{"id":170690,"date":"2025-06-16T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170690"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:18:13","slug":"monday-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170690","title":{"rendered":"Monday Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A raft of little ones today:<\/p>\n

Remember the CIA analyst, Asif Rahman,\u00a0 who was indicted\u00a0 last November for sending Israeli plans and other classified stuff out on Telegram t0 unauthorized recipients?<\/p>\n

Asif William Rahman, 34, will be spending more than three years in jail for giving Top Secret national defense information to unauthorized viewers, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.\u00a0\u00a0Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thirty-seven months, to be exact. FO time, indeed.<\/p>\n

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Looks like the Air India crash is going down as pilot error. Several have noted that the video of the plane going down showed it with its landing gear down and flaps retracted – the opposite of what a plane should look like when taking off. Flaps for maximum lift, retracted landing gear for minimum drag, right?<\/p>\n

Captain Steve Scheibner, a veteran commercial airline pilot, claimed that the London Gatwick-bound 787 Dreamliner co-pilot may have been asked to retract the landing gear but pulled the wrong lever and instead raised the flaps.\u00a0The Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect you pilot types would agree that a heavy-for-long-flight aircraft need all the help they can, getting in the air. Extra drag and reduced lift is a bad – fatal – mistake.<\/p>\n

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And remember Squadder AOC tried for the opposing chairmanpersonhipwhatever<\/del> position the on House Oversight Committee last December? She lost, and when the position again became vacant she declined to run, supposedly because of the prevailing attitude toward seniority (“You ain’t got it, Sandy, and no one love ya” is probably what that translates to). Not all on the Squad agree.<\/p>\n

“Understanding that fierce urgency, I formally announce my candidacy for Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform \u2014 with a focus on standing up for American families, defending the Constitution and the rule of law, and ensuring the government serves the people, not the privileged few.”\u00a0\u00a0Fox News II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s Jasmine Crockett, the Dallas Democrat noted for telling Elon Musk to be “taken out”The Blaze<\/a> and for him to “f*** off” Pink News<\/a>…oh, and called paraplegic Texas\u00a0 Governor Abbott “Governor Wheelie.”\u00a0AP News<\/a> \u00a0Nothing like a class act… and that’s her, nothing like it.<\/p>\n

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Remember the barracks issues at Ft. Hood\/Cavazos?<\/p>\n

Fort Cavazos, Texas, home to the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment, phased out its “dedicated barracks sustainment team.” The decision leaves no staff to perform routine or preventative maintenance on troops’ living quarters.<\/p>\n

“Maintenance for soldier barracks remains a top priority, and urgent and life, health and safety work orders will continue to be addressed.”<\/p>\n

In practice, the move means non-emergency plumbing, electrical work and other upkeep may have to be ignored, as the sparse staff on the base will have to triage only emergency work.\u00a0Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Guess that means they’ll fix the barracks right after they get the mess halls sorted out, huh…<\/p>\n

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Seems Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll made an interesting admission June 11th..<\/p>\n

In an interview with Brian Kilmede on Fox News this Wednesday, the Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll seems to have revealed extraordinary news when discussing \u201cAll of the amazing things that the Army has done.\u201d After mentioning work the Army did to help with the floods in North Carolina and wildfires in California, he dropped an absolute bombshell of an admission when he stated that just yesterday they spoke with a soldier astronaut on the moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quoting:<\/p>\n

Driscoll: \u201cAnd then the second things is, to your point, the Army started planning this long in advance because what we believe is this will continue the strength in recruiting and retention that we have as young Americans across the country get to see all of the amazing things that the Army has done whether it\u2019s helping with floods in North Carolina or wildfires in California or we talked to an astronaut yesterday who\u2019s on the moon who\u2019s a soldier<\/strong>, including actually going to war and fighting to defend the freedoms that are, uh, that make our nation so great.\u00a0\u00a0Men’s Journal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe that’s where they send the fatties who can’t make weight…\u00a0 and you thought some of your<\/em> TDYs were nuts.<\/p>\n

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And let’s close on a good one. Who is the most famous Marine? Chesty, you say…maybe not, at least temporarily.\u00a0 When Cpl. Andrew Hundly’s boss, an unidentified female staff sergeant, forwarded Hundly’s on-line corporal’s course class certificate on-line, she mistakenly copied – well, everyone.<\/p>\n

“There’s been this problem,” Hundley recalled her saying to Business Insider. At first he was worried about either of them getting in trouble\u2014 the email had made it outside the Corps too, fielding quizzical responses from the Army, Naval Criminal Investigative Services, FBI, and even the White House, Hundley said.<\/p>\n

“A lot of them were kind of confused why they were getting the email,” he said. Some thought it was a phishing attempt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Change.org petition for the Marine Commandant to attend Hundly’s graduation gathered 1,600 signatures. Unfortunately, Commandant Eric Smith had other things to do, but:<\/p>\n

The commandant didn’t show up, but on Thursday, Smith’s partner, Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz, appeared unannounced, amid both applause and laughter, to present Hundley and his classmates with their graduation certificates.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps gods have called upon me,” Ruiz said as he entered the event Thursday. “They were setting up a schedule, and the schedule somehow ended up with \u2014 where you at, Hundley? Raise your hand.”\u00a0\u00a0Business Insider<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bet Hundly’s going to remember THIS graduation forever.\u00a0 BZ, Marines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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