John Dowd

@theoperatorofs1 @historyinmemes Vining could clean the floor with you man....

@historyinmemes I can send three 3 women to take them all out. Yall givin these dudes way too much credit but then again these crackas can be mediocre at best and yall loathe that

USA Delta Force in casual attire protecting General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991

@DHSgov @SecMullinDHS Don't cry like a grrrlll...

“You’re not going to tell us where we can and cannot enforce our nation’s laws, because we are not picking and choosing which laws we enforce. We enforce the laws that Congress passed.” @SecMullinDHS

@TexansForAction @VoicesofWW2 Torpedo bombers mean CAP has to drop to the waves to stop them....leaving the dive bombers and open smorgasbord. Ensign Gay watched it all unfold. Read "Carrier War in the Pacific".

@VoicesofWW2 Cool. Don't know what this means, "Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open."

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name. June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet. At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific. 9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be. Empty ocean. Nothing for miles. The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them. Doctrine is clear. Turn back. McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks. 9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy. McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it. 10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open. And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open. 10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough. By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening. The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise. Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle. One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

@KenMasonj @82ndABNDiv @101stAASLTDIV His character on TV was nasty...he is a hero...you know genius? ACTING!!

@DeptofDefense @82ndABNDiv @101stAASLTDIV He was a Total RACIST pig !!! He made many RACIST remarks about BLACK and Latin people ! He was a total RACIST !!!

Did you know, actor Dennis Franz, famous for portraying a TV detective, was also a Vietnam War combat soldier? Born in Maywood, Illinois, in 1944, he served 11 months in South Vietnam with the @82ndABNDiv and @101stAASLTDIV. defense.gov/News/Feature-S…

@Sassafrass_84 @realDonaldTrump Who's Doanld Trump??

@realDonaldTrump We are not going back. We are voting for Doanld Trump and the dream team.

@GabeZZOZZ @ZelenskyyUa Because of course you can trust the Russians. Child

@ZelenskyyUa None of this would have happened if you had negotiated with Putin instead of demanding more weapons and prolonging this conflict.

Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv. One of the most important CHILDREN’S hospitals not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe. Okhmatdyt has been saving and restoring the health of thousands of children. Now that the hospital has been damaged by a Russian strike, there are people under the rubble, and the exact number of casualties is still unknown. Right now, everyone is helping to clear the rubble – doctors and ordinary people. Russia cannot claim ignorance of where its missiles are flying and must be held fully accountable for all its crimes. Against people, against children, against humanity in general. It is very important that the world does not remain silent about this now, and that everyone sees what Russia is and what it is doing.

@Sunchasegirl @CoryMillsFL @prosecho @TuckerCarlson @DanScavino @UNmigration Well, if Tucker says its true...um.....okay I call bullshit.

@CoryMillsFL @prosecho If you listened to @TuckerCarlson interview. Who knew UN is stationed at the Panama canal welcoming these illegals including CHINA @DanScavino @UNmigration

I have been a strong advocate of Israel’s right to defend their citizens and eliminate terrorist organizations such as Hamas. I have personally gone to Israel right after the horrific Oct 7th attacks and helped evacuate/ rescue 255 Americans. I supported the $14B in additional funding and pay-go allocation from IRS. I will not however support a clean bill that drives up American debt when we have $34T in debt and our GDP-Nat Debt ratio far worse than Israel’s. Given UNRWA’s support of Hamas, and the direct involvement by members of UN, I support @RepMattGaetz idea to use UN funding as pay-go to israel as we look at separation from a failed UN. Let’s focus on putting America First, prioritize our borders, and stop funding UN, WHO, WEF, or NATO unless they start serving their purpose and members pay their share.

@cctvidiots Depends on which state. Touch her BUTT through her clothing is a misdemeanor battery 3rd degree in Honolulu.

Is pulling a tail sexual assault?

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