Fire Run Amok

Well, there is a major brush fire running loose in the south end of the county. They have already called in US Forrest Service and Texas Forrest Service dozers and Helicopters. The entire Sheriffs Office is on scene along with every VFD in the county and the South Brazos County VFD. This thing is fast moving from the radio chatter. We shall see how far and fast it goes. Ranchers are trying to move livestock out of the way as well but this looks bad.

Dad's Day

A salute for Dad's Day, The shadow box contains the flag from his funeral at Fort Sam Natl Cemetery, The fruit salad leads off with the Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters and the Air Medal with 8 Oak Leaf Clusters. The three spent shell casings are one from each volley of the 21 gun salute at his funeral. (30-06 fired from M-1 Garands) His Dogtag and a collection of the various sets of wings he wore in his career. All this was before he retired and started his second career teaching World Geography and Economics as well as coaching Golf in High School. An incredible man that I never got to know as well as I would have liked to. I miss him and regret that we were really only starting to connect at the very end just before I had my wreck (June 19th of all the ironies) and he was diagnosed with Colon Cancer.

This is the first DFC for the young Lieutenant. Somewhere I have the article in Stars and Stripes to go with this. Damn but looking at this picture I see my older brother at that age in profile.

Some days suck more than others

After a stupid day at work and an after work appointment, we came down our county road to find flashy blinkies in front of our place. It was even worse that it was a TxDPS Highway Patrol unit with his lights on in front of two vehicles along our east fence line. Turns out one of our neighbors lost control of her truck bouncing down the county road and popped a tree along the roadway. Fortunately she was only doing 20 or so so it wasn't a terrible impact. However it did do enough damage that she is not driving away and she is devastated over damaging the truck and the loss of control momentarily. She's not physically hurt at all but shaken up and her husband was right behind her so they are taking care of things but it just sucks for them to have this happen.
Just another busier day her at Casa K-.

Texas Campus Carry Killed

Well, the Libtards in the Texas House have managed to kill Campus Carry on a Point of Order not on it's merits by by procedure preventing it from even getting a vote.

Texas Campus Carry

Well according to the Texas Leg Online, SB1581, the higher education bill that campus carry was amended to has already passed through calenders, had rules suspended and had a record vote. Nothing on the web yet about the outcome of that vote. Maybe someone on the ground at the capitol can chime in. This could be very good.

UPDATE: well the vote was to suspend rules and require that amendments be filed by 2PM today (Tuesday) not a vote on the bill itself.

Crap

Well, things have gone pear shaped at work. Add to this the drought making ranching more difficult and hazardous and you have too much stuff for me to do in too little time. As we can we will continue with the mindset series. misbeHaven is doing the next post and a couple others in the series and as soon as we have them ready, they will be up. Sorry, life gets in the way.

And oh yeah, to the asshole who called University Safety anonymously and LIED to them saying students were running high pressure air compressors over the weekend without supervision or authorization and that there is supposedly no one here qualified to run them anyway, like H&K, YOU SUCK AND I HATE YOU!

Range Report

Yesterday was Beyond the Basics Pistol and AT-4. LONG day out in the sun. Had great class with only one hiccup. Guy with a Les Baer 1911 that required you to manually push the slide stop down once it locked open. The slide stop had been filed such that pulling the slide all the way back did not contact the slide stop enough to push it back down out of the way.

Other than that we had a good time, safe shooters and it was refreshing to see Law Enforcement Officers out on the range for class. They shot very well and I hope they never have to use the skills they learn out on the street. However, if it should come that they need their skills, they certainly proved the have the skills.

At least the wind was not as bad a last week when we inhaled half a ton of dirt.

Mindset Part 1

As with anything, the first step is admitting you have a problem.

YES, it can happen to you!

This realization is really the first step on the road to self protection awareness. misbeHaven, during one of her Refuse to be a Victim seminars, actually had a person say to her, "I have good Karma, it would never happen to me." Wow, just wow. Once you have come to the conclusion that yes it does happen to good people and in "Nice" neighborhoods you can move on to the next question.

How far are you willing to go to protect yourself or a loved one?


Are YOU sure?


REALLY?

