Infantry Morning PT

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Michelle Malkin swarmed by mob of Dirties

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Tazer Videos Are Up

More here (be sure to choose "Hi-Quality" under the videos at the YouTube site).

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CLS Videos and pics uploaded

A Co 1-18 CLS Training

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Video: Special Forces raid in Sadr City

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Dems

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Outside the Wire

Finally, a film about the war in Iraq that looks promising.



The site.

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Closing the Race Gap II

In the attempt to increase the understanding.

John Stossel report on urban myths that persist in the black culture.

Part I



Part II

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Motorcycle Conspicuity Gear

Vanity vs. Safety

I just bought a couple items to wear while riding my motorcycle. I'm going to look like a London messenger, but it'll be hard for the fools on phones driving cars to fail to spot me on the road.

The Hi-Vis Hump is a backpack cover



And the Tuffrhino jacket is plenty visible also.


What I'm trying to avoid (caution, very graphic and nasty):

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It's a what?

Becomes....

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Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity

Don't ask.

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Belly dancer mishap

This is funny and hot. Slipped by the youtube censors.

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New Iraqi Law Places Waiting Period on Suicide Vests

In The Know: New Iraqi Law Requires Waiting Period For Suicide Vest Purchases

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Are You Kidding Me!?

This must be a joke, I mean, this is not for real, is it? How completely ludicrous; how utterly juvenile. These people sound like brainwashed zombie infants. Unreal.



Too bad to see Jessica Alba in there, I thought she was pretty cool until now. Oh well, at least I still have Angelina.

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Weekend video viewing

Apaches "Clear to Engage"


Kiowa "Clear to Engage"


Oops, sorry dude.


The Rundown


Bradleys in combat


React to Contact

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OpFor Video

Here is a video from last week when we played the enemy (OpFor) for another unit. Hopefully they took some lessons away from the training. We certainly weren't easy on them.

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Roadside Assistance

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1-41 Reflexive Fire

Just a few pics from work today.

1-41 Reflexive Fire

And a video

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Obamaism II

In an earlier post I used the awesome Living Colour video, Cult of Personality, to make a point about Obama's messianic tendencies. Being a huge Living Colour fan I began checking out other videos of theirs on YouTube and came across another favorite of mine, Open Letter to a Landlord. Funny thing, about halfway through I realized it was a quite fitting theme song for Obama's long time friend Tony Rezko. I wonder if Obama will have Living Colour play at his Inauguration party.

For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Obama has been friends with Rezko for 17 years. Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and many others, helping to raise millions of dollars for them through his own contributions and by hosting fund-raisers in his home.

Obama, who has worked as a lawyer and a legislator to improve living conditions for the poor, took campaign donations from Rezko even as Rezko's low-income housing empire was collapsing, leaving many African-American families in buildings riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.

The building in Englewood was one of 30 Rezmar rehabbed in a series of troubled deals largely financed by taxpayers. Every project ran into financial difficulty. More than half went into foreclosure, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.

"Their buildings were falling apart,'' said a former city official. "They just didn't pay attention to the condition of these buildings.''

Eleven of Rezko's buildings were in Obama's state Senate district.

And that is just the start, I don't understand why this hasn't become a huge issue in campaigns yet. I'm sure it will.

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One of the funniest videos ever

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Honda

I haven't missed too many Chicago Auto Shows. I've never bought a new car however, I do enjoy just looking at all the cool new rides. I did miss last year's show because I was in Infantry school in Georgia. If I had been there I'm sure I would have taken a few photos of the (at the time) Honda Concept car, the Si Sedan, which was unvieled there.

Having said all that, I still can't get over how damn cool it is to be driving one to work everyday now. What a fantastic vehicle.

Skip to 7:00 mark

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Kid Nation

Put me in the Pro-KidNation camp. I think where one falls on this issue says more about them then just what kind of TV they enjoy. There was no shortage of opinion even before the first episode aired, it will be interesting to see if any of those critics change their minds after seeing that it is actually great.

If you missed the first episode, catch a re-run or download it from Bitorrent (use isohunt.com to search for it, it is all over the web right now and a quick download.) and be sure to set your DVR to record the season.

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Digging Forza 2 on XBox 360

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How many Bullets per Mile

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Weapons Squad

Due to the extra schooling I received after basic at Fort Benning in the Javalin Anti-Tank Missle system my MOS is now 11B2C. So I was put on the weapons sqaud, we're the ~9 man squad that carries and fires all the cool shit like M240B machine guns, AT4 rockets and other mass-casaulty producing weapons. Of course this means we have to lug all that heavy shit around so we've been assigned the baddest-ass Staff Sargaent in the 1-41 Battalion, SSG Zerby, to lead us and get us in to shape for the demanding role we'll be playing in 1st Platoon (aka, The Spartans).

