I was in a Twitter conversation yesterday with some folks… This is the tweet that started the whole thread: pic.twitter.com/OsaHoGxQJ7 — real tankie hours (@tankietakes) June 22, 2017 The fact that the guy flip-flopped his stance to agree with someone else is what caught my attention…lol. Either he flip-flopped, or he has no clue that […]
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Do you even AR bro? Part 6
OK…in Part 5, I finished that entry with all the parts I need to have a functional rifle. I decided to add some style to this rifle and I have a friend who does firearms coating using DuraCoat Firearm Finishes. I just had to figure out the color. I was either gonna go with an […]
The last Monday in May…
On behalf of myself and my fellow veterans, I want to say how appreciative we are that our service is recognized favorably. There have been times in our nation’s history when this was not the case as a general rule. It is a good environment to be a veteran nowadays. On Memorial Day weekend, everyone […]
Fox Company
The last few years has seen a gathering happen. Not the Highlander kinda gathering but…well, maybe kinda…lol Thanks to facebook, I have come back into contact with Marines that I served with years ago. We had our first ‘reunion’ in the Fall of 2013. I think six of us got together with a few wives […]
Do you even AR bro?
Ok…I have stepped off into the shallow end. I can’t afford to dive off into the deep end right now…lol. Anyone who knows me at all knows I am a Marine. Once upon a time, I spent ALOT of time with this rifle platform. But boy have they changed. I was never really overly impressed […]
239 Years of Blood, Sweat and Tears
Cutting a cake with a sword…’cause that’s how we roll… HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES! November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved the resolution to establish two battalions of Marines able to fight for independence at sea and on shore. This date marks the official formation of the Continental Marines.”
Veterans get the hookup!
My wife surprised me a while back. I had made comments about how it would be neat to have Marine Corps license plates on my truck. ‘Vanity’ plates are not cheap in Texas. The ones my wife wants have the three crosses where the Marine Corps seal is on the example below…but they cost more […]
‘Unfriend’…a curious term
A friend of mine on facebook…he’s actually a friend…I mean in real life…not just on facebook…anyway, this friend posted a status that struck a chord. Oh, and I hope he doesn’t mind my calling him a ‘friend’…lol
J’o ako téé’go nise báá
Back in 1941, a group of Navajo kids at a boarding school were visited by a Marine Corps recruiter. As a Navajo, they grew up with their world, as they knew it, being a rough square defined by four mountains in the western United States. But they did understand that, about 3000 miles away, another […]