Splinty
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2 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Yeah, the last bit of your post is what finally got me to suck it up and be nice to the M113
That and we're apparently sending over more than 100, which changes the degree it can have a positive impact.
Still, I am a little perturbed that there isn't something more modern that can be sent to them. Something that also had a chance to fill the role of IFV, which the M113 can not. The Marders, for example, would be a better pick IMHO. Especially because they are parked next door in a country that should be doing more to help anyway.
Steve
I totally agree about the Marders, Ukraine could use that firepower and FCS to great advantage. In any case the US has hundreds of 113s in storage and boneyards. We can certainly afford to give Ukraine some of them.
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Don't underestimate the M113. They are armored as well as BMP 1s and 2s. They are excellent as battlefield ambulances, frontline ammo carriers, ways to get tank and IFV recovery crews to damaged AFVs under armor and multiple other logistical tasks. They will free up other IFVs to do the fighting and give the poor truck drivers a break.
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1 hour ago, sburke said:
you are just trying to kiss up to @Combatintman
He's right tho. But I'm a former NCO myself. So.....
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3 minutes ago, sburke said:
too many likes can only lead to trouble. Why back in the day we didn't even HAVE likes. When you wanted to like something you had to go see em, send a letter, or call them... on a rotary dial phone! You young people today have it so easy.
Don't forget we had to walk 5 miles uphill both ways just to send those likes through snail mail lol
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24 minutes ago, Ultradave said:
My opinion (worth what you paid for it), is that it has more to do with lack of discipline and professionalism in the army. That's an indictment of the NCO corps and the junior officers. Nothing we haven't talked about there.
Lots of my troopers came from rural areas in the South of the US. Lots of them. BUT they were well trained and the NCOs that were my team sergeants were the best in the business. There was never a question that our guys would behave.
Dave
My experience as well. As a squad leader, some of my beat team leaders were either rural or inner city.
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2 minutes ago, Ultradave said:
Doesn’t need to be a famous photo. We always jumped like that. It was hard to walk up the ramp of the aircraft. Sometimes you even needed help. Really it was a relief to get on the ground and out of the parachute harness. At least then you could do some load management and you weren’t hogtied anymore. Parachute harnesses are TIGHT ( with good reason )
Facts. I can attest to all of that.
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9 minutes ago, Maquisard manqué said:
Er, thanks, this could constitute something I can agree on with Kraze.
I know that’s how this looks in the west but you must be missing a) the complex history and demographics that make up ethnicity b) the posts here about x people are all y.
Calling all Eastern Europeans Slavs is not accurate.
My point was there is NO racism here. Excuse the simplification.
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4 minutes ago, Maquisard manqué said:
Fair enough. That’s certainly what’s weird about this social media war stream.
But tell me, when the dust settles, is the racism either way going to be right or ok?
No.
So why is it ok now?
What racism? Both sides are white Slavic. Racism plays no real role in this. Hating invaders who come to subjugate, rape, kill, and destroy is completely understandable.
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1 minute ago, Ultradave said:
"Light Infantry" is usually referring to infantry that has no mechanized (armored) vehicles. So in the US, 82d, 101st, Ranger Battalions, 9th ID - all "light infantry," regardless of the weapons that the walking infantry carries. Just a term.
Dave
For sure! But considering how much all the stuff they made us carry around weighed , "light" is just a name. lol
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21 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said:
Isn't the fuze only activated when the shell is fired out of the mortar?
They were using old school impact fuzes as far as I know. I never saw one of those mortat IEDs explode personally. But one Humvee from my battalion did run over one and lost a wheel and took a bunch of shrapnel damage. Fortunately the crew only received minor injuries. Uparmored Humvees are pretty tough
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15 minutes ago, LongLeftFlank said:
Splinty probably has more direct experience with this
, but the idea is you can burn a small deep hole in tarmac much faster and less obviously than by digging/picking and then plant a bouncing betty or just a hand grenade under the AT mine.
They liked to bury 82mm mortar bombs with the fuses pointing up.
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1 minute ago, Bulletpoint said:
For what purpose?
To bury IEDs
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3 minutes ago, JonS said:
My partner (native speaker) thought it was meant to be either Calibre, or Colibri. Calibre is obvious, but odd. Colibri translates as 'hummingbird', apparently, which would be unusual but kind of a neat name for a tank. In a couple o western militaries I've seen examples of each of the tanks in a squadron/company have a name which starts with the same letter (Medusa/Minerva/Minotaur, etc). Do that Russians do that - it might explain the seemingly odd choice of Colibri? or Calibre, for that matter.
My own US Army mechanized infantry battalion did that. I was in Alpha Company and all our tracks had names that began with A. My Bradley was called Annihilator.
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3 hours ago, White2Golf said:
+1k to this. Doing anything in MOPP 4 is just freaking nuts. M1 turret is already cramped, now do the things in MOPP 4. UGH!
Try a Bradley turret.
You guys had a living room to our closet!
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On 2/28/2022 at 1:33 AM, chuckdyke said:
What is the make of the Pickup Trucks in SF2? I like to buy one. Two Warriors opened up.
