Happy Easter weekend!!! 🐣 💐 ☀️

Friday was a push/pull day with shoulders and legs and 45 minutes of cardio.

Today is leg day + cardio.

The seasonal change has taken a toll on my sleep this past week but I’m coming back slowly but surely! Oh geez. I posted this to the main, didn’t I? 😂

Anyway, if you’re here and are looking for a fitness accountability group, please feel free to join!

DOD identifies the three soldiers killed in Jordan on Sunday: Heartbreaking.

Army Spc. Kennedy Ladin Sanders’s mother wrote on Facebook: “I just can’t believe I’ll never be able to hug and kiss my baby again. Life is so unfair. I just want my baby.”

Deputy DOD Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said just now the DOD is tracking 80 “non-serious” injuries from Iran-backed militia attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria since October 17. Singh clarifies this doesn’t include the recent attack in Jordan. Note that at least 19 of those injuries were traumatic brain injuries.

Reminder that in 2020 when Trump said the same injuries were not significant, there were no shortage of pieces on how Trump was dismissive of the injuries. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

PSA: Around the holidays, it’s easy to get scammed. People are busy & more willing to open their wallets.

I thought I was talking to the mother of a Marine I know, but when the person asked for money, I double-checked the details of the account. Not a legit account. Be careful. I had just liked a photo with the mother tagged (with her real account), so when the scammer started chatting with me, I just assumed she saw my “like” and wanted to chat. Very sneaky. Same profile pic and similar user name. Very easy to get fooled this way.

Right now on the Senate floor: @LindseyGrahamSC is turning against @TTuberville @SenTuberville for his holds on blanket Senate confirmation of military promotions over the DOD funding abortion travel. Next, @SenToddYoung says he's got "a lot of respect" for Tuberville and says he's "pro-life" but says he disagrees with the "tactics" of Tuberville holding up blanket Senate confirmation promotions for DOD's abortion policy. Says it "doesn't make sense."

From the Marine Corps today on the missing F-35: "We are currently still gathering more information and assessing the situation. The mishap will be under investigation." 🫥 Shorter Marine Corps: "We have no idea where the f*ck it is."

(not an actual quote)

EXCLUSIVE: An Army three-star general and a West Point associate professor used government resources in an unofficial investigation to hunt down and punish an anonymous active-duty whistleblower who criticized Army leaders and the Biden administration on social media, according… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Army Training and Doctrine Command Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais and Army Maj. Jessica Dawson — who is also an “information warfare research scientist” at the Army Cyber Institute — used their official authority and access to government resources to track down the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Under questioning from @RepMattGaetz earlier this week, Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard Clark confirmed the fighting force is mostly made up of cisgender men.

Still, he defended the Air Force Academy promoting a fellowship closed to cisgender cadets.

https://twitter.com/kristina_wong/status/1682823121965920257

Here’s the story:

Air Force Academy Head Says He Supports Fellowship for ‘Demigender’ Cadets but Does Not Know What It Means breitbart.com/politics/2023/…

Having the equivalent of four cups of @smcroasters’s dark roast high-caff Wig Splitter. 🙏 for me. Had a double espresso earlier, am now drinking an Aeropress Americano.

House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of Defense starting NOW: "Diversity, equity and inclusion are essential to unit cohesion and trust," says Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gil Cisneros, the top civilian in charge of DEI for the DOD.

Essentially DEI in the Biden administration's National Security Strategy: Institutionalizing COVID infrastructure:

TikTok is the worst thing that’s happened to politics.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1577632852086206464

Exhibit no. 2:

https://twitter.com/SamLBullock/status/1554481635772583936

One of my first questions to the @PentagonPresSec in this admin was about this. He said he’d get back to me but never did. Not sure why.

https://twitter.com/kristina_wong/status/1450856765311045636

Very odd, since the Pentagon always gets back to reporters on questions not answered at the podium. This one just disappeared.

Listening to the Psaki briefing and I hear no accepting of responsibility. At one point early on, she said this was the worse thing the administration has experienced — as if this was something that happened to them, not something they caused. If I were a White House correspondent, I would ask if Biden still had confidence in his military leaders — seeing as how they gave him their best military advice on Bagram and that turned out to be a mistake that created a huge bottleneck, cluster, and terrorist magnet at Kabul.

What’s sad is that Afghans and US vets/groups are getting more & more desperate as we get closer to the August 31st deadline — and there’s no clarity on what’s going on, what gates are open, closed, who can get through, who can’t. The next few days will be wrenching. #Afghanistan Hearing no Afghan SIVs — the ones who helped us during the war — can’t get through to the Kabul airport anymore. There’s talk of threats at the airport…it’s all confusion. Yet at the briefings we’re told that things are being worked out with the Taliban.

Kirby says there were "breaches" at the airport overnight. Says no flights are coming or going. US military and Turkish forces on the scene to clear the area. .@SecDef Lloyd Austin has authorized deployment of the THIRD battalion from the 82nd Airborne.

From DOD: “We are continuing to refine our processes and organization at the airport, including pre-staging people for movement, while improving our defenses.” (1/4) “U.S. Forces have now assumed responsibilities for air traffic control at the airport, supported by Afghan counterparts. Commercial traffic continues, though it has experienced some sporadic stoppages and delay.” (2/4)

.@PentagonPresSec says brigade combat team to Kuwait is coming from the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. "Plans and sourcing for aircraft and airlift is being sorted out....It's not going to be all military aircraft" being used.

DOD briefing: A police officer was attacked, and there was an exchange of fire. Not many details being confirmed. Even whether a Pentagon police officer was fatally stabbed. Briefers say it's an active ongoing investigation.

I’ve been back in DC for 28 minutes and I’ve already stepped in throw-up on the @wmata. I’m throwing away my shoes. I guess it could be worse.

.@realDonaldTrump last night: "We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass. We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. We are the nation that gave rise to the Wright Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton... "Jesse Owens, George Patton...the great Louie Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, and Mohammad Ali. And only America could have produced them all. No other place.

Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet.