October 2012 - Argghhh!

And goes full Ahab on CJ . Too bad that Yon has let his hate blind him. He just can't get quit of CJ. Not to mention can't read records, because he's only looking for what he seeks, not what's there. Here you go, Mike. Get schooled. Yon, you are now officially a buffoon.

In keeping with today's discussion about the relevance of supposedly obsolete weapons, here’s my pilot pile-on:

I think we may be the only nation that goes to this level of effort to account for the dead. Navy divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, stand with the American flag, and the POW/MIA flag on the wreckage of a B-17 bomber that was shot down and sank during World War II during a dive Oct. 19, 2012. The team is deployed alongside JPAC aboard the USNS Grapple as part of a 30-day underwater recovery mission for an unaccounted-for service...

An F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter conventional takeoff and landing aircraft completed the first in-flight weapons release of a 2,000 pound GBU-31 BLU-109 Joint Direct Attack Munitions from a 5th Generation fighter, Oct. 16, 2012. An F-35B Joint Strike Fighter conducts the first aerial refueling of its kind with a KC-130J Hercules in the sky above Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Oct. 2. Previous aerial refueling operations with the F-35 have been conducted only with test aircraft. “It’s...

a href="http://i.imgur.com/dflM9.jpg" target="_blank"> Growing-up with many Cuban exiles, I became quite intimate with their stories of horror in my sister island. BOQ

The Auld Soldier would periodically have a bit of chinese grenade pop out of his arm over the years. Based on his airport experiences (the TSA can get stupid about things like this) he went to his grave still carrying his Korean War souvenir. Weighty memento: war veteran's secret revealed after his death.