January 2011 - Argghhh!

My Canyon Run post last week evidently inspired JMH, the Castle's Resident Treadhead, TechnoToy Expert, and Maple-Syrup Maven, to heightened Googling efforts.In case my vid gave you the view-from-the-cockpit bug, here's one that'll give you the full dangling-from-the-skid-and-flapping-in-the-breeze experience.And it's interactive, to show you how you'd feel if you forgot to stabilize yourself in the slipstream.No maple trees or red plaid shirts were harmed during the making of...

What You See Is What You Get...Mainly because - What We See Is What They Had - in spades.Here's to Bill - and the men of the 162nd, who made Bill what he is every bit as much as he made them what they were....

...The United States Department of Defense Pompously Self-Important Process-Focused Medal of Mostly Posthumous Honor Processing Agency. How else to explain this? Corporal Ben, of the Australian Special Air Service, is awarded the Victoria Cross for actions in... wait for it: October 2010. Staff Sergeant Guinta was awarded his Medal of Honor (the first one to a *living* recipient for actions post-Vietnam) in September 2010 , for actions that took place in October 2007. Something is wrong at the Pentagon...

Times seventy-two. Which will give you the number of brand-new *fully*-qualified rotary-wing aviators the Flight Training School produced since January '09. Add twelve more who completed the instrument flight phase, twelve more who received the full block of academic instruction, forty-four "legacy" pilots I taught real-world IMC Survival Skills to, twelve former Mi-8/Mi-17/Mi-24 pilots we transitioned into the Huey II, and one trained-to-US-standards Instructor Pilot, and I call that...

As 'Bama does stretching calisthenics in preparation to his Bow to Bao...

The server gnomes are just getting *hammered* with Bible spam, *** spam, and camera spam masquerading as Bible spam... over 600 spam comments in the last two hours. Heh.

What happens when you mix good food, jammin' tunes, plenty of pivo , raki , and slivovitz with small brains and plenty of ammo? What could possibly go wrong? Boq