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Happy 4th to our troops! Heck of a way to spend the holiday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_hot_helmand

Semper Fi! These troops really have it rough. Some of them are fighting at elevations higher than Whitney! God Bless our military men and women!

I've carried 90 pounds. For a mile. On an island paradise. With beer & ice. And nobody was shooting at us. Unexploded munitions off-trail, though.

San Miguel Island in the Southern California Channels Islands NP is such a glorious place that all 9 of us considered a coup against the Ranger, Docent & the Foxy Lady until it was pointed out that the entire island was owned by the Navy and that the Marines would take it back. Unconditionally. So we gave the Ranger a lot of bottled water and butter, and the Foxy Lady ten pounds of carrots for the kit foxes, and left quietly & peacefully.

Taliban don't know what they are up against.

Go Marines!

There is no such thing as ultra-light in the military! I never served, but some of the gear at those Army Surplus type stores is heavy!