By LUCAS DAPRILE | The State | Published: May 10, 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C. (Tribune News Service) A portion of a commencement address by University of South Carolina President Robert Caslen matches almost word-for-word a passage from a famous speech given seven years ago by a retired military leader. Caslen s May 7 speech included a passage about perseverance, courage and character that resembles a 2014 speech given by retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven at the University of Texas at Austin. A book about that speech became a best seller. The State posted a transcription of Caslen s 2021 commencement speech into four online plagiarism detectors and each of them said the words were plagiarized. FITSNews first reported on the similarities between the two speeches.
Mission Impossible eat your heart out: SEALs fast-rope onto speedboat slung beneath a black Chinook in awe-inspiring exercises featuring secret Night Stalker unit
One spectacular image showed Navy SEALs shimmying down ropes from a black-painted Chinook onto a stealthy combat boat which was slung underneath the helicopter as it flew above the waves
SEALs were seen hanging out of Little Bird and Black Hawk helicopters as they prepared to disembark armed with M4-style rifles modified with simunition kits, providing paintball-like bullets for force-on-force training
There was also a massive airdrop of supplies and assault boats which were seen floating down on parachutes
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“If I knew where Al-Baghdadi was, I would fly in and kill him tonight,” says Polad Talabani, the commander of Kurdistan’s Counterterrorism Group or CTG.
Polad has been with CTG since its inception in 2004 and minces no words when it comes to what he thinks of ISIS. “We’ve lived here for 10,000 years, you think we’re just going to give it up to the Daesh?” he asked when interviewed by SOFREP at the CTG compound in Sulaymaniyah. Today, CTG operators are nearly indistinguishable from a Western special operations unit. They wear Multicam uniforms, carry M4 rifles, and wear night vision devices. The unit has come a long way in over a decade of conflict, even if they were mostly hidden from the world, flying under the radar until the rise of ISIS brought CTG into the spotlight.
In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,
Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine).
At 29, the biochemist and virologist has spent much of her professional life indoors, where the U.S. government has entrusted her to handle some of the world’s most lethal pathogens including Ebola, Lassa fever, and Nipah viruses at top-secret Biosafety Level Four facilities. “I shower six times a day,” she tells me. “I’m the cleanest person you’ll ever meet.” Her winning smile and gallows humor mask the gravity of her work, which has involved diffusing poison-laced letters that have been mailed to federal buildings.