June 2011 - Argghhh!

Ruh-roh... shoot?Or... don't shoot?Definiately don't shoot. The Interior Guard have it under control. Even if the Exterior Guard wash-out (Suellen) has been playing with footwear again.This is actually a new steel rebounding target from Salute Products that is going out to join his predecessor at the 150m berm so now there can be two shooters at that firing point. After Osama assumed room temperature courtesy of Seal Team Six some people who don't exist, Salute put their armor-plate Osama...

Rod Blagojevich tells jurors he discussed the possibility of appointing himself to the U.S. Senate in 2008 so he could hunt down then-al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.Money quote from the blog: "...nothing was keeping Blagojevich from going to Afghanistan on his own, except maybe his bond agreement, and even then, I'm not entirely sure that the state of Illinois would be opposed to him spending a few months in a cave in a third world country dressed as a goat, waiting for the right moment...

Exactly what were some of the WMDs we found?Well, for starters, we found 550 long tons of unrefined yellowcake (for the metrically-impaired, that’s 1,212,541 pounds of the stuff Joe Wilson *said* Saddam had no interest in acquiring). The Dems squeaked that it didn’t count, because Saddam had no centrifuges to use in enriching it to weapons grade – and then when we found the centrifuges, they squawked that the centrifuges (the exact same model Siemens centrifuge Iran used at Natanz...

Those of you who opined it was a powder can were essentially correct - I was pushing you to see if you would figure out it was a *big* powder can. Because it is a big powder can, or, as the Navy terms them, "16in Tank, Mark 4."

A little something for you tankers... [Click the pic for the magic of bigness] An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank from Company E, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, fires a round down range from its 120mm main gun during a training mission here May 22 as part of African Lion 2011. African Lion is an annually scheduled, bilateral exercise between the Kingdom of Morocco and the U.S. that involves more than 2,000 U.S. service members and approximately 900 members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces...

Sergeant First Class Petry and Staff Sergeant Guinta are going to be some lonely men at Medal of Honor gatherings 30 years from now. But at least (barring entropy intervening) at least there will be gatherings 30 years from now...Three years from event to award is still an exemplar of inexcuseable bullshit bureaucracy on the part of stuffed shirt self-important bureaucrats in the Pentagon, an opinion I will hold and assert until such time as they offer up some transparency to how the process works...