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Monday, June 28, 2004
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Letter to the Terrorists
in Iraq
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:37:43 EDT
Subject: [ReconMarines] From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:37:43 EDT
Subject: [ReconMarines] Letter to the Terrorists
in Iraq
This letter is for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
''Islamic Response,'' and
the rest of the so-called "insurgents" in Iraq.
I obviously do not
have an e-mail address for these vermin, so I am
forwarding this
letter to my entire address book in the hope you
good people will
forward it to as many people as possible, and
that eventually through
the miracle of the internet it somehow ends up in
the hands of the
intended recipients. Thank you all for your
To the terrorists currently operating in Iraq:
I see that you have captured a U. S. Marine,
and that you plan to
cut off his head if your demands are not met.
Big mistake. Before
you carry out your threat I suggest you read up
on Marine Corps
history. The Japanese tried the same thing on
Makin Island and in a
few other places during World War Two, and came
to regret it. Go
ahead and read about what then happened to the
mighty Imperial Army
on Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. They paid full
price for what they
did, and you will too.
You look at America and you see a soft
target, and to a large
extent you are right. Our country is filled with
a lot of spoiled
people who drive BMWs, sip decaf lattes and watch
ridiculous reality
TV shows. They are for the most part decent,
hard working citizens,
but they are soft. When you cut off Nick Berg's
head those people
gasped, and you got the media coverage you
sought, and then those
people went back to their lives. This time it is
different. We also
have a warrior culture in this country, and they
are called Marines.
It is a brotherhood forged in the fire of many
wars, and the bond
between us is stronger than blood. While it is
true that this
country has produced nitwits like Michael Moore,
Howard Dean and Jane
Fonda who can be easily manipulated by your
gruesome tactics, we have
also produced men like Jason Dunham, Brian
Chontosh and Joseph
Perez. If you don't recognize those names you
should. They are all
Marines who distinguished themselves fighting to
liberate Iraq, and
there will be many more just like them coming for
Before the current politically correct
climate enveloped our
culture one of the recruiting slogans of our band
of brothers
was "The Marine Corps Builds Men." You will soon
find out just how
true that is. You, on the other hand, are
nothing but a bunch of
women. If you were men you would show your faces,
and take us on in a
fair fight. Instead, you are cowards who hide
behind masks and
decapitate helpless victims. If you truly
represented the interest
of the Iraqi people you would not be ambushing
those who come to your
country to repair your power plants, or sabotage
the oil pipelines
which fuel the Iraqi economy. Your agenda is
hate, plain and simple.
When you raise that sword over your head I
want you to remember
one thing. Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is not
alone as he kneels
before you. Every Marine who has ever worn the
uniform is there with
him, and when you strike him you are striking all
of us. If you
think the Marines were tough on you when they
were cleaning out
Fallujah a few weeks ago you haven't seen
anything yet. If you want
to know what it feels like to have the Wrath of
God called down upon
you then go ahead and do it. We are not Turkish
truck drivers, or
Pakistani laborers, or independent contractors
hoping to find work in
your country. We are the United States Marines,
and we will be
coming for you.
Andy Bufalo
MSgt USMC (Ret)
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Saturday, June 26, 2004
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Salty Language
Salty Language by Col James W. Hammond Jr., USMC (Ret)
In the (not so) old Corps, the first time a "boot" referred to a vertical partition as a "wall" or said that he had spilled something on the "floor," he incurred the unmitigated wrath of the nearest drill instructor. To gain the attention of the miscreant, the DI would smash his swagger stick on the top of the boot's pith helmet accompanied by a very loud bit of enduring advice, "That's 'bulkhead' [or 'deck']. If you draw the pay, you speak the language!"
Marines are "Soldiers of the Sea," and it is right and proper that conversation be sprinkled with nautical expressions. In "The Leatherneck," his introduction to "Fix Bayonets," the late Colonel John W. Thompson Jr., USMC (Ret) described the many men making up the 4th Marine Brigade about to see action at Belleau Wood in June 1918: "And there were also a number of diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and a bone-deep sunburn, a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with Navy words, and words culled from all the folk who live on the seas and ports where our war-ships go." He was describing Marine professionals who, like all professionals, have a language peculiar unto themselves.
A language is a living and evolving thing. As we go to more strange and distant climes, some foreign words creep in. Some are transitory and don't survive. Marines still go to the "head" to "pump bilges," although there was a generation or two who went to the benjo for the same thing. I've always liked the story of the world-traveler Marine sitting in a bar in Athens who politely summoned the waiter and ordered a beer with "Garcon, iddy-wa, una botella de cerveza bitte."
But over the years I have detected not just a lessening of the use of nautical terms among the naval services, but almost a complete lack of them. This is more than 25 years ago when my son came home from the United States Naval Academy his Plebe Christmas. He had been raised on "deck," "bulkhead," "overhead," "ladder," "galley," etc. He called his Boy Scout equipment "782 gear," but he was no longer using those descriptive terms because they weren't in use at the Academy.
After he graduated, I spent a dozen years in Annapolis on the staff of the Alumni Association of my alma mater. I was appalled at the lubberly-ness of the staff, faculty and midshipmen at the Academy. Fortunately, the Marines on duty there kept the tradition of nautical language alive. It must be paying off because every year the allotted "boat spaces" for Marines on graduation are oversubscribed.
But I am not concerned with Navy per se, but rather our Corps of Marines. I equate it to the reply an old gunnery sergeant gave to the lady who upon hearing the legend that the quatrefoil on the cover of Marine Officers' frame caps stems from days of sail when Marines in the "fighting tops" could identify their officers on deck by the chalked cross on their caps and not fire on them, asked, "What about the Navy Officers?" "Who cared?" snapped the gunny."
Language is both spoken and written. "The Marines' Hymn" says, "We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines." There are Army officers and soldiers, Navy officers and sailors, Air Force officers and airmen, but we are all Marines. That is why Marine is always written with a capital "M."
We must be careful not to allow our own professional culture to be corrupted by the words of other services. The Army says 1600 (sixteen hundred) hours. We say 1600 (sixteen hundred). It is a small but subtle difference. Many years ago at a large East Coast Marine base, an over zealous "police sergeant" neatly painted on the "deck" in front of a regimental headquarters building: "NO PARKING AFTER 1600 HOURS." The commanding general, or "CG," came by and saw the offending sign. He dashed into headquarters, burst in the office of the commanding officer, or "CO," and began holding "school-of-the-boat" (the most basic instruction one can give to the landlubber) on the colonel.
He said, "In the Army, it's 1600 hours; in the Navy, it's 8 bells; in the Air Force, I think it is 'when Mickey's big hand is on 12 and his little hand is on 4,' but in the Corps, it is 1600. Get that abomination corrected immediately!"
Most Marines knew the motto of our Corps before they went to boot camp, or they probably wouldn't have gone. It is "semper fidelis" - always faithful. Shortened to "semper fi," it is a bond of respectful recognition between and among Marines. One Marine greets another with it. When they part company, each says to the other, "Semper fi." Informal memos or e-mails between Marines usually are signed "Semper fi" or just S/F. But there used to be a darker side. Used by Marines to members of the other services or civilians, "Semper fi, Mac," said with a sneer, had a sinister connotation. It could mean anything from "I got mine; the hell with you!" to "I did fine; how did you do?" An old "China Hand" once told me that on payday night in Shanghai cabarets, it meant, "You buy the fifth; my girl is drunk already!" I much prefer the version denoting mutual respect among a "band of brothers" than the cynical version.
Some words and phrases have found their way into common American usage through the Marine Corps. Some are of foreign origin. "We have fought in every clime and place." Others were Marine-coined.
The best example of a Marine-coined word in widespread use is "gizmo." "Gung-ho" is of Chinese origin, via Col. Evans F. Carlson of the World War II Carlson's Raiders. Going back several campaigns, we find that "boondocks" comes from the Tagalog "bundok" or mountain jungles of the Philippines. "Honcho" came back from Korea and Japan.
