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ironbar

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    Railroad Yardmaster,Retired USAF

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  1. Chain link fencing is an effective barrier against RPG's as well. http://books.google.com/books?id=GmoQ7oDwNKEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=chain+link+fence+rpg&source=bl&ots=OJsj_0qLq_&sig=7RcEkFBadBQL89GZvV59GSkKrt8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ng1GU4P_GPHLsAT94IKwAg&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=chain%20link%20fence%20rpg&f=false
  2. I always thought the "1-1" (the performance manual) made for much more riveting reading. If one of your gift giving priorities is anything like mine, namely cheap, you can't beat this, free! http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au/thigpen.pdf History of the USAF special operations C-130 force as told by a former pilot, squadron commander and group commander. By way of review I would say it's not quite as self serving as we anticipated it to be. But if he is a real herc guy, as opposed to some poseur, the best gift of course would be cheap booze. Really cheap, served warm. Leave the price tag on, " Wow 4 liters for 2 bucks, this is great stuff!"
  3. Interesting, as the SAC alert facilities had some of the best cable tv packages I ever saw in the 70's; as well as (once the VCR became prevelent) ad nauseam showings of Stanley Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove," or "How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb." I'm pretty sure the guys out in the gopher holes (the ICBM facilities) didn't have cable or tv for that matter- but I would suspect much less a SAC mind control attempt than the fact that they were out in the middle of freaking nowhere. As for being locked in, shoot you could never park anywhere near the BX for all the spaces reserved for the alert vehicles. If you saw an alert vehicle parked in base housing, with all but one of the crewmembers present you could be pretty sure it was the equivalent of a conjugal visit. Let the Nav get finished and drive around and park in front of the EWO's house.
  4. Pretty soon they might be taking over the business, http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110706/00200314983/monkey-business-can-monkey-license-its-copyrights-to-news-agency.shtml Although if we replaced all the lawyers with monkeys, would it be much worse?
  5. No, I wasn't using a carjacking as a justification for unlimited self defense. I was pointing out that relying on the self restraint of people who are already committing one form of violent crime is foolish. You have not the slightest intimation where their threshold of behavior is. Further, allow me to offer you the same advice I gave to the wee ironbars; when confronted by some one who has a gun, or threatens as though they have, toss your wallet to them and run. Do not comply with their instructions, or cooperate with them. If all they wanted was your money, they now have it and should be satisfied. If they want more from you, by running you just made the equation a lot tougher for them to solve. "Most car jackings don't end like this," sux to be the anomaly, doesn't it?
  6. Ah but there's the rub, at 2am how do I indentify the motivations of the fellow who just kicked in my back door? Is he the run of the mill flat screen TV thief, or a Manson family wannabe? Relying on the professionalism of sociopaths who are committing burglary, armed robbery or carjacking is a dicey proposition at best. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
  7. Oh on a last note, the Disney bombs were designed and funded by the RN.- Apologies to Stalin's Organist, he made (very astutely) this very point early on in the thread.
  8. A few pictures scanned out of Roger Freeman's 'The Mighty Eighth.' According to the captions these are Disney bombs being dropped on E boat pens at Ijmuiden on 14 Mar 1945. Each Disney bomb grossed 4500 lbs and were released at 20,000 feet. They dropped conventionally to 5000 ft, at which time the roket motors ignited, accelerating them to 2400 ft per second, (according to Freeman). They were designed to penetrate 20 foot of concrete before detonating. It is well worth remembering that reinforced concrete wasn't really overcome by weaponery until 1940 with hollow shaped charges at Eban Emael. On the Allied side, the Brits tried more and more explosive weight (they of course were concerned with attacking U boat pens long before the V1/2 sites reared their ugly heads). So attacking anything made of reinforced concrete was still trial and error until the end of the war. Nice video here; Diesel; still sore about being underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower?
  9. Hottest subject on most network news in the states? Will and Kate.
  10. 125 dead- by product of mine operation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Creek_Flood Fly ash contamination http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2008/oct/26/coals_time_bomb59266/ Cancer clusters in anthracite mining regions http://southernstudies.org/2008/10/energy-watch-public-health-authorities.html The last link is the most interesting to me as Schuylkyll County Pa, is where I grew up, where both sets of grandparents settled after leaving the old countries.
  11. "deeply cynical and interested in only what is good for their country [themselves] and which sometimes means representative govts are a pain in the arse. If it is your own Govt. you skirt around it and if it another county's you subvert it." Diesel, what you describe is actually realpoltik, (per Henry K) "No friends, just interests." I do credit the early creators of what became known as the Wolfowitz doctraine, I'm thinking specifically of George Schultz and Dick Armitage, with a view toward a more principled approach. Where it went astray, well lets just say Rum's the word.
  12. Sure it has some truth to it Diesel, but wasn't that the first fallacy of the neocon's world view; representative government and economic opportunity obviate the root causes of global Jihad?
  13. KR, Just for the record, in Mogadishu of the 3 helos hit only one was hovering at the time (Super 68), Super 61 was at approx 150 feet and estimated at 40 knots in a wide left turn when hit, and iirc Super 62 was descending (approx 200 feet) and accelerating when hit.
  14. I always thought that the transport/ tanker application would be the first independent (or semi) UAV. Load an unmanned C17 with cargo, let a ground based controller get it airborne, hand it off to an automated flight router and x number of hours later another ground based controller would monitor the system for landing. Granted I wouldn't want to be a passenger on one! The same would be true for a tanker application (so long as you are using probe and drouge refuelling systems). But I guess there is a whole lot more money working in the combat systems.
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