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The police logos are public domain - anyone can use them as long as they are not impersonating. Does it say "officer Huff" or "deputy Huff" something saying he is an actual cop? The point is moot if it does not contain the language as mentioned previously. It's probably some douche working for the Knoxville red light extortion company, named Huff with an employee number 516. They'll do just about anything to scare people into paying; fear is the only tool they really have. Take that away from them.

That's awesome, they basically have to inform you that there is absolutely nothing they can do if you don't pay it lol!

Yeah, and to get an idea of the size, that was detonated 4,500 feet above the ground. That shockwave looks like a freaking bulldozer on the left side.

Stumbled upon this, looks like the .gov is starting to declassify some of the old films from nuke tests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpqGKUG5yY&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5 This is one of them - Called Turk, wikipedia says it was a 43kt (micro by today's standards) which would be about 3 times bigger than the one dropped on Hiroshima... Could you even imagine being on the receiving side of one of these things?

Stay at my place for free in Nashville, all you have to do is clean guns and prep brass

No, it means you are careful.

Yep, we've had well over a decade of almost no advancement for anything other than big ticket items. Couldn't have said it better myself.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=638_1489470360

This is pretty awesome, one of our allies used a $3,000,000 patriot missile to shoot down a store-bought quadcopter (not a training exercise). http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39277940

Yeah, that and a couple of other threads all point back to check index settings and it's the fault of a Microsoft Office update. I can still search the files manually, but have to go to onedrive via web browser and search from there (cumbersome/worse); it's a pain in the ass when you have a couple thousand documents and one assignment requires you to find 40-50 of those documents.

There's a couple of mac IT guys on here - thought I would hit you up. Have an issue with OSX. About 3 weeks ago, spotlight stopped searching for terms inside of word documents. Searched terms inside of .pdf's still display fine in the results. I disabled indexing on the documents folder, then re-enabled. No luck. Anyone have any ideas? Did the normal googling, but nothing other than re-indexing the folder came up as a legit suggestion.

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My CC takes care of the insurance for no cost, but I still walk around the car once snapping 8-10 pics to cover the entire thing just in case, before leaving the lot. Had Hertz try to charge me for wheel damage once some years ago. Hard for them to argue that case when you have a photo of it while it's still sitting in their garage.

Taxes are what get me... hotels, cars.. anything to do with travel. rent a car for a weekend @ $150, tax/fees are $75. rent a room for $200/night, pay $50/night in taxes/fees.

Yeah, army spec ops is similar. We had to train them on the tanks and it was none of that crap we had to go through (12 weeks of school crap). We were out at gunnery, they showed up with a bunch of ammo trucks in tow. Filled the tanks to the brim, and straight to the range. They don't do classes, they were strictly on the job/hands on training.

Sort of like a marine, when you're a tanker, it's never past or present... you're a tanker. Doesn't matter how you go in, we all come out the other side acting the same way lol Hell, when a navy seal tell you "that's a bad ass job" you know it's cool as hell because those guys get to play with things we don't even know exist.

Love some monty python. Since the thread has diverted, you should check out kids in the hall: brain candy if you like the python movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc4ND4Javf4 Would suggest to get it on TV or something better resolution though.

head to the store! buy all the bread!

Is that top one from an autoloader or something? I've never seen a round broken up into charges like that before.

dunno, but he was probably also the guy that said "hey, what do we do with all these 3/4" ball bearings left over in the garage? ... Let's put them in a 120mm canister and blow them out of a tank!" And the beehive round was born.

Because it's a sabot round. The only difference is the circumference of the petals holding the penetrator will be 130mm, instead of 120mm. <edit> posted that before scrolling down, looks like the others already answered.

Have no clue on what the specifics are; think you would have to be stationed there or have it listed as a deployment on the dd-214.

Yeah it's basically a 30-40mm dart with a DU rod inside of it. The projectile itself is made of another metal, possible tungsten carbide (not sure). DU is a pretty small part of the overall projectile. The tanks use DU in the armor as well, so basically you're riding around in a radioactive death machine. Supposedly nothing bad will happen unless you breath in the dust from a DU round, or hit on the armor, but there sure a lot of us tankers developing autonomic system issues.

Rhienmetall makes the 120mm cannons for most of the NATO tanks now, and they are upgrading to a 130mm before too long. Don't have much on specs other than it has 1.5 times the energy that the current 120mm has. JJust out of boredom, I tracked down the specs of the current cannon and calculated out everything. The 120mm high pressure round (equivalent to our +p personal weapons loads) pushes the 22lb sabot @ 5700 ft/s. At a measly 11,112,873 ft/lbs of muzzle energy. The new one clocks in at 16,669,309 ft/lbs of muzzle energy, as they are using the same projectile and just increasing speed/effective range. Knew those things had some juice behind them, but holy smokes that is crazy. I'd be interested to know what kind of power some of those 8" and 10" battleship guns have if a little 5" gun has almost 17 million ft/lbs.

There's also a new Korean Defense Service Medal that he would be eligible to get retroactively. http://www.dmzwar.com/koreamedalcoldwarcert.html <edit> this is in addition to the Korean Service Medal - they are two separate awards. Also, if he was in Korean between 10/1/1966 through 6/30/1974 he can also get the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. That would be pretty awesome if you were able to get him awarded another medal, or even two before gifting him the medal display