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Should we arm U.S. military servicemen with full power rifles?


I hear complaints from soldiers about the effectiveness of the .223/5.56 x 45mm round. Some of them tell me that if given a choice, they would rather use a .308 battle rifle. If we armed all of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with full powered rifles chambered in 30-06 or .308 would our odds of winning the war improve?

A full powered cartridge is way more deadly than a .223.

Exactly how many of the living 24 million Vets have complained to you about the M16/4.

You left out the Russians also have a 5.56 round weapon too.

You can carry more rounds. You can carry more rounds. You can carry more rounds.

The design goes back to the 50's, has worked (there were definite snags in Viet Nam) pretty darn well since the late 60's. It is designed to kill beyond 25 meters. Urban fighting presents a problem in that the rounds go right thru a guy in close quarters while the 7.62 will knock you on your dead butt. That has been the complaint. Lot's of dead Victor Charles, Cubans, Haitians, Panamanians, Colombian drug dealers and criminals taken down by Police in the US using the AR15.

Watched a guy shoot a telephone pole in 2 with less than a 20 round clip. Same guy chipped away at a piece of concrete simulating a high curb and took out the clown ( a cantaloupe) hiding behind it also with less than 20 rounds. Same guy hit a pumpkin on a pole @ 1000M. When I drive past that range going to Montery I still stare at and am in awe of that shot. He hit it on the 4th shot, the 2nd 4th were tracers. He was in Viet Nam just 8 months earlier working as a sniper...at the very bitter end.

Edit: Mendoza I strongly suggest that you actually read The Hague Conventions, they define the Laws and Customs of Land Warfare. The Geneva Conventions are also a must read as no such restricitions are in either. The Geneva Convetions make no talk of the rules of War. They concern the treatment of specific groups of people

You cannot use a round designed to make a person suffer. They must be designed to kill....can you say full metal jacket?? You can shoot a 105mm gun at a human. You CAN fire at anything/anyone acting in a combatant role INCLUDING places of worship, schools, hospitals and children.

The spread of Bravo Sierra is noticed in this forum!!!

SSG US Army 73-82



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A classic club cartridge with superior sound quality. The legendary 680.V3 cartridge is regarded as one of the best cartridges on the planet for mixing, club use, and scratching. The wide-band frequency response will give you high energy record playback and that extra punch you need to quake the dance floor whether playing dance or hip-hop. The 680.V3's suspension is designed to be very stable for those less than perfect club setups. The suspension is so robust that the 680.V3 functions just as good as a scratch needle as it does as a club needle. The MP4 package includes 2 matched cartridges, mounted on tone-arm like devices, inside a small and practical road-worthy clear flight-case. Stanton 630.V3 DJ Turntable Cartridge Features Best cartridge for scratching Extremely good low end response for club environments Very forgiving suspension design New industrial design Perfect for: Hip hop/Scratch DJs Club DJs

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The Shure M44-7H scratch cartridge with headshell is engineered for skratch DJs and turntablists. It won't skip under even the most demanding circumstances! An exact replication of the original, this legendary Shure turntable needle offers ultrahigh skip resistance and output. The M44-7H is the cartridge of choice for many champion DJs worldwide, including The Invisibl Skratch Piklz, X-ecutioners, and Beat Junkies. Combining Shure's unique wide-diameter Type S cantilever with a tracking force of 1-1/2 to 3 grams, the Shure M44-7 DJ cartridge's rugged construction is highly durable, but will not unduly wear your vinyl. With a 9-1/2mV output -- the highest on the market -- the Shure M44-7H is a turntable cartridge that produces very powerful, resonant sound.Unique wide-diameter Type S cantileverTracking force of 1-1/2 to 3 gramsRugged constructionWill not unduly wear your vinyl9-1/2mV outputPowerful, resonant soundStandard 1/2" tone arm mountMoving magnet cartridge6.7 grams total weightFull one-year warranty

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The Shure M44-7H scratch cartridge with headshell is engineered for skratch DJs and turntablists. It won't skip under even the most demanding circumstances! An exact replication of the original, this legendary Shure turntable needle offers ultrahigh skip resistance and output. The M44-7H is the cartridge of choice for many champion DJs worldwide, including The Invisibl Skratch Piklz, X-ecutioners, and Beat Junkies. Combining Shure's unique wide-diameter Type S cantilever with a tracking force of 1-1/2 to 3 grams, the Shure M44-7 DJ cartridge's rugged construction is highly durable, but will not unduly wear your vinyl. With a 9-1/2mV output -- the highest on the market -- the Shure M44-7H is a turntable cartridge that produces very powerful, resonant sound.Unique wide-diameter Type S cantileverTracking force of 1-1/2 to 3 gramsRugged constructionWill not unduly wear your vinyl9-1/2mV outputPowerful, resonant soundStandard 1/2" tone arm mountMoving magnet cartridge6.7 grams total weightFull one-year warranty

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The Shure Whitelabel is designed for party and club DJs spinning everything from house and techno to trance, dance, and jungle. With a sleek and ergonomic design, the cartridge additionally delivers higher trackability, lower tone-arm resonance, and better skip resistance. It also includes an adjustable stylus overhang, reliable electrical contact, and improved stylus visibility. Whitelabel’s sonic characteristics include solid drop bass, flat mids, and accented highs, all tailored for the club environment. Shure phono cartridges are micro-manufactured, electro-mechanical devices that tell an entire audio system what's happening along the half-mile groove that's cut into the typical analog disc. The quality of the information provided by the cartridge determines how faithfully any audio system will reproduce the recorded sound. Skip Resistance: high Output: high Record Wear: very low Sound Emphasis: solid drop bass with detailed mids and highs Features The Design: Industrial, ergonomic, and plays to the cartridge's technological benefits of headshell mounted cartridges. Forward-Mass Design: Center of gravity is displaced closer to the cantilever for optimal performance. Forward-mass produces higher trackability, lower tone-arm resonance, better skip resistance and requires lower tracking forces. Adjustable overhang (50mm - 54mm): Unique to Shure products, adjustable overhang retains the forward and backward adjustment of a standard-mount headshell, providing maximum flexible adjustment between S-arm and straight-arm turntables. Electrical Contact: Engineered for optimized compatibility with most professional turntables, a rubber tension gasket and rounded gold plated pins limit possible damage caused by over-tightening cartridge to the tone-arm. Stylus Visibility: DJs can see exactly where they drop the needle.

