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  1. Icepick Mike

    Anyone else into cooking?

    'I've been nursing along a batch of pasta sauce that seems to be perpetual, and it has only gotten better.' When I cook spaghetti sauce it is a two hour event. It is killer. I started making this sauce with the recipe that was in the Chicago Tribune newspaper when Joe Valachi...
  2. Icepick Mike

    T-62 Tank — Cold War Soviet MBT Returns to Combat

    Worked with a Kuwaiti armor unit for a few years. They had Yugoslav M84 MBTs and BMPs for the mech guys. It should be noted this purchase of the equipment came with Serb maintenance crews as part of the deal. The M84 is a T72, and it is a POS. The bimps also garbage death traps as the fuel cells...
  3. Icepick Mike

    Martin PBM Mariner — The Flying Boat Patrol Bomber

    Enjoyable read on a subject you don't see very often. I did see one of these A/C at the Pima Air Museum.
  4. Icepick Mike

    What Is an ACOG?

    You are being sarcastic and it is appreciated if you are.
  5. Icepick Mike

    What Is an ACOG?

    Been using them since the first issue we received. Retired now and still use them except now I have to buy them. Worth every penny.
  6. Icepick Mike

    Fairchild AC-119 — Vietnam’s Accidental Gunship

    Same same here GI
  7. Icepick Mike

    Fairchild AC-119 — Vietnam’s Accidental Gunship

    When I was on the Long Dong Valley trip only the C47 Puff was running CAS. But I did jump from the C119 when I went to Jump School at Ft Benning. Guess that dates me pretty much as an old geezer. Later on in my life adventure I did have access to and used Specter on a few occasions. Life was...
  8. Icepick Mike

    Ayoob: Is It Time to Retire the 1911?

    American iron, keep the polymer at the range. Spent many years in the field, forest, jungle, desert, 1911 never failed me. Can't say the same about the Beretta and the few 'plastic' guns I tried.
  9. Icepick Mike

    The Story of the Legendary General George S. Patton

    Read some unfiltered history.................................
  10. Icepick Mike

    The Story of the Legendary General George S. Patton

    That's called discipline, some folks in the military think they are exempt of orders and SOPs.
  11. Icepick Mike

    The Story of the Legendary General George S. Patton

    Pure warrior, something sorely lacking in today's Army. You don't make general unless you play politics. Have a one star as a good friend, he is a warrior and I watched him rise through the ranks. Never got another star for that reason, didn't play the political games.
  12. Icepick Mike

    1911 vs. 1911A1: What’s the Difference?

    My favorite automatic. Nice article, enlightening! Colt put out a vintage model about ten years ago or so, I think it has some additional safety features and it has the lanyard loop on the bottom of the grip, very cool. Colt only made a limited number of them I believe. The swamp or forest...
  13. Icepick Mike

    Operation Gunn: WWII’s Great Escape by Air

    What a terrific story! Especially so as my father was a gunner on a B24. A good American and after the war successful business man. RIP old man!
  14. Icepick Mike

    F-100 Super Sabre: A Supersonic Coffin?

    Was in RVN in 67 and saw many of these aircraft and A1Es' providing CAS for us. Didn't know they where so dangerous to fly but they did save a lot of troops lives. We where happy to see them when it was needed. There where a lot of F4s' also doing the CAS thing for us.
  15. Icepick Mike

    D&L Sports .45 ACP GSP Ammunition Review

    Good article. So where can you buy it? Did a search and came up with nada even at D&L Sports site. SO? WHERE?
  16. Icepick Mike

    The Armory Life Interviews MACV-SOG’s Major John L. Plaster

    Nice article. Have read one of Plaster's books on SOG and a few others that had volunteered for SOG. The best books I have read are by a former SOG fella' named Nick Brokhousen. We Few and Whispers in the Tall Grass are the titles. These two books are excellent with no punches pulled, by that...
  17. Icepick Mike

    America’s Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier

    Being a Naval Aviator off of a US Carrier has to be the best job in the world.
  18. Icepick Mike

    Battle of Peleliu — Revisiting a Meat-Grinder of the Pacific War

    My all time favorite uncle was in the 1st Marine Div. He was wounded on Guadalcanal but returned to duty. He never talked much about any of the islands after Guadalcanal that he landed and fought on. I still have the Japanese rifle and bayonet he brought back from Guadalcanal, even has a few...
  19. Icepick Mike

    The M14 "In Country"

    The best, American Iron is what it is.
  20. Icepick Mike

    A-6 Intruder: The Iron Tadpole

    Great A/C. Did no-com lase missions with them, very exciting is an understatement. Also did CSAR for a Navy Air Group and they called punching out blowing glass. So on our ready room door we posted a sign for them. "You blow glass we will come get your ***". They loved it! Naval Aviators we...
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