General Jack Ripper

Talk about awkward!

In the spirit of the occasion, I'll plug one of my older videos: Sadly, I never did finish recording the campaign, but here's everything I have up to the current time: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmW_vcwM_qxttW8o7FwJMPIrY_iS86EoD I always intended to go back and finish it, but I think I just got burned out on Combat Mission for a while.

If there is anything that might rouse me enough to purchase CMBS, it would be this. Now, if you people would stop ordering things on Amazon so I can have a day off sometime...

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/16/russias-abandoned-space-shuttles-at-the-baikonur-cosmodrome-in-p/ It makes me sad to see amazing machines left to rust, with it's tremendous potential unfulfilled.

Well, on my side I didn't notice much, I was too busy frantically buddy aiding my casualties... At short range, the stens drown everything else out anyway.

Yeah, I'm watching the scene again right now. There's four tanks, with infantry riding them. Overall, it looks like an understrength platoon, and they rescue about a squad's worth of dudes from the previous attack. That's all. Given the fact Brad Pitt is a staff sergeant and is in overall command leads me to believe he's the highest ranking person present. In the incident in question, there are only seventeen guys present, and you can see in the background other Germans being captured, and not killed. Poorly done? All I can do is shrug, and re-iterate my earlier statement that personal perception is different for everyone.

He would, but he wasn't there, and upon further review, neither were any other officers, even the infantry were led by a noncom.

There is not an entire battalion in that scene. It's a platoon of tanks, a platoon of infantry, and the few survivors of the previous attack. Brad Pitt seems to be the only officer present. EDIT: He's not an officer, I forgot. Now there, we agree. SPR is a finely honed scalpel, while Fury is a baseball bat. I just don't see the "disrespectful" part. They set out to make the theme of the movie as "War is all hell" and they did. Bluntly, and forcefully, but they got their point across. I guess being a lifelong history student lets me simply disregard the excessive "poetic license". That stuff just falls out of my brain.

If you do find it, I'd love to see it, but don't beat yourself up over it.

Either way, the sandbags didn't help any...

The durability of concrete and cement varies wildly depending on how it's made, and what you've mixed into it. I don't think field expedient cement was formulated with stopping armor piercing cannon rounds in mind. Sandbags are not a reliable source of protection either, and I don't think anyone bothered to conduct ballistic tests of the "armor protection afforded by a few sandbags instead of an extra inch of steel". Sandbags were applied by some crews as protection against shaped-charge warheads, but that certainly didn't help this guy: \ If you're waiting for actual numbers though, you're in for a very long wait.

I don't see it that way, but personal perception is by it's nature, personal.

I disagree. The purpose of the scene was to force the new guy to kill someone. The prisoner was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. No one else at the scene seemed to be preparing to kill the guy. They kicked him a few times, and yelled at him, but the specter of execution wasn't raised until, "Hey new guy, get over here, I need to teach you something!" The true horrifying nature of the scene in Saving Private Ryan isn't gained at first viewing, or maybe never if you're not a Czech speaker. The man with his hands raised yelled something, roughly translated: "We are not Germans, we are Czech! We haven't killed anyone, we just want to surrender! Please don't shoot us!" Then they get shot by a Ranger who jokingly mocks the man raising a hand and saying "Look, I washed for supper!" EDIT: Meanwhile, the German ("Steamboat Willie") they captured later at the radar site is under the specter of execution from the very first moment the audience lays eyes on him, and if Captain Miller had condoned his death, I don't think anyone in the audience would have questioned his decision. However, the man is spared, yet comes back later to kill Captain Miller, and is then executed after surrendering again, by Cpl. Upham (the guy who got him released in the first place). The message obviously being that some people are beyond redemption, and some enemies are better off dead, because the guy you let go may come back again. SPR is a far more complex film than most people see at first glance.

The only reference to the M4A1E8 in Hunnicutt's 'Sherman' is a single reference on the page (243) talking about the adoption of the HVSS. There are no other mentions of it.

Under all those sandbags, I simply cannot tell. If the angle of the slats on the back of the tank conforms to the hull shape, then it is a welded hull tank, but it could have the cast front and welded rear. I just can't tell with all that trash all over it.

Have you ever heard the expression, 'After that, we didn't take prisoners for a while'? Everyone did it at one point or another. Don't get all high-and-mighty. Lies against the German people? Oh, DO go on!

I don't think they report fractions of an inch. Maybe. The front slope looks about right.

Aww, shucks, it's so cute!

Then why are you here?

Also completely wrong.

Protecting Ukraine, NOT crushing Russia. You're trying to implicate both, but only one idea is correct.

Battlefront does not build towards a "Grand Narrative", and neither am I aware of any possible future plans to do so.

^ You don't do that, and then do this: Knock off that schoolyard stuff.

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