Why Delta Force Feared This Guy Mike Vining, Delta Force legend. Born...

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⚡ Mike Vining is a true American military legend. 🇺🇸 A Vietnam veteran, elite EOD specialist and one of the original members of Delta Force, Sgt. Maj. Mike Vining spent decades working with explosives and serving in some of America’s most demanding military operations. He became Delta Force’s first EOD specialist and later served as Chief EOD Technician and Breaching Sergeant Major. His career included Operation Eagle Claw, Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm and the Khobar Towers investigation. A career built on courage, technical mastery and an extraordinary willingness to go where few others would.

Defense Intelligence

142,000 views • 12 days ago

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It's the best time of the week! Time for another episode of It's A Blast Podcast! This week, I am talking to SGM (R) Mike Vining. Mike is a military legend. From his time as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician in Vietnam, to the founding of the United States Army's premiere counter terrorism force, Delta Force, he has done it all. In this episode, We sat down and talked about his time in the Army to include being EOD, Vietnam, civilian life, and the founding of Delta Force. I even asked him some of the questions you all asked. And of course I had to ask about the Hurt Locker. It was great to sit down and talk EOD. SGM Vining has done a lot of interviews about his time in Delta, so this was a piece of the story that needed to be told. There were a couple of minor technical issues in the beginning of the recording. SGM Vining even offered to rerecord the entire episode, but it would have lost some of the magic. On Apple and Spotify and all other streaming platforms tomorrow!

Happy Captain

503,492 views • 2 years ago

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JP Dinnell spent nearly a decade in the SEAL Teams. Three combat deployments. In 2006 he went to Ramadi with Task Unit Bruiser as point man, machine gunner, and lead sniper for Delta Platoon. Chris Kyle was in Charlie Platoon. He came home with a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars with Valor, and an Army Commendation with Valor. Task Unit Bruiser became the most decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War. Then he went back to work for Jocko as an instructor at Training Detachment. Now he's Chief Training Officer at Echelon Front. This one is about the part nobody talks about. Twenty years after Ramadi, his platoon sat down together for the first time. Montana. Fly fishing, blacksmithing, and the conversations they never had. He watched men he looked up to carry weight he never knew was there. Their medic is fighting terminal cancer from a burn pit next to the building they slept in. We get into the difference between the price and the cost. The price is what you pay up front. The cost comes due decades later, in marriages, in kids, in the men around you. Join the Cleared Hot Newsletter: Take the Operator Code Assessment:

Andy Stumpf

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John Lincoln Clem — one of the youngest soldiers to ever serve in the U.S. Army. Born in Ohio in 1851. His mother was killed in a train accident in 1861. Two years later, at age 9, he tried to enlist in the Union Army and was turned away for being too small. He didn’t go home. He followed the 22nd Michigan anyway and became their unofficial drummer boy. The men took him in and paid him from their own pockets. Shiloh, 1862: artillery fire tore his drum apart. From then on, they called him “Johnny Shiloh.” He officially enlisted in 1863 as a musician. Chickamauga, age 12: during the Union retreat, a Confederate officer reportedly ordered him to surrender. Clem fired a sawed-off musket and made it back to Union lines through the chaos. Gen. George H. Thomas later promoted him to sergeant, making him one of the youngest non-commissioned officers in Army history. Newspapers dubbed him the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.” He was wounded, captured, exchanged, and mustered out at just 13. Most kids would be done. Clem wasn’t. Ulysses S. Grant later helped him secure a commission. Clem stayed in the Army for decades in quartermaster roles, rising steadily through the ranks. He retired in 1915 as a brigadier general. Congress advanced him to major general on the retired list the next year. He was buried with full honors at Arlington. From runaway kid to general officer. Stories like this are why Civil War history still hits hard. What’s another real military underdog story people should know? 🇺🇸

Jake

53,472 views • 7 months ago

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🚨EXPOSÉD: Pastor Rob McCoy's DARK TIES to ELITE SPECIAL FORCES – Did He ORCHESTRATE the Charlie Kirk Hit? 😱 You won't believe this. Rob McCoy – the "pastor" who has been grifting off Charlie Kirk – brags in a video about hosting Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, the FOUNDER OF DELTA FORCE, at his church on a previous occasion. Motive? Check. Means? A guy who built the world's deadliest unit? DOUBLE CHECK. Boykin isn't just a war hero – he's neck-deep in McCoy's money-grubbing "ministry" schemes AND has DEEP ISRAELI connections. Coincidence? Or a black ops blueprint for the "accident" that nearly took Kirk out? Watch McCoy gloat: "That's a beautiful area. It's time for a walk. Oh, you know what? This Sunday we got Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin. He's coming to speak. The guy started Delta Force... that's just pretty remarkable. So you're gonna wanna come this Sunday." Any Google Trends spiking on Boykin yet? Follow the money, the military, and the Mossad whispers. Who's REALLY pulling strings in the "patriot" pulpit? Follow My Bro Travis Who pointed this out! RT if you're wide awake!

