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What began as a response to a post on innovation and acquisition, ended up being an article. It happens...
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There is nothing in this clip that's factual. My middle finger to Matt Cubbler for saying it, and the other middle finger to Tucker for giving the lie a platform.
Tucker Carlson and Matt Cubbler discuss the sadistic nature of the U.S. special forces.
Navy SEALs are encouraged to commit the most heinous acts of barbarism against civilians as it makes them far more compliant with future assigned tasks.
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If this isn’t an Air National Guard mission, nothing is.
If someone asks you how much a single baby's life is worth to the United States Air Force, tell them about the night an American fighter squadron scrambled a supersonic interceptor for a five-month-old boy.
On December 23, 1986, five-month-old Andrew Baumann was dying of heart failure in California after his parents had already lost his baby sister to the same condition.
Near midnight in Fargo, North Dakota, a donor heart finally became available, but the civilian medical jet broke down on the freezing tarmac with the four-hour survival window ticking away.
Civilian doctors could not ride in a fighter jet without ejection-seat training and high-altitude pressure suits.
Sixteen minutes after a desperate 2:00 a.m. phone call to the North Dakota Air National Guard, First Lieutenant Robert Becklund climbed up the ladder of a McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II.
He strapped a red-and-white plastic cooler holding the tiny heart directly into the back ejection seat.
At 3:06 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Becklund blasted off alone into the dark winter sky and pushed his twin-engine fighter close to six hundred miles per hour across fifteen hundred miles.
He touched down at Moffett Naval Air Station at 4:43 a.m.
Even after seven and a half hours outside a body, that tiny heart beat strong inside Andrew's chest, and the boy grew up to graduate college and get married.
A superpower is measured by how fast its deadliest machines fly to save its smallest citizen.
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This video of Russian armor getting absolutely obliterated by a pretty standard defensive ambush is from 2024 I think. Take note of the crossing fields of fire (tracers), the delayed initiation, the mine distribution, and the use of FPV drones to further enhance the dilemma.
It has always kind of stuck with me as the moment when American military academics – the ones who said drones had no value – finally capitulated and admitted that the book had to be rewritten.
What I've never heard is an actual tanker discuss the video. @KTB_500, you've obviously seen this video. What do the rest of us miss?
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A few of my friends follow this account. I'm going to take a bold step out on to the proverbial limb and say that he's full of shit, and all of you have been taken for a ride.
"I was hit by 16 IEDs, 3 VBIEDs, and dozens of grenades, rockets & mortars."
This is stolen valor.
The garbage @DeptVetAffairs denied me AGAIN!!!!
After my last post about the garbage @DeptVetAffairs went viral for them being combat veteran hating pieces of garbage, they got my contact info from 𝕏 and called me. Multiple times.
They told me that they were appalled that I was denied. I was contacted by high level reviewers who told me that the @DeptVetAffairs didn’t even know I was a combat veteran.
They assured me that if I applied again, they would approve me and compensate me properly.
I went to my exam and was met by some foreign doctor who barely spoke English. She didn’t greet me, didn’t look me in my face, and couldn’t understand my words. She asked irrelevant questions, wouldn’t let me elaborate, cut me off multiple times and made it clear I was wasting her time. She couldn’t even find my MRI and then didn’t read the whole thing once she finally did.
When I was deployed, I volunteered for multiple missions that I had to sign waivers for. The waivers said that the technology we were using would make us sick later in life. They said it would kill chromosomes, make us infertile and dose us with radiation. But I was told that I didn’t need to worry “because the @DeptVetAffairs would take care of us for the rest of our lives”
I was hit by 16 IEDs, 3 VBIEDs, and dozens of grenades, rockets & mortars.
One of those blasts destroyed my back
I been to the @DeptVetAffairs dozens of times since my EAS for severe back pain. They always refused to do more than an xray and told me “everyone has back pain”
It turned out I fractured my spine “in my late teens or early 20s but absolutely not when I was in the Marines”
I was in the Marines in my late teens and early 20s
That fractured spine turned into 7 degenerative diseases and I am currently unable to work with zero quality of life.
The @DeptVetAffairs has absolutely destroyed my life. They have taken everything from me. I’ve missed so much of everything. Weddings, reunions, funerals, trips, EVERYTHING because their refusal to take my back pain seriously evolved into life ruining conditions and @DeptVetAffairs could care less.
I stayed positive, played the game, did the work, listened to their words and they stabbed me in the back.
22 veterans give up every single day because @DeptVetAffairs destroy their lives.
@DeptVetAffairs has combat veteran blood on their hands and they don’t care
People who never deployed get full compensation while living full lives and people like me have zero quality of life and just rot away at home.
I’m out of options. I cannot believe @DeptVetAffairs called me and told me that they would FINALLY take care of me, only to lie straight to my face.
I’m shaking right now. I’m beyond disgusted. My back is against a wall with a cliff at my toes.
@DeptVetAffairs is a joke. I’m going to expose them and their bullshit
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FYI - Staff Sgt. Albert L. Ireland (U.S. Marine Corps) is the king of taking hits – 10 total.
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Actually, I was a little off – from Grok.
"There is no single official centralized record of the absolute highest number across all of U.S. military history (records are incomplete due to fires, incomplete files, and the lack of a unified database). However, the highest reliably cited figures are 10 Purple Hearts.
