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Jim LaPorta
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National Security Coordinating Producer at @CBSNews πŸ“° | @USMC infantryman πŸ¦…πŸŒŽβš“οΈ| πŸ‡¦πŸ‡« Veteran | Fan of @Canes Hockey & @Buccaneers Football
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Jan 20, 2025
    You’re telling me there’s vehicles that can just set up c-wire? I want a word with my former Marine commanders for the hours I spent doing this by hand!
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    Bilbo Baggins
    @Jbanklestankle1
    Jan 20, 2025
    Deploy the pain slinky
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Feb 26, 2022
    New @AP reporting tonight: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer. An American official tells me Zelenskyy said, β€œThe fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”
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    Jim LaPorta
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    Jun 28, 2023
    For those who may not know: no regulation specifies that the president or vice president should salute or return the salute of military personnel. Army regulations state that neither civilians nor those wearing civilian attire are required to render salutes.
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Aug 16, 2024
    I’ve received a flood of angry text messages from veterans whose political ideologies differ regarding former President Trump’s comments. I’ll be working late this evening.
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    Jim LaPorta
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    Jan 20, 2025
    Replying to @rpetty
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Feb 1, 2025
    Last month, Capt. Lobach escorted fashion designer @RalphLauren at the White House when he received his Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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    Jim LaPorta
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    Feb 1, 2025
    One of three soldiers aboard an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was involved in the deadly midair collision with an American Airlines flight Wednesday was identified. Capt. Rebecca Lobach, an aviation officer, had worked as a social aide in the White House cbsnews.com/news/soldier-a…
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Jun 6, 2024
    60 years ago, Walter Cronkite of @CBSNews interviewed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord: β€œThese people gave us a chance and they bought time for us so that we can do better than we have before.” #DDay80
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Apr 29, 2022
    .@PentagonPresSec John Kirby gets emotional talking about war atrocities and Putinβ€”β€œIt's difficult to look at some of the images and imagine that any well-thinking, serious mature leader would do that. I can't talk to his psychology, but I think we can all speak to his depravity”
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    Jim LaPorta
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    Feb 27, 2025
    Actor Gene Hackman talking to David Letterman in 1988 on why he joined the Marines.
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Jan 21, 2025
    Replying to @Roman_Fyseek
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Mar 24, 2025
    The current national security advisor
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    Ambassador Mike Waltz
    @michaelgwaltz
    Jun 12, 2023
    Biden’s sitting National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent Top Secret messages to Hillary Clinton’s private account. And what did DOJ do about it? Not a damn thing. politico.com/story/2016/02/….
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Nov 10, 2024
    For the #MarineCorpsBirthday here’s Gunnery Sgt. Bryan Walgren’s John Glenn speech given to Marines just before the battle of Marjah in Afghanistan.
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    May 2, 2022
    Before the day is done β€” @USMC Sgt. Nicole Gee would have been 24-years-old today. She was one of the 13 American service members killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. She posted this photo to her Instagram from Kabul. She wrote simply: β€œI love my job.”
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    Jim LaPorta
    @JimLaPorta
    Jun 23, 2023
    A senior American intelligence official tells me for both Ukraine and U.S. intelligence, it’s a β€œwatch and see if they destroy themselves sort of situation.” They said it was going to be a long night of watching how this develops. Said Wagner is preparing* to mobilizeβ€”it’s
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