Look at all that salad hanging there, and I bet they are all hard fought for and earned and not participation trophy's like many, Captain America hell, Warrant Officer America for the win. I am glad he is on our side.
Not unheard of in Cali. About 15 years ago I was working on a job In Eldorado Hills CA when a tornado passed about 1/2 mile south of us.
These are not the monster storm of the Midwest, Just the convergence of the hot air from the valley floor and the cold air of the mountains and generally on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They usually do minor damage. They tend to fizzle out as the go up the mountain.
I am pretty sure there were a couple tornados up near Marysville CA near the same time.
"Both soldiers had been sworn in less than 24 hours prior to the attack."
If this statement is actually true neither one of these soldiers should have been out patrolling, or they should have been paired with a trained and experienced soldier at the least.
Someone needs to do some explaining here!
Thoughts and prayers.
I often wondered if TWA Flight 800 was a deliberate shootdown as a compensation deal with Iran for the downing of one of their airliners by the USS Vincennes.
Very similar scenario, both planes taking off, similar passenger loading (almost), 290 vs 260. It was about 8 years later but these types of deal take time to work out. If I am not mistaking I think the US Government also paid restitution to the Iranian families around this time also.
Just strange thoughts that often roll around in my head.
Not sure if you mean the crew of the USS Pueblo captured off the coast of North Korea in 1968. The crew was beaten and tortured, but the NK took a propaganda photo to show they were well treated. The sailors all extended their middle fingers and told the NK's it was a Hawaiian good luck symbol. When the photo was published in the west and the NK's found out what it really meant the retribution was swift to the defiant sailors.
That truck has a huge lift package on it, look at the wheel wells. Normal truck gap between the tire and the truck would maybe be 5 inches. Also looks like he is well beyond the back door and both doors are fully opened, camera perspective. I am 6 ft tall and look small next to my full size truck. I know it looks questionable, but it is more the camera and the lens and angle of the shot in my observation.
In that area Is McQuire AFB, Fort Dix, and Lakehurst NAS. Back in the 1960's there was a Bomarc missile base with nuc capability between the AFB and Fort, one of the Bomarc missiles had an accident with a nuc on the tip and there was contamination of radiation from this, supposedly cleaned up by now. Back in the Nike and Bomarc defense days.
Fort dix use to be a Basic Combat Training base, not sure of its use today. Spent many summers there in the 70's with the reserves. McQuire is used more in transport to Europe than a defense airbase it use to be. I think it still provides defense for the New York area s few fighter jets. Lakehurst is Lakehurst more a training facility than anything else. You can still see the huge dirigible hangers that were built in the 30's. The German dirigible Hindenburg blew up there.
Back in its day, Belle Meade NJ had an arms depot but I believe it has been long ago discontinued.
Earle Ammunition Depot did at one time store nuc's but that was along time ago. Don't know if they still do.
Picatinny Arsenal I don't know to much about but I thought it was decomissioned back in the 60's.
Not to take away from 7 December, but when you mentioned the bullet holes I thought Of a church between Freehold and Englishtown NJ, Tennent Church. If you go inside you can still see the blood of a soldier on one of the pews there. He was wounded in the Battle of Monmouth just between those two towns during the Revolutionary War. So close, history in my back yard. I lived a few miles down the road from this area on Tennent Rd. and seeing this as a young teen it has always stuck in my memory. I don't think to many people are aware of this Historic Church.
Village person here. J1D stated it best.
It was recently in the northern part of The Villages, but this is a new school opened about 2 years ago about 15 miles south of its former location, it is pretty impressive. The Villages also built some family oriented villages for the workers right near the 3 new schools.