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Aviation Nation 2011 – Sunday

It’s Christmas Eve and I’ve been working on getting a whole bunch of photos edited and ready for uploading.  Oh, I’ll have some pics from today – I did actually leave the apartment and get on the bike   But I wanted to get caught up a bit   How about we start off the [...]

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A little Randomness from theBrigade!

Afternoon randomness from Thursday. A little something for everyone! Saturday. Not much doing here. So Blogging and Linking are the Orders of The Day!!!!!!!

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Blast from the Past.

A couple of postcards from the era when I went to Boot Camp at RTC, San Diego. These were the barracks for the first four weeks of training. After the 2-4 day, we moved to the mainside. Providing we passed all the stuff. I lived in the closest one on the first deck. For real. [...]

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Another Helpful Hint For Christmas Shopping

While flame throwers don’t have any pesky federal regulations and are relatively inexpensive, I surely wouldn’t mind receiving an F-22 Raptor or F-117 Nighthawk this Christmas   Oh sure, you could get me an SU-27 Flanker, F-5 Tiger, or a T-38 Talon and I’d be seriously thrilled   There’s something the Raptor and Nighthawk have [...]

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Another Item On My Christmas Wish List – M9 Flame Thrower

Some people have told me I can be rather difficult to shop for.  Most people would love to give me a new firearm for Christmas, but they’d have to worry about shipping it to an FFL if it’s across state lines and then there’s always questions about how to go about buying someone that rare [...]

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Prior Planning Prevents…

Now, I’m not the world’s greatest planner – I’ll say that right out front.  But then again, nobody ever gave me the responsibility of developing a new fighter/attack jet for the USAF, USMC, USN, and several other nations.  Right now, I’ll bet the U.S. Navy is wishing they’d done a bit more planning when it [...]

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NORTH KOREA SHELLS SOUTH KOREAN ISLAND

BREAKING FROM FOX NEWS: BREAKING NEWS — North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets, military officials said. At least one South Korean marine reportedly was killed. The skirmish came amid high tension [...]

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Picture(s) A Day – Aviation Nation 2010 – Sunday At Nellis AFB

Sorry for the delay everyone, but I was just flat worn out Sunday night and yesterday wasn’t the greatest day, either.  I managed to get the pictures for this post edited and the panoramas stitched together, and uploaded, but getting them built into the post and captioned took a bit too much time.  I finally [...]

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Picture(s) A Day – Aviation Nation 2010 – Saturday At Nellis AFB

It’s that time of year again – Airshow Time   Yes, it’s one of the things I look forward to the entire year.  I get to have fun with firearms throughout the year, but I only get one weekend a year at Nellis AFB to enjoy the aircraft Before you get to the flight line, [...]

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Veterans’ Day Video – The Battle of Britain – BBC Special

Today is Veterans’ Day.  The holiday may have started as Armistice Day in the wake of World War I, but it changed to include all veterans after World War II. I found the video above a while back.  This is a nine part series (there is a link to click on within the video above [...]

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