April 2013 - Argghhh!

For reasons as yet unclear John has offered me an outlet for my wisdom and humor. Well, I think I'm wise and funny anyway. Others have different opinions. YMMV By way of introduction: Was an Army brat until my dad was KIA in Korea. Yeah I'm THAT old. I'm a member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. Been shot at, and shot back. Got spit at and called names while in uniform back in the '60s. Then turned hippie after discharge and went to Woodstock. I wasn't anti-war, etc. Just liked...

...from an entirely different perspective than our usual gripes on the subject. This one was called "Every Kid's Dream." Wrong. Me too! I don't wanna be a submariner... but I wanna ride in a submarine, I assure you! And Bad Cat Robot wants to *own* one. With her own Evil Minion® crew. YOKOSUKA, Japan (April 17, 2013) Fire Control Technician 3rd Class Corey Wilkins, assigned to the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Asheville (SSN 758), gives a tour of the submarine to middle...

This is one I ask myself as I watch the Spartans, er, LEOs deploy when they decide to start swarming - from an email conversation I was party to... The question: Why oh why do all LEO SWAT wannabes wear ACU? WHY? What are they gonna do when we go to multicam or the next flavor of the day, waste tax dollars on that too? The Anwer:

They did, in the end, win. And this is rubbing the Brit's nose in it, anyway. As John (Not The Armorer) noted in a comment to my ANZAC Day Dawn Service post, I neglected to mention another Gallipoli vet that resides at Castle Argghhh!. The Frankenfauser. One day in October, 1914, just as the War to End War was shifting from a war of maneuver to the horror of the trenches that was to be its hallmark, an armourer of the Queen's Own Dorsetshire Yeomanry put away his punch set, picked up his...

Those Barretts have aggressive muzzle brakes. I think I would rather not be the guy on the left or the right of this guy. The blast from the pepperpot muzzle brake of my Hakim is bad enough, and that's only 8mm Mauser... The pic embiggens.

Commentary by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace 366th Fighter Wing Public Affairs 4/8/2013 - MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho -- For some, coming home means flag-waving crowds, cheers and parades. For others, there is no real coming home, just a struggle to adapt to who they've become and make sense of what they'd done. I'm an Air Force photojournalist, a Wounded Warrior and Purple Heart recipient, and not ashamed to admit it. I've been involved in numerous combat engagements in the mountains...

They can't help themselves, can they? They have to "do something, anything!" And consequently will *say* anything. Even if they don't really know anything about it. Nor care to learn about it, really. And some of them write the laws. Nice, big, complex ones, that they don't want others to read, just vote on based on the executive summary and because "it's the right thing to do, implement these "common sense" provisions. And the others are happy to vote as...