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Jul 26, 2005
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the U.S. Navy... and their dialup-equivalent internet server. Yikes... this is gonna be painful for someone who has sworn to never go back from broadband. We're underway, and at some point pictures might even get posted (OPSEC providing, of course). But for now, just getting this up will be a success. Stick around... we'll see where this ride takes us. So far so good. |
Jul 16, 2005
Haze grey and underway
That's it folks. Stick a fork in me, I'm done. All blogging from CONUS shall cease immediately. Pull up the brow, baby: WESTPAC begins today. Any and all future blogging will be from points unknown, so stand by... we've got ourselves a job to do. |
Jul 13, 2005
Movie review
"Rodriguez, if you woke up this morning and you were completely surrounded by an enemy force of 500 men, what would you do?" "KILL 'EM, SIR!" This is a question posed by T/Sgt Moore to one of his recruits - and the subsequent (and only correct, I might add) answer given by that recruit in the opening act of 1957's, "The D.I." Thirty years before R. Lee Ermey would crystallize the image of what a Marine DI looks like in the American mind, Jack Webb would give us this classic rendition that's a little more family friendly... hey, it was 1957. No cussing, no blood, no guts... but there's some chain-smoking going on like you wouldn't believe. Webb, best known as police Sgt. Joe Friday on TV's "Dragnet," not only starred in this film, but directed and produced it, as well. If you're only familiar with Webb from "Dragnet" don't think for a second that he has acting range - the man is virtually wooden... and that's what's great about him. His delivery is rapid fire and right between the eyes. Perfect to play a DI. The story is fairly straightforward: T/Sgt Moore (yes, you read that right - Technical Sergeant - a rank that we don't even have in the Corps anymore, equal to Gunnery Sergeant) is the best of the best at creating Marines. But he has a major headache: Pvt Owens could be great, but he's a constant screw up, and wants out of the Marines. Watching Webb go to work on his recruits brings some funny moments (like when one husky recruit tells him he joined the Marines because the submarine service wouldn't take him... his lungs were too big), and some flashbacks... or so I'm told... I've never personally had to conduct a burial detail for a sand flea, but I've talked to guys who have. Aside from the obligatory musical number - which seems to plague every film Hollywood made between about 1920 and 1959 - and the minimal role of a love interest for Webb, the film stays pretty focused on the Marines and the mind games played on them by the DIs. And towards the end, I don't want to give it away, but I'll just say that you can tell that the film was definitely made in a time long gone... well before parents ran around whining about how recruiters were trying to kidnap their kids. From top to bottom, this story bleeds scarlet & gold, and red, white, and blue. With every member of the platoon being played by real, active duty Marines (except for the two main characters of T/Sgt Moore and Pvt Owens), this film is about as true to the spirit of the Corps as you can get. A classic Marine Corps movie that should be seen by anybody that's a fan of the first half of "Full Metal Jacket." "The D.I." is not available on DVD as far as I can tell, so finding it at your local Blockbuster may be a problem. But VHS copies can be found at Amazon or on EBay. It's a little spendy for VHS: upwards of $40 for new copies. But some used copies on EBay are going for as low as nine bucks... not a bad deal for a great Marine Corps film. |
Attention Michael Moore, Martin Sheen, and all the rest...
... of you whiny bastards. Does this look like the handiwork of "freedom fighters"?BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomber sped up to American soldiers distributing candy to children and detonated his explosives Wednesday, killing up to 27 other people, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. One U.S. soldier and about a dozen children were among the dead.The aforementioned "Hollywood elites" can start forming up to kiss my ass. Line forms to the left (oddly enough...) |
Jul 10, 2005
Tagged in
So Harvey decides to poke me in the belly-button to get a "hehe" outta me like I'm the Pillsbury Doughboy... okay... I'll play.What ten events would you care to witness if you could travel in time and observe them?Well let's dig right in to it: 1) The Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi. Look at my name... is that really any kind of surprise? 2) The Gettysburg Address. 3) September 10th, 2001. One last day of normal before the storm... 4) OOH! Tun Tavern, 10 November 1775. Take what I said about number one, and quadruple it! 5) Philadelphia, 28 September 1941, to watch Ted Williams nail down the last .400 batting average anyone's seen in over 60 years. 6) A day at the Colosseum in ancient Rome. 7) Dealey Plaza, 22 November 1963... but only if I can pick a couple different locations and call for a few reruns. Single bullet theory my ass... 8) 14 October 1947, Muroc Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), to watch Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier for the first time. 9) To steal one from Harvey, watching the Berlin Wall fall. Seeing that on TV, I actually remember thinking, "I'm watching HISTORY being made." Too bad not everybody felt the same way... 10) Bethlehem, 25 December 0000 (give or take). I heard something about this kid being born and these three wiseguys... Alllright... so who to poke in the belly-button next... hmmmm... Mad Mikey is usually up for stuff like this. Consider yourself tagged. Smokin' gets tagged just cuz I gotta know what he picks. Hope he's got time to do this one. And I'd like to see Tom's answer's but he's on blog-hiatus. Put 'em in the comments maybe, Tom? I know you're out there (you're one of the few still left!). Anybody else want to play? Just throw me a trackback if you do, because I'd like to see this! |
Jul 9, 2005
Quick word on recent events in London
Do the terrorists think they're dealing with the Spaniards? Really? The Brits are a much more hard-nosed folk than they let on, what with the "stiff upper lip," "tut tut," and "tea and crumpets." Remember, this is the land that created the soccer hooligan. And "The Secret Organization of Al Qaeda in Europe"? Kiss my ass... Any group of punks out there thinks they can hang "Al Qaeda" somewhere in their name and we're all supposed to quake with fear. Well I got news for ya: you guys are no more deeply related to Al Qaeda than Bill Shatner. And to keep on the Star Trek theme, why don't you all put on red shirts and join the away team, because you're about as likely to last that long. I have no doubt that there's an SAS team dedicated to smoking all of you before the month is out. "The Secret Organization of Al Qaeda in Europe"... Al Qaeda is DEAD folks. The guys running around now saying "we're Al Qaeda" are so in name only. And because the press lets them be. Seriously fellas, there's more than just Al-Q out there. Not every terrorist scumbag is super-tight with Osama bin Laden. Whatever. The point is, you think this London thing changes anything? Nope... except maybe the next 5.56 to go through an "Al Qaeda" member comes from a Steyr AUG instead of an M16. |
Jul 4, 2005
THERE MAY STILL BE PROBLEMS WITH INTERNET EXPLORER - SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW POSTS
UPDATE: I think this has more to do with the size of the pictures I put up in the post below this one than it does with anything else. Either way, if you're still using IE, do yourself a favor and switch to Firefox... for FREE! |
She don't look bad for bein' 229 years old...
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Jul 2, 2005
FIXED!
A BIG thank you to everyone who sent in links for how to fix the blog display problem. Happily, I now know it was BLOGGER'S fault and not mine. They've changed the way their coding displays stuff, and managed to screw up quite a few blogs in the process. But with the help of Omar, the Blogger Forum, and most importantly Sean (without whom I would have never found the first two) things are back to normal. Stay tuned. Military film review coming soon... I promise! |