Don't allow yourself to be disarmed.
Don't get mad, get even.
Don't get mad or get even, get ahead. :=)
Excellent link. My sentiments exactly.
Excellent link. My sentiments exactly.
I ma frustrated that the initial reports said 2 of the three vehicles left the scene, leaving this one behind.
We have NEVER reacted to enemy contact by splitting up. That separates your fire support from crew served weapons, etc.
I hope it was the lsm getting it wrong again, but I just don't think we will ever find out.
Would it be an idea if friends and families here Stateside began chipping in to get our guys some Smith Airweights or titanium Tauruses to carry with? Well, lessee, they'd have to be chambered for standard mil-spec loads.....which are all autoloaders, more's the pity.
What about Para-Ordnance P-10's in .45 ACP as backup pieces, or lightweight Kel-Tec, Glock, and Ruger 9's? Kidnap this.
I've read old war stories about how those Smith Airweights made a big difference to a few Huey pilots in Viet Nam who got rushed by NVA's in overrun LZ's. Comments from anyone who was there?
Well stated. Great link. Thanks for the ping GOP J.
Today I was driving home from work and a couple of things started to crystalize. The first had to do with the story (first posted here at FR) that the NY Times had-in the aftermath of 9/11-published an editorial calling for exactly the type of program that they exposed in their infamous story earlier this week. There is just no way to spin that-though some of my idiot lefty coworkers tried. The only thing you can say is that there is nothing that they will not do if they think they can hurt the President and they see the war as merely a convenient bludgeon for doing just that.
The second was this excellent editorial from the Boston Herald. It very effectively makes the case that far too many of our countrymen think that the war is just another choice, not substantially different from any other choice you might make, and that betraying the war effort is another-and equally valid-choice, so long as they can advance their agenda.
But we know better. There are many reasons for pursuing the war effort as we have done, I don't have to repeat them here. I have handled the bodies of GIs who died trying to bring success to our efforts-the EOD tech whose face was half gone and who suffered amputations to all four limbs-I'm not ashamed to say that when we rolled his body over to put him on the litter that I was afraid, not for my own safety, but that I would throw up and dishonor him. Or I could tell you about the wounded solder-the only survivor from his truck after an IED blast-who asked the doctor how bad his burns were because he wanted to get married someday and he was worried that no woman would ever want him.
I would tell you about them because they deserve better than what the cynical NY Times and the rest of those who fail to understand the nature of warfare are trying to give them. I don't know what I can do about their treachery yet, but I do know that I won't stand for it. I'll probably end up getting fired from my job (my civilian alter ego is a Community College instructor) and I've already told one long-time friend to go to hell because of his moonbattery, but those guys deserve better.
I guess I'll end this rant now and go to bed, but I had to get that off my chest.