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Journey of a PR Rookie 02

Picture the scene. Your SL has brought your squad into a courtyard to defend, condition RED. You take aim down the only entrance with your automatic rifle. Then all of a sudden one, two, then four enemy contacts run past your view. You call it out. Feels good to say, "Enemy contact! Four infantry moving west!" Then you wonder if they really were the enemy or not so you try to get your binoculars out. You use the MIDDLE MOUSE WHEEL to scroll ...

There will come a tipping point when America is so saturated in violent political rhetoric and uncontrolled guns, that reason will flee and hope will be abandoned.

"At least two members of Congress say they will start to carry weapons to district meetings, the worst possible response. If lawmakers want to enhance their safety, and that of their constituents, they should recognize that the true public menace is the well-dressed gun lobbyist hanging out just outside their chamber

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Basic Infantry

Started the morning off nice and early for Basic Infantry Course taught by TMan. Was very good and learned a lot of the basics. Afterwards I jumped into a game and sadly my VOIP wasn't working but Crawly used TeamSpeak to talk to me. Got some experience being in a fireteam and using the automatic rifle for the first time. Nothing eventful happened on the first round but on the second round we played on a map (don't know the name) with a lot of fields. Got lost, ...

Was playing through a long evening of BF2 last night with the usual suspects and after a while started hearing an alarm that sounded exactly like the Star Trek red alert klaxon. I thought it was some joker on teamspeak.

The frequency of the alarm increased as the evening wore on, and I finally asked in TS if others were hearing the alarm. No. So I looked at my temperature monitor and saw that my CPU temp was climbing into the high 80s! Not good.

I had my Antec 1200 ...