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This photo breaks my heart.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., comforts Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., while taking cover as protesters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote.
(Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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Saying there's "zero tolerance" for sexual assault and harassment doesn't mean anything when people see time and time again that there is, in fact, tolerance.
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📸: The Pentagon has provided & confirmed authenticity of this selfie taken by a U-2 pilot flying by the Chinese surveillance balloon.
CNN reported earlier this month that the photo had reached legendary status in the Pentagon and NORAD.
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USCIS confirms: As of October 29, children born to U.S. service members outside of the U.S. will no longer be automatically considered citizens.
Their parents will have to apply for citizenship on their behalf.
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A *chef’s kiss* moment from today with Team 41 — during the mystery event, competitors were instructed to decode a message which would include the key to unlock the box.
*Technically* the instructions didn’t say you had to decode the key first…
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Lindsey Graham saying the quiet part out loud re: Mattis and Pompeo's statements on Khashoggi.
"[I]f they were in a Democratic administration I would be all over them ... But since I have such respect for them, I'm going to assume that they're being good soldiers."
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NEW: Gen. Milley just came back to talk to reporters, after briefing us minutes ago, to correct the record on the Iraq memo making the rounds:
"That letter is a draft, it was a mistake, it should not have been released."
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Tuberville said today he didn't know if Gen. Milley would "go anywhere until we get somebody confirmed" to replace him after retiring this month.
When told he had to leave by law, Tuberville said: "He has to leave? ...We'll get someone else to do the job."
via
@morgan_rimmer
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anyone who thinks mark milley was seeking out becoming a viral internet sensation has never once been around mark milley lol
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NEW today:
@POTUS
has selected Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the next Chief of Naval Operations. She would be the first woman to hold the job, and the first woman in the joint chiefs of staff.
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Anyone who thinks this won't pose a retention and recruitment issue for the military (who is already struggling with recruitment at the moment) is not paying attention.
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a working dog outside the pentagon did a big stretch and I didn’t hear anyone say oooh big stretch. UCMJ violation imo
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Gen. Mark Milley has left the Pentagon for the last time. Tomorrow, he officially hands the job of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to Gen. CQ Brown.
Video of his clap-out, during which he saw Brown and exclaimed, “This is my new best friend, right here!”
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Various Pentagon responses you can use when asked about your dating life:
- I won't get into specifics
- I don't want to set a timeline for this
- I'll have to refer you to them
- We're in the early days of this
- This is going to be a process that takes place over time
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A woman just graduated the U.S. Army Sniper Course for the first time ever
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Help I have watched this 13,000 times
This is Willo. She likes to awoo while she eats. Tonight’s meal was worthy of a gentler, but perhaps more meaningful, second awoo. 13/10
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Sources tell
@NatashaBertrand
@KatieBoLillis
@AnnieGrayerCNN
the national security threat is a "highly concerning and destabilizing" Russian capability
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"Today the intelligence couldn't be clearer. Whatever its actual intentions may be I could not say, but China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States," AF Secretary Frank Kendall says at AFA this morning.
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So, some bittersweet news: Tomorrow is my last day with the amazing team at
@taskandpurpose
.
After Thanksgiving, I'm thrilled to be joining
@CNN
to write about national security ✨
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Navy investigating video of SEAL military dogs attacking man in Colin Kaepernick jersey during demonstration
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BREAKING: The 100th woman graduated from the Army's Ranger School today
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In the Afghanistan hearing happening now, Rep. Paul Gosar just asked why "such young, inexperienced troops were chosen" for the mission of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
I believe it was president Hoover who said "Old men declare war, but it is the youth who must fight and die."
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Milley on 'woke military': "First of all, it’s all bullshit. Second, these accusations are coming from people who don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re doing it for political purposes. Our military wasn’t woke 24 months ago, and now it’s woke?”
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the army: connecting with the youth today is harder than ever
soldiers armed with an iPhone, a funny idea and the time:
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The Department of Justice is investigating a former Navy non-commissioned officer for her role in spreading a series of leaked Pentagon documents, two U.S. defense officials told
@USNINews
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Read this entire thing with my jaw on the floor. Absolutely insane.
As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School
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You know who is worried about it? Military spouses.
Asked MTG about her vote against the CR, and she said: “I promise you most Americans aren’t too worried about the government shutting down, which is a serious problem, but this is because Democrats shut down the country.”
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NEW: Memos show that Jack Teixeira’s superiors were aware of *three separate instances* of him looking at classified intelligence that was not related to his work, going as far back as September 2022.
Via
@HBRabinowitz
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HEROES, if you ask me 😤
Watch these US soldiers retreat from the raccoon insurgent that commandeered their Stryker
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DOJ announced today that 3 people have been arrested on charges of operating a “high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia w/ a clientele that included elected officials, gov contractors w/ security clearances, and military officers, via
@HolmesLybrand
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My mom: Why don’t you bring any boys home to meet us
Me:
There are an estimated 10,000 foreign spies in Washington, DC
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would you rather fight 1,000 cicada-sized F-35s, or one F-35 sized cicada
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😭 Today's DVIDS find, from January: The emotional support puppy-in-training for the 449th Combat Aviation Brigade, Ms. Stevie Bear Nicks.