Another word that is sacred to our Corps is "Doc" - the corpsman who wear our uniform, joins with and cares for us in combat. Many years ago I had a "Stateside" battalion during the time that doctors were drafted for two years of service. My battalion surgeon (billet title since he wasn't really a "cutter") came to me with a complaint. The young Marines were addressing him as "Doc." Since he was a professional man, he felt he deserved the respect of being addressed as "Doctor." I told him that evidently he was not ready to be addressed as "Doc" inasmuch as that is the highest honor that a Marine can bestow upon a "squid."
The language door swings both ways. We have allowed civilian language to corrupt our pure nautical expression. While a landlubber may refer to a ship as "it," a true "soldier of the sea" knows that a ship is a "she." Likewise, it is a real nautical bust, both orally and in writing, to precede the name of a ship with a definite article. A ship is a distinct personality, and referring to the Lexington is as improper as referring to me as the Hammond. She is Lexington. Many readers will argue that the definite article is used in professional naval publications, and I invite their attention to the fact that those journals have professional editors and writers, not naval professionals. Finally, one serves in not on a ship. If it is the latter, you are in deep trouble. To a precise reader or listener it conjures up the vision of your sitting on the keel of a capsized vessel.
How did this departure from salty language occur? I alluded to the traumatic change to the nautical nature of the Naval Academy, at least in my observation. Emphasis was more on turning out graduates who could go on for advanced degrees. "Techies" and their bastardization of English for computer talk followed. This was compounded by flooding the faculty with academics holding advanced degrees from campuses of the '60s. This sizeable group of civilians avoided being part of the naval culture. Over the past quarter century, the leadership of half the naval service has eroded much of the base of salty-language usage. If those at the top don't lead the way, it is a military axiom that those below won't follow.
But how did the decline of the use of salty language creep into our Corps? Drill instructors still drill into recruits the use of "deck," "bulkhead," "ladder," etc., although perhaps with a less emphatic way of getting their attention then in the (not so) old Corps.
For one thing, more Marines are married these days, and many live ashore among the civilian community. These Marines try to blend into the civilian community rather than flaunt their pride of being a Marine. Their use of salty language becomes one of the first casualties.
Even today it is a matter of pride to sport a regulation haircut, spit-shined shoes, proper civilian attire and, of course, salty language. It is gratifying when some stranger at a cocktail party says, "You sound like you're a Marine."
Another reason for the decline of salty language is that many young Marines are "cool." Nautical talk is not cool, computer talk and jive talk are. Unlike the Navy with its many technicians, "every Marine is a rifleman" and has the privilege of displaying pride in the language of his profession. It is a privilege not available to others.
How can we restore this eroding tradition? Like everything else in the Corps, it begins at the top. Senior officers should use salty language at every opportunity and hold school-of-the-boat on their subordinates who don't. Top staff noncommissioned officers should do likewise.
Tradition is not something that can be ordered. It must have solid roots to survive. Marines should want to show that they are a different breed and be willing to demonstrate their uniqueness at every opportunity whether among other Marines or among civilians. That's what it is about personal pride in being a Marine.
More than 50 years ago, during the Cherry Blossom Pageant in Washington, DC, 10 junior officers from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps were detailed as escorts for princesses from 48 states and the territories of Alaska and Hawaii. Most of the Marines were strangers to each other.
At the end of the ceremonies a musical tribute to the gallant escorts of the lovely princesses was announced. The band struck up a medley of "The Caisson Song," "The Air Force Song," "Anchors Aweigh" and "Semper Paratus." At the first note of "The Marines' Hymn," 10 Marine lieutenants scattered among the audience were on their feet as 20 heels clicked as one. An officer from another service paid them a high compliment. In a stage whisper audible to all, he said, "Those s.o.b.s!" That's what it is all about - exhibiting your pride in your Corps every time you can.
About 30 years ago there was the tale of an old Sergeant Major who retired and had a nice job, although he was putting in long hours. He had another problem as well, or at least his boss and co-workers thought so. He still said "deck," "bulkhead," "overhead," etc. The boss made him an appointment with the company psychiatrist. The sergeant major arrived, and the doctor, who was of the Freudian school, directed him to lie on the couch.
Doctor: "Do you lead an active sex life?" SgtMaj: "Sure!" Doctor: "Tel me about it." SgtMaj: " What do you want to know?" Doctor: "Your last affair, when was it?" SgtMaj: "About 1950?" Doctor: "You call that active?" SgtMaj: looking at his watch: "It's only 2115 now!"
Draw the pay; speak the language.
Semper fi.
[Col Hammond enlisted in the Corps in 1946, was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1947 and was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1951. He commanded an infantry platoon and company, an artillery battery and battalion, an infantry battalion (2/4) in combat (RVN). He was wounded in action during the Korean War and twice wounded in the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 50 professional articles in a wide variety of professional publications, including Marine Corps Gazette, Naval Institute Proceedings, The Hook and others. He was managing editor and then editor-publisher for Gazette from 1964 to 1966 and in retirement was editor of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association's monthly magazine, Shipmate. He has written two books: "Poison Gas - The Myths Versus Reality" and "The Treaty Navy - The Story of the U. S. Naval Service Between the World Wars". Colonel and Mrs. Hammond make their home in Reno, but can be found in Annapolis during football season.]
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
(From Maj Howard Bell)
Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:57:45 -0500
From: "Howard Bell"
Subject: Asleep at the wheel
A little bit of history Regardless of how you vote and
what you believe, we should all read this and really
let it sink in. As it says, this is NOT a political
speech. It is something that we should all know and
(and probably do) but don't let the overall impact
register. But, put together like this, it is very
U.S. Navy Capt. Ouimette is the XO at NAS, Pensacola.
Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is
an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble
today and why this action is so necessary.
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September
2001 and maybe it was, but I think it should have been
"Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has
been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit
the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes
of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country
going through a religious and political upheaval when
a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the
American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an
outright attack on American soil; it was an attack
that held the world's most powerful country hostage and
paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U.
S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the
next 23 years.
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the
Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the
Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do
something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in
the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but
stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with
America's military had been decimated and
downsized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War.
A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized
military was called on to execute a complex mission
that was doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began
to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East.
America could do little to protect her citizens living
and working abroad. The attacks against US soil
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high
explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in
Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The
alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button
once more.
Then just six short months later a large truck heavily
laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed
through the main gate of the US Marine Corps
headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are
killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze
Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck
loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in
Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was
driven into the gates of the US Embassy in Beirut and
America slept.
Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a
bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US
soldiers in Madrid.
Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is
driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at
Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is
buzzing louder and louder as US interests are
continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro
is hijacked and we watched as an American in a
wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing
civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in
April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic
bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in
1988, killing 259.
America wants to treat these terrorist acts as crimes;
in fact we are still trying to bring these people to
trial. These are acts of war.
The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder The
terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In
January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as
they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The following month, February 1993, a group of
terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with
explosives is driven into the underground parking
garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six
people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still
this is a crime and not an act of war?
The Snooze alarm is depressed again. Then in November
1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and
A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb
explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound
in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar
Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and
injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver
and smarter as they see that America does not respond
They move to coordinate their attacks in a
simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision.
They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile
attacks and goes back to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for
refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft
pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US
Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of
war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and
went back to sleep.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001.
Most Americans think this was the first attack against
US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has
been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose
to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger
pointing from every high officials in government over
what they knew and what they didn't know. But if
you've read the papers and paid a little attention I
think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't
have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National
Security Council to see the pattern that has been
developing since 1979.
The President is right on when he says we are engaged
in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past
23 years and it will continue until we as a people
decide enough is enough.
America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively
now. America has been changed forever. We have to be
ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to
ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to
keep hitting the snooze button again and again and
roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto
said "...it seems all we have done is awakened a
sleeping giant." This is the message we need to
disseminate to terrorists around the world.
Support Our Troops and support President Bush for
having the courage, political or militarily, to
address what so many who preceded him didn't have the
backbone to do both Democrat and Republican. This is
not a political thing to be hashed over in an election
year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our
Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
JOHN BROWNING'S .45 AUTO, by Marine Richard Roberts
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:08:27 -0700
I wrote this story about 7 years ago.
