Tag: Marine Corp

  • Photos From Afghanistan (February 2011)

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    James Edward Orr, 20, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company, lifts weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in Helmand province, Feb. 17. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters) And I thought prison gyms on TV shows looked badass!  You can’t get much more badass than lifting spooled up barbed…

  • Happy 234th Birthday United States Marine Corps

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    Thank you to all who have served, and to all who are serving today. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwY67LYzH7Q[/youtube] [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWA1rp50rs[/youtube] Semper Fi

  • Use of the AR-15 in Dirty / Dusty Environments

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    If you have been watching the news or reading any of the online forums lately, it would have been hard to miss all the talk about the M4 carbine and its “failure” in Afghanistan. I had a number of thoughts on this topic and had a draft written up for an article I was going…

  • New Marine Corp Deployment Bag

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    Initial distribution of the Corps’ new Deployment Bag, a 10-pound footlocker on wheels, began in September and will continue for the next year, according to Marine Corps Systems Command. Manufactured by California-based ForceProtector Gear, the new bag can haul up to 75 pounds and is a significant upgrade from the service’s standard green duffel, which…