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Today, November 2, we honor the birthday of Lieutenant Colonel William D. Swenson, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
On September 8, 2009, in the Battle of Ganjgal, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, then-Captain Swenson and his team were ambushed by more than 60 enemy fighters. Under heavy fire he directed the defense, called in support, treated a wounded sergeant while exposed, and repeatedly drove into the kill zone to recover the wounded and the bodies of four fallen Americans—three Marines and a Navy corpsman.
His actions helped save more than a dozen Afghan lives and broke the enemy assault. He was the first living Army officer to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.
Happy Birthday to a true warrior. We remember and honor his courage. Semper Fi. 🇺🇸
Coast Guard crews from Air Station Kodiak saved five people Thursday after their 58-foot fishing vessel Oracle ran aground near False Pass, Alaska.
Watchstanders got the call around 4:48 a.m. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter launched from Cold Bay, arrived on scene just after 6 a.m., and hoisted all five crewmembers to safety. They were taken to the clinic in Cold Bay with only minor injuries.
Another reminder of the Coast Guard’s readiness in some of the toughest waters on the planet. Semper Paratus.
On October 30, 1944, near St. Jacques, France, Pvt. Wilburn K. Ross of Company G, 30th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division moved his light machine gun forward after his company had already lost 55 of 88 men. For more than five hours he held off repeated assaults by elite German mountain troops, killing or wounding at least 58 of the enemy and single-handedly breaking the final attack when fresh ammunition arrived. He remained in position for 36 hours and saved the remnants of his unit. He received the Medal of Honor for actions above and beyond the call of duty.
Photo credit: Seattle Times
On this day in 1963, Capt. Humbert Roque “Rocky” Versace was wounded and captured while fighting an ambush in the U Minh Forest, Vietnam.
For the next 23 months he led his fellow American POWs, attempted escape four times despite untreated wounds, rejected Viet Cong indoctrination, and never broke. The last thing his brothers heard was Rocky singing “God Bless America” from isolation.
Unable to break his faith or his will, the enemy executed him on 26 September 1965. Remains never recovered.
He was the first Army POW awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in captivity. Awarded posthumously by President Bush in 2002.
West Point graduate. Ranger. Airborne. He had planned to become a priest after his tour.
Honor him.
Coast Guard Air Station Savannah helicopter and Station Mayport boat crews rescued an overdue mariner near Cumberland Sound on Sunday, October 25, after his 14-foot boat capsized in bad weather the night before. He fired two flares when the helicopter spotted him. A rescue swimmer entered the water until the boat crew arrived. Transferred to GA DNR and evaluated by EMS — no injuries.
Video: U.S. Coast Guard Southeast (@USCGSoutheast)
October 28, 1944 — Eastern France
Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo, medic with the 442nd RCT, crawled 150 yards under machine-gun and grenade fire near Biffontaine to treat 17 wounded men in one day.
Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams of the 3rd Infantry Division charged alone through the Mortagne Forest near St. Die, killing nine Germans and eliminating three machine-gun nests in about 10 minutes to reopen a severed supply line.
Two different kinds of courage on the same day. Both later received the Medal of Honor.
Honor the ones who ran toward the fire.
On this day in 1944, Technical Sergeant Charles H. Coolidge of the 36th Infantry Division held Hill 623 near Belmont-sur-Buttant, France.
For four days (Oct 24–27) he led a small machine-gun section and rifle platoon against a full German infantry company in cold rain and dense woods. On the 27th, with two tanks closing in, his bazooka jammed. He threw it aside, crawled forward with every grenade he could carry, and broke the assault. When withdrawal became necessary he was the last man off the position.
His leadership earned the Medal of Honor. Coolidge survived the war and lived to 99.
We remember.
On This Day — 23 October 1983
A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with ~12,000 lbs of explosives into the Marine Battalion Landing Team headquarters at Beirut International Airport. The building collapsed. 241 Americans were killed — 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers. It was the deadliest single day for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima.
They were peacekeepers. They came in peace.
We will never forget.
Semper Fidelis.
October 22, 2002
On this day, bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, was shot and killed while standing on the steps of his commuter bus in Aspen Hill, Maryland. He was the 10th and final victim of the Beltway Snipers.
John Allen Muhammad and 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo had terrorized the D.C. area for three weeks with random long-range shootings that left 10 dead and 3 wounded. Two days later they were arrested at a Maryland rest stop in a modified blue Chevy Caprice.
A dark chapter in American history.
RIP
In July 1944, an American Army dentist was treating wounded soldiers on Saipan when thousands of Japanese troops launched a desperate assault.
As enemy soldiers entered his medical tent, he fought them off and ordered his patients to escape. Then he took over a machine gun and made his final stand.
