Our cameras and the high-speed process we use range from 1,000 frames per second (fps) up to 10,000 fps but these cameras have the ability to take up to one-million fps which is basically a camera taking a million frames in one second” explains High-speed Section Chief, Chris Insco. (Photo Credit: YPG archive highspeed photo) …
2nd Lt. Michael Preston, an armor officer assigned to 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division and a native of Carmel, Indiana, fires an M17 pistol during a pistol qualification range, October 10. Soldiers from 3ABCT were the first in 1AD to field and fire the newly adopted M17, …
Greatest century of reformation ON THIS DAY16 October 1555 – Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake in Oxford. The Oxford MartyrsOn 16 October 1555, just outside the walls of Balliol College, Oxford, a stout stake had been driven into the ground with fagots of firewood piled high at its base. …
WWII Posters Aimed to Inspire, Encourage Service OCT. 16, 2019 | BY DAVID VERGUN A proliferation of colorful and striking posters emerged as, in effect, the social media of the time during World War II. Perhaps the most iconic was the Uncle Sam poster, created by James Montgomery Flagg and captioned: “I Want You for the U.S. …
Is ‘Beto’ O’Rourke really that naïve, or is he just stupid? By Dave Workman Perhaps the lingering question in the aftermath of the October Democratic presidential debate is whether former Texas Congressman Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke is naïve or just plain stupid in his repeated insistence that if a law banning so-called “assault weapons” were passed, the millions …
Buttigieg v. Beto: ‘Take the Fight to the NRA’ October 16, 2019 By Dave Workman3 In a feverish exchange over how best to disarm American gun owners of their semiautomatic modern sporting rifles during the Tuesday Democratic debate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg resorted to a favorite tactic of the gun prohibition movement: get around disagreements on policy by demonizing the …
