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Hello Switch, I grew up in Arizona. I lived in Phoenix from 74-80, Snowflake from 80-85, CampVerde from 85-89, and Phoenix again from 89-91. Joined the military and can't afford to move back. Too dang exspensive out there. What side of Phoenix do you live on? Everyone knows the West side it the Best side....lol:cool:

Good luck to you sir!

Very nice:banana: Peppers you have there.

Cool, you may want to contact Private Parts, he can get parts for Hot Rods, thats what he does. You never know he may be able to hook you up with some good deals.

Wow, and Cool on the old cars. Please post some pictures in the gallery.

Yes, I thought it was pretty cool too.

WW-II Trophy tank 14 September 2000, a Komatsu D375A-2 pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia. The Soviet-built T34/76A tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years. According to its specifications, it's a 27-tonne machine with a top speed of 53km/h. From February to September 1944, heavy battles were fought in the narrow, 50 km-wide, Narva front in the northeastern part of Estonia. Over 100,000 men were killed and 300,000 men were wounded there. During battles in the summer of 1944, the tank was captured from the Soviet army and used by the German army. (This is the reason that there are German markings painted on the tank's exterior.) On 19 September 1944, German troops began an organised retreat along the Narva front. It is suspected that the tank was then purposefully driven into the lake, abandoning it when its captors left the area. At that time, a local boy walking by the lake Kurtna Matasjarv noticed tank tracks leading into the lake, but not coming out anywhere. For two months he saw air bubbles emerging from the lake. This gave him reason to believe that there must be an armoured vehicle at the lake's bottom. A few years ago, he told the story to the leader of the local war history club "Otsing". Together with other club members, Mr Igor Shedunov initiated diving expeditions to the bottom of the lake about a year ago. At the depth of 7 metres they discovered the tank resting under a 3-metre layer of peat. Enthusiasts from the club, under Mr Shedunov's leadership, decided to pull the tank out. In September 2000 they turned to Mr Aleksander Borovkovthe, manager of the Narva open pit of the stock company AS Eesti Polevkivi, to rent the company's Komatsu D375A-2 bulldozer. Currently used at the pit, the Komatsu dozer was manufactured in 1995, and has 19,000 operating hours without major repairs. The pulling operation began at 09:00 and was concluded at 15:00, with several technical breaks. The weight of the tank, combined with the travel incline, made a pulling operation that required significant muscle. The D375A-2 handled the operation with power and style. The weight of the fully armed tank was around 30 tons, so the tractive force required to retrieve it was similar. A main requirement for the 68-tonne dozer was to have enough weight to prevent shoe-slip while moving up the hill. After the tank surfaced, it turned out to be a 'trophy' tank, that had been captured by the German army in the course of the battle at Sinimaed (Blue Hills) about six weeks before it was sunk in the lake. Altogether, 116 shells were found on board. Remarkably, the tank was in good condition, with no rust, and all systems (except the engine) in working condition. This is a very rare machine, especially considering that it fought both on the Russian and the German sides. Plans are under way to fully restore the tank. It will be displayed at a war history museum, that will be founded at the Gorodenko village on the left bank of the River Narva. Looking at the two tracked machines, the modern yellow Komatsu dozer is a reminder of how machine technologies have advanced, and the region's prospects of peace and prosperity have brightened. /monthly_06_2011/post-593-130810187475_thumb.jpg /monthly_06_2011/post-593-130810187479_thumb.jpg /monthly_06_2011/post-593-130810187483_thumb.jpg

Sound Card? Kind of strange for both your speakers and mic to be acting up don't you think?

Cool, what did you order?

Wal-Mart is going to own everything and be one huge monopoly. Wal-Mart was cool when Sam Walton was around and everything in his store was made in America, now everything is from China. Sam is rolling over in his grave.

I had one of their cards a long time ago, I had a problem with it and I called them and asked them if I was still in warranty, they told me it was warrantied for life, I said how long is that? thinking it was pro rated or something, and they said no its for LIFE. So they sent me a new card and I sent them the old one after I received the new one. BFG is a good in my book.

Since this was originally posted, I have upgraded from a ATI X850PRO to a PCI Express BFG NVIDIA GeForce 7900GT OC I noticed a huge difference, but it is also a much better card.

with that kind of money when are you going to donate again?

I received this in an e-mail and thought it was pretty cool. Pretty soon there won't be any pilots on Aircraft. This is a picture of the Global Hawk UAV that returned from the war zone on Monday under its own power. (Iraq to Edwards AFB in CA) - Not transported via C5 or C17..... Notice the mission paintings on the fuselage. It's actually over 250 missions.... (and I would suppose 25 air medals). That's a long way for a remotely-piloted aircraft. Think of the technology (and the required quality of the data link to fly it remotely). Not only that but the pilot controlled it from a nice warm control panel at Edwards AFB. It has really long legs- can stay up for almost 2 days at altitudes above 60k. They flew it via satellite control to Australia, and we flew missions during OT&E that went from Eddy to upper Alaska and back non-stop. I also got the chance to work as pilot debriefer and test evaluator on the FA-22 OT&E summer before last at EDW. I was totally blown away by the airplane. Unless you have ever watched them go 2 or 4 V many on the big electronic game board, you have no idea what stealth brings to the battle. Basically, they come into the fight at a high mach # in mil thrust, start killing people way out with AMRAAMS, and continue doing that until everyone is dead, and no one ever sees them or paints them on radar. There is practically no radio chatter because all the guys in the flight are tied together electronically, and can see who is targeting who, and they have AWACS direct input and 360°situational awareness from that and other sensors. The aggressors had a morale problem before it was all over. The only shots that I ever saw taken on a 22 were when someone screwed up and popped up high enough to leave a contrail. I went in a skeptic and came out a true believer. It is to air superiority what the jet engine was to aviation. /monthly_06_2011/post-593-130810187448_thumb.jpg

But I really like the red one and the font on the sig is cool too.

My Quad is still Black..........lol:D /monthly_06_2011/post-593-130810187439_thumb.jpg

DOH! That ain't right.

Nice picture. Nice looking girl, how did you get so lucky?

What he said.

dude you have to get SF its a lot of fun.

Hello dude, we play a lot of Special Forces and thats the only server we are running at the moment. If you don't have SF, I would suggest playing at VSF, thats where the guys usually play Vanilla at. good to see you again.

This is a fun match, all you have to do is show up with a fresh can of whoop ***. See you all there.

I am sorry you feel so strongly about SF. I get tired of running all over the place in Vanillia. So I understand to an extent where you are coming from.

I am with you on that one Wolfey. It is a total waste of taxpayers money, why don't they just have a firing squad, or hang his sorry ass! The problem is the criminal has too many rights and the law abiding citizen has less and less.

I didn't have that problem and haven't heard of any one else having it. Hope you get it to work.