The VA’s National Cemetery Administration lists three veterans with 10:
• Charles D. Barger (U.S. Army, PFC, World War I; also a Medal of Honor recipient)
• Curry T. Haynes Jr. (U.S. Army, SP4, Vietnam War)
• William G. White (U.S. Army, LTC, World War II and Korean War)
Staff Sgt. Albert L. Ireland (U.S. Marine Corps) is the most frequently highlighted individual in popular and historical accounts. He received 9 Purple Hearts (5 in the Pacific during WWII, 4 in Korea) and is widely described as holding the Marine Corps record and one of the highest overall totals. He continued volunteering for combat despite policies that normally removed multi-wounded Marines from the line.Other well-documented high totals include 8 Purple Hearts for Maj. Gen. Robert T. Frederick (WWII), Col. David H. Hackworth (Korea and Vietnam), and several others (including Medal of Honor recipients such as Joe Hooper and Robert Howard).In short: the highest documented number of separate wounding events is 10 (Barger, Haynes, and White), with Ireland’s 9 being the most commonly cited single-person standout, especially among Marines."
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The Afternoon Edition is out. All editions are archived on the website also.
* We're still playing with ranking criteria – less repetition today which led to an over-reporting of Ukraine/Russia news.
AUTOWAR25 Afternoon Edition, Wednesday, Oct. 28. The top 25 autonomous-warfare stories, ranked. 🧵
The FCC votes Thursday to open part of the cellular band to drones, and three sea drones hit a container ship off Bulgaria. The Army opened two Indiana sites to commercial drone testing, and Zelensky said a satellite slowdown grounded 2,000 interceptor drones. Links in every post below.
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The FCC is about to open up a big chunk of 800 MHz cellular spectrum for commercial drones. That 35-year-old rule blocking airborne use in the band was written for passenger cell phones on airplanes, not small unmanned aircraft. Removing it so drones can actually use existing licensed low-band spectrum for reliable links is overdue and practical.
Better connectivity is badly needed. Unlicensed bands get congested, and routine beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations need something more dependable than hope and a Wi-Fi stick. Carriers already have the towers and the licenses. Letting drones ride on that infrastructure helps delivery, inspection, public safety, and everything else people keep saying is coming. Industry and the carriers are right to support it. This is one of the clearer, less complicated steps toward American drone leadership instead of another study that goes nowhere.
But spectrum is just one piece. Opening the band does not magically solve airspace integration, detect-and-avoid, or the fact that a lot of low-altitude airspace is already busy with helicopters, planes, and other drones. It does not fix the detection and response gaps around airports, power plants, borders, or military sites, where unauthorized drones are already a recurring problem and bad actors do not care about Remote ID. It does not create clear privacy rules for platforms that can loiter with cameras, and public tolerance for constant aerial presence is not infinite. Cybersecurity of the links and ground systems still has real holes, and the broader supply-chain issues around who builds and controls the aircraft have not disappeared.
Carriers, FAA, operators, and security agencies all still have to make the actual system work without creating new interference, new collision risks, or easy new tools for people who want to cause problems. Spectrum access under existing licenses is helpful. It is not a substitute for working detect-and-avoid, practical counter-UAS options at critical sites, solid identification, and rules that scale without assuming everyone plays nice.
The direction is right. Reliable connectivity is a real constraint, and unlocking existing spectrum is a straightforward way to ease it. The harder part is everything else that has to keep pace if this is the path we are actually taking.
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Ask why.
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Besides the actual Democrat candidate, Mary Peltola, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (@dscc) was also involved in the deliberate plan to confuse and deceive voters.
Congressional Republicans have already proven that they will do nothing. What's a citizen to do?
BREAKING: NYT reports that operatives with Democratic Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign were behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters and peel votes from him.
Specifically, NYT says they have reviewed text messages and documents that reveal in summer 2025, a Peltola staffer received instructions from campaign staffers to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible.
The staffer complied, going through voter records, and compiled a list. The operation “involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”
Per NYT:
“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
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This is precious - she complains about the "rigged system."
My name is Mary Peltola, and I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for fish, family, and freedom – and that begins with fixing the rigged system in DC that’s shutting down Alaska.
We need systemic change if we're going to fill our homes with abundance again.
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Good morning! The @AUTOWAR25 Morning Edition is up.
AUTOWAR25 Morning Edition, Wednesday, Oct. 28. The top 25 autonomous-warfare stories, ranked. 🧵
Gen. Dan Caine names AI one of his three strategic priorities as Joint Chiefs chairman. The Navy's drone-boat chief says uncrewed craft in the Iran war have topped 1,000 hours, and Russia hit Ukraine overnight with 88 drones. Links in every post below.
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Men, I dare you to drop this into the family group chat.
The #FemaleRationalisationHamster explained.
The name for the tireless little engine in a woman’s mind that retroactively justifies whatever she already FELT like doing. This explains almost everything about female psychology in as simple a format as possible:
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I'm sure it's just a coincidence? I mean, that kind of stuff happens all the time, right?
Good thing the Republicans didn't pass any sort of voter integrity law this year.
This box of Maine absentee ballot return envelopes was shipped to a residential house in Maryland.
The house happens to be the listed HQ for a Soros-funded electioneering non-profit.
Maine's AG closed the investigation with no answers as to how it happened...
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Boop.
On October 27, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed five narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar @SecWar
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It's pretty dark when you think about the fact that Ukraine has 300,000 videotaped deaths or injuries on file.
Just me, but someday that might come back to haunt them after the war is over.
Russian casualties from Ukrainian drones have passed 300,000 since January 1. That is roughly 1,000 a day, every day, for almost ten months.
Every hit is recorded on video in DELTA and verified by @BRAVE1ua. No month has dropped below 26,000, and March peaked at nearly 34,000.
Every Russian soldier stopped by a drone is one who never reaches a Ukrainian position. Verified hits earn units points for more drones, EW systems and UGVs through Brave1 Market.
Read more:
mod.gov.ua/en/news/russian-c…
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