argie
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It's right and proper, both. We laugh a lot on the RAE, as they're the ones cheapening the proper grammar.And probably in Latin America they might have a different opinion regarding whether it's right and proper to use it or not.
Good catch on the nick, John!
BTW, regarding the nick, I've just finished "Cryptonomicon", right on the subject.
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WTF is a prisoner?
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I did, but my Spanish is appalling
I noticed, though, that it's substantially more than a 'little' article
I bet Google Translator is good enough.
23 pages on a subject as CAS is fairly little. Notice I didn't wrote anything on FO training and the lot, which is a subject as important as the platform, is not more.
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Hi Argie!
*waves*
Hi Jon!
Nice to read you.
Hey, take a look to that article I wrote that I've posted in the CAS thread and tell me what you think.
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Exactly. The US military has long been in the position of acquiring aircraft on a "one size fits all" basis, where we end up with a jack of all trades but master of none. So far we have gotten away with it because we haven't had to come up against an opponent who would seriously stress that system. But some day we may need to fight an air force that has heavily invested in aircraft that are optimized to perform specific missions just a little be better than anything we can field, and this could lead to serious embarrassment and excess shedding of US blood.
Michael
That already happened in the beginning of Nam with the fixation on jets. Only later the A-1 resurrected and the OV-10 was deployed.
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Using it for CAS bombing runs would be rather like WWII Germany using ME262 as a bomber instead of an interceptor.
Subtle.
(this parenthetical was added to comply posting standards)
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Some time ago I wrote a little essay on CAS.
It's in Spanish and also in a very casual language, as it's intent is more towards a broad audience than a technical one.
I suppose that it could be easily translated by any current online tool.
I think it covers almost all the pros and cons, and at the end is focused on the Pucará, for obvious reasons.
http://argie-mibosque.blogspot.com.ar/p/apoyo-aereo-cercano-la-cenicienta-que.html
I hope you'll find it interesting.
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The closest I ever came to something like that was once in a CMBO game when a German mortar round dropped through the open hatch of a Stuart. Man, was I bummed about that particular stroke of bad luck!
Michael
I remember a game on CMBO in which a German attack has to pass over a few bridges, controlled by British troops on my command.
I had TRPs on all of them and proceed to unload every single direct and indirect fire weapon I had on those as soon as the Germans came thru.
At the end, I found a 2" Mortar team credited with a Panther kill.
I suppose it went through an open hatch...
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By default, the F keys work as shortkeys for some "hard" functions, like sound volume, or screen bright. Them can be configured to enable other OS functions, like Workspaces or Dashboard also.
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In System Preferences, go to Keyboard. There, mark box Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys and try again. I suppose it will make it work.
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As Gen. DePuy said, they (the infantry) were just bodyguards for FOs most of the time in the Western Front.
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http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=1116
I take checks, money orders, paypal, or human organs...
Mord.
Great! I'm sending you a brain, a year 68 classic, with little to no use. Is the only organ I can spare without affecting my normal functionality.
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The only I ask is the chance to turn off the music only. I'll pay for an upgrade which only do it.
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I'm not a number!
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I meant the SS in Argie's link. The grass was blurry and undefined. Very low rez. Also, the gridded terrain didn't extend out from the selected unit. It reminds me of the quality drop off going from my desktop to the laptop when a large map is loaded.
But it could indeed be the size of the file.
I play on my old early 2008 Mac laptop.
I've never cared for graphics on all CM iterations.
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Just answering that Hello? thread, I realized that I never posted here something that old timers could appreciate: an article that I wrote, and then translated to English for publishing in a site on Poe's Eureka.
Its called Kosmogonikon.
It was first published on my blog in Spanish, long time ago.
I hope you all enjoy it and let me know what you think.
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Look, my account is so old that the only social network icon it has for contact is ICQ, go figure!
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Well, it isn't the same without politics, religion and the morons (myself included) who get all excited for those issues.
Oh! And RL... Some of us have been here, in a and out, for almost 15 years now, believe it or not.
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There are things that is better to leave unknown.
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If a 30mm cannon is overkill, what's a 500 lb bomb?
That's why it was developed a 125 lb bomb filled with concrete instead of HE.
With today's navegation and fire control systems, almost every ordnance can be overkilling.
CM Black Sea - Beta Battle Report - US/UKR Side
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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I read it as "Don't be where the enemy expects you to be".