[Gateway] Peter Ticktin joined Joe Hoft at the Gateway Pundit on Saturday morning to discuss his past with President Trump, and especially the recent events surrounding the President’s RICO case against the corrupt actors behind the Russia collusion scam.
Ticktin has known President Trump since his youth when they both were in a military academy during their high school years.
The academy helped shape Donald Trump, Ticktin says:
I flew in a C-119 once, a flight back from Little Creek Amphib Base after a USMC Boat Ride luxury weekend for hundreds. We sat on the strip for over 20 minutes while they kept trying to start the starboard engine, at first urging it to start, but then praying it wouldn't because every time it backfired the plane shook like crazy,becoming convinced it was in very bad shape and wanted off. After what seemed like hours of sputtering, it started and the vibration seemed somehow permanent. The entire flight was prayerful, and that damn thing kept hiccuping the whole way back to Bolling AFB. Even the VA ANG crew chief looked terrified, never a good sign.
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Flew in a few C-123's, landed in fewer. Never got used to the loadmaster bringing in 5 gallon trip cans from under each engine on start-up. Fuselage would fill with smoke at start-up also.
[The Drive] U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers flying from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas kept watch for signs of illegal fishing during recent sorties over the eastern end of the Pacific off the coast of Ecuador and around that country's Galapagos Islands. This would seem to be an unusual mission for the B-1Bs, which is a highly capable long-range strike platform, but it is actually not the first time the bombers have supported international law enforcement activities as a way to practice skill sets in a real-world environment.
The recent B-1B flights also highlight the Air Force's current interest in expanding the B-1B's maritime role, with a particular eye toward anti-ship missions during future high-end conflicts, especially in the Pacific. In addition, the U.S. military has become increasingly interested in ways to help challenge malign Chinese activities short of conflict, including with regard to things like illegal fishing, in the broader Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
At least two B-1Bs from the Dyess-based 7th Bomb Wing took part in this mission, which took place on September 7. The Air Force described the sorties as countering "illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing" in the course of a broader Continental United States (CONUS) Bomber Task Force (BTF) operation conducted in cooperation with the governments of Ecuador and Panama. KC-135 aerial refueling tankers flying from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida supported the B-1Bs. It's unclear if any action was taken with regard to suspected illegal fish boats from information provided by the bomber crews.
"This kind of regional military engagement strengthens our partnership with Ecuador and Panama and enhances interoperability and improves our collective readiness for a range of potential future operations — from disaster relief to humanitarian assistance to security operations," according to a statement from U.S. Southern Command. "When our forces train alongside one another we improve our ability to work together in times of crisis."
"There are certain things that only Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen can do, and this is one of them," Air Force Col. John McClung, head of the 7th Bomb Wing's 7th Operations Group, also said regarding the eastern Pacific sorties. "Based on the Airmen we have in this room, we can fly this mission and then turn around and regenerate in a matter of hours — we make it look easy, but it's tough work."
The primary mission of the Air Force B-1Bs, with their ability to carry up to 75,000 pounds of various kinds of munitions in their bomb bays to targets thousands of miles away, is to act as long-range strike aircraft. They've proved their worth as close air support platforms while supporting combat operations over Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, too. Though the service is pushing ahead with its plans to retire these bombers entirely by 2036, it is still working to improve the capabilities of those that remain in service now, including with the integration of new weapons and the restoration of their ability to carry weapons on external pylons.
However, this is not the first time that the Air Force has also demonstrated the B-1B's ability to also act as an impromptu long-range surveillance platform, including in support of non-combat missions, thanks to its AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP).
This role is referred to as non-traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, or NTISR. Sniper has electro-optical and infrared full-motion video cameras as well as datalink capabilities and can be used to help identify objects of interest down below, track moving targets, and generate GPS coordinates for specific points on the surface — all capabilities that fit well with the NTISR mission.
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...and observing the Chinese fishing fleet laying mines and sensors.
Outgoing vice chief of naval operations, Adm. William K Lescher, ordered an investigation into the selection course for Navy SEALS on August 31
He asked investigators to focus on safety measures, the qualifications of instructors and medical personnel and its drug testing policy
Lescher also asked them to find what, if anything, had changed after Kyle Mullen, 24, died just hours after completing the Hell Week part of the course
Mullen died of bacterial pneumonia, which drowned him in his own bodily fluids
He and 40 of his classmates were later found to have been taking steroids to get through the course
Sailors say it has only gotten worse since former SEAL Team Six commander Capt. Bradley Geary was put in charge and made his friends instructors
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Given the job/missions they will be tasked with. Serious extreme Physical & Psycho testing is a must.
Does anyone think the "voluneers" for ST or the SFOD-D Q-course, DON'T already know that the qualifications and testing are all extremely Nut Bursting serious?
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No officer would want to be accused of making it easier (except maybe for women) and just keeping it the same is not putting his / her own imprimatur on the command.
So, of course, the answer is to make it more dangerous than it needs to be.
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Capt. Bradley Geary was put in charge and made his friends instructors
Returning to the model of convicted felon Dick Marcinko. Not good. Not good at all.
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...Fastest way around part of this is to do IMMEDIATE UA on everybody who's made it through Hell Week. Once a few guys not only lose everything they've worked for, but get thrown out, that crap will stop PDQ.
SEAL training is a legendary nightmare, because it HAS to be. That said, these guys ain't saints.
Mike
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King Charles III was officially proclaimed as the new monarch on Saturday. The ceremony took place following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. A period of Royal Mourning will be observed from Friday until seven days after the Queen’s Funeral, the Royal Family said in a statement.
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#China plans to launch three unmanned missions to the #moon over the next 10 years, as it seeks to rival the #US in the new era of space exploration.https://t.co/Kvhkpp3FRm
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Hey Look China plans more moon missions after finding new lunar mineral --- So Yea, MSM left out the important part.... New Element Changesite-(Y), it was described by the state-run Xinhua news agency as a kind-of colorless transparent columnar crystal. It’s said to contain helium 3, an isotype that’s been speculated as a future energy source.
[DAILYWIRE] A new law passed by North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n dictator Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s puppet parliament will allow for the leader to fire a preemptive nuclear attack if the country believes such an action would protect it from a threat.
North Korea’s new law also ensures that the country will "automatically and immediately" retaliate with nuclear weapons if Kim is killed in an attack, Politico reported. Kim mentioned strained relations with the U.S. as one of the reasons for the importance of the law that he claims is "irreversible."
"As long as nuclear weapons exist on Earth, and imperialism and the anti-North Korean maneuvers of the U.S. and its followers remain, our road to strengthening our nuclear force will never end," Kim said, according to CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... .
Kim also reaffirmed his commitment to maintaining his country’s nuclear capabilities, saying North Korea will "never give up nuclear weapons and there is absolutely no denuclearization, and no negotiation and no bargaining chip to trade in the process."
Previously, Kim and his father Kim Dear Leader Jong-Il ... late hereditary dictator of North Korea. His definition of reunification wasn't the same as the definition in Seoul... indicated they would only ever use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack on North Korea. The new law gives Kim reasons to launch an attack for anything from retaliation for a non-nuclear strike on the country or a preemptive attack to stop an event "judged to be on the horizon."
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",,, Country Will 'Automatically And Immediately' Fire Nuke If Kim Dies In Attack"
and if he eats himself to death? or little sister wants to shatter the glass ceiling?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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King Charles III was officially proclaimed as the new monarch on Saturday. The ceremony took place following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. A period of Royal Mourning will be observed from Friday until seven days after the Queen’s Funeral, the Royal Family said in a statement.
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