Video of National Guard 116th CBCT (Idaho, Montana, Oregon) M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles and M113 support vehicles, as well as Snake River mech-infantry inside Romania:
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corinna Baltos, 28JUL2016.
Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, Idaho Army National Guard.
Wearing the Snake River patch. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corinna Baltos, 28JUL2016.
Montana chapter of the 116th Cav plays ‘bad guy’ in Romania. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corinna Baltos, 30JUL2016.
M2A3 of 1st Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard, at the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center.
During the Second World War the Germans used several types of small robot kamikaze tanks to blow up enemy fortifications.
A damaged German R-C Goliath demolition tank, somewhere in the Balkans, 1943(?). Photo via Bundesarchiv.
In Hawaii, the U.S. Army is testing advanced versions of similar robot tanks during the Tiger Balm Command Post Exercise. But instead of being used as bombs they’re being used for more practical things like heavy machine gun carriers. By the way, the program is officially called PACMAN-1.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Hubenthal.
“Once we were assigned the mission, we were all over it!”-Lieutenant Colonel Jim Harper, 116th CBCT
116th Snake River Brigade M1A2 SEP arriving in Romania. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Devone Collins, 24JUN2016.
116th M1A2 ‘license plate’. USA photo by Specialist Devone Collins, 24JUN2016.
The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT) currently offloading hundreds of armored vehicles, and performing other logistical ops in the former Warsaw Pact country of Romania (Rumania): “The biggest challenge I faced was trying to find the right contact for our operation. Working stateside to move a unit overseas can be a challenge, but once we identified the right contacts they were extremely helpful. We loaded the equipment staged in Montana onto railroad cars on April 23, and the equipment in Idaho on May 9. Upon the vessel’s arrival in Constanta on 20 June we put into effect 24-hour operations with 52 soldiers. Those soldiers were responsible for offloading all tracked vehicles, staging and preparing equipment for onward movement by rail or line haul. We were able to offload the vessel within 36 hours which came as a surprise, as often the vessel offload is completed in 72 hours.”-CWO2 Steven Howell, 116th CBCT
116th Snake River Brigade M1A2 SEP moving through Cincu-sora, Romania. Idaho Army National Guard photo, 28JUN2016.
It’s part of preparations for U.S. led NATO’s (and the Orwellian titled Partnerships for Peace alliance) 2016 Saber Guardian wargames, right near the border with Ukraine.
The personnel of the 116th Cavalry can be identified by the Snake River patch on their shoulders. These Snake River guys are from the Montana chapter, and the photo was taken by a Snake River guy from the Oregon chapter. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Cory Grogan, 29JUL2016.
Snake River patch on one of my old uniforms. I served with 116th Cav from 1996 to 2003.
U.S. Army video by Specialist Devone Collins, 116th Cav M88A2 Hercules arriving in Cincu, Romania, 05JUL2016 (apparently to fix a broke M113):
The 116th Cav (aka Snake River Brigade) is made up of National Guard personnel mainly from Idaho, Oregon, Montana. Personnel from South Carolina’s National Guard also taking part in this year’s Saber Guardian, which begins on 27 July and ends on 07 August. It’s being hosted by the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center in Cincu.
M16 in action during Operation Cook, Viet Nam, September 1968. U.S. Army photo.
The AR-15 is now known as the silly-vilian semi-auto version of the Viet Nam era M16. The original AR-15 was the weaker version of the military’s experimental AR-10, which was a true high-power/high-velocity weapon. Once the military accepted the AR-15 for mass production its nomenclature was changed to M16.
A U.S. Air Force security Airman using a CAR-15. What is notable is that this is the ancient version which can be identified by its lack of a Forward Assist. This photo was produced in June 2000, yes, the U.S. military was still using the ancient version of the CAR-15 in 2000. USAF photo by Scott Spitzer.
The CAR-15 is probably the most photographed version of the AR-15. It is the Commando Assault Rifle, a shortened version of the AR-15.
I’m getting tired of the main stream news media and their puppet master politicians and anti-2nd Amendment activists claiming the AR-15 (M16/M4), and even the AK-47, are “high-powered, high-velocity” weapons. I can blame the police who constantly refer to these relatively low velocity guns as “high-power” weapons. But I can’t just blame them, I have to blame the gun industry itself. The AR-15 is marketed as a high power weapon, there’s even an internet business called High Velocity Arms that specializes in the AR-15.
To make it worse the gun industry intentionally makes their many versions of the AR-15 look ‘mean’. Looks have nothing to do with the performance of the ammo used in the gun!
Arkansas National Guard video from 2018, by Specialist Stephen M. Wright, showing they were using a combination of M16A2s, CAR-15s and M4s:
U.S. Air Force photo by David Bedard, 11JUL2014.
This old-skool bolt action single shot rifle is the U.S. military’s M24 sniper rifle based on the Remington Model 700. It uses the NATO 7.62mm x 51mm (aka Wincester .308 caliber), which has much more velocity and power than the rounds used by the AR-15/M16/M4, and AK-47s.
Does this gun look ‘mean? This hunting rifle uses a true high-power/high-velocity 7mm Remington Magnum round.
