Texas | September 19, 2021
Military Aircraft Crashes Into Houses in Lake Worth, Texas: Officials
Texas | September 19, 2021
A military aircraft crashed into a residential area in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 19, leaving at least two homes severely damaged and several people being treated for injuries, officials said.
The Lake Worth Fire Department wrote on Twitter that the crash occurred during a military training exercise. The agency said that the plane, which wasn’t identified, went down around the 4000 blocks of Tejas Trail and Dakota Trail…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Texas | August 19, 2021
Crenshaw Debunks the ‘Endless Wars’ Fallacy . .
Texas | August 19, 2021
Dan Crenshaw may be a rising Republican star thanks to his ability to speak with uncommon pointed clarity on the issues of the day. But his latest op-ed on Afghanistan is the fruit of his intellect and his experience: “He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 as a member of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 3.” Crenshaw writes: The “no more endless wars” position has a blind spot: Its advocates are unable to distinguish between wasteful nation building and a small residual force that conducts occasional counter-terror operations. As a result, when many Americans hear that there is a single soldier on the ground in Afghanistan, they interpret it to mean “nation building” and “world police.” That’s wrong. There are a lot of foreign policy options between nation building and giving up. He notes that the U.S. found a pretty good balance in that regard for much of the last 20 years, and it could continue almost indefinitely at minimal cost. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan was meeting the original strategic goal of denying a safe haven for terrorists and preventing another 9/11. The 18 months before withdrawal saw no U.S. combat deaths. Does that really sound like “endless war” in any traditional sense? More important, does it sound better or worse than the current outcome?… (Excerpts from the Patriot Post)
International, Texas | June 15, 2021
Military Whistleblower Says Large Black Lives Matter Flag Was Hung at US Naval Base in Africa
International, Texas | June 15, 2021
An alleged whistleblower who submitted a comment to Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s (R-Texas) offices said that a large Black Lives Matter flag was flown at a military installation in Africa last year, which may have flouted then-Pentagon policy.
The unnamed service member said that while deployed in a combat zone in Africa, a large Black Lives Matter flag was flown at a U.S. naval base, according to Cotton’s office.
“In the barracks area of the installation,” the whistleblower wrote, “a massive BLM flag had been hung from the third story of the barracks, draping over both the second and first rows under it.”
“The flag was probably fifty feet long, by fifteen feet wide. In addition to this, there were many service members that were wearing BLM t-shirts that sported additional BLM slogans, doo rags, and hats, all with BLM plastered on them. I am opposed to the BLM movement for many reasons, and seeing a constant reminder of this group daily, was offensive and distracting to me, especially in a combat zone,” the person said, adding that Black Lives Matter, to them, is a politically motivated group that “has no business” being advertised on a military installation.
The date of the incident was not given in the account. Nor was the name of the U.S. naval base in question.
The person claimed that several other people they worked with “felt the same way” about Black Lives Matter…
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)