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Not all of Europe is pushing disarmament. The Baltic States are looking to encourage their people to arm up. Here is an article from the New York Slimes about what the nation of Estonia is doing....

I saw an A4 issued around 1984 -85. The organization had a requirement for a sniper rifle (contractor guard force), the ordered a rifle, and two of those showed up. I believe they were fitted with...

I pull the bullets on stuff I find like that, dump and burn the powder, and then build a small fire and toss the cases in the fire. The primers pop or burn. After everything cools, I toss the now...

The aluminum ones came standard on the SP-1 carbines Colt was selling around 1980 - 1981.

While not about WWI, but contemporary with Ernie Pyle's books, I recommend Up Front by Bill Mauldin. He was a cartoonist in WWII, and I found the book really, really good.

Mine is simpler. My parents met. In Iceland. Father - Army Ordnance Corps. Mother - Amy Nurse Corps. Both gone now, but when I was commissioned, I wore my Dad's Ordnance bombs, my Mother's US...

I was issued an H&R M16A1 at Ft. Knox, Kentucky while attending the ROTC Basic Summer Camp (2 year program). Actually, I believe it was marked XM16E1, but that was a long time and many M16s/AR15s...

I have one of the old "Portuguese" AR-10s. They were actually built by Artillerie Inrichtengen in Holland and used by the Portuguese in Angola. There were a couple of other buyers, but the...

Check out Huntington Die Specialties, they usually have some of everything. Midway and Grafs also seem to have a lot of what might be considered oddball, but .222 is not really oddball, nor is...

I think the most amusing one I ever ran into was a guy who claimed to have been a Marine. I asked him where he had gone to basic training. He said he could not remember. Suspicious, I asked who...

VD Control Officer at a small camp in Korea in 82-83. Not really a lot too it, but I did know which of the ladies were, as of the time of the test, clean. And two awkward moments related this...

Korea 79-80 and 82-83. First tour had an older woman who took care of all the cleaning and laundry in the BOQ, second tour, had a guy who took care of everything. Never a problem. Think it was...

I used to keep a P38 on my keychain, until I was going through airport security and TSA took it. They said it was a dangerous item. But women were taking knitting needles right through without a...