Kevin Terrell

@lionflyer_sg @MonteroMax An excellent corollary to “listen to what people don’t say”

@MonteroMax Watch the one that is not making much noise or grand gestures. Because that is the one quietly making progress and have no need for such publicity.

Leonardo confirms leading role on offering Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon Tranche 5 fighters to 🇵🇭Philippine Air Force, offering 32 aircraft including Meteor, ASRAAM, Brimstone, Storm Shadow etc., training package in Sardinia, and financing scheme.

@MonteroMax Looking back it seems some of them in fact had missiles, torpedoes and CIWS twz.com/30604/coast-gu…

As I said in the past, sans the missing towed array sonar, the 🇵🇭Del Pilar-class now have better sensors than the 🇨🇳PLA Navy Type 054A frigate. But the problem is the lack of punch. Too bad it's stuck with a 76mm & 2x 25mm guns only. No missiles, no torpedoes, no CIWS. 📷MDP 2/x

🇩🇪ELEC Sonar confirmed they completed installation of Hunter 2.0 passive/active hull mounted sonar on all 3 Del Pilar-class patrol frigates of the 🇵🇭Philippine Navy as of Feb 2025. Except for lack of towed array sonar, these old ships have good sensors but lack the punch.

@MonteroMax There seems to be a ton of space in what amounts to the B position where you could put SeaRam or gun based CIWS. Too (top) heavy? And is the rear deck big enough for Aw159, with torpedoes? (Which you’d have to buy, it…)

The SEC is nowhere near what it was because NIL made cheating legal for everyone. So the SEC now needs to compete on level ground. @ChildersRadio

@RapidResponse47 @SLOTUS A great opportunity for kids in Minneapolis & St Paul who participated in this year’s @StartReadingMPS book fairs. You have 10 books - swap 2 with a friend and you’re on your way! @SPPS_News @MPS_News

.@SLOTUS discusses her Summer Reading Challenge in which children who read 12 books this summer will be sent a prize and be entered into a drawing to visit the White House. whitehouse.gov/read

@johnkonrad NSA is scurrying to a little harder for the moment, to be sure. I don’t think anyone believes Signal is actually secure from state actors

Noticing how this administration has had very few leaks? Maybe—just maybe—that’s because Signal is more secure than the legacy systems former administrations, new national guard airmen on discord, and random law firms apparently have access to. Think about that.

@Geiger_Capital Is someone stupid enough to think Signal is secure from NSA monitoring? Which seems like the only possible reason one would choose to use such an app. Because it’s not

This is insane… The Trump admin accidentally added the editor of The Atlantic to a Cabinet-level Signal group. They discussed strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and how the US should be repaid for restoring freedom of navigation for Europe, who does essentially nothing.

@ap_org @idreesali114 The purpose of polygraphs is to scare the crap out of people and prevent misbehavior. It’s pretty effective at that. People will self select out of the org rather than submit to such moving forward.

@idreesali114 I would be happy to speak with you on the record about polygraph matters if it's of interest for your reporting. It's noteworthy that there is no documented instance of the polygraph ever solving a federal leak investigation. My contact details are in my profile.

U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth’s chief of staff has sent a memo saying there will be an investigation looking into leaks at the Pentagon and “the use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be in accordance with applicable law and policy.”

@johnkonrad Holy S*** this is appalling But congrats on building your business from 0 to amazing. “When my friend a US Merchant Marine captain died on a DoD contract last year they refused to repatriate his body for weeks. He was literally shoved in the ship’s freezer”

This is excellent and it’s no coincidence he quoted Jack Kerouac—a U.S. Merchant Mariner. Yesterday, a group of naval officers scolded me for calling the Canadian “navy” pathetic. A friend DM’d me, asking: “How do you get away with posting what you do? How do you tell allies and American Admirals to get bent?” The answer is simple: I have nothing to lose. Since the day I put on the Merchant Marine uniform (yes, we have uniforms) at the academy, I have been harassed, dismissed, laughed at and looked down upon by naval officers. On my very first ship, an admiral’s aide yelled at me for not wearing khakis like the naval reserve mariners working beside me. But their words meant nothing—because they had nothing to take from us. I run the world’s most visited maritime and naval website in the entire world, yet I receive zero invitations for ship visits, press events, or insider access from the Navy. The last time I did visit a USS ship, I had yo wait in line like a tourist for six hours. And it’s not just me. They have systematically erased the U.S. Merchant Marine from every corridor of power. •Stripped of Pentagon jobs •Shut out of think tanks •Denied free War College degrees •Excluded from veteran benefits •Barred from leadership roles—even within our own service The last four Commandants of the Merchant Marine? Naval officers. The fifth will be too. The same goes for Military Sealift Command—both uniformed and civilian leadership. When my friend a US Merchant Marine captain died on a DoD contract last year they refused to repatriate his body for weeks. He was literally shoved in the ship’s freezer. They won’t even let us call ourselves by our own name. They label us CIVMARS, stripping us of identity and erasing our history. They won’t even let us work. The U.S. Coast Guard website that issues our licenses has been broken for weeks. No urgency. No accountability. Just indifference. I know what the usual suspects will say: “Whine harder.” But this isn’t a complaint. This is freedom. I can say whatever the hell I want because they have taken everything already. They could try to arrest us all, the entire country could collapse, and it wouldn’t matter. We could survive at sea indefinitely. We have confidence because we have absolute self sufficiency. We have nothing to lose. And that makes us dangerous. If they really wanted to shut us up—and trust me, they do—they could do it in an instant. They could grant us even a fraction of the privileges they hoard for themselves. If we had something to lose, we might think twice. But they will never do that. Because we tell the truth. So to hell with being “nice.” Niceness doesn’t keep you alive in the North Atlantic. It doesn’t win wars. Jack Kerouac understood that. The Admiralty does not. And now we finally have a Maritime desk at the White House working on commercial maritime issues, guess what? They filled it with navy guys and lobbyists. Not one US Merchant Mariner. Alex is right. F being nice. You need us more than we need you so we don’t have to play your games anymore. And I’m not just talking about the Merchant Marine. This nation needs men who get ship done more than we need your fake privileges and accolades and niceties. You stripped nearly all benefits from patriotic men anyway. We have nothing left to lose except our freedom and the nation itself.

