Hooyah BUD/S class 364! It was an honor to hit the surf with these 25 men as they savored their last moment of Hell Week.
Hell Week is the 4th week of the 6 month BUD/S crucible. It is the true gut test that screens out candidates who might quit under pressure. It begins on a Sunday and ends on a Friday morning. This class started with a 115 students, and is now down to 25. Only in very rare cases does anyone quit training after Hell Week. They might be removed for other reasons, but they’ve proven that they’d rather put their body through immense suffering before they quit. After Hell Week, we actually start teaching them skills. It’s a waste of time to teach students SEAL skill sets before they’ve proven themselves in Hell Week.
My BUD/S class was 264. So class 364 is my centennial class, which is why I came out to see them secure Hell Week.
This is the first time I’ve actually seen anyone finish Hell Week outside my own experience back in 2006 (and again in 2007). You can see from the video how much pain these guys have endured. By the end, your body is chafed, frozen to the bone, swollen, and you’re hallucinating on top of that. I wonder if these guys will even remember I was there!
Those are some hard men. They are still well over a year away from becoming SEALs. There’s lots more training and challenges to overcome. But now we know that they have what it takes. Huge congratulations to these guys.
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The names and photos of the soldiers KIA in Jordan have been released. Their service and sacrifice will never be forgotten. Never forget.
Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46 | Carrollton, GA
Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24 | Waycross, GA
Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23 | Savannah, GA
Turns out a majority of the country supports defending the border. Who would have thought? #IStandWithTexas
And if you do have an incident on video, feel free to DM me and we will help you expose them. Should airline agents have to wear body cams? Comment below.
Things that are true:
– The cartels are killing Americans
– The cartels are killing Mexicans
– It should be a mutual goal between Mexico and the U.S. to take the cartels out
What’s not being talked about enough is how the cartels are benefitting from Biden’s border crisis. With a record breaking crisis, the cartels are making record breaking money. In 2021 alone, the cartels made over 13 billion dollars just from human smuggling. Imagine what they’re making now, with 27,000 crossings in just 48 hours.
In the next few days the Biden admin will travel to Mexico to meet with AMLO about “additional enforcement actions” to slow the migration influx at the southern border. All this will be is a photo op and topline discussions — what we need is real action. Pass the damn border reforms, enforce the laws that already exists. Real solutions exist, and the longer we take to act on them, the more power we’re giving to the cartels.
#Mexico #cartels #mexicandrugcartels #border #bordercrisis
I know 5th graders who could do a better job at public relations than @united airlines. Remarkable incompetence.
Can’t wait to start introducing legislation to protect passenger rights. Give us some time to get it right, but it’s coming. There is already a number of Congressman and Senators interested in this.
#defundUNRWA
#defundUNRWA
#defundUNRWA
#defundUNRWA
#defundUNRWA
“If global warming was a company, you couldn’t buy it. Because they won’t let you do due diligence.”
#SUNDAYWISDOM from the great Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, warning us in 2007 that global warming models were fraught with the emotional prejudices of climate catastrophists – and had no verifiable evidence to justify the enormous cost to society which a forced de-carbonization would entail. We should have listened to him.
#sundaywisdom #globalwarming #climatechange
Yesterday 3 American soldiers stationed in Jordan were killed and 25 more were injured in a drone attack. Jordan is not a war zone, per se, therefore this represents a major escalation by Iranian backed militias, attacking Jordanian territory. Iran is responsible for this tragedy, but so is Biden’s tepid foreign policy.
Today another report shows that the DOD failed to stop the drone attack due to confusion as to whether the drone was a U.S. asset or a hostile one. That’s an unacceptable error that needs to be addressed. God bless our men and women in uniform, keep their family in your prayers.
Yesterday 3 American soldiers stationed in Jordan were killed and 25 more were injured in a drone attack. Jordan is not a war zone, per se, therefore this represents a major escalation by Iranian backed militias, attacking Jordanian territory. Iran is responsible for this tragedy, but so is Biden’s tepid foreign policy.
Today another report shows that the DOD failed to stop the drone attack due to confusion as to whether the drone was a U.S. asset or a hostile one. That’s an unacceptable error that needs to be addressed. God bless our men and women in uniform, keep their family in your prayers.
Happy Birthday mom! It would be her 70th birthday today. The wonderful lady on the left is my grandma, still going strong at 102! Swipe right for Suzy Arabella, named after my mom, Susan.
Happy Birthday mom! It would be her 70th birthday today. The wonderful lady on the left is my grandma, still going strong at 102! Swipe right for Suzy Arabella, named after my mom, Susan.
It’s official, Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow. Only 10 more months of Biden.
I know everyone is distracted by more interesting news than this (like Taylor Swift being a psyop…🤔) but here’s some big news you probably aren’t following. Tonight we’re voting on a bipartisan tax deal. I could bore you to death by getting into the weeds of it all, but here’s the highlights. Swipe.
I know everyone is distracted by more interesting news than this (like Taylor Swift being a psyop…🤔) but here’s some big news you probably aren’t following. Tonight we’re voting on a bipartisan tax deal. I could bore you to death by getting into the weeds of it all, but here’s the highlights. Swipe.
I know everyone is distracted by more interesting news than this (like Taylor Swift being a psyop…🤔) but here’s some big news you probably aren’t following. Tonight we’re voting on a bipartisan tax deal. I could bore you to death by getting into the weeds of it all, but here’s the highlights. Swipe.
I know everyone is distracted by more interesting news than this (like Taylor Swift being a psyop…🤔) but here’s some big news you probably aren’t following. Tonight we’re voting on a bipartisan tax deal. I could bore you to death by getting into the weeds of it all, but here’s the highlights. Swipe.
I know everyone is distracted by more interesting news than this (like Taylor Swift being a psyop…🤔) but here’s some big news you probably aren’t following. Tonight we’re voting on a bipartisan tax deal. I could bore you to death by getting into the weeds of it all, but here’s the highlights. Swipe.
Strong deterrence has never started WW3. Just in recent years we’ve targeted Soleimani, armed Ukraine and reinforced NATO’s Eastern flank against Russia, armed Taiwan to defend itself against China… No WW3.
But isolationists on the left and right still like to argue that deterrence will lead to war if we’re too aggressive. So let’s look at the inverse… What happens when we don’t establish strong deterrence? Americans get killed. That right there is incentive enough to always strike harder.
There’s always going to be a risk assessment when we respond to foreign adversaries. My advice: choose a response that makes you just a little uncomfortable. When you do this, you choose a disproportionate response. You’re choosing to hit harder than they hit us. That’s the only way to establish deterrence when we’re dealing with countries like Iran. We always need to hit harder, faster, stronger.
Iran is scared right now — that’s good. We need to use that to our advantage with our response. Biden has waited way too long to react. That’s a huge problem. He should take my advice and deliver a strategic, forceful response. Anything else is a failure on his part, and we ultimately suffer in the long run.
Iran is a puppet master. They know how to get others to do their bidding so their hands remain “clean”. We see this for what it is — surrogate warfare.
Iran has a track record all over the Middle East for training & equipping radical groups to get what they want. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, to name a few. There’s only one way to handle this kind of warfare: hit the puppets and the master harder. Our enemies should always believe that when they come at us, we come back at 10x the force. No, this isn’t war mongering – it’s deterrence. When Soleimani was killed under the Trump Admin World War III didn’t materialize like the leftist pundits said it would. Instead we entered a period of peace because we displayed strength. We sent a message that if you f*ck around, you find out. That’s the ONLY kind of response we should have when it comes to foreign adversaries.