Royal Marines on Counter Piracy Operations Near Somalia

RFA Fort Victoria's Lynx Mk 8 helicopter and their embarked Royal Marine boarding team from the Fleet Standby Rifle Squadron apprehended the 13 suspected pirates and secured the vessel

MARSOC service pistol. Cool trumps practical.

COLT Rail Gun

Soldier Systems is reporting that MARSOC has chosen the Colt 1911 with rails as its next service pistol.

My immediate reaction is what the fuck?

Is this another case of cool trumping practicality?  Lets face it.  THERE ARE A NUMBER of practical, reliable, less expensive, more capable 45 caliber pistols available on the market today.

GLOCK 21

You want a go to hell and back 45?  How about the Glock 21.  13 instead of 8 rounds, Polymer so it can handle the jungle better, railed so it can take lasers or lights....oh and its freaking available without having to buy every single piece of it in a custom shop.

FNH 45.

You want fancy?  You want to slam a suppressor, optics and lasers on your gun?  Then how about the FNH 45?  The point is this.  I don't know who the clown is in MARSOC that has this Colt fetish but its becoming annoying.  Its not even the best weapon available, its only the most expensive, the least durable and the hardest to maintain.

MARINE CORPS PROCUREMENT IS BROKEN.

Update:  PLEASE!  Please don't hit me with the 1911 is the AK of pistols!  Its legendary but its a primitive design that's been passed by newer models.  How about a few more examples of pistols that would serve MARSOC better than the cool boy 1911...

XD Tactical 45

HK USP 45

It didn't take long for MARSOC to turn into just another of the pretty boy Special Ops outfits did it???  I've never been a supporter but I had high hopes that they would follow in the US Army Ranger and Special Forces tradition and not tag behind Navy SEALs.  Boutique weapons for the sake of boutique weapons fit is not the way to go.  The accountants are coming for all, not just the Conventional Forces.  This will bite SOCOM in the ass and all the camp followers in the Commandant's office too.  I can't wait for new leadership.  Both in the Commandant's office and in the White House.

Halo 4.

This looks  more like a movie rather than a reboot of the game.  Interesting.

 ABOUT THIS LIVE ACTION SERIES
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is a live action series, which will be on view from October to YouTube and Halo Waypoint. The series tells the origins of the destructive war between humans and the Covenant from the perspective of a young cadet who hires on the UNSC cruiser Infinity. The events of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn guide fluent in five episodes of the blockbuster Halo 4. This is from the 6th November 2012, in the stores and put up with the return of Master Chief, a new chapter in the Halo saga. In addition, owners will receive the Limited Edition Halo 4 through Halo Waypoint access to an expanded version of Forward Unto Dawn, the exclusive scenes and additional background information and provides a peek behind the scenes of the production.

Sam Brown's Concept Tanks...

They call survivalist crazy.....

via CNBC.

“We’re in a very unfortunate position to be here,” Richard Duncan, author of The New Depression, warned on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” Monday.

“When we broke the link between money and gold, this removed all constraints on credit creation. This explosion of credit created the world we live in, but it now seems that credit cannot expand any further because the private sector is incapable of repaying the debt it has already, and if credit begins to contract, there’s a very real danger that we will collapse into a new Great Depression,” he argued.

“If this credit bubble pops, the depression could be so severe that I don’t think our civilization could survive it.”

Some people have called me a right wing reactionary.

Some say that I'm a gun nut.

Some just call me crazy.

But this article should give pause to all those that think the world will keep humming along and aren't taking any precautions in case it doesn't.  Quite honestly, the people that I associate with have been talking about this since the last presidential election.  They've been labled and talked about but now this same talk is on a business network.

Wars have started over less.  Civilizations have fallen over less.  Think about that when you're calling your right wing relatives crazy at the next family get together.  Let me leave you with one last quote from the article.

“We could keep deferring the depression, but that could just encourage the bad guys. If you do this, you possibly do more harm than good,” Roger Nightingale, economist and strategist at RND Associates, told CNBC Monday.

“You can defer, but not prevent.”

 Deter but not prevent.  Interesting.

UPDATE:
I originally stated that this news is why I stockpile ammo.  That's a lie though.  I just like to shoot but I do have a question.  What will our large cities look like if government services can no longer be provided?  What will happen to our transportation system, our legal system and everything else?  This does show why the US Army has been running drills in large cities.  Societal collapse will be messy.

Ok. I'll ask it since no one else will. How did this happen?

I'll be the asshole and ask the question.

First let me stipulate.  I wasn't there so I don't know.  Second, I'm going strictly off news reports.  Third, big stuff is happening in the Strait of Hormuz so the Navy has been gearing up for weeks to fight in this area.

So the question.

Why wasn't this supply ship better covered?  Where was Maritime Expeditionary Security Force?  Where were the helo's and aircraft providing overwatch?

Our own smallboats providing protection?

Where was the protection?

F-35 Times Three.

Three U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jets (tail numbers AF-14, AF-15 and AF-16) are the latest to be delivered from Lockheed Martin to the U.S. Government.

Vid of USAF Security Police hookin' and jabbin' with S. Korean Civilian.

This looks bad.  Real bad.



Read the story here.

If anyone speaks Korean please translate this for me.  Is one of those guys wearing a plate carrier with a combat load out?

A note on the video.  When you hit play it'll take you through a 16 second commercial.  Once that's finish just close the box and restart it and it'll take you to the news report.