Breda showed us hers, and so did Neanderpundit, North, Weer’d, and JayG (who is also Kilted to Kick Cancer so give him some love and donate) so I guess I’ll do it too.
Here’s the knives my wife and I carry at all times, her’s is the smaller one. We got them for each other as anniversary presents three years ago when we were in San Francisco. Romantic, yes?
UPDATE – Mike W whipped his out too
Separate from the Armory list is the ‘Do Want’ list. Most of the things on this list are either survival/ camping items or general thing that I see and start grunting and drooling over.
So, as a hint to the wife for Christmas I now present a few of them.
Maxpedition Fat Boy GTG I like the left side carry version. Or, I guess I could get the right side version and just carry it on the left. That would put the keys on the front rather than the back and the water bottle would be in easy reach.
Since I shoot either hand, if I have it in the bag it’s fine and If I have in on my right hip the bag isn’t in the way.
The other good thing is that it has room for the kids bottle, a diaper or two as well a snacks and extra ammo. Yeah, I know ‘baby gun blogging’, be glad I haven’t stuck in any cute baby pictures yet.
Next up is more of a survival/ camping item, the Trailblazer Axe/knife combo. I’m very much a dual use kind of person and this axe does that. Hammer on one side, axe on the other and utility knife in the handle.
I like that feature because it means you have three tools in the space of one, and an extra knife is never a bad thing to me.
So, there they are, the beginnings of a “do want” list that isn’t about weapons. Well, kind-of not about weapons… a little.
I have found a new guilty pleasure.
While flipping channels yesterday in an attempt to find SOMETHING on the boob-tube that was worth watching I came across a program that made me flop back on the couch, forget about my other plans for the day (like kitchen cleaning and vacuuming) and revel in all out dudeness. It’s called Deadliest Warrior and it’s on SPIKE TV. They were doing a marathon of them so I was set for the afternoon.
Yep, supreme guy stuff.
They start the show with the premise of what if two warriors who never met in reality were put up against each other? Examples of what they did are Apache vs. Gladiator; Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior; Pirate vs. Knight. They they go through the whole show testing weapons to see how much damage the really inflict in the hands of various experts, and to be honest I was amazed at the amount of damage that some of them could do. Even weapons that I have trained with I did not truly realize how devastating they can be until seeing them used against ballistic dummies.
During the weapons testing phase there is a lot of trash talking among the two teams of experts but it is good natured for the most part and all part of being a guy who has 100% confidence that his fighting style is the best, and to be honest they all have a right to brag. On one show they did Yakuza vs. Mafia and the Mafia expert showed how easy it was to shatter a spine with a baseball bat but the Yakuza expert just looked and said “Big deal, I can do that with my leg” and then proceeded to prove it.
Once all that is done they plug it all into software that was developed for combat simulation for armies and has been modified for individual combat. They then run the combat 1000 times to see who comes out on top the most. I won’t post any video’s from the show here for two reasons. One – You can see the whole episode online over at SPIKE and I don’t want to ruin the suspense of the fight at the end of the show by posting it here.
I did learn one thing though. Ninjas had a black egg that they would carry with them that was filled with ground up glass. They would crush the egg in their hand and then throw the glass dust into the eyes of their enemy – nasty.
I found this over at BLACKFIVE which took me over to This Ain’t Hell
This is the retarded asshole in question:
Said asshole is the current Secretary of the Navy. What did he do you ask??
On March 5, 2009 Congressman John Murtha was awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award by the Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter. From the press release: It is the highest form of public service recognition bestowed by the Department of the Navy for a non-employee. According to the Department, nominations for this award will be limited to those extraordinary cases where individuals have demonstrated exceptionally outstanding service of substantial and long term benefit to the Navy, Marine Corps, or as Department of the Navy as a whole.
So, calling our troops murderers is a “outstanding service of substantial long term benifit to the Marine Corps”??
The Citation reads:
Congressman Murtha’s selfless devotion to the Nation’s Sailors and Marines ensured they were provided the resources necessary to effectively conduct the Global War on Terrorism. His courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy greatly contributed to their quality of life and helped create the most modern and highly trained fighting force in history. As Chairman of Subcommittee on Defense of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman Murtha’s tireless advocacy helped maintain the Navy and Marine Corps team at the highest levels of combat readiness to meet the challenges of the 21st century. With grateful appreciation for his outstanding contributions to the Nation and the Navy and Marine Corps, Congressman Murtha is awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.
This Aint Hell has a few quotes from Murtha too
“They [the Marines/Military] knew the day after this happened that it was not as they portrayed it. They knew that they (marines) went into the rooms, they killed the people in the taxi. There was no firing at all. And this comes from the highest authority in the Marine Corps, so there’s no question in my mind,”
(Murtha, May 2006)“… they [Marine] killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
(Murtha, May 17, 2006 at news conference)“There was no firefight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood”
(Murtha, May 19, 2006)
Sign the petition, I doubt the SecNav will listen to us – retarded Obamanaut POS that he is, but I intend to try and pressure this administration to take care of our troops every single day.