Does this gun scare you? It’s the Ruger Mini-14 and it uses the same ammo as the AR-15/M16/M4.
High-power and high-velocity are relative. Compared to a .22 caliber ‘Long Rifle’ the .223 caliber round used by the AR-15 is high-velocity, but compared to many more guns available the AR-15 is what gun owners call a “plinker”. In fact that’s the true reason why the AR-15 is a popular gun, it’s more powerful than a .22 LR, but is far cheaper to shoot than the true high-power/high-velocity weapons.
The AK-47 and AR-15 ammo are much smaller than ammo used in hunting rifles and even ‘cowboy’ lever action guns. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, June 2016.
The AR-15 uses a .223 caliber (5.56mm bullet diameter, 45mm long casing) round. The AR-15 can be fitted with ‘sub-caliber’ kits that allow it to fire the smaller .22 LR ammo, or the 9mm pistol ammo.
U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Anthony Zendejas the Fourth, 21JAN2018.
The AK-47 uses a larger .30 caliber (7.62mm) bullet, but the casing (39mm long) is shorter than the .223, which means it’s actually lower velocity than the AR-15’s ammo, yet main stream news and anti-gunners call it a high power/high-velocity weapon as well.
A boring U.S. Army video (with bad audio), from November 2008, by Specialist Amber Stephens, showing the Iraq army being trained by U.S. instructors on how to use the Soviet designed AK-47. Towards the end of the video you can see their shot groups on the targets, proving the AK-47 can be accurate, at close range anyway:
I have a Winchester lever action rifle, some people call it a cowboy gun because it’s the rifle made famous by the old TV ‘western’ show The Rifleman. It uses .30-30 caliber (7.62mm bullet, 51mm’R’ casing) round, a much larger round than the AR-15.
U.S. Air Force photo by David Bedard, 11JUL2014.
Then there’s .308 Winchester (7.62mm bullet, 51mm casing, aka NATO 7-6-2). While it’s similar in size to the .30-30 it is considered by some military analysts to be more powerful than the .30-30, hence it’s why military and police use it for sniping and light machine guns (LMG). Then there’s a round made famous during World War 1 and 2; .30-06 Springfield (7.62mm bullet, 63mm long casing).
The U.S. military switched from .30-06 to .308 because the smaller casing .308 could perform just as good or better than the .30-06, depending on the weight of the bullet and type of gun powder used. This brings up another point; the power and velocity (ballistics) of a bullet can also be affected by its weight and type of charge used in the casing. But hands down the AR-15 round can’t come close to the power and velocity of the .308, .30-06 or 7mm magnum.
Where else can you seen 1970’s Camaros and 4-door Novas racing modern Porsches (properly pronounced auf Deutsch Pore-schaw) and BMWs (Bayerische Motoren Werke [Bavarian Motor Works]), and being co-sponsored by the U.S. based National Hot Rod Association? In U.S. sanctioned Iran, of course!
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Here in Mormon dominated (according to the U.S. Census Bureau) eastern Idaho, Bingham County Sheriff Craig T. Rowland (also a local Mormon leader) straight up said Rape Kits were unnecessary because “…the majority of our rapes that are called in, are actually consensual sex.”
Notice he specifically said “our rapes”, is that a Freudian slip? In an interview with KIFI, Rowland actually implied that rape investigations hurt the victim: “…what does that do to her down the road [clears his throat], what does that do to her partner?”
Update; for some unexplained reason Idaho Falls based KIFI removed their interview of the sheriff, but I found that Newsy has posted it on their YouTube channel:
The ‘christian’ leader is opposed to new proposed laws regulating the tracking of Rape Kits in The Gem State. Currently local law enforcers are not required to use Rape Kits to collect DNA, the new proposed law would change that. Rowland is opposed to mandatory Rape Kits on the grounds that most ‘rapes’ in his area of operation are ‘legal’. Could it be that if the new rape law goes into effect dozens, maybe hundreds, of Mormons will be revealed as rapists?
29 November 2015, 17:08 UTC-07 Tango 01 (09 Azar 1394/17 Safar 1437/19 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713)
The German Chief of Staff told German news media that the planned deployment of Tornado recon aircraft to Iraq, for use against Syria, will also require at least 1-thousand 2-hundred military personnel to support U.S. led anti-Islamic State actions, adding that the deployment could “occur very rapidly after mandating.”
Vehicle ID, Luftwaffe Tornado training at Holloman AFB, New Mexico:
The actual purpose of the increasing NATO action in Syria is not about taking-out Islamic State-ISIS-ISIL-DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]), but about removing the democratically elected government of Syria.
To make it worse the gun industry intentionally makes their many versions of the AR-15 look ‘mean’. Looks have nothing to do with the performance of the ammo used in the gun!
Does this gun scare you? It’s the Ruger Mini-14 and it uses the same ammo as the AR-15/M16/M4.
The AR-15 can be fitted with ‘sub-caliber’ kits that allow it to fire the smaller .22 LR ammo, or the 9mm pistol ammo.
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Then there’s a round made famous during World War 1 and 2; .30-06 Springfield (7.62mm bullet, 63mm long casing).
