SERVE AND PROTECT

Not that you'd ever obtain a ham radio, which can be run on batteries BTW ... or want to listen to weather reports ... or monitor certain channels. I'm just sayin'.

 Public safety, civil unrest, crisis management, disaster planning, all these things are in the hands of Trained Professionals.





















But if you are a curious type, one of the 10% that want to know what is actually going on, this might help:

 

10-0	Caution
10-1	Unable to copy - move
10-2	Signal good
10-3	Stop Transmitting
10-4	Acknowledgement
10-5	Relay
10-6	Busy, unless urgent
10-7	Out of service
10-8	In service
10-9	Repeat
10-10	Fight in progress
10-11	Dog case
10-12	Stand by
10-13	Weather/Road report
10-14	Prowler report
10-15	Civil disturbance
10-16	Domestic problem
10-17	Meet complainant
10-18	Quickly
10-19	Return to
10-20	Location
10-21	Call by telephone
10-22	Disregard
10-23	Arrived at scene
10-24	Assignment complete
10-25	Report in person
10-26	Detaining subject, expedite
10-27	Drivers license information
10-28	Vehicle registration info
10-29	Check for wanted
10-30	Unnecessary use of use
10-31	Crime in progress
10-32	Man with gun
10-33	Emergency
10-34	Riot
10-35	Major crime alert
10-36	Correct time
10-37	Investigate suspicious vehicle
10-38	Stopping suspicious vehicle
10-39	Urgent, use lights and siren
10-40	Silent run, no lights/siren
10-41	Beginning tour of duty
10-42	Ending tour of duty
10-43	Information
10-44	Permission to leave for …
10-45	Animal carcass as …
10-46	Assist motorist
10-47	Emergency road repair
10-48	Traffic standard repair at …
10-49	Traffic light out at …
10-50	Accident
10-51	Wrecker needed
10-52	Ambulance needed
10-53	Road block at …
10-54	Livestock on highway
10-55	Intoxicated driver
10-56	Intoxicated pedestrian
10-57	Hit and run
10-58	Direct traffic
10-59	Convoy or escort
10-60	Squad in vicinity
10-61	Personnel in area
10-62	Reply to message
10-63	Prepare written copy
10-64	Message for local delivery
10-65	Net message assignment
10-66	Message cancellation
10-67	Clear for net message
10-68	Dispatch information
10-69	Message received
10-70	Fire alarm
10-71	Advise nature of fire
10-72	Report progress of fire
10-73	Smoke report
10-74	Negative
10-75	In contact with
10-76	En route
10-77	ETA
10-78	Need assistance
10-79	Notify coroner
10-80	Chase in progress
10-81	Breathalyzer report
10-82	Reserve lodging
10-83	Work school xing at ..
10-84	If meeting … advise
10-85	Delayed due to …
10-86	Officer/operator on duty
10-87	Pickup/distribute checks
10-88	Present telephone number of ..
10-89	Bomb threat
10-90	Bank alarm at ..
10-91	Pick up prisoner/subject
10-92	Improperly parked vehicle
10-93	Blockade
10-94	Drag racing
10-95	Prisoner/subject in custody
10-96	Mental subject
10-97	Check (test) signal
10-98	Prison/jail break
10-99	Wanted/stolen indicated

OK, don't 10-79, I'm just going 10-7 for breakfast. I'll be back when I 10-8.

Copy that?

1911 STORY

One of my buddies got this as a fwd, and sent it along to me. I did not verify the facts but it vibes true:

One of the older technicians at work was telling me a story today about a pistol that was in his in-laws' family.

He tells me that his wife's late father, who was a Marine in the battle of Iwo Jima, had brought back his pistol from the war. I'm thinking, OK, must be a nice old 1911 model, one that has probably seen more than a few soldiers' hands; then comes the rest of the story.

Turns out that the guy's father in law had a camera with him in his sack, and had taken some pictures of when they raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi. He submitted his photo but it was not chosen as the one that is now famous. The family still has this picture hanging in their living room.

A few days after the flag raising the Japanese attacked the Marines and another fight broke out. While they are in the middle of everything a Japanese sniper takes a shot at him. The bullet hits him in the right wrist and hits his gun hanging from his belt. The round, after completely disabling his right hand, penetrates his leather pistol holster and embeds itself into the slide of his 1911. Fragments from the round penetrate through the other side of the holster and into his leg, injuring him further. The Marine was able to get to the medic, where he was then evacuated to care for his injuries.

So the technician asks me if I would like to see it. After telling him the obvious, he calls his wife's brother and asks if he could bring it up to the shop.

Here are the pictures I took after listening to the same story again from the Marine's son. (it was a good story, I had no problem listening twice.)

I asked him if he would mind me posting them on here, as long as I blocked out the serial number. He said go right ahead.

Although I had to blur out the serial #, it fell into the early/mid 600,000 range. Found this Colt: S/N 450,000 to 629,500 = Oct. 24, 1918 to April 10, 1919

The Marine's name was Horace Arthur Smith "Arty". he passed away 3 years ago.

 

There by the Grace of God and "Old Slabsides". I don't think a Beretta M9 would have done as well. Personally, I wouldn't hit a dog in the ass with an M9.

Oh, the 1911 held up better than my S&W 1911PD but that's a story for another day. 

THANKSGIVING STORY not PC

THANKSGIVING STORY not PC

I'm gonna borrow this one from Rush. I never heard this version when I was in school and I am sure you will not hear it in today's schools.

 

 

THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING
by Rush Limbaugh

As told in his book See I Told You So Chapter Six: "Dead White Guys or What Your History Books Never Told You," on page 70 Rush explains that the REAL story of the First Thanksgiving is the lesson of the abject failure of Collectivism or Socialism and the triumph of Free Market Capitalism.

The original contract the Pilgrims entered into with merchant-sponsors in London called for everything produced to go into a common store and for every member of the community to be entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. This is the essence of Socialism. What happened with this early experiment? Their leader William Bradford writes:

"For the young men that were able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children, without recompense. The strong, or men of parts, had no more division of food, clothes, etc. then he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labor, and food, clothes, etc. with the meaner and younger sort, thought it some indignant and disrespect unto them. And for men’s wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc. they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could man husbands brook it."

Bradford goes on:

"The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years… that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing — as if they were wiser than God," Bradford wrote. "For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense… that was thought injustice."

So what did Bradford’s community try next? They harnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result?

"This had very good success," wrote Bradford, "for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been . . ."

In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves. So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the "Great Puritan Migration."

Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today -- and if it isn't, why not? Can you think of a more important lesson one could derive from the pilgrim experience?

So in essence there was, thanks to the Indians, because they taught us how to skin beavers and how to plant corn when we arrived, but the real Thanksgiving was thanking the Lord for guidance and plenty -- and once they reformed their system and got rid of the communal bottle and started what was essentially free market capitalism, they produced more than they could possibly consume, and they invited the Indians to dinner, and voila, we got Thanksgiving, and that's what it was: inviting the Indians to dinner and giving thanks for all the plenty is the true story of Thanksgiving.

The last two-thirds of this story simply are not told.

Now, I was just talking about the plenty of this country and how I'm awed by it. You can go to places where there are famines, and we usually get the story, "Well, look it, there are deserts, well, look it, Africa, I mean there's no water and nothing but sand and so forth."

It's not the answer, folks. Those people don't have a prayer because they have no incentive. They live under tyrannical dictatorships and governments.

The problem with the world is not too few resources. The problem with the world is an insufficient distribution of capitalism.