Poultrygeist
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MY Army MOS was automatic weapons and I qualified on these bad boys. The Quad 50's were used for air defense during WWII but in Nam they were strictly anti-personnel.
A little tinnitus, but otherwise pretty good for a guy my age. They were pretty strict about ear plugs. Probably did more damage with loud rock music.How's your hearing?
None of which will protect you or your loved ones when the census tract you happen to inhabit is washed over by foreign nationals bringing a tidal wave of crime, overcrowding (domiciles and schools), garbage, streets converted into overnight parking lots, trashed public parks, strained infrastructure, crowded emergency rooms, and the feeling of feeling like a foreigner in your own homeland. Lou Malnati's tastes great, above-board wages and UI, and a plethora of eateries are all the more better when you can engage them and return to a nice, quiet civilized residential environment. As time goes on, larger and larger swaths of Chicago are losing that status at a rapid rate. And Rahm's "CityKey" municipal I.D. is inevitalbly going to make it worse.I'll take high wages, good workmen's comp and unemployment insurance and first rate ethnic restaurants and Phil's <real> Chicago pizza, thin crispy crust and cut in squares, over guns any day.
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None of which will protect you or your loved ones when the census tract you happen to inhabit is washed over by foreign nationals bringing a tidal wave of crime, overcrowding (domiciles and schools), garbage, streets converted into overnight parking lots, trashed public parks, strained infrastructure, crowded emergency rooms, and the feeling of feeling like a foreigner in your own homeland. Lou Malnati's tastes great, above-board wages and UI, and a plethora of eateries are all the more better when you can engage them and return to a nice, quiet civilized residential environment. As time goes on, larger and larger swaths of Chicago are losing that status at a rapid rate. And Rahm's "CityKey" municipal I.D. is inevitalbly going making it worse.
That rig is essentially a gun with wings!
The Continentals at Cowpens, being regular troops of the line, were armed with muskets, not rifles. Generally Continentals were armed with the French .69 Charleville musket, though some used the British .75 Brown Bess. Some American militia were armed with rifles.
The American rebels won at Cowpens because of Morgan’s superior tactics, tactics which played to British aggression and speed on the battlefield and successfully wrong footed them, not because the British were outgunned by superior weaponry. In fact the musket was far superior to the rifle for combat of the time and remained so until the invention of the expanding bullet and rifle musket in the mid 19th Century. And many modern historians of the American Civil War such as Hess and Griffith think that even the effect of rifle muskets such as the Springfield and P53 Enfield has been vastly overstated and that in fact such weapons, in American hands anyway, on American battlefields, were little more deadly than conventional muskets.
I think the wheels started coming off the British effort in 1777 with the defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga and the failure of St. Leger’s Mohawk Valley offensive, stymied at Fort Stanwix. It was because of British failure in the North the British went to their Southern Strategy, the British thinking the South, more Loyalist than the North, more fertile ground for their efforts, which it was. But not fertile enough, obviously. Anyway, the Southern campaigns have a very interesting cast of characters and the leaders on both sides were very capable men and IMO Cornwallis was the boldest and best British field commander of the war. He was also later a very capable and enlightened (for the times) governor in both Ireland and India. And of course Greene was one of the greatest generals in American history.
Last summer we visited Ninety Six in South Carolina, where Greene unsuccessfully besieged a Loyalist garrison. Some of the British fortifications are stabilized originals, others, and the American saps and parallels are restorations.
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That badass rig is essentially a badass gun with wings!
Fixed that for ya!
(PG, please give your son my thanks!)