The only pass that Maurice Britt caught during his brief NFL career went for a 45-yard touchdown.
Britt played nine games for the Detroit Lions in 1941 before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States’ entry into World War II. While Britt did not particularly distinguish himself on the professional football field, his exploits on the battlefield were extraordinary.
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On paper, Vladimir Putin is a modestly compensated public servant. The Kremlin’s official disclosures list his annual salary at roughly $140,000. His declared personal assets — a small apartment in St. Petersburg, three Russian cars, a Soviet-era trailer — would not be out of place in the financial filings of a mid-career American mayor. The official record describes a Russian president living, more or less, like a retired schoolteacher. The off-paper estimates tell a fundamentally different story.
Putin Is a Thief, and Russia Is the Victim
Putin Back in June 2021.
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The large scale withdrawal of U.S. Army MIM-104 Patriot and THAAD long range air defence systems from South Korea have drawn significant attention to the extent of the East Asian country’s reliance on the United States for the security of its air space, while raising calls in Seoul, including from President Lee Jae Myung, to reduce this dependance.
Veterans and People Minister, Louise Sandher Jo
Footage released by Russian sources has for the first time shown Su-34M strike fighters with Algerian Air Force markings, providing the first confirmation that the aircraft have been delivered to the service as its export client. Although images of the aircraft in desert colours first surfaced in August 2025, it was not confirmed which client they were produced for, with Iran and Sudan considered possible future operators to replace their Su-24M fighters.
Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has warned of growing challenges to the country’s air defences, making remarks during a visit to Chitose Air Base on the northern island of Hokkaido on May 23 where he watched fighter pilots rehearse one of the most demanding routine missions in the armed forces. Fighters were launched on emergency intercept against Russian military aircraft approaching the country’s airspace, which they have conducted approximately four times a year during Fiscal Year 2025.
…dead or in a medically induced coma?
We need to talk about an unpleasant subject.
I briefly mentioned it last week, and talked about it a little on the latest Midrats Podcast, but that is enough fiddling around the topic. Time to man up and address the topic head-on.
I think the DDG(X) program is a dead program walking.
There could be an error, as there was with BBG-1 vs. BBGN-1 in the chart, but let’s look again at the latest Shipbuilding Plan.
There is no DDG(X) in the plan…just Arleigh Burke DDGs being built, as the Salamander says, until the crack of doom.
The United States has indefinitely suspended the delivery of Japan’s first 400 RGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, due to serious shortages of the missiles in the U.S. Navy that have resulted from the 39 day U.S. assault on Iran. The Financial Times, citing “several people familiar with the discussions”, reported that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth informed his Japanese counterpart, Shinjiro Koizumi, about the delay earlier in May.
The Russian Armed Forces have conducted the third ever combat launch of the Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile, with footage appearing to show the impact of multiple re-targetable warheads in the capital Kiev. This follows a prior strike on January 8 against a target in Ukraine’s Lviv region, near its NATO borders, and the first ever combat use of the missile in November 2024. The latest strike was launched simultaneously with multiple attacks using Iskander-M ballistic missile systems, with footage from the capital showing multiple large resulting explosions.