An Officer’s Outrage Over Fort Hood
I’m angry that the murderer was a terrorist who masqueraded as an Army officer for half a dozen years. And angrier that it was allowed to happen.

SF units to get latest Land Warrior kit
Killed in 2007, Land Warrior lives on. Looks like each man will get a unit, not just team leaders as in infantry.

Army Launches Examination of Armor Testing
As an outsife observer, a new look at how armor is tested and rated appears to be long overdue. It’s a still-developing technology and the ways it’s used are still being tested under fire. We need to accept that some changes in ways we think about things may be in order.

Another F-35 test plane takes its first flight
AF-1, the redesigned A-model conventional Lightning, begins test flights.

Climategate?
Leaked emails apparently show the lengths one climate scientist goes to make sure the data fits the narrative.

How do I plug my electric vehicle in at home?
For the record, Murdoc supports the concept of the plug-in hybrid or electric car. He thinks we need more nuclear power plants, though.

If Day
I had not heard of this 1942 Canadian enactment of Nazi occupation of the Great White North.

History In These Plates
Armor plating from the Tirpitz used by Oslo road construction crews.

Northrop Invests Own Money In Fire Scout
Murdoc continues to be a fan of this unmanned whrilybird.

Post Veterans Day Thoughts
Richard Mann on remembering the veterans and their rifles when out on a hunt with yours.

Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown
Union files grievance over Boy Scout clearing a hiking path for his project.

Major Shipment of Iranian Arms Seized
Israeli naval commandos intercepted a ship carrying “hundreds of tons” of arms from Iran to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia

Selecting and Ordering a Custom Hunting Rifle
Chapters include Custom Varmint Rifles, Rifles for Alaska, Custom Rifles and Kids, and What About a Wildcat?

Pete Hoekstra cites his opposition to bringing Gitmo detainees to Michigan
In letter soliciting funds for his campaign for governor

JSTARS Wars
The Air Force’s E-8 Joint STARS is proving to be a powerful force in the Afghanistan war.

Chilton: U.S. Needs More Ready-to-Launch Satellites
No “bullpen” of satellites and no stock of launchers ready for quick launches if needed.

India Seeks To Bolster Transport With 10 C-17s
Nice.

J8II Ground Attacker
The Chinese are converting old interceptors into attack aircraft.

More Frigates Sought for EU Somalia Mission
3 or 4 have been committed, but they’ll need at least 6 or 10. Really, you can never have enough frigates. Where is the 21st-century FFG7?

Airman among 6 killed in bar shooting in Mexico
Another was seriously wounded. Juarez is terrible and getting worse. Secure the border.

The Story of ‘Operation Orchard’
How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor

The use of German tanks in Soviet army
Photos and info about captured tanks in WW2.

Taiwan says China starts building first aircraft carrier
They will attempt to get it into service by 2012, they claim.

201st Carnival of Homeschooling
Lots of links at The Informed Parent.

11 airmen survive Sudanese confrontation
Previously-classified 2006 incident could have ended quite badly.

Tommy Gun: How General Thompson’s Submachine Gun Wrote History
Haven’t read it but it looks interesting.

AR Guns & Hunting
New online magazine focusing on tactical guns for hunting.

A Tale of Two Marines
I suppose that if you have the luxury of quitting, you can just fucking quit. But if that’s not an option, you figure out a way to win.

Airmen Bomb Silly Safety Belt Rules, on Facebook
Airmen are ordered to wear the reflective accessories from the late afternoon on. That goes for domestic installations, and for war zone bases, too.

Navy on Yorktown: Fix it or junk it
Museum ship in South Carolina needs at least $100 million for repairs to rusting hull. Earlier this year a local writer suggested disposing of her.

More Linkzookery below!

Don’t be Too Quick to Dis the Contractors
Truck driver defends UN installation with his personal AK.

Armed Bread Box for Iraqi Air Force
Hellfires on Cessna Caravans.

Armed F-16s ‘Prepared’ to Shoot Down Errant Northwest Flight
On alert but not scrambled.

A great collection of Soviet WW2 Paintings
I particularly like the “On Approaches to Moscow” on the first page with the AT gun crew facing down the Panzers.

Advent upgrade ‘feasible’ for F-35 engine
Third bypass during cruise could greatly increase fuel efficiency.

Hero-Gear is pleased to introduce BATTLE MUG
A machined aluminum mug with mil-spec rails.

200th Carnival of Homeschooling
The Party On edition

Girl’s ‘Notes Left Behind’ Help Grieving Parents Help Others
6-year-old Elena Desserich, dying of cancer, left notes throughout the house for her family.

