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A year starts with contrasts: LCPL Dural vs. dirtbags
We lost a good kid December 19th, it seems. The Marines are being closemouthed, saying LCPL Nicholas Dural died “on duty” as an embassy guard in The Republic of Congo. Other than that, no details have been released and even his father would not provide more specifics. Nicholas Dural adored his two sisters, and they […]
Gaston Glock, dead at 94
I know there are a lot of folks in the world, including me, who like guns. Nice guns. Blued steel, walnut, maybe some tasteful engraving? Can even stretch to stainless steel, possibly some al-u-minium for lightness, in extreme cases chrome plating. But unless it’s part of an otherwise notable rifle like an AR, NO PLASTIC. […]
Wednesday Service shorts
Been an interesting day for snippets of info from various services. Let’s open up with the Navy: Yemen’s Houthis unleashed a new onslaught of anti-ship and land attack weaponry today around the southern end of the Red Sea. U.S. Central Command says the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) and F/A-18 Super Hornets from […]
Merry Christmas Monday
I know it isn’t really Jesus’ birthday. That exact date is lost in history, I hear probably in late March or early April. But in a canny political move to attract northerners who celebrated winter festivals, Christmas became an early winter celebration. And let’s face it, when your birthday is celebrated more or less worldwide […]
Friday Climate Change Shorts
Energy Foundation is an environmental group advocating for electric energy, phasing out fossil fuels, electric cars, etc. Among its more than a dozen grants in the U.S. last year, the group wired $900,000 to the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based think tank that has engaged the White House on climate policy and advocates phasing down […]
What’s Israel doing right?
We have talked before about the availability of flying F-35s in the US inventory. Here is a study from the Congressional Budget Office giving the raw numbers on F-35s. Cutting to the chase, our average availability is around 40-50% percent, so figure over 50% of the fleet is unavailable for missions at any point in […]
Bob Pardo, creator of the Pardo Push, dead at 89
LTC (ret., presumably) Bob Pardo, a Silver-star winning Phantom pilot who might be described at “unconventional”, died December 5. On March 10, 1967, Pardo and weapons officer 1st Lt. Steve Wayne were on a bombing run against an enemy steel mill north of Hanoi in North Vietnam territory in an F-4C Phantom. The pair were […]
Army-Navy game
Well the annual Army-Marine-Navy game is over for the year (almost half of the Navy team is going Marine out of Canoe U. the Academy, versus 23-50% of midshipmen in general.) Not going to say anything about who won… it was nice but the overall won-loss record does favor the middies. Besides, they are ALL […]
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