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Just thought I'd add this: searching a car DOES NOT REQUIRE A SEARCH WARRANT, the fleeting nature of a car requires only probable cause. Will that presumption be brought into question in the following law suit? Of course. But the cops do not have to seek a warrant prior to searching your car after a traffic stop.

backseat, go to a local range that rents guns and try out a Glock and an XD. Whichever "feels" better to you is your answer. 9mm is a fine choice and won't leave you under gunned in any way. The arguments in caliber between 9mm, .40 or .45 are largely a red herring. ALL handgun rounds are crappy, get used to the fact that you will have to shoot a bad guy many times with a handgun, so pick something you can shoot rapidly and accurately. Practicing head-shots is a good thing.

Guess I should be known as the thread killer

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the ASE suite that is eventually developed and purchased. Not to mention the tactics used in the entire package. Complete conjecture and babbling. This is really Young's way of saying can the entire rescue community, cause we can just have the Ospreys do it when something happens. You mean aside from the opening days of Iraq and Afghanistan? What's recent? Is he advocating continuing the OAF tradition of AFSOC covering Air component PR? Plan on buying more Ospreys then, cause they don't have enough to do this job. So we should plan our future fleet based on being in Afghanistan forever? F-22?? JSF?? The Army doesn't do CSAR at all they have Medevac. The Marines train to a different tactic that is much closer to CSAR as the AF does it, but they have helos by default, and I imagine they plan to set a couple aside to recover their personnel. What assets does the CFACC have to set aside for recovery operations? Unless he plans on completely overhauling joint doctrine........ He needs to learn a little more about things before he opens his yap.

AFCAM should be about knowing you are under fire and continuing the mission. If you see someone wearing the AFCAM you know that person has stared down death and knows how that realization effects them, for better or worse. It basically says this person has been there and done that. Being on a base that gets mortared, NO. Being in a convoy that gets ambushed, YES. Flying into a DZ/LZ under fire, YES. Strafing a target while receiving return fire, YES. Defending against an IADS to include missile launches, YES. Shooting back against a no kidding ground threats, YES. Watching a MANPADS launch and reacting, YES. Being in a chow hall that receives a direct mortar hit and despite ringing ears and dizzy head, you help with caring for wounded, YES. This should be one of those things, that if you aren't 100% sure you qualify, you should be ashamed of putting yourself in for.

I know, just throwing out that that's about as close to a FDR as we get.

Hopefully, the replacement for KBR at Kandahar sucked from what I heard. KBR chow when I was at Kandahar in 06 was pretty damn good.

Not on HH-60s, we do have something similar to the HUD tapes on fighters, but you have to turn it on manually.

Air conditioning? Pansies.

Wasn't the Hog designed so that a gear up landing wouldn't cause much damage?

Freddie, another interesting read is "Shooting to Live" by Fairbairn and Sykes. They advocated the 1911 over larger calibers (like the .455 Webley) due to being a semi-auto. They felt that volume of fire was important, basically saying you should be shooting in bursts so that your handgun approximates a machine pistol. (paraphrased, but close to their words)

I just finished reading the FBI's handgun wounding paper. ( yes I know I should have read it a long time ago ) What I found interesting was that I drew a different conclusion about caliber selection than M2. He rightly found that a .45 is better than a 9mm or .40 in a single shot scenario. I got out of that report that all handgun rounds are so pathetic that the real answer is multiple hits. What I decided was that with my 9mm, I get more shots faster and more accurately.

Based on the timeline of when it will "replace" the A-10, I'm inclined to think it isn't. The A-10 is simply going to go away and the Air Force will finally be rid of the hated Hog. <-Cynic

I can only assume this was one of the tanker crews near where we were landing: Assumed comment: "I could fly a helo, looks like fun." Actual comment on ground: "Yeah I'd be fun for a few months, but can you imagine flying that thing in the desert? All the heat and sand, flying around at 500 feet, FUUUCK YOU, I want to be at 25 thousand feet."

As mentioned above, the Marines need the B model to operate off their little ships. As to the JSF replacing the Hog, good luck performing the Sandy mission. JSF as Sandy basically means Rescue must self escort.

it's officially time to move the damn CAOC back to the states. Who's up for a 365 to Tampa?

you guys don't have a NPA tube in your IFAK?

Caveman: No one with a half a brain would stand toe to toe with us now is only because we pose a credible threat. If we do not continue to advance we will pose less and less a threat, until the incentive to shut up and color won't be there anymore. On the other hand, I agree that most of the wars we will fight in the future will not be full up industrial scale conventional conflicts and we need to focus some attention on small unconventional wars. As to the cost of the F-22 and stealth. I don't really think the two are as directly connected as some people imply. A modern fighter with all the avionics of the Raptor would cost very close to what the Raptor costs. The basic shape hasn't changed much since the prototype, so I'm led to believe that the stealth aspect is a pretty known commodity, the avionics and software development is what I would think costs so damn much. But I don't really know, I'm just speculating. EDIT: for grammar

I hadn't noticed any difference in bolt size. I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about re: bolt bounce. A description would help. I do know that the piston guns have a problem with the BCG tilting due to the moment created by the piston on the "gas key." HK solved it by adding pads to the aft lower end of the bolt carrier.

The good idea fairy is just people looking to write something on their OPR/EPR. You can't very well write "Everything was working great, so I just let it keep working!"

Gotta agree

Not married myself, but here's another option: Do the justice of the peace thing, then move to where you need to go, bring the new spouse. Once you get settled, plan the grand ceremony and do it right. It gives you the advantage of staying together and getting your new family on uncle sugar's books while giving you time to plan.

For those of you who haven't seen a PMAG, the follower is designed so that it cannot tilt and the plastic feed lips are very strong. I haven't had the chance to test this myself, but I read an internet test report from a guy who left one loaded his entire deployment (army style) only unloading it by shooting and it fed perfectly the entire year. This was a pre-production example as well. EDIT: I have a few, but only had 2 trips to the range to test them. So my personal experience isn't enough to go on.

Look up the ADC piston system. The initial test guy put something like 5000 rounds through it without cleaning, no FTF or FTE ever. The AR still has small parts/springs that make it prone to failure. However, a piston system while easier to clean also heats the BCG less (very little actually) so those little springs (extractor) are less prone to failure. Will the AR DESIGN be as reliable as the AK DESIGN with the addition of the piston? Probably not. The AK was designed so that inferior craftsmanship would affect it less. Also, many AR problems are due to magazines. EVERY AR failure I've ever had was due to a GI mag, PMAGs do wonders. That said, AKs are not immune to problems. A friend was involved in Iraqi advising, training helo guys. They would receive shipments of AKs and he said they often had to combine 2 or 3 AKs to make one good reliable weapon. Granted some of this was piss poor quality control that sometimes meant missing parts! But for an equal quality AR, an AK will always be less expensive. On the other hand, if you deploy with an AR, you should probably train with one. EDIT for spelling

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