April 2013 - Argghhh!

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...