So it has been written, and so it shall be!
Consider this an opportunity to get some early Christmas shopping done.
(Hat tip: Whipped Cream Difficulties.)
Tags: Guns
So it has been written, and so it shall be!
Consider this an opportunity to get some early Christmas shopping done.
(Hat tip: Whipped Cream Difficulties.)
Tags: Guns
Actually, November 19th is the Soviet-era holiday known as Rocket Troops and Artillery Day (“Dyen raketnikh voisk ee artillerii” in Russian.) It commemorates the artillery barrage on November 19th, 1942 that began Operation Uranus, the Soviet offensive that encircled and cut off the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.
Originally just “Artillery Day”, the holiday was expanded in the early Sixties to also celebrate the troops of the Strategic Rocket Forces, the branch of the Soviet military that was responsible for their nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
I guess one could argue that “Ammo Day” is a logical extension of Rocket Troops and Artillery Day, since artillery and ammunition do go together, but personally I find it a little weird to inadvertently celebrate a major Communist holiday (one that commemorates Soviet nuclear weapons, even).
Would it be possible to move “Ammo Day” to a different date?