March 2010 - Argghhh!

There are10 Medals awarded for actions on this day - the average number over the year. Three from the Civil War, three from the Indian Campaigns, two from the Philippine Insurrection, and one each from World War II and Korea. Only one is posthumous.Civl War. Three awards for actions at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas. This is a battle that would loom larger in our history had General Van Dorn been successful, and General Curtis failed. An interesting fight, with more generals killed (as a percentage...

There are four Medals awarded for actions on this day. One each from the Civil War, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. One Medal was posthumous.Civil War - the clash of ironclads... Monitor vs Merrimack. WILLIAMS, PETER Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1831, Norway, Accredited to: Pennsylvania. G.O. No.: 11, 3 April 1863. Citation: Serving on board the U.S.S. Ironclad Steamer Monitor, Hampton Roads, 9 March 1862. During the engagement between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Merrimack...

But I dunno, you guys keep asking questions... As Casey observed, it is a top-break weapon. And between that picture above and this one, you can determine how barrel selection is made - i.e., how you choose which barrel you are shooting from when you (literally, on this weapon) squeeze the trigger. Exactly how, I'll leave to you to deduce from the two pictures....

There is only one Medal awarded for actions on this day. The recipient lived to receive the award.Vietnam. Gunny Kellogg was *glad* on that day for all the mud.KELLOGG, ALLAN JAY, JR. Rank and organization: Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (then S/Sgt.), Company G, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. place and date: Quang Nam province, Republic of Vietnam, 11 March 1970. Entered service at: Bridgeport, Conn. Born: 1 October 1943, Bethel, Conn. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and...

Then, her status changed to POW.Said former POW was found roundly abusing her captors, abuse was immediately turned on her rescue team whom she addressed as "you fat ***" while demanding to know why her "country had forgotten her for three days!" Things calmed down after the third dinner as the food in "the cage" was "pooze" although she shunned the bed, preferring to sleep outside under her hedge where she had to beat the crap out of the cat from next to reclaim...

There are five Medals awarded for actions on this day, none of them posthumous. They start with the Civil War, move on to two naval lifesaving awards, and end with World War II and Vietnam.Civil War. The Auld Soldier would be proud of this soldier, having been in the same position.TRAYNOR, ANDREW Rank and organization: Corporal, Company D, 1st Michigan Cavalry. Place and date: At Mason's Hill, Va., 16 March 1864. Entered service at: Rome, N.Y. Birth: Newark, N.J. Date of issue: 28 September 1897...

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.

...on the joys of mass-produced-from-the-education-schools mediocre mouth-breathing teachers whose idea of history is to at best parrot the thankfully-no-longer-writing Howard Zinn while showing the-sadly-still-filming Michael Moore's movies to save on all that labor of preparing actual lesson plans and critically thinking and stuff, but, well, Chuck did it for me . For that matter, so did Uncle Jimbo and Laughing Wolf . Or Commander Salamander. I got nothing to add.