Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, convoy their light armored vehicles across the beach as a Navy landing craft, air cushion with Assault Craft Unit 4 departs the beach of Sierra del RetÌn, Spain, during Spanish Amphibious Bilateral Exercise 2014 Feb. 24, 2014. Spanish PHIBLEX is an annual exercise designed to improve interoperability, increase readiness and develop professional and personal relationships between U.S. forces and participating nations.

Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century - politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon
Sir Humphrey Appleby

אלה לא סטרייקרים. ולמארינס אין סטרייקרים בכלל.

גם כשלא היה הרבה, היה לנו הכל

מדובר ב LAV, שהוא בן דודו המוקדם יותר של הסטרייקר. מעבר ל LAV25 הנפוץ, הוא משמש כרק"מ סיוע ולוגיסטיקה בחיל הנחתים, כאשר ה AAV עדיין משמש כנגמ"ש עיקרי.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics

"After the uprising of the 17th of June the Secretary of the Writers Union had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
stating that the people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts.

Would it not be easier in that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" -Bertolt Brecht

I remember very vividly, a few months after the famous pacifist resolution at the Oxford Union visiting Germany and having a talk with a prominent leader of the young Nazis. He was asking about this pacifist motion and I tried to explain it to him. There was an ugly gleam in his eye when he said, "The fact is that you English are soft". Then I realized that the world enemies of peace might be the pacifists - Robert Hamilton Bernays -