Project Constitution

157,428 views • 10 months ago

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In 1942, Clark Gable's wife, Carole Lombard, passed away in an airplane crash. He was emotionally and physically devastated, and decided to join the Army Air Force. Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered World War II, he enlisted as a private in the Army Air Force on Aug. 12, 1942, at Los Angeles. He attended the Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach, Florida, and graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct. 28. He then attended aerial gunnery school and in February 1943, on personal orders from Gen. Hap Arnold, went to England to make a motion picture about aerial gunners in action. He was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook, and although neither ordered nor expected to do so, flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s to obtain the combat film footage he believed was required for producing the movie, titled "Combat America." Gable returned to the U.S. in October 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on June 12, 1944, at his own request, since he was over-age for combat. Because his motion picture production schedule made it impossible for him to fulfill his AAF Reserve officer duties, he resigned his commission on Sept. 26, 1947. Two years after the death of his wife, Clark joined Irene Dunne to launch the USS Carole Lombard, in honor of Carole and her dedication to her country. After leaving the military, Gable jumped back into acting and retained his star status. #oldhollywood #clarkgable #carolelombard

CineAura

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Some will ask “why is this guy wearing his medals like this?” Because he can! This is Vincent Speranza, the American paratrooper who became known as the soldier who doled out beer to his wounded comrades during the Battle of the Bulge, he passed away last yesterday at the age of 98. Unbeknownst to him,the private’s act of kindness on December 17, 1944, became the stuff of legend in the town of Bastogne. Brasserie Lamborelle, a brewery in Bastogne, even created Airborne Beer that was served in helmet-shaped ceramic bowls to commemorate the paratrooper’s beer-carrying mission. “After being a machine gunner at the Battle of the Bulge, earning a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star and spending two decades as a public school teacher, Airborne Beer is what I’m famous for,” Speranza told Stars and Stripes. In subsequent years, Speranza traveled across the U.S. and Europe, recounting his wartime stories to soldiers and veterans alike — even going viral in 2016 for his rendition of “Blood on the Risers” at the Frederick Army Air Field in Oklahoma. RIP Hero! March 23, 1925 – August 2, 2023

Stolen Valor

702,386 views • 2 years ago

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Meet the expert team that responds when things go off track! Your 2026 AMR Safety Team is ready at any point throughout the race weekend to provide care at a moment’s notice! Introducing: Mark D. IMSA Track Services Team Member since 2021! "I am a Firefighter/Critical Care Flight Paramedic. I served 31 years in the US Army where I started as a Combat Medic and ended my career as Critical Care Flight Paramedic. Combat Tours include Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq), Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). Total Combat Time: 60 Months. I Retired as a Sergeant First Class Started in 2016 at Watkins Glenn as a Jump Medic. I have always been a fan of motorsports and jumped on the opportunity to get involved. I Worked NASCAR, IMSA, SRO, and numerous other racing events. I am a member of the local fire department. I volunteer as a firefighter/paramedic. I am also a purchasing/warehouse manager for a Commercial Electrical Company." #IMSA #JoinAMR | American Medical Response

IMSA

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Threadguy says Unipcs’ comeback is one of the most impressive runs he’s ever seen in markets “Early 2024, Bonkguy was the truth. He was like the GOAT. The bull market kicked off with Bonkguy being up $10,000,000 on a BONK long” “He goes on this generational run. People weren’t posting PNLs back then either. He posts an eight-figure BONK long, kicks off the craziest bull market of all time” “He was basically the face of onchain for the craziest onchain cycle of all time and then the whole thing collapses” “10/10 happens… he gets crushed and then the whole way down, he basically became like the laughing stock of CT” “He went from like hero to meme and crypto loves this story right? It’s like build the guy up as big as humanly possible so we can crush him on the way down” “From the depths of the ashes, he just like didn’t stop. Coolest guy in the world to worst guy in the world. Just kept posting, kept trading and then runs it back in everyone’s face and becomes like a hero again” “I gained a ton of respect for him because to not get run out of town when the mob and the cool kids club or whatever turns on you, it’s brutal” “He ran it back turbo, in everyone’s face with the same playbook, the same guy and the same coin. Useless is ripping again” “It’s honestly one of the more impressive runs I’ve ever seen in markets”

