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Buzz Patterson

@BuzzPatterson

Husband, Dad, Speaker, Author, Pilot, Former Carrier of the Nuke Football. @RedState Columnist. NYT Bestselling author x 2. DM for speaking and media requests.

California, USA Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
Tonight’s “Buzz’s Bedtime Story.” I’m going to recount the first time I ever met Hillary Clinton. It was on Marine One, helicoptering to Camp David for a weekend. I was brand new to the Military Aide position and this was my first trip to Camp David. It was a Saturday morning and I was a little trepidatious. Of course, I’d heard all about Hillary from my predecessor. He’d warned me about her temperament and her propensity to go off on any and all staffers, including her husband. In fact, during my “in briefings” he told me that I could upset Bill Clinton, and he’d brush it off. But if I were to piss Hillary off, she’d rip my heart out. Now, I’m a fairly intelligent guy so I registered it. On this particular morning, and every other time on a presidential trip, I’d always boarded Marine One last, letting the First Family board first along with the doctor and agents. I always used the rear steps, with “the football.” My seat on the helicopter was always immediately adjacent to the president and “First Lady.” On this particular day, Chelsea was also coming. I sat in my assigned seat, set the “football” down and approached Hillary. “Hi ma’am, I’m Major Buzz Patterson. I’m the new Air Force Aide. Wonderful to meet you.” I also introduced myself to Chelsea and sat back down. Hillary was curt and quiet. Chelsea looked at me like I had 3 heads. “Well, that was awkward,” I thought to myself. It never got “not awkward.” 🤣🤣🤣
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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
Has anybody on the X Left said anything about the 19 year-old athlete murdered by Iran today?
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The🐰FOO@PolitiBunny·
The mister and I have been watching reruns of the Match Game from 1977 ... and man, Richard Dawson was the shit. Yes, we're at the point in our lives where we sit down after dinner and stream one or two episodes of an old gameshow every night. I'm not ashamed, lol. ;)
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CP is preaching! My heartfelt sentiments exactly!
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
Cloud attack! Reminds me of Air Force pilot training!
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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
I remember walking into the White House on my first day to be President Clinton’s Air Force Military Aide. I was a young major. It was a beautiful spring day. Birds chirping and I was a little overwhelmed. I was expecting the finest organization I’d ever worked for. The most important building in the world, right? For the most important person in the world. About two weeks later, I’d concluded it was the worst. The typical flying squadron had their shit together way more than the Clinton administration. It was disappointing. In fact, I spent much of my time trying to counsel young staffers so that a) President Clinton didn’t get hurt, and 2) Clinton didn’t get embarrassed. It was hardly a well-oiled machine. Quite the opposite.
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My initial solo flying story. I’d never flown an airplane in my life and when I enlisted in the Air Force they sent me to a month of Flight Screening Program Officer Training (FSPOT) in Hondo, Texas. Basically, they stuck us in Cessna 172s in western Texas, taught us the basics, and turned us loose. About half of us quit or were washed out. I made it somehow. I vividly remember my solo flight. I had about 10 total hours of flying time and I needed to solo to pass the program. I was super excited. I was supposed to take off, do three landings, and call it a day. So, I took off and I noticed the winds were unusually squirrelly. Hondo is an old WWII base with about a million runways. As soon as I was climbing out, the airport decided to flip the airport around and change runways because of the winds. I’m like “what?” “They never covered the runway change thing!” 🤣🤣🤣 I figured it out and stumbled through it. After I landed, my instructor met me and was beaming. I immediately called my mom. Not my dad who was a career USAF pilot and Vietnam vet, my mom. 35 years later, best career choice I ever made.
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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
I don’t know if Air Force flying squadrons still do this but I pray they do. My squadron at Travis AFB, CA, was a great place to work. Our building was right on the flight line and I could see all of the jets on the ramp. As an operations officer, I could walk to them, chat with the crews, troubleshoot issues, etc. It was perfect operationally. Equally as important was the squadron morale. We had a fully furnished gym, a post-mission bar, and a beer machine for those nights when you landed at 3 AM and needed to unwind. We could take our lunch breaks and workout right there. And when we came home from flying, we had a place to hang out and tell stories about our trip. As an added morale boost, the bar was adorned with personal flying memorabilia. Most of it had been “procured” during crew rests and layovers around the world. It was cool. We also had a BBQ pit that we’d fire up on Fridays with a keg. I miss it tremendously. I miss the guys and girls more! 🇺🇸
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Your evening flying Zen.
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“There’s enough evidence to see how things are really going. Europeans would never agree to go anywhere near Iran unless they thought the tide was turning and that we’re going to win. Otherwise, they would keep still. And the reason that the petro nations of the Gulf survive is they have their finger in the wind and are very attuned to the climate. When you have Al Jazeera praising the United States’ bombing campaign and saying that it’s been underestimated and is brilliant and effective, you get the feeling that they think not only should the United States finish the job, but that it can and will finish the job. So you put it all together, and I think it’s pretty clear that this rope-a-dope strategy—that we’re going to tire before they do—is dependent on public opinion, the midterms, and the United States. And if Trump sees it through—and I think he will—I think they’re going to fall pretty soon.” ~ Victor Davis Hanson
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Is everyone else also exhausted of Trump’s lies? Today he said, “We have nobody even shooting at us.” Earlier in the day, Iran shot down one of our F-35s.
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TexasAmerica@TexasAmerica·
@BuzzPatterson For some reasons the fighter Jocks that run the Air Force hate the A-10
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When I worked for the Air Staff as a young staff officer, I was involved in programming and budgeting for aircraft and acquisitions. At the time, senior leadership wanted to “retire” A-10s. Thankfully, we convinced them otherwise. That was 1992. Today, A-10s are patrolling the Persian Gulf.
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