I tried very hard to obtain a 45 Auto while in
Marine Advanced Infantry
training in 1943. They were just about
impossible to obtain in those war
Finally one of my mother's friends, a carpet
dealer in Hunting Park, Ca.
presented me with one just before I shipped
out. He also placed a condition
on it. I was to return it to him when I
returned with a complete history how
I used it.
I carried it all through the Pacific War in
many good times and a few bad;
it had served me faithfully.
Whenever we had a shakedown, the Officer would
always take my word on how I
obtained it.
I used it on Okinawa more than on Siapan and
Tarawa. I did a lot of guard
duty on water holes at night. The Japs got just
as thirty as we did. The
Engineers issued me a Thompson for patrol duty.
Got a few good licks with it
Was cleaning out a cave one time. I shot that
Jap square through the helmet
with my .45. Broke all the bones in his head
just like sake of marbles. We
had a saying in those days "If God wanted a
foxhole gun, he'd pick a Colt
.45 Auto."
When I returned home from the Pacific, I
returned the .45 with a handwritten
letter of its history with me. Of course I
added a few things as Bill was a
salesman and he would enjoy bragging rights.
Bill then took me right down to the gun dealer
and presented me a brand new
.45, target grade.
To bad our government still don't issue it. But
our politics wanted those
Italian bases, so we ended up with a Baretta
9mm. Guise they forgot why we
adopted a .45. It was to put down those Mad
Muslims. Well, it seems we have
more mad Muslims now than before.
When we finally arrived in Tiensen China after
two years in the Pacific war,
I had made a set of silver grips for it. Cost
me $50.00 A fortune for a buck
private in those days. One months pay.
It had a beautiful Chinese dragon carved on one
side with the Marine emblem
and the First Division crest carved in the
other side. My old foxhole gun
finally got all dressed up as a reward for its
years of faithful duty,
service and of course, my vanity.
I watched the Chinese craftsmen work on my
silver grips. We use engraving
blocks in the West to hold the object while we
were working on. In the
Orient they have a leather pad they put their
work on and hold the job with
their toes. The cutting tool has a wooden heel
and is held in their left
hand and bops it with their ball of their right
hand and uses their feet and
toes to manipulate the work. While we use a
straight cutting tool with a
chasing hammer and an engraving block to hold
the work and of course, get to
site on a stool. Interesting comparisons.
The biggest tourist attraction for Marines in
those days was not the Great
Wall of China, but the American Embassy in
Peking. In particular the old
Marine Barracks.
Whenever we did visit the Great Wall, there was
an old Marine Tradition.
"You weren't a real China Marine till you
pissed on the Great Wall."
In 1941 there was a young Marine stationed
there by the name of Bob Carlson.
When war broke out they, the Embassy felt very
isolated and frustrated. They
tried constantly to radio for instructions on
their next step on what to do?
To no avail, The U.S. had closed down the radio
receiver on them. No more
Bob never gave me the details on the final
surrender but he ended up in
Japan in a POW camp.
He got the job of making Jap signature stamps
out of bamboo. If memory
serves, the Japs called them "chops".
Bob pretty well served out the war doing this.
An interesting side note to this story is that
when the Japs took roll call
on the prisoners, they would have alphabetical
sections and numbers. Like in
"B" row and then their number in that row. As
the POWs called out their
numbers in Japanese, the one that called out "
B29 " always got a few good
licks with a bamboo pole from the guards if
there was a B29 raid at that
particular time.
When the Air Force dropped that giant Jap birth
control pill, a Jap guard
kept running through their barracks calling
out," Ichi bomb, and ichi bomb."
I hope I remember the Jap word for "one " I
hope this is right.
I meant Bob in a GI apprenticeship job after
the war. We were cutting and
polishing a die for the "Hop-Along Cassidy cap
pistol. All you young Boots
out there, you must have played with this cap
pistol at one time or another.
It had to have a perfect finish to it so to
"Pop Out" of the die after the
injection casting. Any flaw in the cutting
would cause a "Hang Up".
About this time I got tired of the job of
polishing out dies so went to work
for a manufacturing jeweler. I would do their
engraving and they would teach
me diamond setting. They also made me a bill
collector, which I didn't like
very much at all. I guess my size was supposed
to intimidate people.
Couldn't intimidate Roy Weatherbe. Just as I
was hitting him up for work
done and not paid for, he said" How do you
expect me to pay you, look they
are hauling off my chronograph for
non-payment." About that time John Wayne
bought 49 percent off the biz from Roy. And Roy
of course, came out smelling
like a rose. Roy was a terrific salesman and
good enough to have invented
the expression "He really could literally sell
ice cubes to Eskimos".
Weatherbe asked me "Why don't you spend more
time on my job's? Did you know
that last one you engraved went to the Shaw of
Iran?" I said "ROY, why don't
you pay more money, I have instructions to work
on your stuff only for 8
hours, that's $35.00 [I got $20.00 per day
then. Not bad wages for the
times] so if you want more detail, I'll put
more time on it, you just only
have to pay a better price !"
Roy Weatherbe was actually a great person. He
even let me test group his
rifles in his basement range. His theory was
all wet on no rifling for the
first 5 inches, but he had the best stock maker
in the world doing his stock
work. Just beautiful wood and craftsmanship.
I could never get better than 5 minutes of
angle from his rifles. [Bench
rest] While Winchester guaranteed 2 minutes of
angel with their Model 70,
bolt action. Remmington 40X single shot
guarantied [Marine Sniper Rifle] one
minute of angle. After that it was the "Nut
behind the buttplate"
My next really big and interesting job was to
set the diamonds in Sheriff
Eugene Biscaluz police badge. All his cronies
donated the diamonds. There
was a 5-carat diamond in the center and
one-carat diamond in each star
point. The badge was made of 18Kt gold and the
center was of platinum. Of
course Sheriff Gene never had to pay a dime on
this. He was Los Angeles
County Sheriff for over 25 years.
Bob and I would go out on Saturdays and
practice our 45 cal shooting at the
Long Beach Police Pistol Rang. We shared in
purchasing expense of buying
hand-loading equipment for our 45s.
We got very good at target shooting after a
short time and the Long Beach
Police invited us to join their pistol team. We
naturally jumped at the
chance cause it meant free ammo,rang ,and entry
We both bought the High Standard 22 rim fire
target grade auto's and shot
our 45s in the center fire and 45 cal National
Match Course's. We became
master's in a very short time. The Long Beach
Police sponsored our team in
the entire local NRA registered [Southern Cal.]
competitions. They
especially liked us to beat hell out of the Los
Angeles Police Team. I
continued on in various marksmanship types
shooting events for the next 30
years are so.
Just before I moved to the Puget Sound area,
Bob died a tragic death of
cancer. He was only 30 years old.
It was a great privilege on for me to have
counted this fine Marine as one
of my very great friends. I will never forget
More later, maybe.
Semper Fi RR
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Monday, June 07, 2004
Two Marine Corps
by William S. Lind
by William S. Lind
Since sometime before Caesar was a lance corporal, the United States Marine Corps' greatest fear has been becoming "a second land army." It has long believed that if the country perceived it had two armies, it would require one to go away, and that one would be the Marine Corps. It is therefore ironic that the United States now finds itself with not one, but two Marine Corps, and the final result may be that both disappear.
Almost any Marine knows the two Marine Corps of which I speak. One is the heir of the maneuver warfare movement of the 1970s and 80s, of Al Gray and Warfighting, of free play training, officer education focused on how to think, not what to do, of the belief that the highest goal of all Marines is winning in combat with the smallest possible losses. This is the Marine Corps that led the advance to Baghdad in the first phase of the ongoing war in Iraq. It is also the Marine Corps that recently "fought smart" in Fallujah by not taking the city.
The other Marine Corps' highest goal is programs, money and bureaucratic success "inside the Beltway." Its priorities are absurdities such as the MV-22 "Albatross" and reviving the 1990s "Sea Worm" project under the label "distributed operations," which are referred to openly at Quantico as "putting lipstick on a pig." This Marine Corps is anti-intellectual, sees the First Generation culture of order as sacred, believes that sufficient rank justifies any idiot and regards politics, not combat, as the "real world."
