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Tank.jpg (JPEG Image, 1624 × 1183 pixels) Mk_47_Striker_40_automatic_grenade_launcher_US_Army_United_States_001.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024 × 680 pixels) BZ's Bovington Tank Museum. The Bovington Tank Museum is located by Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. Bovington camp is used by the British Army for tank driving and repair training. A Challenger MBT (minus much of the normal bolt on bits) guards the main museum entrance. Inside, I decided to tour the building following the development of the tank path. The Mark I tank is shown in an exhibit which recreated the shock and awe impact of the first tanks on the trench warfare scene. Further refinements came in the form of the Mark IV tank.

The Mark V tank had improved engine and gears, and had a better top speed. This is a Light Tank Mark IIA that Britain developed in the early thirties. If this looks very much like an early German WWII tank, there's a reason for it! The tank used welded instead of riveted construction - which was progressive at that time. The Independent Heavy Tank A1E1 was a prototype British tank made by Vickers-Armstrongs. This odd looking vehicle is the L1E3 Light Amphibious Tank. This guy is insane: Former child soldier helps clear landmines in Cambodia. Sitemap - simple survival. The Evolution of the Rifle by Cannon Gun Safes. Sniper Country - Main Page. As the sun sets, a steady rain falls across the mountain, blanketing the valley in murky gray.

Sniper Country - Main Page

Over the tree tops below me and to the East, I can see a patch of lighter green. The laser range finder gave a reading of 630 meters to the far side of the clearing. A spot on the ground midway across the field is 576 meters. Long Range Shooting Simulation Demo. Amazing Weapons Of War Images. This is a fine collection of every kind of gun that you can imagine that is used in combat.

Amazing Weapons Of War Images

Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . To Equip an Expedition. Once he was named by President Thomas Jefferson to head the Corps of Discovery, Meriwether Lewis began preparations for the long trip ahead.

Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . To Equip an Expedition

Much of that preparation involved education; in the months prior to his departure, Lewis would learn astronomy, botany, navigation, medicine and biology, among other scientific disciplines. In addition, Lewis spent his time accumulating all the supplies that the expedition was going to need. He wrote list after list of provisions, which included guns, ammunition, medical supplies and scientific instruments. WWII in Europe. Pict134.jpg (Image JPEG, 1200x800 pixels)

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Visual dispatches from the Helmand and Kunar provinces

Marines 2nd Battalion 12th Marines based in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, pulls security during a patrol through the village of Shabaz Kheyl Sunday, July 31, 2011 in the Kajaki district of Helmand province, Afghanistan. AP / David Goldman A young Afghan boy peers out from his head covering at U.S. Marine Cpl. TACTICAL VESTS. Military Videos . net. War Money. Individual Clothing and Equipment Basic Cold Weather Manual FM 31-70. Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace. Where there's water, life is possible.

Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace

True, it may be very difficult and very hard to live, depending, but anyone who's driven, hiked, or camped in the American South West will have noticed that cities and ranches crop up where there's surface water or where there's been a well dug. Within the state of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, there are deserts, mesas, mountains, and forests where normally people never or rarely visit; not-so-secret places where there's water, access to a road within a day's hike, and where a fairly rugged individual may hide while remaining basically healthy, marginally well fed, and reasonably sane. In this section I'll look at two such environments, neither of which I would recommend, but one of which I'd suggest is a reasonable way to live in basic health while either on the run, hiding out from the law, old girl friends, the draft for an illegal war, putative wives and such. Where exactly?

How I Would Do It Some Other Areas.