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Scratch Monkey posted:And wacky engines without real throttle control that like to plunge the plane into the ground when you turn And engines lubricated with (and thus constantly pissing) castor oil, in your face. So you, badass fighter jock, have constantly got the shits.
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Phanatic posted:I believe it was Portsmouth. He didn't see combat, so far as I know, but he worked supply in the 8th Air Force and did a lot of TDY to forward areas to set up supply chains. Like this: I remember you posting those photos before. I especially remember the random hottie your grandpa had a picture of.  would.
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holocaust bloopers posted:I can write a list of the times that my mil job felt worthwhile: I have failed to safe 5 lives, all of them where going to be dead by the time we lunched assets and we started the search.  I have saved 7 people in my 4 years in the coast guard by doing my job on the radio and coordinating the search efforts. Also 3 and a half tons of the devil's weed (who cares) and 160 Haitian migrants that where returned to Haiti (and almost rioted on the ship too).
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ElMaligno posted:I have failed to safe 5 lives, all of them where going to be dead by the time we lunched assets and we started the search. maybe if you stopped eating all the assets they wouldve lived you fat rear end in a top hat
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:maybe if you stopped eating all the assets they wouldve lived you fat rear end in a top hat  But I cant get enough of those deliciously cherry helos :fatsmith:
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ded posted:I heard the US mainland coastal batteries was pretty sweet place to be. Being in a US tank in the Pacific theatre would probably be pretty cool, the Japanese tanks were more like armoured go-carts and their idea of an anti-tank weapon was a land mine on the end of a stick.
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What? No. Edit: to clarify, yeah their tanks were pretty poo poo compared to what the US brought to the fight, mainly because Japan had an ill-advised hard on for indigenous design/production and the didn't have the resources to keep everything advancing. They basically didn't get past the mid-30s in design. They had brutally effective antitank weapons and used them to great effect in places like Okinawa. Also they were pretty good at dialing field guns in on American tanks. There's a reason that almost every US tank you see in pictures has a number at the end of the nickname, like Blood & Guys II. The "II" etc shows up because the first one was destroyed. Lots of 3s and 4s. Godholio fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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yea pretty sure islands and jungles are nightmare terrain for a tank, especially when youre facing off against fanatical japs who can jump out of a spiderhole with a satchel charge and ruin your loving day before you could even rip a fart
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Jonad posted:Being in a US tank in the Pacific theatre would probably be pretty cool, the Japanese tanks were more like armoured go-carts and their idea of an anti-tank weapon was a land mine on the end of a stick. I was talking to my wife's grandfather over Thanksgiving. I knew he was a truck driver state side during the war but I asked him about some stuff. Apparently he was training to be replacement infantry near the end of the war after being drafted. He told me he had been earmarked to be a flamethrower operator. Well, he really didn't want to do that (I suspect he would have been sent to the Pacific) so he went and made friends with the Quartermaster at his training camp in Alabama. He somehow (conned?) got the Quartermaster to show him how to drive a semi-truck and he practiced like a motherfucker driving and backing that thing up. He was pretty good and could back the thing up to the dock in one go, which saw him receive a transfer to a QM Company and a posting to Fort Bragg running supplies. Luckiest SOB in his basic company I'm sure. He told me that the 82nd at Bragg always ran everywhere while he got to walk and drive with a smile. He drove concrete trucks until he retired in the 1980s sometime. Godholio posted:What? No. The Japanese were real assholes when it came to improvisation against US tanks. Their tanks were really lovely and I read about a engagement on either Iwo or Okinawa where four or five surrounded a Sherman and the Sherman took them out one by one as they kept firing. They also had no qualms about suicide bombing tanks. If you ever want to see a futile effort, read up on the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August of 1945. The Japanese had no tanks or even effective AT guns so guys would stick explosives on the end of poles and charge the T-34s. They would almost always knock out the lead tank but then get obliterated by the rest of the column. The entire invasion is essentially the Manchurian units of the IJA buying time for people to evacuate back to Japan. Burning Beard fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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ded posted:I heard the US mainland coastal batteries was pretty sweet place to be. Counterpoint: The Hawaii Garrison on Dec 7, 1941. Pretty much any date after that would have been pretty chill to be in the Coastal Artillery. E: RE: August Storm. The Soviets Encircled an area the size of Western Europe and attacked through terrain the Japanese thought was impassible. Whole Armoured Corps came out of mountains, swamps and deserts. The Soviets also finally got a chance to employ their airborne and amphibious troops, and caused total havoc all along the depth of the Japanese army. This was the ultimate fulfillment of the Soviet plan of Deep Battle - the lessons learned in 43-45 put to practice. There was nothing the Japanese could do on an Operational or Strategic level. It really is a sign of their determination that they held out as long as they did. 
