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I included a section on 6.8mm superiority when used against flaming M4 tanks.

Yep. An intelligent review point out highs and lows is seen as a good omen, but every author waits for their first : my Kindle cannot show the pictures it sucks" review when the issue is your Kindle sucks. Customer service says you smile and apologize.

Is this really an argument? Here is the real information. I have never found a source for a US or British soldier referring to a M4 tank as a monsoon based on anything negative about the tank. A massive search by YT about 12 years ago in response to a HUGE argument on the Combat Mission forum resulted in this information. The term Ronson is first applied to the British PW made flamethrower. The Canadians took that flame thrower and made it better, and passed to the US Navy which mounted it on M4 Shermans, called the Satan device. The British did occasionally call the M4 a Ronson, because the flamethrowers in some Shermans were Ronson devices. The flammability of the M4 gas model was a concern that proved a little valid, but it was not until disgruntled US soldiers returned from the war that the term Ronson began to be applied for the tank without a flamethrower.

Thanks, you cannot know it will work 100% until a couple of people give it a read, and normally you find out when they drop a bomb on you in Amazon.

Thanks. If you have a Kindle look at it and tell is how it pages. Kindles are tricky - they sometimes do goofy things with the ePub format and the different models are not always in sync about how they perform.

Confirm on hard cover The publisher I work with for my main work is watching the Amazon comment sections. A hardback book is possible with an exceptional set of reviews from customers in the next month or two - indicating they can make a profit on the book. The MAS 1936 book coming out next has a bigger audience sample, so it is more likely to get a hard cover.

That nice Russian guy was worried his ammo would get cold. How sweet!

The book has a dead tree version laid out so there is nothing keeping me from putting out a version on real paper. The issue is cost and interest. The cost to layout a book for press is around $9000, but I did it myself, so that cost is not an issue. Very small press runs from a properly laid out book is expensive, but if there is interest I will set up a pre-order or kickstarter. At a certain number of pre-orders it becomes possible to print the books, otherwise no one is charged for their order. Another way it could happen is Amazon reviews fills up with good reviews. My publisher will take a flier on a book that has a good reception on Amazon no matter what the sales look like. The problem with this is the hater issue. If you go to even a wildly popular book there is about 25% hater posts which drag down review numbers to below where publishers would touch it. IF a hardcopy version comes out I plan on providing desk copies to people on the forum at cost by waiving my royalties.

That cat is out of the bag. My bayonets book is live. All writers learn that the Internet is a place where haters hate and everyone else remains silent, so on open forums I will, like my previous works, remain silent. But in a closed forum like this I can say sending a book out is like sending your kid to pre-school. Except with an e-book you can get it back and fix your mistakes.

The rounds would require internal packaging (defeating the purpose) and the mass/density is usually too high.

I am very jealous over your Mle. 1935 collection. That and the Mle. 1950 were never given the attention in the Americas they deserved.

"Murphys oil soap, warm water, then linseed oil and lots of rubbing." Yes, but what did you do for the Enfield stock.

Big, light weight, plastic boxes with no interior divisions. Less packaging, cheaper food. Grapes and eggs are expensive to get to troops in fresh form because they require extensive packaging. Fresh meat needs a reefer to move sides and a human butcher at each end. Flour is easy to travel - throw it in sacks or - if you are handling it rough - a high wall container like show above, suitably covered. A highway container can carry 50kg, be carried by two soldiers like a litter using little carry hooks, be stacked 5 units high, rolled onto. Truck beds can have wheels and a ramp allowing the boxes to be rolled on and off fast. High wall loads do not shift in transit because they are tight packed - full to the top. When you want to use what is in the high wall you open the top and dig in. best of all - the bulk cost of a high wall is like $5. You cannot carry ammo in it, but if you can make all your food stuff naturally shelf stable without packaging (think how you can sit a bowl of uncooked rice on your counter for three months and it will cook up find afterward) then it cuts lift costs a LOT. Technically reusable, but some high walls are made from food products themselves (such as corn) and can be shredded, soaked in lye water, and used for tortillas.

