• Dockers Alpha Khaki Camouflage Chinos

    Some inexpensive stylish camouflage chinos from Dockers:

    A good mix of woodland, desert, and urban colorways available over at Nordstrom for $64 each with free shipping.

  • Lumberjack With That Camouflage Side Panel

    Contrast paneling… so hot right now… contrast paneling:

    Plaid and camouflage are both patterns I really enjoy on their own… but together it just looks wrong.

    SOPHNET wouldn’t be SOPHNET if they didn’t take risks though.

    If you’re a risk taker you can pick one of these up for $405 over at END Clothing.

  • Photographer Thomas Ekstrom At Norway’s Army Officer Training School

    Freelance photographer Thomas Ekstrom documents the last days of hell week during training:

    Read the full interview with Thomas Ekstrom and see lots more pictures over at Visual Supply Co., a company which makes adobe filters to give your pictures a look similar to popular film cameras from back in the day.

    I’m not normally blown away by a lot photography, but the composition, colors, and his subjects really make for some amazing looking pictures.

    You can check out Thomas’ other work over at his website.

  • A Low Cost Solution To Land Mine Clearance

    An amazing tumbleweed-inspired product that will no doubt save lives:

    He starts talking about the product at 1:45.

    Wow… even sustainable components such as bamboo are used in his design and those rubber shocks look like basic toilet plungers.

    A TED talk by the designer:

    The designer says it costs around €40 ($52 USD) to create a single one of his tumblers, which is way less expensive than current removal methods he says cost roughly $1200 per mine.

    You can visit the designer Massoud Hassani‘s website for more information.

  • Kid Rock – Let’s Ride (Battle Hymn)

    Kid Rock delivers:

    The Lyrics:

    Used as a scapegoat taped to the wall
    Bruised and abused on some foreign soil
    Trained to kill, baby that’s what we do
    Programmed to bleed red, white and blue

    Come on and grab your guns let’s ride
    May your conscience be your guide
    I’ll say a prayer for you to make it through to the other side
    Tonight’s the night we fight or die

    Grab your gun son said we’re heading for war
    Like your uncle JT thirty years before
    No pussy no dope this aint Saigon
    But keep your heads up for roadside bombs

    Come on and grab your guns let’s ride
    May your conscience be your guide
    I’ll say a prayer for you to make it through to the other side
    Tonight’s the night we fight or die

    Even in darkness you’re my strength my soul my will to survive
    But in this fight I stand ready to die

    Come on and grab your guns let’s ride
    May your conscience be your guide
    I’ll say a prayer for you to make it through to the other side
    Tonight’s the night
    Tonight’s the night

    Come on and grab your guns let’s ride
    May your conscience be your guide
    Come on
    Come on
    Come on
    Come on
    Come on
    Yeaaaaa

    When it comes down to it, Kid Rock seems like a pretty solid guy.  He’s toured with the USO in the past, and does not even make a big deal of it.

    “It’s a funny thing to do that and get commended, because it’s obviously just the opposite way [of] how I view it, [which] is to do something to commend these brave men and women,” he said. “It’s been a long war, let’s face it. We were talking the other day, wondering how many times Bob Hope’s been [overseas], thinking of, you know, those World Wars were, like, four years, and this is going on eight, nine years now. There’s a lot of entertainment needed over there, and that’s what I can provide, and it’s always a privilege just to be asked to go and play for those guys.” -Kid Rock

    If you want to add or listen the song to your soundcloud:

    We need more people that make music like him, and more people who are in music to be like him and support the troops.

  • WTAPS B-9 Flight Jacket

    Another solid offering from WTAPS fall/winter 2012 collection:

    WTAPS sure knows how to make a good looking modern military jacket, while keeping the vintage aesthetic.

    ¥89,250 ($1081 USD) from Authorized WTAPS dealers.