This is not a question to be taken lightly. You are talking about a whole range of possibilities up to the potential taking of another humans life if that is what is called for. How far would you go and for whom would you go there? What can you do to not be there in the first place? What happens when you think you have the answer but have not tested your hypothesis? Why do I care?

This has been a personal journey for me and I would like to take you along for a ride through the thought process that got me here. It explains part of why I teach and part of why I am who I am.

So, lets go on a journey through our mindset. Will you join me?

Mindset / Train Your Brain

How far are you willing to go to protect yourself or a loved one?


Are YOU sure?


REALLY?

How do you know?

Come back for more!

Part 1

Random Aircraft Sighting

This mornings visitor is brought to you by your tax dollars. This would be a F-5E Tiger II from the Marine VMFT-401 Squadron. They are an aggressor training squadron that provides "enemy" fighters for training pilots in air combat.

New Arrival

The fire station here at the airport just took delivery of a new ARFF truck. This Panther is quite a beast. Independent coil over suspension, 1500 gallons of water, 200 gallons of 6% AFFF , 150 Pounds of Purple-K powder and all kinds of gadgets to help put out aircraft fires and rescue people faster.

Range Report

Saturday was a long day. Basic Pistol in the morning and Defensive Pistol Skills 2 in the afternoon.

All in all we had two good classes. However, it was hot and windy. The winds that have been driving all the massive brush fires around Texas were blowing up dust and dirt on the range. I must have inhaled a couple pounds of dirt in the course of the day. HSOI has a post up with a pretty graphic indicator of the dirt. (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO CONTENT)

It is always gratifying to see new shooters enjoy themselves and learn that they do in fact have the skill necessary to shoot well. We also had a good discussion about mindset to open up DPS2 class. I will have a separate post on that one coming soon to a computer near you.

Texas Campus Carry

The following is an alert sent out by Texas A&M University Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Senator Steve Ogden is our local state senator and his remarks on the senate floor today do not represent the staff and students at A&M.

Dear TAMU SCCC Members:

Earlier today, Senator Steve Ogden (our State Senator for Bryan/College Station) said on the floor of the Texas Senate that he doesn’t believe Aggies want campus carry at Texas A&M.

We need you to tell him that he’s wrong.

We need you to tell him through every avenue available (phone, fax, email, and in person).

And we need you to tell him NOW!

First, here’s what he said:

1. He said that students, faculty, and staff at A&M don’t want campus carry.

2. He said there’s no evidence that allowing concealed carry on campus will lower the crime rates on college campuses (completely ignoring the fact that concealed carry is about personal security, not campus security).

3. He said that allowing concealed carry by individuals over the age of 21 would be unfair to younger students (suggesting that license holders on college campuses should be denied the same measure of personal protection they’re allowed virtually everywhere else, out of some bizarre sense of equality not enforced anywhere else).

Now, here’s what you need to do:

1. Call his office (512-463-0105). I don’t care if you’ve already called a hundred times this month, and I don’t care if you just called yesterday—this time you’re calling to COMPLAIN about what he said on the floor of the Senate. Be sure to mention your affiliation with A&M.

2. Send him a fax (512-463-5713). As always, FaxZero.com lets you send two free faxes per day from your web browser. If you’ve already sent the fax we asked you to send yesterday (explaining why you support campus carry), write a new one complaining about what he said on the floor of the Senate. If you haven’t sent the fax we asked you to send yesterday, write it and then add your complaints about what he said on the floor of the senate. Be sure to mention your affiliation with A&M, and be sure to include your phone number and LOCAL address.

3. Copy the message you sent as a fax, and send it to these four email addresses. Be sure to mention your affiliation with A&M, and be sure to include your phone number and LOCAL address:

steve.ogden@senate.state.tx.us
valerie.brak@senate.state.tx.us
betty.cotte@senate.state.tx.us
constance.allison@senate.state.tx.us

4. Forward this message to any and all Aggies who support this cause. You can post it on Facebook pages, message boards, whatever.

5. Join one of the groups going tomorrow to visit either Senator Ogden’s Capitol office in Austin or his district office here in Bryan/College Station (contact Chase Jennings or Madison Welch for details).

Let’s let Senator Ogden know how we really feel about this issue!

--TAMU SCCC

http://www.StudentsForCampusCarry.org/

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