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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,478 posts)
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 03:29 PM Dec 14

Trump will attend the Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump will huddle with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at Saturday's Army-Navy football game, a chance to take in one of most storied rivalries in college sports while spotlighting his emerging national security team.

Trump is expected to be joined by Vice President-elect JD Vance, embattled Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth, potential backup defense option Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others for the 125th matchup between service academies.

Also planning to attend is Daniel Penny, a military veteran who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide this week in the chokehold death of an agitated subway rider in New York. Penny was invited by Vance, who accused prosecutors of trying to “ruin" Penny's life by charging the Marine veteran in the death of Jordan Neely in 2023.

Trump, who attended Army-Navy games as president-elect in 2016 and during his first terms, has been making an increasing number of public appearances before his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. He was accompanied by his family and Vance on Thursday as he rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange after being recognized as Time magazine's person of the year.

Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/trump-attend-army-navy-game-141551486.html



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BOSSHOG

(40,271 posts)
10. Hegseth says military branches want females in their service to put them on
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 10:07 PM
Dec 14

Recruiting posters.

The 2025 United Stated Navy Memorial Calendar has reprints of old recruiting posters featuring Female Officers and Enlisted Personnel on 4 of the 12 months.

I have a very large Vertical Navy Recruiting Poster framed in my basement featuring a Female Navy Chief. I bought it in 1987. It was old then.

Anyone. Share SECDEFs logic?

underpants

(187,334 posts)
13. Well seeing as how they are having a hard time recruiting
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 08:26 AM
Dec 15

and since it’s abundantly clear that women have fulfilled lots of duties of course they are recruiting women.

Frankly, he’s pandering to the old minded crowd going back to the “Should women be in combat?” stuff I remember from the 70’s. If you extrapolate it out he’s really giving a wink and a nod to the pre-desegregated thinking.

Going back to 2002 when a bunch of us DU’ers met to march against the Iraq War, where did we meet up? At the Women’s Vietnam Memorial- 13 US military women died serving in Vietnam.

Figarosmom

(3,288 posts)
3. So what if Biden wanted to go?
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 03:35 PM
Dec 14

Is tsf in the seats the POTUS would have been seated?

I hate that this guy is overshadowing the current POTUS

24601

(4,030 posts)
5. Probably sitting with one of the Superintendents - and will switch at halftime. That simplifies USSS coverage. I can't
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:00 PM
Dec 14

say why President Biden never attended the game during his presidency.

bmichaelh

(642 posts)
6. Acting as if they are in charge already
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 05:24 PM
Dec 14

I thought traditionally the Secretary of Defense sits on Army side during one half and Navy on another half.

Trump and his appointees are acting as if they are already in charge.

The attorney of RFK Jr is making demands that FDA revoke approval of polio vaccine, now.

BOSSHOG

(40,271 posts)
9. I watched damn near all of the game
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:48 PM
Dec 14

GO NAVY

and did not hear one word about trump or his thugs or see him on telecast.

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