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Apr 3, 2013 5:32:58 GMT -5
Post by dirtdiver on Apr 3, 2013 5:32:58 GMT -5
I thought I would start a new thread for us to list books that we have read, are reading, or plan to read. Feel free to list old ones/new ones/books we recommend/books we don't recommend....etc. Here's a link to one of the books we already started a thread about: Trident K9 Warriors
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Apr 3, 2013 5:45:28 GMT -5
Post by dirtdiver on Apr 3, 2013 5:45:28 GMT -5
I just started reading "Navy Seal Sniper". The book was written by former Navy Seals Glen Doherty (KIA Sept 11, 2012 Benghazi, Libya) and Brandon Webb. I'm not too far into the book yet, but so far I love it! The first section is about the history of using snipers in wars.....I had no idea that snipers have been used as far back as the Revolutionary War (actually further back then that, but that's earliest example that I remember best)!
Some of the other chapters include: some on ballistics, bolt-action rifles versus semi-autos, morality of killing (and using snipers), ballistic software, suppressors, etc.
If the rest of the book is as good as the history section, it's going to be an awesome read!
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Apr 3, 2013 13:45:55 GMT -5
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Post by teccles on Apr 3, 2013 13:45:55 GMT -5
The gift of fear....by Gavin debecker
One second after....?
Lights out....?
Patriots guide to the coming collapse.....?
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Apr 3, 2013 16:03:12 GMT -5
Post by dirtdiver on Apr 3, 2013 16:03:12 GMT -5
The gift of fear....by Gavin debecker One second after....? Lights out....? Patriots guide to the coming collapse.....? The Gift of Fear is an outstanding book. I haven't read any of the other 3 you listed.....I need to check those out. I've heard about '1 second after', just never got around to reading it. A couple others to consider: 'On Killing' & 'On Combat' by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman I haven't read On Killing - but have heard it's an excellent read. I thoroughly enjoyed 'On Combat'.
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Apr 3, 2013 16:05:23 GMT -5
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Post by teccles on Apr 3, 2013 16:05:23 GMT -5
I need to read grossmans books... It just seems like I never have time anymore....
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Apr 16, 2013 21:00:16 GMT -5
Post by eagle on Apr 16, 2013 21:00:16 GMT -5
I just got my notice that "Trident K9 Warriors" has been shipped. Should have it soon.
Updated 4/18 : received it today.
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Jun 2, 2013 0:17:09 GMT -5
Post by eagle on Jun 2, 2013 0:17:09 GMT -5
www.kansashistory.us/fortdodgeblizzard.htmlColonel Richard Dodge On Blizzards While at Fort Dodge, Kansas (from " The Deadliest Woman in the West: Mother Nature on the Prairies and Plains, 1800-1900", by Rod Beemer, 2006) [Photo: Early view of Fort Dodge, on the Arkansas River, five miles east of the 100th meridian and Dodge City. All rights reserved, FCHS.] Colonel Richard Dodge was stationed in the West before and after serving as a Union officer in the Civil War. Following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Colonel Dodge was dispatched to the West where he saw duty during the Indian Wars. While stationed at Fort Dodge, KS, he gathered a stockpile of experience with blizzards. Col. Dodge writes: "An exposure to the full force and fury of a violent "plains Norther" would be certain death to any indigenous animal. Buffalo and antelope fly before it, and seek protection in the deepest and most wooded cañons. Near Julesburg, I once saw the snow dotted with the bodies of a great number of snow-birds frozen to death in a storm of a few days before. Men suffer more than animals. Lacking the instinct of the latter, which enables them to presage the coming storm, men new to plains life, misled by the mildness of the ordinary winter weather, expose themselves possibly in light clothing on the plains, are caught in a storm, and perish miserably in a few hours." "A gentleman, competent and in a position to form a correct estimate, once told me that at least 100 buffalo-hunters had perished from cold in the country, within 100 miles of the Arkansas River, in two years. During the winter of 1872-3 I was in command at Fort Dodge, Kansas. At least seventy capital amputations were preformed by the post surgeon on citizens who were buffalo-hunters or railroad employés, whilst a much greater number of frozen men were sent East for treatment. I think it safe to say that over 200 men in that vicinity lost hands or feet, or parts of them . . ." "The cold itself is not intolerable. The danger is from the sharp wind, which drives the cold like icy daggers through the body. Great suffering can always be avoided, if it be possible to get out of the wind . . ." "The army frequently suffers greatly from these storms . . . At other times some military necessity . . . requires the movement of troops in mid-winter. The amount of suffering in all such cases can hardly be exaggerated . . ." "In the winter of 1865-6 a considerable command was caught on the Cimarron, and barely escaped total destruction. An officer who was with it describes the sufferings as most fearful. Many men were more or less frosted, and about 600 animals frozen or starved to death." Another blizzard account: "At Fort Dodge, during this same blizzard [1871-1872], thousands of buffalo sought shelter around the walls of the post and on the lee side of buildings. At regular intervals artillery pieces were fired in an effort to keep the buffalo from crowding against and pushing down all the fort’s buildings and corrals. "Buffalo hunters caught away from adequate shelter by this storm found themselves in serious trouble. The thermometer fell to twenty below zero °F and the wind was howling at sixty miles an hour. A hunter named Happy Jack and his outfit were camped near Five Mile Hollow when the blizzard struck. "Every man in the outfit froze to death that night; and there was also a big Newfoundland dog froze to death lying on the bed."
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Jun 4, 2013 11:06:42 GMT -5
Post by amosmoses on Jun 4, 2013 11:06:42 GMT -5
Just finished "Control" by Glenn Beck and "Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life as the Duck Commander", by Phil Robertson, et al.
Beck has convinced me his line is not just rhetoric. Many things we already know and feel and nobody is doing a darn thing about them? Why(rhetorically)? Because of the lack of personal accountability. It's really that simple.
Phil Robertson, what can I say? I enjoy and respect everything about the man. He's a living testament to faith.
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Jul 26, 2013 22:32:43 GMT -5
Post by tkarter on Jul 26, 2013 22:32:43 GMT -5
Just finished reading American sniper. Chris Kyle was an amazing sniper.
Now if anyone else would like to read it I am willing to pass it on.
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