Today is Give to the Max day in Minnesota & I am matching the first $5,000 of donations. Support ⁦@StartReadingMPS⁩ as we address Summer Setback & fund thousands of kids each year to build their own, personally selected library of 30 books! #givemn givemn.org/organization/S…

@JohnLeFevre Was delighted to get out of DC back in the day because of exactly this

There are probably 100,000+ people in the greater DC area in the government sphere - govt employees, lawyers, lobbyists, think tanks, and NGO grifters - who are now worried about losing their jobs. They’ve got fat mortgages, Mercedes payments, club memberships, and school fees to worry about. And as they admired the diplomas on their walls and sneered at the problems of everyday Americans, they thought the grift would never end. Good riddance. And since I know some of these people, I can say that the best part of what’s coming is that these pseudo-intellectual, wannabe elites shape and build their entire identities as human beings around what their job title is, what airport lounge access they have, and what cocktail parties they get invited to. Their entire world is about to get turned upside down. And it couldn’t happen to a more odious and vapid group of people.

@Osinttechnical Which is about 1/3 what’s needed just to keep up with “normal” usage on one front in one country in Europe. Now let’s do surface to air missiles.

The US is now producing over 50,000 155mm artillery shells per month, and will produce over 100,000 shells per month by next year. The US has already tripled prewar shell production and is on track to increase it by over 600%.

The most powerful video you will see today…

@cdrsalamander Serious question: ~1500 miles from Guam to the “fight” east of Taiwan. The Taigei certainly does better than 6-7,000 mile range of Soryu. Why is that not enough? Is Guam useless as a sub base? Or based in Japan? Wouldn’t you rather have 10 Taigei by 2030? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taigei-cl…

While I have a sweet spot for diesel-electric submarines, and they are exceptional platforms for the requirements of many of our allies, that sweet spot has faded over the years when looking at what the USN needs to buy and build. Tom is--with a cold eye--exactly correct here. American requirements to "get to the fight" require first of all the ability to first cross the great oceans to our east and especially west...and then disappear...and yet cross additional distances with speed and quiet. Only SSN can do that. Our allies can fill those niche that SS can do better than a SSN, and let us cover those other mission sets.

@johnkonrad @scottbe68160181 Two can play that game, if only one chooses to do so

@scottbe68160181 SES They have spies in EVERY agency

Forget the CIA, FBI and NSA This is the first three letter service that needs to be axed by Trump 👇👇👇

@Shawn_Spradling trying to attend the Taiwan @WBCBaseball qualifier in February, work from Taiwan for a bit and then try to find my way into the Tokyo dome for the @Cubs @Dodgers opener in March

CHEN-WEI CHEN. GRAND SLAM. 🇹🇼 The Taiwanese home fans ERUPT. Visiting the Taipei Dome is HIGH on my bucket list.

@johnkonrad “In the 1930s there were 8,000 Filipinos in the US Merchant Marine” Philippines is not going to spend an extra $20B on mutual defense. But highly skilled mariners, they can help us with. Maybe a new type of Compact of Free Association?@michaelgwaltz en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_…

This guy gets it 👇👇

@Lily4Liberty @realDonaldTrump Lily - Thank you for your campaign and effort. Having run (and lost) for office myself I know how hard it is. I’m so glad people like you come to America to make us better. Keep fighting for us!

Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump being elected to be our 47th President. What an unbelievable comeback with what they put Trump through the last 4 yrs. Historic. Even though I did not win my congressional seat tonight, I am so happy and excited for our country!

@GOCPBL Can we order souvenir jerseys and hats (for deliver to Seattle?)

A closer look at Team Taiwan's uniform for Game 2 of the exhibition series between Taiwan and the Czech Republic.

@JCoskrey Yeah, but does any American ballpark have competing brand beer girls serving pints of fresh draft beer, from kegs they carry on their backs? I think not @WBCBaseball @npb

To go back to an earlier point, MLB would’ve had the Tsutsugo homer posted from 2-4 different angles if it were in the World Series. NPB….