Yardstick
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If Syrian construction is anything like Iraqi construction, 4 Javs should bring that motha down.
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Ahhh, thanks. I had no idea. I may go back to FF after all.
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Just to piggy back on this, the Repository is a No-Go in Google Chrome. I can access it, but I cannot download anything.
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I'm sure you noticed the big ****ing base plate for the Mortar system on that Marine's back. Man, this forum is going to hell in a hand basket.
This thread is meant to discuss Combat Mission: Shock Force and Helmand style COIN missions/operations. If you want to get into deep discussion about COIN theory and or what US and NATO are doing right and wrong, take it to the frickin General Discussion forum.
I'll wrap this up with a recent pic (yesterday or today) of what actual US boots on the actual ground of Helmand look like, sometimes. As we can see Marine command has made very sure the force has sufficient equipment to do the job, and then some.It is snide closing comments such as this that will continue to devalue anything relevant that you may say.
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Be careful what you wish for. Shorter barrel means reduced range and terminal velocity. Knowing BFC, I assume they'd code-in differences even that tiny. The only (theroetical) in-game benefit might be the ability to carry slightly more ammo due to a slightly lighter weapon. Recently I've been experiencing mg duels between SAW and Syrian 7.62. SAW does not need to take a capabilities hit!
Hitting the 800m targets at the MG transition range is not all that difficult in RL. In addition to that I have yet to see anything that would lead me to believe that the platform has been degraded buy the addition of the short barrel. It's not really a weight thing, it is a maneuver thing. I just want to see the thing added to the game because that is what we use. And before anyone chimes in with "that may be what you use now but the game is set in 2008 blah blah blah realism", we were using the short barrels prior to OIF 3 (2004-2006) so I think they defiantly fit the scope of the game. I should probably shut up about this already, I have beating this dead horse for like, a year now I think. Screens look great btw.
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Speaking of US units, any word on the M249 getting a short barrel and collapsing butt stock?
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MTOEed, I so meant MTOEed. My life needs a built in spell check.
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At one time LMTVs were MOTEed to the BN and attached to HHC's support PLT. Now they are a part of the BN's FSC. So for example, 3rd BN, 15th IN has no "organic" LMTV's, but they do have E Co, 703rd BSTB attached to them, thus providing them with cooks, trucks, fuelers, mechanics, various EO issues and everything else under the sun.
WooHoo! Post 187! Rakkasan!
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Not something I would be particularly inclined to throw out into a public forum...
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Bingo. I lock that **** up so that it never sees the light of day.
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So I guess I'm the only one who got a laugh out of that? It's just one of those moments when you smirk, shake you head and wonder "How the xxxx did I get here?" Clavicula, I'm with ya brother, it's just one of those oddities that happen in war.
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Awesomness!!!
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For some reason that didn't make the wait any easier...
The Minimi Para looks awesome! I really hope that short barrel finds it's way in to the US MTOE in game.
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Have they been fielded in the Ranger regiment? Last I knew it was a new acquisition, and was being met with some difficulty (such as not slotting Stryker mechanics). I misspoke when I said LAV battalions, but I meant the Marine Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions.
2/75 has been rolling in them for at least two years.
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It's pretty much on a par with all Moslems = "ragheads" or terrorists IMO.
Not so nice when you're the target.
What exactly are you trying to say? I don't want to read into your statement, but there certainly is something implied in there. So please, by all means, clarify.
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I think that's a really nasty slur to make, and using a really broad brush. At last count, about 4,300 of these "prison types" have earned their professional credentials the really hard way, doing the nation's bidding. I won't say they were all Audie Murphy material, but I'd expect there are a lot of grieving families who would have a really strong objection to your description of their sons and daughters.
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As I sit here and read this thread I can't help but feel disgusted. Some of you need to take a serious look at yourselves, the generalizations you are making are clearly below your level of intellect. There have also been a lot of baseless assumptions, I do not see anything in that article that mentions the Marine's MOS or the MOS of the potential recruits. I also think it is ridiculous, like Planet of the Apes ridiculous, to think that the Marine's chain of command had knowledge of what he was doing, or put so much pressure on him that he would compromise his integrity and his morals to the degree that he did. I fail to see how his chain of commands involvement is an "iron-clad fact". Lastly, keep in mind that the military is a microcosm of society, so we are going to have the same issues the civilian side has, our are just more high profile. That doesn't make it right by any means, but it is an "iron-clad fact". But then again, apparently I am just a "sub-par straight legger", I will now return to my normal day to day criminal activities YMMV.
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I like it. The background chatter on the engine loop is interesting...
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Get P-Mags and all of those worries go away.
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Lima Oscar Lima.
sorry. couldn't help it...
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Yeah, I guess it was easy, but the pucker factor was high. I was pretty worried until QRF was on site, and then I started thinking about RPGs. Actually I was kinda on the edge of my seat the whole time. The guys were almost black on ammo when QRF showed up, so being over run was looking like a very real possibility.
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Bummer. Thank you for everything Gordon. Your Sherman Mods with the air recognition panels were by far my favorite armor mod for CMBO. Thanks for everything, I hope you health improves.
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Yeah, zero BLUFOR WIA/KIA.
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That was fun. It was tiny, but fun.
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I broke contact into the ditch to the right of the KO'ed 1114. I then bounded my "teams" up the ditch in the direction of the two buildings IOT gain some stand off and ambush any would be assault element. We took intermittent fire from the left flank but it was ineffective. We established a 360 inside the ditch and waited. We took contact from the south and engaged two ENY teams moving in the direction of the 1114, they were engaged, suppressed and wiped out.
When the QRF arrived they engaged ENY moving from the opposite side of the 1114 and poured .50 cal into them. I moved the QRF off the road and attempted to link up with the survivors, and the scenario ended.Fun little mission. Thanks for making it.
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M320
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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So now that this bad boy is no longer in the X catagory, are going to see an in game model that matches the weapon icon in the info panel?