BarnBuster
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Yes, it's still a sabot (tungsten penetrator) round but with a tracer element added
Veterans...Get the hell in here now!
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Walk the burst into the target.
Sir Napsalot
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I had a bunch of 7.62R tracers that I shot in my "sporterized" M44 that I hunted with as a teen- the bullet tips were marked with some sort of green paint
injinji
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Belle (of the Ranch) always gets lots of questions from folks who don't know what they don't know. Yesterday she got one asking why Pride got a whole month and Vets didn't. She said, "you are right, we don't get a month. We get two. May and November."
BarnBuster
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This is a good short explanation of DOWNFALL, if that's your interest:
the-past.com
Operation Downfall: The planned invasions of Japan, 1945-1946 | The Past
What would have happened if Japan hadn’t surrendered? David Porter examines the Allied plans for the largest amphibious assault of all time.
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BarnBuster
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"It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?“
—James Stewart (Col) DFC, Film and stage actor, B-24 Command Pilot, (As quoted to a reporter on his enlistment in WW2).
—James Stewart (Col) DFC, Film and stage actor, B-24 Command Pilot, (As quoted to a reporter on his enlistment in WW2).
TerryTeacosy
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I sometimes find it ironic when the most innocuous things can trigger a powerful memory.....
I was chatting with my old man today & suggested that we take a trip tomorrow to the biggest market in the Southern Hemisphere, where he can buy 250g of his favourite Gorgonzola cheese. A round-trip of about 3 hours. That's very fucking expensive cheese!
Since we would be there anyway, it made sense to buy-up BIG on other things like bulk meat & fish. I reckoned we'd need something substantial to carry the purchases, since he gets around with a walker. I went looking for an old Berghaus day-pack that I haven't used in a very long time.
The pack is very well used. The zips are unusable due to corrosion from too much exposure to salt water, it has holes in it & is very dirty, but the pack itself is still as strong as the day it was made.
It's been overseas with me many times & I've jumped with it carrying all my Comm's gear inside my main pack on operations (just in case I had to ditch the main pack & suddenly go "light" for an E&E exfil).
The strongest memory of it was sitting in a Blackhawk at night on an insertion on a "quick job", a month after a mate (& 17 others) died in a multiple Blackhawk collision in 1996.
Long story short, the aircraft went into free-fall at close to tree-top level & I remember this very pack full of radio gear rising off the floor of the aircraft in front of my eyes. I had to put my hand out & hold it down. The other hand was restraining my weapon.
Tomorrow, it gets put back into action after almost 30 years, to carry all the shit that my old man decides to buy at a food market.
I can't think of better use for it...
I was chatting with my old man today & suggested that we take a trip tomorrow to the biggest market in the Southern Hemisphere, where he can buy 250g of his favourite Gorgonzola cheese. A round-trip of about 3 hours. That's very fucking expensive cheese!
Since we would be there anyway, it made sense to buy-up BIG on other things like bulk meat & fish. I reckoned we'd need something substantial to carry the purchases, since he gets around with a walker. I went looking for an old Berghaus day-pack that I haven't used in a very long time.
The pack is very well used. The zips are unusable due to corrosion from too much exposure to salt water, it has holes in it & is very dirty, but the pack itself is still as strong as the day it was made.
It's been overseas with me many times & I've jumped with it carrying all my Comm's gear inside my main pack on operations (just in case I had to ditch the main pack & suddenly go "light" for an E&E exfil).
The strongest memory of it was sitting in a Blackhawk at night on an insertion on a "quick job", a month after a mate (& 17 others) died in a multiple Blackhawk collision in 1996.
Long story short, the aircraft went into free-fall at close to tree-top level & I remember this very pack full of radio gear rising off the floor of the aircraft in front of my eyes. I had to put my hand out & hold it down. The other hand was restraining my weapon.
Tomorrow, it gets put back into action after almost 30 years, to carry all the shit that my old man decides to buy at a food market.
I can't think of better use for it...
BarnBuster
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One thing I've noticed at auction companies lately is that old (WW1 &WW2) war plans/military plans/orders of battle are increasing in value. If you've got any of Dad's or Grandpops stuff that you're not particularly attached too, now might be the time to investigate selling them. Also old cartridge boards are still increasing in value as well as older (@Civil War era) Bowie knives. Medals and ribbon bars don't seem to have much value unless they come with a trunk full of other related paraphernalia or are from a famous battle/person. Civil War daguerreotypes and tintypes could have substantial value again depending on subject matter. Any battle flown flags or pennants that can be documented have always and continue to be rare and expensive. Depending on manufacture that bring back .45 could be worth something. Course that full auto MG they brought/snuck back is worth a shit-ton.
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