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NICHOLAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) – A mine worker has died after being trapped in a Nicholas County mine. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey released a statement on twitter saying that around 6:00 a.m. this morning, water levels inside the Rolling Thunder Mine receded enough for crews to safely enter. At 7:37 a.m., one two-man team located the body of the missing miner, foreman Steve Lipscomb, 42, of Elkview. Officials have said Lipscomb had 20 years of mining experience, and the company said he had been employed with them since 2006. West Virginia Delegate Dean Jeffries (R-Kanawha) also confirmed that Lipscomb...

Samuel Nicholas benefited from a well-connected upbringing in Philadelphia, where he was born to an established Quaker family in 1744. After his father’s death in 1751, Nicholas attended the prestigious Philadelphia Academy with support from his uncle, Attwood Shute, who later served as mayor of Philadelphia. The school placed him among the city’s prominent families and future leaders of the American Revolution.1 After graduating, Nicholas was admitted to the Schuylkill Fishing Company, an exclusive sporting club, and helped organize the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, the first fox hunt club in North America. Both social clubs also made him a peer...

The blacktop road in this picturesque neighborhood of Colonial Williamsburg is lined with Southern Magnolias, red maples, and flowering dogwoods, their leaves turned deep shades of red. Near the end of the road sits a red brick, colonial-style house, yellow and purple pansies bordering a path to the front door.Williamsburg, Virginia“Planting flowers is my exercise,” says Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (Ret.), 87.For 23 years, Van Riper shared the house with Lillie Catherine, whom he called LC, his beloved wife of 53 years who passed away in 2021. He designed the house at the end of a decades-long...

The Marine Corps was established in 1775 to fight in the Revolutionary War, making the branch older than the United States.Monday marks a major milestone in American military history as the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its 250th birthday and events honoring Marines past and present are planned across several states.Birth of the CorpsThe branch traces its origins to Nov. 10, 1775, when John Adams drafted a resolution creating the Continental Marines to serve alongside the Continental Navy in the Revolutionary War. Recruitment began at a brewery in Philadelphia, which is now recognized as the Corps' birthplace.First MissionsThe Marines' first assault...

1. According to legend, the first Marine Corps recruitments took place in a bar. Marine tradition holds that the Corps was formed in a bar. The story dates to late November 1775, when newly commissioned Captains Samuel Nicholas and Robert Mullan supposedly organized the first Marine Corps muster at Tun Tavern, a popular watering hole in Philadelphia. The two officers are said to have lured potential Marines with mugs of beer and the promise of adventure on the high seas, and their recruits later made up the first five companies that served aboard Continental Navy ships. While there’s little hard...

Happy Birthday Marines. Semper Fi.Birthday Message on YouTube.

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The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny White Democrat yells at Winsome Sears, tells her to go back to Haiti (she’s not Haitian), and calls her a traitor. You know he thinks he’s the good guy.

... “The capabilities demonstration will feature integrated Navy and Marine Corps operations across air, land and sea,” the statement reads. The statement also indicated “no public highways or transportation routes [would be] closed,” but Caltrans told KTLA on Thursday that they were informed of a potential plan to close the freeway despite their cautioning against it. The department of transportation issued a statement just before 8 a.m. Saturday clarifying details on the shutdown. “Due to safety concerns, a section of Interstate 5 will be closed Saturday due to a White House-directed military event at Camp Pendleton involving live ammunition being...

We invite you to join us for a special presentation / celebration honoring 250 years of Marine Corps legacy, tradition, & service to our great nation this Saturday from 12-8PM ET.—with your host, Steve Bannon!

A twelfth suspect has been charged and is being sought in the ambush on the night of July Fourth at the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas following the arrests of eleven other alleged Antifa members in the shooting attack that wounded an Alvarado police officer in the neck. The FBI announced on Wednesday up to a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of former Marine Reservist Benjamin Song, 32, who has been charged with six counts related to the attack. Several of the rifles found at the scene of the ambush are allegedly tied...

Two and a half centuries of honor, courage and commitment. This Saturday, Real America's Voice presents America's Marine Two Hundred and Fifty. Uncommon Valor, a Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Salute

The Biden administration has refused to answer reporters’ questions, rule out terrorism, or even reveal the names of two Jordanians in the country illegally, one of whom had illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest border, who on May 3 conducted a box truck ramming attack on Quantico Marine Corps Base.The Department of Justice, Department of Defense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI all circled wagons to guard even the identities of the two Jordanians against five written congressional inquiries, a sixth by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeking government briefings about the incident, and most recently a subpoena by the...

A shooting game between two friends in Texas has taken a tragic turn, with one dead and the other arrested for his murder. Sean O'Donnell, 37, and Aaron Prout, 34, were taking turns shooting at each other with a rifle while wearing a kevlar helmet inside a Houston home on August 17. The game unfolded at a home on Pennington Hills Drive in the northern outskirts of the city, but it went horribly wrong when O'Donnell allegedly fatally shot Prout, an English military veteran. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said deputies were called to the home and 'found an adult...

My #2 son made it through a week of jungle warfare training in Northern Okinawa. I know it's not planting the flag on Iwo Jima, but I'm very happy for him and proud of him. Here's a video via You Tube from three years ago to give a quick glimpse of what it's like. You Tube linkThanks to all the young people that have the guts to join up. And thanks is not big enough to all the people that have given their lives. They should always be honoured.

News of Abdul Niazi’s death arrived in a chilling phone call. It was March 26, nearly the end of Ramadan, and his wife wanted to know when to expect her husband, a former U.S. military interpreter who lost both legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan and became one of Houston’s most well-known advocates for new Afghan migrants. It was almost time to break the day’s fast, recalled Niazi’s cousin, but he hadn’t returned home. So she called his cellphone. “I’m not your husband,” the man on the other end of the line said, according to Rizwanullah Niazi, Niazi’s cousin....

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages. The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear:...

Active Marine Defies Trump’s LA Deployment, Joins Dallas Anti-ICE Protest

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command has activated the Marine infantry battalion that was placed in an alert status over the weekend. Approximately 700 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division will seamlessly integrate with the Title 10 forces under Task Force 51 who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area. The activation of the Marines is intended to provide Task Force 51 with adequate numbers of forces to provide continuous coverage of the area in support of the lead federal agency. Task Force 51 is U.S. Army North’s...

🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump is now MOBILIZING 700 active duty Marines to Los Angeles to the riots, per reportsThey are currently gearing up and are on the way.They'll be assisting the National Guardsmen currently on the groundLET'S GO! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/dh3ToN9pld— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 9, 2025