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Actually, you've come to the right place to ask for this sort of advice. Something you have to understand is that soldiering is long periods of utter boredom, occasionally interrupted by brief periods of excitement or terror. But for the most part, it's boredom. And when you are a long way...

Where are you from? Sports equipment gets used in real-world fights all the time. Baseball bats, hockey sticks, golf clubs... hell, I know of a case where a guy threw a DISCUS at someone (he missed). The use of sports equipment in school fights happens all the time. The use of Kirpans in...

False analogy, aka "comparing apples and oranges". These things have been in the school system for well over 20 years. Nobody can identify a single time during that 20 years where they have been used as a weapon in a school. I personally witnessed Kirpan-bearing Sikhs in situations of extreme...

The incident you're thinking of is probably the story of Midshipman Cox, who was serving on the Chesapeake when it tangled with (and was captured by) the Shannon. This story is related in Starship Troopers which is why it's so famous. In reality, Midshipman Cox was court martialed and...

Straw man argument. Like I said, I grew up in a northern BC town with a large Sikh population. A large proportion of the students in my high school were Sikhs. And this was a rough place; me and my friends got into our fair share of fights. As a matter of fact, I believe the gentleman who was...

My home town has (had?) a large Sikh community, and I'd say 30% of my high school were Sikhs. They all wore these things, and it was never a problem. The place could get pretty rough sometimes, and not ONCE did one of these daggers ever get pulled. DG

My 9Domestic bought me a 21st century Black Betty for Xmas. It's about the weight of the Thermorest, the storage bag acts as the inflation pump (and it inflates way faster than than the original did) and it has a down pad on it that helps insulate the air chamber so you don't get the intercooler...

Any unit that routinely fields drivers will train its own driver instructors, and it can be expected that you will eventually be called upon to instruct a driving course. DP1 Armoured has a driving component to it, obviously training MSE Ops (truckers) has a driver component to it, and there...

OK, I stand corrected on the LAV. It seems that the USMC LAV-25 is not crewable, but the Aussie LAV is - as is the Aussie version of the Bison, and the Aussie Leo1 (which supposedly has a slightly different FCS) The LAV-25 doesn't feel fully realized; more like a proof of concept. It feels...

Thanks for the info, but I'm going to need the PAM/manual because I have to cite it in the paper. If you can dig that up, that'd be great. DG

OK, quickie Steel Beasts Pro PE Review (more detail to follow later) - MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT: No crewable LAV-25. It's in the game (and it is gorgeous) but you can't drive or gun it (yet) - Crewable: Leo 1A5 (yay!) Leo 2A4, Leo 2A5, M1A1, Bradley, M113, HUMMV - Graphics are freakin'...

Well, my copy showed up. LAV gunnery here I come! I'll post a review once I've had a chance to thrash it. DG

Aren't the mounts interchangeable, ie, a Mk19 will fit an M2 mount and vice versa? RUMINT has the C&R GWagon Recce Tp mounting a 50% mix of Mk19 and M2. DG

Ding! Some have it as "couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." :D DG

At the battle of Wilderness, American Civil War, 1864, a Corps commander of the Army of the Potomac was killed. What was his name, and what were his last words? DG

It was the MP 3008, a copy of the Sten, but with a vertical magazine. DG

As a history major, you would do well to note that information often travels from source to source and can take on a life of its own, independent of the truth of it. There is an article by Stephan J Gould, reprinted in Bully for Brontosaurus, that describes an incident like this. He picks up...

The article you cite states: This clearly claims that the T64 and T72 are from the same family (which they are not) and the description of the autoloader is clearly that from the T72 Compare to the article from Armour magazine, which states (P 28): Note, however, that the "load the gunner's...

Whoa, I'm going to call BS on this one. The T72 is a distinctly different tank from the T64 and it's updated derivative, the T80.  The T72 is a simpler, less complex, cost-reduced tank than the T64/T80, and specifically DOES NOT USE THE SAME AUTOLOADER. The autoloader on the T72 was developed...

Well, there's a good reason for that, similar to the reason why the JRs and Senior NCOs are given separate messes. The idea here is not that the riffraff are kept away, but rather that you give junior guys a separate space away from the watchful eyes and all-hearing ears of their bosses and...