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Warship Wednesday, May 22, 2019: The Defiant Bicyclist
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all...
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Black Dragon in need of some help
From the now 76-year-old Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) Museum in Camden, NJ: New Jersey looking for volunteers… The Battleship is looking for volunteers to help restore more than 40,000 square feet of...
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Ramrod to get a well deserved MoH
Born in 1975, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia loved show tunes and theatre before he found himself on his 29th birthday leading the “Ramrods” of Coy A, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment as the Big...
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Quentin Walsh gets a well-deserved nod
A lot of people forget that the U.S. Coast Guard often carries a serious load in American military history, punching way out of their weight class. This had held true from the War of 1812 to the...
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Not bad for a platform that some deride as a 300-yard rifle, at best
Sgt. Cleland got it done 80 out of 80 times, out to 600 yards, with an M16 (Photos: U.S. Army) A member of the U.S. Army’s elite Marksmanship Unit’s Service Rifle Team landed all 80 rounds in the...
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The Trooper
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden poses with a British Pattern 1853 Cavalry Trooper’s Sword at the National Army Museum’s “Britain’s Greatest Battles” exhibit in March of 2013. Source: National Army...
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Warship Wednesday, July 3, 2019: The Frogmen of Balikpapan
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship (or unit) each week. These ships have a...
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Same as it ever was
From the National WWI Museum and Memorial, this 1919 Independence Day flyer, with a sentiment that is 100 years old today, and is still on target. Don’t think so? Check out this Pentagon Hall of Heroes...
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Burt’s Roscoes
Burt Reynolds was, of course, a guy’s guy. Besides his prep and college (FSU) athletic career and work on the large and small screen, he was also an avid hunter and firearms collector. As his father...
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Fightin’ Fitz
While in Pascagoula a few days ago, I spotted this familiar old girl in the shallow waters of the muddy Pascagoula River along Ingalls SB’s West Bank. (Photo: Chris Eger) Note her Union Jack on the...
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Group Captain Hemingway at 100
Born July 1919 in Dublin, John Allman Hemingway, the Irishman picked up a short service flying officer’s commission in the Royal Air Force in April 1938 at age 18 and went on to become one of the RAF’s...
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Going back to Guam, 75 years ago today
Offical Caption: “5 August 1944. Home Again – Col. Merlin F. Schneider (kneeling, left), Commanding Officer of the Marine unit that recaptured the Marine Barracks on Orote Peninsula, Guam, holds the...
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Wheel Guns!
In looking around my firearms collection, I realized that I have a lot of revolvers. How many? Well, we don’t need to get into all that but I in doing a file piece for Guns.com about how to clean a...
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If you are pretty good with your hands and have access to some scrap metals, you too could craft your own bronze cannon replica. Interesting.
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Bluejackets and scatterguns
A thin but undeniable thread throughout U.S. Naval history is getting in a little bit of MW&R while underway via some shooting sports, primarily with shotguns. Now to be clear, I am not talking...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade, Audregnies installment
On this day some 105 years ago, British Army Cpt. Francis Octavius Grenfell– aged 33 and a noted polo player– led the 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers into combat against the Germans at Audregnies, a small...
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Wishing you a happy Labor Day
Hopefully, you have the day off. If not, proceed accordingly, setting your own level of commitment. Maybe work on your mustache. Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR. Description:...
View ArticleA golden ticket to visit the Willy Wonka of Guncraft
On the latest edition of Select Fire, I took a trip to Tampa and hung out with Mark Serbu, who gave me a look behind the curtain. Classic mistake.
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Happy Friday the 13th
As tonight is both a Friday the 13th and a full moon, enjoy Joseph Wright of Derby’s circa 1780 moonlight landscapes. As a youth who grew up on the seacoast and often spent summers under sail or by the...
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Can you tell it’s dove season in the South?
A few days ago, these several pallet displays of low brass 12 gauge shells by the case were five-to-six feet high and squared-off. Then, dove season hit this weekend. Of note, if you haven’t gone on a...
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