Jack

16,595 views • 22 days ago

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In 2007, a Spanish comedian named Juan Joya Borja sat down for a television interview in Seville, Spain and tried to tell a story about the time he worked as a kitchen porter at a beach restaurant. He could barely get through it. The story was simple. One night he tied twenty large cooking pans to sticks in the sand by the shore and left them in the shallow water overnight to soak and clean. When he came back the next morning, the tide had taken nineteen of them out to sea. Only one was left. His wages were docked to pay for the replacements. The story is not especially funny written down. But the way he told it, interrupting himself every few seconds with a high-pitched wheezing laugh he could not control, toothless and bent double in his chair, was something else entirely. His nickname was El Risitas. It means Giggles. The clip sat quietly on YouTube for eight years. Then in 2015 someone added fake subtitles making it look like he was a designer mocking the new MacBook. Five million views in a month. The format spread everywhere. Politicians, tech companies, sports scandals. His face became one of the most used meme templates on the internet. His laughing close-up became a Twitch emote called KEKW used over 400 million times. When he became seriously ill in 2020 and needed his leg amputated, fans who had never met him raised over fourteen thousand euros for his medical care and a wheelchair. He sent a video thanking them. He passed away on April 28, 2021. He was 65.

Lemma the Optimist

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Never ask a man his salary. Never ask a woman her age. Never ask the CIA what they were doing in the jungle in 1958. Honor the name. Remember the legend. Command Sergeant Major William D. “Billy” Waugh was not just a Green Beret. He was one of the men who proved what Special Forces could do. A Texas kid who enlisted in 1948, he fought in Korea, earned the beret in 1954, and went to war with 5th Group and MACV-SOG. In June 1965 at Bong Son he was shot through the legs, the foot, and the forehead. North Vietnamese troops stripped him and left him for dead. He lived. He went back. He was the first man to HALO with a nuclear warhead strapped to his ankle — to put the thing on the ground, pull the war out by the roots, and end it. He retired as sergeant major and joined the CIA. In Sudan it was time to fight. He got the photos of Carlos the Jackal, set the pattern, and helped spring the trap. They caught his ass. Same city, he jogged past bin Laden’s compound and came within thirty meters. Close enough to kill him with a rock. Close enough, he said, to kill him with a fucking pencil — through the eye, not the heart, because a miss would only piss him off. After 9/11 he went back into Afghanistan with a CIA–Special Forces team after the same man. More than fifty years. Silver Star. Eight Purple Hearts. His mentality never changed: My guns are just as good as theirs. He died in 2023 at ninety-three. From the top of the Agency the line was simple: you will never know a hundredth of what Billy Waugh accomplished for this country. Almost none of it was written down. Verbal orders. From someone like me to someone like him. Rest easy, Sergeant Major.

🇮🇷🦅🇺🇸Omid✝️🦅🇦🇹

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🇬🇧 Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta. They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede. They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty. They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history. They are not taught what came next. They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern. They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years. They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year. They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king. They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords. They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. ⚖️ Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old. If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. 🏠 If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. 👑 If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago. They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since. Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe. It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope. ✍️ It was written. By Englishmen. For England. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have. This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below 👇 Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

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Try to name one leader alive today who would do this. In 325 BC, in the middle of a desert that was killing his army, Alexander the Great was handed the only water his men had found for miles. He had brought them there himself. Coming home from India there were safer roads, but he chose the Gedrosian Desert, in what is now southern Iran and Pakistan. The Greek historian Arrian is clear that he knew what he was doing. He went that way because almost nobody had ever brought an army through it alive: legend said the queen Semiramis came out the other side with twenty men, and Cyrus the Great with seven. Alexander wanted to beat them both. The crossing took sixty days. Arrian writes that the suffering on that march was out of all proportion to anything his troops had endured in Asia. They moved at night, and men fell asleep where they collapsed. The sick were left at the roadside, because there was nobody to carry them and no time to stop. Somewhere in the middle of it, a few soldiers went looking for water and found a tiny trickle in a gully. They scraped up what they could, tipped it into a helmet, and carried it back to their king... Every man watching him was dying of thirst. So was he. "Alexander, with a word of thanks for the gift, took the helmet and, in full view of his troops, poured the water on the ground." There was not enough for all of them, so he would not take what he could not give. And Arrian records what that did to an army of men who could barely stand: "So extraordinary was the effect of this action that the water wasted by Alexander was as good as a drink for every man in the army." They got up, and they marched. We now live in an age of leaders who start wars their sons will never fight, who ask for sacrifices they would never dream of making themselves, who are always the first to be spared and the last to pay the price. Alexander was often ruthless and deeply flawed, yes, but he was a true leader and he knew that real power has never come from standing above your people, but from going thirsty beside them…