Murdoc’s AR
Back in action after being in pieces for a while.

Russian Admirals Told To Forget About Carriers
Instructed to focus on re-building Black and Baltic Seas fleets with corvettes and patrol boats.

Velma and Scooby Hunting Zombies and/or Vampires
Looks like Shaggy, Freddie, and Daphne bit the dust.

British nuclear expert dies in 40-metre plunge
Police are investigating after a British nuclear energy expert involved in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme fell 40 metres to his death from a UN building in Vienna.

Survival Knife Bayonet
For Your Handgun.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One
I haven’t watched any of these, but I really liked the original series. This series (and the movie that kicked it off) are different, but my kids have enjoyed what they’ve seen.

Cheney’s Speech
Countering all the claims that the Bush administration left no plans in place for Afghanistan. Obama’s new plan is just like the old plan.

Combat’s positive effects examined
Post-Traumatic Growth. Don’t hear much about that.

How lean manning saps morale, puts sailors at risk
“Lean manning at sea means one thing: sleep deprivation.”

Much more Linkzookery below!

Matt Burden Announces Campaign for 41st District
Blackfive is running for the Illinois state House.

Retiring to a gun in the sun
William Foster, 55, retired from the police force. And became a CH-47 door gunner. He’s currently serving in Iraq. So, like, who’s cutting his grass?

Amphibious ops to become default mode for MEUs
The Marines have spent too much time acting like the Army lately.

Blacks need party affiliations by candidates so that they know how to vote???
The US DoJ says they do.

Jihad Ain’t Easy
Apparently misled by the Brady Bunch, the media, and Barack Obama, terrorist wannabes planning attacks on US malls are disappointed to learn it’s not easy or cheap to acquire automatic weapons in America.

Be a Good Victim
Marin County, CA: Under current law, the Second Amendment ends at your front door.

Assault on Weapons: The Campaign to Eliminate Your Guns
by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman

House Democrats Lock GOP Out of Committee Room
Literally. As in: they changed the locks on the doors so the keys the GOP members had no longer worked. Grow up.

Russia violating treaty, developing missile
The new multiple-warhead RS-24 (SS-27) violates START. Rooskies cheating? Doesn’t seem likely, does it?

Map of Taliban control in Pakistan’s Northwest
What a mess.

Carnival of Homeschooling #199
Maine: The Postcards Don’t Lie Edition

Natural Gas Changes the Energy Map
Vast amounts of the clean-burning fossil fuel have been discovered in shale deposits, setting off a gas rush.

Riggins: Redskins organization has been taken hostage by a child
The ‘Skins are a shambles. I think everyone must go. The owner, too. Especially the owner.

Primate fossil called only a distant relative
Ida is “as far removed from the monkey-ape-human ancestry as a primate could be.”

Concealed Carry on Campus in Michigan?
Michigan’s HB 5474 would prohibit colleges and universities from banning concealed weapons.

Armored Steiner Binoculars
With a compass in the stock but no thing which tells time.

Inside-the-Waistband Holsters by Richard Mann
Also see The Paddle and The Pancake.

Shake Your Mailbox Day in Michigan is Saturday
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has proclaimed Saturday Shake Your Mailbox Day in Michigan, part of a joint public awareness effort on the part of the road commission and the United States Postal Service.

No joke: College removes zombie plan from site
If zombies attack the University of Florida, the students are doomed.

C-17 delivers first M-ATVs to Afghanistan
300-500 light MRAPs to be delivered for each of the next three months.

The Senators’ C-17 Debate
Buying 10 more transports despite USAF claims that they aren’t needed.

Still no charges for accused Colo. faker
Supposed gay war hero and 9/11 survivor who campaigned for anti-war candidates was just a liar but may not be prosecuted.

Ken Burns: National Parks – America’s Best Idea
Murdoc’s caught a few bits of this series on PBS and loves it.

Israel Takes Delivery of 2 German-Built U212 Subs
Diesel/AIP boats.

Military to open new investigation into battle that killed nine soldiers
Another look at July, 2008, battle at Wanat, Afghanistan.

Boston Tea Shirt
Great T-Shirt from Ranger Up.

U.S. willing to let go of Icann
What could possibly go wrong?

In Revolutionary Color
Amazing 100-year-old color photos from Russia.

School speech backlash builds
No backlash here. Murdoc’s kids are homeschooled.

At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek
Not sure about accuracy but is certainly interesting to look at and think about.

Solar Panels Built Into Roads Could Be the Future of Energy
Each mile of interstate could take 500 homes off the grid.

Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859 Magnetic Storm
Auroral Current. Cool.

Feral Houses
Overgrown abandoned houses in Detroit.

Canned Tactical Bacon
Yes. Canned Tactical Bacon.

Global Warming Could Forestall Ice Age
I can never keep up with whether we’re saved or doomed.

Finally Uncensored: IAF Plane “Downed” Iraqi Jet in 1982
Without a shot being fired.

Resurrect the Raptor
Steve Forbes says get more F-22s.

Russia Holds US Humvees as Trophies
Captured awaiting shipment home when the Rooskies attacked Georgia.

Marines Looking at Adjustable M16 Stocks
But Conway is against it.

Boeing delivers B-52 with digital upgrade to Air Force
Combat Network Communications (CONECT). Set your CRM-114 Discriminator.

F-35B “Warthog”
Hanging all sorts of stuff off a Lighting.

How to turn seawater into jet fuel
Maybe we can fight fight rising sea levels by requiring everyone to drive an SUV that gets less than 12 MPG.

New Va.-class sub construction problem
Weapons-handling gear assembled incorrectly.

Operation: Soccer Escort
Out of all the jobs I have done, 90% of my clients arrived at their destination unharmed.

Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration
Says that it was “a mistake” to claim that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2030.

“Obama As Hitler” Poster Was A Democrat/Union Plant At John Dingell Townhall
Oops.

Nuclear Cruiser Could Be Cheaper Than Non-Nukes
Right.

Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest
No way.

Michigan’s Population Exodus
Murdoc’s not looking to flee. Yet.

Stoeger Tactical Double Barrel
A tactical side-by-side shotgun?

F/A-18 may perform ‘hands-off’ carrier landings by 2011
To test X-47B systems.

The New Book Banning
Children’s books burn, courtesy of the federal government.

Obamas set to relax at prominent Republican’s $20-million private estate
OMFG!!! You mean with all the things going on in the country he’s taking a vacation?!? [/sarc]

Was Hillary jetlagged? That’s a hell of an excuse for the lady who purveyed the 3 a.m. ad!
“Snapped”?

Fancy dropping into Pitetsbkrrh?
Pittsburgh tower fails spelling test

Inouye Ignores Veto Threat Against F-35 Engine Funding
Wait, the F136 not-dead-again? I thought it was most recently dead-again after previously being not-dead-again.

189th Carnival of Homeschooling
The Lolcats edition.

A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished in the Atlantic last month has been found near Cape Verde, the French Defense Ministry said Friday.

Ministry spokesman Capt. Jerome Baroe said Cape Verde coast guards confirmed the Arctic Sea was discovered Friday afternoon about 520 miles off the former Portuguese colony off the West African coast.

Israel Says Tanks To Get New Anti-Missile System
Trophy system for Merkava tanks.

MasterPiece Arms .45 Tactical Carbine
Everything has a tactical version these days.

Family: Speicher found far from crash site
Still things to be answered.

SAF’s Gun Rights Policy Conference
In St. Louis this September.

Extra training may mean more time between combat tours for Stryker soldiers
2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment headed to Bulgaria and Romania fro three months.

RAAF’s white elephant in the sky
Each of Australia’s F-111s requires 180 man-hours of service for every hour in the air.

Audio care packages for service members with Google Voice
Google announces a program to automatically extend Google Voice invites to anyone with a .mil e-mail address.

NAVAIR fuels team plans Super Hornet biofuels flight test
Navy looking to test 50-50 blend similar to USAF tests with coal-based jet fuel.

MORE LINKZOOKERY BELOW!

All violent video games poised for ban in Germany
As a result of a school shooting in March. Not sure what the status of this legislation is.

LCS Bids Submitted to U.S. Navy
Two of one design and one of the other?

Turbine-seal leak means more tests for LCS 2
LCS 2 hit 43 knots at less than full power but spring a seal leak.

DoubleStar 1911
Sharp-looking .45

Children played with body for 11 days
New Zealand kids thought it was a crocodile carcass.

New Documents Detail Threats to Fire Amtrak Inspector General
The AMTRAK quagmire just keeps getting more quagy and more mired.

Without opium, Afghan village economy spirals
Who would have guessed?

Rehabbed dolphin killed by shark
Ah, the circle of life.

Russia may order amphibious assault ship from France
Rooskies interested in a 20,000-ton Mistral-class helicopter carrier.

Recommended tobacco ban for military is a difficult proposition
You don’t say. The proposal would still allow tobacco use in combat zones.

Extreme Shock 100-grain Short Range Tactical .223
Frangible mess-maker.