LXVIII RCO

@USArmy @War_Horse On Freedom's Frontier since 1901 - the Blackhorse!

Those are the kind of days that stick with you forever

Dragonflies have a 95% hunting success rate. Lions: 25%. Sharks: 50%. Peregrine falcons, the fastest bird alive: 47%. A dragonfly catches 95 out of every 100 things it goes after. And one of their favorite things to go after: mosquitoes. Even the babies will fuck up a mosquito without thinking twice. As a larva living underwater, it eats mosquito larvae. A backyard pond, even a small one, planted with native plants gives dragonflies somewhere to call home. No chemicals, no maintenance, no effort. Just water. Build a pond. Get a dragonfly. Let the most effective hunter on the planet handle your mosquito problem for free.

Proof that no one with money is trying to fix real problems.

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work. In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them. He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them. Absolute legend.

Read The Story of Civilization by Durant

This Farmer says that he and other farmers are fighting back because they haven’t sold any of their corn to Corporations and are now instead selling it direct to local businesses and people that need it and are making more because of it according to this farmer!

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Rare picture of a tree sneaking out of the woods.

NUNCA SUBESTIMES A NADIE Una mujer con un vestido barato y su esposo con un traje modesto se bajaron del tren en Boston y caminaron tímidamente hasta la oficina del secretario del presidente de la Universidad de Harvard. —Nos gustaría ver al presidente —dijo el hombre suavemente. —Está ocupado —respondió el secretario. —Esperaremos —respondió la mujer. Durante horas, el secretario los ignoró, esperando que la pareja finalmente se fuera, pero no lo hicieron. El secretario finalmente decidió interrumpir al presidente. —Tal vez si habla con ellos unos minutos se irán —le dijo el secretario al presidente. Él hizo una mueca de disgusto pero accedió y se dirigió con arrogancia hacia la pareja. La mujer le dijo: —Tuvimos un hijo que asistió a Harvard durante un año. Amaba Harvard y era feliz aquí, pero murió en un accidente. Mi esposo y yo quisiéramos erigir un edificio en el campus en memoria de nuestro hijo. El presidente exclamó: —¡¿¡Un edificio!?! ¿Tiene idea de cuánto cuesta un edificio? ¡Aquí en Harvard hemos gastado más de 7.5 millones de dólares en edificios! Por un momento la mujer se quedó en silencio. Luego se volvió hacia su esposo y dijo suavemente: —¿Es tan poco dinero para empezar una universidad? ¿Por qué no creamos la nuestra propia? El Sr. Leland Stanford y su esposa se levantaron y se fueron, viajando a Palo Alto, California, donde establecieron la universidad que lleva su nombre, la Universidad de Stanford. Hoy la Universidad de Stanford está clasificada como la número uno en el mundo, por delante de Harvard. Qué fácil es juzgar por las apariencias, y qué fácil es equivocarse cuando... se juzga por las apariencias.

Less than a year ago, the Air Force unveiled a new PT test with a two mile run. Airmen took to social media to complain how the new increased length would cause injuries. This weekend, an Air Force Colonel, more than likely in their mid to late 40s, ran 5 miles up a mountain to escape the enemy. Running matters. You should do more of it.

🚨 BREAKING: Former CENTCOM commander Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie just said it PERFECTLY “It takes a year to build an aircraft — and it takes 200 YEARS to build a military tradition where you don't leave anybody behind!” 👏🏻🇺🇸

🇺🇸The brave Colonel is coming home after 48 hours of survival in hostile conditions. To the brave men that risked their own lives God bless you. Never leave comrade behind. Well done warriors.🇺🇸

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD 😂

Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters. A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year. We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left. And now we build billion dollar water treatment plants to do what oysters did for free. The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year. Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.

We’re being told this country is broken beyond repair. And then this happens. An American Olympic gold medalist, bloodied and grinning, wrapped in the Stars and Stripes, after decades of waiting, sacrifice, and belief, reminding the world what it looks like when America rises again. 🇺🇸 Two kids on a quiet sidewalk, watching Artemis II tear through the sky, like history reaching forward and backward at once, reminding us we are still the nation that dares to go farther. 🚀 And an American Air Force colonel, shot down over enemy territory, alone in the mountains of Iran for 48 hours, hunted, wounded, waiting, And America came for him anyway. Through the dark. Through the risk. Through the fire. Because we don’t leave our own. Same year. Same country. Not spin. Not noise. This is real. They can keep selling division. They can keep feeding the noise. But this? This is different. This is who we are when it matters. Not perfect. Not polished. But still capable of courage. Still capable of wonder. Still capable of loyalty. The darkness is loud right now. But the light? The light doesn’t ask permission. It just shows up. GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸❤️ HAPPY EASTER 💜

As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.” At the same time, I felt a deep envy. Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses. In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak. The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference. One side risks everything to save their own. The other sacrifices their own to stay in power. This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

I don’t know how many jumps he made that day, but I can guarantee you he got as much sunshine and exercise as some kids will get all year in 2026 …

Guess who's not worried about ICE in airports? American citizens.

Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot. "You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in." "That's the American way - except America has gotten soft." You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn. It starts with showing up and earning it every single day. No shortcuts...Just hard work. (🎥@CBBonFOX )

I don't know if there's a right way to bury a good horse, just know there isn't an easy way.