200 Stranded Marines Needed A Plane Ride Home, Here's How Donald Trump Responded
by Lauren
When Corporal Ryan Stickney and 200 of his fellow Marines prepared to return to their families after Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a logistics error forced them to turn to a surprising source for a ride home: Donald J. Trump.
Today, Stickney would like to say "thank you."
Stickney (left), was a squad leader in a TOW company of a Marine reserve unit based in Miami, FL and spent approximately six months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991.
Upon his unit’s return to the United States, the former Marine says the group spent several weeks decompressing at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina before heading back to Miami.
Stickney recalls being told that a mistake had been made within the logistics unit and that an aircraft wasn’t available to take the Marines home on their scheduled departure date.
This—according to Stickney—is where Donald Trump comes in.
"The way the story was told to us was that Mr. Trump found out about it and sent the airline down to take care of us. And that’s all we knew….I remember asking 'Who is Donald Trump?' I truly didn't know anything about him," the former Marine said.
Corporal Stickney snapped a photo to remember the day by:
The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home. No further details were provided.
The Marine says he and his family are—to this day—grateful for Trump’s kind gesture. "It may not seem like much to most people, but it was very important to a bunch of jar heads and more importantly their families waiting for them on the hot tarmac."
Stickney says that his father—a Korean War veteran and former Eastern Airlines captain—claimed to have never seen a 727 turn around and refuel so quickly. His father was so appreciative of Mr. Trump's help; he said he would fly for Trump for free to thank him for what he did.
Stickney says that in his 28 years of public service, he has yet to see this kind of support for the troops from any of the other candidates running for president: "I have not seen a Clinton or Sanders plane, or anything else for that matter, sent to support the troops."
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by Lauren
When Corporal Ryan Stickney and 200 of his fellow Marines prepared to return to their families after Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a logistics error forced them to turn to a surprising source for a ride home: Donald J. Trump.
Today, Stickney would like to say "thank you."
Stickney (left), was a squad leader in a TOW company of a Marine reserve unit based in Miami, FL and spent approximately six months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991.
Upon his unit’s return to the United States, the former Marine says the group spent several weeks decompressing at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina before heading back to Miami.
Stickney recalls being told that a mistake had been made within the logistics unit and that an aircraft wasn’t available to take the Marines home on their scheduled departure date.
This—according to Stickney—is where Donald Trump comes in.
"The way the story was told to us was that Mr. Trump found out about it and sent the airline down to take care of us. And that’s all we knew….I remember asking 'Who is Donald Trump?' I truly didn't know anything about him," the former Marine said.
Corporal Stickney snapped a photo to remember the day by:
The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home. No further details were provided.
The Marine says he and his family are—to this day—grateful for Trump’s kind gesture. "It may not seem like much to most people, but it was very important to a bunch of jar heads and more importantly their families waiting for them on the hot tarmac."
Stickney says that his father—a Korean War veteran and former Eastern Airlines captain—claimed to have never seen a 727 turn around and refuel so quickly. His father was so appreciative of Mr. Trump's help; he said he would fly for Trump for free to thank him for what he did.
Stickney says that in his 28 years of public service, he has yet to see this kind of support for the troops from any of the other candidates running for president: "I have not seen a Clinton or Sanders plane, or anything else for that matter, sent to support the troops."
http:/.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-election-493995/200-stranded-marines-needed-a-plane-14727522/
[h=6]- MAY 20, 2016 -[/h][h=1]RICK PERRY: I’M WILLING TO BE TRUMP’S VP[/h]CNN
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who once called Donald Trump "a cancer on conservatism," said Friday he would be willing to serve as the presumptive Republican nominee's vice president.
Perry said he will do whatever he can to help Trump -- including joining him on the Republican ticket in November.
"I suspect I'm going to be helping him in a myriad ways -- but if it's the vice presidency, if a cabinet position is where he needs somebody with my experience then I'm not going to go back to Texas and say, 'Aw shucks sir, I'm gonna go fishing.' I'm gonna go serve my country," Perry told CNN backstage at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting.
