Vet 0369

If you can tell me where to get CMH, I'll download it and see if I can get it to work on my Mac Pro. I have 10.9.5 so I'm not running the latest OS. I checked CMMODS, but didn't find it there.

Please don't let the posters get your goat. They are PC people. I believe they are doing the best the can with the tools they were given

Thank you. That is what I assumed, I'm pretty sure that a Tunguska will take out a Raven. I have no experience with the modern stuff. The last time I was involved in aerial recon, it was an RF4-B Phantom.

The manual states that the MQ-1C Gray Eagle is "invulnerable to AA fire while performing Observer missions, but can be attacked by AAA and SAMs during certain portions of Strike missions." Is the "AA fire" both AAA and SAMs? I find that sentence very confusing. If I have a Gray Eagle observing, can a Tunguska shoot it down if it's not in "strike mode?"

Thank you. I always check GAJ first. Unfortunately, the sorter really isn't a "mod" so even the originals aren't listed. Thanks for the suggestion though.

A few years ago, I downloaded a scenario organizer from the CMBN Base repository (Version 0.22) that listed out and organized all the scenarios in the scenario folder. If you put the *.jar files in the campaign folder, it extracted all of the individual missions into a scenario folder so you cold play them individually. It was a beautiful executable, but I think it works for 2.X only. I haven't been able to get it to work for CMBN, CMFI, or CMRT 3.XX. Has anyone found an updated version anywhere?

I don't know about now, but when I was active and in the reserves, company grade officers were on the front with the grunts. In fact, officers and staff NCOs weren't even issued rifles because if you had a rifle, you tended to get involved in the fighting instead of directing the fire and maneuver. Of course, every Marine could be pretty sure that the one without the rifle is an officer, senior NCO, or weapons crew, so that is the one he tries to take out first. Suffice it to say that, as a rifle platoon sergeant, the first thing I did was to check out a rifle. In another post, I related an experience when I was asked by a PFC if it was true that the life expectancy of a Marine is very short. I replied "Yes, the average live expectancy of a Marine infantryman from the time he hits the beach is about 3 and 1/2 minutes." He decided to be wise and asked what the life expectancy of a staff NCO was. I replied "The life expectancy of an officer or staff NCO from the time we leave the ship until we almost reach the beach is ...." Marine leaders lead from the front. For those who are not aware, the red strip on the trousers of our officer and NCO dress blues is called the "blood stripe." Marine officers and NCO earned the blood stripe during the war with Mexico in 1840. Army General Scott needed a citadel name Chapultepec taken. The citadel was manned by Mexican Army cadets, sort of like West Point. After a number of attempts by soldiers to take the citadel failed, he ordered the Marines who were with his artillery to take citadel. The Marines took the citadel, but lost 3/4 of their officers and NCOs in the battle. Nonrated Marine casualties were about 25 to 30 percent. Marine officers and NCOs wear the blood stripe in honor of those officers and NCOs, and to honor the cadets who fought with such great honor, bravery, and skill. We have a long tradition of leading from the front.

Thank you all. I really dislike having only one TOW2 left to the Bradley after the incompetent gunner wasted four in rapid succession without hitting anything. If he was a Soviet, I would have him shot

I had a Striker with an auto 40mm grenade launcher that ran out of ammo in CMSF. I saw in the maintenance block that the launcher was grey (or should I say gray since it was Army's), and the gunner was reloading it. In CMBS, I had two Bradley's that the maintenance showed the TOWs as gray. One had shot four and the other had shot none. Neither had received any fire. It took a while, but the TOWs were reloaded. Now for the difficult question. One Bradley had one Tow left, and the other had five. If I park them next to each other, will the one with five share with the one that has one? They in the same platoon.

I was able to get to the "Box" download page, but it has the following dialog box: "Kieme CMBS alternative overcast clouds.rar We're sorry, but we can't preview .rar files. Please download this file using the button below." Nothing downloads when I clicked the button. Do I have to join the site or something? I'm using a Mac Pro. Final edit - Looks like the button is just a bit Klugy. It worked when I held down my mouse click down while selecting. Sorry for the above post. Final final edit - I was able to download all the files except the ones over 100mb (the ground etc.). Any ideas?

Thank you for blowing up the server.

If I remember right, average calculated/estimated life expectancy of Finnish ATGM team in combat (equipped with older wire guided missiles) will be less than one minute. I chuckle. One time one of my privates asked me if it was true that a Marine infantryman had a very short life expectancy in combat. I told him "Yes, the life expectancy of a Marine infantryman from the time he hits the beach is about 3 1/2 minutes." He decided to be wise and asked what the life expectancy of a Staff NCO (me) was. I told him "From the time a Marine Staff NCO or Officer leaves the ship until he almost reaches the beach is ......" He got the message that a Marine Staff NCO or Officer leads from the front so we have a higher percent casualty rate. Youth plays a big part in accepting those life expectancies. A young man believes he's invulnerable and the other guy is going to get hit, not him.

In Maine, they refer to it as a light snow. "Nine months of winter and three months of mighty bad sledding."

I think we had a bunch of things in the 60's and 70's that started with "purple," but I really don't remember:-D

I grew up on in an area on the east coast that was a major seafaring area for almost 400 years. Since our typical weather pattern is west to east, sailors say "Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in morning, sailors take warning." When the sun sets and tints the clouds red or pink, you know the sky is clear to the west, and there are no storms coming in. When the sun rises and tints the clouds red or pink, it means it's overcast to the west and bad weather might be on the way. Never heard anything about a "purple" sky.