It's a Toyota Hi-Lux
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7 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
OK... I think we've had enough talk about C-Rations and MRES to give us some Pavlovian constipation
I do appreciate the personal touch and the humor, but I think we should leave it where it is.
Steve
Heard and understood.
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13 minutes ago, db_zero said:
Apparently there was a study done regarding the long term effect of eating just MRE's.The military and the entire United States Department of Defense recommends the light use of MREs, no more than a few days in a row.
A test was done on subjects who ate MREs for 21 days straight. Severe constipation, sometimes alternating with severe diarrhea often resulted.
"This poor fool ate two MREs a day for 21 days and lived to tell the tale. He reports bouncing back and forth between a bloated, sweaty constipation and gut-wrenching diarrhea. This is because a normal person’s digestive system is not used to the nutritional makeup of an MRE."
Even if that’s not enough to scare you off, there is some evidence to suggest that severe constipation can lead to death in certain cases. The basic gist is that straining while taking a poop can actually set off a heart attack because of the stress placed on your body.
Another terrifying possibility is a perforated bowel, which can lead to your undigested MRE leaking into your body’s cavities and causing septic shock. While this mostly happens to the sick and elderly, it’s not something I would toy around with.
Another potential danger is the shelf life of an MRE is relatively short, much shorter than many other emergency foods. It lasts only up to 9 months in hot conditions. So if you choose to store MREs for disaster-preparedness, be sure to do so in a cool, dry place. If your MRE has expired, throw it out.
Even during Desert Shield we only ate one MRE per day, Breakfast and dinner were always hot chow from the mess trailer. We all understood what a steady diet of only MREs could do to one's digestive system. When the ground war kicked off our diet became MREs only for obvious reasons, but even then all of us had stocked on real food sent from home in care packages. Chef Boyardee saved my gut from too many MREs! lol
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33 minutes ago, John Kettler said:
Splinty,
On second thought, believe it was turkey a la king, and maybe it was the best of what he had available that day in the carton he had. Ate it cold, too, since I believe the heater packs hadn't been included with the MREs yet or there was some other issue. The roadwheel cookie was good, though.
Regards,
John KettlerNo heater packs with the original brown bag MREs. I was an E4 in Germany when they started hitting the line units in the 80s. The only ones I found edible were the Ham slice, and the dehydrated pork and beef patties.
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10 minutes ago, John Kettler said:
db-zero,
In the Vietnam War, US troops were still eating C-rations and K-rations from World War II, and that YTer who unboxes and eats MREs from all around the world on one episode (don't recall date) ate a 1944 C-ration, I believe. Brother George, an Army Scout, ate K-rations for sure and was in the Army as it transitioned to MREs and later improved ones. Had the chicken a la king (widely deemed the best of the early MREs and found it not just awful but impossibly salty. This was while visiting him with my dad at NTC in 1980. Now, Russian real MRE shelf life may not be as good as ours, but while no one wants to eat food that's seven years expired, I doubt it'll be inedible. Contrariwise, maybe the expired MREs will cause all sorts of food poisoning. Might be worthwhile to secure a few and run some lab tests. The resulting findings might just have real significance from an intelligence perspective.
Regards,
John Kettler
No one, and I mean NO ONE who I knew during the introduction of the original MREs thought Chicken a la King was the best of anything. It looked and smelled like dogs vomit.
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Just now, db_zero said:
Will the US/NATO cross the Rubicon? If it was a full fledged NATO country that’s one thing but it seems like there are limits regarding Ukraine.
Good point. But I think crossing the WMD line might be that Rubicon. I don't necessarily mean NATO using nukes, but I think that might be the line for direct kinetic involvement.
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3 minutes ago, db_zero said:
The subject of what the US/NATO will do if Russia uses gas has undoubtedly been discussed at high levels.
What the response will be is anyones guess but IMO going full Rambo or even a no fly zone will be off the table. Leaders will have to sell the prospect of WW3 to the people not just those sitting behind a keyboard and that’s probably going to be a hard sell.
Like it or not gas has been used on numerous occasions. It was used against the Kurds in the 80’s. Used in the Iran/Iraq conflict quite often and recently in Syria and nothing besides protests were registered.
Another cold hard fact is in just about any conflict no matter what the intentions, rules of engagement or motives, when the tally of bodies is counted up, it always civilians who suffer the most. War sucks for everyone but it really sucks for non-combatants who suffer the most.
On paper at least the US has a policy that any use of
WMDs to include biological or chemical allows for the use of nukes by the US.
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8 minutes ago, DesertFox said:
I know and I am with you and the Ukranians. To get some good understanding about Ukraine and where they come from historically (20th century) I can recommend this book. Maybe a little eyeopener to some why they and the russians dont exactly love each other.
Amazon.com: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin: 9780465031474: Snyder, Timothy: Bücher
A very good book.
That and we're apparently sending over more than 100, which changes the degree it can have a positive impact.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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This former Bradley Commander,gunner,driver, and dismount squad leader disagrees. The more the armor and IFVs have dismounts to protect their flanks and root out enemy ATGMs the better