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A lot is the daily grind for a solid year. Riding a dirt road in a Humvee day in day out wondering if the next turn has an IED. Think Bob Woodruff of ABC News north of Baghdad in 2006. He did a special where he returned to the scene of the attack about a year ago. Pretty powerful and its online. IDF can put everyone on the front line or as some would say the enemy is airmailing you the IED. Hell a guy in the gym on the squat rack was killed by a rocket in the Green Zone. I will certainly admit flying an aircraft any aircraft is way more fun. Though Tammy Duckworth and her Blackhawk caught the RPG not far away near a town called Tarmiya in late 2003. The town was a former "resort" on the Tigris River for the Bath Party, so they didn't think much of Americans. One way to look at it is the randomness of it all. You can patrol all day long and nothing happens so nothing memorable. The Humvee 5 minutes behind you gets hit and for them certainly a "significant emotional event" As many of you noted Afghanistan deployments had a wide variety of flavors depending on when you were there and your mission at the time. Same as it was in Iraq. My trip to Afghanistan was for me actually pretty tame by comparison but back to that one word "random"

Sorry, I need to retract my earlier "14-15 years" response to this question. The rate of advance isn't linear according to today's issue of the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/31/world/europe/russia-gains-ukraine-maps.html

Reminds me of the idiots arrested in Georgia protesting the police training facility referred to as "cop city.". Almost all the people arrested were from places far from Atlanta. Who pays for their traveling and lodging expenses? They obviously don't have a job if they can spend time playing protestor. The money is coming from somewhere to support the chaos.

Good job sir.

I loved that opening scene, it was the main reason I bought a lever action rifle!

First gun I bought was the Winchester 30.30. Going out of business sale in Columbus GA. $59.95 cash out the door with two boxes of shells. Still have it. This was in 1977 BTW. I like carrying it in the woods better than my Remington 700s.

There are vidios all over the net of people being bused into her events. The latest ones are the mass exodus, while K was speaking, when people relized Beyonce wasn't going to do a show. They looked like a herd of goats that found a hole in the fence.

Also, I’m screwed in the old western movie reach back memorabilia watching these lever action movie heroes go to town. Even the opening of the series “The Rifleman” starts out just daring you to not buy one of these lever actions to include a live cocking plus stare down at the end. Unsure why he does it as he’s out of ammo, but undeniably cool. I dare you Lord Ratner to watch 30 secs of the opening scene. You will hunt me down with one. Definitely placed a time stamp on myself and it was worth it.

Don’t get a Remington-manufactured one (called “Remlins”), roughly 2007-2020 manufactured. Get a 2006 or earlier with a “JM” stamp…or get one of the new ones from Ruger. Leverguns are awesome. 45-70 Marlin is my favorite, killed many things with that. Next project is a Winchester 1895 rebarreled to 35 Whelen - need a woods gun that I can still reach out 2-250 yds (45-70 is a great gun at 100 yds and in).

Concur Just for the factor of expense the traditional sized fighter will continue I wonder what the right mix will be throughout the next generation strike package Large to medium and Manned, loyal wingmen and autonomous vehicles all linked to enablers and supporting assets. My guess is 50/50 to 60/40 sounds right manned to unmanned. Large to medium probably 1 to 4. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yup. And it'll be even quieter with a can. The PTR Vent 1 is calling to me.

arg, I'm disappointed in your lack of judgement. It was inconsiderate of you not to precede your post with a trigger warning.

I got lucky with timing and still got a good amount of destruction of the enemy done with good O-6 leadership as top cover. But, even in those “good days” the general dipshitery of how we ran the war was truly astounding. Still had dumbass JAGs and things were only good when O-6s weren’t pussies. Swap out the leadership and the war effort goes to a grinding halt.

From his X profile. Sounds like a weirdo. My partners and I have been lifetime data scientists. We own the digital ID of every mobile device/computer in the U.S. and have indexed and archived every IP address in the world. Our extensive experience in big and deep data, including geotracking and geolocation makes our ….yada yada

5 minutes of internet snooping, and that guy’s Linked In is for a 40-year career in sleeping commercial real estate and some buyout stuff of mom and pop medical practices. So, let’s consider the options… A) This guy was some sort of CIA asset California doing deep data analysis and he’s spent a ton of money buying what would be very expensive data if it’s even available. Now, he’s coming out of the shadows to share his critical insights about the election. B) Some schmuck lawyer is bored and realizes he can make shit up on X and get a ton of attention that the commercial real estate world doesn’t give him. He’s making it up, but probably takes some “ends justify the means” rationale. C) Someone creating a bot account (or probably hundreds), happens to scrape his photo and name off of Linked In and has been using it to spew garbage that some people are lapping up. My money is not on Option A.

And you can shoot .38 Special through it for the wife to practice.

Will you fuckers please stop talking about all the guns that I can't get out of my head once I've seen it? I'm still recovering from the Rattler. I always toyed with the idea of getting a lever action, but it never even occurred to me that 357 Magnum was a good option. Since I'm not buying anything in a caliber I don't already own... And they are threaded? Damn it.

I'm not saying there's not some fuckery going on, but that doesn't really pass the smell test. Why would you have to bus 11,000 people from Georgia? Why would the distribution be tilted that way? I absolutely believe the part where most of the people at these rallies are the same people that go to all the rallies. I'm guessing the percentage of repeat attendees is lower at a trump rally, but still very significant.

Makes me remember fondly the one and only time in 2018 when I was given Type 3 control after a dude stepped on an IED and the GFC wanted the city block leveled. It was definitely the unicorn and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, but the absolute authority to sling hate for the following 20 minutes was glorious.

Nice. I don’t have any Marlins, will have to check them out. I did buy a Henry .357 lever action last year and really like it. I might go hog hunting in two weeks out in west Texas. Thinking about taking my Springfield Saint Victor AR-10 for it.

Thanks for the update! I'm guessing this coincides with the T-1 going away soon? Lots of stuff seems to be changing before I get class dates...

I still stand by this statement from two weeks ago...

Same here. I'd like to see the data for Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. My mother told me that you are the company you keep. 6000+ Antifa/BLM/Pro-Palestinian protestors is not exactly good company.

100% this. CH fought in a completely different war than many of us. Toward the end, we couldn't drop unless the GC (a general at AUAB) and his JAG, had continuous, live robot feed on the target and we certainly didn't drop if CDE got above 0.69%. But I know one thing, we all had the proper uniform on at all times and we were COVID free thanks to a 2 week sit in the mold infested, old coalition compound at AUAB...