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Odds 'n Sods:
Some good news! The US military's "fired brass destruction"
policy change turned out to be very short-lived. It has just been reversed.
To begin with, the policy change was intended only for military
brass
that is OCONUS,
not in CONUS.
(If you have a fast Internet connection, then see this
PDF., but was apparently over-applied ) I also got some information from
Gary Marbut, president of the Montana
Shooting Sports Association (by way of a SurvivalBlog reader up in Montana):
"I just received a phone call from the office of U.S. Senator Tester of
Montana to
inform me
that at 5:15 (EST) today [Tuesday, March 17th] a letter cosigned by Senator
Tester (D-MT) and Senator Baucus (D-MT) was faxed to the Department of Defense
asking
DoD
to reverse its new policy requiring destruction of fired military cartridge
brass. At 5:30, I am told, Tester's office received a fax back from DoD saying
that the brass destruction policy IS reversed. Others report
to me that they are already seeing evidence of this on the Websites of entities
that liquidate surplus DoD commodities. Our thanks go out to Senator Tester
and Senator Baucus, and their staff, for getting on this problem promptly and
making the reversal happen."
o o o
Ready Made Resources just got in another small batch of 1000-foot
long rolls of WF-16/U (2-pair) commo wire.This type of wire is fairly
scarce on the surplus market. It can be used with TA-1s,
TA-312s, and the
newer TA-1042 (DNVT)
digital field telephones.
o o o
The
UK television series Survivors is moving filming location to Birmingham
for Season 2. (What is unspoken in the cheery article is that Birmingham
is an industrial city with portions in advanced decay, making a good post-apocalyptic
backdrop.)
o o o
"D" found a
web site on non-electric cooling and refrigeration. The site also has
some solid information on drip irrigation. D.'s comment: "I find it ironic
that we teach people
in
Africa
these technologies and yet there is such a paucity of these skills here at
home."
