Zenpundit has mentioned several times that he is a big fan of lifting weights. Over the past several months, Jonathan and myself have also begun lifting. Being a competitive bunch we decided to make a gentlemen’s wager on who could lift the largest atlas stone. We made a video and have used false identities so as not to draw attention to ourselves, being the modest persons that we are. I hope you enjoy the video as much as we did making it.
Dan from Madison
Phalanx Gun
Most of you have seen or read that some Iranian boats buzzed a few of our ships that were steaming in international waters near the Straits of Hormuz. The US ships were a cruiser (USS Port Royal, CG 73), a destroyer (USS Hopper, DDG 70) and a frigate (USS Ingraham, FFG 61).
Here is some raw video of the incident:
Daimler Dingo
It is funny how things work out sometimes.
I am a big fan of reading about armored cars and other types of scouting vehicles from the WW2 era. There have been millions of pages written about the famous tank battles like Kursk. On top of that, there are many, many picture books that feature WW2 tanks. A few subjects that don’t get quite as much attention are armored cars, scout vehicles, and transports. Heck, Patton once said that his greatest weapon was the good old two ton truck.
Verdun, Passchendaele, Berlin, Cassino
One of the great things about being a military historian is that you get to ask yourself and others a lot of “what if” questions. They don’t really solve any mysteries but are fun to run through, and help your understanding of certain situations.
Just recently I was doing a purge of my library at home as I need to do every five years or so. I took stacks and stacks of books to Half Price Books and got a little scratch from the sale of those. Others I sent to my friend Carl to get them out of my house as a Christmas present.