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Technically correct because the Ruger RXM is a Gen 3 Glock derivative, but we love our Japanese bros so we won't hold this against him. Pictured is a JL Billet RXM Reaper chassis.
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On this day, October 27th 1995, then Sergeant William Kreutzer (top left in video) opened fire with a Ruger 10/22 on a formation of 82nd Airborne Infantry Division (Falcon Brigade specifically) Soldiers at Towle Stadium on Fort Bragg, NC. The Soldiers were in their PT uniforms and formed up for a Brigade run.
For those who have never been to Towle Stadium, it's a giant bowl (photo of it at the time at end of video) and quite literally the perfect place to commit mass murder.
SGT Kreutzer was armed with a PacWest pre-ban AR15 (more accurately a CAR-15 variant), the Ruger 10/22 already mentioned, and a Gen2 Glock 17. He waited until the formation of Soldiers started moving through the bleachers (most of the field was surrounded by bleachers back then) and were channelized with nowhere to flee.
The exact number of rounds fired hasn't been released but in his trial it was stated that he fired 50 rounds of 22LR hollow points through the 10/22 before switching to the PacWest rifle.
16 Soldiers were shot with the 10/22, including Major Stephen Badger (lower left in video) who was killed while serving as the Brigade S2.
Several Special Forces Soldiers (including SFC Tony Minor, SFC Bob Howes, SGT Edward Mongold, and SFC Paul Rogers, and others who haven't been named) happened to be running down Bastogne Dr at the time and jumped into the makeshift concealed firing position occupied by SGT Kreutzer as he was firing his PacWest rifle and they beat the ever living shit out of him, stopping the attack.
CPT Cole Bricker (Brigade S3 battle Captain) and 1LT George Lewis (assistant Regimental S2) arrived at the firing position virtually at the same time as the SF Soldiers & aided in the beating & detention before SGT Kreutzer was arrested.
1. SGT Kreutzer is serving a life sentence. He should be executed immediately and I will voluntarily staff, equip, and conduct the execution via firing squad. I'll cover all expenses and document his execution for historical records.
2. The only reason more Soldiers weren't killed that day was because the killer used the least effective weapon he had. If he wasn't a moron, it would have been much worse.
3. This serves as YET ANOTHER example of why our military members should not be prohibited from carrying firearms on base. #SECWAR ordered an end to this in April but every installation commander has disobeyed his order and basically told him to fuck off. SECWAR's lack of a response to this insubordination is what it is - make of that what you will.
Plan accordingly...
#history #FortBragg #82ndAirborne #CivilRights #crime #NC #falcons #2BCT #TowleStadium #bragg #airborne #FtBragg
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I've been a gunner on an M242 Bushmaster, M2, M240B/C/L, TOW, MK19, shot expert on (and a few people with) M4, M16, M249 SAW, M9, M320, M203, M17, qualified with Javelin, AT4, claymore, grenades, hung 60, 81 and 120mm mortars in a fight, pulled string on 155s, shot a tank and manned a gun on a UH60 and I say you're a fuckin moron.
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When I was married I learned a lesson about the difference between men and women’s brains. When describing a task, the majority of men would state the result of the task. For example: going to work, making dinner, replacing the hot water heater.
My ex wife and the majority of her friends mentally broke those events into minute tasks. For example: making dinner was broken down into determining meal, defrosting the meat, chopping each ingredient, etc.
When I made dinner she would claim I cut corners because I never verbally or emotionally broke it down. She would never acknowledge all the stress she placed on herself was self inflicted.
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Wouldn’t it be crazy if @TheAKGuy’s general election opponent, @katy4congress, got caught up in a last-minute sex scandal, just like Tony Gonzales did during the primary?
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When a Veteran tragically took his own life in the San Antonio VA parking lot, Brandon was there the very next day.
On the ground. Standing with the Veteran community. Advocating for those he wants to serve.
That raises a question for those already in office:
Where were you?
Veterans deserve representatives who show up when it matters, not just when it’s convenient.
Leadership is about showing up when people need you most.
Brandon, no one can trust you.
You lick the boots of people who raised healthcare costs, gutted Medicaid and Medicare, and said, “Seniors who collect Social Security should be hit with a mallet.”
Now you pretend to champion healthcare? Families, hospitals and TX-23 know better.
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The quoted statement is a joke from a comedy podcast referencing the film Midsommar, not a serious claim or policy. Herrera's campaign platform states he opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits.
