October 2010 - Argghhh!

...though the protruberances on the C130 are new to me. I assume part of the anti-missile defense suite? Soldiers jump from the troop door of a C-130 Hercules over a drop zone during airborne operations Sept. 12, 2010, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock)...

May The Best Bullet Lose by James DunniganOctober 3, 2010The U.S. Army and Marine Corps have parted company on the issue of what kind of rifle ammo is best for the troops. The army began to ship lead-free M855A1 5.56mm bullets to its troops over the Summer. The marines went with a slightly more expensive Mk308 (or SOST) round, that SOCOM (Special Operations Command) recently developed. SOST contains lead, but SOCOM considers it more effective in combat than any other 5.56mm round. All this came about...

...between an Islamofascist and an Ecofascist?Not one damned thing, apparently.......

Into the dark void, four trusty steeds go...

Now, as the grognards will attest (in case you still haven’t figured out how to tell just when I am and when I’m *not* pulling your leg), the Singer Sewing Machine Company *did*, in fact, produce a bunch of M1911A1 pistols for the Army in 1940. What the grognards sometimes overlook is that the Singer Sewing Machine Company manufactured more Singer Sewing Machine Company-manufactured Singer Sewing Machines than Singer Sewing Machine Company-manufactured M1911A1s.I will attempt to rectify...