Recent content by KevinTM

Re: The Hobbit Saw it in "regular" 3D and it was OK. To me, the film tries to do the same two things at once that the book did but it is less successful. The book was briefly controversial in the 70's when Tolkien revealed that the dwarves were based in part on the Jewish culture he...

Re: Coriolanus This version of Coriolanus is in my Netflix queue, but not too high up as I got burned by Julie Taymor's take on Titus Andronicus, which was just strange. I'll bump it higher, based on this review.

Re: Colorado shooting at batman premire <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Eric.D.Actor</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I'm a proud gun owner. But the fact of the matter is in most all of these tragedies guns are involved. Usually semi-automatic...

Re: Colorado shooting at batman premire <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bushmaster7</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe I missed it; but nowhere in this string of posts did I see any mention of the kind of movies and such this guy immersed himself...

Re: Colorado shooting at batman premire My heart goes out to those afflicted by this incident. Anyone who's ever had to help support a widow after her husband was KIA knows exactly what these people are going through. This guy styled himself as the Joker, someone whom in a previous Batman...

Re: Cub Scouts - WTF? Out of curiosity, are there other organizations that provide a more uniform experience? Gordonstoun-based systems like Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (which AFAIK is an in-school organization that is different from Outward Bound Wildnerness) come to mind...

Re: Netflix - 9th Company US Army analysis of the real story: Battle for Hill 3234: 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 345th Airborne Regiment

Re: Danger space vs Hit Threshold <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What you are calling danger space was taught years ago but dealt more with machine guns then rifles, althought during the trench fighting of WWI it was also taught...

Re: Danger space vs Hit Threshold I don't know if this is any help, but "hitting space" as it was (is?) used comes from naval artillery. If I have it right, it was often but not always the same as danger space, and could be used to calculate the probability of a hit, which helped determine...

Re: Matterhorn - A damn Good read !!! The author has written his autobiography, What It Is Like to Go to War. NPR audio interview with Karl Marlantes

Re: Why not ccw with hand loads FWIW Local CCD class I took from a former state trooper advised use of most common self-defense rounds with US-made components (he mentioned CorBon and Federal Personal Defense) because if there was any chance of a request for a forensic profile of the round...

Re: Iranian Ninja Threat? I didn't realize that kuji-in (the buddhist hand gestures, see middle figure in slide 4) were compatible with Islam. [What is the penalty for witchcraft in Iran, again? Stoning or beheading? RIP.]

Re: Marines Snipers Make Headlines..........again Just think of the SS thing as balancing out the importation of Chinese communist military ideology into the USMC by Evans Carlson: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/gungho.html Heil Mao!? Does anyone believe that embracing a slogan of the...

Re: What is on your bookshelf? A good read: In The Trenches 1914-1918 by Glenn Iriam If you purchase it from CEF books, you might as well pick up: I, That's Me by Pete Anderson Pete Anderson influenced the original WWI USMC sniper program, although I would think not as much as Maurice...

Re: Book: Sniper in Helmand I should also add that Cartwright doesn't give an overview of the British system, that's just me talking. He just relates what he experienced. Also, over the decades various British sniping schools have existed at various levels... I use "old sytem" just to...