Yup, nothing can carry more nasty paperwork than a BUFF, no one delivers the law better than the BUFF.

If they somehow manage the average load of a grunt down to only 20 lbs I can guarantee you that the brass will just simply pile on more crap for the grunt to carry. What would end up happening is that the troops would end up being required to carry even more ammo, batteries, and all sorts of other crap. This has long…

Anglais, si vous plait. Je ne parles pa le Francais.

Simple, as a grunt that’s what you’re going to be expected to do, carry large amounts of weight over long distances. As experience in both Afghanistan and Iraq have shown you can’t expect to rid everywhere and a lot of time you’re going to be conducting patrols on foot. I don’t know exactly how much the standard load…

And that’s why the current CJCoS is a Marine, CENTCOM was headed by a Marine at one point, and Marines have held several other key leadership posts in the past several years.

While that’s true, I’d argue that an aircraft carrier’s does help protect it from small ships in that it’s going to be really hard to get a small rocket on to the deck of a super carrier. Even if they did manage to lob a rocket onto the deck, how much damage would also be heavily dependent on what’s going on the deck…

China has historically been expanionistic and still is, it’s just that they haven’t been in a position to really expand until relatively recently. China didn’t emerge fully formed in its current borders by magic, even if you count the various kingdoms that fought and conquered each other they were still surrounded by…

That’s pretty sweet looking, will they be offering these for civilians? I’d love to have one of these for daily commute to work. Parking might be a problem but that’s solved by simply hiring a pilot and have them drop me off and pick me up at the end of my shift.

You know, that’s a very good question. Maybe the seats are mounted on gimbles to give the pilots a better feel for what the aircraft is doing.

Probably because that’s how they’re normally built and it would likely cost them a lot more to build a non-navalized version. It’s much cheaper to buy a standard Super Bug with, maybe custom avionics, than to buy a fully customized version with un-reinforced landing gear, no tail hook, fixed wings, and no other naval…

I don’t know about the MiG-31 but the 25 wasn’t developed to intercept the SR-71, it was designed to intercept the canceled XB-70 Valkyrie.

Just because they’re not asking doesn’t mean they won’t. There was a story recently from the former CO of the 4th Recruit Training Battalion, the Marine Corps’ sole female training unit and a WM herself, saying how the training standards while on paper the same as the mens were in reality not. For one thing,…

No, it’s not the women that I’m concerned about, it’s the powers that be that have me concerned. I’m concerned that in their zeal to pursue their agenda they’ll do whatever it takes to get women into combat roles, up to and including lowering standards, whether officially or unofficially.

Because unlike blacks and homosexuals, women aren’t necessarily up to the physical standards that their male counterparts are. I have no problems with women in combat roles, so long as they’re held up to the exact same standards as the men, no coddling of females, no separate standards, everything equal across the…

This is something that I’ve been saying that we should have been doing a long time ago, we should been sending out hunter-killer and snatch and grab teams out there from the beginning and scaring the bejeezus out of ISIS like the SEALs did the NVA during Vietnam. We should have been repeating the success of the “men…

Simply because they either treated the church as bad as all others or followed a political doctrine that espouses aetheism does not necessarily make them aetheist no more than it makes everybody who goes to church a Christian. Hitler, I’d argue, was an opportunist more than anything, he used whatever furthered his…

I’ve also read that Hitler was prepared to back down had Britain and France actually stood their ground early one and called Hitler’s bluff. During the years leading up WW II Hitler was still reforming the Whemacht, along with the Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine and he really wasn’t ready for a fight yet. The vaunted…

You mean the Franco-Prussian war and (arguably) WW I & WW II aside.

While I get the joke I still feel that it’s worth pointing out that in this fagot is not being used a derogatory term, it’s simply a word, one that nobody really uses anymore, for a piece of (fire) wood.

Yeah, the military Humvees truly had a barebones interior that make this Chinese vehicle look like a Benz or Lexus in comparison. That thing looks like a civilian vehicle that had a few (minor) mods to the exterior and a coat of OD paint before being sold to the Chinese military. If anything, that thing is probably a…