It's a bit misleading. The Civil War count is for Americans killed. The count is so high because BOTH SIDES were Americans.

Wow! Reading through this forum, I thought how happy I am that I'm using my time to play CMBN, CMFI, CMMG, CMGL, CMRT, and CMSF instead of posting "Is it ready yet?, Is it ready yet?" I'm feeling really sorry for those who don't have any other CM games.

Actually, that wasn't really such a bad thing. Some of the combat rations (C-Rats) I got in 1969 were packaged in 1945. But, I ate them anyway:-) It was said that Marines would eat anything that didn't move quickly enough to get away. Made our "steel pots" very useful.

It might be different now, but our enlistment contract was said to guaranty us "one meal and 2-hours sleep per day."

During my duty in Japan, while I was on temporary assignment to the Military Police, Navy Criminal Investagation Division (CID) asked me if I'd be willing to go undercover in a recruit training platoon in Parris Island to gather evidence on an allegedly abusive Drill Instructor (DI). Even though I'd continue to receive my corporal pay, I graciously declined the offer. There was no way I wanted to go through Marine boot camp again. During my own boot camp, a DI laid me up the side of the head with the butt of my M-14 because I called him "you." The exchange went something like "You? You? Private, do you know what a you is? Sir, yes sir, a female sheep sir! I look like a female sheep? Do you want to $&@% me? Sir, no sir! What's the matter, aren't I good enough for you?" Bam, lights out. Guess that's what you call a "no-win situation." One of our DI's was arrested and courtmartialed for burning a recruit on the neck with a cigar. As a rule, abuse wasn't tolerated even in the 1960's.

You are one intelligent man! I broke up laughing when I read the part about stealing the pallet of Gatorade. Marines in my time were known for their "midnight acqusitions" of Army, Airforce, or Navy supplies. We never considered it to be stealing because it was going to us anyway. We were just cutting out the middle men Most people don't know this, but we have a tradition in the USMC called Mess Dress Night when all the Officers and Staff NCOs in the company gather for a very, very formal dress uniform dinner. It's about a seven-course meal with a different wine at every course and all of the obligatory toasts. What people don't know is that our first toast isn't to the President of the United States, it is to the Queen. That signifies our roots in the British Royal Marines at the start of the American Revolution. The second toast is to the President. The first course is brought to the President of the Mess (the Senior Officer) who tastes the food and declares it "Unfit for human consumption." We can then begin dining.

Ah, but we could hang them over a fire and cook in them or heat water to shave (if you actually needed to shave) or for a sponge bath: so many uses for it

I believe I owe PeterH an apology. I think I misread this comment, and that it's about Russian translators not wanting their names published. Could lead to a bad day.

Thank you Mr. Putin for being so corrupt and taking care of your chronies in the buisness world

Enlisted in the regular United States Marine Corps (USMC) at 19. Served four years as an F4-B, RF4-B, and F4-J hydraulic/pneumatic mechanic, and six months as a cell-block sentry in a "red-line" brig (as part of a fleet augmentation program). Deployed to Fleet Marine Force, Western Pacific (FMFPac) and spent a year in Iwakuni, Japan. I believe I was one of four Marines who never went to Viet Nam. Largest "pucker factor" was when I was on duty as Assistant Squadron Duty Officer (aka radio watch), and a North Korean cruiser shot down an American weather plane over the Straits of Japan. Two squadrons of F4s, two squadrons of A4s, and two squadrons of A6s scrambled with armor piercing bombs and rockets. The Wing Commanding General came into our ready room and kept the 60 plus combat airplanes from obliterating that crusier. I then served eight years in the USMC reserves (USMCR) as infantry; 0311 - rifleman, 0331 M-60 machine gun section leader, 0341 60-mm M2 mortar section leader, and finally 0369 - Infantry, Small Unit Leader (rifle platoon sgt). Biggest pucker factor in reserves was when we were "activated" for a three-day readiness test that seemed an awful lot like Staging (where as "airwingers" we refreshed our infantry skills before deploying to FMFPac). Learned about 10-years later that it wasn't a test. We were being activated to invade Iran to rescue the hostages. The Soviets had our Navy Crypto codes and massed 26 divisions on the border. They said "if you invade, we will drive you out. Carter called off the invasion. Got out of reserves in 1981. Qualified evey year with M-14 rifle at 500 yds, M-16 at 300 yds (all with open sights), and M1911A1 .45 caliber pistol at throwing distance (my issued pistol was manufactured by Singer Sewing Machine Co. in 1943, so it was a bit loose, that is to say worn out). At that time, the transportation for Marine Infantry was primarily "leather." Our normal combat load out was helmet, flak jacket, two canteens of water, eight 20-round magazines for an M-14 or eight 30-round magazines for the M-16, four fragmentation grenades, two claymore mines, two 60mm mortar rounds if the platoon had mortars attached, two boxes of 7.62mm rounds if we had M-60 machine guns attached, six to eight 40mm grenades for the M-79 "blooper" and if unlucky, an M-72 rocket launcher. Add to that three meals, clothing changes, health and comfort items, and we generally weighed in a more than 100 lbs (45kg) over our normal weight. Maybe that's why they referred to us as "heavy infantry." I had very little work with "combined arms" when infantry, and the lethality of Black Sea weapons absolutely terrorfies me. I wouldn't want to "see the elephant" in this new environment.