Ray Riordan ☢️ 🇺🇸

I received this message from one of Captain Cody Khrok’s best friends today. Captain Khork was one of the 4 soldiers killed in Kuwait. “Josie, I saw you are posting about some of the service members who passed away in Kuwait. It would me the world to me to share more about Cody’s life, pictures, stories. Cody was the best of us. He always wanted to be in the military and came from a military family. He moved to my neighborhood in Winter Haven Florida in middle school. He was my best friend and grew into family. He called my mom, mom and she raised him for a period of time in high school. I used my job at Publix Supermarkets to get him hired and he worked with me at the local store a couple of years in collage. He lived with me after basic training for a period of time before buying his dads house in Winter Haven and deploying regularly  He graduated from Lake Region High School in Eagle Lake (2008) and Florida Southern College in Lakeland  (2014). He enlisted in the National Guard in 2009 and later commissioned as a Military Police Officer in the Army Reserve in 2014. During his service, he deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2018, Guantanamo Bay in 2021, and Poland in 2024. He also spend time deployed in Korea and Africa but I’m unsure of the exact years.  He received numerous medals and honors recognizing his service, leadership, and commitment to others. Some pictures of that below.  Cody played paintball semi professionally on a team for a period of time, enjoyed video games. He was a huge Florida Gators football fan and Tampa Bay Lightning fan and we went to many games together over the years.  Friends will tell you he was an amazing person, hilarious sense of humor, and most importantly the life of the party. Everybody who worked with him in the military looked up to him and said he would lead from the front. He helped many proper through the darkest times in their lives and was part of the best times.   He was also unapologetically American which I think he would say is the most important part.” And what an impossibly brave, good, and generous person Cody was. Well done. Good and faithful servant. Rest now.

As an Iranian, I stand in full respect for all the brave American soldiers who risk their lives in this battle. We Iranians believe American soldiers are among the most honorable people on earth, and their names and memory will forever remain in the proud history of Iran. God bless America. God bless the brave American soldiers. God bless President Trump. God bless Iran. #JavidShah

Few understand what crushing Iran feels like to a GWOT veteran. I'm not saying revenge is always justified. But I'm definitely saying in this instance, revenge is justified. May God forgive me, but I'm not ashamed to admit this. I'm sure my brothers and sisters aren't either.

Notice what's missing? 😂

@AJA_Cortes 50 push ups, 3 pull ups and sub 24 minute 5km run.

What is one physical feat every man over 40 should be able to do to consider himself 'fit'?

@adamscrabble 1:41pm CST

🙏 If you see this tweet please like it. Bonus if you could kindly reply and tell me what time you saw the tweet.

@yashar ❤️

This Iranian woman's cat was scared of the Israeli military bombing and she's saying to her that she is watching over her, that she will be with her until the end of the world, and that she's not going anywhere without her. Animals across the region have suffered so much.

@avidseries I’m watching the Independent line. It seems most Americans, while still weary of involvement, seem to be growing more confident in getting tough with Iran.

@MahyarTousi The Rising Lion

I will be opening the first ever British pub in Tehran. What should we call it?

@willchamberlain Yes, it appears that way.

Good afternoon we are going to win

@JHWeissmann I live in suburban Chicago and I walk to work everyday: 5/8 mi to train station 1/2 mi from Union Station to office 9/10 mi to grocery store for daily lunch. This all adds up to a smidge above 2 miles. Round trip, I walk just over 4 miles per day.

@pegobry_en The Germans were already at war with us. x.com/i/grok/share/v…

This paleocon fantasy where Germany wins the war quickly and all’s well that ends well is insane. 1. England enters a war to stop Germany becoming a European hegemon 2. Germany becomes a European hegemon 3. England is happy I invite to look at the history of Europe 1793-1815

@Malcolm_fleX48 33A

@_HelenDale That’s interesting . I am not familiar with the customs of tobacco sales in Israel. It just seemed to stand out to me in the list.

@Ray_Riordan Ciggies are top contraband in a few countries by the looks—Ukraine & Saudi Arabia, too.

Italy, India, France, & Switzerland on point.

@eugyppius1 I think it looks nice.

… and now a great tribe of hostile americans appears to have an aneurism over what I thought was a fairly neutral if stripped-down look. cultural differences are very interesting you can never understand them.

@ChefGruel Meat thermometer

Kitchen knives, pocket knives, meat torch, high quality jerky basket, socks, nice pen, 1984, a dog.

@eyeslasho White people with an inability to use the active voice threaten me.

@AJA_Cortes ngl, I like some of those movies. Commando on Prime rn 👌

You are Will. Your flaccid, doughy body is gonna be chained to a squat rack in the FIZEEK FASCISM REEDUCATION CAMP And next to the squat rack is a treadmill And the gym is going to be blast 1980s action films on repeat until you stop being soft as baby shit You have 11 days