The official name of the stinger missile is FIM-92 Stinger. It is classified as a personal, portable, infrared, homing, surface to air missile. It is also known as a Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS). The stinger missile has a range of4,800 meters and can go to altitudes up to 12,500 feet which is approximately 3/4 of [...]
Beehive ammunition has been used in one form or another ever since artillery has been used in battle. The term beehive was given during the Vietnam War to describe the sounds that the flechettes made as they travelled through the air. The more modern beehive round was used during the Vietnam War by Field Artillerymen as a [...]
It occured to me that I write posts about just about every branch of our military except the Quartermaster Corps. Every branch of military service has to have the equivalent of a Quartermaster’s Corps in order to survive on the battlefield. The Quartermaster Corps is responsible for keeping all branches of the Army supplied with everything that [...]
This submarine is otherwise known as SSN-769 is one of the Los Angeles class fast attack nuclear submarines that our Navy employs. The Toledo was launched on August 28 1993. The unclassified speed of this submarine is 25 knots although 33 has been reported. The unclassified depth which this submarine can operate is 650 feet, [...]
This is the latest from the custom military ring man in a long line of posts about our successes in Operation Enduring Freedom. No particular units were named in the account of this latest operation which leads me to believe that it was accomplished by Special Operations Soldiers. The problem is that insurgents are using the [...]
The bodycount is one example of many failed strategies of the Vietnam War. Politics of the day demanded that we show some evidence of winning that war. Thus the bodycount was created. The bodycount attempted to track the war in much the same way as a football or baseball scoreboard. It would seem to make [...]
The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is a newly formed organization which has the mission if accounting for the 84,000 American Servicemen still listed as missing in action from previous wars. I applaud their efforts and wish them great success. We all know that the task which they have assigned to themselves to is daunting to say [...]
The latest bad news coming from Afghanistan is that approximately 70 civilians have been killed in an attack by US jets. The event took in Kunduz Province and is definitely under investigation. I have read an account of this incident and judging from that account it dosen’t seem that the pilots were in error. Taliban [...]
I did the research on this vehicle which is an adaptation of the regular HMMWV. I don’t know if you remember when the war began and terrorists began to use IED’s. The IED’s were new to us and our vehicles were not equipped to handle this type of threat. Soldiers began to add everything that [...]
When a serviceman or woman has attained the rank of Sergeant Major you can rest assured that he or she has spent many years in military service. Sergeant Major is the highest enlisted rank. I would compare it to the rank of General in that by the time the service member makes it he or [...]
Rings For All Service Branches
