The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah-- who was a Professor of Military Science and the leader of the university's ROTC program.
He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic Resolve.
His awards included two Bronze Stars, Senior Army Aviator Badge, Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal with Valor, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and the Joint Service Achievement Medal.
RIP. 🙏
TJR BREAKS DOWN the EXACT trade his student MISSED and explains how the setup actually formed step by step 😳📉
“If you look on the left side you can already see these are likely higher-timeframe lows. Even though we’re on the one-minute chart, that area is probably a 15-minute low or even an hourly low.”
“You were trying to take a trade within the first five minutes, but the real setup was waiting for price to manipulate those higher-timeframe lows first and then confirm it with a break of structure to the upside.”
“Once we see that manipulation happen, we’re looking for a change in order flow. That’s how we know orders got filled and that the new trend is starting.”
“And when price comes back down into that gap to fill the imbalance, that’s where the continuation trade actually forms.”
Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross-country coach from Jackson, Michigan, won the 2026 Los Angeles Marathon by running past Kenya’s Michael Kamau in the final second.
JUST IN: Fifty Israeli fighter jets. One hundred bombs. A single underground target beneath the leadership compound of Tehran. This is what the thirteenth wave of Operation Roaring Lion looked like this morning.
The target was not a missile battery or a radar installation. It was the bunker. The IDF briefing describes it as spanning multiple city blocks underground, with meeting halls, living quarters, and concealed entrances and exits at multiple street-level access points. It was built as Khamenei’s wartime command center. Khamenei died on February 28. The bunker survived him. The officials who replaced him in the surviving command structure moved into it. Israeli intelligence tracked them there. This morning, fifty aircraft delivered one hundred bombs to collapse it.
Operation Roaring Lion is Israel’s codename for its component of the joint campaign. The United States is running Operation Epic Fury. The two operations are coordinated but doctrinally distinct: Epic Fury has focused on nuclear infrastructure, naval assets, and deep underground hardened sites requiring the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator that only the B-2 Spirit can deliver. Roaring Lion has conducted the sustained air superiority campaign, the leadership targeting, the IRGC and Basij infrastructure strikes, the radar and missile system degradation that has now run across thirteen waves in eight days.
The physics of bunker destruction requires explanation because the IDF’s one hundred bomb figure is not hyperbole. Underground reinforced command facilities built to survive conventional strikes require layered penetration: successive weapons impacting the same coordinates to propagate structural failure progressively deeper into the substrate. A single penetrating munition against a deep bunker creates a cavity. Multiple successive impacts on the same cavity propagate the collapse. One hundred bombs on a single underground target is a collapsed facility, not a damaged one. The difference matters: a damaged bunker is a disrupted command center. A collapsed one is a mass casualty event for everyone inside.
The contested claim is whether anyone was inside. The IDF statement confirms the bunker was the active wartime headquarters used by senior officials following Supreme Leader Khamenei’s death. It does not yet confirm new high-level leadership casualties. Iranian state media acknowledges intense airstrikes on central Tehran and has not confirmed bunker specifics. The information architecture of this war means the casualty picture will emerge in fragments over hours and days, not minutes. The IDF confirmed the existence of the target, the weapon count, and the aircraft number. The outcome inside is what intelligence analysts are working through now.
What is confirmed without contest: Israel just demonstrated that it can locate, target, and strike a multi-block underground command facility beneath the capital of a nation that has spent forty years building subterranean infrastructure specifically to survive Israeli and American airstrikes. The Iranian doctrine of deep underground hardening, the dispersed command node architecture, the concealed entrances, the redundant access points: all of it was designed to make decapitation strikes impossible. Fifty aircraft and one hundred bombs delivered in a single coordinated wave this morning is Israel’s operational answer to that doctrine.
The regime built the bunker to survive a strike. The strike happened. Whether the regime survived the bunker is the question the next twenty-four hours will answer.
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The United States has never deployed F-22 Raptors to Israel. Not during the Gulf Wars. Not during the 2024 strikes that destroyed every Iranian S-300 battery in a single night. Not during the June 2025 twelve-day war that hit three nuclear facilities with fourteen bunker busters.
Until this week.
Eleven F-22s are now sitting at Ovda Air Base in the Negev. Confirmed by satellite imagery. The first deployment of America’s premier air superiority fighter to Israeli soil in the history of both nations.
You need to understand what the F-22 does that no other aircraft can do. It does not bomb targets. It kills the things that protect targets. Its radar cross section is smaller than a marble. It enters defended airspace invisible, maps every radar emission, and either destroys the air defense network or feeds its coordinates to the strike package following behind. In Venezuela, F-22s suppressed Russia’s S-300VM batteries so completely that not a single interceptor missile was launched. The entire Russian-built air defense network went dark without firing a shot.
Iran rebuilt portions of its air defense with Russian assistance after the October 2024 strikes. The F-22 deployment to Israel is the answer to whatever Iran rebuilt.
Now layer the logistics. 270 plus C-17 and C-5 transport flights to the Middle East since January. Four C-17 Globemasters landed at Nevatim Air Base on Thursday alone. Nevatim is where Israel’s F-35I Adir stealth fleet operates. Fourteen refueling tankers at Ben Gurion. 300 plus US military aircraft now in the CENTCOM theater. This is not a deterrence posture. Deterrence is a carrier offshore and a press statement. 270 transport flights is the logistics tail for sustained high-intensity operations. You build that supply chain when you expect to use it.
The pattern is identical to June 2025 but at triple the scale. Then: B-2s from Diego Garcia, B-52s as cruise missile trucks, F-15Es for escort. Now: all of that plus F-22s in Israel for the first time, plus a second carrier, plus forward-deployed F-35s in Jordan, plus tanker fleets staged across three countries.
Whatever is being planned is larger than what happened in June.
Geneva collapsed Thursday. Iran rejected every demand. Rubio flies to Jerusalem Monday. Ambassador Huckabee told staff to leave today. Beijing told its citizens to evacuate Iran today.
And eleven aircraft that exist solely to make air defenses disappear are parked in the desert 200 kilometers from the Iranian border, doing something they have never done in the 21-year operational history of the platform.
You do not stage the first-ever F-22 deployment to Israel for deterrence. You stage it for what deterrence failed to prevent.
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