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Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-09 08:03|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 The M9 was a NATO solidarity selection. The biggest problem with the old M1911A was the military's habit of keeping old equipment long beyond its normal life span trying to avoid having to buy new replacements.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 08:55|| 2015-08-09 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I carried a 1911 for years. I'd still take one over anything else out there in a combat situation.

Posted by OCCD 2015-08-09 09:04|| 2015-08-09 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The FN Herstal Five-seveN 5.7×28mm is a logical choice. Too bad logical military contracting is an oxymoron.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-08-09 12:40|| 2015-08-09 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 I wasn't fond of the M9. The ones we had jammed often and weren't very accurate. Also the 9mm had about as much stopping power as a spit wad.

.357SIG or up.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-09 13:28|| 2015-08-09 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Darth, as I understand it, that is why the M1911 was invented - the pistols the Americans were using at the time didn't have the stopping power needed. When someone was hit by a .45 slug from the M1911, they STOPPED.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-09 14:59|| 2015-08-09 14:59|| Front Page Top

#6 M-2 Browning, M1911A1, M-14, some things a close to perfection for the specific task, why can't improvements be to the basic design, not some new, and costly, way to try and compete for effectiveness in killing?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-08-09 15:00|| 2015-08-09 15:00|| Front Page Top

#7 ...to quote the Instaprof - Where's the graft in that?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 15:04|| 2015-08-09 15:04|| Front Page Top

#8 * See GROONG > [Strategic-Culture.org] NICARAGUA TO BUILD INTER-OCEAN HIGHWAY.

As desired to be protected by the Chinese, Russians, + possibly even Iran.

OWG NAU Amerikan = Tri/Quad-Govt troops can finally go home now, wid the above in charge of Canal(s) + Caribbean + NAU security = Monroe Doctrine???

[NO-FED/OBAMA-BAILOUT, BANKRUPT PUERTO RICO = FUTURE CHINESE TERRITORY, PLA BASE IN CARIBBEAN here]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-08-09 22:03|| 2015-08-09 22:03|| Front Page Top

#9 By most accounts the BALANCE OF POWER,TERROR in East Asia-Pacific is being de fact changed, + agz the US, so why should the Caribbean including Panama + Nicaragua Canal, etc, be any different or immune???

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Sputnik] GOODBYE, SUPERPOWER STATUS? OBAMA IS "MOST CULPABLE" ON US MILITARY DECLINE.

* WORLD NEWS > [Press TV] US USING SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE TO DEFEND DECLINING STATUS [vee Rising China]: ANALYST.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > JAPAN IN DESPAIR: CHINA HAS BECOME THE UN-CROWNED "KING OF ASIA". US "PIVOT/RETURN TO ASIA" TO BE LEFT MOSTLY INCOMPLETE OR UNFINISHED [dubious] ONCE POTUS OBAMA LEAVES OFFICE.

* GLOBALNATION.PH > CHINA SHOULD NOT [continue to] PLAY UNDERDOG [victim] IN SEA DISPUTES, SAY EX-SOLON.

PH ex-NatSecAdvisor Roilo Golez.

* TIMES OF INDIA > BIKINI NUCLEAR REFUGEES SEEK US AID TO LEAVE MARSHALL ISLANDS as due to Over-population + Environmental degradation, insufficient US support + GWCC [sea level rising].

Iff the US ever pulls out of the Marshall Islands, I'm sure CHINA + PLA will love to have it, + also the former IJN base at TRUK/CHUUK LAGOON iff the Chuuk ever votes to formally go independent from the US + Compact of Free Association.

* RUSSIA TODAY > OKLAHOMA SHAKEN BY 40 EARTHQUAKES IN ONE WEEK, FRACKING WASTE TO BLAME.

Whoa, so besides Nagumo + IJN's "Pearl Harbor Striking Force", the US Navy used "weaponized" Fracking techs to sink its own Battleships at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th, 1941.

D *** NG, I KNEW IT!

lol.

Iff a future de facto "weak/declining" US + USDOD-DARPA doesn't sink Guam's Camel Rock as it retreats across the Pacific as part of "A2/AD" agz China or in lessor Nuclear Islam, INTENSIFYING GWCC = THE SUN INCLUD EQS+ SEA LEVEL RISES ["Earth Changes"] WILL CRACK OR BREAK THE ISLAND UP 2030-2050.

[2030-2050 LOCAL NEWS HEADLINE = GUAM BOY DISCOVERS [major = dangerous] FAULTLINE ACROSS ISLAND [+ offshore = Pac Ocean].

* MANILA BULLETIN > [NASA = James Hansen] STUDY SAYS COASTAL CITIES MAY BE UN-INHABITABLE IN NEXT DECADES, as sea level rises by up to 10 feet.

From Guam to UK-Europe.

Guam's Base-happy Northern Plateau to mostly devol into ocean clifflines.

BUT I DIGRESS ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-08-09 22:43|| 2015-08-09 22:43|| Front Page Top

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