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Navy Seabees Rescue People Who Were Trapped Inside Submerged Car
by Petty Officer 1st Class James Hong These Navy Seabees jumped into action to help two motorists who were trapped inside a car that had plunged into muddy waters. Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11 came to the aid of stranded motorists off of Interstate 10 East …
Read More »‘I Should Have Worried About Dying’: That Time We Crashed the Nuclear Submarine
by Tim Patterson, The War HorseIn the moments immediately after the collision—after an alarm had sounded at 2 a.m.; after the boat had rocked violently to starboard, rolling 45 degrees and back again; after many of USS Philadelphia’s sailors were thrown from their beds; after a DVD player had flown …
Read More »Islamic State Launches Deadly Attack on Military Base in Somalia
by Mohamed Olad Hassan Nearly 100 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded when members of the Islamic State terror group launched a deadly attack on a military base belonging to security forces from Somalia’s Puntland region, officials said Tuesday. At least 27 Puntland soldiers and more than 70 …
Read More »Fort Bragg is Back, With a New Take on Name for Storied Army Post
Are name changes in the works for other military installations that were renamed under the Biden administration? Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday night signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg. The storied North Carolina post was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, during an …
Read More »WATCH: Marines Deploy Concertina Wire Along US Southern Border
Security operations along the U.S. southern border include setting up new physical barriers to curtail illegal border crossings. Here is a time lapse of setting up concertina wire near San Ysidro, California. These Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, worked along the southern border wall on Feb. …
Read More »The Dangers of Being a Cartel Prison Snitch: ‘There’s Nothing Worse Than a Rat’
by Ivan / Borderland Beat There are only two inmates that everyone wants to kill: protected witnesses and child rapists, reveals a U.S. Marshal interviewed by the author. The list seems endless. All of them high-level members of the Sinaloa Cartel, who after having every imaginable luxury and in almost …
Read More »Moscow Denounces CIA ‘Cranberry Movies,’ Creates Video to Recruit American Spies
COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The SVR did not respond to a request to explain what a cranberry movie is. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has taken a swipe at the Central Intelligence Agency’s spy recruitment videos, and has created its own counter-video, asking “true American patriots” to reach out and touch …
Read More »WATCH: High-Threat Prisoners Arrive at GTMO
The Pentagon released video of the first flight of high-threat illegal aliens as they arrive at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This group of prisoners had been held inside the United States. They arrived at “GTMO” on February 4. The Pentagon did not identify the prisoners, nor say where they …
Read More »Into the Taliban Stronghold: Marines in Now Zad, Afghanistan
A look back at operations in Now Zad, Afghanistan. No jokes, no talking, just business. The stern-faced Marines in the six-wheeled armored vehicle, known as the “Cougar,” listened intently to the chatter over the radio. “The Afghan army just got their first kill in combat,” said a Marine on the …
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