A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater helicopter crew rescued a man and his dog from a disabled 36-foot sailboat in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The boat began to take on water while 25 miles off Sanibel Island, Florida, on Sept. 26, 2024. Petty Officer 2nd Class Hudson, an aviation …
Read More »‘Targeted: Beirut’, A Conversation With Authors Jack Carr and James M. Scott
by Susan Katz Keating Jack Carr and James M. Scott have produced a master class in how to write contemporary history. Morning reveille had not yet sounded on Oct 23, 1983, when a terrorist drove a bomb-laden truck into the headquarters and barracks building of the U.S. Marine Corps peacekeeping …
Read More »Fast Roping With the 160th SOAR
Tell us you have an amazing video team without telling us you have an amazing video team. The 160th SOAR in action…
Read More »Chechen Warlord Has to Tow His Disabled Cybertruck; Blames Elon Musk
COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating “We had to tow the iron horse,” Ramzan Kadyrov said. Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov said he had to tow his broken down Tesla Cybertruck from the combat zone in Ukraine, blaming Elon Musk for disabling the vehicle remotely. “We had to tow the iron horse,” Kadyrov …
Read More »Companies Deny Making Pagers Used in Lebanon Explosions
by Susan Katz Keating The two companies issued denials as questions center on how the explosions were triggered, and by whom. A Taiwan company whose pagers have been tied to the deadly attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon says the pagers were produced and sold by a Budapest-based partner company that …
Read More »Hezbollah Doesn’t Know Why Pagers Exploded Across Lebanon; Blames Israel
The government of Lebanon told citizens to discard their pagers in wake of explosions that killed or wounded The Hezbollah terror group says it does not know what caused its members’ pager devices to explode September 17 in Lebanon, but it blames Israel for sparking the detonations. At least eight …
Read More »Exposing Cartel Smuggling Routes Along the US Southern Border
by Heath Hansen Tim Foley is the founder and leader of Arizona Border Recon (AZBR), a private group that patrols the U.S. Southern border. Members gather intelligence about activity there, and share their findings with federal and local officials. Most of what they encounter involves human trafficking and drug smuggling. …
Read More »Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Damning Truth About ‘Willful Blindness’
COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating After Vietnam, the U.S. government should have learned a powerful lesson that it never must abandon its allies. Clearly, the lesson was ignored. Several years ago at a conference in Tampa, I asked Gen. Kenneth Tovo a question that was pegged to the Vietnam War, but …
Read More »When ‘Concrete Bob’ Kicked the Ghouls Off the Front Gate at Walter Reed Hospital
by Susan Katz Keating 2006 The traffic along Georgia Avenue going south was sparse throughout the stretch of Maryland road. The bus proceeded unhindered, ferrying wounded warriors strapped into gurneys or propped up with i.v. lines attached, and belted into seats. Many were profoundly changed men and women with missing …
Read More »Attack at Abbey Gate: The Scene From Above
A U.S. military aircraft captured this scene at Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on 26 August 2021. There is no narration to go with the vid, but the scene clearly is chaotic. An ISIS suicide bomber launched an attack at the gate, killing 13 American …
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