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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri May 28, 2021, 01:29 PM May 2021

At Naval Academy Graduation, Harris Focuses on Strengthening a 'Fragile' World

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris achieved another first for women on Friday when she addressed the graduating class of the United States Naval Academy, becoming the first female commencement speaker in the school’s nearly 175-year history.

The vice president’s speech focused on some of the Biden administration’s most urgent challenges, like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and a host of increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats — occurrences she called “warning shots” that would require a military trained to counter them.

“A gang of hackers can disrupt the fuel supply of a whole seaboard,” Ms. Harris said. “One country’s carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability of the whole earth. This, midshipmen, is the era we are in — and it is unlike any era that came before.”

The vice president’s speech at the Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Md., was her first to focus on the military, and it came as the Biden administration accelerated its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, well ahead of the Sept. 11 deadline President Biden set in April.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/at-naval-academy-graduation-harris-focuses-on-strengthening-a-fragile-world/ar-AAKtAN1

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At Naval Academy Graduation, Harris Focuses on Strengthening a 'Fragile' World (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
It's all Army and Navy if anyone is asking. hunter May 2021 #1

hunter

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1. It's all Army and Navy if anyone is asking.
Fri May 28, 2021, 02:01 PM
May 2021

Army is dirt side.

Navy is ocean, sky, and free fall space.

That's how it's done in the 22nd century.

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