Over email, from a mysterious source, has arrived a PowerPoint slideshow titled: Weapon Handling Tips From the Monrovian People's Liberation Suicide Front, Liberia. (719 KB) (You will need to find a PowerPoint viewer.) (link fixed! duh)

Update: Here is an HTML version on another site.

I am told that this is a video of Taliban fighters being picked off with a .50 cal rifle. (2.3 MB WMV) Do not view this if you are offended by blood & guts. Disturbingly, this is a lot like the famous Monty Python How Not To Be Seen sketch (offsite video 18.4 MB)... but with more flying meat.

Photos and text of a carrier landing mishap. Credit to Ripper Swede Hedberg for the original material.

This video and text just arrived from the front lines of Iraq. (1.5MB WMV)

The video was filmed by some Air Force Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC) in Tal Afar, west of Mosul. They were with a Marine Advisor Support Team-- they are attached to Iraqi units and help train their forces on a day-to-day basis--who where in a fairly sustained firefight in the streets of Tal Afar with about 3 Anti-Iraqi Forces (AIF). They set their video camera on the bumper of their Up-Armored HMMWV which they were using for cover.

You can hear them shooting back and forth. The rounds you can hear are from the Marines and the ones you hear pinging against the side of the vehicle with no accompanying pop are from the AIF.

When the JTACs say they just "fired rifle" that means the aircraft just launched the Maverick. You can hear it come in and see it strike the vehicle the AIF were using for cover.

Just got these, enjoy.

sv8r.mpg (2 MB)

sv14.mpg (700 KB)

The picture speaks for itself. If, uh, you read the caption.