Mobile Joe
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Mobile Joe
@MobileJoe7
27 yr US Coast Guard retired. Constitutional conservative. Currently testing ships for Government. Not looking for love or DM’s. RTR 🐘🐘🐘
เข้าร่วม Nisan 2022
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The National Anthem was not played before the High Point University basketball game so the students gladly and proudly sang it!
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Chase through four communities ends in officer injured, suspect in custody
By @EricaTNews
1819news.com/news/item/chas…
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Happy Thursday y’all, 61/80’s. Have as much fun as 🅰️🥎 team and stay safe. ☕️☕️☕️🇺🇸🇮🇱🅰️🐘🏈🏀⚾️🥎🏌️♂️RTR
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🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that Thomas Haynes, the man who ran a stop sign k*lling a 23 year old woman in Charlotte NC...
...HAS BEEN ARRESTED 25 TIMES WITH OVER 100+ CHARGES!!!
Haynes was LET OUT OF PRISON on bond by a Charlotte NC judge just weeks before...
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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.
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@profstan72 @tammyly @TBuster109 @dixielandlady @TidePride8 @catperson8 @cpacman2 @EastBhamKid @SouthPadreBob @yukon1696 Thanks Stan and Kevin! 🇺🇸☕️☕️☕️SEC! RTR
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@tammyly @TBuster109 @dixielandlady @TidePride8 @catperson8 @cpacman2 @EastBhamKid @MobileJoe7 @SouthPadreBob Thursday and Friday’s March Madness Sweet 16 Tournament schedules thanks to Kevin @yukon1696. All times CDT.
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@MobileJoe7 Good morning Joe ☕️🍩🅰️🐘🏀🥎⚾️🏈🤸♂️ Roll Tide !
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Good Wednesday morning Crimson Clan, happy 🐫 day😎. Another beautiful spring morning. Let’s make it a good one, be safe! ☕️☕️☕️🇺🇸🇮🇱🅰️🐘🏈🏀🥎⚾️🏌️♂️RTR
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👇 Closet Barner
Hunter Johnson@BurnerLJohnson
Congratulations to Auburn on their 2nd consecutive Final Four.
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@profstan72 @lbailey57 @tcoley1 @BamaT61 @jleepfisherman @gilliland1tide @yukon1696 @KTeems87 🤣 G’morning Stan, and gent’s. ☕️☕️☕️🇺🇸🅰️RTR
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@lbailey57 @tcoley1 @BamaT61 @jleepfisherman @gilliland1tide @yukon1696 @KTeems87 GM Crimson Gents & Happy Throwback Thursday. #RTR19 🅰️☕️🅰️☕️🅰️☕️🅰️☕️🅰️☕️🅰️☕️🅰️☕️🅰️🏆🅰️💯🅰️🏈🅰️🏀🅰️🥎🅰️⚾️🅰️🎾🅰️🥇🅰️🏊♀️🅰️🐘🅰️😎🅰️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸
#MLB_OpeningDay
#WasteTheWolverines🏀
#RollTide🐘🥇🏊♀️🎾
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This 2 year old little girl has a brain tumor and her family is desperately calling out for prayers. 🙏
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