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Ditto. Nothing wrong with the officers actions.

Someone got a great deal on that. I'm on my second 21. Got rid of my Gen 2 several years ago to get the rails. Been beating the hell of of this gen 3 daily since. Damn it's ugly.

"YOU ARE A FACTORY OF SADNESS!" older vid... but so relevent. I HATE THEM They SUCK..... See ya next game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBDMMVctu8

Mom and I sent 2 boxes today, one with the mags ands tac gear, one with candy bars, ice tea & hygine stuff. I got to chat with her on skype this am, she sounds in good spirts.

I loathe the idea of a conscript military in a free nation. The draft is not the solution. From first hand experiance the men and women I served with all knew what we were getting into. There is a thousand direction to point fingers and ask "why is this still going on?" We're not the same nation we were when we nuked Japan. We got smart bombs and stuff. Warfare where nobody gets hurt. Political leaders LOVE it. Good TV. War is horrible. But at times in history it is nessisary. This is a rock and hard place for the warriors in the fight.

I see it sad as compared to the WW2 number. Warmongering is a matter of debate, yes. I personally don't see using US Armed Forces in the conducting of the war on terror as warmongering. Statesmen have not seemed able to negotiate a resolution with militant Islam. They don't desire land, weath, resorces or even peace. Only for you, as a nation, to die. Kind of a tough sell as a peace accord.

Got this off RangerUp.com Thought it was prety epic and sad... "I remember the day I found out I got into West Point. My mom actually showed up in the hallway of my high school and waited for me to get out of class. She was bawling her eyes out and apologizing that she had opened up my admission letter. She wasn’t crying because it had been her dream for me to go there. She was crying because she knew how hard I’d worked to get in, how much I wanted to attend, and how much I wanted to be an infantry officer. I was going to get that opportunity. That same day two of my teachers took me aside and essentially told me the following: “Nick, you’re a smart guy. You don’t have to join the military. You should go to college, instead.” I could easily write a tome defending West Pont and the military as I did that day, explaining that USMA is an elite institution, that separate from that it is actually statistically much harder to enlist in the military than it is to get admitted to college, that serving the nation is a challenge that all able-bodied men should at least consider for a host of reasons, but I won’t. What I will say is that when a 16 year-old kid is being told that attending West Point is going to be bad for his future then there is a dangerous disconnect in America, and entirely too many Americans have no idea what kind of burdens our military is bearing. In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years. In Vietnam, 4.3% served in 12 years. Since 2001, only 0.45% of our population has served in the Global War on Terror. These are unbelievable statistics. Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered more and more of the burden and it is only getting worse. Our troops were sent to war in Iraq by a Congress consisting of 10% veterans with only one person having a child in the military. Taxes did not increase to pay for the war. War bonds were not sold. Gas was not regulated. In fact, the average citizen was asked to sacrifice nothing, and has sacrificed nothing unless they have chosen to out of the goodness of their hearts. The only people who have sacrificed are the veterans and their families. The volunteers. The people who swore an oath to defend this nation. You. You stand there, deployment after deployment and fight on. You’ve lost relationships, spent years of your lives in extreme conditions, years apart from kids you’ll never get back, and beaten your body in a way that even professional athletes don’t understand. And you come home to a nation that doesn’t understand. They don’t understand suffering. They don’t understand sacrifice. They don’t understand that bad people exist. They look at you like you’re a machine – like something is wrong with you. You are the misguided one – not them. When you get out, you sit in the college classrooms with political science teachers that discount your opinions on Iraq and Afghanistan because YOU WERE THERE and can’t understand the “macro” issues they gathered from books with your bias. You watch TV shows where every vet has PTSD and the violent strain at that. Your Congress is debating your benefits, your retirement, and your pay, while they ask you to do more. But the amazing thing about you is that you all know this. You know your country will never pay back what you’ve given up. You know that the populace at large will never truly understand or appreciate what you have done for them. Hell, you know that in some circles, you will be thought as less than normal for having worn the uniform. But you do it anyway. You do what the greatest men and women of this country have done since 1775 – YOU SERVED. Just that decision alone makes you part of an elite group. Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few. You are the 0.45%. " ---------- "There are two fundamental approaches in life: strive or blame. You either look at problems and ask yourself how to solve them or you look at problems and explain to yourself why other forces outside your control have prevented you from succeeding. Striving is the fundamental aspect of the American spirit. A person who strives sees opportunity, navigates obstacles, and gives back to the community. A person who strives yearns for freedom above all else, because they are confident that freedom favors them and allows their hard work to shine. Freedom gives us complete control over our destiny and assigns us full responsibility for both our successes and failures, and yes, that can be scary at times. But above all else, freedom gives us the opportunity to make of our lives what we can. It’s an amazing gift that exists almost nowhere in this world. And then there is the other option. We can dodge responsibility. We can blame others for the job we didn’t get, the school we didn’t attend, the game that we lost. We can make excuses for failures, develop an attitude of superiority and profess a grand understanding of the way the system works against us and mock those that strive. Life’s not working out exactly the way we wanted? It can’t possibly be our fault. Life isn’t fair. Lots of people have advantages they don’t deserve. Congress is corrupt. We have an incestuous political system that is designed to keep the power in the hands of the few and keep us arguing about issues that are at best only minor symptoms of greater problems and at worst completely irrelevant items designed to draw us in to a my team versus your team endeavor to ensure the two-party system remains intact. But we’re still the richest country in the world and our citizens still have the most opportunity. Our poorest citizens have refrigerators, televisions, DVD players, and air conditioners. While we may not all have health insurance, we all get healthcare if needed. We all have running water. Most of all though, no matter our station we have the freedom to improve it. I recently wrote about the 0.45%. The men and women who have served in the Global War on Terror. The rapidly shrinking group of people willing to stand on the wall and ensure that this freedom, this absolutely priceless commodity, remains for just a bit longer. There is absolutely no payment your country can ever give to reward you for your service. I’d like to argue, however, that your value far exceeds the time you spend in uniform. Each of you will get out one day. You’ll have spent 4-30 years striving, for in the military nothing else is acceptable. You’ll be, for all intents and purposes, the only members of your generation who have seen real poverty, real suffering, and real evil. You will have spent years in a world where honor and integrity are essential and necessary elements of everyday life, even as you’ve witnessed the worst of mankind. And you’re going to be left with a choice. You can abandon what you know to be true – that you are the master of your own destiny, so long as you’re willing to fight for it – and fall in with the chattel that pine about what could be, should be, would be if only… Or you can be who we need you to be. The men and women who take our country back. Who lead us as entrepreneurs, tear down the political machine one piece at a time, inspire other great citizens to be equally motivated, and remind them every single day that you breathe that no amount of comfort offered is worth even one minor concession of our freedom. If you’re wearing the uniform, we cannot possibly ask more of you right now. If you’ve worn the uniform, you have done more for your country than most Americans will ever know. And we need you to do more. We need you to take the wisdom that can only be earned through the considerable trials and tribulations of military service and attack industry and politics with equal fervor. I hope you’re all eight steps ahead of me and already working down this path, but I realize that a few of you might simply be saying, “I’ve done enough”. And you’re right. It isn’t fair to ask more of you. You’ve already given more than anyone should be expected to. But freedom is never more than one generation from extinction, and there is no one else. We are the 0.45%." That is all, carry on.

