Wow…

Posted on by June 6, 2018

WWII veteran Isaac “Ike” Fabela had one wish for his 100th birthday on June 6, to receive 100 cards from people across the country.

A bunch of us jumped on boosting the signal. And I want to thank those who dropped by here and supported that call…

Not that I can take, or want a lot of credit, but he got a ‘few’ more than 100!!!

The Michigan man’s request was granted and then some, his daughter said. As of Wednesday morning, Fabela has received more than 50,000 cards and packages. 

Full story, HERE.  I think it’s pretty fitting, considering he was born on June 6th, and shares that day with D-Day.

Snerk…

Posted on by June 5, 2018

Remember BS bingo???

Now the SJW/SJZ/POS Bingo!!!

Showed this to a couple of the folks I work with part time, they were laughing their asses off! 🙂

74 years ago…

Posted on by June 5, 2018

Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day kicked off…

On the morning of June 5, 1944, U.S. General Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history. On his orders, 6,000 landing craft, ships and other vessels carrying 176,000 troops left England for the trip to France. That night, 822 aircraft filled with parachutists headed for drop zones in Normandy. An additional 13,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion.

By dawn on June 6, 18,000 parachutists were already on the ground; the first landing craft hit the beaches at 6:30 a.m. The British and Canadians overcame light opposition to capture Gold, Juno and Sword beaches; so did the Americans at Utah. On Omaha beach, 2,000 troops were lost in the initial landings. By day’s end, 155,000 Allied troops–Americans, British and Canadians were ashore Normandy’s beaches.

The movie The Longest Day is not fiction, it was based on fact. Link, HERE. The other oddity of the film was that actors actually spoke the native languages, English, French, and German in the film.

This was the beginning of the end for Germany. And these men were truly the greatest generation!

My shocked face…

Posted on by June 4, 2018

Let me show it to you…

Apparently Zukie lied to Congress! Gee, what a surprise…

In 2011, they were ‘supposed’ to comply with an FTC privacy consent decree, BUT-

Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung — over the last decade, starting before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones, company officials said. The deals allowed Facebook to expand its reach and let device makers offer customers popular features of the social network, such as messaging, “like” buttons and address books.

Full article, HERE.

And it’s bad enough that a DEM is coming out saying something!

A Democratic congressman hammered Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, following a report that the company is sharing large amounts of its users’ data with other companies.

“Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress about whether users have ‘complete control’ over who sees our data on Facebook,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) tweeted on Sunday.

Full article, HERE.

So either Zukies ‘team’ isn’t talking to him, or he figured it would be lost in the details, since few on the Hill actually have a clue about what FB is really all about, much less the tentacles it has into the public…

Sigh… Remember, there IS no privacy on the Interwebz… And everything is forever (and archived). That stupid shit you did as a ‘kid’? It’s still out there. That picture you deleted as soon as you sobered up? Still there. That epic rant that went with the picture?

Yep, that too. And it’ll come back to haunt you when you least expect it… Forewarned is forearmed…

Snerk…

Posted on by June 3, 2018

From the mil-email net… I don’t write ’em, I just pass ’em along on recycled electrons!

For the old Army folks… You might have been ASA if:

You “monitor” the ASA-VN-TALK list more than post to it!

PT is cancelled because of sun.

Your M-16 jams and you try to reboot it.

You believe “Air Assault” is when the air conditioner in the SCIF breaks down.

Your boots were last polished at the factory.

You brag about making tape…. again.

You firmly believe in the 3 basic food groups – caffeine, alcohol & Tylenol.

You think D&C is a form of sexual deviance.

You want to find out more about D&C.

You have the IGs phone # on speed dial.

You GT score is higher than your PT score.

When you get an order the first thing out of your mouth is “Why?”

The “field” is where a farmer works.

Exercises are placed on hold when the coffee runs out.

Donuts are more important than the brief.

Rank is more important than information.

You think “Leatherman” is one of the Village People.

Your last tactical assignment was during a game of Risk.

You hold an ASI for PowerPoint.

You think TA-50 is an NSA course.

You think a teenybopper is an 05Hog.

You KNOW a teenybopper is a very small 05Hog.

When you got to Devens you asked for your cloak and dagger.

You drank Black Label beer in Ayer, Mass and liked it!

“If you give us god’s frequency, we will monitor him too.”

