September 2011 - Argghhh!

Apropos yesterday's sniper post... this pic from BCR seemed apt....

From Strategy Page, used with permission, all rights reserved.USN Wants To Replace F-35s With UAVs by James DunniganSeptember 26, 2011Six months after the U.S. Navy’s first full size combat UAV made its first flight, the U.S. Navy leadership has ordered naval aviation leaders to examine the possibility of reducing orders for the new F-35B and F-35C, and use that money to buy the new X-47B, and similar robotic combat aircraft. That move was probably helped along by DARPA (the Department of Defense’s...

If you need to catch up - go down two posts! Some responses to several comments. Staged? Quite possibly, but just as possibly not. Regarding the footgear - those leather personnel carriers w/accs look like pretty standard boots, gaiters, and galoshes to me. I do think it's a pile of beets, and probably sugar beets, but that's just wingin' it. As for the question as to whether or not the right-hand Mauser is a Mauser... it's a Mauser. It isn't an 03A3, as it has the rear sight...

Below is a pic of infantrymen from an anti-tank company who have un-assed their truck because some inconsiderate German machinegunners shot it up while they were swanning about enjoying the sights of wartime Holland in 1944. They are trying to find said Germans so as to properly express their annoyance at how the german army was treating Allied tourists then swarming over Holland at the very first instance of the "Nijmegen Marches."I just find the pic fascinating, and the careful eye will...

Some may be confused on why I keep making these weird-titled posts. At first...

One wonders how much blood was let in small cubes in the darkness of the inner rings of the Pentagon in order to win this lexicological fight... From email (because this carp is important when you write proposals): All, the term "Full Spectrum Operations" is out as per the CSA. The construct of offense/defense/stability/civil support remains unchanged but FSO will now be called "Tim" - Seriously, FSO will now be called "Decisive Action" - The Tenets of Unified Land Operations...

I see Boq has been manning the radio, and using a sharp stick to poke things. And, apparently, is going to start setting a daily punji pit, from what I can see in the queue... My station has been very quiet on the 'net of late because I've been really really busy writing novels to so mesmerize the government that they will borrow more money to give to me and my buddies. Hey, everybody else is doing it, we at least do our crony capitalism out in the open. I was successful in that endeavor...