When American troops recovered his body, they reported finding 98 dead Japanese soldiers in front of his position.
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October 22, 1968
On this day, Secretary of the Navy Paul R. Ignatius presented the Medal of Honor to the family of Private First Class Gary Wayne Martini, USMC, at Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.
Martini, a rifleman with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, was killed on April 21, 1967, near Binh Son during Operation Union. When his platoon was pinned in the open by heavy enemy fire, he crawled forward under fire, attacked with grenades, then twice raced into the kill zone to drag wounded Marines to safety. Mortally wounded on the second rescue, he still pulled his last comrade far enough for others to recover him before he fell.
He unhesitatingly gave his life so others would live. Semper Fi.
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"Keep the Guns Hidden Until the Crisis Comes"
🚨 DSA Leader Says Keep the Guns Hidden Until the Crisis Comes
Are the Democratic Socialists of America violent? It's a question that has sparked considerable debate, but one of the organization's national leaders argues that now is the time to prepare for the coming revolution.
Christopher Winston, a national DSA leader with close ties to the organization's security apparatus, the Red Rabbits, isn't interested in armed activists showing off their guns in the streets.
“Until there's a crisis, keep the fucking guns put up.”
But he also warned that America is “rapidly approaching the crisis stage” and described the present as a time for “experimentation and accumulation of forces.”
Pointing to the unrest in Minneapolis, Winston declared, “We literally had the embryo of a dual power,” referring to what he sees as the beginnings of an alternative power structure challenging capitalism. He urged others to learn from Minneapolis and the radical organizing networks established during 2020 that remained in place.
Winston also invoked Maoist revolutionary movements in Peru and India, arguing that fellow travelers should study their experiences while developing a distinctly American revolutionary approach rather than simply copying tactics from abroad.
Very good!
Legal immigrant said she voted in her first midterm election.
“The reason why I’m voting red is because Republicans — they want to keep America American.”
“I did things the right way & it really infuriated me seeing all these illegals coming in front of the line.”
“Trump is the best President that I have seen in my time in America.”
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USCGC Munro (WMSL 755) is back home after a demanding Arctic patrol.
The Alameda-based Legend-class National Security Cutter returned to Coast Guard Island on October 9 following a 112-day deployment covering more than 23,000 nautical miles across the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean.
Operating under the Coast Guard Arctic District, Munro’s crew controlled, secured, and defended the nation’s northernmost maritime approaches. They monitored three Chinese-flagged research vessels under Operation Frontier Sentinel to ensure compliance with international law and assert U.S. sovereignty. The cutter also conducted joint exercises with the Royal Canadian Navy, including boarding operations, personnel transfers, and navigation exchanges, while supporting Operation Tundra Merlin alongside U.S. and Canadian forces to strengthen multi-domain homeland defense.
Munro’s boarding teams enforced living marine resource regulations in the Bering Sea, protecting the roughly $6 billion Alaskan commercial fishery.
Commissioned in 2017, the 418-foot cutter is named for Signalman 1st Class Douglas A. Munro, the only Coast Guardsman awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Guadalcanal in 1942, where he gave his life rescuing nearly 500 Marines under fire.
“The Arctic is a demanding maritime environment that can test any crew and vessel,” said Capt. Adam J. Disque, Munro’s commanding officer. “We were proud to sustain U.S. presence in the region to safeguard our Arctic coastline and reinforce a rules-based order in the High North.”
Semper Paratus. The Guardians continue to hold the line in the High North.
October 21, 1842 — Monterey “Oops”
Marines and sailors from the USS United States and USS Cyane hit the beach at Monterey, California, seized the town, and raised the Stars and Stripes.
Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones had gotten word that war with Mexico had already started. It hadn’t.
They figured it out, lowered the flag, apologized, and sailed away. No shots fired. No lasting hard feelings.
Early, enthusiastic, and slightly ahead of schedule. Classic.
Semper Fi.
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On this day in 1978, USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157), the oldest commissioned cutter then in service, was on a nighttime Officer Candidate School training cruise in the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Potomac when she collided with the freighter M/V Santa Cruz II. She sank in roughly two minutes. Eleven shipmates were lost. Eighteen were rescued.
Semper Paratus. We remember.
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October 20, 1944
General Douglas MacArthur waded ashore at Red Beach on Leyte, fulfilling the promise he made in 1942 when he was ordered out of the Philippines: “I shall return.”
Accompanied by Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, he stepped onto Philippine soil for the first time in more than two years as four divisions of the Sixth Army established a beachhead. Naval gunfire and carrier aircraft supported the largest amphibious assault yet in the Pacific.
The landings opened the liberation of the Philippines and triggered the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval engagement in history.
