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nocternalrandomness · 4 months

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F-106A 's from the 186th FIS Montana Air National Guard over Glacier National Park - April 13, 1978

#Air National Guard #ANG #186th FIS #Convair #F-106 #Delta Dart #Interceptor #Military #aircraft #aviation #flying #airplane

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a-4skyhawk · 8 months

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New Mexico Air National Guard A-7D Corsair of 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron.

#military aircraft #a7 corsair #air national guard

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2inx4inx8inbrick · 4 months

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c17 Spirit of the City of Fairborn 70044

and two f-16s from the 180th fighter wing of the the Ohio Air National Guard doing touch-and-go's at Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dayton Ohio

taken 27/12/23

#aircraft #aviation #daytonohio #ohio #air force #military #planes #c 17 #f 16 #c 32 #air national guard

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bigglesworld · 1 year

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North American T-6 Texan. 153rd Fighter Group, Wyoming Air National Guard. Cheyenne, 1946-1952

#North American #T-6 #Texan #training aircraft #military aircraft #Wyoming #Air National Guard

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tomorrowusa · 11 months

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A majority of high profile classified document leakers are assholes. That includes Russian assets Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Jack Teixeira undeniably belongs in that category.

He is basically a far right white supremacist gun nut in addition to being a traitor.

Jack Teixeira, dressed in camouflage fatigues, his finger wrapped around the trigger of a semiautomatic rifle, faced the camera and spoke as though reciting an oath.

“Jews scam, n----rs rape, and I mag dump.”

Teixeira raised his weapon, aimed at an unseen target and fired 10 times in rapid succession, emptying the magazine of bullets.

The six-second video, taken at a gun range near Teixeira’s home in Massachusetts, affords a brief but illuminating glimpse into the offline world of the 21-year-old National Guard member, who stands accused of leaking a trove of classified military intelligence on the group-chat platform Discord.

The Washington Post investigated Teixeira‘s background and online activities. He’s not exactly the boy next door which extremist blowhards like Tucker Carlson have claimed he is.

Teixeira’s love of guns, which first drew him to an online community of friends, was intertwined with a deep suspicion of the government that he served as an enlisted member of the Air National Guard. But Teixeira did not consider himself a whistleblower, according to friends.

By the time of his arrest, filings by federal prosecutors show that Teixeira had amassed a small arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, as well as a helmet, gas mask and night-vision goggles, all under the roof of the house where he lived with his mother and stepfather. The Post obtained and verified two videos taken at their home in Dighton, Mass., where the FBI arrested Teixeira last month.

Filmed from the shooter’s perspective, the first video shows a person identified by a Discord user as Teixeira firing an AR-style weapon into the forest. Another video shows the gunman firing a pistol into the woods behind Teixeira’s home, including two rapid volleys that suggest the weapon may have been modified. It isn’t clear what legal or illegal modifications Teixeira may have made, though devices like binary triggers and typically illegal auto sear accessories can make semiautomatic guns fire quicker than they are designed to shoot. A separate photograph shows an AK-style weapon resting on a table outside the family home next to a helmet with attached night-vision goggles.

For Teixeira, firearms practice seemed to be more than a hobby. “He used the term ‘race war’ quite a few times,” said a close friend who spent time with Teixeira in an online community on Discord, a platform popular with video game players, and had lengthy private phone and video calls with him over the course of several years.

“He did call himself racist, multiple times,” the friend said in an interview. “I would say he was proud of it.”

Teixeira joined the National Guard in 2019 – during the Trump administration. We all remember how Donald Trump refused to admit there is such a thing as domestic terrorism. Obviously Trump doesn’t want to upset his white supremacist base.

The Post obtained hundreds of documents, as well as text messages, that Teixeira shared on the server over the course of several months. Teixeira’s lawyers declined to comment. Teixeira, who remains in federal custody, has not entered a plea.

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On Discord, an account with the handle “Jack the Dripper,” one of Teixeira’s known monikers, shared an image titled “payback,” showing a large passenger jet careening toward the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site.

Teixeira asserted that “lots of FBI agents were found to have sympathized with the Jan 6 rioters,” and he said naive members of the intelligence community, of which he was technically a part, had been “cucked.” He referred to mainstream press as “zogshit,” appropriating a popular white-supremacist slur for the “Zionist Occupied Government.” Friends said that during live video chats, Teixeira expounded on baseless accusations of shadowy, sinister control by Jewish and liberal elites, as well as corrupt law enforcement authorities.

“He had quite a few conspiratorial beliefs,” the close friend said, adding: “I remember him multiple times talking about things like Waco and Ruby Ridge, and talking about how the government kills their own people,” referring to a pair of notorious armed standoffs that the far right has held up as emblematic of government oppression.

In addition to the federal charges, Teixeira may face additional charges as a member of the military.

Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokeswoman, said Teixeira is subject to “potential discipline,” considering he was working under active duty. After the Air Force concludes an investigation, she said, a commander will determine if Teixeira should face charges in the military. The service is coordinating closely with the FBI in the leak investigation, she said.

