Riane Donoho

I’m proud that my first official pod was with @MCA_Marines 🇺🇸 We talked Lioness and FET; and I got to share more about DOLLFACE6 @DollfaceActual I’m always home w Marines. It was extra special to share this experience with a teammate fr FET. It was an honor, check it out.

@Primrose771646 Hook a sista up, I’m almost at 500 🇺🇸

If you have less than 30K follow back ✍️ a reply so we can follow you 🇺🇸 All Patriots/ Veterans Welcome 🇺🇸

@SGTWipper1Each MCRD Parris Island Oscar Co., PLT 4009 🇺🇸

For the next few hours, I'll be working on shoutouts for Veteran accounts. I like to focus on smaller accounts. So for this round: Less than 2,000 followers. Reply with where you went to Basic/Boot and I'll get to it!

How do you become the Army's Best Ranger? Conquer the Best Ranger Competition—a 50-hour, 70-mile gauntlet with 46 brutal events. See how the 75th Ranger Regiment earned their title below! 🧵(1/5) 📸 75th Ranger Regiment

🚨BIG NEWS: Dana White — the UFC is footing the ENTIRE bill for the massive UFC at the White House fight. “We are paying the entire bill on all of this.... This is the UFC's gift to the 250th birthday of America.” 🇺🇸

Specialist and sergeant win Best Ranger competition for first time in nearly 40 years trib.al/gbFAoOx

Congrats Rangers! See you at the Pentagon soon.

@TheCinesthetic Iconic

Con Air (1997) is junk cinema in its purest form. Cage’s windblown mullet, that unhinged accent, villains chewing the scenery, explosions stacked on explosions. It knows exactly what it is and leans all the way in. Absolute crowd pleasing insanity.

Americans have realized older appliances last forever, and even often times work better, than new ones This man shows his “1956 Frigidaire washer, I wanna show you guys how quickly it'll empty this tub and get up to 1100 RPMs of spin speed. Watch this” Appliances before planned obsolescence were infinitely better. Now everything is planned to break so you have to keep buying it every few years

Back in 2012, Prada made headlines at Milan Fashion Week by inviting famous actors known for playing iconic movie villains to close its Fall/Winter menswear show a moment that went down in fashion history as the "Villains Runway."

As infantry recognition month comes to a close, we recognize the heavy hitters of the 03 world, heavy weapons. While March 31st marks the day of the Machine Gunner (0331), we extend that honor to the Marines who bring the thunder from above and the destruction from afar: the 0341 Mortarmen and the 0352 Antitank Missile Gunners. These three Military Occupational Specialties are the bedrock of infantry firepower. To the Marines who suppress the enemy, enable maneuver, and help turn the tide of battle with overwhelming firepower, continue to locate, close with, and destroy the enemy. 📹 (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Matthew Morales)

SgtMaj Ruiz laying the SMACKDOWN before the House Committee on Appropriations on 25 March. “…Marines love being Marines and I’m responsible for their moral and welfare but you have the authority to create change…” We stand ready regardless of the outcome because Marines do more with less. 🦅🌎⚓️

The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump, designating every March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. Today, we honor the 9 million Americans who served in Vietnam.

They served. They fought. They came home to silence. We won’t make that mistake again. Welcome home, Vietnam Veterans.

I thought that was @Ninadrama

In 2013, Army Captain Stephanie Villegas-Hoag volunteered for one of the most dangerous jobs a woman could take during the war in Afghanistan. The registered nurse, commissioned in 2010, joined a Cultural Support Team embedded with the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. These all-female teams went on intense combat raids and patrols deep in Taliban territory — missions where they gathered critical intelligence from local women and children that male soldiers simply could not reach. Villegas-Hoag operated right in the fight. While bullets flew, she treated wounded Rangers and Afghan partners with steady hands and calm professionalism. Her courage, leadership, and composure under extreme pressure earned her the Bronze Star Medal. After leaving the Army, she continued serving — first as a police officer, then as a dedicated advocate for veterans’ mental health. God bless this American hero. #usarmy #nurses

