to see this succeed. This entire line of inquiry is dishonorable, and the obvious winking and nodding in the direction of corruption is beneath a news organization of the
@washingtonpost
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@hughhewitt
@JonathanTurley
Running for President without knowing what the nuclear triad is...now that's a travesty.
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I fear this is right around the corner for the Navy. This is yet another example of "you get what you pay for". We are going to have to realize that if we want a first class military, we are going to have to pay for it. This includes salaries.
Personnel Shortage At U.S. Coast Guard Sinks 10 Cutters, 29 Stations
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Horseshit. You can wait.
No, NYT didn't botch this. They reported that Palestinians had said it was an Israeli strike, not that it was one. When news is breaking fast, all you can do is report what the key parties are saying. The Times has amended its reporting as the smoke has cleared.
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Good ask. What KILLS me is the extent to which what we are doing in the Red Sea is EXACTLY what the free-world's finest Navy is SUPPOSED to be doing--freedom of the seas--and how little this is appreciated at high policy levels.
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I am sorry to everyone else I've served with, but Fred Kacher is the best naval officer I've ever seen bar none. I am bursting with pride for my friend.
White House Nominates New Commanders for Pacific, Middle East Fleets - USNI News
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Just another opportunity to re-up my wish that wherever possible, US warships named after people carry ONLY the last name.
USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer leaving San Diego - February 27, 2024
#usslenahsutcliffehigbee
#ddg123
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We are an unserious nation.
Nearly 40% of US Attack Submarines Are Out of Commission for Repairs
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These cruiser decomms are killing me. They were the crown jewels of the Navy I came into. I stayed in JUST to go ad serve on one...which led to 17 more years of service.
USS Mobile Bay Decommissioned in San Diego After 36 Years....Farewell old friend
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(Whispers)--it takes five to make one, and one more in overhaul. 16 is the number to support a three hub Navy, which is minimum for a nation with our interests. Sorry to hijack with my history major math.
If it “takes three to make one” and we have four carriers on deployment at the moment, then our absolute floor is 12.
We don’t have 12.
Depending on how you measure it, during Desert Story, we deployed - just there - 6 to 8 CV/CVN.
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I need to get something off my chest re: Navy force structure. There is a certain breed of ghoul who believes he is clever when he says "but you cannot man the fleet you have". This is true. But manning the fleet is a part of the larger increase in resources needed. Pay Sailors
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I would have preferred leaving the ship with its current name for the short life it has remaining, while naming the next name-able FLIGHT III Destroyer after Robert Smalls so that his name might be in the fleet for decades.
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My top 3 from that list is ship maintenance, then ship maintenance, and then ship maintenance.
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Two cheers for
@ElbridgeColby
in this
@NavalInstitute
Proceedings piece. It is worth the read, and I found myself agreeing with much of it. The biggest idea (and the one that gets most of my agreement) is the focus on denial (rather than punishment) as
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Someone remind me how long this administration went without even NOMINATING an ASN RDA?
BREAKING: The Navy released a fact sheet late Tuesday showing that every major shipbuilding program they're working on is delayed by years. YEARS. It's jaw-dropping.
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I...I....I...can't even...
A recent U.S. Navy report identifies climate change as one of the most serious threats facing the American military today.
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What is coming through loud and clear from the GOP--and I'm not sure the D's are hearing it--is "do nothing on the border and you will guarantee another Trump Presidency".
Then, several Republicans - including Romney - shouted and stood. Irate at the idea that the border was off the table for discussion/questions.
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Am I wrong in thinking that if you try to bring a gun on a flight you are either 1) planning a hijack or some other air piracy crime or 2) so fucking irresponsible with your weapon as to disqualify you from ever owning one again?
Incredible job by
#TeamTSA
at
@LGAairport
who intercepted a loaded firearm & ammunition inside a traveler’s carry-on bag during routine screening. Last year, we set a record for the # of firearms caught – a record we don’t want to repeat this year.
More:
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Nine carrier air wings. We are headed in the wrong direction.
Congress OKs selling subs to Australia, bars some warship retirements | 2024 NDAA will buy one new amphibious warship for the U.S. Navy. by
@audrey_decker9
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Sure do get a lot of use out of those obsolete aircraft carriers and surface ships, don't we?
BREAKING-The Pentagon is sending the USS Gerald Ford carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean in light of the current fighting in Israel. In addition to the Ford, the strike group includes the USS Normandy guided missile cruiser and three Navy destroyers.
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I want guys like this on the team. We're going to need them when the shooting starts. But as long as the shooting hasn't started, guys like this need to find other ways to lead and motivate. This is just poor judgment.
NEW: Asked about this memo from Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, a U.S. defense official says it is not representative of the Defense Department's view on China.
