February 2010 - Argghhh!

Come, come step behind the vault door... the new racks are barely visible in the drop-off.Better view of the new racks here.Even if the color is kinda scary in this pic... The new racks are on the right. There's still long-guns without rack space. Darn. ...

Stephen Green, the Vodkapundit, has a good ice-breaker post (what other kind for the Vodkapundit, eh?) up at Pajamas Media, called "One of these things is not like the other." It starts out with a discussion on the naming of military operations, and then moved on to the name of the offensive in Afghanistan - Husky.Torch.Anvil.Overlord.Olympic.Linebacker.Reforger.Rolling Thunder.These are the names we used to give our military operations. Forceful names. Decisive names. Military names. OK...

Mines and IED's all have a logical structure to their designs, thus they can be safely handled by expert hands. The technician in this video surely knows his craft. Still, I personally would be a wee bit more careful than he. Though I have to thank him for showing us all the fiddy bits of the boom-boom thingie, and making that jungle trail a bit more safe for all who transit through it. Still, does anyone in the UXO community out there can I.D. this beastie? Boq

There are ten Medals awarded for actions on this day or periods of service which ended this day. Only one was posthumous. The Civil War appears today, to break the grip that World War II and Vietnam have held the last few days - though both those conflicts present today, as well.Civil War. Five Medals, one for a daring rescue under fire, the others for naval service leading to the capture of Fort Fisher, a campaign that generated a number of Medals already.BIEGER, CHARLES Rank and organization: Private...

Meet Horus, who fancies himself quite the ladies goat. SWWBO has an update on the critters of Argghhh! over at her place....

As the old ho-down goes: Don't you b*thc don't you pout, hire an illegal to dig you out. Big Snow a-commin... Big Snow a-commin! Boq

As KCSteve noted in the comments to one of Saturday's double-posts about the Fort Leavenworth Militaria Show, he made it there and took some pictures. Click this link to go see them. A couple of points - the pistols KCSteve believes are mine, are not - they belong to my buddy Beau, who had the most Kewl Stuff there of the four of us (Charley, Beau, Jim and myself). For you M1911 fans, Beau had a Singer and a Union Switch and Signal, just to tease a bit. He also had a M1903A4 sniper, Johnson M41...

There are two Medals awarded for actions on this day, from World War II and Korea, both posthumous.World War II*DELEAU, EMILE, JR. Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 142d Infantry, 36th Infantry Division. Place and date: Oberhoffen, France, 12 February 1945. Entered service at: Blaine, Ohio. Birth: Lansing, Ohio. G.O. No.: 60, 25 July 1945. Citation: He led a squad in the night attack on Oberhoffen, France, where fierce house-to-house fighting took place. After clearing 1 building...