Welcome, Training Thoughts, and Whatever else.....

Got some new folks that stopped by my clothesline and hit the follow button..  A big WELCOME TO : OrangeJeepDad ( its always nice to welcome a fellow jeep person) , WILDCHILDT, and HOBO.

On another note..  Everyone is talking about training lately,Next Tuesday I turn another year older and have  requested to spend the morning in the range, Its how I wish to celebrate, spending some ammo and doing my own training. I just want to add to what Duke @ Down Range Report said in regards to using .22s for training. Its something that Senior and I do as well, we have a .22 pistol and rifles. The ammo is much cheaper then expending all of our expensive brass, financially it makes better sense. Save and stock pile your high calibers for when SHTF, because that will be when you really need it. Like Duke, Senior also has the conversion for his AR15, and I have the ARCHANGEL Conversion on my Ruger 10/22.

Tomorrow is finally my sisters 50th Birthday Party ( Hallelujah and the angels all sing) I am thankful its almost here and will soon be over. In honor I will be dressed head to toe in black. My geeky brother n law requested I buy name tags for all of us to wear. I "accidentally" forgot them. I feel that I am not going to a high school reunion, or some sort of conference, no way am I wearing some nerdy name tag......

Pink Ammo! ....Who'da Thought!

As I have been dealing with nasty strep throat and sinus headaches all week, I finally started feeling better last evening and ventured out to shop for my Dads birthday which is tomorrow. This is a first in a string of Birthdays over the  next week, including mine.

So Senior and I took the boys to a outdoors store, what do you get a 78 yr old man that has everything? I know, a digital thermometer! sounds good to me, If he doesn't like it I will throw in the receipt and he can return it. Senior as always ventured over to the gun section, while I did my browsing. He eavesdropped on a couple of "thugs" who were gun shopping. Do you know the type I mean? Dreadlocks, baggy pants,etc.... I won't go any further with descriptions because far be it from me to be racist or a bigot. Well these superheros who want to play "grownup" and carry a gun had the poor sales man in a tizzy, as they had not the slightest idea on how to pull back a slide. And here they were wanting to buy one. For what purpose I can only imagine. Senior walked over to me with a smirk and shaking his head...

I came across something cool in my browsing, Federal Ammo now has colored shotgun shells, Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness and Red, White , and Blue for those who feel patriotic....So they get a KUDOS from me. Knowing the Pink and Purple kind of girl I am, my eyes got big over the Pink ammo...WOW!!!!  ammo makers are really hitting the mainstream and appealing to the ladies. I batted my eyes a few times at senior, but he wouldn't budge...I thought how much fun I could have shooting these from the mossberg tactical 12gauge. I wish they came in 410 so I could shoot them from my Judge. Oh well, my birthday is next week, maybe I will get a box. Getting ammo is better then getting chocolote right?

Did You Watch?

As you all know I was excited about the new episodes of Doomsday Preppers. However, half way in to the first show, it turned a bit dismal to me. Stephen has all ready touched on some of the points, but I will elaborate more.

 I was afraid from the onset that Natgeo was painting preppers in a negative light, even with the commercials for it, I kept telling Senior that they are making a joke out it. The folks they picked were flea market quality at best, and made us all look like Right Wing Wack Jobs. What else would I have expected? after all it is liberal TV.
 The girl from Houston really irked me the most, to begin with I felt like she was “not all there” . I know some of my readers are from Texas, I have been to Houston on many occasions, and trust me when I say this: No way in Hell are you going to be able to hoof it out on foot if SHTF. She had a six mile hike to her bug out vehicle, and IF she made it out, she then faced the odds of the vehicle being stolen or all the gas siphoned out.  And the “Weed Man of L.A”  oh Lord!  The overweight truck driver did make a few good points, on gas shortages, etc...

 The only one they profiled that I liked was the lady from Utah, Senior and I picked up some food prep tips we had not thought of. After her segment I, turned to senior and said "good night".

So, if you watched what are some of your opinions ?

I Got Awarded... Yipee!

Lila (http://tslbf.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-gots-awarded-lot.html)  gave me my first major award as a blogger, So I am sharing the good news with all of you. And in doing so including my 5 blogs, I will try to pick ones that have not  yet received this honor...

Below is the rules of the award:

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave us the award
3. Pick our five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received the award.
4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs



HillBilly-Gravy and Biscuits

Mama Bear-Challenged Survivalist

Rob- Robs Bunker

Six Bears In The Woods

And a person I would like calling a new good friend: Kymber-Framboise Manor

Obama Pulls Combat Pay for Deployed Troops

UNBELIEVABLE!.. I am left speechless over this policy change....


President Obama’s latest policy outrage makes no attempt to hide his contempt for our military, as he is ordering that our troops serving overseas in war zones overseas are not to receive combat pay unless they are being shot at, or at risk of being injured by hostile aggression. A Marine who lives in Florida(also currently serving in Afghanistan) has just posted a note on Facebook which stated that he received a letter from his MyPay account that he would only be receiving his Hazard pay (Imminent Danger Pay) if he is actually in a hostile area and at risk of being shot at.

So I just got a letter from MyPay (the way we get paid in the military), saying that I will only reason Combat Pay while deployed for the days that I take fire or am in a hostile area. Now, as an Infantry Marine, I’m constantly in a combat zone…it may not always be popping off, but for them to take that away from us is bullshit. Now, the aviation tech who sits on Camp Leatherneck, sure, I can see him not getting Combat Pay, but to take it away from the grunts, the ground pounders, the front line of defense…come on, Uncle Sam. You let the Liberals win a big one here… Marine from Florida (We are not posting his name for obvious reasons)

According to Military.com, and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (H.R. 1540-7 Sec 616) as of February 1, 2012, this new measure went into effect, and soldiers who are to receive the additional $225/mo. combat pay ‘must’ be in immediate risk of harm. The measure is very specific in its criteria for receiving the additonal pay.

The rules for Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay have changed. Service members will now receive imminent danger pay only for days they actually spend in hazardous areas. This change went in effect on February 1, 2012.
A member of a uniformed service may be entitled to Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger pay at the rate of $225 for any month in which he/she was entitled to basic pay and in which he/she was:

• Subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
• On duty in an area in which he was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines and in which, during the period he was on duty in that area, other members of the uniformed services were subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
• Killed, injured, or wounded by hostile fire, explosion of a hostile mine, or any other hostile action; or
• On duty in a foreign area in which he was subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions.

The last bullet point speaks volumes as to the sheer stupidity of this measure. The whole point of going to Afghanistan and Iraq was for combat operations- Afghanistan still is a hostile warzone, and both U.S. and NATO forces continue to suffer losses in and out of combat hot zones. Insurgent attacks have accured throughout areas that have been deemed ‘safe’, and in areas where hostilities were not forseen.

NatGeo-DoomsDay Preppers

Tonight is the premier of this seasons "Doomsday Preppers" Senior and I have been waiting with much anticipation. If you can't be home to watch it, and you have a DVR then set it. It is a series worth watching and something you don't want to miss.

Also..another TV tidbit, Next Tuesday @10pm on the History Channel, starts the new season of TOP SHOTS. with host Colby Donaldson. If you have never watched, its a competition type show pairing teams against each other until one person is left standing, here is a link to the shows website:
TOP SHOTS

Navy Times Front Page!

The word has gotten out and voices heard, the unfair treatment of so many of our men and women in uniform made the front page of navy times....