Cyrus Cassidy #45437

Liquor, apparently. I don't even know what he's talking about.

A meme is a joke. I don't undersand the joke. This is an armored tow truck built on a Hemmit chassis. It's literally a 10-ton tow truck for big army vehicles. What's the joke???

My grandfather was on one of those 17 Fletcher class destroyers lost off the coast of Okinawa. He was on the USS Luce, DD522. A kamikaze hit the powder magazine and it blew up. My grandfather's leg was mangled terribly; there was shrapnel littered all throughout and he was bleeding profusely. Someone put a tourniquet on him and fastened him to a stretcher. Then the ship started listing hard; it was sinking, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship. The two sailors carrying my grandfather dropped him and obeyed the order. So there he was, tied to a stretcher and sitting on the deck of a sinking ship, unable to save himself. As the ship was going down, someone climbed onto the now-45 degree deck, freed him from the stretcher, and put a life vest on him before throwing him into the water. He floated with the life vest on, but the Japanese aircraft were strafing the survivors in the water with machinegun fire. He survived that. Then, while waiting in the water for three days to be rescued, the sharks were feasting on people and body parts. He survived that and was rescued. He was flown to a hospital in Oklahoma, where my grandmother drove down from Iowa and married him. He had a metal brace on his leg and walked with a limp and a cane for the rest of his life. He was in constant pain and never complained about it. He used to tell me, "Every day since that day is a gift from God." Every few years some more shrapnel would work its way to the surface and need to be surgically removed. He used to say, "At least I still have my leg." The doctors told him that one more such surgery and they would have to amputate his leg, but the opportunity never came. After beating cancer twice, it finally took him on the third go around in 2010.

SPG works on smokeless, too!

It wasn't even a paper organization by that time. It was just a historical marker. They still exist as historical markers. Three battalions scattered across the army can all trace their lineage through the same regiment. So 1-36, 2-36, and 3-36 all came from the 36th Artillery Regiment, but the regiment is no longer a thing. Reserves: We don't relocate for part-time (HA!) jobs. We fly all the time. All. The. Time. I'm currently a division G3/5/7 and work out of Fort Sill but live in Colorado. Now I'll be flying to PA and NY instead.

Pard, seriously, it hasn't been since shortly after WW2. There are a few separate cavalry brigades that retain the name "regiment" as a historical marker, but they are brigades commanded by colonels. Other than that, there is no such thing as a regiment and hasn't been since two generations before I was born!

They eliminated the “regiment” layer of bureaucracy and reorganized. So a modern brigade is the same size as the old regiments used to be. Regiments were commanded by colonels, so it’s the same span of control. So the brigadier label has been relegated to history.

Definitely not a star. Brigades have been commanded by Colonels since WW2.

I received an email stating, "COL [Cassidy], congratulations on being selected for brigade command..."

Pards, I'm seeing on social media that our friend Flint McCloud has passed away. Maybe someone already let you know and I missed it. Prayers up.

Sure. I hunt high up in the mountains. The mountain streams are above agriculture, so there is no animal waste or nitrate fertilizers in it. The only thing I worry about is giardia, a virus. It is not known to frequent high elevations, but I carry a giardia-rated filter nonetheless. Pump it through and I'm golden.

I've seen the video, and there is a lot going on that people are not talking about. I'm always very hesitant to render judgment without knowing all the facts, but here is what I can say. While I cannot find anything that would justify the shooting, I can tell you why he PROBABLY wasn't criminally charged. That deputy has every classic indicator of unaddressed PTSD. His mind went into "fight, flight, or freeze" mode and reacted accordingly. It's a good thing for him and for the public that this happened, because he has resigned from the profession and didn't kill anyone. That said, he might have been able to address his PTSD and been an effective cop. That's for his doctor to decide. One researcher I know claims that 70% of cops have PTSD, most of which is unaddressed. When he told me that, I asked him, "Do you know what they call the other 30%, doctor?" "What's that?" he replied. "Rookies," I told him. I think the vast majority of the public thinks law enforcement is sitting around and occasionally handing a speeding ticket to a soccer mom. Nothing could be further from the truth. Throughout my career, I averaged three times PER DAY that I had to draw my gun. It was nonstop, with 911 calls stacked up and no cops available to be dispatched. I remember one shift where I handled two dead people and a DUI related serious crash that changed someone's life forever. ONE SHIFT. I had another one where I handled a murder, an armed robbery, and a shooting...again, ONE SHIFT. Child sex abuse cases still haunt my nightmares, and I've been out of law enforcement for 7 years. My PTSD has been addressed, but I'm still medicated to sleep.

Didja find one?

Now that we have gotten rid of the problem, if anyone wants to join or re-join the NRA, give me a shout. I'm officially a recruiter now

It's a little out of range for me...

W231 burns a little dirty but it meters consistently.

I got injured pretty badly -- I tore my bicep completely off. Surgery was a few weeks ago and I'm in physical therapy, which will last about a year. In other words, there won't be any tales from behind the plate this year.

It's harder on the ears on the landing end Ask why I have tinnitus...

I guess that master's degree in history I just finished means I can't move on?

The author of this book is an English professor in my hometown, and his daughter was a classmate of mine. His parents were interned; they pulled him out of the camps and put him in the army because he was a physician! My classmate is now a world famous artist, and I helped her track down her grandfather's military history. He was a complete badass. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-After-Minidoka-American-Memoir/dp/0253011027/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DFFE5QKSTTEY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._x8U1-yoq3dvYkHfJSvcYKknwVmy83UbYQ0GtHxYbTE.kvVoexClbEVtl7SFHnx6PgzLNrhhvNtkxKHQ42GLapU&dib_tag=se&keywords=looking+after+minidoka&qid=1708632513&sprefix=looking+after+minidoka%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

He's throwing a grenade.

Sorry, pard, Chat GPT is as cheating as cheating gets. It is capable of writing entire papers, some of which are better than what most students can muster. If he was using it for English homework, not a darn thing is his own work. Schools everywhere have policies against it.

It's almost a certainty that a judge will order witness sequestration, exactly how you described. I have seen one instance in which the defense forgot to ask for it, so the judge didn't order it.

The app is free, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Goex is my favorite.