Regrettably, in the war between these two Marine Corps, the second one is winning. I recently encountered a horrifying example of its success at the Marine Corps Command & Staff School at Quantico. At the end of this academic year, the Command & Staff faculty simply got rid of 250 copies of Martin van Creveld's superb book, Fighting Power. This book, which lays out the fundamentaldifference between the Second Generation U.S. Army in World War II and the Third Generation Wehrmacht, is one of the seven books of "the canon," the readings that take you from the First Generation into the Fourth. It should be required reading for every Marine Corps and Army officer.
When I asked someone associated with Command & Staff how such a thing could be done, he replied that the faculty has decided it "doesn't like" van Creveld. This is similar to a band of Hottentots deciding they "don't like" Queen Victoria. Martin van Creveld is perhaps the most perceptive military historian now writing. But in the end, the books went; future generations of students at Command & Staff won't have them.
A friend who attended the last Marine Corps General Officers' conference reported the same division between the two Marine Corps. The officers from the field, he said, had completely different concerns from those stationed in Washington. They were ships passing in the night. But it is the interests of the Washington Marine Corps, not those in the field, that determine Marine Corps policy. And that policy is affected little, if at all, by the two wars in which Marines are now fighting.
Throughout my years as a Senate staffer, the Marine Corps' clout on Capitol Hill was envied by the other services. The Marine Corps then had little money and not much interest in programs. Its message to Congress and to the American public was, "We're not like the other services. We aren't about money and stuff. We're about war." That message brought the Corps unrivalled public and political support.
In the mid-1990s, the Marine Corps changed its message and, without realizing what it was doing, abandoned its successful grand strategy for survival. The new message became, "We are just like the other services. We too are now about money and programs." And that new message is what now dominates Headquarters Marine Corps and Quantico. Thinking about war is out; money and stuff is in. In effect, the Marine Corps has sat down at the highest-stakes poker game in the world, American defense politics, with 25 cents in its pocket. It simply cannot compete with the Army, Navy or Air Force at buying Congressional and public support. But it is determined to try.
If the dumb (and increasingly corrupt) "Washington" Marine Corps finally triumphs over the smart, Warfighting Marine Corps, in the end both will disappear. And that will be a shame, because the smart Marine Corps, Al Gray's Marine Corps, really had something going. It was on its way to becoming the first American Third Generation armed service.
Maybe Martin van Creveld's next book should be The Rise and Decline of the United States Marine Corps.
June 5, 2004
William Lind [send him mail] is Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation.
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Sunday, June 06, 2004
This weekend (June 2004) marks the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion of WW II. There has been much ado in the media and so forth regarding the massive Normandy "amphibious invasion," Ike's brilliant planning and execution, courage, heroism, etc.--and rightfully so.The Normandy invasion is often regarded as the largest amphibious operation in history; some have even compared the amphibious landings in the Pacific as miniscule in comparison.
In perusing the book, Soldiers Of The Sea-The United States Marine Corps, 1775-1962, by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., Colonel, USMC (The National Aviation Publishing Company of America, Baltimore, Maryland, 1991, page 513), I find an interesting remark by the author regarding the above.
"Under atomic attack, the World war II amphibious assault was finished. Normandy (more a ferrying operation than a true oceanic amphibious assault in any case) and Okinawa would never be repeated."
Of course, there was another amphibious landing, at Inchon in 1950.
Although Col. Heinl's mention of Normandy, above, is not much more than an aside comment and not the main thrust of his point regarding amphibious assault in general, his remark does, I think, sum up and define the major difference between the Normandy Invasion and Marine Corps amphibious operations in the Pacific. And he does so in a very few words, and in a more correct light than is usually perceived.
I like Colonel Heinl's insights into historical Marine Corps topics as he is always most thorough, and he delves into areas usually left untouched by other writers. Then, too, Heinl's book sports a photo by S/Sgt Lou Lowery (Leatherneck magazine) of the Iwo Jima Flag Raising; not the Joe Rosenthal version, mind you, but the first flag raising that preceeded the "replacemnet flag" raising some time later, which was captured on motion-picture film by Sgt Genaust, and photographed by Rosenthal. But, then, this is an area of special interest to me.
And also, part of the book title says it all, and immediately gains my attention--"...1775-1962," for it was those years that I find as most significant, and interesting for me.
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Hate to bore you, but Pacific War veterans will certainly be pleased with the following. At least one academic has his head screwed on properly.
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Aloha, Friends!
Yale prof David Gelertner takes members of my generation to task for offering "too much, too late" in honor of its WWII forbearers. I'm afraid I must agree with him.
Too Much, Too Late
Baby boomers heap insincere praise on the "greatest generation."
Friday, June 4, 2004 12:01 a.m.
My political credo is simple and many people share it: I am against phonies. A cultural establishment that (on the whole) doesn't give a damn about World War II or its veterans thinks it can undo a half-century of indifference verging on contempt by repeating a silly phrase ("the greatest generation") like a magic spell while deploying fulsome praise like carpet bombing.
The campaign is especially intense among members of the 1960s generation who once chose to treat all present and former soldiers like dirt and are willing at long last to risk some friendly words about World War II veterans, now that most are safely underground and guaranteed not to talk back, enjoy their celebrity or start acting like they own the joint. A quick glance at the famous Hemingway B.S. detector shows the needle pegged at Maximum, where it's been all week, from Memorial Day through the D-Day anniversary run-up.
When I was in junior high school long ago, a touring arts program visited schools in New York state. One performance consisted of a celebrated actress reciting Emily Dickinson's poetry onstage for 90 minutes or so. I defy any audience to listen attentively to 90 minutes of Dickinson without showing the strain, and my school definitely wasn't having any.
A few minutes into the show, the auditorium was alive with student chatter, so loud a buzz you could barely hear the performance. Being a poetry-lover, I devoted myself to setting an example of rapt attention for, maybe, five minutes, at which point I threw in the towel and joined the mass murmur.
The actress manfully completed her performance. When it was over we gave her a stupendous ovation. We were glad it was finished and (more important) knew perfectly well that we had behaved like pigs and intended to make up for it by clapping and roaring and shouting. But the performer wasn't having any. She gave us a cold curtsy and left the stage and would not return for a second bow.
I have always admired her for that: a more memorable declaration than anything Dickinson ever wrote. And today's endless ovation for World War II vets doesn't change the fact that this nation has behaved boorishly, with colossal disrespect. If we cared about that war, the men who won it and the ideas it suggests, we would teach our children (at least) four topics:
• The major battles of the war. When I was a child in the 1960s, names like Corregidor and Iwo Jima were still sacred, and pronounced everywhere with respect. Writing in the 1960s about the battle of Midway, Samuel Eliot Morison stepped out of character to plead with his readers: "Threescore young aviators . . . met flaming death that day in reversing the verdict of battle. Think of them, reader, every Fourth of June. They and their comrades who survived changed the whole course of the Pacific War." Today the Battle of Midway has become niche-market nostalgia material, and most children (and many adults) have never heard of it. Thus we honor "the greatest generation." (And if I hear that phrase one more time I will surely puke.)
• The bestiality of the Japanese. The Japanese army saw captive soldiers as cowards, lower than lice. If we forget this we dishonor the thousands who were tortured and murdered, and put ourselves in danger of believing the soul-corroding lie that all cultures are equally bad or good. Some Americans nowadays seem to think America's behavior during the war was worse than Japan's--we did intern many loyal Americans of Japanese descent. That was unforgivable--and unspeakably trivial compared to Japan's unique achievement, mass murder one atrocity at a time.
In "The Other Nuremberg," Arnold Brackman cites (for instance) "the case of Lucas Doctolero, crucified, nails driven through hands, feet and skull"; "the case of a blind woman who was dragged from her home November 17, 1943, stripped naked, and hanged"; "five Filipinos thrown into a latrine and buried alive." In the Japanese-occupied Philippines alone, at least 131,028 civilians and Allied prisoners of war were murdered. The Japanese committed crimes against Allied POWs and Asians that would be hard still, today, for a respectable newspaper even to describe. Mr. Brackman's 1987 book must be read by everyone who cares about World War II and its veterans, or the human race.
