Vet 0369

I think you are being unfair to this THREAD. This a thread about the war in Ukraine, not perceived upgrades to the CM line. Believe it or not, there are actually threads in other sections of the Battlefront forum where you are more than welcome to post this type of thread instead of attempting to hijack this thread.

Honestly, I don’t other with sports any more. It got way to boring with all the championship parades. Just kidding, I never paid much mind to the State’s gladiatorial games.

Are the Flyers the Bruins farm team or training team?

I’m sorry, I inadvertently deleted the quote of the post by Poesel on page 995.

I’m really behind the eight ball in catching up on replies in the thread, and apologize if I’m duplicating. I’m sorry, but I must really disagree with this statement. One of the first actions of a repressive or dictatorial government to ensure “The People” cannot remove it is to ban private ownership of weapons that could be used to combat it. In my country, the U.S.A., we have enshrined in our Constitution that “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The purpose of that right was to ensure that no Tyrantical Federal Government would be able to disarm the People (Citizens). The statement that precedes those words “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a freeState,” was added at the end of the deliberations because one Representative was afraid a Federal Government could disband the States Militias, and refused to agree until it was added. So, whatever your views and beliefs regarding private ownership of weapons, it has been the law of the land in the U.S.A. For almost 300 years, and in fact, was required by all the Colonies since the early 17th Century. Are there detractors of that right? Yes, but whether a mass murder is committed using a firearm or by driving a semi tractor trailer through a crowd on a boulevard in Southern France, the murders were not committed by the firearm or the semi tractor. I would go a step further and enshrine the right of the citizens to keep weapons and the responsibility of every citizen to train and serve, if necessary, in a National “Militia.”

LOL, PsyOps at work! Start a rumor and watch it roll.

Welcome to the forum! While you make a good argument, the major flaw I see in you’re argument is that, while there might have been some French incitement of the U.S. Revolution, it was the English colonists who rebelled (and in fact only one ninth of the population actively participated in revolt, a minority by any calculation). France didn’t contribute money or military forces until the war was almost settled and the Colonies proved they could win. In fact, the former French Colony of New France (in particular Arcadia) that Britain had taken only 15 years before the Revolution, considered joining the Thirteen Colonies in revolt, and decided not to even though they had reason to (the British were vicious in their repression of the French speaking inhabitants in Acadia). Arcadia would have been a perfect breeding ground for French incitement, but it doesn’t appear to have happened. So, your attempted corollary to the French helping in the U.S. Revolution fails.

Ah yes, send us all your SU-25s, and we’ll upgrade them to each able to carry nukes. I vaguely remember the Soviet Union telling Afghanistan to send them all their vehicle batteries and they world upgrade them for free. Afghanistan gleefully sent the USSR all their vehicle batteries (including from their armor), at which point the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan.

Would that be a reference to “Exploding the Diet?”

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question.

A friend of mine, and best friend of one of my wife’s cousins, was born in and immigrated from Poland prior to the Soviet collapse, told me that he grew up about 19Km from the Ukraine border. His Grandfather was conscripted out of his house as the Soviets passed through during WWII. He said they gave him a bullet ridden overcoat and put him at the head of their column to make sure he couldn’t run away. He asked about a rifle, and was told he would just pick one up off the ground at the front. That night, his Grandfather and a few others ran off into the woods and escaped. Unfortunately, atrocities by Ukrainians and Poles along that border caused much vengeance by both sides, and there is still little love lost there. My friend will proudly say that he’s half Ukrainian, but more proudly say that he’s Polish. Such is the history of the region.

I’ve been playing Combat Mission on my Mac since the CM1 and Shock Force Paradox (CDs) days with no issues. I have all the titles except CM Afghanistan, and have never had an issue with the certificate issue. I do know that some of my friends who downloaded the demos had the issue though. I’ve never used any of the Steam or Matrix versions though, so they might be “suspect.”

“Easily forded rivers and streams” are pretty deadly areas. If I know where the fording points are, I’m going to have arty preregistered at those points and have them under constant surveillance.

I place the the major difference here as being that the US or the UK haven’t tended to use the article to indicate an inferior subject region or territory as The Russia does.

