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Shane Fazen on traditional Irish boxing
The real “fighting Irish” deciphered. Bone strikes and palm strikes, not the knuckles. Makes sense.
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Trophies via Feisal
Here we see a Short-Magazine Lee-Enfield in .303 British that had a very curious history. It was issued to a member of the Reserve/1st Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment (formed in 1881 from the...
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Not every kukri-armed soldier was a Gurkha
The kukri is a traditional Nepalese weapon. It is most commonly associated with the Gurkha units serving with the Indian or British armies. However it was used, on a less official basis, by other...
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A .50 cal gunner from the Meat Hound
Right waist gunner Staff Sergeant Frank T. Lusic of Eighth Air Force’s “Meat Hound” a Boeing B-17F-55-BO Flying Fortress (s/n 42-29524) assigned first to the 423th Bomb Sqn, 306th Bomb Group in early...
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Back when the Navy had these things called “rates”
National Archives photo Caption: Two Sailors lean on a railing on the starboard side of the patrol combatant missile hydrofoil USS GEMINI (PHM 6) while the ship is in port. The GEMINI is part of the...
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Happy fall!
Spent some time back home in Mississippi between the NASGW show and the upcoming SHOT show poking around at night and caught a few interesting things: Two 65-foot shrimp boats, F/V Dustin II and F/V...
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The Jacob Double Rifle
Brig. Gen. John Jacob (CB) was an officer of the British East India Company born in 1812. Reared at the Addiscombe Military Seminary, he completed his formal education at age 16 when he was...
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We the People now available
A friend and co-worker of mine, Ben Philippi, has finished his second book project, a hardcover entitled We the People, which he compiled over a five year period from coast to coast, profiling various...
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Any excuse to go hunting
Note the Enfield M1917 in 30.06– still a great hunting rifle today. From Fort Wainwright’s PAO: On June 16, 1941, Lieutenant Milton Ashkins and his crew chief Sargent R.A. Roberts took off from Ladd...
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From the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor– a minesweeper man
Navy Seaman Raymond Chavez is now 104 years old but he remembers one of the first sightings of a Japanese midget submarine hours before the attack and racing back to his ship once the fight was on....
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Thinking about EDC with your Glock
My current “winter” EDC: Gen 3 Glock 19 in Galco Royal Guard inside the waistband holster, cheapo Cree LED light (they work well, are adjustable and are inexpensive if you lose them), Skallywag Gladium...
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Ghosts of the Rukla forest
U.S. Marine Sgt. Kirstin Merrimarahajara captured a Marine walking through Rukla Training Area, Lithuania during Exercise Iron Sword 16. The Marines, after all, have a history of fighting deep in the...
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Of a goat and a mystery rifle
I came across this reddit picture of an unidentified goat hunter (“found in 1920’s collection”) showing a proud hunter with a hard-to-get American Mountain goat. The rifle in the grainy photo is...
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You know what time it is…
It’s not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall off of Nakatomi Plaza
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Merry Christmas, but remember those downrange today
IWM UKLF-1994-004-103-9 Men of ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers on Christmas Day, 25 December 1994. Major David Crumlish has a whiskey with the men at a checkpoint in the Vitez...
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Welcome aboard, Spuds
Happy New Year! On this day in 1914, Lt. Theodore Gordon Ellyson, (USNA 1905), better known to his friends as Spud, was named Naval Aviator Number One. After service on a number of battleships and...
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The need to satisfy honor
From The Rooms museum in Newfoundland. These dueling pistols were manufactured in London, England in the early 1800’s, and were used for a duel in St. John’s. Allegedly, conflict arose between two...
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And you think you are cold…
On this day 72 years ago: Vickers machine gun crew of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Middlesex Regiment, 3rd Division at Grubbenvorst, Holland, 13 January 1945. Note the complex sight and traversing mount for...
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Old 666
The interesting tale of a resurrected and very much up-armed (19 .50 cals!) B-17E, #41-2666, that took on a whole airfield of Japanese fighters over the Solomon Islands for the sake of a good photo....
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Remembering WBY, and his own cruise to Byzantium
On this day in 1939, William Butler Yeats breathed his last breath. His last words, while living in France were, “If I die bury me up there [at Roquebrune cemetery] and then in a year’s time when the...
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