grumpy grizzly

John, thanks for your service. You are the real deal. I saw your pictures and medals from Nam, and then putting your life on line with...

Welcome home brothers and sisters. We did our job and stood strong. But less not forget those who served before us and after us. Never...

Chicago's busiest Truck Company, Truck 26 did 5400+ runs last year in a 2002 Pierce, which is still their current apparatus.

There are 58,000 names of our brothers and sisters who never returned on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Yes, there are at least 6 names of...

2,709,918 Americans served in Vietnam. Less than 850,000 are still alive. There were 766 POWs (114 lost in captivity) There are an...

Thank you to all who served

I second your acknowledgment, well said Grumpy

TRIBUTE TO VIETNAM VETERANS https://www.youtube.com/embed/aVeBtnfAxP8

March 29 has been designated National Vietnam War Veterans Day. To those on this site who did not receive a welcome home, I say to you...

Any information on an updated FDNY reference guide?

Many ship officers and damage control people went to Boston Naval shipyard where they learned fire fighting tactics under a Boston chief...

Boston had a second alarm aboard the "Spirit of Boston", a large cruise ship. Fire was in the rear of the ship, possible a kitchen fire.

Come on, get some of that Nascar 200MPH bearbond tape and it will be good as new.

It is because of so many great contributors to this site that makes it what it is. Everything from the FDNY rundowns, photos, videos...

As entropy states, the 1977 strike lasted 9 weeks and the army were used as an interim service. The last national strike was 2002/3...