March 2013 - Argghhh!

...they're still using some kit I recognize! 03/12/2013 - A U.S. Soldier assigned to Bulldog Battery, Field Artillery Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment sets up a collimator for a fire mission with an M777A2 155 mm howitzer during the regiment's mission rehearsal exercise (MRE) at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Grafenwoehr, Germany, March 12, 2013. MREs develop combat skills, counterinsurgency tactics and interoperability between military forces of the U.S. and its partner nations before a...

Here's a better version of the pic of that Saiga-12 from yesterday. The pic embiggens. And a write up from CheaperThanDirt about the Saiga-12 in general. I don’t know the truth about how the Saiga-12 was invented, but I like to think it involved some bored Izhmash employees, a whole lot of vodka, and a crazy bet about who could chamber a Kalashnikov in the biggest caliber possible. Yuri’s 12-gauge was the winner of the impromptu competition, so he won a big furry hat and his design...

I can't stand it.

Alex Jones, fear-mongering maven of irresponsibility, enabled by Drudge. I'm almost embarassed to link to this , except too many of you listen to his drivel - by derivation, as others propagate it. Fact check time. The majority of these videos were all taken in southern Arizona and California. This suggests that they are redeploying vehicles from Europe and Afghanistan and are coming back home for storage, and decommisioning at the Yermo Marine Annex Depot Storage facility east of Kingman, AZ...

And in some respects, I think that's exactly what the Democrats, or more accurately, "Progressives" want to do. Break it. Make it less effective. Because, in their heart of hearts, they don't like the whole concept of an Army, and want to change it into some sort of fluffy-bunny simulacrum. That and because DoD is the one institution they can play with that will just do what it's told. Oft times reluctantly, but in the end it does what it's told. While, ironically, they...

Modern Survival Blog (picked up and rebroadcast by Gateway Pundit ) is sounding an alarm about 2,700 MRAPs having been bought by Homeland Defense for use as internal security vehicles in the US. Quoting from MSB: The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States. Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late...

...you just need a tank. Battle-damaged Renault FT-17 at the National WWI Museum, in Kansas City, Missouri.