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New Jersey is currently in dry dock at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, they are offering tours in the dry dock, kinda pricey though, she should be returning to camden in a few weeks, the battleship new jersey museum organization has currently has several videos on youtube, very nice. As I as...

living in SE Georgia amongst the worst power company in the US, Okefenokee Power, (yes I kid you not!) and some hurricanes and thunderstorms knocking out power many times, we've had a generator for many years, the trick is you do not have to run the genny all the time to keep our food cold /...

Great article!

Yes! after getting to my duty station in Guam and getting attached to the SAF teams, (Security Augmentation Force) which was a obscure name for a few of marines whose edict was to "keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of unqualified personnel" with a rapid, vigorous, armed response, holy crap...

What brand pistol is in your photo here? Nice looking firearm, I like that!

Yes! Past few years my finger joints and wrist hurt like heck, from RA, I have adapted my daily routines to get around such, but shooting of which I really like as a hobby, I will adjust the mechanics of the firearm accordingly, I had to sell most of my off road motorcycles because of this crap...

Although not in the same vein there was also a Flying Tiger Line, an early airlines group, they were the airline that flew some of us from LAX to Anderson Air force base in Guam in January 1980, I was a 18 YO kid and was on a big honking 747,the photo is not the plane we flew on but pretty much...

Great story and subject matter. Shooting with a suppressor still requires hearing protection though I find the foam earplugs (or equivalent) work well at that point. Though after working in the main spaces and machine shops on USN vessels after 20 years my hearing is crap anyway, firearm reports...

Had lot of trouble finding decent fitting jeans, the wife bought me couple pairs of Lee Extreme Motion jeans, they are 98% cotton and 2% spandex, for me these are a great pair of pants, comfortable, stretchy with a good wide pocket opening and not to deep, carry's a small frame pistol with...

Massad Ayoob took on Dudley Dudley and won the day is significant in itself... because during that era she is the one who took on Aristotle Onassis stopping him from building a refinery on the isle of shoals near Durham, was to bring in millions to the state and thousands of jobs. She makes H...

I really like my S&W 686, it is in Midnight Black w/ 4" barrel, bought it in the late 80's when stationed in San Diego, though I must profess I really enjoy my Ruger GP100 a bit more, for me it seems to have a better trigger pull / feel, though I rarely shoot anything but .38.

Correct, for live fire we usually went to San Clemente Island or out past Salton Sea, near a place called Niland Kalifornia