One of my main jobs - the one that pays the best, is Higher Ed consultant. CA State, like most states, requires for a BA or BS degree that the student have a minimum of 3 semester hours (4 quarter hours) of history that teaches the past 100-150 years. Anthropology, like many soft science departments, has been taking it on the chin in enrollment. It has LOTS of professors, and those professors have nothing to do - their classes are empty and they lack majors. This is happening all over the country, with majors like English, Philosophy, and Political Science withering on the vine for a simple reason - 60,000 in loans and no job at the end is a tough sell. The solution according to Sacramento State is to redefine the term "history." The intention of the foundation History course is to provide a framework for a student understanding the past, usually through a paradigm of the study of events. Anthropologists argue that history is not events but trends. WW2 is a unimportant blip compared to the rise of socialism and the civil rights movement, which are trends. The new history course that will meet the university history requirement by talking about the history of racism, the history of sexism, the history of police violence, the history of social inequality, the history of modern slavery, modern economic imperialism, and the history of fiscal inequality. The course itself is a valid anthropology course. One advantage that the people who offer it see is that it will be more popular than traditional history courses as it will lack difficult fact based examinations, and instead will allow students to explore a more open concept of learning. Again, a valid approach. As a basic course that meets a requirement it will, the university hopes, fill enough seats to keep half a dozen professors employed in Anthropology. Oddly enough one of the listed benefits is that they can slow the hiring of new history professors as this department becomes less relevant.

My prediction from the reading. In the next ten years the military will begin to phase in high-wall, bulk food delivery systems. To handle dietary restrictions for many troops the basic foodstuff will be a four product system. 1) Fortified Nutritional Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), 2) Spirulina (Arthrospira) Cyanobacteria, 3) Corn and potatoes starch, and 4) Complex vegetable base made from mung, whole quinoa (leaf and seed), kale, carrot, and flax. the delivery requirements for each soldier in the field of the products is about 1.4kg/day per soldier with little packing mass. While individual rations are quite bulky, a mass packed high wall technology could deliver food to a brigade relatively easily. A single chinook lift would be enough to feed a Brigade for a day. A single 5-ton truck would carry a day of brigade rations. This means food lift for a brigade is reduced by a factor of 6. That lift is nearly an entire unit of fire for brigade artillery. The four basic products would arrive at the brigade in 5 kilo bricks. In an emergency a soldier could eat a brick of this food without processing. 1) would taste like popcorn butter. 2) would easy like spinach. #3 would taste like died potatoes. #4 would taste like a V8 in solid form. When properly prepared they could simulate nearly anything. Except for complaint about "texture" the foods generally meet taste tests.

We can see some new ration technologies on the horizon just by looking at recent research requests from Natick and at RFPs issued by the Army on long term research. 1. Food Printers. Military cooks are a part of the logistics tail that can be cleaned up. First, in the last year, 1/2 of all cooking specialists failed specializations. Next, and infantry brigade uses around 80 food service personnel in its tail requiring a daily lift (just for them, not the food they make) of nearly 8 tonnes of supplies. Finally, changing food preparation requirements can take a food service staffer 6 months to a year to master. Food printers would cut 70 of 80 cooking staff, produce uniform food that could not be messed up, could be reprogrammed in days to changing food needs, and would reduce wastage of food delivered by 50%. 2. Nonlinear food delivery. The concept of meals has been studied, and it is discovered that soldiers do not eat them unless forced by command. Soldier prefer to graze, eating all through the day and only stopping for a single large meal occasionally. Nonlinear food services uses IT to monitor soldier intake and nutrition. Education teaches soldiers how to graze. Grazing allows more bulk foods in teams which soldiers "buy" from the commissary system using ration points. 3. Interactive preference logistics. Each soldier has favorite foods, and new software can track what they like and make sure it is available more often. Soldiers can also plan rations by putting in their preferences for meals while overseas. The system will be designed to meet the soldiers desired at least half the time, baring logistics issues, in which the soldier will be told why the meals they wanted are not available, reducing complaints.