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The military has, in the past, struggled to track down individuals who have espoused racist or white-nationalist ideologies. Service members have faced charges that include dereliction of duty and misconduct for racist rants.

Teixeira‘s extremism goes back to his high school years.

The interest in video games and conservative politics was accompanied by an acute obsession with violence, the friend said. “He would send me a video of someone getting killed, ISIS executions, mass shootings, war videos. People would screen-share it, and he would laugh very loudly and be very happy to watch these things with everyone else. He absolutely enjoyed gore.”

Friends may not have taken seriously Teixeira’s threats against his high school. But he voiced approval of some shooters, particularly when they targeted people of different races and faiths. Teixeira was especially impressed by a gunman’s rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, which left 51 people dead and 40 injured. “He was very happy that those people died,” the friend said, because they were Muslim.

This guy is seriously unhinged. The US military needs to conduct more effective investigations of new recruits. Several obvious red flags were missed back in 2019 when Teixeira signed up.

#jack teixeira #far right #extremist #gun nut #assault weapons #racist #antisemite #islamophobic #white nationalism #race war advocate #discord #leaks of classified materials #air national guard

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sansreproache · 4 days

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North American F-86H Sabres of the 174th Fighter Group 'Boys from Syracuse' New York Air National Guard in the early 1960's

#f 86 sabre #usaf #new york #air national guard #cold war aircraft #cold war

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todaysdocument · 2 years

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A pine tree is stenciled on the fuselage of a California Air National Guard 0-2 aircraft to signify the completion of an observation flight over a forest fire at Big Sur, 8/11/1977

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008

Image description: A man in a flight suit uses a stencil to spray-paint a green pine tree onto the fuselage of an airplane. Additional markings on the plane read “PILOT LT/COL B. LAMAR / C/C M/SGT B. GRIGGS” and “RESCUE”. Another man in a flight suit looks on.

#archivesgov #August 11 #1977 #1970s #paint #stencil #California #Air National Guard #airplane #forest fire #rescue

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johnjhalseth · 8 months

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Martinsburg WV Air National Guard 167th Airlift Wing. C17 Globemaster III.

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III - Wikipedia

167th Airlift Wing - Wikipedia

167th Airlift Wing > Home (af.mil)

#West Virginia #Martinsburg #C17 #C17 Globemaster III #167th Airlift Wing #Air National Guard #West Virginia Air National Guard #My Photography #Photographers on Tumblr

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stone-cold-groove · 5 months

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United States Air Force Kelly Air Force Base vintage matchbook cover.

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nocternalrandomness · 2 months

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A-7K assigned to the Arizona ANG - Sep 19 1981

#ANG #Air National Guard #AZ ANG #LTV #A-7 #Corsair II #attack aircraft #strike aircraft #comabt aircraft #military aviation #jet #airplane #aircraft #aviation #A-7K #Two seat A-7

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a-4skyhawk · 8 months

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Republic F-84 Thunderstreaks of Missouri Air National Guard

#f84 thunderstreak #air national guard

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sledgeley · 7 months

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California National Guard by The National Guard Via Flickr: A U.S. Air Force C-130J assigned to the 115th Airlift Squadron lands at an improvised dirt runway during an exercise at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, September 8, 2023. The exercise, also known as Crisis Beach II, was a multi-day exercise to evaluate the 146th Airlift Wing's ability to deploy, adapt, and survive in a contested environment. Airmen participating implemented many skill sets shared from other career fields to demonstrate their ability to execute the Agile Combat Employment (ACE) model, highlighting their proactive and reactive operational strategies under simulated threat timelines in order to increase survivability while generating combat power. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Michelle Ulber)

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bikerlovertexas · 7 months

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#Governor #gov 20 #shooting #shooting competition #guns #Michigan #US Army #US Air Force #Army National Guard #Air National Guard #Camp Grayling #United States #flickr

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the-nomadicone · 2 years

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Raptor // United States Air Force

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jennyboom21 · 1 year

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Yikes (also, not Barnes or Westover)!!!

#of course #better background checks #air national guard #Massachusetts air national guard #New England x military

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cottagecryptic · 1 year

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second air national guardsman from tennessee got arrested and is likely facing prison time bc he applied to be a merc on a joke hitman website. which wouldve been fine if he had just sent the app in for funnies but he followed it up multiple times over the course of a MONTH, sending info like his home address and a PICTURE OF HIS FACE, until the owners of the website contacted the FBI.

The FBI set up a sting op and offered to meet the dude in a park and give him $2.5k up front & $2.5k when it was done. Bro agreed.

Obviously it was fake and he got arrested but imagine begging to be a mercenary only to accept a measly $5k to kill somebody. most state car insurance life coverage starts at $25,000.

#like obviously nobody should get paid for killing anyone but i feel like if that is legitimately your job you shouldnt accept $5k #thats a fucking INSULT #i could buy a shitbox car from the 90s thats got 250k+ miles on it for $5k #youre telling me you value a human life so low?#at least do your research if you want to work in fields like that #tennessee #air national guard #us politics #usa #politics #tez talks #united states #like bro thats a whole human life with friends and parents and kids and everything #five thousand dollars #youve got me fucked up

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