Perry told Republican donors Wednesday on a conference call hosted by Great America PAC, a pro-Trump group, that he would help Trump any way he could "within reason" and appeared to make his case for the vice presidency -- pointing to his foreign policy and government experience just as he talked up those same qualities as those Trump should look for in selecting a running mate.
Asked Friday whether the vice presidency was "within reason," Perry was blunt: "Of course it is," he said.
Perry, who ran against Trump in the GOP presidential primary, has recently emerged as a top Trump surrogate and didn't shy away from addressing his past forceful criticism of Trump.
"I had strong things to say about him," Perry acknowledged when asked about his speech last fall in which he described Trump as a "cancer on conservatism."
But Perry argued Friday that conservatives who are reluctant to support Trump should rally behind the presumptive GOP nominee to at least prevent Hillary Clinton from nominating a liberal justice to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
"The more time I've spent with him and discussed the issues, the more comfortable -- there are a lot more things we agree on," Perry said. "I believe Donald Trump would be a great President of the United States and I think we all have the opportunity to reevaluate an individual after you get to know them better and that's exactly what I've done."
"Mr. Perfect left the building a long time ago," Perry added.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who once called Donald Trump "a cancer on conservatism," said Friday he would be willing to serve as the presumptive Republican nominee's vice president.
Perry said he will do whatever he can to help Trump -- including joining him on the Republican ticket in November.
"I suspect I'm going to be helping him in a myriad ways -- but if it's the vice presidency, if a cabinet position is where he needs somebody with my experience then I'm not going to go back to Texas and say, 'Aw shucks sir, I'm gonna go fishing.' I'm gonna go serve my country," Perry told CNN backstage at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting.
Perry told Republican donors Wednesday on a conference call hosted by Great America PAC, a pro-Trump group, that he would help Trump any way he could "within reason" and appeared to make his case for the vice presidency -- pointing to his foreign policy and government experience just as he talked up those same qualities as those Trump should look for in selecting a running mate.
Asked Friday whether the vice presidency was "within reason," Perry was blunt: "Of course it is," he said.
Perry, who ran against Trump in the GOP presidential primary, has recently emerged as a top Trump surrogate and didn't shy away from addressing his past forceful criticism of Trump.
"I had strong things to say about him," Perry acknowledged when asked about his speech last fall in which he described Trump as a "cancer on conservatism."
But Perry argued Friday that conservatives who are reluctant to support Trump should rally behind the presumptive GOP nominee to at least prevent Hillary Clinton from nominating a liberal justice to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
"The more time I've spent with him and discussed the issues, the more comfortable -- there are a lot more things we agree on," Perry said. "I believe Donald Trump would be a great President of the United States and I think we all have the opportunity to reevaluate an individual after you get to know them better and that's exactly what I've done."
"Mr. Perfect left the building a long time ago," Perry added.
Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US
Amid a national discussion of police violence and a series of high-profile shootings, the 2016 election has seen a rare focus on the fight for gun control
For years seen as a losing battle, the push for gun control has become a central conflict of the 2016 presidential election, and part of a broader struggle between competing visions of policing, justice and racism in America.
Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee of the Republican party, has pledged that if elected he will eliminate “gun-free zones” and make it easier to carry a concealed firearm in all 50 states. National Rifle Association members cheered him on Friday after their leaders endorsed his candidacy. “I will not let you down,” Trump told them.
His likely Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has promised the opposite: she will take on America’s gun lobby from her “very first day” in office. One of her advisers announced on Friday that she believed a landmark 2008 supreme court decision protecting gun rights had been “wrongly decided”. “We have just too many guns – on the streets, in our homes, in our neighborhoods,” she said last month.
Each candidate has made appeals to very specific demographics, implicitly linking the questions of gun rights and gun violence to race. In addressing the NRA’s annual meeting Friday, Trump spoke to an older, largely white crowd, and the NRA’s CEO, Wayne La Pierre, spoke to that crowd in exclusionary terms.
