John Ford

To paraphrase Heinlein; while there is no way to prevent a crime from happening once, there is only one sure way to keep it from happening twice.

#OTD in 1945, over 100 feet of USS Pittsburgh's bow was snapped off by a typhoon near Okinawa. The heavy cruiser managed to make it to Guam where she was referred to as the "Longest Ship in the World" because the distance from bow to stern was thousands of miles. The bow was salvaged and nicknamed "USS McKeesport" after a suburb of Pittsburgh. USS Pittsburgh was given a new bow and served another 11 years.

@thestinkeye It's even funnier when you remember the Sorbo played Hercules for years.

You are clearly unfamiliar with the sexual proclivities of Spartan culture… this movie was more historically accurate.

Here’s an excerpt from “Blasting Through” that describes when I was awarded the Bronze Star Medal: On a personal note, I should mention that, upon completion of my tour in Vietnam, the detachment held a going away party for MSG Land and me. At the party I was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for service. I had mixed emotions leaving Vietnam. Part of me was ready to leave and return home. My enlistment was up. Because I had less than six months remaining in the Army, I was getting an early out. The Army was downsizing and withdrawing from Vietnam. The war was being turned over to the South Vietnamese. Part of me wanted to extend and stay with my detachment and the soldiers I had served with those many months. But the detachment was moving to Long Bien, so the writing was on the wall, and Vietnam would soon not be the United States’ problem. ©Vining Domeier Publishing

@BaronDestructo Baal, if he comes with all his clones.

The search for our ship's Unlikely Ally continues (The Sweet Sixteen)! Choose -

By the morning of June 5, all four Japanese carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu) were gone, effectively ending the Battle of Midway. Final Tally: United States losses: Ships: 1 fleet carrier (USS Yorktown), 1 destroyer (USS Hammann) Aircraft: ~145–150 destroyed Lives: ~307–340 killed Japanese losses: Ships: 4 fleet carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu), 1 heavy cruiser (Mikuma) Aircraft: ~248 destroyed (mostly carrier-based, including many elite pilots) Lives: ~3,057 killed These three days marked the military turning point in the war ... but more than two years of the most brutal fighting the world had ever seen remained on the horizon. We owe our respect to the brave men of the US armed forces especially Torpedo Squadron 8 (and Ensign Tex Gay), Bombing & Scouting Squadrons 6, Bombing Squadron 3, and the crews of USS Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet.

@TomcatJunkie Awesome. Oh what could have been.

A-6F Intruder II photo drop!

I want to thank everyone for the support and sharing of my "live tweeting" of the Battle of Midway. Some of you told me things that I never knew about the battle and some things that I have forgotten having read so much. The personal connections to the battle some of you shared were amazing. Thank you for all the follows, hopefully you stick around for my sometimes irreverent takes on current events, movie knowlege, my lamentations for my sports teams, and my cat gifs. @kevinmillerauth Thank you for your kind words and I owe you me reading one book!

@JeremyBakker37 🙏

Please pray for my wife and child, they are having an emergency c section.

seems reasonable...

@HiddenHistoryYT We talked about this in a recent episode of the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War. There is a bit more to it as Yorktown stopped in Tonga for 10 days and conducted initial repairs there, thanks to the crew from the destroyer tender USS Dobbin. youtu.be/LNc536MhWkA?si…

Good, should never have been charged anyway.

I have MS and other health conditions. If the doctors had been able to tell my parents I had a high likelihood of MS when I was still gestating, should they have killed me? What other health conditions should gestating humans be killed for potentially having?

at 10 seconds in on the video below there is a great view of the Trident aerospike, first introduced on the C-4. The spike was a critical aerodynamic innovation that allowed the missile to fit in a Poseidon tubes while achieving greater range and payload capacity. It allowed the SLBM to have a much more blunt nose cone without suffering the drag penalty associated with that shape by creating a detached bow shock ahead of the missile body, creating a low-pressure zone that shields the blunt nose from high-speed airflow.

Akagi goes to the bottom at this time in 1942

🇺🇲Today we honor Staff Sergeant Wilbert Lee Gillespie, of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, who served with Battery C, 5th Battalion, 22nd Artillery Regiment, 52nd Artillery Group, First Field Force, United States Army. Wilbert was fatally wounded on December 25, 1969 in the Binh Thuan province of South Vietnam. He was 27 years old.🕊️ A recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart Medals Staff Sergeant Gillespie is honored on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC on Panel 15W Line 92. Wilbert lies in rest at Galilee Cemetery in Sarasota Florida. #TheVietnamWar #RIP

@notPeachessab Congratulations

Welp, it's official, I am a homeowner now...

HASC rejects Hegseth's workaround of renaming military bases for namesakes that are identical to their original, Confederate names. The amendment offered here directs him to re-rename the bases to the specific names chosen after the bipartisan naming commission report.

Notice how it was a BABY up until the point they didn’t want it. Abortion is murder and everyone knows it.