Six weeks after September 11, 2001, twelve American soldiers were quietly loaded onto a helicopter in Uzbekistan and flown over the Hindu Kush mountains in the dead of night. No tanks. No armored vehicles. No air support waiting on the ground. Just twelve Green Berets, over a hundred pounds of gear each, and a mission that their own commanders privately doubted any of them would survive. They landed in a remote Afghan village called Dehi, in the pitch black, surrounded by a country they barely had maps for. And then someone handed them horses. Not metaphorically. Actual horses — Afghan stallions, tough as nails and famously difficult to control. Wooden saddles covered in carpet scraps. Stirrups so short their knees rode up around their ears. Captain Mark Nutsch, who'd grown up on a cattle ranch in Kansas and competed in collegiate rodeos, became trail boss on the spot. For the other ten men on his team — Operational Detachment Alpha 595 of the 5th Special Forces Group — the learning curve was immediate and unforgiving. The first words one of his sergeants learned in Dari were: "How do you make him stop?" They had linked up with General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a Northern Alliance warlord who controlled thousands of fighters and knew this territory like the back of his hand. The deal was simple: the Americans would call in precision airstrikes from horseback. Dostum's cavalry would do the charging. Together, they would take Mazar-i-Sharif — a Taliban stronghold of 250,000 people — and crack open northern Afghanistan. Military planners had estimated it would take two years. Task Force Dagger gave ODA 595 three weeks. For 23 days of nearly continuous combat, the Horse Soldiers lived like men from a different century. They ate what the Afghans ate. They slept on the ground in freezing mountain passes. They rode trails so narrow and sheer that one wrong step meant a thousand-foot drop. Staff Sergeant Will Summers started the mission at 185 pounds. He left Afghanistan five weeks later weighing 143. The Taliban had tanks. Soviet-era armor, antiaircraft guns, fortified positions dug into the mountains. Against this, twelve Americans on horseback radioed coordinates to aircraft circling invisibly above, and watched the positions erupt. On November 9, 2001, they rode into the kind of moment that people are not supposed to experience in the modern world. Nutsch and his team joined hundreds of Dostum's horsemen in a thundering cavalry charge across an open plain — directly into entrenched Taliban lines. Under fire. At a gallop. Calling in close air support between strides. It was the first cavalry charge of the 21st century. It was also the last. The next day, Mazar-i-Sharif fell. The Taliban's northern stronghold collapsed. Within weeks, the regime itself began to unravel — a domino effect that started with twelve men and borrowed horses in the mountains. All twelve of them came home. Zero American fatalities. Against a fortified enemy that outnumbered and outgunned them at every turn. Today, across from Ground Zero in New York City, there is a bronze statue — sixteen feet tall — of a Special Forces soldier on horseback, rifle across his lap, looking west. It honors ODA 595 and the teams who rode with them. Most Americans walk past it every day without knowing the story. Now you do.

18-year-old Melika Azizi has been executed by the Islamic Regime in Iran under the charge of being an "Enemy of God" (Moharebeh). She was violently arrested during the nationwide January protests in the city of Masal, Gilan Province of Iran, following her participation in protests against the Islamic Regime. Melika was held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, where she was subjected to physical abuse and denied contact with her family, who also faced pressure by the Islamic regime's security forces. Rest in Peace, Melika 🙏💔

An Afghan woman forced to marry the man who raped her. CNN reports. Because the rapist (right) was married, the victim was sent to prison for adultery and gave birth there. For the sake of her newborn daughter, she reluctantly agreed to the marriage. We must not allow Islamic law to be brought into Japan. - 加藤 健 @JapanLobby

Dennis Coyle is BACK on U.S. soil and reunited with his family after more than a year in Taliban captivity. Promises made, promises kept 🇺🇸

Army raises enlistment age to 42, removes waiver for marijuana possession trib.al/h6sIjvd