Tom Servo

HAHAHAHA!!!!!! ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Ahh damn, our next reenactment is the same weekend as the gun show. I'd have to get someone else to buy the enfield for me anyway, I'm only 17 so... but in AUgust I'll be able to buy my own "firearms"(woohoo). We were talking about getting a live Bren gun but it was gunna be like $3000 and like you said, they're ammo eaters(.303 blanks are like $15 for 50 rounds), so we were gunna make a gas bren but now we have the Vickers so... Hopefully we'll have the Vickers out at this upcoming event. How much do you usually spend on ammo for the MG42? Damn that has to be cool, Rob(one of the other british paras) said he got to shoot the MG34 at the last event(I dunno if it was a gas or live)and he said it kicked ass. We just got a PIAT but we have to like get it approved before we can use it. It'll shoot film canisters. We have the 2 inch mortar too, but we couldn't get it to shoot last time 'cause the powder got too wet or something. That PIAT is a heavy bastard though. I imagine the Vickers will be a bitch to carry around.. but oh well, gotta get used to it I suppose ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

I'm starting to get my stuff together. I have my Battle dress,trousers,boots(although they're rubber soled so I need to get some hobnail ones),and I just bought some webgear. I need to get my helmet and rifle. Helmets are expensive(I'm sure not much compared to what you guys have to pay). I was looking at your guys' site again, is that a MG42? And does it fire blanks or is it a gas gun? We were gunna make a Bren gas gun but one of the guys in our unit just bought a Vickers so... now we have that. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

I need to learn spanish, my g/f's parents are from Guatamala(sp?), so I think if I did I'd get some points for it what do you guys think? ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Great idea. THanks for posting it. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

I remember those "choose your own adventure" books... I just finished "The Clay Pigeons Of St. Lo." It's all first hand acount of a battalion commander in the 29th Inf. Div. I greatly recommend it. Read "Beyond The Beachhead" first, then this one. I need to read some stuff on the British airborne, looking to get Pegasus(sp?)Bridge and one on Arnhem. There was this one book I saw at Barnes and Nobel's one day, I just glanced at it 'cause I was broke, but it was called, "If You Survive." It looked to be first person fiction, but may have been a personal account. Has anyone read that? I want to read "THe Men Of K Company." Lately anything dealing w/ the 29th inf. div. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

What if it's a CM related XXX site?? eh? eh? hehe ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Ok I know it's hard, but please have patience... It's done when it's done. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Yeah, Larry("the big black guy"), he's a great guy. Rob(another guy in our unit)has only good things to say about you guys fighting, he said you're one of the toughest units. I came up to the "SUPER MALL" in Aurora? I know it's near pullylup(sp?). I went up there in January for a living history deal. There was a bunch of stuff for the Korean war but we came. Those damn hobnail boots suck on those hard floors. I live in Portland so it's a nice long drive up there. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Were the tommys british paras? or Canadians? Larry, he carrys a M1 Carbine and he's a brit para, and Joseph carrys a m1 carbine and he's a canadian Larrys, a big black guy so he's not hard to mistake and joseph wears glasses. Those are the only ones I know, may have been some other guys. But yes, I'll for sure come check out you guys. My mom's b/f thinks all the german uniforms and stuff are really cool so I might be able to get him to come along too. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you! [This message has been edited by Tom Servo (edited 03-03-2000).]

I don't think we'll have a joint event, from what I heard, not many would be too keen on that idea. I just figured if you guys are going to do it, I'd drive out there and check it out. I'd like to see some of the SS stuff. I dunno what the NWHA is going to do, we're either gunna do one the weekend after you guys at fort stevens or one the same weekend at camp rilia(or whatever). ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

It's kinda hard to explain, but you get the jist of it once you're out there. It depends on Cover Distance Firepower Say you're running through and open field and a bolt action rifle fires at you, keep running unless it's w/in a certain distance where they would have obviously gotten you. Now if you're running across that open field again and a fully auto oopens up.. consider yourself dead, unless you're like at 150 yards or farther. It's all common sense.... if you can see me when I'm shooting at you, you're dead..., unless you're behind a good sized tree or some other obstical.. Don't take my word for it, I've only been to one.. so that's just my take on it... ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

That's good, there was one GI at the last one that looked about 12 or 13 and he was carrieing a Thompson. The bastards also opened up on us one time... I went to your guy's page, looks great. You guys are doing a living history deal on June 3-4 at Fort Stevens right? That's what I heard. If so, I may stop by, the german stuff is always cool to see. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you! [This message has been edited by Tom Servo (edited 03-02-2000).]

