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Female Ukrainian soldiers are taking to the video-sharing app TikTok to post glam pictures and videos of themselves in their bid to win the soft power propaganda war with Russia. Clips of glamorous women in Ukrainian military uniforms dancing, fooling around in barracks, and even holding bullets have gone viral on social media. As tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain strained, sharing candid videos and pictures of troops behind the scenes have become another front for a quasi-war. Typically, the videos feature soldiers performing dances, but some also show female troops taking apart and reassembling weapons, or having fun in...

Two months after the Pentagon began requiring all troops to get the coronavirus vaccine or face dismissal, the vast majority have now had shots, in part because none received a religious exemption, military officials said. https://t.co/3zpPg5hpG6 — NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) November 4, 2021 Troops who refuse the coronavirus vaccine won’t see any extra protections or leniency in how their dismissals are handled, Defense and Veterans Affairs officials confirmed Wednesday. Instead, decisions on whether to give those individuals other-than-honorable discharges — potentially blocking them from a host of veterans benefits — will be left to local commanders, and their cases won’t...

Upset military members sounding off about being forced against their will for a jab or face dishonorable discharge. This is after all they have done for our country. https://www.bitchute.com/video/i79mCHdKOZAr/

Fourteen Mexican soldiers were detained for several hours on Saturday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents after crossing into the El Paso, Texas. "Just after midnight today CBP officers working at the Bridge of the America's international crossing in El Paso noted two Mexican military vehicles crossing the boundary and entering the U.S.," CBP said in a statement provided to Reuters. As the news service reported, the soldiers said they did not realize they had crossed the border. CBP secured their weapons and equipment for "safety and processing," and Mexican military leadership was also contacted. Due to the...

There is no greater danger to the country than this effort to politicize the military by ensuring that all officers hew to the political party line of this administration.resident Joe Biden and his administration are continuing to purge and politicize the American military. Consistent with the totalitarian left’s effort to control curricula down to the grade-school level, their latest effort targets the education of America’s future military leaders at the service academies: The U. S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. This is not happening by accident. And...

The U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan has been America's longest war. After two decades and the loss of tens of thousands of lives, many may view its legacy as nothing more than a foreign policy embarrassment. The U.S. first entered the conflict under then-president George W. Bush in 2001, just weeks after the Al-Qaeda September 11 attacks that prompted the "War on Terror". Almost 20 years and several administrations later, the goal to pacify Afghanistan and build a democratic and civil society is still not in sight. On Sunday, August 15, militants poured into the capital, Kabul, as President Ashraf...

I'm sorry that I have nothing to say other than ... No One should miss the opportunity to see this.

Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of the United States Northern Command, said during a press conference on Friday that around 7,000 Afghan refugees have thus far been airlifted to the U.S. The refugees, who will be housed at U.S. military bases around the country, will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine but won’t be forced to take it. “The vaccines are being offered to them,” the NORTHCOM commander told reporters, noting that they’re being offered when the individuals land at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. “We offer them as well at task force locations,” he said, but noted that “they...

The cruelty of the Taliban ... Minutes after surrendering, Afghan soldiers were sprayed and killed in cold blood by Taliban fire.https://twitter.com/ZionWarrior6/status/1415059691219083270

A group of serving French soldiers have published a new open letter warning Emmanuel Macron that the 'survival' of France is at stake after the President made 'concessions' to Islamism. The letter published in the right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Today's Values) late on Sunday echoes the tone of a similar letter printed in the same magazine last month which also warned a civil war was brewing and called for military action against 'Islamists'. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, a close ally of Macron, slammed the letter as a 'crude maneouvre' and accused its anonymous signatories of lacking 'courage'. The previous...