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BERNARD SHAW'S "ARMS AND THE MAN":AN ALLEGORICAL PLAY

BERNARD SHAW’S ARMS AND THE MAN: AN ALLEGORICAL PLAY 

AYOOLA AKINKUNMI OLAMIDE 

mide_ayoola2002@yahoo.com  

   George Bernard Shaw was one of the greatest Irish writers. Among his contemporaries early writers were Samuel Beckett, W.B Yeats, Henry James, James Joyce, T.S Eliot and Woolf. 

Shaw as he was fondly called was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. His father, from the protestant Irish upper class was an unsuccessful businessman and alcoholic, while his mother was a poor singer. As a result of this, it was self- striving for the children. Shaw attended both Protestant and Catholic Day schools before he took a clerical job at the age of 16. When he was 20 years, he joined his mother and sisters in London after his parents’ marriage failed in 1876. Bernard Shaw imbibed a sense of the ridiculous and love of anti-climax from his father. He was a lover of arguments who believed that theatre must do away with the drama of romantic (unrealistic) to the drama of edification (moral realism). His plays are didactic in nature. He uses his play to espouse and expose the hypocrisy, stupidity and conventionality of the modern ways of life, most especially war and its effects. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 but he refused the prize money, instead he arranged for the money to go toward funding the translation of Swedish literature into English language. Shaw, a prolific playwright wrote fifty plays and he died a vegetarian, who neither took alcohol nor coffee, in his country home at Ayot, St. Lawrence on the 2nd of November, 1950 at the age of 94.

Arms and the Man: An Allegorical Play

A work of literature is said to be allegorical when it has a double meaning, that is, behind a simple tale, readers can perceive a great truth or moral lesson. This is the situation in Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man.

The play Arms and the Man is set in Bulgaria in late 1885.It is about the war between the Bulgarians and Serbians. In the 19th Century war was a regular occurrence in Europe – Napoleonic War and Crimean war.

The play is a satire on the concept of war, heroism and glory. Shaw was of the opinion that those who wage wars are stupid; since a conflict brings nothing good. He believed conflicts should be settled by other means but not through wars. Majors Paul Petkoff and Segius Saranoff make known unfairness of wars:

“I won the battle the wrong way when our

Worthy Russian generals were losing it the

right way. In short, I upset their plans,

      and wounded their self-esteem.”       P.41

The playwright in order to show his bias against war ridicules the key war personalities:

“Nine soldiers out of ten are born fools

I’ve no ammunition. What use are cartridges

In battle? I always carry chocolate instead; and

    I finished the last cake of that hour ago”   P.25

 

“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside

of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young

ones carry pistols and cartridges; The old ones, grubs. ”

                                                                   P.26

Shaw’s mission in the play is a call for consonance in the war. This is revealed in subsequent professional relation, that is, the cause for consonance between Petkoff and Saranoff on one hand and Bluntschli on the other hand. The reader or audience is surprised that the unexpected arrival of Bluntschli is warmly welcomed by Petkoff and Saranoff. For progress and peace, we need cooperation, tolerance and unity in this modern world and not war.

Dramaturgy:

Arms and the Man is a comedy because the principal characters are strong enough to overcome the obstacles to their happiness. The play ends as captain Bluntschli and Riana Petkoff are looking forward to getting married and earning comfortable income, Thereby giving the readers a familiar happy ending. The fact is that the play is also a serio-comic because a serious issue– war and its effects, is discussed all through, in a funny manner. The play is of low mimetic move, that is, about the real life experiences of the commoners and the oppressed due to the following factors:

  1. It is about simple everyday issues, that is, the principal concerns of the play are those of the everyday happenings among common people. The play is not centred on the high and mighty. It is true to life and it has sympathy with ordinary people. This reflects in the language, plot and setting which are considerately simple. In essence, the play possesses the quality of verisimilitude, that is, illusion of reality or semblance of truth.
  2. The values and assumptions in the play are firmly low mimetic, that is, they are romantic values, radicalism and change of opinions. For instance Sergius abandons most of his empty heroic attitude, breaks his engagement to Riana and makes plans to marry the housemaid (Louka). Bluntschli is also able to convince the Petkoff that through an inheritance from his father he has more than ample means to cater for Riana and the Petkoffs are glad to settle for a son-in-law less socially prominent than Sergius.
  3.      The play is a blend of illusion and reality. For   instance, Catherine Petkoff sees Sergius to be a true hero; this is both romance and reality. Also the idea that Riana saves Bluntschli’s life (Pp. 20-26) is both romance and reality. Therefore, in respect to narrative pattern and theme. Arms and the Man is solidly in the mainstream of low- mimetic comedy.?

 

 

 

 

About the Author

Ayoola Akinkunmi, Born 1977, is a graduate of English and Literature from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. He is a Creative writer, Mystic Poet and Literary critic. He is Currently a teaching Literature in English.

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