• The attitude of American intellectuals. Before Pearl Harbor but long after the character of Hitlerism was clear--after the Nuremberg laws, the Kristallnacht pogrom, the establishment of Dachau and the Gestapo--American intellectuals tended to be dead against the U.S. joining Britain's war on Hitler.
Today's students learn (sometimes) about right-wing isolationists like Charles Lindbergh and the America Firsters. They are less likely to read documents like this, which appeared in Partisan Review (the U.S. intelligentsia's No. 1 favorite mag) in fall 1939, signed by John Dewey, William Carlos Williams, Meyer Schapiro and many more of the era's leading lights. "The last war showed only too clearly that we can have no faith in imperialist crusades to bring freedom to any people. Our entry into the war, under the slogan of 'Stop Hitler!' would actually result in the immediate introduction of totalitarianism over here. . . . The American masses can best help [the German people] by fighting at home to keep their own liberties." The intelligentsia acted on its convictions. "By one means or another," Diana Trilling later wrote of this period, "most of the intellectuals of our acquaintance evaded the draft."
Why rake up these Profiles in Disgrace? Because in the Iraq War era they have a painfully familiar ring.
• The veterans' neglected voice. World War II produced an extraordinary literature of first-person soldier narratives--most of them out of print or unknown. Books like George MacDonald Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here," Philip Ardery's "Bomber Pilot," James Fahey's "Pacific War Diary." If we were serious about commemorating the war, we would do something serious. The Library of America includes two volumes on "Reporting World War II," but where are the soldiers' memoirs versus the reporters'? If we were serious, we would have every grade school in the nation introduce itself to local veterans and invite them over. We'd use software to record these informal talks and weave them into a National Second World War Narrative in cyberspace. That would be a monument worth having.
Speaking of which: I am privileged to know a gentleman who enlisted in the Army as an aviation cadet in 1942, served in combat as a navigator in a B-24, was shot down and interned in Switzerland, escaped, and flew in the air transport command for the rest of the war. He became a scientist and had a long, distinguished career. Among his friends he is a celebrated raconteur, and his prose is strong and charming. He wrote up his World War II experiences, and no one--no magazine, no book publisher--will take them on. My suggestions have all bombed out.
If you're interested, give me a call. But I'm not holding my breath. The country is too busy toasting the "greatest generation" to pay attention to its actual members.
Mr. Gelernter is a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard and professor of computer science at Yale.
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June 04, 2004, 8:51 a.m.
Rivalry at Normandy
U.S. Marines barred from the June 6, 1944 landings.
By W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Sixty-years-ago, along a 60-mile stretch of France's Normandy coastline, a combined force of American, British, and Canadian soldiers began streaming ashore as German artillery, mortar, machine-gun, and rifle fire ripped into their ranks. The mission of the Allied force was to kick down the door of Nazi Germany's Fortress Europe, and then launch a drive toward the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
Overseen by American Gen. Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, the operation was — and remains to this day — the largest amphibious assault in history.
Since then, the question has often been raised as to why the U.S. Marine Corps did not play a leading role in the landings. After all, the Corps's raison d'être was amphibious warfare. Marines had been perfecting the art of the amphibious assault since the 1920's, and between 1942 and 1944, they had put their skills to practical use at places like Guadalcanal, Makin, Bougainville, and Tarawa, in the Pacific.
In the Atlantic, Marines had trained Army forces for seaborne landings prior to the North African campaign in 1942, and then made landings during the same. Marines trained Army forces for the Sicilian-Italian landings in 1943. Marine Corps amphibious experts were on Ike's staff. And most Normandy-bound Army units were in fact instructed by Marines prior to the 1944 invasion.
So why didn't U.S. Marines storm the French coast with their Army counterparts?
First, the Marine Corps was then — as it has always been — much smaller than the Army. During World War II, the Corps swelled to a force comprising six divisions, whereas the Army expanded to 89 divisions. The Corps' resources were stretched thin, and much of its efforts were focused on the fighting in the Pacific.
Second, a deep-seeded rivalry between the Army and Marines was in full bloom: Its origins stretching back to World War I; the defining period of the modern Marine Corps.
Following the 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood (France), in which Marines played a leading role, newspapers in the U.S. credited much of the success of the American Expeditionary Force to the Marines. This occurred at the expense of deserving Army units even when referring to actions in which Marines did not participate.
In one instance, a number of newspapers covering the fighting at the Marne River bridges at Chateau-Thierry (a few days prior to the Battle of Belleau Wood) published headlines that read "Germans stopped at Chateau-Thierry with help of God and a few Marines." The headlines contributed to the Corps' already legendary reputation, and the Army was justifiably incensed. The Germans in fact had been stopped at Chateau-Thierry by the U.S. Army's 7th machinegun battalion.
Army leaders — including Generals George C. Marshall, Eisenhower, and Omar N. Bradley — were determined not to be upstaged by Marines, again. Thus, when America entered World War II in late 1941, the Marine Corps was deliberately excluded from large-scale participation in the European theater. And when the largest amphibious operation in history was launched, it was for all intents and purposes an Army show.
In the wee hours of June 6, 1944, paratroopers from the American 82nd, 101st, and British 6th Airborne divisions began jumping over France. Hours later, the first assault waves of the initial 175,000-man seaborne force began hitting the Normandy beaches at the Bay of Seine. Five beaches comprised the landing areas: Sword, Juno, and Gold Beaches were struck by Lt. Gen. Miles Christopher Dempsey's Second British Army. Omaha and Utah Beaches were stormed by Gen. Bradley's First U.S. Army.
Between Omaha and Utah, 225 men of the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion were tasked with scaling the 100-foot cliffs of Pointe du Hoc. There, five 155-millimeter guns were emplaced in reinforced concrete bunkers. As such the position encompassed "the most dangerous battery in France." It had to be knocked out to protect the landings.
When the Rangers began suffering heavy losses, brief consideration was given to sending-in the Marines from one of the offshore ships' detachments.
Those slated to go were leathernecks from the 84-man Marine Detachment aboard the battleship U.S.S. Texas. On the morning of June 7 (D-plus-one), the Texas's Marines began making last minute preparations: Wiping down weapons, distributing grenades, waterproofing field packs, and sharpening K-Bar fighting knives. Others were on the mess decks eating the traditional pre-landing breakfast of steak and eggs: A fact that concerned the Navy's medical corpsmen who feared they would be treating stomach wounds later in the day. Those anxious to go ashore, watched the ongoing action from the ship's railings.
In his book, Spearheading D-Day, Jonathan Gawne writes, "Most of these Marines had no combat experience and had only been in the Corps for a few months [the same could have been said of many of the soldiers who had just landed]. One of them [the Marines] commented: 'This is going to be the biggest slaughter since Custer got his at the Little Big Horn.'"
At the last minute, word was passed down through the Army chain of command that no Marines would be allowed to go ashore, not even riding shotgun on landing craft ferrying Army troops or supplies. Rumors quickly spread that the Army leadership feared a repeat of the media gaffes in 1918. They did not want to see headlines that read, Marines save Rangers at Normandy. Consequently, the Marines were ordered to "stand down."
Though little-known outside of special-operations circles, Marines did however play a few combat roles in the invasion.
Prior-to, during, and after the landings, Marines assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) — the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency — planned and led sabotage and resistance operations with the French underground against the occupying Germans. On D-Day, Marines helped pave the way for British and American pathfinders and paratroopers who dropped behind enemy lines. Additionally, a handful of Marine Corps observers were attached to Army landing forces.
Offshore, Marines were positioned high in the superstructures of American warships in the English Channel. From their lofty perches, the riflemen fired at and detonated floating mines as the ships moved in close to "bombardment stations" along the French coastline. It was reminiscent of the Old Corps during the age of sail when sharp-shooting Marines climbed the masts and riggings and battled enemy crews from the "fighting tops."
Normandy was indeed big, but the war itself was far bigger. There was enough action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters for everyone, and everyone got to play. But that failed to stanch the growing interservice rivalry between the Army and Marines.
The day before the invasion of Normandy, a restless Army Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. addressed his troops (the shorter, less-profane version of that address was made famous by actor George C. Scott, who ironically was a former U.S. Marine).