“In this room, we still see the America that we have always loved,” he said. “We in this room, we are America.”
In contrast, Clinton has extended a hand to African American voters, particularly black women. On Saturday, Clinton will speak at a Florida event honoring Trayvon Martin, a black teenager whose shooting death presaged a new civil rights movement under the banner Black Lives Matter. Clinton has been joined on the campaign trail by the Mothers of the Movement, a coalition of black women who lost children in incidents related to gun violence and law enforcement.
The former secretary of state has decried the disproportionate toll of gun violence on minority communities and pledged to “end the era of mass incarceration”.
Trump told NRA members that locking up criminals was the best way to keep Americans safe.
“Hillary Clinton will release violent criminals from jail, more so than even Obama,” he said, “and put innocent Americans at risk.”
“I’m going to put criminals behind bars,” Trump promised, in an attack that echoed tough-on-crime ads from the 1980s and contrasts with a bipartisan effort to reduce incarceration.
He and LaPierre blamed Barack Obama for high crime in cities such as Chicago, saying the president and his former secretary of state would disarm all the Americans most in need of protection.
“Hillary wants them to be defenseless, wants to take away any chance they have of survival,” Trump said. “You have men and you have women, sitting in an apartment, and outside is tremendous crime, tremendous crime of all kinds, and they need to be protected. And if you take that gun away from them, it’s going to be a very unfair situation.”
Amid a national discussion of police violence and a series of high-profile shootings, the 2016 election has seen a rare focus on the fight for gun control
For years seen as a losing battle, the push for gun control has become a central conflict of the 2016 presidential election, and part of a broader struggle between competing visions of policing, justice and racism in America.
Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee of the Republican party, has pledged that if elected he will eliminate “gun-free zones” and make it easier to carry a concealed firearm in all 50 states. National Rifle Association members cheered him on Friday after their leaders endorsed his candidacy. “I will not let you down,” Trump told them.
His likely Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has promised the opposite: she will take on America’s gun lobby from her “very first day” in office. One of her advisers announced on Friday that she believed a landmark 2008 supreme court decision protecting gun rights had been “wrongly decided”. “We have just too many guns – on the streets, in our homes, in our neighborhoods,” she said last month.
Each candidate has made appeals to very specific demographics, implicitly linking the questions of gun rights and gun violence to race. In addressing the NRA’s annual meeting Friday, Trump spoke to an older, largely white crowd, and the NRA’s CEO, Wayne La Pierre, spoke to that crowd in exclusionary terms.
“In this room, we still see the America that we have always loved,” he said. “We in this room, we are America.”
In contrast, Clinton has extended a hand to African American voters, particularly black women. On Saturday, Clinton will speak at a Florida event honoring Trayvon Martin, a black teenager whose shooting death presaged a new civil rights movement under the banner Black Lives Matter. Clinton has been joined on the campaign trail by the Mothers of the Movement, a coalition of black women who lost children in incidents related to gun violence and law enforcement.
The former secretary of state has decried the disproportionate toll of gun violence on minority communities and pledged to “end the era of mass incarceration”.
Trump told NRA members that locking up criminals was the best way to keep Americans safe.
“Hillary Clinton will release violent criminals from jail, more so than even Obama,” he said, “and put innocent Americans at risk.”
“I’m going to put criminals behind bars,” Trump promised, in an attack that echoed tough-on-crime ads from the 1980s and contrasts with a bipartisan effort to reduce incarceration.
He and LaPierre blamed Barack Obama for high crime in cities such as Chicago, saying the president and his former secretary of state would disarm all the Americans most in need of protection.
“Hillary wants them to be defenseless, wants to take away any chance they have of survival,” Trump said. “You have men and you have women, sitting in an apartment, and outside is tremendous crime, tremendous crime of all kinds, and they need to be protected. And if you take that gun away from them, it’s going to be a very unfair situation.”
