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Mandalorian Spoilers:

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My theory since the beginning of the Mandalorian was that Din Djarin was from a religious fundamentalist group of Mandalorians. I was glad to be proven right here. We know that Mandalorians in the past were in family clans and took off their helmets regularly. His creed of never taking his helmet off very obviously showed that Death Watch had evolved more as a religious fundamentalist group of Mandalorians. On another note there is some real world comparisons to the Jewish people here. It’s one group that you can either be ethnically, religiously or even nationality as an Israeli. You also have some breaks between the fundamentalists there and those who are more ethnically/culturally related. So I think real world Jews were the inspiration for Mandalorians much like past fantasy authors were inspired by other real world historical groups.

Stole this picture from a past commander. My Favorite Veterans: 304th MCT at Ziggurat of Ur in 2006: Gary Moore, Albert Munoz, Marco Hernandez, Jason Arzt, Steve Jackson, Thomas Jones, Paul Darr, Kirt Heaward, David Ng, Nunio Villegas and Regina Evans. Marina Miller in front with guide-on.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

I would rate it 7/10 using my scale below.

10 – Masterpiece. 1-2 movies a year might get this rating.
9 – Great movie but just falling short of perfect in some way.
8 – One of the best of it’s genre or medium.
7 – A great experience that I would recommend to anyone.
6 – An enjoyable experience, usually reserved for things that are trash that I really loved.
5 – Somewhat enjoyable experience but I would only recommend it to someone if it matched their tastes.
4 – Not enjoyable; has some redeeming aspects but ultimately disappointed.
3 – Terrible. Would want money back from theater.
2 – Terrible. Would want time back.
1 – Terrible. Couldn’t finish.

As far as where I would rate it with the others:

• Episode 1: 6
• Episode 2: 6
• Episode 3: 6
• Episode 4: 8
• Episode 5: 9
• Episode 6: 8
• Episode 7: 8
• Episode 8: 6
• Episode 9: 8
• Rogue One: 7

It’s been two years since I bought my last rifle which was an AR-15. It works well for what it does but recently I was thinking I wanted something capable of taking hunting but also fun for me to shoot at the range. So I was debating getting an upper for my AR-15 in .300 Blackout or a completely new rifle. All have their different reasons in favor of that choice. One option I looked at was getting an AR-10, the big brother of the AR-15 in .308/7.62 NATO. It’s a solid rifle but I was thinking it was a little out of my price range. I could have always built it piece by piece but my local gun shop “Gun Shack” was having a great Black Friday sale today. So I asked Sarah if I could get myself a big gift and she gave the okay. So off I went today and now I have this big beautiful DPMS LR-308 Panther Oracle. I was able to get it at a steep discount and can’t wait to take it out to the range. Picture taken with AR-15 to see the difference in scale.