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Armed Intruder at Castle Argghhh!

Ruh-roh... shoot?



Or... don't shoot?

Definiately don't shoot.  The Interior Guard have it under control.  Even if the Exterior Guard wash-out (Suellen) has been playing with footwear again.

This is actually a new steel rebounding target from Salute Products that is going out to join his predecessor at the 150m berm so now there can be two shooters at that firing point.  After Osama assumed room temperature courtesy of Seal Team Six some people who don't exist, Salute put their armor-plate Osama targets on sale.  I decided to be un-PC and get another target.  My other target is a generic human outline.

These are tough targets.  They've been shot at with everything but armor-piecing (including steel core) and they shrug it off.  The oldest has been out in the elements for two years now, and aside from some spot-painting, which you would expect, since you're shooting at 'em, they've held up very well.  Including not being knocked over by the 80mph wind storms.

This is not a compensated ad.  I just like their stuff.

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Let's have a "Letter the Armorer's Protest Sign" contest!

Since these motley fools are made up mostly of anti-war types, I suggest the old standby, "Give us MORE Whirled Peas"

To back it up, perhaps some sort of a pressure-dispenser that would project green-pea baby food a short diastance...but then again, you local rozzers probably don't have orders to allow such projection of could-be-offensive materials and you would get arrested. In in "Little Beiruit", aka, Portland, OR, you can project all sorts of liquid and semi-liquid nasties and the cops have orders to let it pass.
 
(grumble), above went on the wrong post, should have gone on the Free Bradley post, sorry
 
Remind us, Rivrdog - weren't you a... navigator?
 
God, I sure hope that he was USN and not USAF...
 
Im looking for a work out routine that will help me lose weight AND build muscle! - Can anybody help with this?
 
The old Roman Prisoner diet and exercise routine should be able to do both for you.  May not be quite what you're looking for, though...
 
Mark...   Rivrdog flew in... wait for it... B-52s.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  I love the smell of snark in teh afternoon.
 
B-52 are very, very accurate. Their bombs always hit the ground.

 
Hey, and anyone ANYWHERE NEAR where those bombs hit the ground remembers the experience for quite some time.  Regardless of which bombs are used...
 
True - but guys on *our* side aren't supposed to have that vivid a memory of it.  They guys on the *other* side... well, they aren't supposed to have any memory at all.

Except among their survivors.
 
My favorite AF Navigator story is what happened to the Lady Be Good, in Libya. Those guys would have been within their rights  to kill the navigator and drink his blood right there to extend their lives a little longer, which wouldn't have helped much anyway.  Being mostly good Roman Catholic boys, they did not do so, and marched an amazing distance on basically no water at all.
 
P.s.  On B-24s:

There is a good reason the LBG's crew jumped instead of riding her in.  I have never seen a pic of a B-24 which came down with wheels up in which the airplane was not more or less broken in pieces.

Back when the silly old women of both sexes still allowed us to have aviation events in this benighted town,  we had a B-17 and a B-24 show up.  I crawled through both of them as much as allowed, and remember a faint leaking-gasoline smell in the Liberator.  From what I have read, that is right authentic.

They were offering rides in each airplane for a "donation to defray expenses."  Having none of the disposable at the time, I declined, but had I had the bucks I would have picked the Boeing product, unless I also had had enough bux to rent a parachute or two in case there were undercarriage problems on the California product. B-24s don't behave well in out-of-design-limits conditions.
 
My comment has been received and held for approval again.  It was about the relative dangers of landing a B-24 with the wheels up, versus jumping, or riding in a Boeing-built bomber like a normal person.

We are going to have to get Dr. Helen over here to interview the Server Gnomes in her best Forensic Psychologist style, I think, with said gnomes chained to their chairs and mean grumpy deppities who have had their comments disappear standing by with enhanced tasers.
 
Hey, JTG:
This blog will not tolerate discussions of blood drinking and such.  No matter how justified same may be.
 
Yes we will, Mark. When applicable.  I don't recall dying or going on vacation and appointing you Marshal, ennyway... ;^ )
 
JTG - upon reading your held-but-now-released comment, I had an epiphany.  You have an uncanny ability to write comments that look like spam.  I mean, really.  Tone, structure, tangentiality...  you sir, are a master.  Perhaps that's how you should supplement your income - advertise yourself as a spam-writer.  Not a poster.  We would have to execute you if you started posting that stuff - but as a "content provider" to those who provide spamming services.

Yours would at least be interesting to read.
 
[blows on nails, buffs them on vest]  Just one of my autistic superpowers.  Well, half-aspie anyway.
 
P.s.

I would never voluntarily provide content to any spammer. That would be dishonorable in the lowest, nastiest, most evilly possible way.  As I wrote to Jerry Pournelle, the way to deal with spammers is with bolt cutters to their typing fingers.  In increments. Slowly.
 
P.p.s.  Michael Williamson, in his fiction, has some of the characters in one of his books approve of using nerve agents and high explosives on spammers. That's a different universe, of course.