May 11, 2018
Treasure Trove
A barber cuts a young man’s hair in his shop in Mexico. He has worked out of the same shop for more than 40 years, collecting interesting and unique items for his collection along the way.
Author: Jonn Lilyea
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Chief Petty Officer Aniahau Desha, Hospitalman Gaston Yescas, Petty Officer 1st Class Sheldon Lucius, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Essick saving the world
The Navy Times tells the story of Chief Petty Officer Aniahau Desha, Hospitalman Gaston Yescas, Petty Officer 1st Class Sheldon Lucius, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Essick, all members of the All-Navy Men’s Vollyball team, were at Naval Station Mayport beach in Florida with their families last week when they heard some women calling for help;
“We’d just sat down, and some ladies came up the beach were yelling for help, seeing that the girls were out in the waves, needing help. They were in trouble, so we just ran into the water and got them,” Desha told U.S. Armed Forces Sports.
The sailors, members of the All-Navy Men’s Vollyball team, pulled both girls out of the water, performing CPR on one until emergency personnel arrived.
“When we got on shore, as soon as I picked her up, I noticed that she wasn’t breathing. It was obvious that she wasn’t breathing. I checked for her pulse ? there was no pulse. So we immediately started chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth,” said Desha.
The girl has since been released from the hospital.
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Happy birthday, Richard Overton
Richard Overton, the oldest World War II veteran has just completed his 112th orbit of the sun. He seems to be enjoying the attention;
From Fox News last year;
Richard Overton was born May 11, 1906 in Bastrop County. When he came of age, he served in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945 as part of the all-black 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion. After the war, he returned to Austin, and he has lived in the same home ever since.
While he has been honored by sitting presidents, governors and other global dignitaries for his distinguished service, most days he can be found sitting on his front porch proudly wearing his WWII Veteran baseball hat holding a cigar.
He gives credit to God for his longevity and continues to attend church, but he’s got a few tricks up his sleeve, too.
“I’ve been smoking cigars from when I was 18 years old, I’m still a smoking them, 12 a day,” Overton joked in 2014.
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Mark Fisette; phony combat veteran
Someone sent us their work on this plus-sized Mark Fisette fellow who claims that he’s a sergeant major, a Grenada veteran, a Just Cause veteran, etc….
Do you need a super-sized model for your next movie?
Well, the truth is that Fisette spent less than four years on active duty – all before the Grenada Operation. He earned a Good Cookie and an Overseas ribbon for when he was stationed in Germany. He left the Army as a Private First Class (E-3).
Apparently he was arrested last week for assaulting an elderly person, so here’s his parting shot;
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Ron Worthey; phony SF Vietnam vet
Someone sent us their work on this Ron Worthey fellow who claims that he was with 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. He’s the President of Souls of Honor. He claims that he was awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Star. You can see them pinned to his cap in the picture above.
When asked what his MOS was, he claims that they didn’t have MOS back in those days.
Of course, there’s a vest;
Well the truth is that he spent about 17 months in the US Navy from July, 1965 to December, 1966. He never got anywhere near Vietnam and his only award is the National Defense Service Medal.
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Friday morning feel good stories
From St Louis, Missouri;
St. Louis Police said a homeowner shot a suspected burglar in the leg overnight in South St. Louis.
It happened on Iowa just north of Arsenal and Gravois. Police said the homeowner heard an alarm in his garage about 2:45 a.m. Thursday.
The homeowner and burglar got into a struggle, before police said the homeowner shot the suspect.
He was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The homeowner is cooperating with police.
From Robeson County, North Carolina;
According to a press release from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, law enforcement was called to the Oakridge Grocery and Fish Market on Wiregrass Road in the Orrum area for a report of an armed robbery on Monday afternoon.
When deputies arrived, they received a vehicle and suspect description. The car, a 1990 Buick, was found on Interstate 95 South at the six-mile marker with two suspects inside, the release stated. One had been shot.
Deputies charged 25-year-old Gregory Eugene Davis, of Fairmont, N.C., with felony counts of robbery with a firearm or other weapon; simple assault and battery; possession of a firearm by a felon; kidnapping; and conspiracy.
Davis remains in the Robeson County Detention Center under a $1 million bond, according to the press release.
The second suspect, and gunshot victim, is 24-year-old Daniel Wilson Bethea, of Richland County, SC. He faces felony charges of armed robbery; conspiracy to commit robbery; assault by pointing a gun; kidnapping; and conspiracy.
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Five ISIS leaders captured
The President teased us with this Tweet a few hours ago;
Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just captured!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2018
The Daily Mail tells how Iraqi Army folks fooled four ISIS commanders and they were lured into a trap using a phone of a fifth leader;
Iraqi officials used the cell phone of already captured ISIS lieutenant Ismail al-Eithawi to send instructions via the app for the four other leaders to come to Iraq, where they were seized.
The encrypted app was officially named by ISIS as one of its favored mobile messaging services in 2015 and has been regularly used by the terror group for private communication and to spread propaganda.
Al-Eithawi, who also uses the alias Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, was captured in February by Turkish intelligence and handed over to the Iraqis…Apart from al-Eithawi and al-Jamal, the operation captured three field commanders: Syrian Mohamed al-Qadeer and two Iraqis, Omar al-Karbouli and Essam al-Zawbai, Hashimi said.
Iraqi intelligence released images of the five men on national television on Wednesday.
Al-Eithawi and al-Jamal are the two most senior Islamic State figures ever to be captured alive.
The former served as ISIS governor in Syria’s eastern Euphrates region and as a minister in charge of the group’s so-called education department.
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Cpl. Michael Hainline saving the world
Marine Corporal Michael Hainline was on terminal leave back on September 19, 1989 when Fred Hopkins gunned down two employees at Hainline’s new job at a plastic manufacturing plant in Macomb, Illinois. After shooting a female employee, Hopkins turned his gun on Jim Cobb. His first shot missed Cobb. From the Marine Corps Times;
Hopkins pulled the trigger again, but this time Cobb fell to the ground. The shooter then stood over his injured co-worker and shot him in the head, according to Hainline.
As Hopkins tried to reload, Hainline and other employees, including a former Navy seabee, tackled the shooter.
“These are all great people and they didn’t have to do what they did,” Hainline said.
The corporal had provided first aid to the mortally wounded Cobb, but his injuries were far too severe.
“I was a basic infantry guy and had basic first aid skills,” Haineline explained. “I would have done anything for a Navy corpsman that day.”
Hopkins freed himself from the chair where he had been restrained and dashed out of the building with Hainline in hot pursuit. He gave a description of Hopkins and his get away vehicle to police who finally captured the gunman.
A tragic accident prevented his unit from recognizing the young corporal for his heroism and quick reactions, until 25 years later when he received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, from his former commander last weekend.
Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.