I dearly loved serving for this man.
First vote to replace Jackson on the twenty dollar bill with Reagan
Well, it’s not just us
Freedom Tunes
Love these guys
Ric
Some humor
Rather than a rant on the current BS going on, I give you humor…
Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard when he lives in the jungle without a razor?
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are dead?
Why do banks charge a fee on ‘insufficient funds’ when they know we obviously don’t have the money to pay them?
Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Whose idea was it to put an ‘S’ in the word ‘lisp’?
What is the speed of darkness?
Why is it that people say they ‘slept like a baby’ when babies wake up every two hours?
If the temperature is zero outside today and it’s going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?
Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Did you ever stop and wonder…….
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ‘I think I’ll squeeze
these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?’
Who was the first person to say, ‘See that chicken there… I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it’s ass.’
Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t point to their ass when they ask where the bathroom is?
Why does your Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed when they know they are going to look up there anyway?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs !
If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Stop singing and read on……
Do illiterate people really get to enjoy Alphabet Soup?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
Hat tip to https://oldnfo.org
Any boxing fans?
In the old days…..
Defense was considered cowardly, and grapple was expected. Bare knuckled fighting didn’t generally punch the head.
Army Helmets
When I joined the US Army it was 1982. The standard helmet at the time was the “Steel Pot” which was just that. It had a fiberglass liner with a replaceable headband, used for guard duty and such. Not great but it was all there was.
During my time I transferred to the Kevlar helmet. It had better coverage and didn’t weigh as much. Without a liner it wasn’t the best for using to shave in.
Today’s military is into second or third generation helmets. That’s why this story interested me.
Staff Sgt. Bryan McQueen was nearing the end of his tour in Afghanistan with the 1st Security Forces Assistance Brigade on Sept. 3, 2018. He, his fellow soldiers and nearly 50 Afghans were headed to a security meeting, as routine as any other daily assignment.
Machine gun fire erupted.
McQueen felt what he could later only describe as a horse kick to the back of his head and he fell flat to the ground, landing on his face.
But in seconds he was on his feet with a simple question.
“Did these (expletive deleted) really just shoot me in the head?” he said.
The 7.62x54mmR round from the truck-mounted machine gun struck the back of McQueen’s helmet, shredding some of the materials but not penetrating the shell.
It’s true that soldiers have a morbid sense of humor. Keeping the bullet that was removed from them, a shell fragment that just missed them, and the helmet that saved them
This week that same helmet, bisected and mounted on a plaque with McQueen’s name and the appropriate unit coinage, was presented to him here at a Personal Protective Equipment soldier return ceremony.
For many years defense researchers and protective equipment programs have retrieved items such as body armor and helmets damaged by enemy fire on the battlefield for forensic analysis to improve current and future gear.
Brig. Gen. Anthony Potts, head of Program Executive Office Soldier, called the ceremony a chance to see the effect of the work that equipment programs do.
God bless SSG McQueen and his family. Equipment has made big strides in gear.
I got a weird kid
I got a weird kid. There is no hair on this story, I swear. This just happened this morning
IHOP has unlimited pancakes, so here we go. Mama puts on her headphones (she has been getting into K Movies)
Halfway there, Mercy (listening to Diamonte) asks “Dad, is Paranoid the most famous Black Sabbath song?”
uh…I suppose. “Why?”
Followed by a conversation about riffs and hooks, song structure, how you can build a song on a bass line or a riff, keep up the tempo and as long as the lyrics sound right with the melody it can be very recognizable. And that’s how it can become popular.
You can also come up with a simple riff, start slow, build up and add instruments into a huge solo and outro even if the lyrics make no sense but sound right.
”who did that?”
Siri…..
we got to the parking lot, mama takes off her headphones and says. “Mercy, your listening to Stairway to Heaven?”
”I like the guitar but the lyrics don’t make any sense. They should have gone with Ozzy”
Then we went on to dinosaurs
this kid is weird
105 mm recoiless rifle
I really, really want one of these.
Just for groundhogs you understand
Green Stars and aircraft markings
As usual. The military has to standardize the markings on their aircraft.
Cool video
The worst Air Forces in the world 2018
Some of these may surprise you
I thought Canada was a lot better than that