H&I Fires, target list updated during the day.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AFPN) -- A formation of 17 C-17 Globemaster IIIs assigned to the 437th and 315th Airlift Wings at Charleston Air Force Base fly in formation. The flight, which demonstrates the U.S. Air Force's strategic capability, is the largest formation of C-17s to take flight from a single base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Richard T. Kaminsky)

Just a sidenote: The aircraft you see here can deliver 1,734 paratroops. In WWII, that would have taken 62 Dakotas. And the DC-3s couldn't have handled anything near the amount of non-self-loading-cargo because the weren't roll-on, roll-off.

Update: If you need more Plane Pr0n, AFSis has pics of her little brother's bird up over at the Jungle Warfare Center.

I was gonna say - here's one that Rose caught that Jay at Stop the ACLU missed... except I'd be wrong - Real Teen got it some days ago! I shoulda known.

Yer welcome, fellas. I *do* like a good caption contest, even if I can't get my paid-nothing-for-her-labor blogslave to do one... she claims we're too much fun. How *wrong* izzat, anyway?

Adjutant Barb watches her blogson, via Moonlight.

Update: Philosopher Kat on A War Without Heroes - and what you can do about it.

Update: Fuzzybear Lioness walks the walk - and delivers some of those laptops she's was all over us about. Updated Update: And someone she was expecting for lunch in Philadelphia better have shagged their sorry butt over there or fur will fly....

Updated Update: Apparently Bill *someone* managed to save their own sorry butt. I'm sure a suitably self-serving whitewashed report as to why this gentleman almost stood up Fuzzybear Lioness left a purty gurl alone in the big city will surface....

Update: Jack acknowledges what some of us bloggers don't - however deep our passion, we're amateurs. One of the reasons *I* throttled back, I know, is a dawning realization of outcome for the input. We've been a Mortal Human, then NZ fiddled his algorithm, and our ranking dropped more in keeping with our traffic. We're now a Playful Primate. Why? One reason is... We don't link to the big blogs that much anymore. They're usually on a story quicker than we are, and you've seen the stories already, why pile on to the groupthink? We link more to smaller blogs - we were small once, too. And we still do it, even though you molluscs don't bump us much in the Ecosphere [ 8^) ]

We're #571 in Technorati, with 7,467 links from 987 sites. We have a traffic rank of 267,760 in Alexa. We average (currently) 2009 uniques a day (happily, the overall trend is higher all the time).

In other words - fewer people visit here than read my local, small-town newspaper. And at least a third of them wander in blinking owlishly in the security lights, from Google. Except for the ones who come in with their raincoats and no pants from Google.

Just to keep it all in perspective.

Update: Here's a new twist. A military guy conducting a protest outside the White House.

Update: Okay - who wants to organize the First Castle Tour of Canada!?! New symmetry: Oh! Calcutta - O! Canada!