(Photo from the 449th CAB)
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“And no one even told the president until Thursday”
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🧵 A few photos I think are worth sharing.
A child refugee who fled the conflict from neighboring Ukraine covers her face in the event hall of a hotel offering shelter in Siret, Romania, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre)
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Head of US Forces Korea, Army Gen. Robert Abrams (
@DogFaceSoldier
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“We cannot have that division among us.”
USFK demonstrating that local commanders have the authority to do the right thing.
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whenever the joint chiefs are in the news we're obligated to share this photo, sorry I don't make the rules
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NEW: While Capt. Evan Campbell waited w/
@ladygaga
before her performance on Inauguration Day, she began to look nervous, so he reassured her she'd be great.
"She wanted to sing the National Anthem for all Americans," he told me. "It was very touching."
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I’ve never seen someone personify 😐 like the instructor did. Anyway another competitor told me later that they made very clear not to break the box lol
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Desi has started some new training. a little confused by the whole “no” thing. seems skeptical we actually mean it but to be fair so do we
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"The superintendent of the Normandy cemetery said one-third of the visitors ... are Americans. ... two thirds are French, Belgian and Dutch ... led by grandparents who tell their grandchildren, 'You must see this. This is what the Americans did for us.'"
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LTG Douglas Sims, talking to reporters now, says the B-1 bombers that participated in the strikes tonight flew in "a single non-stop flight" from the US, "all of that enhanced by our Transportation Command and our ability to gas and go along the way."
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"How does a 21-year-old have access to that level of info?"
New academy-commissioned lieutenants are ~22 years old. The troops on the ground fighting the nation's wars are 18, 19, 20.
The military is pretty young!
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Milley tells lawmakers that roughly 6,000 Wagner group mercenaries are currently fighting in Bakhmut, with 20k-30k more recruits. Says they are seeing "enormous" casualties as Ukrainians inflict "a lot of death and destruction on these guys."
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Wow this bit from Milley's interview with
@ForeignAffairs
, recalling when he asked a US WWII vet in Normandy what lesson he learned in the war.
"[H]is eyes filled with tears, and he looked at me and he said, General, never let it happen again."
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President Biden has decided to keep US Space Command in Colorado instead of moving it to Huntsville, a US official tells
@NatashaBertrand
. Readiness was the biggest factor, but other concerns included quality of life for troops + families, the official said.
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Pentagon briefing with a senior defense official just started.
Updates:
- "Nearly 100%" of pre-positioned combat power committed in Ukraine
- 625+ missiles launched since start of invasion
- Air space remains contested
- ~500 US troops ordered to deploy to Europe over weekend
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.
@SecDef
, asked about this video, says he found it "deeply disturbing" and has asked his staff for more information.
This is what happens when you report your assault in the
@USMC
He admits his guilt and then is retained by the Commanding General after everyone else recommended do not retain.
@RepSpeier
@SenGillibrand
@KamalaHarris
@SecDef
this is bullshit.
#metoomilitary
#sexualassault
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An Army SOF team raided a hotel room in Boston on Tuesday night as part of a training exercise with the FBI, detaining the person in side who they believed to be a role player.
Turns out they had the wrong room.
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Didn't Harry do a couple of tours in Afghanistan and fly Apaches
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MG Patrick Donahoe — who the Army IG said brought "negative publicity" to the service after rebuking Tucker Carlson's negative comments about women in uniform — has retired "honorably and without any reprimand," he told
@StevenBeynon
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Smoke break.
Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers driving on a road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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explain to me how there isn't a bar in DC called Allies and Partners with beer from around the globe
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I can’t stop thinking about how young they were. The majority not older than 25; the oldest named here just 31. Completely heartbroken for these families.
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15 years ago today, Navy SEAL Michael Murphy earned the Medal of Honor for his bravery during Operation Red Wings
The citation says he showed "extreme composure ... in the face of almost certain death."
He was posthumously awarded the MOH 2 years later.
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Clients reportedly had to provide their drivers license photos, employer info, and credit card info, per Holmes.
Military officers.....providing drivers license photos and credit card info...to participate in an alleged prostitution ring....
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A retired Army officer's adopted daughter, who is graduating soon with a chemical engineering degree, could be deported because they missed the cutoff for her naturalization when she turned 17.
They missed it because he was deployed to Afghanistan.
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Yikes — There are indications that some Russian soldiers have been taken out of the fight because they got frostbite after not having good cold weather gear, senior U.S. defense official says.
"They're struggling on many fronts," official says of the Russians.
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In Sweden, SecDef Austin is asked if it's appropriate for a 21-year-old to have access to classified intelligence.
"The vast majority of our military is young. And so it's not exceptional that young people are doing important things in our military. That's really not the issue."
