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  • 153rd Mechanized Brigade is no longer mechanized

    04/04/2024 8:37:31 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 10 replies
    MilitaryLand ^ | 4/3/24 | Jerome
    The lack of vehicles forced Ukrainian command to back down from the original plans. The leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reorganized the 153rd Mechanized Brigade into an infantry brigade. This change was announced through the official social media channels of the brigade.
  • Ruger American Predator Review

    10/30/2018 5:14:46 AM PDT · by w1n1 · 14 replies
    Am Shooting Journal ^ | 10/30/2018 | J Watt
    1000 Yard Rifle for less than $500 There are many rifles that can shoot at 1000 yard, here’s a few popular ones thats out there: .300 Winchester Magnum 338 Lapua Magnum 408 CheyTac 50 BMG Oh, wait a minute, we’re looking for something under $500 range. Well, check out Ruger American Predator rifle. Its true that most F-class shooters rigs are customized and goes well into the thousands of dollars. With the Predator, you can customize it till your broke or you can just get this at the bare minimum. This Predator can reach out and touch something at 1000...
  • Emergency Classroom

    03/16/2006 2:14:22 PM PST · by JSedreporter · 4 replies · 530+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | March 16, 2006 | Julia A. Seymour
    Imagine taking a teaching position with no training at one of the worst urban schools in Philadelphia. Now imagine that the building was crumbling and rat infested, your 6th grade class was struggling with illiteracy, you had no textbooks, curriculum or guidance, and violence and obscenities were daily phenomena. Christina Asquith doesn’t have to imagine those things; she lived them. In 1999, with burning questions about why inner-city Philadelphia schools (and those in other cities) were failing, Asquith joined the ranks and became a teacher with no formal training at a time when the schools were desperate for them. Before...
  • MAYOR MIKE'S AWOL APOLOGY (disrespectful letters to an American GI stationed in Korea)

    02/23/2005 12:15:24 AM PST · by Former Military Chick · 26 replies · 1,041+ views
    February 23, 2005 -- Mayor Mike says one reason many young Americans are deployed in harm's way overseas is to defend the right of junior high school pupils in Brooklyn to act like jerks. But who said otherwise? Nobody ever claimed that Alex Kunhardt's sixth-grade class at JHS 51 in Park Slope didn't have the right to pen politically charged, fundamentally disrespectful letters to an American GI stationed in Korea — or that Kunhardt himself didn't have the right to drop them in the mail (after maybe having coached the authors just a little bit?). The issue is not rights,...