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DCA last couple of weeks has been nice! Double the Sats for the same fiat dollars!

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Seeking a new redesign and a new name I believe that most Ivans after living through actual communism are probably way less communist/Marxist than most Karens or Ricks from blue cities... Needs blue, orange and pink hair. Needs a mask and add a bull horn, possibly a cell phone in one hand... Ivan targets are standardized 3D plastic training targets used by the U.S. Army and other military branches for live-fire exercises and qualification courses. These targets, often referred to as "Ivan" due to Cold War-era symbolism, are designed to resemble a Soviet soldier and are used to simulate enemy combatants.

Guns, lots of guns.... Anyone swap their carry calibers. What fun.... Decided I wanted to go from 9mm to 45acp... This is gonna be fun...

Wolverines! Red Dawn shocked America by turning high school kids into guerrilla fighters, and the Wolverines became a symbol nobody expected to take seriously. When Red Dawn hit theaters in 1984, audiences thought they were getting a loud Cold War fantasy. Soviet paratroopers. Small town America under siege. Teenagers with hunting rifles yelling a single word before battle. Wolverines. It sounded absurd on paper. Then the movie started. The Wolverines were not superheroes. They were scared, grieving, undertrained kids hiding in the woods, stealing food, burying friends. Patrick Swayze’s Jed Eckert did not inspire with speeches. He hardened because someone had to. The film lingered on hunger, exhaustion, and the cost of survival longer than anyone expected. What happened next surprised everyone. Teen audiences cheered. Adults argued. Critics panicked. Red Dawn became the first movie ever released with a PG 13 rating, created largely because no one knew how to classify violence performed by children. The Wolverines were too young to dismiss, too serious to laugh off. Behind the scenes, the film was made with unusual sincerity. The cast trained together, camped, learned weapons handling, and built real camaraderie. That authenticity bled onto the screen. The Wolverines felt like a unit because they had become one. The cultural reaction was explosive. Some saw propaganda. Others saw nightmare fuel. For kids growing up during nuclear drills and Cold War headlines, the fantasy felt uncomfortably close to plausible. The idea that safety could evaporate overnight hit hard. Over time, the Wolverines stopped being just characters. They became shorthand. Resistance. Defiance. Small people refusing erasure. The red bandana became an icon. The final plaque honoring the Wolverines turned fictional sacrifice into myth. Rewatching the film now, the tone feels stranger than nostalgia suggests. The movie does not celebrate war. It mourns it. Every victory costs something permanent. By the end, survival itself feels like loss. That is why the Wolverines endured. They were not cool. They were cornered. And in an era obsessed with power fantasies, Red Dawn offered something darker and more honest. Courage born not from confidence, but from the refusal to disappear. The Wolverines were never meant to win. They were meant to be remembered.

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