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@TimeAndSpaceWarp - my, my my..." bravo on getting in touch with reality, Hippie"? Wow. this thread must be my place for finding pretentious snots...try, Sergeant Hippie, or maybe Major Hippie, when I retired. Sorry, Enlisted Medical Technician before I got my commission, but "Do No Harm, Do Know...

@darlincommitme -grin - only so much you can say in 500 characters. Broad brush strokes and cartoons are about it...main thing is, I agree with you....BS labels like "right" and "left" and "socialist" - just takes away from the message - we are all human, we all struggle, and a little more empath...

@rainydog - my condolences on your loss...but if there's one thing I've learned, you pick up the pieces and move on...Good Luck, fair winds and following seas.

My mother came to America on an airplane...but Eric Stalker, the ancestor whose name I carry, was brought her in chains, from Scotland, in 1749,the scouring of the Highlands and he married an Onondaga woman - whose ancestors came here in the Last Ice Age. It doesn't matter how you got here, but w...

@farmerne - I teach Military History - When we discuss the Cold War, I face it with the fact that Russia lost 13 Million in WWI and 30 Million in WWII...and they were SCARED of America. Their history has taught them that whoever is big and bad, will come hunting THEM...and scared people are dange...

Nicely done video, my friend. The soldier does what the National Leadership tells them to do...you have to trust, and hope that your Leadership know what the heck it is doing...sigh...I did my 28 years for Uncle Sam...served with Diggers, here and there, a salute for them, and a salute to you fo...

A fine song, done by an excellent singer, with lyrics that can apply to anyone, that has loved and lost. Anything you read into after that...it more your problem than anybody's else..that's my feelings on the subject. If it's about Bob Dylan, or her first husband, or Mumbo-Jumbo the great flying ...

@zaw545 - it's the Theme to "Last of the Mohicans" - the latest version with Daniel Day-Lewis.

And - by the way, Great video!

@sniper00342 - well, it's a bit early for the Iraq song - but there's a lot of connection between what happened in Viet Nam and what happened in Iraq. Maybe - because my career started in one era, and ended in the other - I can see it. But...I stood in Southeast Asian Jungles as a new troop, and...

@123VampireSucks - Moose? 400 yards? Are you crazy? or cruel? - I have some 155 grain tungsten penetrator Armor piercing rounds I picked up - but - geeze, I'd think, for moose, you'd want something a bit heavier.than 7.62x39. Just can't imagine you'd have the stopping power at that range. Deer? ...

Under 100 meters, not much difference, and the AK is cheaper and easier to maintain.. If you have ignorant troops, AK is the better choice. Iif you want to engage targets at 600 meters you need to be using Stoner's weapon. - over 200 meters, you need to really doctor the AK to get any accuracy ....

Don't need to do the hyper-elevation before firing anymore? Apparently not....

Nice job. I think you did a good job of capturing his character. "PTSD - some of it is getting home and realizing you will never be this awesome again." - I, personally,, sometimes stop by the Veterans Cemetary and sit by the graves and talk with the guys there - not just of my time, but of other...

Awesome! Hilarious!...and strangely plausible.

LMkato - Semper Fi - OO-rah, SSgt - I was a Corpsman - 3/6 India, back in '75-77. Got out of the Navy, went Air Reserve as a SSgt, got my Commission, did 18 as an AF officer, was a TALO with 10th Mountain on that little hike in Afghanistan in late 2001-2002...so I've been around a little bit, don...

Hard core pony - What are you asking? "Are you - " what? ...and if you don't know what IFOR or the Dayton Peace Accords were, well....OK, I AM a High School Teacher, and I DO know how little history is taught in our high schools...but I wasn't always a High School teacher...and I do know how to d...

Har - I'd say he was having a good day - he lived, didn't he? - which is more than he deserved. Before a missile launch, there are 130 db sirens, red flashing lights at the doors and the announcement "ALL HANDS, ALL HANDS, MISSILE LAUNCH IMMINENT" at the one minute point - right up to launch. So,...

I'll ask this question here - anybody have a video of the BMP being airdropped with the CREW INSIDE? - I saw it in an AF training video - it apparently ran on Soviet TV in the Eighties. I'm trying to find the clip to prove I'm not making this up. thanks in advance.

@THEDARKSA1NT - From what I hear, the policy changes with the phases of the moon. When I was in (75) they sent the bottom third of the A school class to FMF. So - I wanted to go to the Fleet, so I was a studying fool. Graduated 2 of 57 in my class. When we came up for orders, they changed the po...