Amateur mountaineer. Public Servant. Posts are my own & do not represent my employer.
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#LetsGoCaps had our own banner raising at my house, we had to change up the mantel a bit! @Capitals @NoVa_Caps @spittinchiclets
Happy to celebrate 14 years on the job today. I could never imagine another vocation. I have worked with the most talented men and women on the face of the earth and have seen incredible acts of bravery. Honored to be able to serve others.
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BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: go.nasa.gov/48MTu9i
More on the study led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of @TohokuUniPR⤵️
900!!!!
HE DID IT 😱
ALEX OVECHKIN'S THE FIRST PLAYER TO EVER SCORE 900 GOALS! 🚨
ALT Numerous cutouts of Alex Ovechkin in Capitals uniforms on a white background. In the very center is an illustration of Ovechkin from behind holding a finger in the air. Beneath that in blue, red and white text on white and blue backgrounds reads, "Alex Ovechkin 900. NHL All-Time Goals Leader".
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🎃 Happy Halloween! This morning, #LCFR & Inova Loudoun Hospital teamed up to spread smiles to kids & their families in the hospital’s pediatric unit! Technical Rescue personnel dressed in costumes & rappelled from the roof, stopping to interact with kids through the windows!
Totally insane!
The infamous Hurricane Hunters just had one of the wildest flights in history today.
Flying straight into the heart of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, a Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules aircraft, call sign TEAL 75, was slammed by violent turbulence
The G-forces were so extreme they may have stressed the aircraft’s frame, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return to base in Curaçao for inspection.
Inside Melissa’s eyewall, the C-130J was thrown hundreds of feet up and down in seconds, nearly 700 feet of vertical motion within a single minute.
The crew also reported that the eyewall had a “sawtooth” appearance, an indicator of the storm’s chaotic and extreme structure.
Yet even amid chaos, the crew captured historic data, a central pressure of 893 mb and astonishing wind gust of 252 mph just above the surface, setting a world record for the highest wind gust ever measured by dropsonde in a hurricane.
The plane then spent more than 35 minutes circling inside the eye of one of the most violent storms ever observed in the Atlantic, searching for a path out of the hurricane that wasn’t filled with lightning and extreme turbulence.
These brave men and women risked their lives, without pay, to gather critical data that helped forecast the track and intensity of Melissa.
A legendary plane ride that will go down in history.
The morons in ICE have zero clue about Halo lore. The Flood is over 10 million years old and survived every attempt at extermination, the Halo rings were made to destroy all sentient life to starve them. The Flood has never been defeated, also Master Chief worked with aliens.
Privileged to be down in College Station, TX again-this time for advanced structural collapse 4. Slowly earning my way to the TEEX USAR Specialist certification 💪🏼💪🏼
This is the stupidest coin I have ever seen in my life. We are an unserious nation currently.
The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.
It is hard to believe it has been 14 years. We will never forget. RIP LCpl John Cagle, D Company, 2nd LAR. KIA 9/28/2011, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. #NeverForget #Outlaw #Destroyers
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Yesterday, we gathered to celebrate the incredible life, legacy, and service of Captain Dannie “Dano” Wilson, who died on Sunday, August 31, 2025, after a courageous battle with cancer.
Rest easy, Dano. We’ll take it from here.
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The fire has escalated to a 4th alarm and now involves another block of buildings. @mtamaryland Light Rail has been shut down.
.@BaltimoreFire Firefighters are fighting a 3 alarm building fire in Downtown Baltimore. Expect traffic delays & @mtamaryland delays.
(N Howard St & W Fayette St) Abandoned Building on Fire, Report of People Trapped Inside - reported on Citizen go.citizen.com/7UPEvtoglWb
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We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran.
Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq
ALT Astronaut Jim Lovell, wearing a white spacesuit with no helmet, stands outside with a tall rocket and launch tower behind his left shoulder. Lovell is pictured from the chest up; he is looking at the camera and smiling. Credit: NASA
Everything I’ve done since I was 16 has been stuff I’m just really fascinated with and never grew out of it. I’ve gotten to drive and ride in both of these big rigs just like I wanted to do as a kid because they’re cool! Things that were cool as a kid are still cool now!
One very insane thing I learned when my wife and I stayed with the Amish last winter was this:
I was reading an Amish mail order catalog; when I saw toys, I knelt down to show the kids. They were fascinated by them, but when the "toy trucks" page came up, the boys went nuts.
Amish kids LOVE trucks. And these particular kids live at the dead end of a dirt road, where trucks don't really ever go. Their dad doesn't drive. They've likely never been in a truck. Certainly no one taught them to like trucks. They'll never drive, either. But boy, they love those trucks...
Makes you wonder if there's some kind of hard-wired biological fascination with huge machinery, giant rolling vehicles, etc.