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    US Army replacing 5.56mm rifle with a 6.8mm for infantry

    The US Army, citing problems with penetration by the 5.56mm round, has adopted the M7 rifle and M250 automatic rifle, both of which fires a 6.8mm round. Next Generation Squad Weapon and optic exceed soldiers’ expectations Both are a little heavier than the rifles they are replacing (the M4 rifle...
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    Marine Grunts vs AI

    This is funny. DARP (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was looking into how to incorporate AI into ground combat. They developed and fielded an AI-enabled combat ground-mobile sensor to make the soldiers more effective. First DARPA had to train the sensor vehicle to recognize...
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    Young People and Assessing Risk

    Human brains are not done developing until around 25 years of age. Young men especially. (Which is probably why we draft 18 year olds to hit the beaches of Normandy; if landing craft were filled with 40 year-old attorneys, their reaction would be, "Hang on. Wait a minute. There has got to be a...
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    UFL (A J McCarron's Team)

    I have been watching the UFL, not because it is great football, but because it is football in April. My favorite of the former XFL teams in probably St. Louis, because AJ is their QB. In today's game, St. Louis is up 17-9 in the 3rd. AJ throws a good wide receiver screen. Wide receiver catches...
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    Funeral at Arlington today

    I had a first experience today. I buried by uncle at Arlington today. It was my honor and duty to provide the military eulogy. LTC John W. White enlisted in the WV National Guard at the age of 17 in 1950. In 1960, he was commissioned as an armor officer. In 1961 he completed flight training. He...
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    Navy tries new wingless aircraft

    It does not go well. It turns out, planes need wings. Who knew? Okay, actually, the Newport News shipyard was testing the catapult on a new carrier under construction. The test involve hurling metal carts off the ship. Good news, the catapult worked well.
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    Green Bay Fan Applies for the Packers DC Job

    A young man who is a lifelong Packers fan saw that the Packers were looking for a DC, so he applied for the job. He got back a handwritten note from Packer's President and CEO, Mark Murphy: “Bill, Thanks so much for your cover letter and resume regarding our Defensive Coordinator position...
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    Leyte Gulf

    I have been studying the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest sea battle in history. I think I agree with Sean Connery: "Halsey acted stupidly." What do you think?
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    Green Beret Shot in Ft. Hood, a Tale of Redemption

    This is not about gun control or politics. It is a story of redemption. I have never met John Arroyo (although I did serve in 3rd Special Forces Group). Interesting story about becoming a better man, with God's help. Long (hour and a half), but worth a listen.
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    The mechanics of secession

    In one of the other history threads, some members expressed an interest on how secession came about. I will attempt to rectify that here. For starters, 163 years ago, today, the Convention of the people of South Carolina voted unamimously to rescind the state's ratification of the Constitution...
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    My favorite battlefields.

    Today was a beautiful autumn day (60 degrees and sunny) in Virginia, and I had to drive from the Valley to the Tidewater, so, when I drove past Richmond, I decided to visit the Richmond National Battlefield Park 1864 battlefields north of the James: Forts Gilmer, Gregg, Johnson, Harrison, and...
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    Its' the barn week. Insert jokes here.

    Well it is that week. I found this in central Virginia a few weeks ago and I have been waiting for the right time to post it. Who knew there was a road named after the Cow College? Let the Barn jokes begin.
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    Washington Huskie player drops the ball.

    Washington player catches a deflection and runs the ball back to the one yard line, then, inexplicably, drops it. If I was a football coach, I would end up either convicted or an alcoholic. I would absolutely lose my mind if one of my players did this. It is one of the most selfish...
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    Syracuse QB excellent fakes.

    I'm not big fan of Syracuse, but this QB ran two of the smoothest fake hand-offs I have ever seen. Check this out. Well done, young man.
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    Vasili Arkhipov Day

    I missed the day (actually last Friday), but you have probably never heard of Vasili Arkhipov, but in 2002, Thomas S. Blanton, then director of the U.S. National Security Archive, described Arkhipov as "the man who saved the world." During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine was...
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    Operation FORTITUDE (D-Day Deception)

    Everybody who knows about D-Day knows about the Allied deception operation which led the Germans to believe the real invasion would come in the Pas de Calais region. I have always wondered just how successful FORTITUDE was. Some German units did move to Normandy after D-Day. How do you measure...
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    Russia invades Ukraine XV

    I might as well start the next one. Earle had said some of the Russian RTD troops are in no shape to serve. In Nazi Germany in 1944, they actually had "stomach" battalions, units full of guys with Gastro-Intestinal injuries which caused dietary requirements, but they were still in uniform. As...
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    Survivor Bias

    I found this really interesting. When data gives the wrong solution The Center for Naval Analysis was trying to find out where Allied bombers were shot that was shooting them down, so they counted holes on the ones that came back. One scientist (a Hungarian Jew emigré) said, "Hang on." This is...
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    Got a Street Named after Me

    I finally made it. In Norfolk, there is a street named after me. Strangely, Norfolk did not invite me to the dedication ceremony.
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    Bad Plays from 2022

    Okay, we are 50 some odd days from kickoff, but I saw this and though I'd post it. Bad plays from 2022. Yes, one of them is by an Alabama player, but another is by a Barn player. Anyway, enjoy. All I can say is, "It helps if you know the rules of the game." QB snaps the ball on the 1 yard line...

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