Outstanding!

She rocks the GMV-S or "DumbVee". Spec ops dummped the heavy armor and added more mobility, speed and firepower. Anything she can't hump she will pass on to other soldiers. I got no problem sending gear to other soldiers and sspecial operatiors in the unit who have my kid's back.

Put off shipping the latest care package till friday.... I felt the need to add more.

not that i know of. the post office has been great with me for all the suff I sent to the APO adress's

Yeah there are some smokers in the Group, I'm sure some of them would dig it. When I'm short on ideas I just stuff the box with junk food, playing cards, AA bateries. I try to think up stuff that I "wish I had" when deployed that I couldnt just grab through supply lines.... Maybe hygine stuff like q-tips, mole-skin, band aids baby powder. USPS and DOD frowns on Ammo or I would have sent 5.56 and 9mm Honady TAP. I know the UCMJ would also frown on unautherized ammo.

You guys are awesome, Thanks men!

They happy to get ANYTHING, candy bars, motorcycle or hot rod maginzines, peanut butter, beef jerky, any asorted junk food or anything to geek out their gear. If you want chip in sjust box up some goodies, write a short letter to introduce yourself in there and mail it out. Alot of guys on the web I know have sent her and the unit care packages. Anything that she gets she shares with the other female soldiers in the FET teams and the Special Operators in 3rd SF Group. Nicole Persing Unit 3-C APO AE 09354

Awesome guys, thanks. TheBrown: the unit has plenty of GI mags. Sending her and the A-Team guys the PMAGs is more if an "upgrade"

Picked up 3 things so far for the next package from Mom and Dad.

Sounds great guys, I'm sure color or style wont matter to much for teams in the field, SF is not all that hard core on the dress right dress and uniformity stuff in combat ops. If you guys send her stuff make sure she knows who its from. She thrilled with stuff like Snickers bars & anything involing peanut butter. I'm pretty sure Matt & the guys frome Rice Patty Cycles allready sent her a care package.

I havent had any luck getting her any free stuff from and of the tactical suppliers. She is pretty well off, her biggest gripe is bad M4 mags. Her boyfriend set up her rifle pretty good (unit Armorer) before she went out, he's still at Bragg. He actually "care packes ME with a New X300 weapon light for my duty Glock 21 and a Gen 2 Beta-C for sh*ts and giggles) The unit was pretty stacked with sure-fire lights. She recently busted her rear sight but has the EoTec on the rifle, (I'm not an Eotec fan, but she likes it) She told me she was getting a new rear sight on the double. I'm gonna see if the local guys who stock MagPul will cut me any deals...http://bandbarmory.com/

She's gonna be in country for a whille. She may even extend her tour and stay longer. We been sending her stuff all along. Nicole Persing Unit 3-C APO AE 09354 Been sending food, candy, coffee, tea, motorcycle magizines and stuff like that. Text box she asked me to send a couple MagPul P-mags

SF Combat patch & blue head scarf....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but was the 1125 Helicon actually a Austian Rotax and not a Buell desighn?

Locally a bit has changed in how our radio room lets us know about CCW'd registered owner on a traffic stop. They CLEARLY advise us if the person linked to a plate has a CCW. Now if that's because of this case or not I don't know. I have had several times had to remind drivers to inform me of the CCW, but I'm kind of polite about it and I allways thank them for taking the time and training to bother getting it, don't screw it up. I think this video has made me think abit more on how CCW holders and patrol officers handle them selves.

Looks like you got a real plan there, I'm not from your area so I can't recomend anyone local. I get all my work that's beyond me done here in the Youngstown area: http://mad4wd.com/ The owner Larry Davis is a great guy, broke down to riding a street glide now but in the middle of building an XS650 hardtail bob for himself in his free time.