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My recommended reading list: Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden Soldier by LTC Anthony Curtis (USA, Ret) (highly recommended) Rogue Warrior by CPT Richard Marcincko (USN, Ret) Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy Special Forces by Tom Clancy Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy with GEN Carl Stiner (USA, Ret) About Face by David Hackworth The Price of Honor by David Hackworth Brave Men by David Hackworth Marine Sniper (biography of Gunny Carlos Hathcock) by Charles Henderson and E.J. Land (highly recommended) let me think of more....

Just what we need, wide awake Aussie drunks.

Negative, 3 years ago maybe. Now it's all sandbags and MP's. No Joe Schmo can get in these days. You can probably get into an armory and look around if you talk to a recruiter....

The best way to preserve WWII relics is in loving hands. Trying to get my hands on an M1 Carbine.

At least they didn't call him Jagermeister

I saw that coming a mile away.

They already thought of that a while ago. Here's the result.

lol. you mean a Republican who is shunned by GOP? it's amazingly hilarious to see how some GOP fringed for his 'lukewarm' political position suddenly become the darling of the party as soon as he gathers attention. if he gets elected, it would show that current GOP is not in alignment with national politics. We are talking about California here Ralph. That's probably as good as things get for the GOP there. I'd vote for him. Considering people like Diane Feinstein are revered in that state.

Yes, but a Republican governor in California would piss a lot of liberals off. One of the reasons I am alive.

Somehow ths just doesn't strike me as starling news. We have had low yield tactical nukes on stand off type weapons platforms for quite a while. 15 kt (not really as small as what you are talking about) 280 mm nuclear artillery munition fired at the Nevada Test Site at a range of 10,000 meters in 1953. Only time this was ever tryed in the U.S. (AFIAK)

Why? He's a conservative Republican. Not a lot of those in Hollywood. In fact I consider it the worst haven of liberal activist pukes in America besides the campuses at Berkley and University of Colorado, Boulder.

What do "unarmed military observers" do? Sounds like MAC V SOG during Vietnam's spooky days

The original coalition in 1991 included 200 Mujahideen fighters from Afghanistan, I found that very surprising.

By Martin Nesirky, Reuters Wow, who peed in his cheerios? We already know that Kim Jong-Il is a thug.

LOL! I can't remember where I read it, but someone here in the U.S. dug a hole in their backyard and covered it with planks to make a bunker for the Y2K disaster. It even had a photo and it was hilarious. My parents sorta got caught up in the craze and bought a bunch of canned food and a kerosene generator. What a bunch of weirdos. I on the other hand, went out and got plastered.

 LOL! Getting older is no longer fun. I turn 22 on Saturday and I have exactly zero anticipation. I guess I can look forward to 25 since auto insurance rates drop. Then I can buy something with more than 4 cylinders.

So, you've been to one of those Swedish doctors, discussed a page or so ago? Â Â What he means to say is that he is Michael Jackson.

In Vietnam they used to sling load a connex into an AO from a Ch-47 as a infantry command and control center. Can you say bullet magnet? The more I study that war the more of a goatf&$k it looks like.

Ready for a shocker? I completely agree with Balschoiw.

Almost every American armored vehicle has a command and control variant. My military experience is exclusively in light infantry and SF so I haven't really dealt with any of it.

Any Star Wars game. and Morrowwind had a nice soundtrack.

Yup, definitely some type A Marxists in here. People are not bees.

On the other hand a belief in God can help better explain the miracles of science and nature. It must be lonely being a godless heathen.

Well, I dunno about having military adivsors there...they would kinda stand out...CIA operatives for sure though. If we do have operators there it is spookiness way above my pay-grade.

Nor do we have the resources or manpower. They would have to reinstitute the draft and Canada's population would double in a week from an overwhelming influx of trust fund college hippies. Heaven forbid they ever deploy the Arkansas National Guard 39th Infantry Brigade, which is last on the list of infantry units to ever be deployed. I knew there was something wrong with those guys when three of them in my infantry school platoon received letters from the same girl. (not kidding)