The Revolution is a needy fucker isn't it?

There are few Americans more deserving of having an aircraft carrier named after them than Bush 41. Ronald Reagan was an actor. He had a very lucrative contract with Warner Bros and a very public marriage to arguably the most famous and influential female lead in Hollywood in that era. His "military service" was…

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More sense than you thought possible.

littering and

Not enough Russians, duh.

"What're you doing with that peanut butter son."

It was done all the time in Afghanistan. It makes things much easier to coordinate at night and helps with potential blue on blue issues.

Usually used to hold IR glowsticks for IFF purposes.

IR/normal glowsticks for id purposes while training. I always found it stupid, train as you fight, especially if the enemy has night vision capabilities you wouldnt be using dumb ass glowsticks on the LAVs. I honestly cant remember if they made us do that in afghanistan, all I remember is things exploding all the time…

They still see it that way.

He does fantastically well on the technoloy and pretty much everything else... i just prefer a bit more 'plosions instead of melodrama. :p

Its that book any good? I quite enjoyed Birmingham's time travel ones but there weren't quite enough action in it for me, iirc...

Assuming we were at war with them:
The Shilka and it's son, the Tunguska... there is very little else that could make my heart stop as a helo pilot, than seeing either of them of the battlefield.

My little old 2 cents here. I'm 55, way older than most of you, and I served in the military during the Cold War, as well as lived with it before and after. And yes, I definitely feel 55 most of the time. Get off my lawn!