People's Army of Sonoma

I've been training up my archery in luna. When I ran out of arrows I recalled out and bought some. When I returned I "recovered" 590 arrows.

I am a bit curious how this works do you have to be moving to "recover" them?

Hmmmm....were you practicing on an archery butte? If so, it used to be (I don't know about now) that you would have to double click (or click....I'm doing well to remember *this* much) on the target to get your arrows back.

On another note, who was Staff Sergeant Rudzinski, if you don't mind my asking? As a Vietnam vet myself, I always hate to hear of anyone that has died in the service of their country.

SSgt. Ski was a good man and not a hey you died so were going to call you a good man way. He truely was selfless. A great leader, A great role model and a great friend. I deployed to Iraq with him in 2006.

He was operating in Kandahar Afgahnistan. 10-16-09 his patrol was ambushed, his vehicle was hit with an IED and small arms fire.

We need more of him on the battlefield.


His name follows me where ever I go in hopes that it will never be forgotten.

Thank you for sharing that story. I understand completey, as a wonderful friend of mine was killed in Anloc, Vietnam on April 13, 1972. We had served together from M.P. school until his death. At the time of his death, nearly all "combat troops" had been withdrawn from the theater and thousands of M.P.s were sent over to fill in here and there because we were not considered "combat troops." He was killed by a Claymore that a sapper had turned around on us during the night. This was during the beginning of the Easter Offensive. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Offensive)

It was the largest battle of the entire war. It far outweighed the Tet Offensive, yet was not covered by the media to much of a degree. It was also the largest invading force since 300,000 Chinese invaded South Korea during the Korean war. The total lack of U.S. and allied news coverage of this offensive still makes me livid.

I am truly sorry for your friend's untimely death. Since IEDs are detonated by radio-controls, I have never understood why our military couldn't utilize a simple shortwave sweep generator transmitter on each vehicle to detonate any possible IEDs before our vehicles were near enough to them to be effected by them. It is sad.

I'm sorry about the loss of your friend as well. Small world we were MP's as well. "combat support" though I did 270 combat patrols in NW Baghdad.

Our advances in anti IED technology is probably way beyond what I know by now. As for radio controlled IED's they weren't really that much of a threat (though one of the ones that hit me was cellphone controlled).

While I was down there we had systems that jammed and recorded all signals within a few hundred meters. Usually the ones that do go off are IR or command wire detonated.

Here's a picture of my HMMWV

Before I write further. Though I blacked out bumper numbers, none of the information I'm about to share isn't already public and well known by Achmed himself. In fact we sold some of this technology to Iraq already.

You can see the stick on a spring on the vehicle to the left of mine that's the Duke it's the jammer.

The box on a stick on the front of the vehicle is what we call a Rhino. originally made with a ammo can and a glow plug it is for IR IED's. Basically it makes a EFP detonate early.

We had some other stuff for command det IED's but I wont explain them.

Now that is cool! I guess the military is way ahead of me after all.
It's nice to see that they are getting their heads out of their butts.

Entertaining Side note: Iraqi's watch way to much TV. The Iraqi police thought our Rhino could shoot rockets like some 007 crap.

They also thought our wiley x glasses were xray glasses.