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Yes, very much so. Would you consider sending Sadr's address to one of the more violent Sunni factions? "Divide and Conquer" worked marvelously 100 years ago. Maybe it's time to give it another try.
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Sorry Cruddy, I must have missed that post or else I would have responded. Thanks for the tip about tea tree oil though. |
Should you get your hands on some (very doubtful but) do remember it's extra super concentrated and one drop for half a gallon of water is plenty.
A friend of mine knocked back half a bottle of TTO and suffered a 3 day allergy reaction. So handle with care.
It's supposed to be external use only, I know, but it actually does work on internal stomach infections. Being a blend of 40 or so natural anti-nasty chemicals, it's not too surprising. Oh, non-irritant as well, so eye infections are easily dealt with.
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The AK seems to not have the original firing pin and the new one looks to be a bit to long. There were carbon marks on the bolt which seemed to indicate blow by was occuring when the weapon was fired so I'm not to egar to fire it.
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I assume you haven't managed to lay your hands on a Soviet 7.62mm headspace gauge set?
For those not in the know, these are 3 dummy rounds - one is too big, one is too small, one is just the right size.
If the too big one fits, the headspace is too much.
If the too small fits, the headspace is not enough.
If ONLY the just right size fits - the headspace is OK.
The point being, if that firing pin really is too long, the gauges should tell you.
Even if you can't find a set - maybe ask an engineer squad if they can knock a set up?
Just a thought... but I'd be scared witless with an untried weapon that looked so dangerous.
Best of luck!
EDIT: US English is "gage", UK English is "gauge". Bit like "colour" and "color".
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of Internet Music.
Sep 2001
time: 21:33
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Last night at around 2300 a Specter Gunship from Kirkuk Air Field finally caught three of our local mortarmen. Unfortunately for them the crew of the specter spotted their red VW Golf Cabrio right after they had fired off a mortar at the air field. A few seconds, a belt of depleted uranium chaingun rounds, and a few high explosive shells latter our friends were nothing more then an unpleasant memory and their VW looked more like a mangled soda can then a car. Let's hear it for our friends in the Air Force. 
On a more somber note this morning I went to the memorial service for PFC John Amos of Galveston, TX. John was an infantrymen in C Co, 1-21, 25th ID and he was killed by the car bomb that went off two days ago behind my compound. John was manning the check point near our compound and when the bomb went off he was standing behind the steel door of an uparmored humvee. The blast of the explosion trapped him between the slamming armored door and the humvee's body; his right leg was completely severed and his left leg was mostly amputated. John died of a cardiac arrest while he was being life flighted to the coalition hospital in Baghdad.
The two main theories floating around are that 1) the car bomb was targeting the CMOC where I was at but found the road closed (we had literally closed the road three minutes before the explosion because the Shi'a demonstration was approaching) or 2) the Car Bomber wanted to blow himself up in the crowd of Shi'a protesters.
I had strange feelings going to John's memorial. I never met him while he was alive but we worked around each other a fair amount (hundreds of people work close to each other every day in the army but if you're not in the same unit the odds are good you'll never talk) but he just might have did because I suddenly became unavailable as a target. When you walked into the make shift chapel at the center of the front was a small podium with John's M-16 pointing muzzle down with his helmet placed on the buttstock and a pair of his combat boots aranged in front of them. Behind the soldier's memorial were two crossed flags; one of the United States and the other of the US Army. From John's rifle was the shiny pair of dog tags he was wearing around his neck the moment he died.
The service itself was fairly brief; 20 minutes from start to finish. A chaplin said a few words then John's squad leader stood up and saluted the memorial and was followed by John's Platoon leader, his CO, and so on up to General Sanchez. Some nelt down to pray before the memorial, a few cried, but most saluted. In the background played a somber track from the movie Braveheart. I was told by one of the chaplin's assistants that Brave heart was PFC Amos's favorite movie so it seemed somewhat fitting that his memorial service would be filled with the sound of bagpipes.
When it was my turn I stood before the alter and Saluted, this seemed like the most dignified thing I could do for a fellow soldier, then i signed into the guest book. I wrote "John, may god speed you on your journey" and that was it. I took a bit of time to look at some of the pictures. There was one with him along with his wife an infant daughter and another one of him in military uniform taken the day before he died. I'm still not sure what to make of this.
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oerdin's sis
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This makes it very difficult for me to pretend Oerdin is sitting in a dorm, playing a game......
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Oerdin!
"In the pipe, five by five"
"Keep it tight people"
"Let's rock!"
Quotes from my favorite movie Aliens.
Stay safe! Are there any female officers where you are at! :0)
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
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It's a sad thing when a good man dies, but in the end we all do. John Amos died before his time, certainly so as he left so much behind.
I'm thinking on his favorite movie and the stirring words of the William Wallace character to a Scottish army about to leave the field in the face of a powerful enemy. How could the army of his countrymen leave and forever wonder all their lives if they had stayed might it be different? They stayed and the English heavy cavalry met the Scotish pikemen.
I like a guy that likes that flick. So deeply sorry he had to die like that.
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