Until I have definitive proof to the contrary, I usually suspect these types of “visits* are nothing more than what we call “live-shots” here in the U.S. They are always for political gain over the opposing party. One particularly discussing one for me was an unannounced photo op of a Congressional Representative during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that caused the Marine Security to have to divert Marines from their mission to provide security for the withdrawal (no U.S. military commander will risk even a publicity hound politician being killed or injured “on their watch”. I’m particularly disgusted because he represents my District, he is a Former Marine Officer who served in Afghanistan on the Judge Advocate Staff (a Lawyer, not a combat officer) and should have known better. Even his own Party was furious with his actions.

The thing that I try to keep in mind when reading these “releases” from Ukraine is the possibility of PsyOps. What better way to encourage a “totally hide bound” enemy to become over-confident, to under-estimate the strength of Ukraine, and to bait the Russia into an I’ll-advised offensive that you can then smash decisively. NOTE: My use of “The Russia” is not a typo. It is intentional. As Haiduk explained in a reply to a question from me long ago in this thread, regarding “The Ukraine” vs. “Ukraine,” using “The” indicates an inferior territory or region.

OK, while this this poster’s two posts are very interesting from the Russian point of view, they have nothing to do with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. I fully expect him to eventually cross the line and be banned as a Russian Bot. Therefore, let’s not feed the Troll.

Whether you are negotiating an arms deal or requesting fire support, you request nukes and accept 60mm mortars. It is always common practice to goe for the best while being willing to except the lesser.

You did a really great job with a fabulous idea. I think it would be even better if you delivered it to him in person! That way, it would also prevent it from being stolen along the way.

That return fire was definitely small arm fire which tells me that the Russian infantry was very close already. I suspect that the Javelin teams didn’t properly reconnoiter the area to make sure it was free of Russian troops. Very bad move. If I was the Russian leader, I’d have my men immediately area-fire in the direction of the very audible launch. You should always be able to assume the AT weapon is in the best concealment it can find.

I have always felt the Soviet/Russian paranoia is based on the facts that the French (Napoleon), the Germans (through the Middle Ages and WWI and WWII), the Swedes, the Finns, the British, and the U.S. have all invaded them (joint British/U.S. expeditionary force at Arcangel in support of the “White” Russians, and is probably just as justified as the fears of all their neighbors and the rest of Europe. However, Putin’s statements that he’s looking to rebuild the former Russian Empire and that Sweden and Finland were part of Russia lends credence to the concerns of all the countries that at any time were ruled by Russia. Of course he conveniently fails to note that the name of his country is derived from the name of the Swedish tribe (the Rus) that settled Kyiv and Novograd.

One of the most important observations of an NCO or Staff NCO has to be that complaining and grumbling are normal for any “good order” units. What you look for and pay attention to is when they stop complaining. That means that they’ve given up any hope of anything being changed. That’s when there’s trouble brewing and you have to correct the root causes.

The six “Ps!” Prior planning prevents piss poor performance!

Absolutely awesome video! It reminds me of a story a friend and coworker (a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col helicopter squadron Commander) told me one day at lunch. When he was a brand new Lt., during our Invasion of Grenada, he had just landed his Blackhawk helicopter at a U.S. Marine position in support of a Marine mission. He had walked over to the Marine Commander, a Major for his mission briefing, when some snipers began firing at them. My friend ran back to the helicopter while the Major just stood there and watched him. The Major asked “ Is there a problem Lieutenant?” To which my friend said”Sir, they’re shooting at us!” The Major replied “Yes, they are. I expect my Marines will take take care of it shortly.” A minute or two later he heard a couple of bursts and the incoming fire stopped. My friend very sheepishly walked back to continue the mission briefing by the Major who didn’t say another word regarding the sniping. My friend said he learned more about leadership from that Major in those few minutes than he learned at West Point in the four years he attended there. He told me it was a number of lessons that he never forgot. Those soldiers in the video might have been TD force, but they were definitely soldiers, veterans, and warriors. Slava!

As are many others, I’m struggling to keep up with the “firehose” volume of information here, so I apologize if someone else has already asked this question. I wonder how many of these deaths resulted from “friendly-fire” incidents?