The tunes…the hair…the excit­ing C-​​5 Galaxy C-​​141 Starlifter …

Why wouldn’t you just sign up after watch­ing this?

Great video posted by DoD Buzz com­menter Daniel Russ at CivilianMilitaryIntelligenceGroup​.com.

Have a great weekend.

– Christian

Another defense acqui­si­tion dis­as­ter…

Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon
–John Noonan

Noonan put this in yesterday’s Fire for Effect but I felt it wor­thy of a deeper dive, as it were, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it’s Friday (and this has been a LONG week). So what do you guys (and girls) think? Was the Senator cor­rect to attempt this bitch slap­ping of General Walsh or was she out of line?

Naturally the “who earned his or her title more” argu­ments might ensue, so let us offer the offi­cial bios of both parties:

Read Senator Boxer’s offi­cial bio here.

Read Brigadier General Walsh’s bio here.

So, to sum up, Boxer - career politi­cian who loves noth­ing so much as a good hear­ing in a com­fort­able cau­cus room; Walsh - life­long patriot who has trav­eled the planet rebuild­ing regions dev­as­tated by dis­as­ters both nat­ural and man-​​made.

It’s not even close, is it? We salute you, m’am … er, Senator …

– Ward

One of my Marine bud­dies from 2–5 sent this to me. I thought I’d share it.

A large group of Taliban fight­ers is mov­ing down a ravine in the Korengal Valley, in south­ern Afghanistan, when they hear a hoarse voice call from behind a sand-​​dune in a mock­ing tone, “Yo, muj, did you know that one Marine Marine is bet­ter than ten of you smelly Talib?“ 

Insulted to the quick (though he did indeed smell), the Taliban com­man­der sent ten of his best men over the rocky hill, where­upon a gun­bat­tle broke out imme­di­ately. The gun­bat­tle was short, but vicious, punc­tu­ated by screams of agony and fear in Dari and Pushtu. Then there was silence. 

A moment later, there was a snicker, then the same voice called out, “Bad Muj! Didn’t you know one grunt is bet­ter than any hun­dred so-​​called Taliban fighters?“ 

Furious now, the Taliban com­man­der sent his next best hun­dred men up and over the incline and instantly a ter­ri­ble gun­fight ensued. The sharp chat­ter of M-​​4 fire barked out in coun­ter­point to the dull clat­ter of the Kalashnikovs, inter­spersed with the det­o­na­tions of grenades and screams of agony and fear in Pushtu and Dari. After a full five min­utes of bat­tle, silence reigned heav­ily across the valley. 

A moment later that same mock­ing voice called out, though to be fair to the muj, the grunt was obvi­ously breath­ing at least a lit­tle bit faster. The voice called out, “Bad Muj, silly muj, you have to know that one grunt is bet­ter than one thou­sand sheep-​​loving Taliban!”

(more…)

O.K.…here I go…you’re only going to hear this once (maybe), but this is a case when I would rather be wear­ing Dragon Skin that any­thing else.

I’ve had sev­eral sources tell me that in response to the DoD IG report on armor test­ing the Army has decided to aban­don HP White Labs and hire this crew for fur­ther tests of armor pro­to­types (pure fabrication)…

Best part: the test dummy is still puff­ing down his smoke after he’s been shot in the chest…yeee, haw!

Happy Good Friday, folks!

– Christian

A friendly Friday post to take the edge off, cour­tesy of the USMC (and an old Jarhead col­lege pal who sent it my way). Mild con­tent warn­ing for naughty lan­guage, they are Marines after all.

(Gouge: greatamer​i​cans​.com)

Have a good laugh, and a great week­end, folks!

– Christian

All I’ve got to say for this is…“DUDE!?“
Flyby

(Gouge: MP​.net)

– Christian

I just get such a kick out of these. Be patient and watch the whole thing…

– Christian

Killing time at the com­bat out­post…

(Gouge: Militaryphotos​.net)

– Christian