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By M.P. Maloney We all owe thanks to The Patriot Post team for steadfastly offering this beacon of Liberty. It is altogether necessary when truth in media is in such short supply. I also applaud you for taking down comments as the vitriol needs to subside. In reading commentary from some of your op-ed writers, I felt compelled to reach out to you with some points for consideration. First, it is somewhat myopic to think that this is all about Donald Trump. Trump was simply a trumpet heralding a ...

A VF-24 F-14A with its wings fully swept shot from another Tomcat of the same fleet squadron. (All images credit: Dave "Bio" Baranek) We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary F-14 Tomcat with an intense story from the cockpit of a 2 vs UNKNOWN engagement during Week Two at “Topgun”, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. On Dec. 21, 1970, 50 years ago today, the first Full Scale Development (FSD) Grumman F-14A Tomcat (BuNo 157980) took off for its very first flight from Grumman’...