Both women were active-duty soldiers stationed on Fort Bragg, Col Joseph Buccino, a spokesman for the 18th Airborne Corps, told The Fayetteville Observer. Buccino said Horton was a motorpool clerk assigned to the 525th Military Intelligence Brigade. Horton joined the Army in 2017. Vinson, of Norfolk, Virginia, was a parachute rigger assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group. Vinson joined the Army in 2014. 'This is a tragic, senseless loss and a terrible moment, particularly for those here who knew Kelia,' Buccino told the newspaper. 'The command at the 525 Military Intelligence Brigade is organizing grief counseling for Kelia’s fellow...

The federal government just used its publicly employed career professionals to target a working journalist for professional destruction.After a cable news host irresponsibly attacked the U.S. military for aiding in the “death of the republic” by taking to the streets of the U.S. capital for use against the American people, the coordinated response from the Department of Defense through its public affairs channels was swift and unforgiving.The headline in the Defense.gov news article said it all: “Press Spokesman Destroys Host for Despicable Suggestion about US Military Use.” This was a response to an MSNBC cable show host using her show...

Reporting on the antics of the impeachment-frenzied liberals, Liberty Nation has likened the second attempt to a circus. The simile is apt. But there is a dark side to the Dem shenanigans. The backdrop of seven-foot-high fences with razor concertina wire affixed to the top and armed National Guard soldiers patrolling seems more suited to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s image of the Soviet gulag than to the capital of America, land of the free. The Trump Derangement Syndrome that afflicted Democrats while the former president was in office has turned to hysterics in his absence. And the left’s histrionics now come with...

UPDATE #2: Officials with Fort Bliss and the William Beaumont Army Medical Center said at a briefing late Friday afternoon that eleven hospitalized Fort Bliss soldiers were poisoned from drinking automotive antifreeze that they mistook for alcohol. All of the soldiers remained hospitalized, but the two critically injured showed significant improvement and were upgraded to serious condition in the hospital's ICU. One of the soldiers had to be intubated but no longer needs breathing assistance, officials said. Up to four of the soldiers were anticipated to be released from the hospital soon. The soldiers were diagnosed with ethylene glycol poisoning....

Women-only teams at military schools, colleges, and service academies will have to accommodate biological men, regardless of the harm done to women. The newly inaugurated Biden-Harris administration is off to a rocky start with military men and women. Serious affronts have come from Congress as well as the White House, adding insults to injuries with even more damage on the way. It was bad enough when Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., insinuated during a CNN interview that most of the 25,000 National Guard soldiers deployed to guard the Capitol during the Inauguration were white males and probably Donald Trump voters, so...

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy directed the Arlington National Cemetery to hold its annual Wreaths Across America event after lawmakers raised objections when the event, which honors fallen soldiers, was canceled over coronavirus concerns

President Trump says the angriest he's been during his reelection bid was when The Atlantic reported that he had called American military members who died at war "losers" and "suckers." "It's a totally made-up story," Trump said on Fox Business' "Mornings with Maria." on Thursday. "They don't even have any witnesses, they made it up. And that's why they're lowlifes, because they made it up and went with a story. They know it wasn't true but they use it all the time." The story, published in early September and citing multiple anonymous sources, alleges that the president also made disparaging...

If you haven't seen this already I hope you will watch this video from Prager University on the meaning of Memorial Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBnyEupyNB8

President Trump began observing Memorial Day with a tweet Monday morning: “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!” He then participated at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, and will also attend a ceremony at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Mr. Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Monday morning. Although the wreath laying is usually part of a ceremony that involves a presidential address, Mr. Trump did not deliver a speech at the cemetery, which is closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. For the solemn occasion, the first lady wore a white double-breasted coat with...

Isra Hirsi, daughter of Ilhan Omar apparently has the same feelings about the American military as her mother. Isra Hirsi calls the American military “bitches” and claims that they are “furthering American imperialism” and “actively killing innocent children abroad”. “I know this is a joke, but the fact that these men are calling me a bitch when they are actively killing innocent children abroad and also furthering US imperialism makes me think that they are actually the bitch,” Hirsi said during a TikTok live video that was captured by conservative activist CJ Pearson. The video was apparently deleted but not...