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Guamsst, please reconsider your position on when someone wants to talk about the "bad stuff". When people are making heros of themselves ,yeh, probably fertilizer. However, when people talk about the...

44 years and [I hope] continuing to count. Could anyone be more proud of these guys that I was able to help survive? I was only the instrument of a higher power that gave me the strength, the power,...

I'm too pissed to respond to this B.S.. I'm retired Army but, the US Marine Corps were part of our fighting and winning team. They helped me a lot when I needed help I'd stand beside a Marine in a...

Well, here we are again, I have been off the site for a long time. Please disregard my postings in amazement for how many viewings there have been . Today[ 29AUG '14] I was astounded to see 6645...

Deer or bear? Are you going to need a scope? Just askin? Nick

I was there [RVN] as "grunt" in 63-64 and as a Platoon & Company Commander in '66-67 an again in '70-'71.Best of my recollections is the position of the prongs was pretty much random.If you were an...

I carried an early "bent blade" Gerber Mk.1 [?] # 002662 through 66-67 & 70-71.I lost the sharpening steel the last time I was shot down. I was lucky to get another steel from Gerber before they...

R.H.Brown, Jr; I'm not trying to change your ideology but I don't understand "Hexmas" . Is this some reference to 666 and to occultism? If so,I take exception to your posting.If not, perhaps you...

MSH curved?Do you mean arched? Nick

ray, me likewise. I'm driving[well ,the wife's driving] a 1992 Brougham de Elegance with 70,000 miles on it that looks like show room new, but I want a new high performance Caddy. Looks like I'll...

I waited too long to buy a couple of these[to stash in different places]. Thought I would see what the consensus was after the became available. When I went to buy I found out they were banned from...

I'm no help here all of my SP-1s are sliding stock carbines. Nick

Dave, what are you kidding? The people behind the "armor plated desk"never know,or really care, what the trooper behind the trigger needs.At the Flag Rank dicision level they're only interested in...

For those of you with true 1911s[WWI] that can't resist the urge to shoot those guns with soft slides, I have a 1911 COLT REPRO slide that is hardened. New, never on a gun[or an immediate take off]....

Aw heck, just weld the sight on. You're going to paint the darned thing anyway. Remember life is not like a box of chocolates. Life is like a bottle of pickled jalapenos. What you pick today, will...

In a pinch you can shoot .22 S,L,& LR in a .22 mag. cylinder. First,accuracy might not be "minute of beer can" it depends on the boring of the barrel. Second,it is a pain, but if you take empty .22...

I went to FT. Dix,NJ for Basic in 1963. I remember a NY "tough guy" Had everybody snowed that he was a Golden Gloves Champ until a smaller,by 25-30 pounds,street smart black kid closed the door to...

After three combat tours in Viet Nam,and having to resort to JMBs tool of genius too many times ,the only fatal flaw I noticed with the democratic automatic was being the recipient of all that FMJ...

K frame is smaller than an N frame. Nick

Why not send them back to Midway and ask for a replacement set? Nick

Charlie Horse 11, Wayne you rascal I had hoped to see you at the reunion in OCT.Thanks for the cover,you and several others helped keep the NVA off of us.PM or e-mail me I'd love to hear from you. ...

I stand [or sit] corrected. I didn't notice the "laid in" boxes. As Michael said it made for easier feeding . But Michael where's the C rat can? Nick

Guamsst, I don't know if you are kidding,but those are lids on the ground not buried ammo cans. Nick

When I entered the Army at Ft. Dix, N.J. in 1963 we were all issued the "patrol cap",then called a "KP" cap. As late as 1971 we had "Blues"[aero rifle platoon grunts] in our Air Cav Troop [C 3/17-D...

Well, here we are 41 years later and Bob, Joe[the pilot I was checking out] and Mel[the copilot in the Huey]are alive and well. Probably the crowning achievement of my military career was sending...