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Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. – Abraham Lincoln	added by Normando 1 year ago
The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, has suspended the commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron pending further investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, additionally, the detachment commander overseeing administrative support for Airmen at the unit mobilized for duty under Title 10 USC has also been suspended. – Ann Stefanek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This means that both the squadron’s state Air National Guard operational commander and current federal orders administrative commander have been suspended pending completion of the Department of the Air Force Inspector General Investigation, also, the Department of Air Force has temporarily removed these individuals’ access to classified systems and information. – Ann Stefanek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Once again demonstrating his commitment to being transparent with the American people about the finances of the Commander-in-Chief, President Biden has released the most tax returns of any president while in office. – White House	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have a constitutional duty to get to the facts, particularly when you have a district attorney interfering with the most important election we have, the commander-in-chief, the president of the United States. – Jim Jordan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I haven’t seen anything in the documents I’ve seen that would cause me as a commander to change my plans, it’s given some information to the Russians in terms of unit locations and ammo and equipment capabilities, but I would venture to say the Russians already knew all that anyway. – Mark Hertling	Found on CNN 1 year ago
On one hand, I think it’s very important to drive a sense of urgency. I applaud him for that. He’s an aggressive commander, on the other hand, I would not paint it as inevitable that we will be in war, and I hope we will do everything we can to deter a conflict. – Mark Esper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
According to our assessment, this is not the final change, [Putin] really does have problems with the command, both at the top level, the generals, and at the bottom level of platoon or company commander. – Vadym Skibitsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If Biden does not visit the border while in Arizona and talk to the men and women who risk their lives every day during a historic border security crisis, then he will show he has truly abandoned the agency that works 24/7 to keep this country safe, what kind of commander-in-chief abandons those on the front line because of politics? The fact is, Joe Biden won’t visit the border because he doesn’t want to be confronted with the reality of the destruction his policies have caused. – Tom Homan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh said, the commanders on the ground know best when it comes to maintaining combat readiness, in this case, a Navy SEAL commander with decades of experience says kicking out his troops hurts our military worse than COVID ever could. America is now learning that the Pentagon bureaucrats are wildly out of touch with reality. – First Liberty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Michelle Steel employs the same disinformation that has led to an increase in violence against members of the Asian American community, while shamelessly smearing a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, as a Taiwanese American who holds a Top Secret security clearance, Lt. Commander Jay Chen deeply understands the threat China poses to the United States. While Confucius Classrooms were widely accepted across the United States a dozen years ago, including by the State Department, the Chinese Communist Party’s evolution as an aggressor towards the United States and its democratic allies has further informed the U.S. State Department’s evaluation of these programs, and Lt. Commander Chen remains aligned with their analysis. – Lindsay Barnes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Pentagon is facing a self-inflicted crisis it can’t spin its way out of, it’s impacting mission, manpower, and morale, and the current Commander in Chief is most to blame. – Darrell Issa	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a privilege to engage with American heroes in uniform on the ground in South Korea, led by General Paul LaCamera, Commander, U.S. Forces Korea. During visits to the Demilitarized Zone/Joint Security Area( DMZ/JSA) and Osan Air Base, we conveyed the gratitude of the Congress and the Country for the patriotic service of our Servicemembers, who stand as sentinels of Democracy on the Korean Demilitarized Zone peninsula. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children, the officers had weapons; the children had none. The officers had body armor; the children had none. The officers had training; the subject had none. – Public Safety Director Steve McCraw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. – Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I just don't get how you can hear these kids crying and asking for help, but you're scared to enter because your commander doesn't want you to go in. – Angel Garza	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. – Public Safety Director Steven McCraw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I appear to be hypercritical of the on-scene commander, and I don't mean to be, but the facts are the facts, mistakes were made. It should never have happened that way. – Public Safety Director Steve McCraw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. – Steve McCraw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no children at risk. Obviously, you know, based on the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were at risk, and it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation and not a barricaded subject. – Public Safety Director Steven McCraw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I do think that's a premature comment, off-the-cuff, and everybody listens to the commander-in-chief. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Vadim Shishimarin was in a state of stress caused by the combat situation and the pressure from his commander. Analysis of those circumstances allows me to conclude that Vadim Shishimarin had no direct intent for the murder. – Viktor Ovsyannikov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The best thing Associated Press -RRB- Biden said tonight was Associated Press -RRB- Biden call to fund the police — an act of leadership to help stop left-wing radicals in his own party from setting policing policies, and on the foreign policy front, Associated Press -RRB- Biden sounded appropriately tough as the commander-in-chief and genuinely sympathetic to the plight of Ukrainians who are fighting for their lives. But that wo n’t make up for the Administration’s posture of weakness which helped provoke Vladimir Putin’s invasion. – David Wilezol	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What’s happening in Eastern Europe is a direct result of the weakness and incompetence displayed by Joe Biden over the Afghanistan debacle, we’re seeing the enemies of this country in Eastern Europe, South China Sea, in Tehran — they’re making aggressive moves because they see a weak and incompetent commander-in-chief, and it is a shame to see President Biden react too late — too little, too late. – Jake Bequette	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

– Abraham Lincoln

added by Normando
1 year ago

The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, has suspended the commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron pending further investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, additionally, the detachment commander overseeing administrative support for Airmen at the unit mobilized for duty under Title 10 USC has also been suspended.

