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Navy SEAL Andrew Arrabito (left) and fellow SEAL Team One operator during the GWOT.


Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families trib.al/olj7tnv


Leaders need to stop gate keeping awards. We should never be denying awards based on rank. Let me give you an example: Meet my one of oldest and closest friends James (Jimmy) Ruane. Son of the famous American Jockey John Ruane (a big name in the 1950s). He joined the Army as a cook in his 40s and was one of the smartest and most capable Soldiers I ever knew. He joined me in the famed 101st Airborne Division in 2010. When I was a pre-command captain working as the operations officer for 2-502 Infantry, we had a brand new blimp with a camera on it which we were going to use to hunt insurgents and kill them. They were crawling around Zhari, Afghanistan back then. We needed an operator for the blimp and somebody recommended Jimmy…. a cook. Once I met him, I understood why. This guy was SMART. Smarter than me. Hell, smarter than everyone in the battalion. He figured out how to hunt bad guys FAST. 18 hours a day for 15 months, this man found bad guys and we killed them with our symphony of assets. Our little HQ tent got mortared many times. Folks died right outside frequently. Our tent riddled with shrapnel holes. We had to jump the HQ often because the Taliban got good at dialing in their 82mm mortars. The COP also got attacked directly and Jimmy would have to toss on his gear and help the defense. This was not a normal “FOBBIT”. He was directly responsible for the death of over 800 insurgents (yes I said 800). So I put him in for a Bronze Star (Meritorious). I figured hey, if the officers who are literally pushing paper are getting one, why not him? It was denied because he was only an E4. Too low ranking to deserve it apparently. I got one though. He always joked for years after to me “How’s my bronze star you’re wearing!?”. He was always humorous, but you could tell it bothered him. And it f**king bothered me too. Fast forward 13 years, he died. Broke, alone, an alcoholic, depressed, and had PTSD. Fighting with the VA for benefits. It wasn’t a suicide, his heart just gave out. To this day I always think what one simple piece of cloth and metal would have done to change the outcome of his life. Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. Miss you brother.


After losing World War II, Germany lost 25% of its territory and 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe. And yet there hasn’t been a single case of Germans hijacking planes, blowing themselves up, or committing terrorist attacks like Palestinians.


One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!


















🚨🚨 SECRET SERVICE SCOOP: Here's the mug shot and arrest affidavit for the Secret Service Uniformed Division officer who was arrested just after midnight Monday morning on charges that he was naked and masturbating in a Doubletree hotel hallway near the Miami airport. Police allegedly caught him literally with his pants down in the act, according to the arresting affidavit. The Secret Service officer, John Andrew Spillman, had just assisted in providing security to President Trump over the weekend at the PGA tour at Trump's golf course in Doral, Fla. Spillman faces misdemeanor indecent exposure charges. Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz @jasoninthehouse, who spent years investigating the Secret Service as House Oversight Committee chairman, tells me the agency has a serious hiring and vetting problem as it struggles to deal with manpower issues. "There's a lot of good, heroic people there, but they were advertising [for agents and officers] on pizza boxes in the Washington, DC area -- come join the Secret Service." "And I've met some of those [who responded to the] pizza box-ads, and suddenly they're in the White House with a gun guarding the president. It's that bad."








