You can get a USMC-spec Ka-Bar for under $75.00. Around $50.00 if you shop around.

The Ka-Bar is a U.S. Marine Corps fighting knife. It was never officially adopted or issued by the U.S. Army, Mr. Jungle-Warfare Expert.

When I was in the Army, we got plenty of warnings about "propeller hypnosis," when we were travelling via helicopters with tail rotors, or on Air Force C-130 cargo planes. Supposedly, spinning props create an optical illusion where the prop appears much farther away, and the flight mechanics walk into them. They…

I wish you were an American soldier in Iraq, having to put up with angry Iraqi civilians, who had been wounded, their children killed, or had their property destroyed by rogue mercs, and then dealing with the fallout, when they took it out on the nearest American Army unit.

You must have dozed off when the JAG officer who gives the LOAC briefings mentioned that they forfeit protection when they attack from protected sites. That may have been a decision by your commander on the ground to avoid aggravating the locals, but he was not bound by international law to refrain from attacking…

Prince was a White House intern under George H.W. Bush. He quit in protest because he felt Bush wasn't anti-gay enough. Seriously.

The mercs I saw in Iraq had either up-armored civilian SUVs, or some light armored vehicles, sort of like the MRAPs the U.S. military uses. They usually had an M240D machinegun in a turret. They also had a few MD-500 helicopters. The helicopters themselves did not appear to be armed, but there was usually a dude…

Jesus, no wonder every GameStop employee looks dead-eyed and broken. Treat your employees like thieves who have to prove their innocence is an awesome way to utterly destroy morale.

I got the impression that while he was a crude and insensitive partner (and an awful lay), it was still consensual.

"Meek's Cutoff" is pretty close to being an Oregon Trail movie.

Oh, and at least when I was in Iraq, I never needed money. I was getting extra Hostile Fire/Imminent Danger Pay, I was in a tax-free combat zone, and I couldn't go broke if I tried. I wasn't driving my car, going out to eat, going out on dates, paying rent (I put my stuff in a storage unit before I left) buying…

Word of advice: A soldier overseas will have a very odd looking mailing address, with a unit name and "APO" (Army/Air Force Post Office) or "FPO" (Fleet Post Office, for Navy sailors aboard ships) somewhere in the address. Usually something like:

"Liberals" like Neil Cavuto and Andrew Breitbart? Because those two right-wing hacks were the first and last people in the media I've ever heard use the term "Teabagger."

Actually, the last thing I heard was that they were "taking it back" and embracing the term, after their lie of "we never called ourselves that" didn't take. From Andrew Breitbart himself: "I'm proud to be a Teabagger."

Actually, the last thing I heard was that they were "taking it back" and embracing the term, after their lie of "we never called ourselves that" didn't take.

"But there's another layer here. Remember, Harley was a doctor when she met the Joker, which means her "aww-shucks B-Man" shtick is all an act."