Well, as a 14yr DAV, I am entitled to my opinion.
You are missing the greater purpose. Grenade and rifle qualification teach focus, attention to detail and accountability for one's actions. It takes patience and persistence. Things soldiers need to have to be effective, hell things everyone needs to be successful.
Of course, but all of his twisted little followers would have to deal with my juvenile commentary just like everyone had to deal with theirs. I still remember early on seeing comments from those two brothers, Kasper-something. I am probably being petty but at this point perhaps being petty is a good pick-me-up!
To anyone with even a small degree of education, that was obviously sarcasm...
Left sleeve has their current unit, the right sleeve has the patch for a unit they deployed to a combat zone with. Special Forces patch is an arrowhead, but not upside-down. It will also have an airborne tab above it. Just because you have that patch doesn't mean you are SF qualified. That would be an additional tab worn above the current unit patch (it would not be on the combat one). It is possible they were on active duty in the 82nd, went to theater and joined the NG when they got out.
Schiff has proven himself to be a liar and a slimeball. I wouldn't put too much credibility in anything that he says. That being said, we have been betrayed by the GOP.
My fear is that it shows people that peaceful protests don't work and that only leaves violence, which is not how our country should work.
Looking back, I wasn't very clear. I agree with what you were saying. I was simply trying to say the Nixon example is probably a more similar comparison to tomorrow's event than Jefferson's.
Correct. Nixon in 1960 election. Two sets of electors provided for Hawaii. One signed by the governor for Nixon, the other unsigned for Kennedy. Nixon ignored the signed votes for himself and counted the votes for Kennedy. He did this because the signed votes were from the initial count but a recount showed Kennedy actually won. In other words, the official "signed" electoral votes were deemed illegitimate and discarded. VP Pence could do the same claiming they were illegitimate due to fraud.
From my understanding, the issue with Jefferson was with him counting what appeared to be an illegitimate electoral vote submission from Georgia (ironic, I know) which gave him the Presidency, not that he discarded electoral votes.
With Nixon, the governor signed stating Nixon won, but a full count showed Kennedy won. Both sets of electoral votes were delivered to Washington as part of the electoral process. Nixon chose to use the "Kennedy" votes because they were the "accurate" results of the election, not the one the HI governor submitted.
Not trying to muddy the waters, but this current situation is different than the ones you mentioned, although the more recent Nixon situation is probably the better example of the two. These examples do demonstrate that the VP does have the legal authority to selectively choose which electoral votes to count.
First thing I thought of. Perhaps a working holiday?
Came here to say that!
Another great firearm if you can find one. Most aren't "legal" in NYS anymore. I had one years ago. Very accurate and a blast to shoot.
I live in commie-central NY. I cannot even count all the ways that violates the NYS SAFE Act - lol. Plus, that is technically a pistol. That aside, yes, you could build your own. I was making a big assumption that sine the poster was asking about what type of firearm to purchase, he/she was probably not a gun enthusiast. That is why I went with a low cost, multi-purpose firearm that left considerable $$ for range time / training / ammo. I would argue that you couldn't build an AR for $600 and have much money left for a shit-ton of ammo to run through it.
First gun? I would go with a Ruger 10/22. Incredibly durable, very cheap ammo, easy to learn with, lot's of cheap mods.
Ignore people who say only AR-style. While they are "better" in most categories, cost is not one of them. Ammo is also more expensive so that will impact the amount of practice time available. A gun is almost useless if you cannot properly operate it and can certainly be very dangerous if you don't understand basic firearm safety. Learning safety and proper shooting techniques is critical but really isn't that hard. If you can drive a car, you can become very proficient with a firearm.
From a personal protection standpoint, this rifle can shoot roughly 1000 rounds/min. While the projectile is small, it is traveling at 1000 ft/second. No one is going to see you pointing it at them and say its only a .22, I am not scared. Never under-estimate the fear one feels when getting shot at or the psychological impacts of being hit, even by a small caliber round. The real world is much different than COD. Now there are also other things to consider, like where you expect to use it, i.e. home defense. It wouldn't be my first choice there. For that use, I prefer a shotgun, 12 or 20 guage / 18" barrel, pump action. Unfortunately they aren't very good with longer distances so as an all-around choice, the 10/22 is a better choice IMO (again, at this price point).
Buy one, get a lot of ammo, find a good place to practice, even invest in some training - everyone can improve. Good luck!
Two comments, use primer/cleaner before you apply glue. It makes the glue joint stronger and make sure you know how to use/retain this in a skirmish. Nothing worse than getting beat with your own "weapon"
When you are in an ambush, the best response is to charge the enemy. There is no time to find suitable cover and turning and running just gets you shot in the back. Rush the enemy and overrun their position.
I refuse to wear a mask and live in Central NY. I saw another unmasked person at the grocery store tonight wearing a Vietnam Vet hat. As a fellow vet, I struck up a conversation with him next to the sushi counter. We talked about the Army, life and politics for about 20 minutes. Heck of a nice guy. We got a lot of weird looks but no one said a word to us. Felt good to talk to a normal, unmasked person again.
Lol, fair enough. How about "so we had someplace to store our c4 because the infantry kept trying to eat it" :)
No, but I did make a shiny new 2lt straight up cry once when I was a plt sgt. Crawled right into the back of a 113 and let the tears flow. He didn't last long in the company after that. 12B, btw, which is 1 smarter than your average infantry soldier.
Or communists, that word also works.
Julius Caesar reference. Google "The die is cast." Interesting historical analogy to Trump's current position.
Wife got the covid. She's fine, btw, bad flu. Anyways, my kid was home from college and I didn't catch him before he answered. We listened together on speaker. Those people are insane. Told him he could only go outside in the yard but had to wear a mask at all times, even inside. He told them no. Good kid, totally MAGA, Trump flag in his dorm room. Tracers finally realized that we weren't going to answer the phone for them after about 10 tries. Losers even called on Thanksgiving day.
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