May 2011 - Argghhh!

I will refrain from saying anything else, lest my passions liken like those in Ukraine. Boq

They actually *pay* us to play with explosives. Simply amazing. Some sailors for your Armed Forces Day celebration. 110515-N-YC050-061 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 15, 2011) Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Nakita Boyd, center, from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 15, instructs Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Justin Reynolds and Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Travis Smith on bomb safety check procedures in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is deployed supporting...

Which, it seems to me, is as good a way to mark Armed Forces Day in a time of war as any other way, no?By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service GAYAN DISTRICT, Afghanistan, May 20, 2011 - This week, members of 'Dog' Company maintained their hold on a key hilltop located just meters from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border by winning a 14-hour firefight with insurgents Army Sgt. 1st Class Adam Petrone, filling in for a platoon leader on mid-tour leave, was the senior soldier on the ground...

...it seems appropriate to pull this up out of the archves, from back in June of 2004: You know you always wondered why it was called cordite, didn't you? You know you did. Now, you know. Look at the propellant in the cartridge case. Corded. Ergo, cordite. As in this bit, from this warrior turned peace protestor [Link has since gone dead] in Canada (I felt it rude to just snip his bit and not let you read the rest of his message...) Mostly the memories which came back to me are not the sounds...

...Mind you, he might be in his thirties, they're all young to me anymore... If you were born after I was commissioned, yer young. Thing Marine needs some help. So, all you lurkers out there copy this off and circulate it amongst your buddies, and let's see if we can run this one down. I remember the poster, too. Someone we know, or someone someone we know knows, knows this. No. I'm *not* going to diagram that sentence. The bleg: Gentlemen, I’m trying to find an image of a poster...

(Click to make their trunks Jumboesque) Boq

Here's another look at random stuff in the holdings of the Arsenal of Argghhh! I figured some of you guys and gals would like to just obsess trying to figure out what that stuff is. Some is easy, some not so much... Oh, here - click this link to get a larger pic to indulge your curiousity...Remember - just because it may not be so where you live, doesn't mean that this stuff isn't legal to own, federal, state, and local, where I live. Because it *is* legal where I live. If it isn't...