Captain Libya, Defender of the Sands

Of course, this picture had the following immediately above it as the headline:

"US pays European groups $1 million to hunt for anti-aircraft missiles in Libya "

Good to see there's still some editors with senses of humor out there.

Who Says Death Has To Be Grim?

One of the MRAPs before heading out on the road. This one a CROWS (Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station) on it, lessening gunner exposure. Not that everything is unexposed:



If you’re going to hose someone with bullets, at least you can bring a smile to their face first.

The Perfect Weapon

is a show on the National Geographic Channel, featuring, what else, weapons. Now, if the underlying theme of the whole show is weapons, one would expect some degree of research on your topics.

But.

When you start your comments with "this is a reproduction Colt Navy revolver; you'd think you would shoot it one-handed, but it's really heavy and kicks like a mule" you know what ever else comes out the host's mouth, it's probably going to be downhill from there.

And so it was.

However, the vintage weapons vs pig carcass was interesting, although it wasn't a complete carcass. Take what you can get over there I suppose.

Dumb & Volunteering Not To Reproduce

If you're stupid enough to volunteer for this, you deserve to be shot in the 'nads.