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Remembering Alan Kulwicki today 12/14/1954 - 4/1/1993 #RIP Alan Kulwicki, of Greenfield, WI, won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup championship as an owner/driver. Less than five months later, he died in a plane crash near Blountville, TN. He was only 38. #AK7 🏁 #GoneTooSoon

@KevG163 @JumboElliott76 HBD😀🏈

Happy Birthday, @JumboElliott76! 14-Year Left Tackle for the #Giants and #Jets • Super Bowl XXV Champion • 1988 NFL All-Rookie • 1993 Pro Bowl • Two-time First-Team All-American at Michigan • Caught game-tying touchdown in the Jets' "Monday Night Miracle" OT win over Miami

With rain pouring down, people lined the route from funeral home to cemetery to say thank you & goodbye to FFEMT Mike Altman. He was taken to his final rest today aboard a Fire Academy engine. Rest now, brother - we will take it from here. 3-3-5.

FDNY members, family, and friends gathered Wednesday for a walkout ceremony for Probationary Firefighter Stephen Cain, who was released from Staten Island University Hospital. Firefighter Cain was injured while operating at a 2-alarm fire at 124 Conklin Avenue in Brooklyn, where units encountered heavy fire throughout the first and second floors of a private dwelling. While operating, two firefighters, including Firefighter Cain, sustained injuries and were transported to area hospitals. We thank the dedicated staff at Staten Island University Hospital for their outstanding care and support.

We can't wait to see @Kenny_Wallace and Kim for this year's Ride! We're counting the days until we're in Sonoma!

OTD in 1980: Trans American Flight 209, a B-707, lands safely in Chicago (US) after crew was incapacitated by food poisoning. An ex-fighter pilot traveling as a passenger, along with a flight attendant, took control, supported by an ATC specialist and a former USAF captain.

This made me laugh.

I was thirty-eight when I pulled that little girl from a burning car on my way home from work. Her parents didn’t make it, and she clung to me like she had no one else. Everyone told me to step back, but she reached for me every time I returned. With no relatives found, I signed the papers and took her home. She became Avery—strong, disciplined, determined. Twenty-five years later, wearing her new badge, she whispered, “Dad… now let me protect you.”

🚨 BREAKING: The United States Heritage Air Force Squadron has just announced plans to resurrect a Convair B-36 from the Boneyard and restore it to full flying condition 🇺🇸✈️ The legendary "Peacemaker" will take to the skies once again as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration, culminating in a massive airshow this September at Brookley Air Force Base, Alabama. Sources say it may be the loudest comeback in aviation history. History isn’t just being remembered… it’s about to fly again.

We've been fortunate to meet most of the Aliens cast, but this photo from 2023 is by far our favorite ♥️

@nygiants I'm still available and ready to take on some OT’s and dominate in run-stop football the GIANTS WAY. Let’s make it happen, Giant Fans, Giant Nation Let’s go!! I know I know I know

Enemies on the ice, but teammates for the City of New York. A look back at Sunday's hockey game vs. the Finest. 🎥

Me and who? Who’s up for a game?

It's National Nevada Day! In 2012, USS Nevada (SSBN-733) was boarded by a rogue team of elite seals that tried to take over the submarine. The crew of the Nevada managed to repel the seals (harmlessly) before the marine mammals did any damage. #NationalNevadaDay

アーリントン国立墓地の元衛兵の「筋肉記憶」 「無名戦士の墓」の衛兵は、24時間365日、雨風を問わず墓を守るエリート部隊（陸軍第3歩兵連隊）。現役女性衛兵から儀仗銃（M14ライフル）を渡された元衛兵は何年も前に退役したのに、この複雑な動作を完璧に再現した

We haven't talked about this much, but we own most of the Firefly / Serenity blueprints.

BREAKING: An Ohio man set up a trail cam to catch deer… and accidentally uncovered whatever his cat has going on after 2AM. For the third night in a row, Bandit has been spotted leading a full lineup of raccoons—and one very committed possum—straight to the shed like it’s a scheduled meeting. They show up single file. They go in. They stay for about an hour. They leave. No fighting. No chaos. Just… business. One of them even pauses like it’s doing a headcount. At this point, nobody’s asking questions. Because in Ohio, if your cat is running late-night operations behind a barn with raccoons, possums, and something watching from the treeline… you just turn the porch light off and mind your business. 🫡🦝🐈🌽 #OhioLife #OnlyInOhio #BackyardMysteries #TrailCam #RaccoonUnion