I always thought this table wargaming stuff w/ the minitures looked cool. I went to a hobby shop and noticed it was damn expensive too and that kinda shot that idea down, plus no one I know would try to play it w/. Anyway, have fun, and I take miniture donations!! ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Haha well yah, that's about right from what I saw... We went until the US guys bitched about the weather and also 'cause they couldn't break through the germans... so the paras, one gi, and one canadian went up against the germans in town, it was fun. I didn't venture into many of the other's barracks so I dunno what they looked like. I suppose ours was pretty good in the time frame, all modern stuff we tried to hide or cover up. This was my first reenactment so I dunno... Too bad you guys stopped coming to the reenactments, they're kinda low on Germans. Anyway, nice to see someone from around here on this forum. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

HAHAHAH YEAH!! I just joined the 3rd Parachute Brigade here in Oregon! w/ the NWHA. damn, this is a small world!! Did you go the the event this last weekend?? ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you! [This message has been edited by Tom Servo (edited 03-01-2000).]

ok, true true, but honestly, if some wacko wanted to go kill people he wouldn't go waste $500 on stuff, then go and shoot at someone w/ a bolt action rifle(in my case). If I was gunna do it, I'd go grab a full auto and go into a crowded area, even wackos hhave commen sense. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

umm.. did I miss something? ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Well, we don't just go hire people, so, that example doesn't work w/ reenacting... ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Woo, I'm back, and alive! Damn that kicked ass, I recommend it for any WW2 nut. but damn I hurt all over... and it rained all saturday but that never stopped us, the US guys quit at one point 'cause they couldn't break through, just when we were breaking through a mG34 bunker in the back... It was unfortunete for the Germans, 'cause there was like 16-18 germans and about 50-60 Allies. Saturday after all the Americans and Canadians quit we decided to give a go at the germans in town... it was like 10 British paras and then we picked up Canadian and AMerican guy. damn germans w/ their fully auto sub-machine guns.. haha they kicked our asses Mainly 'cause you can't see anything in the windows until it's too late. Another thing, those damn Enfields... blah, the spring in my clip kept messing up and it wouldn't pop-up another round.... one time I was laying behind this tree when we came under fire from a MG44 and I saw this german off in the bushes to my right, so I pull the trigger... nothing, I pull the bolt back, get a shell in, and the german heard that and dove in the bushes... bastard.. hehe I think I got about 4 or 5 germans myself... oh and all of us(americans,british paras,canadians)all put in about 200 rounds all together into this german laying in this field but he wouldn't take a hit until someone rushed him w/ a carbine... oh well like I said, I recommend this too any ww2 nut. it kicks ass. just a little expensive Last weekend of March is our next one and I'll get pictures from this one by then and I'll post them up for you guys.../ ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Thought so...

Yes, we use blanks. There's plenty of action, I mean, loud machine guns and rifle are action I would assume I dunno, I'll post a msg sunday night telling you how it was, this is my first time so I don't have much experiance. ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Damn, this is gunna kick ass... We even get to do some town fighting! woo I can't get any pictures this time 'cause I can't afford to buy any film(I swear kodak are satan's spawn). Maybe someone will take some pictures and I'll scan them... But in April I'll take my camera and get some pictures.. yeah hehe I'm so damn hyped for this! blah blah ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

I don't think you sleep... Infact I don't think you're human at all, just a robot made by Fionn to do the page... hmmm.... Hows the g/f? ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!

Oh you just think you're so special don't you? Well I have 2 Frenchmen in my basement!! ------------------ Formally Tom punkrawk "Tomorrows killed by yesterday..." -Link80 Go to my soldiers at war page~!! http://www.geocities.com/soldiersat_war or I'll sick a goat on you!