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Please share widely. VA promises DOGE cuts won’t harm veterans, but employees say it’s already happening. thewarhorse.org/va-employees...

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"Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult." Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle

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Best reason to go off the record.

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You gotta be in a really dark place in your life to be enthusiastically using chop sticks to eat airport sushi. Have some self respect ffs

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A real FBI statement on Ryan Wedding, former Olympic snowboarder wanted for allegedly running a drug trafficking ring/orchestrating murders: "Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada"

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"References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion..." The Enola Gay??? apnews.com/article/dei-...

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This is going to happen when we need a rocket to deflect a meteor, isn’t it?

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"I have no problem with this," screams the man who yells "WHAT HAPPENED TO OPSEC!?" every time a unit publishes a photo with a caption like "Here is Sgt. Jones eating lunch at Camp Pendleton."

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President Donald Trump’s ambition to build 40 new icebreakers in the US is unrealistic given the current state of the national shipbuilding industry, which may require Washington to ask for Canada’s help, according to a major Canadian shipbuilder who builds such ships

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“Meritocracy”

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Was all for show to begin with. U.S. Suspends Costly Deportation Flights Using Military Aircraft

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Cannot get over Dems' pride in displaying resistance that extends to raising ping pong paddles

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Co-sign. This week we covered a story on the first Black officer to receive the Medal of Honor. These stories will continue to run as long as we're here

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Mike Johnson looks like an accidental murderer in Fargo

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DOD messaging was never the best but this has become so overwhelmingly pedestrian

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Seems like a good time to recycle this 2020 piece, since we're once again spreading the asinine narrative that troops have some absurd sentimental attachment to Confederate-named installations "No one knew they were fighting specifically for venerable US military installations until today"

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Over 200 UK soldiers were killed in Afghanistan between 2009-10 alone 2,209 were wounded in action in Afghanistan. Of those, 616 were seriously wounded That's quite a lot of families hearing that their sons and daughters didn't fight an actual war

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The letter from the 5 SECDEFs feels like a year ago already

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Love this bogus sentiment that soldiers must be rejoicing at the return of old base names because of ... fond memories or something? Because troops definitely have never been eager to abandon a base the moment liberty sounded or the opportunity to live -- or be -- anywhere else presented itself

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I see Fort Moore is back to being Fort Benning Named for Hal Moore, hero of the Ia Drang, the naming was meant to represent a recognition of the generations of Americans who fought in Vietnam Still waiting on this country to stop repeatedly fucking over its Vietnam veterans

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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

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Lmao

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reading Ian Toll's series on the Pacific war and was struck by the portrait of Admiral Spruance. dude delegated as much work as possible, read paperbacks during long voyages, was fanatical about lots of exercise & 8-9 hours of sleep a night, and prob the best naval commander of the war

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he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

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How does a Russian state media member access the Oval Office if they're "not authorized"?

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Hour-by-hour, looking at the news as an American

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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

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The same people who once idolized the authors of this statement will now drag them through the mud simply because they choose to honor their oath.

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I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

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The Pentagon revealed the specifics of its transgender troop policy in a court filing Wednesday that says any service member or recruit who has been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria is disqualified from serving — unless they can prove they meet a specific warfighting need

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We don't talk enough about how bad the fit is on these MAGA hats.

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The national leader of the Veterans of Foreign Wars criticized the ongoing mass layoffs of government employees, arguing that veterans — who account for nearly one-third of the federal workforce — are disproportionately affected.

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VA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductions, via @leoshane.bsky.social

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Fire emojis for a childish response to a completely legitimate question based on rank requirements for the role in question

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OPM inundated with emails featuring images of dicks after junior enlisted asked to answer, 'What did you do last week?' My latest:

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“Fighting with arms and legs is something anyone can do. Fighting without them — that’s a challenge." Back to war: Wounded Ukrainians return to battle after amputation

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And it's quite a graphic video playing on loop 💀

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On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

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If you missed this when The Atlantic first published it, now is a good time to read it. Gift link here so it’s free for anyone to read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Looks like damage caused by the Hellfire R9X missile, also known as “the flying Ginsu” or “ninja bomb” The non-explosive warhead is kitted out with six internal blades, which can cut through cars with ease, that deploy in a halo formation moments before impact

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Good thing OANN, Newsmax and Breitbart have prime Pentagon access now so they can ask the hard questions about these mass firings and definitely not just grovel and fawn over every move

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Satire is dead because nothing can ever be more stupid than current reality

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Pentagon committees that advise senior leaders on matters ranging from science to handling of sexual misconduct are once again fighting to continue operating. 40+ committees were given a deadline of today to provide a comprehensive response justifying their existence, via @hopeseck.bsky.social

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"No television, radio or digital media outlets will be permitted to conduct live or taped segments from the (Pentagon Briefing Room) other than during public briefings" — of which there are are none (lol) Pentagon Press Sec John Ullyot announces additional press restrictions in the Ivory Tower

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A few seconds of calm

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For this story we spoke to multiple U.S. troops, as well as Afghans — who were granted the use of aliases or partial names for fear of jeopardizing safety of family members in Afghanistan — who assisted the U.S. during the war Those interviewed say executive orders now endanger their families

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