September 2009 - Argghhh!

Heh. All the data used to pronounce our self-imposed extinction by being consumed by drowning polar bears normal interglacial climate change Anthropogenic Global Warming is -- *yawngasp* gone! But...but...but...gosh-a-rootie, where did this critical-to-humanity's-survival information go and when did it disappear? From Patrick J. Michaels at NRO and Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That comes this goody:Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates...

Good work if you can get it...US Army Spc. Seth Mulcahy, left, along with Spc. Robert Mason, right, and Spc. Richard McNulty, center, load a 155 mm howitzer on Camp Wright, Afghanistan, Sept. 23, 2009. Mulcahy, Mason and McNulty are assigned to Battery C, 1st Battalion, 321 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment. The team fired the weapon as part of a registration mission where targets are pre-marked to increase speed and accuracy. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian BoisvertDUGWAY PROVING GROUND...

Then go to Blogworld Expo, next month in Las Vegas.If you can get yourself there, and find a place to stay, I know how you can get into BWE for free - if you're a military-connected person. And that connection is actually defined pretty loosely. Parents and siblings count...We're talking the Big Names of Milblogging, like Matt from Blackfive, Greyhawk, CDR Salamander Chuck Z, with new fresh faces on the panels, not the same old group of tired old pharts of yore.Plus, in the exhibit hall,...

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I don't know how many of our regular readers have attended townhalls this season, but I thought I'd let you know how mine went...

Before I succumbed to the propagandizing coming out of the Army PA folks *and* the senior leadership, I was much more careful myself in the use of the terms "warrior" versus "soldier." The warrior can be admired for his personal prowess, but oft-times true warrior societies aren't really very good militarys, and usually get their butts handed to them when they run into a disciplined group of soldiers, even when armed similarly. There are always exceptions, of course. One can...

The Medal does not make an appearance on this day until the Korean War. Then it jumps in with both feet, illustrating the oft-desperate fighting that characterized that war. First, Sergeant First Class Kaufman and the fighting around Pusan in 1950, followed by a Corpsman and two Marine Privates of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines fighting in the Outpost Battles of 1952.*KAUFMAN, LOREN R. Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Company G, 9th Infantry Regiment. Place and date: Near Yongsan...

...there is a limit to how much stuff I've got, and I've got decades left to stretch it out over, right? ...