Argghhh!

Dusty opened the bidding on this topic with his post about the NorK "Bluffer's Guide" website. Heh. Basically, the details there tanked the post I was building on the topic, so I decided to take a different approach.In the Bluffer's Guide thread, you see many of the easy to find and assess sites - and do so using the Amateur Intel Analyst's favorite tool, Google Earth.It's a wonderful example of TechInt - technical intelligence, which we are very good at.The problem is the...

Going through the dark alley-ways of this Internet, I stumbled upon old snap. I have no idea when or where it was taken. But thought that it was neat to see this NIJ Level I put through its paces. High Resolution: HERE Boq

When I first say this action painting, I thought it was "flight of fancy"..

BTDTGTTS*Hearken back to 1978, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Cadet Donovan is engaged in CTLT, or Cadet Troop Leading Training, which was a 3 week add-on to ROTC summer camp. Cadets fanned out across the Army (West Pointers could score CTLT in Europe or Korea, but not us cheap kids at land grant universities) and were supposed to assume Lieutenant-level leadership positions in actual units. Some units were good at actually letting the cadets get their teeth into it. Others treated the CTLT cadets as tag...

Will the excitement *ever* cease? It's late 50's/early 60's week at the Arsenal.Replica M14E2 squad automatic. Made from a semi-auto M1A with a military stock (can't get those anymore, they're all gone), bipod and flash hider. Be warned however - do not do this to your M1A (or clone of same) unless you *know* it's a pre-ban or post-ban built receiver. If your receiver was built during the period of the "assault weapon ban" - it is illegal to dress it up so that it...

This is "Fail"...When you're going to do a drive-by grenade toss through the passenger window, always insure the passenger window is *down*....and this is "*Epic* Fail"...When your mission is to deliver a suicide bomber to the gate of the FOB, and you have evaded the US patrol and outrun the Iraqi police and you are rapidly approaching your objective -- do not fist-bump your passenger on the hand that's holding the clacker.We need to establish an eastern regional office...

...putting the geek into militaria collecting since 1972.

Did someone say Aiming Circle? Yeah, Jay did.