homeland security secretary is blaming the migrants themselves for being trapped and dying. oh, boy, okay. but first record gas prices putting a damper on 4th of july travel. the president instead of taking responsibility has got a brand-new target, gas stations. biden tweeted, quote, my message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple. this is a time of war and global peril. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product and do it now. washington post owner and billionaire businessman jeff bezos isn t buying it, though, tweeting, quote, ouch. inflation is far too important a problem for the white house to keep making statements like this. it is either straight up misdirection or deep misunderstanding of the basic market dynamics. the white house is coming to biden s defense. anybody that knows president biden knows he s plain spoken, and he tells exactly what he s thinking, and in
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mentality. thankfully for their job, the operational side of it is going to expand. there s still a lot going on that they have to be forward deployed on so they are very much focused on that. how do they seem balanced when they come back, the family support they have, the military is their family, but what about the outside forces that provide support, can you explain that? it is incredibly difficult on families especially in a job where you take bombs apart for a living. when they come back, they do i think thises like skydive and they do things like skydive and race cars, things like that. the marine corps, we are proud marines. the marine corps is a community. the dod field is an even smaller community. talking about the extended marine corps, we have a dog named chesty named after chesty fuller, that s our mascot an english bulldog. he s going to be on fox & friends tomorrow morning. this is chesty 16. he s about to replace chesty 15. that s our mascot, english
sergeant. looking at him to mentor the young recruit and set a positive example for him. he has big paws to fill. the mascot tradition goes to world war i when the germans called the marines devil dogs. in the early 20s, private jigs enlisted. then they changed the name to chesty. and then to chesty fuller, the most decorated marine ever. and they take all of this seriously. we have had busted back in rank before. how did the dogs take it. marines typically don t take it well when demoted. you know, it is a message. we can t have a mascot running around, biting, barking, doing things they re not supposed to do. but that s exactly what sergeant chesty did last summer when he went after defense secretary panetta s dog at the friday evening parade. he barked and lashed out at