Argghhh!

...in the Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st, Bastogne. "To the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne. The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Our near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands. There is only one possibility to save the encircled U...

There's this fool...and there's THIS fool. The video is 46 minutes long (sorry!) but it's pretty interesting.

Current Operating Environment Pentagon Football RulesNew SecDef Directive: Joint Rules for the Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps Game. Under provisions of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, all Services must be present and participate in the planning and execution process.These are the Pentagon-announced ROE for the 2009 Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps football tournament:1. Only flag football will be played. The Joint Chiefs deemed tackle and touch football too dangerous. First, because of the CNN factor...

One nice thing about living right.next.door (in delivery terms) to MidwayUSA is that it never takes more than two days for the goodies to arrive. I have my Rennaissance Wax, cleaning pad, and optics batteries. Heh. I knew them when they were still a retail operation out by Midway truck stop. They were specializing in making reloading kit and ammo for uncommon calibers, and when they were done developing, they'd retail out the guns. The Castle's MAS36 and Danish Rolling Block came to us from...

Finally - A civilized way to chow down your kibbles. Boq

A little something for you tankers... [Click the pic for the magic of bigness] An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank from Company E, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, fires a round down range from its 120mm main gun during a training mission here May 22 as part of African Lion 2011. African Lion is an annually scheduled, bilateral exercise between the Kingdom of Morocco and the U.S. that involves more than 2,000 U.S. service members and approximately 900 members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces...

With only two awards for this day thus far in the history of the Medal, the Medal stood idle, biding it's time on 10 July until World War II, and the invasion of Sicily. *PARLE, JOHN JOSEPH Rank and organization: Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve. Born: 26 May 1920, Omaha, Nebr. Accredited to: Nebraska. Citation: For valor and courage above and beyond the call of duty as Officer-in-Charge of Small Boats in the U.S.S. LST 375 during the amphibious assault on the island of Sicily, 9-10 July 1943. Realizing...