Vet 0369

LOL, it seems to be pretty standard in Western militaries. I remember the Squad Leaders and Platoon Sergeants, myself included continually “admonishing” the men to “Spread out! One grenade will get you all!”

Basically, except for raids, patrols, and speciality planned night assaults, the ground war actually does stop at night. Troops are human and have to sleep sometime! Otherwise, they won’t be fit far combat and will start shooting at hallucinations. A typical night for USMC infantry, depending on threat status, would 33%, 50%, or 100% of the grunts awake and on watch for two hour before turning it over to the next watch, except for the 100% watch which anticipates an imminent attack by the enemy.

Welcome aboard! Please don’t feel shy about posting just because you don’t have much in-depth military knowledge, you’ll develop a good base just by reading here. And, some of our most prolific posters have little to no military knowledge, and that doesn’t dissuade them from posting

WHAT? Soddy construction techniques, inferior materials, and poor design! Shut your mouth, this is top shelf Russian design with the best Russian materials! How dare you criticize this monumental Russian achievement. This could never happen. (Sarcasm)

Hear, Hear!

OK, I know. I’m very late the game, due to not reading the thread for a couple of days, BUT, when we have readers from backgrounds of ALL THE ANTAGONISTS of WW II, it’s bound to devolve into “I know I am, but so are you! WW II ended five years before I was born. I will wager that the Grand Parents of a majority of the posters weren’t even born when that war ended. It’s just like here in the U.S. where many people are “still fighting the Civil War” that ended 158 years ago. How about everyone sticking to the thread subject of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine?

And on this note, an extraordinarily important event is about to take place in Boston! Game seven of the Basketball playoffs between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics! The Celtics lost the first game on their own home court, lost the next two to the heat on the Heat’s home court, but took the next three games with one in Boston and two in Miami. No team has ever come back after a 0-3 deficit to win the series. The other three teams that came back from a 0-3 deficit, lost game seven on the road.

Cool, a Yankee Doodle Dandy!

I have no doubt that the “Crisis” will be resolved in time. What you have been seeing and hearing are political “drandstanding” to position for the next General elections via reports from the Left- and Right-leaning media outlets that have their own agendas. The reason I believe it will be resolved in time to avoid default. Neither Party wants to give the other to say “We tried to avoid it, but THEY wouldn’t negotiate in good faith.”

I really don’t want to get involved in something over which I personally have absolutely no control, but the major debt results from 18 years of funding the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and against ISIS. That was four U.S. Presidents, and the U.S. Congress that was controlled by both Democrats and Republicans. EVERYONE bears part of the blame, not one Party or the the other. In fact, the previous President, Clinton, even though he was at the very least culpable in the cost of the wars, was the last U.S. President AND Congress that actually passed a balanced budget that resulted in a budget surplus.

Welllll, there is a major difference between a B-17 or Lancaster dropping their bombs from an altitude of thousands of feet, and a Mosquito, crewed by elite and very practiced members of a Squadron that constantly practices low-level “skip type” bombing raids. First, one set (group?) of bombers took out the wall and others took out the guard barracks (they might have taken out the guard barracks first, I don’t remember). However, even with the relatively extraordinary accuracy, some of the prisoners were killed in the bombing. It was a “wake-up call” for the Nazis.

Training! Lots and lots and lots of actual training.

The U.S. Founding Fathers were intellectually advanced enough to include a provision that any part of the U.S. Constitution could be “amended” by agreement, I believe 3/4ths of the states (I.e. the People) voting in the affirmative to accept the Amendment. IMHO, that was extraordinarily visionary of the Framers.

Nah, they missed on purpose because the Russian Government, being headed by Humanitarians, ordered them to miss so they wouldn’t endanger innocent non-combatants.

Yes, the new insignia is very similar, but not identical to the Polish insignia.

As a strict Constitutionalist, and not one of the offensive far-right or just one of the morons who were force-fed hatred by their even more moronic parents, I feel I must say that the First Amendment of the first 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, known as The Bill of Rights, guarantees every citizen of the U.S the Right to Peacefully Assemble, the Freedom of Speech, and The Freedom of Association, among other things, even with those whom the “majority” feel are reprehensible. The only time an American Citizen can lose a right, since a right cannot be taken away, is if that right is used by the individual to harm another in some way, such as yelling “Fire” in a theater in order to cause a panic. As long as exercising one’s rights isn’t done directly to cause harm or violate an existing law, that person’s “right” cannot be taken away. Even though we might find their speech and symbology disgusting, they have the right to express it.

This is the correct question to ask if you’re looking to develop an “intentions” profile. Like “why would the Russians be testing smoke devices to obscure movement over a bridge or water borne movement?” Or, “which way, to Crimea or from Crimea,” And “for what purpose?”

This is absolutely the reason. The Army LOVES the Hog (there’s nothing like a good”Brrrrrrt” for close air support, except USMC F/A-18 Super hornets), and the Air Force “Fighter Mafia” has been trying to get it cancelled and later obsoleted so they can use that funding for more “glamorous” and dazzling fighters. It has been a very public, bitter, and long running fight. The Hog does have some every strong Air Force, Army, and Congressional supporters though.

Yes, you’re absolutely correct. Whenever Sailors would tell us that Marines were part of the Navy and needed the Navy to take them where they needed to go, we’d simply reply, “Yup, everyone needs their taxi service.” That said though, the Navy and Marines have always supported and complemented each other’s missions. Unlike two of the other branches who are constantly trying to “one-up”each other and steal the others funding while still constantly arguing over whether the Army is violating the 1949 Key West Accords that created the Air Force by arming helicopters.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps historically reported to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), which is the Navy. The Commandant now directly to the Secretary of the Navy to whom the CNO also reports. So, by extension, it appears that the CNO has the Navy, and the Commandant has the Marine Corps. The Commandant also now has a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Danke

To be honest, this would basically stun me. If I’m not mistaken, Japan has very specific provisions in their Constitution to prevent any sort of “extra-territorial” involvement in conflicts. I would be very interested to see how the Government could circumvent those Constitutional provisions.

Not something I have seen before, but I’m sure it’s a newer innovation to maintain pressure on a head wound. One of the reasons for the U.S. Military hair regulations is because you can bleed to death very quickly from a head wound if there is a lot of hair between the wound and the direct pressure dressing.

Oh boy! First Orcs and Mordor, and now Habbits?

That mi amigo, is about 80 years out of date. Sort of like the weapons differences between the U.S. Civil War in 1865 and WWII in 1945!