Publicly, Patton was full of fire and an unsated desire to kill the enemy. Privately, he was disappointed. Neither he nor his 1st U.S. Army Group — a skeleton host formed to deceive the Germans into believing that the Americans would land at Pas de Calais — were going to participate in the landings. But unbeknownst to the general, the coming weeks would see Eisenhower bring Patton off the sidelines, give him command of the U.S. Third Army, and then hurl that force against the reconstituted German defenses beyond the Normandy beachhead. In that capacity, Patton was destined to make headlines of his own.
Outlining his colorful albeit controversial vision of the future, Patton said, "The quicker we clean up this g**damned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the g**damned Marines get all of the credit."
— A former U.S. Marine infantry leader and paratrooper, W. Thomas Smith Jr. is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of national and international publications. His third book, Alpha Bravo Delta Guide to American Airborne Forces, has just been published.
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IceTea is a peripheral for the TI-99/4A home computer, based on BlackIce. It will provide paged RAM, I/O devices, and especially a new sound synthesizer for the FORTi music software (Texas Peripherals, 1984) written in TI FORTH.
Firmware for IceTea is written in Verilog and swapFORTH, with communication through memory-mapped I/O.
So that TI FORTH (or any language, even TI BASIC) can poke values into registers and invoke interrupts in swapFORTH. For instance my FAT32 SD driver in swapFORTH could be invoked from TI FORTH or from a device service routine written in TMS9900 assembly.
Here's some detail:
My pin use
I used 24 pins to interface the BlackIce to a TI-99/4A with TMS9900 microprocessor.
My schematic (this PDF lacks the connector library symbols)IceTea schematic
The left side 44-pin connector is the TI-99/4A I/O port. The right side is 3 double PMODs to BlackIce. IceTea translates 5V NMOS and TTL to 3.3V at the BlackIce pin.
My board reduces 34 essential pins to 24. It gets there by putting 15 address pins onto 2 serial shifters (ADRIN1, ADRIN2, SRCLK, SHLD). The goal is to free more pins for PMOD peripherals (and make the connector practical.)
8 bidirectional data bus: DB0 - DB7
4 address bus: ADRIN1, ADRIN2, SRCLK, SHLD
2 clock and reset: PHI3, RESET
7 control lines: MEMEN, DBIN, WE, IAQ, RDBENA, DBDIR, A15/CRUOUT
3 cru serial bus: EN_CRUIN, CRUIN, CRUCLK
24 total, on PMOD7-12.
Most of the complexity and debug hours came from the address pin serialization. I save 11 pins (A0 to A14). (Yes I can hear you Knuth.)
First peripheral: PMOD 14 is a 4 pin I2S, jumpered to AUDIOIN at the 44-pin I/O port.
A prefix of B indicates the BlackIce side of a signal name from the 44-pin I/O port.
I don't see a way to reduce the pin count much further (certainly not 16 pins). I actually want to drive two more pins to the 44-pin connector: LOAD and READY. I considered using a '595 to serialize the data bus. This might save 4 pins but makes meeting timing impossible on read cycles. Maybe save 1 pin if output BCRUIN could double with BDB0.
Some timing constraints
The 44-pin I/O port memory cycle expects slow memories with 2 wait states, for 1 us total per byte (always in 2 byte transactions). This is generous enough to live with address bus serialization.
With the '165s shifting 1 bit per 40 ns, the whole address decode takes 360 ns. I tried to cut this in half to 180 ns for address decode, but one of my '165s stops working when pushed. A 10ns setup time between edges seems to fail (spec is at 9ns).
CRU (a separate i/o memory space) is broken until I achieve 180 ns. CRU read and write single bit cycles are just 333 ns. I must decode the address and set up CRUIN (or read CRUOUT) in this time.
The 44-pin memory bus gives 2 wait states for an overall 1 us per byte transferred. A future goal is to disable the wait states, for a memory cycle of 333 ns, and use a 16-bit data bus. So the address decode must get to 180 ns for that too.
Some wishes
Ideally I could have multiplexed the pins to the SRAM. Having 15 bits of address and 16 bits of data bus without using up all the PMODs would be ideal. My serialization would go away. Most of the time, my code leaves the SRAM pins completely idle except for a few clocks inside the slow 2 us memory cycle. With a multiplexed bus, BlackIce would act as a DMA controller to the TMS9900, asserting READY and sampling HOLDA (hold acknowledge) to reserve the bus for its SRAM access. A board with no built-in SRAM would also free up pins for this.
What works now
Memory cycles from TI-99/4A to pages of the 512k sram. The sound generator (with waveforms preloaded in BRAM) emulating multiple TMS9919/SN76489.The FAT32 SD driver in swapFORTH reads directories and files.
What isn't written yet
multiport access to SRAM from swapFORTH and IceTeamoving waveforms from SRAM to BRAMserial port loopback from swapFORTH to TI FORTH
It seems like a meager progress but all of it has been learned the hard way.
The utterly ridiculous goal to reach is using a TiPi board running the IceStorm tool chain. At that point you'll be able to edit your Verilog on the TI-99/4A in say TI Writer, hit "Print" and have it replace the BlackIce bitstream. Why not? I made sure TiPi can plug into IceTea.
Spare monikers
My board is labeled "SweetTea" while the overall project and firmware is called IceTea. It's a Texas thing.
I think that schematic hyperlink is broken try this schematic
I think after BlackIce you should aim at BlackEdge which, depending on core module, could provide you with more IO pins to help you solve your issues directly..
However in the meantime
What is it that is preventing you getting to 180ns is it the 165s or signal integrity or something else?
I am not sure if you can change which PMODs you connect too, Pmods 7-12 should be better signal wise, does this make any difference?
I switched to PMOD7-12 earlier on, on your advice. Signal integrity seems ok. (My mass of 24 logic probe wires caused more crosstalk at the probe only.. can I wrap those in foil?)
I suspect what is going on is, with 20ns read cycles, when the 165 SCLK edge tells it to shift, the output is not quite ready 1 cycle later when I sample it.
0 load
10 idle
20 idle
30 read
40 shift
50 read
60 shift
One my my 165s worked, the other didn't. I replaced it, same result. It's at the limit for timing spec for the device.When I slowed down by 2x it works.I suppose I could try counting by 3s.Another possibility is it is just the Load timing that is not met.
I'll have another look at it.
Looking at MixMod and wondering how to re-organize my 6-PMOD edge connection:
I reduced 24 pins to 18, by eliminating the 16-to-2 serializer, and instead multiplexing one 8-bit port (formerly databus). Now I have a multiplexed 16 bit address bus in, 16 bit data bus in/out (output latch required for lower 8), plus 10 control signals.
If IceTea connects to the west edge of Carrier MX 16 GPIO pins, I still need to bring 2 lines around from North. In fact, I also have a Digilent I2S (single) PMOD with audio out and 2 "nice to have" GPIO on the list. Since the I2S is retired by Digilent, I consider integrating the CS4344 stereo chip on my board (this saves an audio jumper as well). So I would wire 8 GPIO pins from the North, probably with a ribbon cable.
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For both beginners and advanced users alike, there are many ways to enhance your Kodi experience. But, one of the best ways to take your Kodi experience to the next level is by installing one or more of the plethora of add-ons out there – both official and unofficial.
Regarding unofficial third-party add-ons, Mobdro is right up there when it comes to the ones which are most widely used. People all over the world choose to install Mobdro on Kodi, and it is easy to see why.
Mobdro is often the first port of call for many people when it comes to streaming live TV via the Kodi platform – with a whole host of links provided in the plugin. This includes links to various entertainment, movie, and sports channels – all of which are in high quality and are scraped from all over the internet.
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How to install the Mobdro add-on on Kodi
Before looking at how to download Mobdro on Kodi, it's important that we first make sure Kodi is set to accept add-ons from unknown sources.
To do that, we're going to need to click on Settings from the home page:
After that, click on System settings:
Now you simply have to go to Add-ons and enable the Unknown sources option.
Now that we've got that done, we're prepared to install Mobdro on Kodi. So go back and click on File manager.