SR-71 Pilot tells the story of the “Secret” Party He and other Habu Crews had with Victor Pugachev and other Soviet Su-27 Pilots at Paris Air Show 1989 All Soviet flying demos were mysteriously canceled that day. Could it have been the Tequila, or did they all want to be in place to see the HABU thunder past the crowd and disappear out of sight?,’ Capt. Steve “Griz” Grzebiniak, SR-71 Pilot. An SR-71 Blackbird first landed at RAF Mildenhall in September of 1974 when it made its international debut at the Farnborough Air Show. It flew into Mildenhall to prepare for its return flight back to the United States. The plan was to establish a world speed record from London to Los Angeles. Captain “Buck” Adams and RSO Maj. Bill Machoreck flew the 5,645 mile trip in 3 hours and 47 minutes, setting the world record. On Mar. 31, 1979, Detachment 4 (Det 4) of the 9th SRW was established at Mildenhall. As a result, Habu traditions were carried over to Det 4. One Habu tradition was once introduced to old rivals—Soviet MiG pilots! SR pilot Capt. Steve “Griz” Grzebiniak, tells his story in Richard H. Graham’s book SR-71 Revealed The Inside Story. ‘Jim [ Maj. Jim Greenwood, his RSO] and I were TDY to Det in June 4 in June of 1989. The Det was tasked to send an SR-71 to the Paris Air Show. Lieutenant Colonel Tom Henichek was the Det 4 Commander at the time and became the Air Show deployment commander. ‘We flew a brief arrival show, landing in showery weather at Le Bourget airport for four days of static display. The big attraction at the `89 Paris Show was to be the unveiling of the Soviet SU-27 Flanker, for the first time on western soil. The SU-27 was an impressive example of the cutting edge of Eastern Bloc air superiority. It was a large fighter, with massive engines and silenced the crowds daily with its aerial demonstration. Victor Pugachev, the head test pilot for Sukhoi aircraft in the Soviet Union, and the inventor of the unbelievable “Cobra Maneuver” in which the fighter would make a slow speed, high angle pass at low altitude, then snatch its nose back beyond the vertical, an recover with AB’s blazing, was there, along with an elite cadre of other Soviet pilots. The Soviets were attracting a lot of attention and press coverage, as was anticipated. However, it seemed that a 25 year old aircraft on display only a few hundred yards away was drawing an even bigger crowd each day. The air buzzed with tension each time Jim, myself, or Tom Henichek would approach the Soviet aircraft displays.  We were finally granted a personal tour of the SU-27, and we reciprocated with an “up-close and personal introduction to our HABU.” The Soviets were extremely interested in the tour Jim gave, and so was the foreign press. It seemed like every time the Soviet pilots got near us, there were cameras and microphones bristling everywhere. This seemed to unnerve the Eastern visitors, and all statements were made by the very flamboyant and eloquent speaking Victor Pugachev. He was obviously schooled in what we would call, “politically correct speech.” Jim and I decided we had to meet these pilots in a less formal manner. After all, they were flying some of the same aircraft, and indeed could have been the same pilots who regularly attempted high altitude intercepts against us in the Barents Sea! The day prior to our departure, after the final aerial demonstration of the afternoon, a note was passed to one of the Russian pilots reading, “Meet us at the base of the tower for a drink—the US pilots.” We avoided being seen in numbers together. We arranged to meet at the Hughes Aircraft chalet. No press was informed, in fact not even Hughes knew why we requested the use of their conference room. We all took round-about paths to the Hughes chalet to avoid being intercepted by the press. ‘There was no prior coordination between us and the Soviets, but it became apparent that they had the right idea from the beginning.

The beautiful EA-6B Prowler was a four-seat electronic warfare jet derived from the A-6 Intruder that jammed enemy radars and fired HARM missiles to protect strike packages. It entered service in 1971, and flew combat missions from Vietnam through Afghanistan with zero losses in 48 years of ops before Navy retirement in 2015 and Marines in 2019.🫡

Ohio native Alicia Titus lived in San Francisco, California. She had backpacked through Spain and Morocco, parachuted out of planes, and taken a cross-country road trip with her mother. She chronicled her exploits in travel essays. Titus held marketing jobs before becoming a United Airlines flight attendant in 2001. On 9/11, she was working aboard Flight 175. Titus was 28 years old. #NeverForget911 #WomensHistoryMonth #911Museum