R.I.P Police Officer Carlos Luciano Ledesma, a Hero, a Husband and a US Marine. R.I.P

Police Officer Carlos Ledesma was shot and killed while conducting an undercover 'reverse' bust operation in Phoenix.

Officer Ledesma was working an undercover operation with two other officers. They were attempting to sell 500 pounds of marijuana. They had just arrived to complete the deal when the suspects came out firing at them. Two of the officers were able to return fire and both were wounded.

Two suspects were shot and killed by the officers, and six other suspects were taken into custody.

Officer Ledesma had served with the Chandler Police Department for three years and had previously served with the Spirit Lake Iowa Police Department and as a United States Marine. He is survived by his wife and two children.


Police Officer Carlos Luciano Ledesma, Chandler Police Department, Arizona: "Carlos Ledesma"

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 34

Tour: 3 years

Badge # 600

Cause: Gunfire

Incident Date: 7/28/2010

Weapon: Rifle; AK-47

Suspect: 2 shot and killed; 6 apprehended

Wounded US Marine Now a Model

Move over Mark Wahlberg and David Beckham, there is a new underwear model making waves, and he is more than just a guy on a billboard with a rocking body.
Alex Minsky is a 24-year-old U.S. Marine whose right leg was amputated by a roadside bomb in 2009 while he was serving in Afghanistan.  Minsky spent 47 days in a coma and suffered traumatic brain injuries and severe burns to his body from the explosion.
“I was down,” the Calif.-based Minsky told ABC News.  “I was numb and I was running away from everything…especially myself, my own head.”
Minsky suffered from depression and turned to alcohol to cope until he decided to fight back by stopping drinking and starting to work out.
“I didn’t want to run anymore,” he said.  “I wanted to face my problems instead.”
It was at the gym that Minsky got his big break when he was spotted by a photographer.
“He approached me and said, ‘Have you ever modeled?  Like what are you?  What are you doing?’” Minsky recalled.
“It was too hard to pass up,” said the photographer, Tom Cullis.  “He had a movie star face with wild ink and sweat.”


Now Minsky is showing off the results of his daily four-hour workouts as an underwear and fashion model.
He also posts updates to his Facebook page and serves as an inspiration to other people with disabilities.
“Alex wants to be an inspiration to people, to move past their disabilities,” Cullis said.  “Don’t give up.”
While Minsky’s story inspires people to keep going, his chiseled abs may inspire people to shape up.  So what is his secret?  Turns out, it’s avocados.
“I eat them all the time,” he said.  “I like wolf it down really quick, with usually egg.

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U.S Marine Veteran - Kevin Scott Sutay is Now a Free Man

 today 10/28/2012 @ 11:30 am, Sutay was handed over to U.S. government officials at the airport in the capital of Bogota, according to a joint statement from the governments of Cuba and Noway.

Kevin Scott Sutay, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, had been trekking through several Central and South American countries before he was seized June 20 by the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson announced earlier this week that he has brokered a deal with Colombia’s largest guerrilla group to release a former U.S. Marine that they have held hostage since June.

Kevin Scott Sutay, received a "good health check-up" report and will soon rejoin his family.
In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry almost immediately thanked Colombia's government for its "tireless efforts" in securing the Afghanistan war veteran's release. Kerry also thanked the Rev. Jesse Jackson for advocating it.


The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had said it was abandoning kidnapping as a condition for the launching of peace talks that began 11 months ago to end a half-century internal conflict.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos resisted FARC efforts to make what he deemed a "media show" of Sutay's release and no images were released of the early morning jungle handover or of reported his late-morning arrival in Bogota, the capital.


The rebels had announced in July their intention to free Sutay as a good-faith gesture but the liberation was delayed.

Santos' firmness on prohibiting a ceremonial release of Sutay included objecting to the FARC-endorsed intercession of Jackson, who met with rebel leaders in Cuba in late September and said then that he would go to Colombia to lobby for on behalf of Sutay's release.

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The Best Sales Person @ HHGregg Clearwater FL.

I would like to say thank you to Bob Ervin. This past weekend, Bob went above and beyond his sales duties to help this veteran.  I had bought a dishwasher from HHgregg, when I got home. After opening the box, the dishwasher was damaged. I was on fire, because I have been waiting for a dishwasher for about a month. I then went  back to HHgregg to  speaking with the manager. The manager told me there was no more in stock and I had to wait another week.
                                                                                   

 New Damaged Dishwasher

Bob was standing close and herd the conversation. He also saw my USMC tattoo and asked if I was a US Marine. I said, "Yes sir, Ooh- Rah." Bob then stepped in to help.  He told the manager that there was a way to solve my problem. Bob went in the back to look for another model dishwasher that was color black. He found a couple  came back out on the floor and explained and showed me the different models.  We chose a black Whirlpool that was really nice.  Bob went to the store manager and explained the situation. Shortly after, we walked out vary happy with a better dishwasher.  I never had a sales person go out of there way to help a veteran. Bob Ervin is an out standing sales rep.
So if your are a veteran, and shopping at HHGregg in Clearwater FL. Make sure that you ask for Bob Ervin, Appliance Specialist.
Thank you.

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Jesse Steed, A Father, A Hero, A US Marine...RIP. Devil Dog

One of ours. A US marine, Jesse was in Bravo 1/4 1st Plt. Jesse served between 1996 and 2000, Steed served in the United State Marine Corps 

Jesse Steed, 36, was one of the oldest and most experienced members of the crew and because of that, he has served as captain of the Granite Mountain Hotshots for the last two years. He started working as a Hotshot in 2002 and moved to the Granite Mountain Hotshots around that same time. Jesse Steed's former colleagues remember him as a joker. "He was a character. If you look at all the old photos of him, he was doing things to make people laugh," said Cooper Carr, who worked with Steed in the Hotshots from 2001 to 2003. "He was good at impressions, and he sang songs; he was just great for morale. He'd just talk in a funny voice and have us all in stiches," Carr said. "And he was strong as an ox." Carr remembers that Steed once spent the better part of an hour positioning a water bottle just right for a photo so that it would look like Yosemite falls was cascading into it. Steed was also remembered for his dedication to fighting wildfires. "He did it for a long, long time. I think he started in 2001, when he got out of the Marines. A job like the Hotshots is hard, hard work, and you don't stay in it if you don't love it," Carr said. Steed was no stranger to bravery, or danger. Between 1996 and 2000, Steed served in the United State Marine Corps before returning home and becoming a firefighter.. Renton, Wash., police officer Cassidy Steed said his brother "always put his life on the line for people who he knew he would never meet." Steed leaves behind a wife, Desiree, and two children. His two kids are Caden, 4 and Cambria, 3.

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