– Ann Stefanek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This means that both the squadron’s state Air National Guard operational commander and current federal orders administrative commander have been suspended pending completion of the Department of the Air Force Inspector General Investigation, also, the Department of Air Force has temporarily removed these individuals’ access to classified systems and information.

– Ann Stefanek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once again demonstrating his commitment to being transparent with the American people about the finances of the Commander-in-Chief, President Biden has released the most tax returns of any president while in office.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a constitutional duty to get to the facts, particularly when you have a district attorney interfering with the most important election we have, the commander-in-chief, the president of the United States.

– Jim Jordan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I haven’t seen anything in the documents I’ve seen that would cause me as a commander to change my plans, it’s given some information to the Russians in terms of unit locations and ammo and equipment capabilities, but I would venture to say the Russians already knew all that anyway.

– Mark Hertling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On one hand, I think it’s very important to drive a sense of urgency. I applaud him for that. He’s an aggressive commander, on the other hand, I would not paint it as inevitable that we will be in war, and I hope we will do everything we can to deter a conflict.

– Mark Esper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

According to our assessment, this is not the final change, [Putin] really does have problems with the command, both at the top level, the generals, and at the bottom level of platoon or company commander.

– Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Biden does not visit the border while in Arizona and talk to the men and women who risk their lives every day during a historic border security crisis, then he will show he has truly abandoned the agency that works 24/7 to keep this country safe, what kind of commander-in-chief abandons those on the front line because of politics? The fact is, Joe Biden won’t visit the border because he doesn’t want to be confronted with the reality of the destruction his policies have caused.

– Tom Homan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh said, the commanders on the ground know best when it comes to maintaining combat readiness, in this case, a Navy SEAL commander with decades of experience says kicking out his troops hurts our military worse than COVID ever could. America is now learning that the Pentagon bureaucrats are wildly out of touch with reality.

– First Liberty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Michelle Steel employs the same disinformation that has led to an increase in violence against members of the Asian American community, while shamelessly smearing a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, as a Taiwanese American who holds a Top Secret security clearance, Lt. Commander Jay Chen deeply understands the threat China poses to the United States. While Confucius Classrooms were widely accepted across the United States a dozen years ago, including by the State Department, the Chinese Communist Party’s evolution as an aggressor towards the United States and its democratic allies has further informed the U.S. State Department’s evaluation of these programs, and Lt. Commander Chen remains aligned with their analysis.

– Lindsay Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Pentagon is facing a self-inflicted crisis it can’t spin its way out of, it’s impacting mission, manpower, and morale, and the current Commander in Chief is most to blame.

– Darrell Issa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a privilege to engage with American heroes in uniform on the ground in South Korea, led by General Paul LaCamera, Commander, U.S. Forces Korea. During visits to the Demilitarized Zone/Joint Security Area( DMZ/JSA) and Osan Air Base, we conveyed the gratitude of the Congress and the Country for the patriotic service of our Servicemembers, who stand as sentinels of Democracy on the Korean Demilitarized Zone peninsula.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children, the officers had weapons; the children had none. The officers had body armor; the children had none. The officers had training; the subject had none.

– Public Safety Director Steve McCraw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.

– Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just don't get how you can hear these kids crying and asking for help, but you're scared to enter because your commander doesn't want you to go in.

– Angel Garza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.

– Public Safety Director Steven McCraw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I appear to be hypercritical of the on-scene commander, and I don't mean to be, but the facts are the facts, mistakes were made. It should never have happened that way.

– Public Safety Director Steve McCraw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.

– Steve McCraw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no children at risk. Obviously, you know, based on the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were at risk, and it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation and not a barricaded subject.

– Public Safety Director Steven McCraw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do think that's a premature comment, off-the-cuff, and everybody listens to the commander-in-chief.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Vadim Shishimarin was in a state of stress caused by the combat situation and the pressure from his commander. Analysis of those circumstances allows me to conclude that Vadim Shishimarin had no direct intent for the murder.

– Viktor Ovsyannikov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The best thing Associated Press -RRB- Biden said tonight was Associated Press -RRB- Biden call to fund the police — an act of leadership to help stop left-wing radicals in his own party from setting policing policies, and on the foreign policy front, Associated Press -RRB- Biden sounded appropriately tough as the commander-in-chief and genuinely sympathetic to the plight of Ukrainians who are fighting for their lives. But that wo n’t make up for the Administration’s posture of weakness which helped provoke Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

– David Wilezol

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What’s happening in Eastern Europe is a direct result of the weakness and incompetence displayed by Joe Biden over the Afghanistan debacle, we’re seeing the enemies of this country in Eastern Europe, South China Sea, in Tehran — they’re making aggressive moves because they see a weak and incompetent commander-in-chief, and it is a shame to see President Biden react too late — too little, too late.

– Jake Bequette

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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