The "May Incident" in 1943 was a WWII operational breach where Congressman Andrew J. May (D), chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, returned from a tour of the Pacific where he'd received sensitive military briefings. At a press conference, May revealed that American submarines were surviving Japanese attacks partly because Japanese depth charges were generally detonating too shallow, allowing U.S. submarines to dive beneath the most dangerous explosions. Newspapers across the country published his remarks. The disclosure infuriated Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, commander of the U.S. submarine force in the Pacific. Japanese depth-charge settings subsequently became deeper, and Lockwood famously remarked that May would be pleased to know that the Japanese were now setting them deeper. After the war, Lockwood estimated that the indiscretion had cost the Navy TEN submarines and about 800 officers and men. Democrats don’t belong anywhere near issues related to National Security. Nor do “journalists.”

A very true statement

Is there not an artillery captain with the will to save France with a whiff of grapeshot?

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Many nations can field drones. That is not the American advantage. @SecWar named it for a reason. At Agincourt in 1415 an outnumbered force beat legacy armor with a new weapon and the will to use it. Project Agincourt is the pathway to AUTOWARCOM. The memo is clear: “𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱𝗹𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀.” Not a slide. The dirt. Honest and realistic opposition! Not a Dog and Pony Show! That fight happens at the National Training Center and 29 Palms. Honest OPFOR. Training units that do not play along. Gaps exposed every rotation. Industry on the ground, updating from the best in the world who fight every month. TTPs written faster than any staff process. Then industrial might that scales and produces mass no other country can match.@OwenWest91 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁, 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻. Our Leaders have our backs. This is not business as usual! This we will Defend.

Can the world count on the Houthis to cure cancer? @DouglasKMurray joins @yaelbt and @SaysCL on Chosen People Problems. Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=9Qj4hM9H…

Open Top 11/22

France is burning. Europe opened its borders and failed to confront radical Islamism. AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico want to take us in this direction. Europe is the warning. We should not let this happen here.

I just watched the whole interview. Excellent! (No bias.) Larry, you asked great questions! Thanks for posting!

Look under the hood of the U.S. trade deficit in August, and you’ll see that America is importing less of the foreign-made stuff that takes American jobs and more of the stuff that creates American jobs.

The reaction of those cows tells me they're already very used to these guys and their antics🐄🐮😂

The most famous British film star of the twentieth century spent his childhood delivering milk from a horse and cart, and by eighteen he was six foot two. He was born in 1930 in Fountainbridge, a slum district of Edinburgh that smelled of the brewery and the rubber works. The family had two rooms and shared a lavatory on the stair. As a baby he slept in the bottom drawer of a wardrobe. At nine he got a job before school on a milk round for the St Cuthbert's Co-operative dairy. Up at five, out with the horse, bottles up four flights of tenement stairs and the empties back down. At thirteen he left school and did it full time. A milk boy drank what he carried. It was one of the few perks. A pint on the cart in the dark, cream and all, every morning for nine years. His father was a lorry driver of ordinary height. The boys he had grown up with were small, as slum children were. He was a head taller than all of them. They called him Big Tam. He joined the Navy, took up weights, placed in the Mr Universe contest, drifted into acting, and in 1962 walked onto a screen as James Bond. His name was Sean Connery. Nobody can prove what did it. But a child from two rooms in Fountainbridge had no business being built like that, and the one thing he had that the others did not was a milk cart.

FACT: The media loves to bash President Trump because they care more about gossip, rumors and clickbait than reporting the news.  When I ran for US Senate, I called out the left-wing media in Washington State for openly carrying water for my opponent and doing everything they possibly could to support her.

So there I was at the store and had to stop and stare at this one. “Dairy Free Butter.” Butter: a dairy product made from milk or cream. This: coconut and avocado oil. We used to have a word for this. It was margarine.

Dummies 😂

Use two words to describe this. I think of authenticity and grace 🇺🇸 ❤️ instagram.com/stories/sarahp…

Apples don't fall far from the tree.

The usual suspects are wailing and gnashing their teeth because Pete Hegseth is publicly encouraging the troops to be proud of who and what they are as a member of the world's most elite military force, and those same usual suspects are wrongly bemoaning this as a breakdown in relations between U.S. civilians and the U.S. military. I have news for those usual suspects--the issue is not military members being proud or Pete Hegseth encouraging them to be proud. The issue is vast swathes of the civilian population (usually rich and white, and from effete population centers) not having skin in the game (either themselves or their family) while routinely sending off "the troops" to die on their behalf. During the GWOT, there was a meme that showed a picture of a white board in Ramadi that said: "America is not at war; the Marine Corps is at war. America is at the mall." This was a widespread feeling among many who served. Unfortunately, there is only one way this gets fixed: reinstitute the draft, for both men and women, with no exceptions like being in college or Daddy knows a Senator. In other words: (i) I agree with the effete, perfidious usual suspects that we have a problem, but the actual solution to that problem is something nobody wants. (ii) The problem is NOT Pete Hegseth encouraging our military to feel elite and have pride--that's a consequence of a system that segregates our population into military families and non-military families, and what Pete is doing is quite appropriately rallying the troops in a very, very necessary way in the face of a system that often feels broken and unfair. In an all volunteer force, PRIDE as a member of an ELITE military is not only preferential, it is required. Hegseth is doing the right thing, and ignorant PhDs are too ignorant to understand.

On the 3rd of October 1526, a clerk at the Arsenal of Venice wrote out a receipt. 296 ducats for 185 arquebus barrels. Paid to a gun-barrel maker in a valley above Brescia, one Bartolomeo Beretta. That scrap of paper is still in the Venetian archives. Last Saturday, five hundred years to the day, the company it started turned 500. Most family firms don't survive the third generation. Beretta is on the fifteenth, and the sixteenth is already at work. Today, the company is run by Pietro and Franco Gussalli Beretta. Same surname. Same valley. And they still make the guns where Bartolomeo lit the forge. Think about what that receipt, and the company, has outlived: The Republic of Venice. The Spanish Empire. Napoleon. The British Empire. Two world wars. The Soviet Union. No other industrial family, they say, has run a business for five centuries without a break. And this year, some limited-edition anniversary guns are numbered 1,526, the year on the receipt. What it boils down to is this: a man took an order, did the work, and taught his son. Then his son did the same. Fifteen times. Now that's a family legacy! To the Berettas 🥂