This is for you youngsters who’ve only heard about “The Pig” in bedtime stories.
h/t Matt H!
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
How It Works – The M-60 GPMG
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016This Is Too Good To Not Share
Saturday, September 24th, 2016
The ingenuity of the American service member never fails to amaze me. For those of you who don’t understand what they are looking at, those are twin M-3 Grease Guns mounted gunship-mode in a US Army O-1 Bird Dog observation aircraft during the Southeast Asia Wargames.
Force Multiplier As F<@K
Wednesday, September 14th, 2016There was a time when Green Berets were well known for being Force Multipliers. Back then, an “Operator” was a character named Ernestine on “Laugh In”.
This photo depicts several SF NCOs outside of Camp Charles E Hosking at Bien Hoa, Vietnam, when they were proud to be Force Multipliers.
Were You A Survivalist?
Saturday, September 10th, 2016Back in the 80s there were Survivalists and unfortunately, they got a bit of a bad name in the popular press, even being portrayed as villians in more than a few selections of fiction because of their fixation on nuclear conflict and the use of weapons.
The new millennium dawned and with it a new moniker; Prepper. Preppers come in many flavors, including pacifists who work toward sustainable food sources. While Preppers are often looked at as kooks in media, but there’s nothing wrong with being able to rely upon yourself, if even only for a few weeks.
Here are a couple of magazine advertisements aimed at Survivalists.
Anyone Use Wooden Barracks?
Thursday, September 8th, 2016Over the course of my career, I used the old wooden-style barracks as both barracks as well as work space. For example, there were numerous occasions where they were used for exercises and as transient billeting. When 3rd Group first reactivated in 1990, we used the Old Division Area barracks on Bragg as our unit buildings until the compound on New Smoke Bomb Hill was completed.
What about you?
Maneuver Conference Theme
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
This is pretty significant.
Welcome to the Layer Cake
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
This is how NATO planned to hold back the Soviet horde circa 1980s. Dubbed the “Layer Cake” defense, it relied upon full NATO commitment with the Americans doing some heavy lifting in the Central Army Group which expected to see the heaviest Warsaw Pact thrusts. You’ll also notice the lack of a French commitment.
TR On Sacrifice
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Theodore Roosevelt
President, Soldier, Naturalist, Adventurer
From a speech in Des Moines, Iowa
November 4th, 1910