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just heard *every single Marine* is reading my article from yesterday?? y'all are crazy! tysm
you too can read it here:
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One more down as CNO Gilday relinquished command this morning.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today this is the first time in DOD history three services are without a Senate-confirmed chief.
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"He had his helmet on, his body armor on, and his boots on, but he didn’t have anything else on because it had been burned off of him. The only thing he asked me was, ‘Where are the boys at?’"
Meet SFC Alwyn Cashe, through the words of his soldiers:
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NEW: The Army Inspector General said that while MG Pat Donahoe's defense of servicewomen in light of comments made by Fox News' Tucker Carlson was "potentially admirable," it brought too much "negative publicity," according to the report we obtained.
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SFC Alwyn Cashe died 16 years ago today.
He's responsible for saving 6 of his soldiers in Iraq, pulling them out one by one from a burning vehicle despite being on fire himself. He still hasn't received the MoH despite being approved for it months ago.
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Mae Krier, 94, went to work as an original 'Rosie' during World War II.
Now, she's making patriotic face masks.
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Lots of people this week once again telling on themselves that while you've said you want a media holding people in power accountable, what you actually want is a media who holds everyone accountable except the people you voted for.
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“I don’t think that I know a single woman in the Army who has not been harassed,”
@scottjstephens
told me, adding he’d be “hard-pressed to find a woman that I personally know that hasn’t been assaulted.”
“It’s devastating... These are my sisters.”
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Hello from Fort Bragg where paratroopers are getting ready to fly ✈️
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NEW: A Marine Corps investigation found that Marine & Navy intelligence instructors called female students "whore," "slut," and "snake charmer" in a private group chat.
The investigating officer recommended no punitive action. The command's 2-star agreed.
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a new response I keep hearing in these pentagon briefings that I will absolutely begin using in my personal and professional life: "I realize it's not a satisfying answer but it is an honest one"
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A Ukrainian immigrant enlisted in the US Army as a petroleum supply specialist — and now helps translate instruction for Ukrainians being trained on US air defense systems in Germany.
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Sgt. Maj. Thomas "Patrick" Payne was in high school on September 11, 2001. Yesterday he told me that was the day he decided to join the military.
Today, on the 19th anniversary of 9/11, he's receiving the Medal of Honor.
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Not only will a soldier who has a miscarriage or other form of perinatal loss get leave, but an Army spouse will as well.
That and more among the multiple parenthood policy changes the Army announced today —>
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NEWS from
@kaitlancollins
—> SECDEF Austin's office tried to set up a call with Sen. Tuberville today about the military nominations hold, but Tuberville's office declined the opportunity, saying he did not have time for a call today or this weekend.
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“That [Teixeira] was able to get a top secret security clearance after it became known to the local police that he shouldn’t have a gun kind of boggles the mind.”-
@KrisGoldsmith85
@NatashaBertrand
@snlyngaas
@ZcohenCNN
+ me
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it is never not baffling to me that the military is like we will trust you to literally defend the lives of others and use millions of dollars worth of equipment, but trusting you to decide to put on a jacket or not if you're cold is a bridge too far
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The Navy has identified the two SEALs who went missing off the coast of Somalia on January 11 as Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers (left), 37, and Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram, 27.
Praying today for these families.
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Roland Rochester, a Marine Corps vet and the national VFW rep at Fort Bragg, has been sending soldiers off and greeting them when they return from deployment since 2002.
“I don’t leave until they all leave,” he told me. “This is my second home.”
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Mark Esper said he never went on stage in praise of Trump. Here are three times he did
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The commercial in question here spotlights a young woman who says she joined the Army because she wanted to challenge herself and "prove my inner strength."
Really something to see a sitting senator criticize that like this.
Holy crap.
Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea....
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BREAKING: For the first time, a woman has just graduated from Army Special Forces training.
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I hope y’all are ready for constant corgi puppy content because my new roommate knows her angles
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The Army has identified the 5 SOF aviators, all assigned to 160th SOAR, killed in a training flight crash in the eastern Med this weekend.
They are:
CW3 Stephen Dwyer, 38
CW2 Shane Barnes, 34
Staff Sgt. Tanner Grone, 26
Sgt. Andrew Southard, 27
Sgt. Cade Wolfe, 24
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The Secretary of Defense is aware of a letter from the CO of an aircraft carrier, which says “Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors,” and he says he hasn’t had a chance to read it in detail?
Esper was just asked on CBS to react to the letter from the Theodore Roosevelt's CO on the COVID situation.
"I have not had a chance to read that letter, read it in detail. Again, I'm gonna rely on the Navy chain of command to go out there to assess the situation"
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BREAKING: Three US service members were killed overnight in a drone attack on a small outpost in Jordan near the Syrian border. At least two dozen others injured.
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Women are regularly meeting & surpassing the same standards as their fellow male service members. And while people continue pointing fingers and making claims they cannot support, those women will still be in uniform doing their jobs — and doing them well.
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