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1st Dignified Transfer: Fallen Marines, Soldier, Corpsman arrive Home

Dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base of 13 service members killed in Afghanistan. This is the first of 13 dignified transfers. The other twelve followed. Marines, Corpsman, Soldier killed in Kabul For the Marine Corps, the deceased are:  Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Marine Corps Sgt. …

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VP Harris in Vietnam as Afghan War end unfolds

VP Kamala Harris is getting grief for going AWOL to Singapore, Vietnam during the Afghanistan evacuation crisis, while her current major agenda is to pass the Voting Rights Act. She does, in passing give notice to Afghanistan and of those lost in a tweet: “Today in Kabul, a terror attack killed 13 American service members. …

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U.S. military officers who were Pitbulls, German Shepherds, and Rottweilers have been replaced by yapping neutered French Poodles

Guest Opinion by Don Bendell TIME FOR CHANGE In 2010, the Vice-President Joe Biden reportedly told then-President Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, that the US had to leave Afghanistan no matter what the cost for the Afghan people. According to Holbrooke, when Biden was asked about our obligation to maintain a presence in …

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Strike II: U.S. strike ISIS-K planner: Risky?

A question from a veteran: “Biden couldn’t wait?  I suspect this limited strike pretty much guarantees reprisals against the airlift before the end of the Afghan extraction.  If we had this target teed-up within 72 hours of the Kabul bombing, one can pretty much be sure we had the targets identified before the bombing.  By …

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Strike II: U.S. conducts counterterrorism strike on ISIS-K planner

29 August U.S. Central Command statement on counterterrorism strike on ISIS-K planner By U.S. Central Command U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. Capt. Bill Urban, USN, U.S. Central Command Spokesman …

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The Repentant Assassin

Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy during a Los Angeles presidential campaign stop in 1968, was recommended for parole. Sirhan, 77, was convicted of the murder in 1969 and sentenced to death. In 1972 the California Supreme Court ruled capital punishment to be unconstitutional, and Sirhan was resentenced to life …