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    Military History Grogs! Absolutely incredible huge site!

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Apparently as the only member her to have ever served on an Iowa class Battleship, let me clear up a few things.

    1) All 4 Iowa's still have all 3 16'' turrets. There was some talk back in the late 80's with the Missouri and the Wisconsin of trying to remove the 3rd turret to make vertical launch tubes for missles, and also more talk of an under deck hanger of some sorts, but it couldnt be done as the turrets just weighed too much and she ship needed the weight to remain stable.

    2)All 4 Iowa's carried 8 ABL capable of carrying 32 Tomahawk Missles and then another set of launchers(not armored for 16 harpoon anti ship missles, As far as the tomahawks go, and I doubt anyone will ever find any true reference to this but some of the tomahawks were nuclear tipped .

    3)Each Iowa started with 10 dual 5"38 gun mounts 5 on each side of the ship, in the 80's reto the removed 2 mounts from each side, leave 12 5'38 barrells, 6 in 3 mounts on each side of the ship. On a side note the Marine manned mount, which I was a crew of was the only 5" mount to get a fire mission in Beruit(i guess it was symbolic, Marines supporting Marines) Anyway, we took out a Sryrian gun battery, spotters confirmed 22 killed. Inside the mount some sailor art was drawn depicting a silloutte of a man with a raghead with a circle around it a a line going through it diagonally with"scatch 22" written above.

    4) There are lots of reasons I think they were retired. There used to be a website around called Warships1.com ran buy a guy named Guy Derdall or something like that, and there was a poster there that was pretty high up in the chain of commaned at Long Beach Naval shipyard that refitted 2 of them. wish i remembered his name, anyway, his though was that the 16" barrell liners and extra barrels were all goneand no way to reproduce them.

    5)With the range of the 16" barrels at about 25 miles there was in development in the late 80's a round capable of ranging out to 100 miles, If the BB's had stayed in service im sure it's reasonable to assume that todays technlogy we would certainly 100 mile and more ranges from the 16's

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    Best Wargame of all time

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Hi all,

    I must say that my favorite game of all time was a long long time ago. It was called AV8B Harrier Assualt, and the a later updated version called SVGA Harrier Assualt.

    Basically you were a Harrier pilot flying support of a USMC MEU assulting the island of Timor.

    It was alot of fun.

    Here is a link to a download page, but I cannot get it to work.

    I would forever be in your graces if one of your computer heads could try downloading it and get it to work.

    Thanks,

    Pop

    http://www.migman.com/ref/1990_combat/SVGAHarrier/SVGAHarrier.htm

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    Interesting discovery from "Marines of Lima Company"

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by John Kettler:

    Also of interest were the withering comments from the Marines about the lousy amtrac ergonomics, starting with a grotesquely inadequate pad in the bench seat. One Marine likened the resultant pounding to "like having a jackhammer up your a#%," followed by the hand eating hatch opening, the exhaust right in the face of those in the open hatch, and the water, also on top, which was described as "boiling."

    Amtracs do suck big time. Team spirit '87 found me in one for about 20 days maybe give or take a couple. It was very uncomfortable. And regardless of the smoke in your face if your got to stand with your upperbody out the upper hatches it was better than being cramed inside.

    I fully believe that it was my time in that trac that allows me to go to sleep under any condion.

    I have a really good pic of our platoon from TS'87 posing with our track, If someone wants to host it for mke I'll let them post it. You really cant imagine the number of guys we fit(cram) in there. Our platoon, split in 2 squads, plus 2 or 3 mg teams from weapons plt, and also the trac crew

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    thinking about joining the Marine Corps as a Reservist...

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by aka_tom_w:

    Was it Rommel something in the screen name?

    Yep, it was him. the guy was a disgrass, he actually was proud that he had ribbons on his chest that he had no clue what they were or were for :rolleyes:

    As for joining the Marines........ Go for it.....

    Once a Marine always a Marine, you dont see that in the other branches.

    Oh and the Marines are now SF with the Marines detone unit.

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    Women?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Colin:

    Okay so what's this? We have 3 maybe 4 examples of women performing well in combat. How many women are over there?

    Now I'm not saying they can't be good soldiers, they are not as effective in combat as men. If they were, they would have been used more.

    Marine line units i.e. grunt companies routinly take WM's along with them on patrol, and the WM's routinly engage the enemy with their rifles just as the grunts do. Is there alot of it I would guess not, but to say what you did is wrong. My leatherneck magazine every month seems to show more and more women assigned to FSSG units getting in the trenchs with the male Marines.
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    demo?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by M1A1TankCommander:

    Yep, I am buying this one without a demo- not my standard practice, I am just confident that this will be a hit. Plus I can use it as a training tool (as long as they include Avenger) Are they in?

    Ditto
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    Military service poll

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

    Popfreak is correct. From the book "Little Known Covert Close Calls of the Cold War":

    "The New Jersey slipping into Leningrad harbor one cloudy, non-moonlight Tuesday night in January on a super secret, high risk recon mission. The massive battleship had been specially prepared for this mission by being disguised as a luxury cruise ship. It was not a very convincing disguise up close, but knowing most Soviet sailors were drunk all the time it was figured that proper identification was unlikely. By 1130 the ship was nearly in position without incident. Just then a Soviet coastal patrol craft came to within 500m of the starboard side. The Captain passed the word along for everyone to remain quiet in hopes the Soviets wouldn't be notice the 57271 ton vessel. Under normal circumstances this was a sensible thing to do, however in this case no-one thought about how suspicious a silent cruiseship would appear. Indeed, the semi-alert Soviet skipper was curious about the lack of joyful passenger sounds and began to doubt what his blurred double vision had taken for a cruise ship. As if on cue the high pitched voice of Midshipman Hollis yelling "BINGO!", along with a lot of noise of joy and disappointment from other crew members, could be heard by anybody within 1000m of the NJ. For as good as the planning was, the NATO commanders who thought up this mission were unaware that Tuesday night was Bingo night on the New Jersey. Sailors are superstitious about changing routines, so the game continued on despite the seriousness of their mission. Ironically, it was this serious mistake in military planning that wound up saving the New Jersey from detection, for the Soviet skipper heard the commotion and returned to port for a nightcap, satisfied that there was nothing out of the ordinary at sea that night."

    Steve

    Good story, except Bingo night was Monday!!!!! :D
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    Military service poll

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Originally posted by Beeper:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Popfreak:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Beeper:

    I think I'm one of the few guys in here who actually used WWII equipment (sort of) in the early 90's.

    Plaeeeeeeese. Served aboard a WWII Battleship that was recommissioned 4 times and finally went down for the count in 1991. Now she's a great museum </font>
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    Excited... but apprehensive...

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    I see a "Priceless" commercial out of this thread soon.

    BTW, Steve, Great news with CM:SF I have no worries it will be everything you guys say it will be.

    I remember a long time ago during an E-mail exchange with you, during the CMBB beta testing I think that you said something "You'll really love some of the things coming in the future"

    Looking forward to CM:SF, especially the Marine module.

    I hope it works on my laptop, need any more testers? tongue.gif

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    F... CDV

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    Canuck,

    Interesting posts. I am willing to bet that you brak down and buy the game as soon as you can like most people will. If you are definatley not going to buy the game until the price drops considerably then why are you hanging around the boards? I'm not going to buy Wartcraft 3, so I dont hang around their boards. I am going to buy GIC so I do hang around their boards, same with CMBB.

    Look forward to playing you in the future...

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