It’s time for your weekly journey into the Amusant and sublime, Friday fun. This week we kick off with a trio of posts from your favorite wildlife related account, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation:
Pearls Before Swine
This is the place where I would normally put some political cartoons, however as I’m pinch hitting in the daily conversation slot, they’ve gone there this week. So you’re getting a couple of strips from Get Fuzzy. . .
MEMES!
Sorry, but if I saw this at the local playground I’d have a new rug . . .
Photos
U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, release heavy drop packages with a U.S. Air Force 86th Air Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft onto Frida Drop Zone at Pordenone, Italy on Jan. 9, 2024. (U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo)
PACFIC OCEAN (Jan. 12, 2024) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Dustin McGuown, a native of Pasadena, California, signals to an AH-1Z Super Cobra helicopter, assigned to the “Hangman” detachment of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165 (Reinforced), during flight operations aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) as the ship steams in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 12, 2024. The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, comprised of Boxer, USS Somerset (LPD 25), and Harpers Ferry (LSD 49), and the embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are underway conducting integrated training and routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Connor Burns)
U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Systems Command, fire a Stinger Missile from a Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS) at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, December 13, 2023. The MADIS Mk1, pictured, and Mk2 form a complementary pair and will be the basic building block of the Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Battalions’ ground-based air defense capability. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Virginia Guffey)
KC-135T Stratotankers from the 127th Air Refueling Group stands ready at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., Jan. 3, 2024. The KC-135T provides aerial refueling capability to nearly every aircraft in the U.S. military inventory, making it the vital force multiplier in global airpower. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tom Demerly)
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