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Near the fleet so my hackles get raised. The Navy camo uniform is an offense against all that is holy, this cannot be disputed. That I see submariners wearing it defies explanation.
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He's gonna walk. And be stronger for it. This indictment is garbage, and we will all suffer for it.
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This is moral clarity.
.
@SecBlinken
: No one is demanding that Hamas stop hiding behind civilians, lay down its arms, and surrender. This is over tomorrow if Hamas does that. How can it be that there are no demands made of the aggressor and only demands made of the victim?
🇮🇱🇺🇸
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Will wonders never cease? Here we are, fourteen months AFTER the National Commission on the Future of the Navy was to begin its deliberations, with six weeks remaining in its legislated mandate...and we might actually have all Commissioners appointed! Stay tuned!
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Tell me again why these people shouldn't be relentlessly mocked?
Woman says Space Force has been working secretly with Trump to expose the traitors. Says they watermarked all the ballots and have 500k indictments ready to go, Space Force is about to release the evidence and declare martial law and have tribunals.
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A brief reminder that the 2023 NDAA created the National Commission on the Future of the Navy, and the legislation required Commissioners to be appointed within 90 days of the legislation passing. That date was reached 90 days ago, and four Commissioners remain un-named.
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That will clear up the PhD glut right quick.
The massive faculty walkout at Columbia right now in solidarity with the student protesters is incredible. Faculty everywhere should follow suit.
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I really like this guy. Another thing he does well? He knows when to shut up. I've watched him twice--when the overpass fell down and when PA recaptured some jail escapee--and he deferred to others around him who had important jobs and information to provide.
Asked Gov. Shapiro about this comment from Vance:
"Barack Obama was probably our most gifted orator of my time, so it's kind of a weird insult"
"It is real hard being honest with the American people when you're not being honest with yourself. JD Vance is a total phony baloney."
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No. We should spend at least 5%.
Bloomberg anticipates it would cost 4% of GDP spent on defense over the next 10 years to meet all the threats the G7 nations face today (link in thread). That’s $20 Trillion.
Should we spend that amount of money?
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Mitscher didn't last much longer. They did their jobs.
With the war over and his job done, Admiral John S. McCain Sr. returned to his home in California and died
#OTD
in 1945, just four days after witnessing the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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Just re-uppin' this tidbit against the backdrop of a Defense Department that sees forward deployed naval power as wasteful of "readiness" needed for some future conflict.
BREAKING-The Pentagon is sending the USS Gerald Ford carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean in light of the current fighting in Israel. In addition to the Ford, the strike group includes the USS Normandy guided missile cruiser and three Navy destroyers.
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When the Speaker wins this, he should take away any committee assignments these wingnuts have.
NEWS: Following Gaetz’ official filing of motion to vacate, Reps. Eli Crane, Andy Biggs, and Matt Rosendale are all leaning towards supporting the motion.
Crane “I’ve been supportive”
Biggs “I would be favorably disposed”
Rosendale “We’ll have to consider it”
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So glad that Mom gave her permission for her son to talk. Would that she exerted a little influence on her son to do the right thing and give the feds the name, although I get the sense that OG is taking his last few breaths of free air for a while.
.
@shaneharris
and
@samueloakford
here with a bombshell about the initial leaker of the trove of military secrets that ended up on Discord.
A friend says he shared documents with his online friends for months. Some were teenagers, others foreigners.
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Once.
Russia’s Defence Ministry says its new mini-sub will be able to dive to 11,000 meters depth
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Unprofessional. Provocative. Douchey. Professionalism on the American bridge kept it from becoming dangerous. Two things we need to start doing with the ChiComms-- 1) Don't seem so desperate to talk with them and 2) Keep making distinctions between unprofessional and dangerous.
BREAKING: The Navy has released video of a Chinese warship sailing dangerously close to a Navy destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday
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nearly 7 months ago. We have done nothing at this point, because 3 Democratic Members of Congress have yet to make their nominations. Our report was to be submitted July 1 2024, and so nearly 50% of the time allotted for the work has passed. In my inbox this morning is a press
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Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Today, during
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
, I named the future DDG 141 after World War II hero Ernest E. Evans, the first Native American in the
@USNavy
to earn the Medal of Honor. And I'm so pleased that
@SecDebHaaland
agreed to be the ship’s sponsor.
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nuclear plants are, and I find the world leader--the United States. I cannot hire active duty submariners, this would be against my great long-time ally's laws. What can I do under their laws? Well, I can hire law-abiding former nuclear submariners who have all registered to do
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We are an unserious people.
Biden's FY25 budget is out today, and the Pentagon is making tradeoffs to stay under caps set by the debt limit deal.
DOD is expected to get $850B, $10B less than it projected. It will cut F-35s, a sub, and Army helicopters to hold the line. Background:
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