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It was the kind of TDY that makes you curse Murphy, or at the very least look around to see where the hidden cameras are….the last thing on my mind was cancer.
In April of 2023, I was working as a Physician Assistant 60 hours a week seeing 160 patients, managing three kids, and working for two non-profits. At the very least I was busy, but more realistically, an insane pace to keep. I recognized that I was starting to experience some abdominal bloating and weight gain, but chalked it up to eating out too often due to our schedule, or my lack of time to exercise.

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John Mark Wilson, RealClearDefense
At some point, Vice President Harris and former President Trump will square off onstage and try to have something resembling an adult conversation about…

Ralph G. Francisco , Proceedings
When grappling with an opponent straining at their utmost, a choke is not instantaneous—but it still hurts.

Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 212 Rescue Squadron carried out complicated pararescue jumps in remote parts of the state over Labor Day Weekend to rescue stranded. At one point, the same team jumped twice in less than a day to rescue two separate survivors of plane crashes.
The Alaska Air National Guard’s busy week started on Aug. 30 with reports of two plane crashes at roughly the same time. The first was in Skwentna, northwest of Anchorage, the other more than 200 miles northeast at Tok, Alaska.

This is Chapter 2 in the Cancer Memoir. Catch up with previous chapters here.
My doctor handed me a single piece of paper with the game plan to save my life. Chemotherapy (chemo) was phase one in my plan. My first cancer mountain to climb. But before I was to start this phase, Jeremy and I would have to sit our two children, our daughter, 12, and our son, 11, down to let them know that I had cancer. 
Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and challenging things I have ever done. I am beyond blessed with two military kids who amaze me daily.

Over four years of hitting up stand-up comedy stages around the country, former Marine scout sniper Justin Governale’s big break came when he ended up on the popular comedy podcast “Kill Tony.” However, Governale’s time at the mic had one unexpected outcome: Helping connect a fallen Marine’s family with those who served with him. 
Governale has had some show business success since leaving the Marines, appearing on two seasons of Naked and Afraid.

It’s been nearly five years since the Space Force was founded as the sixth U.S. military branch, yet when it comes to formal wear, most guardians are still authorized to wear a modified version of the Air Force dress uniform. In fact, that may be their only option for formal military attire for a while.
The Space Force’s own dress uniform is not expected to be widely available to the rank and file until December 2025 at the earliest, said Department of the Air Force spokeswoman Sarah Fiocco.
Military.com first reported the timeline on the Space Force dress uniform.

Lucile Ball is a Hollywood legend with her groundbreaking and hit show I Love Lucy. Her career started in Tinseltown in 1929, and spanned the tail-end of the Silent Era, to talkie features, TV and into the home video, cable and satellite TV eras. She set the stage for women performers and was the first woman to run a top TV studio.
Lucille Ball in a 1955 film still, for I Love Lucy episode “Face to Face”, aired on November 14, 1955. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Doctor Marco.

KYIV – Roaming bands of ‘recruiters’ now cover the streets of Ukraine, looking for any male possible to send to the meat grinder, to die in a period of days, sometimes hours. Reports of hundreds, and sometimes thousands of daily deaths are being seen on the Ukrainian front.
You can always tell the loser in a military conflict in how they treat their people, as a war of attrition sets in and the male population is destroyed completely. The movie ‘Cold Mountain’ details the South in the American civil war using similar tactics to find bodies for the war machine.