Sunday, December 24, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Chinese soft power in Timor...
Wow. The Chinese are learning quick. It will take focus, determination and alot of hardwork to blunt their efforts.
Hope we're up to the task.
Russia is not the threat. Russia has no designs to utterly destroy us. China does!
Friday, December 22, 2017
What should I keep in mind when planning to join the Marines?
Thanks to Terence for the link!
What should I keep in mind when planning to join the Marines?
For me, my WTF moment was M.E.P.S
We all finished swearing in. We belonged to Uncle Sam.
Some Army cat steps up, there were a group of us. At least 300.
He called out for Army. Half the people stepped aside. Air force, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard. When all had gone to their respective groups, There I was standing all alone. And the army cat yelled
WE FINALLY GOT ONE. A MARINE.
I’m standing there watching dudes and dudettes get their promise from recruiters, checks, t-shirts, bags, high fives.
A Marine Captain steps up to me. He looks at me and asks
Sure you didn’t mean to sign up for the Army? He pointed at them, and said. You can get gifts and enlistment bonus. I assured him I was there to be a leatherneck.
He marched me to the back, made me do 20 pull-ups and 100 crunches, then made me run laps.
He took me back into MEPS, I saw all my fellow future servicemen and women showing off their enlistment gifts and checks.
I walked in sweating and a lil dirty. Everyone turned to look at me. They were getting bonuses, I was getting dirty. Then I saw it in their eyes.
RESPECT
I knew that day. I made the right decision. I joined this shit for the gung ho lifestyle, Not to get bonus checks and Air Conditioned containers in Kuwait.
The brotherhood that made Aryan Ubermensch think Cerberus took a human form and split into thousand crazed warriors. Teufelhunden
The Few, Thew Proud, THE MUTHERFUCKING DEVIL DOGS.
Found here.
What should I keep in mind when planning to join the Marines?
For me, my WTF moment was M.E.P.S
We all finished swearing in. We belonged to Uncle Sam.
Some Army cat steps up, there were a group of us. At least 300.
He called out for Army. Half the people stepped aside. Air force, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard. When all had gone to their respective groups, There I was standing all alone. And the army cat yelled
WE FINALLY GOT ONE. A MARINE.
I’m standing there watching dudes and dudettes get their promise from recruiters, checks, t-shirts, bags, high fives.
A Marine Captain steps up to me. He looks at me and asks
Sure you didn’t mean to sign up for the Army? He pointed at them, and said. You can get gifts and enlistment bonus. I assured him I was there to be a leatherneck.
He marched me to the back, made me do 20 pull-ups and 100 crunches, then made me run laps.
He took me back into MEPS, I saw all my fellow future servicemen and women showing off their enlistment gifts and checks.
I walked in sweating and a lil dirty. Everyone turned to look at me. They were getting bonuses, I was getting dirty. Then I saw it in their eyes.
RESPECT
I knew that day. I made the right decision. I joined this shit for the gung ho lifestyle, Not to get bonus checks and Air Conditioned containers in Kuwait.
The brotherhood that made Aryan Ubermensch think Cerberus took a human form and split into thousand crazed warriors. Teufelhunden
The Few, Thew Proud, THE MUTHERFUCKING DEVIL DOGS.
Found here.
Italian Special Intervention Group (Gruppo di Intervento Speciale) doing work in Afghanistan.
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| GIS (Gruppo di Intervento Speciale) operator wounded by a shrapnel. They freed 18 hostages and all the insurgents were killed; Herat, Afghanistan, 2011 |
Blast from the past. Animated view of latest Soviet Jet Fighter Aircraft and US aircraft...HD Stock Footage
Never heard of this Admiral Connelly guy but I like his style. Did you notice the matter of fact, no nonsense approach to this video? Did you also notice that when talking about the Foxbat there was no sugar coating it? He stated plainly that the Navy had no equivalent.
Oh I want to throw this out there too. When designed the F-14 had a useful life according to this admiral for about 15 years. How did we get to a point where we're talking about using a fighter plane for much much longer?
If you're not subscribed to Critical Past then you're missing out. The only thing keeping these vids from being perfect is that UGLY watermark across them.
Does anyone know where you can get archival film footage of this type without having to go thru secondary sources like this?
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
via Atlas Obscura.com
In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That summer, the ice melting revealed even more skeletal remains, floating in the water and lying haphazardly around the lake’s edges. Something horrible had happened here.Story here.
The immediate assumption (it being war time) was that these were the remains of Japanese soldiers who had died of exposure while sneaking through India. The British government, terrified of a Japanese land invasion, sent a team of investigators to determine if this was true. However upon examination they realized these bones were not from Japanese soldiers—they weren’t fresh enough.
It was evident that the bones were quite old indeed. Flesh, hair, and the bones themselves had been preserved by the dry, cold air, but no one could properly determine exactly when they were from. More than that, they had no idea what had killed over 200 people in this small valley. Many theories were put forth including an epidemic, landslide, and ritual suicide. For decades, no one was able to shed light on the mystery of Skeleton Lake.
However, a 2004 expedition to the site seems to have finally revealed the mystery of what caused those people’s deaths. The answer was stranger than anyone had guessed.
Angry Bird...
Note: I'm on a wildlife photography kick so just deal with the passing fancy...
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| Photo by @hilarybralove This bald eagle had just grabbed a chum salmon head from the banks of the Chilkat River in Alaska. The eagles gather along the river in November to gorge themselves on the last chum salmon run of the season.This one was quite serious and on its way to chow down in a nearby tree. |
Thurs Funny....well the end anyway...
Yeah you guys needed that musical interlude mixed with Johnny Cash's weird sense of funny.
Tomorrow is the big push for Christmas so apparently the roads will be full and the shops crowded.
For those of you entering that storm, remember your training and you will survive. Good luck and I'll see you on the other side....
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