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That being the case, what is the point of boot camp at all? Or Plebe summer?

"Russia's strong missile capabilities are no match for our European missile defense plans and will not upset the strategic balance in the region," Johndroe said. Is it just me or does that sound almost contradictory. I think it might be the way he said it, but I take it to mean that our...

I guess my feeling is that it is generally a good thing for everyone to have gone through some type of bootcamp at one point in time. Not to learn the culture, I believe the culture is learned through being around it for long enough. I guess thats just my perspective as a Mid. My feelings...

I think OCS should be your 3/c cruise. That way you dont have to do it when your done. The Marines do theirs during their 2/c cruise, but I think the Navy 2/c cruises (especially the aviation ones) are valuable teaching tools.

The Russians have always had the potential to be a serious economic power. They have all of the necessary factors of production save one, capitol. Land, and Labor, have never really been a problem. That said, I dont see them comming out of the economic rut they have been in for the past 300 years.

I would imagine because they go through Plebe summer. If the dirtbag doesnt come out of them throughout Plebe summer it probably wont when they go through OCS.

Today I learned in ROTC that leaders are made not born. /end being a jack@$$

I thought the Navy fills the supply slots with stash ensigns who crash their cars into houses out in Pensacola.

A little off topic, but what is USAFs equivalent to Navy's API?

My favorite was this little gem from the blog post: “Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it. “It’s up to you now.”

Those that dont support the Electoral College aparently do not support the republican principle (small r republican) of minority rights. Think about a US where California Texas and New York voted the same way. The election is pretty much over at that point, there is no competition. The...

Also dont pay attention to me because I somehow missed the other replies.

You definitely dont want to bother the CO. However you may want to call and talk to the recruiting Lt or one of the other O-3s who are attached to the NROTC unit. They should be able to point in the right direction.

Does this include their 7.62 x 39?

The ACOG is worth in my opinion. Just save up for the ACOG.

Speaking of replacing the current side arm with an HK pistol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_&_Koch_HK45 http://www.hk-usa.com/images/shared/Tri%20fold%20Layout.pdf

How does it do at removing the lacquer? I use the windex because nothing else I have ever used has been able to remove it completely.

That was the Genius of John Marshall, not the writers of the Constitution.

Makes them more resistant to water. Allows them to keep for longer

A terrorist with a gun is no different than a criminal with a gun. You cant stop them from getting guns, and the best way to stop them once they have guns is with a well armed citizenry with their own guns.

Agreed. My favorite is either Winchester white box (cheap and never had a problem) or UMC (also cheap and never had any mis fires or failures to feed) I use commie ammo in my commie guns but no where else.

It is my understanding, and someone correct me if I am wrong, but they don't need to be produced under license because the patent ran out on them a couple of years back. And by a couple I mean around 1918.

The reason the bill of rights exists is that Massachusetts (of all places) refused to ratify the constitution with out an explicit bill of rights. So in a sense you are right that many of the people at the Constitutional Convention weren't thinking it was necessary but a number of people wanted...

First you consider moving out of Commie-fornia.

One of the things I have used on my Mosin Nagant to combat the gumming effect that the Russian ammo has is windex, or some other household cleaner that has ammonia in it. You have to be careful not to leave it in the gun to long though (nothing over an hour) because the ammonia can start to pit...

I was under the impression that aviators carried M9s... Also I hope the AF decides to move towards a pistol based on the Browning action... or something that has a favorable service record. My personal opinion of the M9 is not high at all. My vote would be for an HK, but I guess thats because...

Youre right. My mistake.

He said in his first post.

I haven't been selected yet but I have spoken at length with my XO at the unit asking him about the likely hood of getting accepted for flight. He said while there are minimum ASTB requirements he has never seen someone who wanted flight get turned down for it save one person who barely made it...

Thankfully though the Supreme Court has time and time again upheld the notion of private gun ownership. there are at least 6 cases in which the court aggressively upheld the 2nd amendment. I personally don't see a Supreme Court case coming up anytime soon just because there has been so much...

Now your speaking my language.

Nathan, In my opinion what ever you choose there are benefits and draw backs. Im in NROTC now and I applied countless times to USNA, right now I still wish I could go there. That being said I have half a dozen friends at USNA that wish they could be in NROTC, and one of them actually was in...

How did Gummer start off as a hippie? He had been a Reaganite Conservative in all the other movies.

1.) I used to work for NC Soft before going back to school, we launched a game called City of Heroes and one of the characters was named Statesman, I always thought it was an interesting name 2.) I like the connotation that it has regarding politics. Generally the Founding Fathers considered...

In all actuality the gun nut always saves the day, but the liberal media wont let you see that part of the movie, so they fabricate an alternate ending to show to audiences. Tremors some how leaked through.

Im getting the feeling MB is kinda like the guy from that gem of a Kevin Bacon movie Tremors

As nice as that would be, only China has the capacity to even think about it, and even they don't really have that capacity. No things just haven't been the same since the cold war.

The Russians ruined my Red Dawn fantasy when they broke up the Soviet Union. Coming to terms with the fact that the Russians will never invade and I will never get the opportunity to put together a rag tag outfit and go tear assing around behind enemy lines has been occupying my time for 18...

Well it was all hearsay for sure, nothing official, but I have also never heard anything to the contrary. Either way even if his successor, who ever it is, is more moderate I don't think much will change.

Ahh I see, so is it Raul or Castro's son who has been picked as the successor? I had always heard it was going to be the son.

I have a feeling Chavez is going to say something stupid enough for that to become a reality. Or his people are going to get tired of him rigging the elections and take him out for us.

I actually don't know Castro jr.'s name I was just going off of what Brett had said. His name could be Tubby Lumpkins for all I know.

I say we try to take him out. We stopped trying to do that with his dad after we f'ed it up a few times, but with Raul we have a clean slate. ;)

Which is a completely valid reason for not acquiring a new system.

I think the point off all this is, yes it may be a better system it may not be, but the Marine Corps and Army brass are privy to information that we are not. Some possible reasons: Skepticism regarding the effectiveness of the system (yes it may look good on TV but then again on TV the Hornet...

Thats why I said my preference. One day I hope to be in a position to influence policy, but for now I'm just a random guy on the internet.

Agreed. But the absence of testing doesn't mean its not better. My preference would be to put Dragon Skin and a number of other armor systems through an endurance test to evaluate the possibility of replacing the interceptor vest.

It is a travesty that the birth place of liberal thought has become a country where the criminal and common thug now have more rights than the average citizen.

Why get a CCW if you don't carry everyday. You wear a seatbelt every time you get into a car because you never know when you are going to get into a wreck. Apply the same thinking to your CCW. You never know if you are going to get held up at Walmart, or coming out of the restaurant, or...

Well I didn't plan on making a Political science debate out of this, but you have chosen a vote on a bill that everyone knew was going to be vetoed. I guess the diction I used was a bit generalized. I should have said that in situations which are controversial to the minority party and you...