M2

I saw this in Germany last month... €579, it's even listed in this catalog... I didn't see anything close to that when I was in Japan (also last month)...

Well, shit like this has to end...

Apparantly Tom Hanks' latest movie isn't as historically accurate as some claim... Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is one big lie

Not bad, getting close to what a GSG-522 costs...

84° in southcentral Texas!

Bwahahahaha! I was gonna post the same thing, but I couldn't get the pic of her and her half-dozen cats from her blog to post on here!

That's why I'm already here!

Funny, but not real. Believe it or not, I've actually ran two segments of 2004 Athens Summer Olympics torch relay. It's nothing like that video...there are support runners all around you, vehicles front and back (to include a media truck full of cameras that drives in front of the torch bearer) and guys on motorcycles cutting through the route ensuring each relay goes as planned. There is also a back-up in case a runner's torch gets extinguished. It happens on occasion, but the torch is simply re-lit and goes on. Samsung was the primary sponsor of the relay that year, and was kind enough to let us keep our torches (which cost about €300 apiece, if I remember correctly). Cheers! M2

You think Yokota is bad? Try Camp Casey down on Okinawa. They've only got wifi in the lobby, and it's 56K dial up speed at best. Wouldn't be so bad but now that I am a contractor I have higher standards! Next time I'm staying at the Marriott!

Yet the Alamo remains open!

It'll probably start with a call to ban hi-cap gas tanks. No one needs twenty gallons of gas, tanks should be no more than five gallons!

Another update... Video: https://news.yahoo.com/capitol-hill-on-lockdown-after-reports-of-shots-fired-183834445.html

Last I heard it was a crash that injured the officer, but somehow shots were involved. But gunfire in the District of Columbia, say it isn't so! UPDATE: So a bad driver in DC and a possible over-reaction by the DC police (there was a child in the car, so I am not thinking it was a terrorist attack), who'd of thunk that?!?

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted already... I'm sure most of us have read several of his novels, he well defined life during the Cold War... RIP. Cheers! M2

The Deputy Commander of STRATCOM is on Obama's target list? If it were even true (doubtful), I'm sure even he could conure up a better plan than planting phony poker chips on the guy! Plenty of GOs have done dumber things...

Funny you should post that... Tosh.0 Caption Challenge: Oktoberfest

Took this pic in Stuttgart the week before last...

Anyone in California looking for a safe home for their AKs, there's aways room in my safe! Ya might not ever get them back though, but they were as good as gone anyway...

Yep, on 6 Sept 2013.

I've driven the Explorer-based Interceptor, it's pretty impressive! Makes the old Crown Vics feel like boats, and even the Tahoes don't get close to handling as well... The biggest proplem with the Taurus-based Interceptors is that they are pretty confined inside once you get all the equipment installed.

I wouldn't be surprised, considering Ford just released the new Police Interceptor this year based on the Taurus...

That captain at the very beginning, getting his second kill, is Dick Pascoe; my first wing commander at Bentwaters...

We've all had nights like this...

He "thinks" he was pranked?!? WTF? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTODkW-fV3k