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"I was taken and forced to go to war."
A Ukrainian soldier found by Russian forces after being abandoned by his unit recounts how he ended up on the battlefield.
Ukraine is sending a civilians into combat in desperate attempt to prevent shortage of the military personnel.
RF. III 🦁 retweeted
🚨The Ultimate Aviation Breakdown: Why This Pilot's Analysis is a Must Watch
This is hands down one of the most professional breakdowns out there. As a real world commercial pilot, he uses actual data to analyze aviation accidents and close calls with incredible clarity.
His channel is an absolute must follow.
youtube.com/@mentourpilot?si…
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RF. III 🦁 retweeted
What MIGHT have happened on the Lear jet 60 that crashed in Greenacres, Florida on Sunday. Terrifying
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This video documents one of the most horrific and famous air disasters in United States history:
the incident involving American Airlines Flight 191, which was operated using a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 wide-body jet. On May 25, 1979, the aircraft departed from Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Illinois.
As the aircraft began its rotation and takeoff roll, the left engine (engine no. 1) and its pylon assembly completely tore off and fell onto the runway.
This structural failure was primarily traced back to improper maintenance procedures.
With the left wing stalled and the right wing still producing lift, the DC-10 rolled violently to the left, pitched down, and banked sharply.
Despite the flight crew's desperate efforts, the aircraft plunged into an open field and a nearby trailer park just short of a hangar outside the airport boundary, erupting into a massive fireball.
Tragically, all 271 people on board (258 passengers and 13 crew members) and two people on the ground lost their lives, making it the deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
This disaster prompted significant changes throughout the aviation industry, including tighter restrictions on maintenance practices, rigorous redesigns and reinforcements of engine pylon structures, and the temporary grounding of the DC-10 fleet worldwide. These changes were intended to restore public and regulatory confidence.
RF. III 🦁 retweeted
Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his own father - one day before his 45th birthday, in the $2 million mansion he’d bought his parents in 1973. His father never spent a single night in prison for it. The court decided Marvin had brought it on himself
He was one of the greatest voices American music ever produced, fresh off the biggest comeback of his life with “Sexual Healing.” He died on his parents’ floor, killed with a .38 he’d given his father himself - a Christmas gift, so the old man could feel safe from intruders
He’d moved back home in 1983 to care for his sick mother, and his father couldn’t stand having him there. On April 1, 1984, an argument became a fight. The old man walked out, came back with his son’s gift, and fired twice
In the footage below, his father stands in court - where the murder charge was cut to manslaughter because Marvin had struck him first, and the man who pulled the trigger walked out with five years of probation
Here is where it becomes about money. Marvin had spent his life pouring his fortune into this family - he bought them that mansion, he came home to pay for his mother’s care. His success was supposed to protect them all. Instead it drew him back under the roof of the one man who resented everything he’d become, and he died owing nearly $1.9 million, with no will. The royalties that cleared those debts arrived only after he was in the ground
So remember this, because it’s bigger than one singer and it will find you too. We spend our lives braced for the intruder at the door - the stranger, the danger we buy locks and guns to stop. And we hand the key to the person already inside. The partner we give signing power. The relative we put on the account. The parent we could never imagine fearing. The threat is almost never the one you prepared for. It’s the one you armed yourself, because they were family and surely not them
Marvin gave his father a home to live in, a gun to feel safe with, and the trust you hand only to blood. His father used all three the same afternoon. So before you spend another year protecting the people you love, ask the question Marvin never got to: the ones you’d never think to fear - are you sure they aren’t the only ones standing close enough to end you?
RF. III 🦁 retweeted
दुनिया में सिर्फ 50 से भी कम पायलट हैं जिन्हें यहाँ प्लेन उतारने की इजाज़त है और वजह देखकर रोंगटे खड़े हो जाएंगे!
ये है भूटान का पारो एयरपोर्ट न कोई ऑटोपायलट न राडार गाइडेंस रनवे तब तक नहीं दिखता जब तक विमान 18,000 फीट ऊंचे पहाड़ों के बिल्कुल करीब न आ जाए। एक सेकंड की चूक और खेल खत्म!
बताइए क्या आप कभी इस एयरपोर्ट पर फ्लाइट से उतरना चाहेंगे?
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Many of you still think soldiers die like heroes in clean, decisive moments. This footage from Height 105-106 shows the actual pattern: short, brutal close encounters in trenches and treelines where both sides take heavy losses in seconds. The foreign volunteers (US, Canadian and others) who went into Alfa and Bravo did not stroll in as invincible veterans; they closed with the enemy under fire, cleared positions, and finished the fight at arm’s length. Officials on both sides will call the dead martyrs or heroes. That is a cliché that softens reality for people who have never watched these frames.
This is not the Middle East style of engagement most Western veterans trained for. Iraq and Afghanistan experience does not automatically transfer. Standard training and past tours do not prepare you for the density of fires, the constant drone threat, and the pure infantry meat-grinder of these European fields. You can be a veteran of Kandahar or Fallujah and still not last long if you trust only old skills. As the Afghan proverb says: everyone is gang until they go to Kandahar. The ones who actually went into those trenches found out quickly that talk and prior service do not change the arithmetic of short-range killing. Most of the fallen on either side were not dying as storybook heroes. They were simply there when the next burst of fire arrived.
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YouTubers trusted a Nürburgring expert with over 10,000 laps to take them around one of the world’s most dangerous tracks at FULL SPEED, and his split second reaction saved them from a terrifying collision when a BMW suddenly pulled into their path 😳👀
“This is as wild as everybody says it is. As a passenger, it’s extremely overwhelming. The car is dancing on the edge, and the amount of trust he has in the equipment is the most impressive part.”
RF. III 🦁 retweeted
After the game Jordan Shipp ran over to Malachi Toney to show him love and ask if they could pray together. God, continue to protect these young men. Their mothers did an incredible job raising them. 🙏🏾
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I ain’t know Lou Williams was WILDIN like this in HS bruh 😭😭 no wonder he went straight to the league
RF. III 🦁 retweeted
JSN literally taught Malachi Toney this route in the offseason.
Just give Toney the Heisman already 🥶
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A car dealer got HEATED after a customer tried returning a $15K Hot Wheels Mustang just two days after buying it because nobody could drive stick shift, then demanded $17K despite not even paying for the car yet 😳👀
“It's got nitrogen... They put it in balloons and give it to kids at festivals, right? This car is practically illegal”
“Can't believe you're tryna make money on me right now”