Then click on Add source:
So here we get to the important part. This is actually the point where you connect to the repository that holds the Mobdro on Kodi add-on. Head to where it says [None] and type in http://lvtvv.com/repo/
Afterwards, you'll have to name this file source on your Kodi. We decided to name ours "Mobdro" so that we could find it easily, but you can name it whatever you'd like. Then, press OK.
Head on back to the homepage and go to Add-ons.
The next step is to click on the box icon in the top-left corner.
Finally, we can unpack the repository files. So in this step we'll click on Install from zip file:
..and then we need to locate the repository that we just linked to and named. We called ours "Mobdro," so we'll click on that.
From there we'll click on the folder called old:
…and then locate the zip file named "repository.ah":
Once that's done, you'll have to wait for the success message that says the AH repository has been installed. Then, click on Install from repository.
Find and click on the one folder named AH Add-on repository…
…and finally on the Video add-ons folder:
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Many people choose to install Mobdro on Kodi thanks to its ease of use, ability to provide high-quality links, and the fact that it provides access to a wealth of live TV channels from many countries throughout the world. It works similarly to other add-ons which include the likes of Ultra TV, Chronos, and more.
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12 of the most weirdest and rarest diseases known to man
Disease is something that has evolved right alongside man over the years. Today, we see the culmination of many of them in some of the strangest manifestations of disease anyone has ever seen before.
Some of them disfigure people greatly, others cause incredible pain, and some are simply aesthetic. As the world's population continues to grow, we will undoubtedly continue to see new ones emerge.
Here are twelve of the strangest, most bizarre diseases seen today:
Exploding Head Syndrome
While this disease sounds like your head is literally going to explode, it's bad, but not in that way.
People with this disease start hearing gunshots, bombs, and any other extremely loud noises as soon as they lay down to rest.
Physically, it is not painful. But, it causes severe sleep deprivation that has incredibly harmful side effects.
Flesh-Eating Diseases
These types of diseases are exactly like they sound: absolutely terrible. They navigate to the deepest layers of the skin and begin to kill tissue from the inside out.
This leads to the rotting and decay of the infected areas. Typically, we see discolored, blistered skin with fluids leaking out of it.
The only way to get rid of these diseases is through surgery, and about 73% of people who get them will die if left untreated.
Alien Hand Syndrome
A very rare and particularly bizarre disease, Alien Hand Syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes the hand to operate independently of the brain and nervous system, or, the hand is thinking for itself.
Your hand will start grabbing for things and doing movements without you even realizing it.
At the moment, there is no cure, but holding an object in that hand is seen as the best therapy.
Cotard's Delusion
This strange disease makes the afflicted believe that they've died.
They basically turn into undead people as they continue to walk and talk to others believing that they've passed away.
Some folks take this delusion a step further and believe themselves to be immortal. Treatment for this odd condition requires drugs and hemodialysis.
This interesting disease is more common than the others.
About one in every 500 children is born with extra fingers or toes.
One strange thing about this condition is that the extra fingers or toes typically do not have bone in them; leading many people to get their extra digits removed surgically.
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Although the name sounds inherently good, the condition itself is anything but.
Symptoms of this disease include hallucinations, disorientations, and dysmetropsia (seeing objects as bigger or smaller than they really are).
This disease is commonly found in children, most of whom eventually grow out of it.
Menkes Disease
This condition occurs when the body has a copper deficiency.
Men are typically who suffer from this condition, but it is possible for women to have it as well.
Symptoms of this strange disease include the whites of your eyes turning blue, brittle and fragile hair, seizures, poor muscle tone and saggy facial characteristics.
Lymphatic Filariasis
This disease is caused by a parasitic worm and has grave implications for the afflicted.
Also known as elephantiasis, this disease has no symptoms at first, but eventually sees tremendous swelling in a targeted area, and the skin becomes thick and tough.
The only way to treat this incredibly painful condition involves antibiotics.
Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis
This disease has been coined the "Tree Man" illness, and is a genetic condition very rarely seen in the world today.
People suffering from this disease sprout red-brown growths that look like wood on various parts of the body.
The disease can cover just a certain area of the body, or the body in its entirety, and unfortunately, there is no cure for it yet.
Stone Man Syndrome
When we become injured or work out, we destroy fibrous tissue in the body, and it gets repaired with more fibrous tissue.
This disturbing condition is a genetic mutation that causes the body's repair functions to use bone tissue instead of fibrous tissue when reconstructing damaged tissue.
As you can imagine, this means that the person's body slowly starts hardening internally, as every fibrous tissue gets replaced with bone.
Eventually they become paralyzed by their own skeleton, causing a slow, completely immobilized death for which there is no cure.
Werewolf Syndrome
This condition is painless and not life-threatening, thankfully. Women who have grown full beards often have this condition.
As the name suggests, this disease causes people to have uncontrollable hair growth, making them look kind of like werewolves.
One version of this condition causes hair to grow in a localized area, while the other means your entire body will be covered with hair.
Lion Face Syndrome
Leontiasis Ossea, or Lion Face Syndrome, is rare disease that is marked by the overgrowth of bone tissue in the face and jaw.
This condition often affects the mouth, nose and sinuses, and many folks who suffer from this condition are completely blind due to the bone tissue literally crushing their optic nerves.
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City Water Wants to Effectively Raise Rates on Low Use Customers
SAN ANGELO, TX — Since 2006, the City of San Angelo Water Utilities Department has been required by City ordinance to discount water bills as a reward for water customers who use 3,000 gallons or less of water per month. Tuesday, Allison Strube, Water Utilities Director, will propose that the City Council ditch this discount, called the "10% Conservation Discount."
The 2006 ordinance issues a 10 percent discount to low water use customers. It is applied to the sum of the $26.88 base rate plus the volumetric charge. A customer using 1,000 gallons of water, for example, receives a $3 discount, which wipes out almost the entire volumetric charge, and revenue to the City water department, of $3.30. A customer using 3,000 gallons per month receives a $3.81 discount.
City water said that the gross annual cost of the credits has grown from $308,951.71 in 2015 to over $400,000 for 2018 if the current trend continues through December of this year. Water rates increased substantially at the beginning of 2016, enhancing the City's total cost of giving the discount.
Strube recommends the 10% Conservation Discount be eliminated. Tuesday, Oct. 2, is the first reading of the proposed City ordinance to do so. If council approves the elimination Tuesday, the ordinance is required to have a second reading at a later council meeting before the ordinance is changed and the discount is eliminated.
Strube suggests in the write-up to the agenda item that the discount be replaced with more targeted financial incentives for water conservation, such as a rebate for the installation of water-efficient toilets. The new incentives can be discussed at later council meetings after the 10% Conservation Discount is eliminated, she stated.
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City Water Discountby ContentiousAlgorithm
Sep 30, 2018 10:25 pm CDT
"Strube suggests in the write-up to the agenda item that the discount be replaced with more targeted financial incentives for water conservation, such as a rebate for the installation of water-efficient toilets. The new incentives can be discussed at later council meetings after the 10% Conservation Discount is eliminated, she stated."
How about they discuss and implement the new incentives before they remove the discount? Perhaps because they know they'll be in no hurry then to seriously consider them...
Well this makes total senseby Big Daddy
Sep 30, 2018 10:25 pm CDT
Why would anyone in west Texas be encouraged to conserve water. Hopefully this will save the water dept. enough money to buy some new furniture or sumpin else):
RAISING RATESby Nubuss J
Oct 01, 2018 8:08 am CDT
Lets include those who use more water, raise their rate of miss use by the same rate as the discount we get for doing the right thing.
Robberyby Old Salt
Oct 01, 2018 9:02 am CDT
Speechless. Maybe the city can put the bank building back on the market. Why not impose the "tax" on businesses that use more water instead of households who use less? She, Strube, probably doesn't get the discount.
Haha. the city of San Angeloby texasred
Oct 01, 2018 9:08 am CDT
Haha. the city of San Angelo is so dumb. Hey every conserve water and there will be an incentive. hey everybody conserve water but now we are going to take your incentive away to do so and make you buy more stuff from corporations like lowes and home depot so you can save money by buying water efficient toilets. This city never ceases to amaze me with the crap they come up with.
Geeez...by Cajun Texan
Oct 01, 2018 9:14 am CDT
Seems like such an easy fix without punishing those who conserve. Tier pricing for volume use.......duh!