James Lucas

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Restaurateur Jeff Zalaznick says the "most iconic sign in fine dining" only exists because an angry former tenant shattered the original out of spite: “The sign is a crazy story.” “We'd been looking for a space for Carbone for over a year.” “One day a guy came up to me and said, ‘I think I have a space you might be interested in.’” “As we're walking up the block, I look at him and say, ‘We'll take it.’ Just from seeing the sign.” “The place is a mess. It hasn't been maintained in years. There's some old Italian guy in the corner smoking cigarettes that's been there not paying rent for six months.” “We put in the lease that we needed the sign. The sign had to stay. It didn't seem like a big ask.” “It's this old sign that says ‘Rocco Wines & Liquor.’” “Right before we were going to execute it, I get a phone call that the owner wants $10,000 for the sign to keep it there.” “Even though we gave him the money, in classic New York fashion, he was so angry that he was being removed, even though he hadn't paid rent in close to a year.” “When I show up on January 1st, there's shattered glass. All the neon had been shattered by him as like a ‘fuck you’ on the way out.” “After a few minutes, I'm like, I think this guy gave me the biggest gift he could have given me.” “We're going to keep this sign and instead we're going to put ‘Carbone’ in neon on top of the Rocco sign and put back the Wines and Liquor.” “And that became what is probably the most iconic sign in fine dining restaurants in the world.” “Only because he broke all those lights did it become the quintessential Carbone sign that it is.”

David Senra

235,562 views • 2 months ago

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12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI: DAY 9 - 3 of 4 SEAN SMITH Sean Smith is probably the man from Benghazi most people know the least about. That needs to change. Sean joined the U.S. Air Force at 17 years old. He served six years as a ground radio maintenance specialist, deployed to Oman, earned the Air Force Commendation Medal, and left the service as a Staff Sergeant. Then he kept serving. In 2002, Sean joined the State Department as an Information Management Officer. Over the next 10 years, his work took him to places including Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and The Hague. In September 2012, he was in Benghazi on a temporary assignment helping support the mission’s communications and information systems. But that was only one side of Sean. He was a husband to Heather and a father to Samantha and Nathan. He was taking college courses and still planning what came next. And if you knew him online, you probably didn’t know him as Sean Smith at all. You knew him as Vile Rat! Sean was deeply involved in EVE Online, where he became one of the best-known members of that gaming community. He built relationships, negotiated, solved problems and earned the respect of people all over the world. Then on the night of September 11, that online world collided with the real one. Sean was gaming and communicating with friends when the attack began. When his His messages suddenly changed. “FUCK” “gunfire” And then he went offline. For the people on the other side of that computer, Benghazi wasn’t a headline yet. Their friend was there. A 34-year-old husband and father who had spent virtually his entire adult life serving this country first in uniform and then with the State Department. Sean wasn’t “the other American” who died with Ambassador Stevens. He had his own story. Staff Sergeant Sean Smith Air Force veteran Foreign Service officer Husband Father Son Vile Rat And one of the four Americans we lost in Benghazi. He deserves to be remembered by name. #12DaysOfBenghazi #Benghazi #13Hours #SeanSmith #VileRat #NeverForget #HonorTheFallen

John “TIG” Tiegen

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John Carpenter on how Howard Hawks's "Rio Bravo" (1959) inspired him to become a filmmaker: "As I got older I began to see that certain directors did certain things. One of the earliest examples of this was Roger Corman. I started going to see these exciting, fast, kind of cheesy but really fun monster movies, and there was one name that kept coming up on the screen: Roger Corman. 'It Conquered the World' (1956), 'Not of This Earth' (1957), 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' (1957), 'The Undead' (1957)... But | really understood for the first time what a director did when I saw 'Rio Bravo' in 1959. There was something about that movie that was like home and I can't really explain it. It was held over in Bowling Green for three or four weeks in a row because people kept coming to see it. I abandoned to see what was new in the other movie house in town to see this movie every weekend again and again because there was something in it that was different from the other westerns I had seen. I had certainly seen John Wayne before. He had become a part of my growing-up experience. He was the action guy, the cowboy. He was the guy in 'Flying Tigers' (1942) who was flying the airplanes. So what was so different about that movie? Then I became aware of this credit: “Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo.” I looked at the poster and I said to myself, “Who is this guy? He didn't write the movie and he wasn't starring in it so why is his name up here? And why is he last in the credits?” All these things started to occur to me, but it was the emotional impact of the film that got me to start using my brain. Some way I figure out that this director made that movie." ("The Prince of Darkness: The Prince of Darkness", Gilles Boulenger, 2001) P.S: Remembering the great American filmmaker Howard Hawks on his 130th birthday.

DepressedBergman

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Why Delta Force Feared This Guy Mike Vining, Delta Force legend. Born nineteen fifty, started in Army EOD, served in Vietnam. he started as an EOD tech in the Army, went to Vietnam, then jumped on board in nineteen seventy-eight when Charlie Beckwith was standing up the unit. Became... show more

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