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Help This Couple Realize Their Dream

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

If you are a reader of SSD then this couple is your kind of people. They are trying to win a contest to have their dream wedding. Vying for the $100,000 prize are couples from all over, with stories just as diverse. But out of all of these people, Mike and Ana get our attention and our vote. “Why?”, might you ask? Well that’s simple, she’s an AC-130 Pilot and he is a Combat Controller.

“Mike calls in Ana’s Gunship for fire power & Ana makes sure she protects Mike & his guys. We can’t do anything easy, we deployed half way around the world to see each other & will return 1-2 mo. before our Aug wedding.”

Our favorite charity, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation gave us the 411 on these two and after reading their wedding plans we knew we had to get the word out.

“Family & friends are #1 importance for the wedding, as we cherish people in our lives. Inorder to ensure everyone could make it, we had to make sure we were both home from deployments but before college football season started. #2 is honoring fallen commrades (sic) who aren’t there to celebrate with a remembrance table w/ their names on it. #3 all of our dance $ will be donated to Special Operations Warrior Foundation to provide the children of fallen Special Operations Warriors scholarships.”

After reading that how can you not support them?

To vote visit www.ultimateweddingcontest.com.

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S.O.Tech Introduces New Symbology

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

S.O.Tech has three new additions to their full line of tactical symbology which was designed as a Mil Std 2525C supplement to accurately represent specialized job functions at the individual level. S.O.Tech has also adapted the symbols for use on patches which can be worn to designate various functions at the small unit level. This can be an excellent way to identify special skills often found in attachments to a patrol or to cut through the “fog of war” during chaotic situations. Additionally, they have affixed the symbols to prints and T-shirts to facilitate pride in one’s job.

Of course, the best use of these symbols is as they were originally intended; on maps and other operations graphics. S.O.Tech produces the excellent TMPST (Tactical Mission Planning Set) system. Designed as the ultimate portable sane table, its magnets include blank arrows and blank tiles for users to draw on their own symbols and names. This encourages Soldier creativity and gives S.O.TECH feedback on potential new symbols. In fact, they are always looking at new designs so if you need a special symbol for your job function let us know in the comments. We know they’ll be reading. The best suggestion will win a prize from SSD. Finally, keep an eye peeled for the Battalion-level TMPST, currently in development.

www.sotechtactical.com

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DVM’s Civ Contractor Tribute Shirt

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Finally, after a collaboration of one of our favorite sites Death Valley Magazine with Australian wild men Pimps N Mercs, comes the Civilian Contractor Tribute Shirt. As far as we know, it’s the first of its kind and available for pre-order until 28 Feb 2011.

For full details visit www.deathvalleymag.com

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S&S Precision Introduces New T-shirts

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

If you happen to own a “One Size Fits All” T-shirt then you know that S&S Precision doesn’t just make excellent equipment, they have a keen sense of humor. Now, they have released two new designs that feature word play. SKILLS and Thermo make you look at things just a little differently. The Termo T is a bit of an inside joke. We wonder how many others will get it.

To learn more, visit www.sandsprecision.com and make sure you slide the bar to the right.

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Cat Sh!t One Free Preview

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

We’ve mentioned the Japanimation sensation Cat Sh!t One aka Apocalypse Meow a couple of times. Set in Viet Nam, the original comic book series replaced humans with animals. Newly dubbed in English, episode one of a more modern tale is now available for free viewing for the next two weeks.

To learn more visit www.charactertank.com/cso/index.html.

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Some Background on the SD Padres Military Program

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Folks often want to know what or more accurately, who is behind the San Diego Padre’s support of the military. For the last 15 years, that could be answered with a name; Jack Ensch.

Jack Ensch is the real deal. As a Navy Lieutenant he was held as a POW by the North Viet Namese. In fact, he is listed by the POW Network as a bonafide POW which verifies the stories of POWs and outs fakes.

But I digress. In an article by Bill Center of San Diego’s UNION-TRIBUNE, he explains how “Captain Jack” as he is affectionately known is retiring from his position as the Padres’ Director of Military Affairs.

“I’ve always looked at this position as being an ambassador from the Padres to the military and from the military to the Padres,” Ensch said last week. “I’m not sure who I was working for hardest.”

“We were military before military was cool,” Ensch said. “I love it when people on the outside refer to the Padres as ‘the team of the military.’ ”

The new camouflaged Padres jerseys we wrote about last week are the latest in a series first introduced by Ensch in 2000. According to the UNION-TRIBUNE article, “Other Ensch innovations are Military Opening Day and the Sunday home salutes to the military that includes hosting Marines from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot and Camp Pendleton.”

“They make sacrifices for us; we should make sacrifices for them,” he said. “I hope the Padres never view the military just as a revenue stream. Our programs were always designed to honor, respect and support military service with no strings attached.
“Revenue generation should be merely a secondary result of the first.”

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Cat Sh!t One: The Animated Series English Dub On Youtube

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

We’ve mentioned Cat Shit One before. Starting February 5th, Youtube will be hosting a free viewing of the first episode of Cat Shit One: The Animated Series for a period of just two weeks. A series by manga artist Motofumi Kobayashi, the original story took place in an alternate reality version of the Vietnam war where all the humans were replaced by animals. Americans are represented as rabbits simply because the Japanese word for rabbit in romaji is Usagi which leads to: USA G.I. The Blu-ray and DVD editions of the series will also be available on Amazon.com the same day as the episode appears on Youtube.

Check out ida-entertainment.com for the vid when it comes out.

Hat tip to TacticalFanboy.com.

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Mil-Spec Monkey Releases New Designs

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Mil-Spec Monkey has just updated his website with a couple of new patch designs including pinups from Martin Abel and Bawidamann. Naturally, the Monkey has also added a PVC version of the famous Monkey Head.

Check them out at milspecmonkey.com/store.

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