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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Aviation Training Center, AlabamaUS Coast Guard Aviation Training Center is an air base of the United States Coast Guard located at Mobile, Alabama, where it shares an airfield with the Mobile Regional Airport. The Alabama Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment's "B" Company is also located at the airfield. The base is also home to the Coast Guard National Strike Force's Gulf Strike Team.The Aviation Training Center is a multi-mission unit for the Coast Guard's aviation and capabilities development center. Training is conducted to qualify pilots in...

Major US banks are continuing to close branches across the US, leaving an increasing number of Americans without access to basic financial services. Bank of America axed 21 branches in the first week of October, according to a bulletin published by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday. Wells Fargo shuttered 15, while US Bank and Chase reported closing nine and three respectively. In total, some 54 locations had either closed or were scheduled to close between October 1 and October 7. Of the overall closures, three were in Louisville in Kentucky. Eight of the 21...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Commander said that it was a Big mistake to Attack, They are Doomed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpOZLBlC1cg Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 41 zhutatko – October 15, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-41/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

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An Oklahoma teen is on top of the world after winning a car last month at a funeral 30 miles away from her home — fulfilling the last wish of a woman she had never even met. ...She died suddenly on July 7, 2022 — and just a few weeks before had told her nephew that when she died, she wanted to gift one of her prized possessions — a 2016 Volkswagen Beetle — to someone who attended the funeral. "We put it in the local paper," Ingram said. "That her wish is that whoever comes to the funeral —...

Harvard's Arab Alumni Association has appealed for donations to help students' mental health after they were subjected to 'relentless bullying and intimidation' for blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks of October 7.

This man claims that a Military aged Migrant UN Soldier told that UN paid the man and gave him a card + a phone then told him to await for orders. Something to look into due to how many people are flooding in through borders of U.S.

We sure have been experiencing a lot of “coincidences” lately, haven’t we? On Friday, Israeli forces conducted their first localized raids inside Gaza. Then on Saturday, the path of a spectacular “ring of fire” solar eclipse marched across the continental United States. Is it just a coincidence that this eclipse has happened just as the Great Middle East War is commencing? Throughout human history, eclipses have often coincided with tragic events and major historical turning points. For example, earlier today I came across an article that took a look back at “the World War I eclipse”… Such was the case...

A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.3 at 03:36 UTC (08:06 local time) on October 15, 2023. The agency is reporting a depth of 8 km (5 miles). This region of Afghanistan was hit by a total 4 of M6.3 earthquakes (USGS) since October 7 when twin M6.3s killed more than 2 400 people. The epicenter was located 30.2 km (18.7 miles) NNW of Herāt (population 574 300), 41.2 km (25.6 miles) N of Chahār Burj (population 11 935), 44.7 km (27.8 miles) NE of Zindah Jān (population 10 104), Herat, Afghanistan. There were no immediate...

IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Sunday that it is evident that the Hezbollah terror organization is working with Iranian support to intentionally escalate the situation in northern Israel. "Hezbollah is working to escalate tensions on the northern border under the order and with the support of Iran. Israel has a strong army that is prepared to operate on two fronts and even more. We are fully coordinated with the US to ensure our national interests are protected," Hagari stated. He mentioned the southern front and stated: "We eliminated in recent days several Hamas commanders who led the...

Angelyn Peralta Aguirre, a 33-year-old caregiver from the Philippines, was by the side of her 70-year-old patient, Nira last Saturday when Hamas terrorists attacked Kibbutz Kfar Gaza. Aguirre had been Nira’s caregiver for six years. In the face of such horror, Aguirre did not abandon her patient. She took her to a shelter where they both hid. “Wadiya la ra. Natatakot ak (They are already here. I am afraid),” the 33-year-old caregiver said in one voice message sent to the family chat group. More messages followed but three hours later, she went silent. “At that moment we were praying for...

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WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Hardline Republican Jim Jordan picked up support for his campaign to lead the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday as he aimed to bulldoze opposition within his own party by applying pressure in a series of public votes. Several of Jordan's fellow Republicans said they would support his bid for House Speaker, whittling down his opposition from the 55 lawmakers who had voted against endorsing on Friday. It was unclear whether he would be able to unite his party enough to prevail in a floor vote expected on Tuesday. "I feel real good about the...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) endorsed former President Donald Trump for president in 2024 at an event in Adel, Iowa, on Monday, marking yet another high-profile endorsement for the 45th president. At the first of two of Trump’s stops in Iowa on Monday at the Dallas County Fairgrounds, Bird noted, “Here in Iowa, we’ve got things pretty good compared to the rest of our country…but the rest of our country, it sure is another story.” The contrast between the Trump & Biden Admins couldn’t be more clear. With Biden, we have soaring inflation, a border crisis, & a gov’t...

When pro-Palestinian protesters chant "Palestine from the river to the sea," they are really calling for the "extermination of the Jewish state," one former counterterrorism coordinator warned. "They think that Israel shouldn't exist at all," Nathan Sales told "Sunday Night in America." "This is exterminationist rhetoric and our First Amendment means that we have to tolerate this kind of speech, but the antidote for that kind of abhorrent speech is more speech. We need to expose what these Hamas sympathizers are really all about." Several American cities have seen protests against Israel by pro-Palestinian supporters since the Oct. 7 attack...

BREAKING: Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday, Blinken says Also US, Israel agree plan on aid for Gaza, Blinken says

On this date in 1975, five Australia-based journalists were slain in East Timor: executed (ahem, “allegedly”) by Indonesian security forces preparing to invade the former Portuguese colony. The Balibo Five — Australians Greg Shackleton and Tony Stewart; Britons Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie; and New Zealander Gary Cunningham — worked for two different Australian networks, but were together filing reports from the village of Balibo during the tense run-up to the December 1975 Indonesian invasion. Just weeks before this date, the more Indonesian-friendly faction in the newly-independent statelet had been routed into Indonesian West Timor by the revolutionary Fretilin. Indonesian...

#BREAKING Biden to visit Israel on Wednesday: Blinken pic.twitter.com/2UEqP3tLIV— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 17, 2023

A lobbying firm with ties to RINO Mitch McConnell organized a phone call Monday night at 8 ET with GOP Rep. Don Bacon – one of the 8 RINO holdouts refusing to vote in favor of Jim Jordan for House Speaker. Chairman Jordan needs 217 votes on Tuesday to win the gavel and secure the speakership. However, as of Monday evening, 8 RINOs are still holding out and refusing to support Chairman Jordan: Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE), Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Frank Lucas (R-OK), John Rutherford (R-FL), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Steve Womack (R-AR), and Ken Buck (R-CO). Rep....

We begin with a look into the role of key instigators and police in the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol protests. Authorities haven’t provided answers about the role of undercover agents and informants in the crowd that day. A Rasmussen Reports survey found 65% of likely voters say they think undercover government agents likely helped provoke the riots. We review keys moments on video with law enforcement experts who ask, why did police inexplicably stand by and allow some demonstrators to drive the crowd to violence? Today, the results of our yearlong investigation. --------- Full Measure is a weekly Sunday...