Amazing pict: June 2013

Friday, June 28, 2013

Friday DAR Firepower (30 HQ Photos)

Friday DAR Firepower (30 HQ Photos)
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Armed with Tomahawks, SM-2 Missiles, guns and experience…meet the crew of CG 57 (49 Photos)
Friday Firepower: 1400′s Crossbow at Higgins Armory Museum (16 Photos)
High-res Bad Ideas for the Weekend (55 Photos)

Friday DAR Firepower (30 HQ Photos)

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:28 PM PDT

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Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:15 PM PDT

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Armed with Tomahawks, SM-2 Missiles, guns and experience…meet the crew of CG 57 (49 Photos)

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:13 PM PDT

"USS Lake Champlain CG 57 was laid down March 3rd, 1986 at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagula, Mississipi and commissioned a little over two years later. Always a West Coast Ship, she sailed soon after her commissioning ceremony for San Diego, testing her mettle against the furious seas of the Straits of Magellan. She has deployed to the Western Pacific ten times, including operations in support of Desert Shield, Desert Storm, enforcing the no-fly zone over Iraq, and recently in support of the global war on terror. Armed with Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, Standard SM-2 Surface to Air Missiles, two 5 inch Dual Purpose Guns, and two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters, LAKE CHAMPLAIN is a truly modern battle machine - but is little more than welded steel and microchips without her crew of over 350."

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Friday Firepower: 1400′s Crossbow at Higgins Armory Museum (16 Photos)

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:11 PM PDT

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High-res Bad Ideas for the Weekend (55 Photos)

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:05 PM PDT

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I’m not here to clean up Dirty Friday (64 Photos)

I’m not here to clean up Dirty Friday (64 Photos)

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:10 PM PDT

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

High-res Daily Afternoon Randomness (31 HQ Photos)

High-res Daily Afternoon Randomness (31 HQ Photos)
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Remembering museum quality ship model builder Philip T. Mattson (36 Photos)
Don’t make it a science…Choose your Weapon (33 HQ Photos)
User submit: Medivac fun in Korea (6 Photos)
She’s got 2 guns (Video)

High-res Daily Afternoon Randomness (31 HQ Photos)

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:29 PM PDT

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Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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Remembering museum quality ship model builder Philip T. Mattson (36 Photos)

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:12 PM PDT

At age 13, he built a large and very detailed model that won second prize in a ship model competition in the Spirit of Youth Exposition at the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. He was sick the day of the presentation and had to stay home, but his mother took the model to the museum in a taxi for him. Phil is still proud of that first award but has lost track of the ship model. In 1943, Phil was drafted into the Army as a private. Because of his training in mechanical engineering and machine design at Stevens Institute in New Jersey, he was assigned to the Manhattan Project in New York. This was the top secret project to design the first atomic bomb. He became a Master Sergeant and specialist in seals and pumps and ended up working for several contractors making specialized equipment during the course of the project. After the war in 1946 Phil left the army and studied physics at George Washington University while working for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, MD. This led to an assignment working on the first subsonic guided missiles until about 1950. From then until 1958 he worked for Vitro Corporation on ordinance projects including torpedo guidance systems. From 1958 until his retirement in 1978 he worked for General Atomic in San Diego in the design and construction of nuclear power plants. He became the supervisor for the high level "hot cell" where the highly radioactive material is worked on with remote slave hands. A lot of special jigs and fixtures had to be designed to get this sensitive equipment to work safely and efficiently. When Phil entered the service and married his wife Helen in 1943, his spare time was in short supply and his modeling projects were put on hold for many years until his kids entered college. They have three children: Claudia is a high school science teacher, Greg is a medical doctor and Rebecca is a career planner at Humboldt State College. By the mid 1960's Phil again had the time and went back into modeling, although he did take about 12 years off between 1972 and 1984 to build a 40' motor-sailboat in his back yard. (Though he and his wife had plans for long-distance sailing adventures, the reality of seasickness took the fun out of open ocean sailing for them and they sold the boat a few years after its completion.) Throughout his life he was always interested in boats and sailing and, in addition to his detailed models he has built many pond sailers—both free sailing variety and radio controlled. He also enjoys wood carving. As a matter of interest, Phil was asked why two of the tiny models he built were the same ship but in different scales. The first Norwegian trawler is about 2

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Don’t make it a science…Choose your Weapon (33 HQ Photos)

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:11 PM PDT

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Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:03 PM PDT

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She’s got 2 guns (Video)

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:00 PM PDT

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Pikes Peak is coming up: cool past pics from photographer Jay Bonvouloir (80 Photos)

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:11 PM PDT

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Daily Afternoon Randomness (50 Photos)

Daily Afternoon Randomness (50 Photos)
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EH-101 Merlin in high-res (58 HQ Photos)
User submit: My wife’s charity “Comforts from Home” (8 Photos and learn more here)
Congrats Blackhawks…here’s some luv (55 Photos)
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Daily Afternoon Randomness (50 Photos)

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:29 PM PDT

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Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:15 PM PDT

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EH-101 Merlin in high-res (58 HQ Photos)

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:11 PM PDT

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User submit: My wife’s charity “Comforts from Home” (8 Photos and learn more here)

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:07 PM PDT

My wife is running a "Comforts from Home" program through a Grant awarded by the Elks Lodge. The Elks are a Fraternal Organization that benefits Handicapped Children, Veterans, and Various Community projects. Over the past year she has sent over $10,000.00 worth of comfort items - the response from the troops has been great. I sent the picture because The Chive's and our personal respect and support for the armed forces. I have been putting KCCO on the boxes, and/or writing a note inside, great for moral and generates some great responses. In Service Together, Kenneth Sturgill Click here to check out "Comforts from Home"

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Congrats Blackhawks…here’s some luv (55 Photos)

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:06 PM PDT

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Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:04 PM PDT

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I wouldn’t want to pull up to a stop light next to these ’65 Dodge Coronets (18 Photos)

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:11 PM PDT

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This one is pure WTF for this week’s WTF Wednesday (6 Photos)

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:05 PM PDT

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