VOA WHAT WE KNOW, with updates CNN, KSBY NBC A gunman opened fire in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday during morning services. The suspect in custody was identified as Robert Bowers, 46. UPDATE The suspect was identified as Robert Bowers, 46 of Pittsburgh. NBC’s Pete Williams says the suspect’s hate is directed in …
Marine Corps Times took the incident in stride, Marine Corps style: “Today, high over the Mad Max-ian wasteland that is California’s Salton Sea, a T-34C aircraft belonging to the Miramar-based Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing appeared to be in a holding pattern, looping effortlessly over the San Andreas Fault-based …
Armed and Ready: Ramstein receives largest ammo shipment in years By Senior Airman Joshua Magbanua, 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published October 24, 2018 The 86th Munitions Squadron on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, received its largest shipment of ordnance in recent history. Approximately 100 containers with a variety of munitions rolled into Ramstein during …
This video illustrates what happens when a shotgun shell accidentally goes off outside a gun. It is surprisingly innocuous. This was done under very controlled conditions – do not reproduce this yourself. TAOFLEDERMAUS
Something a little different in this video. We open up a pretty grungy spam can from 1970. What will the rounds look like after 48 years? It’s kind of like opening a time-capsule. This is from the “golden age” (of my lifetime) of mil-surp when this stuff was being flooded into the country and was …
Taffy Holden, the Accidental Lightning Pilot for a terrifying 12 minutes. In the UK in 1966, an RAF ground crewman conducting an electrical test suddenly finds himself airborne. No helmet, no canopy, no ejector seat in the UKs fastest jet fighter said to be like being scaffolded to a sky rocket. . The History Guy: …
On October 23, 1983 at 6:22 a.m., a large delivery truck drove to the Beirut International Airport where the Marine Barracks was located. After turning onto an access road leading to the compound, the driver rushed through a barbed-wire fence, passed between two sentry posts, crashed through the gate, and slammed into the lobby of …
GRENADA ONE WE WON! by Robert K. Brown and Dr. Vann Spencer, from I am Soldier of Fortune SOF covers America’s victory and scores intelligence coup in Caribbean The United States invaded Grenada in 1983. “Pack up, we are going to war,” I told my then Managing Editor Jim Graves. We packed up and got …
VOA Carla Babb An envelope addressed to President Donald Trump containing a substance thought to be the toxin ricin appears to be connect to two letters intercepted at the Pentagon. “The Secret Service can confirm receipt of a suspicious envelope addressed to the President on Oct. 1, 2018,” the Secret Service said in a statement. …
