Be the first to wear one of the new American Heritage T-shirts, a cooperative project between Tactical Distributors and Soldier Systems Daily. You can win your own by participating in TD’s giveaway.
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This is PA-KO’s brand new MAN prime mover. PA-KO is SPECOPS.pl’s distributor as well as a licensed weapons dealer. As you can see it’s covered in the WARG 5PL camo pattern developed especially for this vehicle by an Australian company, ROGGENWOLF.
The pattern is individually developed for each vehicle and takes into account the vehicle size and the distance at which the camo effect is to be achieved. In this way you can “program” the pattern to suit specific needs.
The paintwork on the truck was applied with a glossy finish for practical reasons, as this is a commercial vehicle and will be traveling all across Europe. However, in the development are military vehicles, including tanks, and they will have a matte finish and will undergo field trials. Consider, this MAN truck a technology demonstrator.
iPhone 4 Executive Cases are now compatible with Verizon Wireless as well as AT&T Wireless iPhone 4 models. Magpul also widened the area around the flash to ensure better photographs. Gotta love it when a great product just gets better.
No kidding, it sounds like an internet hoax but on 3 May, 2011 The Walt Disney Company filed three separate trademark applications (see below) for the term “Seal Team 6†covering clothing, footwear, headwear, toys, games and entertainment and education services. There are a few other baubles thrown in such as “gymnastic and sporting articles (except clothing); hand-held units for playing electronic games other than those adapted for use with an external display screen or monitor; Christmas stockings; Christmas tree ornaments and decorations; snow globes”.
In 2004, Novalogic had applied for a trademark for the term for use with games and action figures but abandoned the effort in 2006. Who knows, maybe they were visited in the middle of the night by black helicopters.
I can’t for the life of me figure out how you trademark a historical term that is decades old. While I am completely dismayed at the intellectual simplicity of the financial and entertainment industries (money, money, money), I find it hard to believe that they didn’t conduct a simple search of eBay which offers literally pages and pages of geedunk slathered with the term “SEAL Team 6”.
Overall, this feels like a really crappy move from a company that supported America’s war effort during WW II producing logos and insignia for a wide variety of units. Although I have to admit, Disney might be on to something with the snow globes.
Marine Corps veteran William Hansen, first started with S.O.TECH as a sewing machine operator for the Green Vets LA program. Bill not only motivated his teammates but eventually stood in front of CEO’s and program coordinators in a sharp suit handing printouts of his marketing plan that he had recently created. He offered a great proposal, but everyone in the room felt excited for a bigger reason – Bill’s leadership.
The Green Vets project started out with six patients and a desire to help those who served and sacrificed for their community. Bill having been both inspired by the program, and having motivated his teammates, set his sights on spreading the word in the community by marketing the green initiative. Stricken with pancreatic cancer, Bill withdrew from the initiative so he could focus his strength on defeating his illness. Guided by his vision, the crew of veterans proceeded and is now making thousands of reusable bags. Like any military squad, the Green Vets team has supported Bill in the hospital.
Bill received the news from his hospital bed about the success Heal the Bay had been having in getting local municipalities to ban plastic bags. He heard about the bags he had envisioned now being offered by Heal the Bay to its most important donors. A conversation Bill and I had in his hospital room during his cancer treatments speaks volumes about his ongoing courage and strength. At a moment when most people would lament their fate and complain about their struggles
with pain, Bill set forth his plan to beat the illness. He would get back to Green Vets LA, and re-start his marketing plan with the Santa Monica Bag Ban and Heal the Bay’s campaign.
Bill is survived by his wife Carla, his son Cody, and his step children Jamal, Yasmin, and Ayja.
-Jim Cragg
S.O.Tech
Adcor Defense has announced that they plan to offer their piston driven Brown Enhanced Automatic Rifle (BEAR) as a candidate for the upcoming US Army Improved Carbine solicitation anticipated to be released late this month. Unlike other Stoner-style piston rifles, the BEAR’s piston is permanently attached to the bolt carrier.
“The Adcor Defense BEAR combines a new piston system with an exclusive ejection port dust wiper with cover, an ambidextrous forward-placed charging handle/forward-placed assist, and a new key-locked, highly rigid rail system,” said Jimmy Stavrakis, president of Adcor Defense Inc. “More importantly, this innovative design will increase reliability and eliminate the soldier’s most common cause of weapon failure — jamming due to operation in harsh, dirty environments.”
The fixed piston isn’t the only innovation found on the BEAR’s bolt carrier. In order to mitigate stoppages caused by dust and other debris entering the chamber, Adcor has developed a patented spring-loaded dust cover mounted on the bolt carrier. Each time the weapon fires and the weapon goes into battery, the dust cover moves into the ejection port opening, flush with the outside geometry of the carbine.
Interestingly, the BEAR also integrates an ambidextrous (user configurable) forward charging handle into the rail system. And imagine this, it’s non-reciprocating. Additionally, the barrel is free floated.
www.adcorindustries.com/defense
Yesterday, we released the first of the new American Heritage T-shirts, a cooperative project between Tactical Distributors and Soldier Systems Daily. You can win your own by participating in TD’s giveaway.
To enter, like this post on Facebook. TD will be giving away two shirts on Monday.
Tyr Tactical released their new Jumpable Lightweight Assault Pack earlier today. Designed specifically for airborne operations, the pack integrates several features not found in normal packs. For example, it accepts an HPT Lowering Line via two foldaway tabs at the top of the pack. Also straps are reinforced around the inside of the pack in one continuous piece for added strength and durability and are accessible at the top of each side of the pack in order to utilize D Ring attaching straps. When not in use, the straps can be easily tucked away and stored in the attached strap pouches. Additionally, the main compartment utilizes PV500 along the entire gusset of the bag and is reinforced with 2†webbing to add additional strength.
Tyr provides plenty of pouches to compartmentalize gear. The inside compartment features two internal mesh pockets and there are also two pockets on the front of the pack. Additional external pockets on each side of the pack include internal mesh pockets to keep smaller items organized. Ample PALS real estate is provided to facilitate additional pouches. It also features a pocket built to fit a 100oz hydration bladder as well as the pack’s internal frame.
Manufactured from PV500, the Lightweight Assault Pack, Jumpable boasts a 3,197 cu in capacity.
