On August 6, 2011, Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Brian Bill was one of 30 American service members who were KIA during a mission in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan. A group of U.S. Army Special Forces was on a mission to obtain a high value target in the mountains of Afghanistan when they came under fire from opposition forces. A team of U.S. Army and Afghanistan military members, along with 22 members of the Naval Special Warfare community, quickly responded to help suppress the opposition forces and assist with the evacuation of the high value target. While returning to base, the CH-47 Chinook Helicopter carrying the team was struck by a rocket propelled grenade, killing all members onboard. He was assigned to an East Coast based SEAL team.
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🚨In 2013, U.S. Army Green Beret Nick Lavery stepped in front of machine gun fire during an insider attack in Afghanistan, saving a teammate but losing his own leg. The burst shattered his leg and severed his femoral artery, forcing an above-the-knee amputation to save his life. Instead of retiring, Lavery underwent more than 30 surgeries and intense rehabilitation, determined to return to duty. By 2015, he became the first above-the-knee amputee in U.S. military history to return to active combat, later completing elite training courses and continuing his service.
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The U.S. Army is bringing back the Confederate Memorial to Arlington Cemetery in 2027—and liberals are losing their minds! Pete Hegseth & Trump are putting an end to erasing American history. History should be PRESERVED, not canceled. Massive win for common sense! 🇺🇸
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🇺🇸🇮🇷🚨HISTORIC AND PAINFUL MOMENT: President Trump has just disembarked from Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base. Today, he arrives not as commander in chief but as a grieving father and leader He will receive, with the deepest respect.
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Finally someone CREDIBLE pointed out the holding call on bama’s 1st TD pass. Blatant hold by their center on Hall (44). Cost us 7 points NOT just 15 yards like bama fans are b..tching about.
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Two coyotes chased a baby deer into our pasture. It ran straight under our biggest mare... She's nineteen hundred pounds and she would not move off that fawn. She stamped and kicked until both coyotes gave up. Then she put her nose down to check on it.
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🚨 BREAKING: In an INCREDIBLE moment, President Trump on-stage in Alaska just PARDONED truckers who were wrongly charged for trying to fix truck engines — with the pardons brought to him by Natalie Harp THE MAGIC OF TRUMP RALLIES! "If you allow people to fix the engines, they take the environmental crap that makes it inefficient and expensive, undo that. When you undo that, you send fumes into the air, so we put them in jail?! Well, I heard about it...I'M GIVING EACH ONE AN UNCONDITIONAL PARDON." 🔥 "That means you're as CLEAN AS A NEWBORN BABY'S ASS! Why is that so clean?" 😭 "I'm gonna sign this now." These are working men who just wanted trucks to run. The government treated them like criminals for touching engines! THAT'S a President who actually fights for patriot workers 🇺🇸
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🫡 🇺🇸 Morning Salute, Seize the Day, Always Remember our Warriors! 🇺🇸 🫡
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💯 I Will Fight With My Last Dying Breath! Oorah! 💯
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🙏 Bring Them ALL Home! No One's Left Behind!🙏
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🇺🇸We just wanted to live in peace, unfortunately this mass insurgence of Islam disturb that process.🇺🇸
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"Hamburger Hill" in the A Shau Valley in South Vietnam on May 18, 1969.
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"Request denied. The ground is completely overrun. If you go down there, you will not come back." The task force commander’s voice over the radio was grim, definitive, and desperate. Hovering high above the burning streets of Mogadishu, Black Hawk helicopter Super 64 had been shot down by an RPG. Pilot Michael Durant lay trapped inside the crumpled cockpit with a broken back and a crushed leg, surrounded by thousands of enraged, heavily armed Somali militia closing in for the slaughter. Up in the circling sniper bird, two Delta Force master snipers listened to the screams on the net: Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sergeant Gary Gordon. They knew the combat math. A relief convoy was pinned down miles away. No friendly infantry could reach the crash site in time. If nobody stepped in, Durant was going to be dragged out and murdered on camera. Gordon and Shughart asked permission to fast-rope in. Denied. They asked a second time. Denied. On their third request, Gordon’s voice was dead calm: "Put us in." The helicopter touched down for three seconds. Two men stepped off into the dust. Two men against an entire hostile city. They fought their way through crowds to the downed bird. They pulled Durant from the wreckage, laid him behind the engine block, and formed a two-man perimeter. For nearly an hour, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, Shughart and Gordon held off hundreds of charging militia. When Gordon’s rifle ran empty, he drew his pistol. When he was fatally struck, Shughart took Gordon's personal CAR-15 rifle, handed it to the crippled pilot with its last magazine, and whispered: "Good luck." Then Shughart went back around the corner to face the mob alone until his final breath. Durant survived. Shughart and Gordon were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor—the first since Vietnam. They gave up their tomorrow so an injured pilot could see his family again. Greater love hath no man. 🇺🇸🎖️
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🙏🇺🇸 Remember The Fallen 🇺🇸🙏
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Beat Tennessee Week 🍊🔨💪🏾
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🙏🇺🇸 Remember the Deployed! Can I Get a Amen? 🇺🇸🙏
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🇺🇸 James Bailey served as a helicopter door gunner, one of the most exposed positions in the war. His job sounded simple. Keep the aircraft alive. But in reality it meant something else. Protect the pilots. Protect the soldiers below. Protect the wounded trying to get out. Every landing could become the last. Every mission meant uncertainty. Door gunners watched tree lines. Watched rooftops. Watched movement. And when helicopters entered dangerous zones, they became the shield standing between everyone else and disaster. Bailey flew into places where visibility disappeared and pressure never stopped. He helped cover extractions. Protected evacuations. Stayed exposed so helicopters could lift people out and leave. Again. And again. Over time, recognition came. The Purple Heart. The Silver Star. The Bronze Star. Awards that looked impressive in photographs but usually meant something harder. Pain. Loss. Moments people survived because someone else accepted more risk. Bailey returned home. Like many veterans, he did not build his identity around the war. James Bailey protected people in the air. Then quietly carried the weight back home. #TheVietnamWar
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