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Zach Ota

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · Nov 12

If we are meeting for the first time, please allow me a brief introduction:

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 1m

On the positive side of there being no fleet at Fleet Week, I got to learn more about my family’s military service at the Presidio’s new Military Intelligence Service History Learning Center.

The Military Intelligence Service History Learning Center of the National Japanese American Historical Society and National Park Service.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yYTxTPLkiBTGLsSA?g_st=ipc

Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 30m

From Canada, with love 🍁 ♥️

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 3h

The future of AI:

a man with glasses and a mustache is sitting in a chair and talking to a woman that he has been seeing .

Alt: a man with glasses and a mustache is sitting in a chair and talking to a woman that he has been seeing .

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 4h

Way to go!

Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 17h

This is the new face of defending democracy 🇺🇸

John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 17h

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 20h

Love Lands End. One of my favorite memorials is there.

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 20h

The Snowbirds sure impressed the uh city folks in the Bay Area, too!

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 21h

It was a beautiful day, and there were all kinds of flying Canadians 🪿

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 21h

No fleet at Fleet Week, but once again our allies come to the rescue 🇨🇦

The Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds fly over San Francisco during Fleet Week

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 23h

Gabby’s Sabre will always be my favorite

Slashed by a Sabre by Stan Stokes. (B)

The time is early 1951, the place is Korea. The chequered-tailed Sabre, piloted by Francis Gabreski of the 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing, has just scored a hit on a North Korean Mig-15. Gabreski attained 6.5 victories in Mig Alley, bcoming the 8th jet ace. Gabreski had over 25 aerial victories in WW II flying the P-47 before becoming a prisoner of war. At the onset of the Korean conflict the bulk of the U.S. Air Force consisted of technically obsolete WW II vintage aircraft. Early in the Korean conflict the U.S. military successfully utilized these piston driven aircraft, against the small and ineffective North Korean Air Force. However, in November of 1950, things changed dramatically with the first appearance of Mig-15 fighters flown by both North Korean and Chinese pilots. The F-86 was the most important air combat fighter flown by the American Air Force during the Korean Conflict, and the first swept-wing military jet produced in the United States. The first prototype flew in 1947 and its design was influenced by German research data captured near the end of World War II. The Sabre was powered by a General Electric J47-GE-27 turbojet engine and was capable of speeds of 690 MPH at sea level. The F-86 had an operational ceiling of 50,000 feet, and was armed with six machine guns. The Sabre could carry 2000 pounds of bombs or externally mounted fuel tanks to increase its range beyond the 785 miles obtained without external tanks. Sabre Jets and Mig-15s tangled over Korea on countless occasions with dogfights reminiscent of high speed versions of the battles waged a decade earlier between British Spitfires and German Bf-109s in the skies of Britain.

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Drew F. Lawrence @dflawrence.bsky.social · 1d

Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans — latest from me @taskandpurpose.com

One soldier messaged USAA’s chatbot about his denied loan. It pushed a credit card, then said to consider opening an account with Navy Fed.
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Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans

Some troops were surpised by hard credit checks and unexpected denials for relief loans by military-friendly lender USAA.

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 4d

During WWII the 442nd RCT, a segregated unit of Japanese-American soldiers, joined the 36th ID, formerly of the Texas National Guard.

More than 800 442nd members were later killed or wounded rescuing 211 Texans trapped behind enemy lines.

Service to our country once - and can again - unite us.

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