SNAFU!

Republic of Korea "Black Eagles" display team

Gymkhana 5

A 500 horsepower Ford Focus....shredded tires that I'm surprised lasted through the run and every ounce of extra weight removed from the interior.

I want to see a 1/4 mile time.

What kind of holster was this guy wearing?

via My Way.

DETROIT (AP) - A woman celebrating the weekend before her 25th birthday was fatally shot Sunday when she hugged an off-duty police officer while dancing at a party, causing the officer's service weapon to fire, according to police and her mother.
Adaisha Miller would have turned 25 on Monday, according to her mother, Yolanda McNair.
The shooting happened at an outdoor social gathering about 12:30 a.m., said police Sgt. Eren Stephens. It happened on the city's west side.
According to Stephens, the woman "embraced the officer from behind, causing the holstered weapon to accidently discharge." The bullet punctured Miller's lung and hit her heart, and she died at a hospital.
Stephens said the Detroit officer will remain on administrative duties while authorities investigate the shooting and report their findings to the Wayne County prosecutor. The officer's name was not released.
"For this to happen to her, whether they want to call it freak accident or mistake in judgment, it should have never happened to my child, and there's nothing I can do to get her back," McNair told WDIV-TV.
McNair said her daughter was out to mark her upcoming birthday.
"All she wanted to do was enjoy the weekend for her birthday," the mother said. "She had every right to enjoy turning 25 and look beyond that."

Hmm.

Tragic but not surprising. I'm returning to my jaded old ways. Piss poor gear leads to fucked up incidents. Trendy gear instead of good gear is usually the cause of this type of stuff.

Armed organizations should put out an approved gear list. At least the US Army has this right. Marine Corps? Not so fucking much.

Flying Display Highlights

Navy Pics. July 09, 2012.

MINA SALMAN PORT, Bahrain (July 6, 2012) Tugboats assist the Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (AFSB-I) as the ship pulls into the Kingdom of Bahrain. Ponce is deployed to support maritime security operations and mine countermeasure efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ashante Hammons/Released)

FORWARD TRAINING AREA (July 5, 2012) U.S. Navy SEALs conduct mobility and weapons training in an open desert gun range. The training familiarizes SEALs in handling both the weapon and terrain at the same time making the transition a common procedure. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Meranda Keller/Released)
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General Dynamics Piranha III

This has to be it.

General Dynamics has to be offering a slightly modified version of the Piranha III as their entry into the Marine Personnel Carrier contest.

Pussification of the Marine Corps. Infantry Officers Course open to women.

Thanks for the article Sferrin. I think.

Hey AMOS. Just turn in your stars now. You're fucking up the Marine Corps and we don't need you anymore. Just carry your sorry ass out the door.

via the New York Times.

Col. Todd S. Desgrosseilliers, the commander of the Basic School, which oversees the course, said he had no special concerns as the course prepares to accept women. “Nothing more so with women than with men,” he said.

“We expect them to be fit enough to go through the course when they get here, just like the men are.”

The 86-day course, which meets four times a year, is called the corps’ most grueling school by its instructors and is intended to screen and train potential infantry officers. Its students are volunteers selected from lieutenants who have completed Officer Candidates School and the six-month Basic Officer Course, which trains all Marine lieutenants to lead provisional infantry platoons and in leadership, tactics, fitness and weapons. That school has been coed for decades.

That's a fucking lie and the Colonel knows it.

I would pay good money for just one person near Washington D.C. that's associated with the Marine Corps to tell the truth. They won't because they have no moral courage at all.

The Pussification of the Marine Corps is damn near complete. I'm proud to say I'm old Corps cause this new Marine Corps is going to get slaughtered on a battlefield one day. You think a terrorist is going to care if a Marine Infantry Person is crying like a baby before he slams a knife between that persons ribs?

Fuck the leadership for not having the balls to call a spade a spade. Fuck Congress for not realizing that equality means little on the battlefield. And fuck the mothers of America that are lining up their daughters to be killed, raped and dismembered on future battlefields.