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Outsiders sometimes assume that morning commuters in Tokyo are cold strangers who only stare at their phones and never get involved.
At 9:15 a.m. on July 22, 2013, at Minami-Urawa Station north of Tokyo, a woman in her thirties slipped and fell waist-deep into the eight-inch gap between the concrete platform and a thirty-two-ton steel train car.
She was pinned tight against the undercarriage, and the train could not move an inch without crushing her.
Modern Japanese commuter trains rest on pneumatic air-spring suspension bogies designed to tilt slightly when weight shifts.
The moment a station attendant blew his whistle and called for help, passengers inside the car immediately stepped off to remove ten tons of human weight.
Then forty strangers in business suits and summer shirts lined up shoulder to shoulder along the platform edge.
Without knowing each other's names, they pressed their bare hands high against the stainless-steel wall and pushed together on a single count.
The thirty-two-ton train car tilted backward on its springs by several inches, and attendants pulled the woman out without a single scratch.
The crowd clapped once, stepped back onto the train, and rode to work just eight minutes behind schedule.
That is what a high-trust society looks like when a stranger is in trouble.
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Or. Stay with me here. Breaking into my house has negated the whole “I deserve to draw breath” thing
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Is this dumbass one of yours?
@PandaExpress
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oh my
Yo @BrianCLambeth , when you finally make your way out of that shell of yours, we should have a discussion. I’ve got some questions for you boss, because I have recently learned of some fucked up shit with you at the center of it. But…I’m fair. Let’s hear your version.
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Look, I am a grown ass man but if you put a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in front of me with a half gallon of red top milk, not any of that weird half a percent shit, a mixing bowl and a gumbo spoon? I will eat it all.
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Anti-gun critics claim an armed American citizen with a concealed pistol will only panic when a mass shooter opens fire.
On Father's Day, June 17, 2018, forty-seven-year-old pastor and EMT David George stood in a Washington Walmart with his family.
Suddenly, a convicted felon high on methamphetamine shot open a glass ammunition case with a revolver and ran toward the front exit.
Because George had trained with local police, he knew drawing a pistol inside a crowded store before seeing a clear target could cause a tragedy.
First, he made sure his wife, daughter, and granddaughter escaped through the exit according to their family safety plan.
Then he followed the gunman into the parking lot, where the killer had just shot father-of-two Rickey Fievez in the neck and chest and jumped into a woman's car while she crouched terrified behind the bumper.
Approaching within seven feet on the passenger side so his line of fire would never endanger the woman, George drew his Glock 19 as the killer turned his revolver toward him.
George fired five shots into the gunman's chest, ending the rampage in two seconds.
Then the pastor holstered his pistol, dropped to his knees on the bloody asphalt, and used his EMT training to keep the paralyzed father breathing until ambulances arrived.
A shepherd carries a staff to stop the wolf, and bandages to heal the flock.
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TL cleanse. Read it.
My uncle fixed American warships for 41 years.
He was a welder at the US Navy base in Yokosuka. He started at 19. He barely spoke English. He didn't need to. He spoke steel.
Destroyers. Cruisers. An aircraft carrier, more times than he can count. If a ship in the Seventh Fleet had a seam, there's a decent chance my uncle welded it.
He never met most of the sailors who sailed on them. He just knew they came home safe. Because the seams held.
Last spring, he retired.
He expected a cake in the break room. Maybe a certificate.
Instead, when he walked out of the shop on his last day, there were sailors lined up on both sides of the pier. In dress uniform.
A boatswain raised a whistle to his lips.
My uncle had no idea what was happening. Someone had to explain it to him later.
In the US Navy, when a sailor retires after a long career, they "pipe him ashore." Sideboys line up. The whistle sounds. Everyone salutes.
It's an honor the Navy gives its own.
They gave it to a Japanese welder.
My uncle walked between them slowly. Every few steps, he stopped and bowed. They held their salute the entire time.
At the end of the line, the captain shook his hand and said something my uncle didn't understand.
That night, he asked me to translate it.
"Fair winds and following seas."
He made me write it down in Japanese letters, so he could say it right.
Now, every time we leave his house, he walks us to the door and says the only English sentence he knows by heart.
"Fair winds and following seas."
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Late to the party on this, but I have bad news for you buddy:
WAGTFKY
BTW you should look at your leftist bedfellows, kapo. They've decided that you are an oppressor and your only purpose now is to be a token. Tokens get spent.
