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Vol. 15 · No. 133 · Friday, 6 November 2026

Pete Hegseth picks wrong week to stop drinking

Pentagon staffing delays leave secretary sober for worst 48 hours of his career

Pentagon confident U.S. will be ready for 2027 war with China by 2035

Hegseth wears Eisenhower's globe as Halloween costume

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Navy & Marines · Page 5

BREAKING: Navy SEALs capture terrorist in Somalia, or kill him, or shit we don't know

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SOMALIA — Sources confirmed that members of the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 captured a member of the Al Shabaab terror group just weeks after they pulled off a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall.

Or maybe it was SEAL Team 2, or Special Forces. Media sources confirm we'll let you know later.

The raid featured the trademarked "coming out of the water with weapons raised" technique which then morphed into a firefight exactly like the Bin Laden raid.

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