The 1st Special Warfare Training Group’s feed was interrupted by “highly inappropriate content” on May 30.
Army investigating lewd incident during change of command ceremony livestream
Truthfully, I laughed so hard that I cried!
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$14M engine of US Air Force F-35 destroyed after engineer left flashlight inside it before test run
A $14 million fighter jet engine was irreparably damaged after an engineer left a flashlight inside the engine, sealed it up and turned it on, a military investigation has revealed.
$14M engine of US Air Force F-35 destroyed after engineer left flashlight inside it before test run
2 US military veterans killed in Ukraine during intense fighting
Two U.S. military veterans were killed in Ukraine late last month as they fended off intense Russian attacks so their comrades could maneuver, according to Ryan O’Leary, a U.S. Army veteran who leads foreigners in Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Brigade.
2 US military veterans killed in Ukraine during intense fighting
H/T: Emil Cosman
Previously:
Stolen valor and ‘homeless veterans’: Inside a failed hoax
A woman who made up a story of veterans being evicted from a homeless shelter also may have lied about earning a Purple Heart.
Stolen valor and ‘homeless veterans’: Inside a failed hoax
On The E-Girl Army Psyop Phenomenon
Video: On The E-Girl Army Psyop Phenomenon via Justin Taylor
Related:
Weaponizing e-girls: How the US military uses YouTube and TikTok to improve its image
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military
But Haylujan isn’t the only E-girl using Sanrio sex appeal to lure the internet’s SIMPs into the armed forces. There’s Bailey Crespo and Kayla Salinas, not to mention countless #miltok gunfluencers cropping up online. While she didn’t document her military career, influencer Bella Poarch also served in the US Navy for four years before going viral on TikTok in 2020, and is arguably the blueprint for this kind of kawaii commodified fetishism in the military. An adjacent figure, Natalia Fadeev, also known as Gun Waifu, is an Israeli influencer and IDF soldier who uses waifu aesthetics and catgirl cosplay to pedal pro-Israel propaganda to her 756k followers. She poses to camera, ahegao-style, with freshly manicured nails wrapped neatly around a glock, the uWu-ification of military functioning as a cutesy distraction from the shadowy colonial context: “when they try and destroy your nation,” she writes in one caption.
UPDATE: ‘Do not exaggerate importance of America’s equivalent to Wagner Group PMC’ says Russia
RUSSIA’S Press Secretary to the President, Dmitry Peskov, spoke on Thursday, February 2, about the news that the Mozart Group, America’s answer to Russia’s Wagner Group – Putin’s network of mercenaries and de facto private army – was apparently ‘leaving’ Ukraine and said not to exaggerate the PMC’s significance.
UPDATE: ‘Do not exaggerate importance of America’s equivalent to Wagner Group PMC’ says Russia
Related:
Hard Drinking and Murky Finances: How an American Veterans Group Imploded in Ukraine
U.S. Veterans in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
U.S. Veterans in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court (archived)
H/T:
YouTube: Interview With the Head of the Mozart Group and Connoisseur of Fine Whiskey Andrew Milburn (Rumble)
He looks like he needs a drink! He keeps squirming! *snicker*
The US Navy said ‘traces’ of jet fuel were found in the water on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. A sailor says the problem was way worse.
The US Navy acknowledged recently that the water the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz uses to bathe and drink was contaminated by what it described as “traces” of jet fuel, but a sailor on the ship said the situation was worse than the service first let on.
The US Navy said ‘traces’ of jet fuel were found in the water on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. A sailor says the problem was way worse.
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