One of our first excersizes as a squad was to head out to the field for one week for weapons familiarization and qualification. It was a good time, quality team cohesion and plenty of hands-on the M240B machine guns, both day and night firing.

I got my turn on the system and with SSG Zerby as my assistant gunner (AG) I managed to knock down 11 out of 11 targets, the farthest out at 800 meters, using a single 120rd ammo belt (7.62).

As one of two Jav guys on the squad, Private Edmunds is the other Jav guy), I didn't partake in some of the really high-speed shit, especially the stress fire which had our actual gunners and AG's running long distance in full armor, with M240B, carrying 80 gallons of water, and dragging a litter weighed down with sandbags before engaging targets in multiple firing stances: Prone, standing (from the hip) and over the shoulder/back of their AG, with hot shell casings pouring down the backs of the poor AGs!

I didn't bring my camera that day but here is Private Edmunds' video on youtube.

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boom

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Happy New Year

Three recent interviews from C-SPAN's Washington Journal worth watching (RealVideo):

• Conrad Crane, Army War College - U. S. Army Military History Institute, Director. As the head of the military-history department at the Army War College, Conrad Crane is the lead author of a new counterinsurgency manual for the U.S. military.
• Ltc. Jame Gavrilis, U.S. Army, Special Forces discuess his responsiblity for coordinating the Joint Staff review of strategy and policy objectives in the training of Iraqi Security Forces. While in Iraq, he was responsible for the planning and execution of multi-national, multi-agency and joint counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations and for directing the operations of all U.S. Army Special Forces teams operating throughout Iraq.
• Max Boot talks about his new book, “War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today” and the Bush Administration’s war policies. He supports the U.S. military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Talking with Soldiers in Iraq

Hannity gets some candid comments from soldiers.

For more of my Army-related YouTube videos see this playlist.

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I'm in the Army

Swearing my oath

I just returned home from MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Center) after swearing in and signing my contract - 3 yrs Active Army infantry. I ship out Jan. 9, 2007.

Funny that on the same day I left to take my oath (Sunday), Rep. Rangle is saying this on FoxNews:

The people of his district in New York should be ashamed of themselves for sending this guy to represent them.

UPDATE: Special thanks to fellow recruit Denisse O. and her family for taking and sending the photo.

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Beyond Belief!

If you're not religious you'll love watching these scientists debate over religion; if you are religious, challenge yourself and your beliefs (are you secure in them?) and watch them, if for no other reason than to learn about the future of life extension, to see some amazing photographs of the universe and to hear a couple religious scientists defend the role religion plays in science.

If you need your interest piqued before just jumping into the videos, here is a NYTimes article on the conference.

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My YouTube Channel

I set up a GlobalCop channel on YouTube. Right now it is mostly just stuff from my TV archives but I'll be recording some segments of my own soon. Comments always welcome.

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AEI's Kagen on Troop Levels in Iraq

PBS Newshour has been running an informative series on Iraq this week; tonight's interview with AEI's Fredrick Kagan brought some new thoughts to the conventional wisdom and raises questions about the Democrat's "plan" for Iraq, which consists solely of pulling out. Audio and transcripts up now, video will be posted very soon.

Kagen interview on Newshour

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Boots On The Ground

The U.S. Army, showing their web-savvy has another new addition to their website, The Army Vision: Call to Duty - Boots on the Ground. I'm very impressed, check it out.

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U.S. Army's Future Combat System

The U.S. Army has recently updated their Future Combat Systems website and it is fantastic, check it out: FCS website. There are pretty cool videos of the Army's Future Combat System (linked below) [I just noticed there are even more videos on that website, but they’re quicktime and not linkable]. One is much cooler than the other, but I'll let you figure out which. Safehouse looks like it is the first video and Vanguard is second.

I've been reading up on these systems and they're all in the works or already running (but not yet fielded). I think it also features some version of the Trophy Active Defense system being sent to Iraq now (when the RPG misses, it isn't because the enemy has bad aim).

Be sure to check out all the new hardware at the FCS website at some point, it'll help make more sense of the chaos in some of the videos.

There is also a commander simulator that requires a relatively powerful PC to run, if you have one with, download the “game” and give it try. It isn’t something you can play in a few minutes, this thing is deep and will take hours to master, but it’s very cool

It's nice also that they're pretty high res, thus the large file sizes.

Safehouse (75MB WMV)

Vanguards (55MB WMV)

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"A Wee Bit Reckless"

My friend @ss pointed out a line I almost missed (pretending I can multitask) during the much-anticipated David Corn vs. Byron York bloggingheads.tv debate. Click here to see the quote.

York nailed Corn.

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VIDEO: Cops vs. Judges & The Press

The San Francisco PD isn't happy with the local press. Check out this press conference: VIDEO

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