Christmas is Monday, so I hope you have all your shopping done. If not, you have 2 days to do so. Good luck and Godspeed. . .
Parking nine GROWN DEER on my roof, breaking into my home, eating my food, and then leaving a bunch of your stuff here – IN THIS ECONOMY????
— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) December 14, 2023
Pearls
Memes
Guess what. . . Corgi butt
Here’s some Christmas music for your earholes.
Photos
Soldiers assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard,” and the U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own,” conduct military funeral honors with funeral escort for Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 14, 2023. McCarthy’s unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. After the battle, McCarthy’s remains were not recovered and he was reported missing in action. He was officially accounted for on Feb. 13, 2023. His niece, Marilyn Stanton, received the U.S. flag from McCarthy’s funeral service. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser)
PHILIPPINE SEA (Dec. 16, 2023) A wave breaks over the bow of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) while underway in the Philippine Sea, Dec. 16, 2023. Hopper is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Leon Vonguyen)
U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation as part of Exercise Steel Knight 23.2 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, Dec. 2, 2023. The MCCRE consisted of a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel exercise, high-altitude aerial refueling, aviation delivered ground refueling, and external lift exercises to ensure HMH-361’s operational and combat readiness before deployment. Steel Knight 23.2 is a three-phase exercise designed to train I MEF in the planning, deployment and command and control of a joint force against a peer or near-peer maneuver capabilities of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jackson Rush)
A 920th Rescue Wing HH-60G Pave Hawk prepares to connect to the hose-and-drogue system of an HC-130J Combat King II aircraft during helicopter air-to-air refueling off the coast of California during exercise Distant Fury Stallion Dec. 5, 2023. This joint exercise presented a uniquely suited opportunity in remote, austere conditions to validate the wing’s interoperability within the joint team while reaffirming the wing’s lethality, precision and ability to fight and win. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Koreen)
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