And no, I don’t know the inside jokes… I was Navy… Go ask an Army spook… 🙂

Finally!!!

Posted on by June 2, 2018

After WAY too long, I have two rifles configured for my SOCOM II suppressor!!!

It’s been over two years to first, actually GET the suppressor in, then another year of back and forth with ATF (with a gun trust)!

But it’s finally done!!!

Without…

WITH!!! 🙂

SOCOM II 7.62

Without…

WITH!!! And yes, significantly nose heavy! 🙂

And now the ‘fun’ starts… Rezero…

And then load development for a subsonic round. Looking at 172 gr, 1050fps. And see if the bullets will actually stabilize out of both guns. It may not cycle the SCAR, we’ll have to see.

And then check zero and hold over, and, and…

And ‘might’ have found some place to hog hunt and NOT get charged an arm and a leg!!! Not a bad day!

TBT…

Posted on by May 31, 2018

Sigh… Getting old sucks… Last weekend I went to a friend’s daughter’s HS graduation. And that reminded me next year is my FIFTIETH reunion…

Some things don’t change… Well, the prices do, but they’re still open…

Others… Well, they’ve come and gone… 1950s ELECTRIC Underwood typewriter. Weighed about 40 pounds.

An early Holiday Inn. I remember staying in one when I was probably six years old. And I ‘think’ Momma and Daddy complained about the price, which was probably less than $5 a night… And we didn’t eat in the restaurant. I probably got a peanut butter sandwich. No elevators, but all the rooms were the same in every one of them, EVERYWHERE!!!

And some things are still here but in radically different form… Good luck finding a full service service station today! Much less one that actually posts ALL of the taxes, and honestly admits how much they make per gallon.

Apparently Hertz hadn’t made it to ‘this’ town, wherever it was… 🙂

Posted in TBT

Eleven years…

Posted on by May 30, 2018

I cannot believe I’m still putting my brain droppings out there and y’all are still reading them…

This was my first post, in May of 2007!

Testing, Testing…

I’m new to this whole arena, but thought I’d give it a try. I guess I fall in the “silent majority” as we have been deemed, I’ve never sought publicity, sued anyone for spilling my coffee, sure as hell ain’t a movie star; well, you get the drift…

I’m mid-50’s have a decent job, two decent kids trying hard to make their own way in the world today, and a lot of frustration with what is happening to the US of A. Being from the South, I hunt, fish, and shoot guns; so that immediately makes me one of those “rabid rednecks” to quote some out there. I did have a pickup, but it’s hard to park it where I work, so I drive a Pontiac… sure do miss the truck though… sigh…

As a retired military type, it really hurts to see the crap we are putting the folks in service through today. I lived through that in Vietnam, and I take the time to thank every Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine for their service when I get the chance. Most of the kids (I’m Southern so I can say that) are doing the best they can with what they have. They believe in the job they and others are doing in the Sandbox, and are pretty upset by the media coverage they get.

Anyway, I’m going to try this for a while and see what happens… thanks for reading and commenting…

Old NFO

4000 posts, 55,000 comments, around 8 million views, and a number of friends newly met, reconnected with, and very interesting conversations, both here and in various other media, including meatspace…

Thanks to all of you, I truly appreciate your patience with my writing, and I appreciate the civility that has been observed since day one.

Decoration Day…

Posted on by May 29, 2018

Originally May 30th, started in 1868, by proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, mourners honored the Civil War dead by decorating their graves with flowers. On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery.

Today, it’s known as Memorial Day, and is now a ‘floating’ holiday being the last Monday in May.

Just something to think about… It wasn’t about the blue or the grey, but about those on BOTH sides that had died in the Civil War. At that time, the survivors/families were the ones that did the decorating. Today, the Old Guard puts out over 200,000 American flags out, one on each grave, exactly one boot length from the headstone.

Net Humor…

Posted on by May 28, 2018

I was going to do a rant, but what the hell. Others have said it better, and I got these via the mil-email net…

And pictures ARE worth a thousand words in some (maybe more than some) ways…

Umm… NOT asking…

In the, there is always ONE asshole category…

Been that desperate… Damn lines… Especially at sporting events…

Nothing else needs to be said… 🙂

‘Enjoy’ your short week, and try to figure out how that one day off got you five days behind… Sigh…

h/t Flake