I just hate idiots who wave their guns around and act all surprised when a police officer takes them down. We had an old guy in district 2 who would take a shot once in a while at neighborhood kids playing in his yard. They arrested him and each time the court case would be a circus of anti and pro gun rhetoric that had nothing to do with the 2nd amendment. Nowhere in that amendment does it say you have the right to bare arms and take potshots at kids on big wheels. I also remember the guy in Lexington County - you can look him up but I cannot remember his name. In ten years he has killed 6 robbers. The guy hangs pictures of each armed robber he shoots in his store, and sends Christmas cards to the families. He started doing that after he was sued for a million dollars the first two times he offed someone. The last two times it was gang members who were handed the task of robbing him for initiation. The guy has spent nearly 100,000 dollars in defense fees. He is the last remaining store in that neighborhood, and the only store in walking distance that accepts WIC so he won't close his doors.

I had to disarm a couple of guys who were hunting deer with an AR. We kept finding deer run into the neighborhoods with 20 or 30 shots in them. They would run about a mile and bleed out. Finally tracked it to two guys. One yelled at me that we were NAZIs because we were taking his guns from him. The magistrate who fined them said he was not fining them because of the gun, but because anyone so stupid as to fail to get a kill shot in 30 rounds was too stupid to participate in a democracy, and he was hoping they would move to Somalia.

Yeah, I used to volunteer with project Hope on Mission Street Center in Seattle a few years back. Heroin is the cities drug of choice, and it still makes a lot of pretty Seattle into sucky Seattle. I worked with game designers in the city, and have friends at WOTC, and I just could not cotton the city. I bought a house in Kittitas for a few years and drove to Seattle when it could not be avoided.

Move to another zip code with a higher crime rate.

Every jury member, of every jury ever created thinks they are experts in every subject. A jury is like an open forum on the Internet, and you are online when everyone else with real jobs can't post.

Truth be told I take my pre-war MAS 36 out more, but this is my pride. A MAS49 sniper rifle with a matching serial number scope.

The 32 ACP Škorpion M84 was lauded in the Siege of Sarajevo. Bosnian teams would carry the weapon into Serbian lines in preference to heavier weapons because the report of the 32ACP even without a silencer (most of which could not be maintained) was hard to localize. Bosnians would conceal themselves in rubble and if a Serb came within 10 meters or so they would fire an entire magazine from the weapon and run. Serbs infantry would often report they had stumbled on a machine gun nest, while adjacent units would be skeptical because they had heard nothing, or had heard a sound that was like a zipper tearing or some marbles rolling down a stairs. The Serb response was to shoot at every possible hiding place on patrol, which Bosnian spotters would track and know where the patrol was at.

The murder of the officers in Hattiesburg are examples of difficulties faced by officers. Both of the Banks brothers, currently accused, are pretty much poster children for violent crime. Both sell cocaine as their primary means of support. Both have multiple felony arrests, and each have been convicted of a felony crime. Both are known to carry firearms, and have been arrested multiple times with guns in their possession. These men are not special in any means. Looking over the records for Southern MS you can see that Hattiesburg has like 400 released felons with high chances to recommit crimes. It takes years for criminal record to build up to the point where they can be taken from the street for a lengthy time - unless they do something spectacularly bad. To make matters worse, the Banks brother's have an accomplice. Joanie Calloway looks like a citizen. I had a link for her Facebook, but it is now down. She has no record I can find, she is gainfully occupied as a school student. If I pulled her over nothing would scream thug at me. And since the other two were arrested without colors or ink, I bet if she was in the driver's seat and I pulled them over I would have thought citizen for all three - you cannot think thug unless you run their records. In most European nations people with the record of the Banks brothers cannot be pulled over without the support of a tactical team. Two officers who might have pegged these guys as citizens were out matched. Some officers get paranoid, treat everyone like a thug. If these two had done that - they would be alive, but might accumulate complaints.

Without looking at the markings, what you have are two Smith and Wesson Model 3 revolvers (less probable), OR a Harrington and Richardson .32 Top Break, which was also sold by a number of other companies. They look similar in photographs. The bottom is a late model Velo-Dog presentation model.