Gun Pr0n!

By The Armorer on December 10, 2005 | | Comments (8)

Heh. Kinda. It's gonna make some readers react like it was pr0n, anyway...

Click here.

Yep. *Ours*

I haven't done anything for you airplane fellas lately.

How about this?

Something for the sailors... here.

The Coasties... That's the Storis commissioned 1942 and still serving. Talk about "the forgotten service"...


CUTTER STORIS (FOR RELEASE) KODIAK, Alaska (Sept. 26, 2005)--The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Storis will celebrate their ship's 63 years of service on Sept. 30. The Storis was built by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company, Toledo, Ohio and commissioned in 1942. The Storis saw action in World War II in the North Atlantic while assigned to prevent the establishment of Nazi weather stations in Greenland. In 1948, the Storis changed homeport to Juneau where it supplied medical treatment to native villages and surveyed uncharted watersin the Arctic. The Storis and two other cutters, now decommissioned, completed a historic transit of the Northwest Passage and circumnavigation of the North American continent in July of 1957. Soon after, the Storis was transferred to its present homeport here. The Storis continues to patrol the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea proudly bearing its gold "38" hull numbers, which is a distinction given only to the oldest cutter in the fleet. Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. McLaughlin

and, of course, Marines.

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By Neffi on December 10, 2005 2:09 PM
I *think* that's the Hurricane I got to sit in at RAF Duxford, lo these many years past...
 
By bad cat robot on December 10, 2005 3:13 PM
mmmmm ... milling machine! Want! I even have a shed to put it in! *drool*
 
By klkk on December 10, 2005 4:05 PM
Damn, BCR. A woman who knows her machines??? I'm impressed. Actually, it looks like a combo: milling, lather and possible drill press but I could be mistaken. I too, would love to have that sitting in my garage. I can imagine all the stuff I could make.....
 
By bad cat robot on December 10, 2005 4:32 PM
It looks like the kid brother of the really, really fancy milling machine the Penn State Physics machine shop had (I was to keep my greasy little fingers off, of course, but I could *look*). Thing was so clever you could dog the metal stock, feed it digitized CAD drawings, push the GO button and go for coffee. Us grad students were permitted to use the old mil-surplus lathes, a cruddy drill press with only one way, and a band saw that sounded like a bowling ball in a jet engine. ahh, those were the days! still have all my fingers, too.
 
By Harvey on December 10, 2005 4:43 PM
Caption for the sailors pic. "I hate it when Darth Vader forgets to flush!"
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 10, 2005 5:09 PM
And Harvey comes in with a Monty Python flair... MSG Keith has the right of it - mill, drill, lathe. Will take CAD inputs, but don't have that. Nice thread cutter cams though.
 
By LarryK on December 11, 2005 1:15 PM
Lest someone think that the Storis is atypical of the Coast Guard Cutters this will be the last winter for the USCGC Mackinaw. It will finally be replaced. But the Toledo Shipbuilding Company laid her keel on March 20, 1943. And there is a new movie out which is a remake of an old one called Yours Mine and Ours. The star (Dennis Quaid) plays a CG Admiral and several scenes take place on the USCGC Sherman (WHEC 720) whose keel was laid in 1967 and fought in Vietnam. It truely is an aging fleet that needs dramatic upgrade. The Deepwater program is just not going to meet the needs from what I have been told and read.
 
By SGT Jeff (IRR) on December 12, 2005 11:22 AM
I don't believe those are Marines... they look too comfortable. :-)