A Marine masquerading as a civilian
Feb 28th 2005MichaelQuote of the Day
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Feb 28th 2005MichaelQuote of the Day
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)
28 February 1991: Operation Desert Storm ended when the cease- fire declared by President George Bush went into effect. I Marine Expeditionary Force has a strength of more than 92,000 making Operation Desert Storm the largest Marine Corps operation in history .A total of 24 Marines were killed in action during the Gulf War.
Then, there’s the Partisan Answer (the whole truth, and nothing but the truth): “I’ve always been politically interested and aware. More so after the 2000 election, and even more after 9/11. Once the Republicans lost control of the Colorado House in November 2004, I realized that people like me need to look in the mirror and take responsilbility. It’s not enough to read, listen, shake our fists and write checks. We need to get off the bench and into the game. Do we believe what we believe enough to take action, or just enough to complain? I think it’s time to take action.”
Go visit Barbara Paden for Golden City Council official web site built by Clay Calhoun If you haven’t seen Barbara Paden’s blog you should be reading it. She is an outspoken lady with lots of wit and finesse.
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Feb 28th 2005MichaelPro America
I spent a good part of the day over at The Ranting Raven’s place. He has been breaking his back pulling out a stump in the yard and he still has time to make a post.
Last week he found time to create a post checking on his friends and included me. He listed many of the blogs that I call blog friends too. Go check out his great posting style…
I just watched “Gung Ho!”, a film from 1943 about Carlson’s Raiders. It’s jingoistic. It’s cheesy. It’s absolutely the worst of WWII war-time Hollywood.
You just got to love a Marine Review of a movie about Marines. Go check it out to get the final details.
Raven asked in a comment what it is like to fly. So I thought I would start at the beginning and do a true flying story every once in a while. This is my second favorite topic other than women, Marines, politics, guns. So here is the first episode:
My first flight was in an old Cessna 172 when I was six. From that point on I was hooked for life. The desire to fly has guided my life through school, the Marines, college, and work. My first lesson was from a retired Army Colonel when I was just 18 before I entered the Marines. I did this without the knowledge of my parents. I flew for an hour in this old plane that really amazed me that it was able to start let alone fly. It was the best airplane I could afford at the time working on minimum wage at McDonald’s while in high school. Shit hit the fan at home when I told them afterwards.
Years later in the Marine Corps, I was working with pilots every day and was finally able to talk one into teaching me to fly in the off time and I had positioned myself in a way to afford the lessons. I took a couple lessons and then got deployed to another desert with my unit and was not able to continue. I studied all of the flying books I could but would not continue while active.
After I was discharged from the Marines I got a ramp job (fueling airplanes) at the same local airport, with another former Marine, that I spent much time at growing up. I was in college so I took whatever work there was to pay for flights. We had two lessons and he was killed in a airplane accident that almost stopped my will to fly. I started again with another Certified Flight Instructor’s (CFI’s) a month later. Death is a part of life in the military and also in aviation. You have to move on.
Well we got to a point that I was comfortable with all aspects of simple flight. My CFI & I were doing touch and goes at my home airport when he said come to a complete stop, pull off the runway, and he jumped out and said do three more touch and goes.
Feb 27th 2005MichaelQuote of the Day
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Ogre seems to have started the blog meme about if you have been there, done that.
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
By the time I was discharged from the Marine Corps I had traveled for exercises and training too many of the states in the west and south east. Then from nearly 8 years of SAP consulting I have visited most of the rest of the lower 48 states. Maybe Ogre can do cities next to get a little more detail.
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /
Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.
Eric at SWG has a must read post on warriors that ends in a call for support of our troops from Black Five has a posted on a request at Soldiers’ Angels Armor Up page
Just ask Maj Pete Mucciarone if the up armored M1114 was worth it or if it slowed down the HMMWV to much. The Kevlar Blankets are placed (with much care) under the seats, of the vehicles they are riding/driving in. this is also true in helicopters, and other aircraft.
Please support your troops, Soldiers’ Angels is a good way to provide support.
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The Navy SEALs just got a new weapon for the war on terror: a .50 caliber rifle light enough to carry, and easy enough to disassemble in three minutes. Check out the fruits of NSWC Crane and Accuracy International’s labors.
Go check out the grouping in multiple shots targeting.
And you thought that Leroy Ward Churchill would only paint a copy of someone eleses work and taking credit for himself.
The Confederate Yankee found a new peice of art work by Ward Churchill. go check it out.
then go look at the other original art work at EtherPundit
Feb 26th 2005MichaelPro America
One of my buddies (J) called on Friday and said that he had a couple open seats in his Colorado Concealed Weapon Permit class. for Saturday. So with no warning another couple buddies (W, S) and I spent the day in a classroom and range in order to go through the process to get my CCW. We spent an hour shooting and the rest covering the topics. wouldn’t you know it, There was another Marine in the class so W, S and the Marine & I had fun at the expense of many others. They didn’t understand the Military banter and we were having lots of fun.
Yes, It is a great weapon. I am planning on pushing another couple hundred rounds through it while I wait for the permit to go through..
God Bless America and all of our freedoms
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Feb 26th 2005MichaelGeek Stuff
And they need a King.
I stand for the intelligence of Jeremy in the battle for the King of the Blog. go there and add your support for our future King.
Remember:
Rome did not create an empire by having meetings… they did it by killing all who opposed them.
I scan Jennifer Martiniez site, A collection of Thoughts, quite a bit but have fallen off the last week or so. So When Raven linked to an email on Jen’s site I had to scan the rest of the posts while I was there. She is a great writer with a lot of good opinions.
Lo and behold what did I find?
Jen got an apology from a troll. No Really, and it was a well written, logical, has real meaning, and was positive.
Here is a small excerpt for you:
So this Sari vote has left an impression on me. I’m truly impressed with you and your readers. I was wrong a year ago- you have shown a real willingness to let the other side speak. And, given Sari’s example of politeness and rationality, I suddenly felt the need to apologize for writing a jerky post on a blog you’ve put a lot of work into. Sorry.
Go read the rest. Really. Go now and then come back here.
Now if the other trolls out there would just open there minds and have quality disagreements. It does not help to start out with profane name calling and then ask us to apologize.
Just sayin!
