Miata Coupe?

Much, much want

That’d be fine with me. Having gone through that a couple of times, when a dealer installed an add-on I didn’t want and wasn’t going to pay for, I simply said: “You can take it off, or or leave it and not charge me, but I’m not paying for it if I buy the car.” In the case of pinstripes they rolled and left them; once…

Dear VW:

That’s no Civic. It’s an Accord.

Still rockin’ the old iPhone 4 after 5 years here, and missing my old flip phone.

How do you know your salesman is lying to you?

C-5B era joke:

Of course it didn’t intimidate them. The sights are stowed and the TOW launcher is down. The cicadas know that Bradley isn’t ready to engage anything.

No, the lesson isn’t that you need an alternate engine program (which is a massive duplication of cost that doesn’t bear sufficient cost or risk reduction over the life of the program) — it’s that you don’t put a new developmental system this massively complex into low rate production until you’ve tested it…

Yep. Dolphin in the photo isn’t a sub dolphin as its the mammal not the fish:

I’m with you. I don’t know for certain, but I suspect it’s a legacy of the draft-era military. When you dragged people into the service and kept them against their will, I suspect more work was required to not be a screw-up. Plus there was a time when NJP wasn’t an out-of-the-ordinary thing. Traditions, you know.

The Army has a Good Conduct Medal awarded every three years for the same reasons. No colored hash marks, though — I was wondering why the differences in the stripes!

Enough to get me 10 lb/hp or better.

Thunderbolt, or Lightning?

Er ... 13. Isn’t 230 South*west* of the ship? Unless Navy types use different compasses than us ground pounders, 90 is east, 270 is west.

I’ve been down in the living area below the Tomb where the guards prep. It’s pretty cool. The Sergeant of the Guard has camera coverage so he can continually watch the Guard at post. By the door there’s a set of shelves for their uniform stuff — each guard has his own special shelf for their shades, gloves, etc.…

There’s an easy way to save the A-10, though the service doesn’t have the balls for it. The Army just has to say it’s willing to take them (along with the appropriate share of the USAF’s personnel and operation & maintenance budget, of course). Then the USAF would fall all over itself to try to save the A-10. Can’t…

Hope it goes well.

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