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As the Peace Corps mourns the recent deaths of Togo volunteer Jonathan Mitchell and Namibia trainee Mitchell Herrmann, we also remember the passing of numerous talented and inspiring individuals, including one of the beloved icons of Peace Corps' formative years.
While best known for co-founding a leading organization devoted to development on the African continent, C. Payne Lucas (1933-2018) was first a leading figure in the early days of the Peace Corps. A graduate of the University of Maryland - Eastern Shore and American University, Lucas served in the Air Force and served on the Democratic National Committee. Not long after the formation of the Peace Corps, Lucas was hired. His work with the agency began as a field representative in Togo. He would go on to serve as a country director in Niger, regional director for Africa and director of the office of returned volunteers. In 1971, Lucas helped launch Africare, the largest African-American non profit organization focusing on African development. At the time of his 2002 retirement, the organization had distributed $400 million to 27 nations to combat poverty and drought, advance agriculture and address the HIV/AIDS crisis.
There are many varied roles played by Peace Corps volunteers throughout history. But how many can say their assignment included conducting the national symphony? That was the case for Gerald "Jerry" Brown during his service in Bolivia during the late 1960's. Jerry attended Arizona State University on a French Horn scholarship. He would also become a skilled pianist and harpsichordist. After graduating from ASU, Jerry performed with the Phoenix symphony and would study conducting at Julliard. During his five years of Peace Corps service, Jerry became the principal conductor of Bolivia's National Symphony. This led to a long post-Peace Corps period of teaching and conducting across Latin America. Jerry spent many years leading the Costa Rica National Symphony and helped create that country's national youth symphony and youth music program.
Rabbi Rachel Cowan (1941-2018) is being remembered as a pioneer in the Jewish healing movement. After her marriage to writer and author Paul Cowan in the mid-1960's, the couple traveled to Mississippi to participate in the registration of black voters, and soon after joined the Peace Corps, serving in Ecuador. Following her husband's death, Cowan in 1990 became one of the co-founders of the Jewish Healing Center, established to provide spiritual resources and wisdom to help people deal with suffering that surrounds personal loss and personal illness. Rabbi Cowan would next move on to the Nathan Cummings Foundation, serving 14 years as director of the center's Jewish Life and Values program. She also worked at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality in Manhattan.
The social justice organization Empower Missouri is nearly 120 years old. For 25 of those years, the organization (formerly known as the Missouri Association for Social Welfare - MSW) was led by Peter Salvatore De Simone (1937-2018). Trained initially as a civil engineer, Peter was among the first wave of Peace Corps Volunteers, serving in Tanzania beginning in 1961. After Peace Corps, Peter's commitment to national service continued with a stint working for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). It was in 1977, when Peter was hired to lead MSW. During his tenure, the agency contributed to the establishment of the Missouri Foundation for Health and the Housing Trust Fund. In 1995, the Ethical Society of St. Louis awarded Peter with the Humanist of the Year Award for his lifetime commitment to social justice.
Soon after graduating from the University of Washington in 1965, Barbara Bailey (1943-2018) joined the Peace Corps, serving as a volunteer in Turkey. After returning from service, Barbara became a caseworker with the Washington juvenile justice system. A trip to Sun Valley, Idaho to take time off would lead to a major career shift. In between skiing, hunting and softball, Barbara took a job clerking at the Ex Libris bookstore. Her interest in books led her to soon purchase the store. In 1977, Barbara would return to Seattle, where she opened the B. Bailey Bookstore. In 1982 she co-founded Bailey Coy Books. This store became a magnet for bookstores and authors. The store also became a gathering place for Seattle's LGBTQ community. Barbara became a founding board member of Seattle's Pride Foundation, now the largest community foundation of its kind in the country. She also served on the national board of Lambda Legal. After selling her bookstores, Barbara returned to her family home in Chevy Chase, near Port Townsend. Along with her family, Barbara expaned a nearby golf course and established Chevy Chase Cabins, a popular resort on Discovery Bay.
Dr. David S. Smith Jr. (1943-2018) was a man of many interests. After graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in finance, he found himself doing volunteer work in Colombia for the Peace Corps. After his three years of service, he returned to the states and got a job with the Sea Land Corporation. Not long after that, David went back to school to become a doctor. His medical education and training took him to Mexico, New Jersey and Illinois. At the age of 40 he began his practice at a clinic in Delaware, Ohio. When he wasn't working in the clinic, David spent much of his time doing community service. He worked with organizations such as the Delaware County Chapter Central Ohio Diabetes Association, the Delaware County Easter Seal Society, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Habitat for Humanity. Even after he retired, he continued his work as a volunteer physician and went on many medical mission trips to New Zealand, Honduras and Haiti.Throughout his career, David was recognized for much of his work. He was selected as one of the recipients for the Outstanding Young Men of America Award back in 1971 and was more recently honored by the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians as its 2005 Physician of the Year. He also received the Rotary Club Paul Harris award and the Delaware Area Chamber of Commerce Wayne Hillbom Lifetime Achievement Award alongside his wife Dolores.
Below is our In Memoriam list for members of the Peace Corps community who recently passed away:
David Danielson, 8/27/18
Bonnie Daniels Gardner, 8/10/18
C. Payne Lucas, 9/15/18
Phyllis Jean Inman (Belize 1985-87; Nepal 1991-94), 8/28/18
Michael Weintraub M.D. (Guinea, Togo 1966-68)
Gerald "Jerry" Brown (1966-71), 8/12/18
Bevin Smith McCarthy, 8/13/18
Peter J. Murray, 8/22/18
William Cornwell (1962-64), 8/2/18
C. Kermit "Kit" Ewing, 8/7/18
Dr. David S. Smith Jr. (1966-69), 8/22/18
Frederick F. "Buck" Thornburg, 9/19/18
Rabbi Rachel Cowan, 8/31/18
Valarie A. Furst, 8/26/18
Lauren Elizabeth Laabs, 8/18/18
Hugh "Stewart" Gregg (1962-1964), 9/5/18
Lawrence T. Cerep, 8/16/18
Joseph Michael McFarlan (1972-74), 9/15/18
Alexander Reisbord (1971-73), 9/10/18
Joyce Dee Peterson, 7/19/18
Burch Alan Harper (1989-91), 7/10/18
Carol Bergner (1970-72), 9/14/18
Dana S. Kephart (1969-71), 3/1/18
Mitchell Herrmann, 8/16/18
Robert Anthony Garcia, 9/13/18
John David Bowling, 8/13/18
Edward R. Pautienus (1961-64), 8/26/18
Hank Davenport Barberis (1962-64), 7/2/18
Karen Rosalie Emerson, 9/13/18
Jerry Poznak (1961-63), 7/18
Richard Howard "Rik" Rodefer (1962-63), 8/18/18
Roger B. Hirschland (1965-69), 8/18/18
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Donna Fitzpatrick Kennedy (2014-16), 6/25/18
Peter Salvatore De Simone (1961-63), 8/30/18
Jonathan Mitchell, 9/4/18
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Barbara Bailey (1965-67), 9/1/18
James Keith Blalock, 8/13/18
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ISC Tripod set
When working in confined space or during rescue and / or evacuation, you need to be able to rely on the equipment. For this purpose, a combination of 2 high quality reliable ISC products is developed. The set consists of:
- ISC tripod: aluminium and steel, with a powder coating. The tripod is fitted with 2 pully wheels and removable captive pins to keep the rope / wire line in place.
- ISC heavy duty fall arrest block with aluminium housing and recovery winch. Standard features are twistlock fall indicator and swivel eye karabiner.
- ISC attachment bracket: hard wearing device to mount the fall arrest block to the tripod. The hinged lid and screw design makes the bracket fit quick and easy.
Specifications tripod:
- materials: aluminium and stainless steel
- size: 1860 mm (h) x 230 mm (w)
- colour: red
- double safety locking mechanism
- 360 kg working load (two persons)
- certification: CE EN 795
Specifications fall arrest block:
- line type: cable
- lenght: 15 meters
- twistlock fall indicator
- material: aluminium
- colour: red
- certification: CE EN 360 and EN1496 Class B