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Frosted Flake posted:Counterpoint: The Hawaii Garrison on Dec 7, 1941. The coastal defense units were spread over the island. Only one was pearl harbor, another was at kaneohe. The other two coastal defense forts were in diamond head crater and right in the middle of waikiki. I'm having a hard time thinking of a better place to spend the war than on coastal defense duty in waikiki.  There were casualties outside of pearl harbor and the other major military facilities, but they were orders of magnitude lower and mostly friendly fire, particularly AAA shells that missed the target and exploded on impacting the ground. Proust Malone fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Counterpoint: The Hawaii Garrison on Dec 7, 1941. I'm pretty sure arriving as the FNG in the Hawaii coastal garrison on Dec 8th would suck in its own special way, too.
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Frosted Flake posted:Counterpoint: The Hawaii Garrison on Dec 7, 1941. You didn't notice how I said mainland right?
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Jonad posted:Being in a US tank in the Pacific theatre would probably be pretty cool, the Japanese tanks were more like armoured go-carts and their idea of an anti-tank weapon was a land mine on the end of a stick. My wife's great uncle got a medal of honor by being a tanker in the pacific... posthumous though.
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The Korean War was primarily an infantry slog I think, so being a US Tanker in a Pershing or something would probably have been pretty chill while still giving you the opportunity to mow down some hapless bastards.
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Thump! posted:The Korean War was primarily an infantry slog I think, so being a US Tanker in a Pershing or something would probably have been pretty chill while still giving you the opportunity to mow down some hapless bastards. Unless you were a tank commander. I read an account from a New Zealand tanker that the North Korean signal corps guys would jump onto passing tanks and garrote the commanders until they added extra machine guns to clear the urban areas. He also mentioned how his tank once shut down Seoul's entire electrified railway when their turret caught some overhead wires and dragged them for 200 yards before realizing.
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chitoryu12 posted:Unless you were a tank commander. I read an account from a New Zealand tanker that the North Korean signal corps guys would jump onto passing tanks and garrote the commanders until they added extra machine guns to clear the urban areas. That.. wasn't NK signal corps, but allied. Us comms geeks like our long HF antenna wires, and we like to sling them from trees as high as we can throw the lead weights on the ends. Since we're weak rear end pussy REMFs that isn't very high, just high enough to clear a passing tank hauling rear end down the road is good enough. Clearing the neck of the tank commander is more optional.
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That is the coolest loving thing I have read in weeks.
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Zeris posted:That is the coolest loving thing I have read in weeks. I still use this as the best example of sarcasm in text.
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quote:And there we stayed for some 55 days in all, with an occasional trip back to Sqn harbour for a clean up and a bottle of whisky. Amn and sups were brought up on de-turreted CENTURIONS called tugs. A most useful veh. That loving page.
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There's a section somewhere where they mention a little sport of sniping individual Chinese soldiers with their main gun.
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Frosted Flake posted:There was nothing the Japanese could do on an Operational or Strategic level. It really is a sign of their determination that they held out as long as they did. If the Japanese had anything it was determination. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIC2lI2Exys  Some footage from that incident in Grozny yesterday. These dudes are cops/militiamen right?
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Dilettante. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIC2lI2Exys Isn't chechnya run by a russian backed warlord? So it's probably that dudes guys wrecking poo poo
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holocaust bloopers posted:I can write a list of the times that my mil job felt worthwhile: Was this the SOUTHCOM dudes there TDY whose hotel fell on them during the actual earthquake?
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Dilettante. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIC2lI2Exys I think the guys they're shooting AT are Islamic Chechens. There's so far been one confirmed civilian death; they attacked the press building last night and it unfortunately included some hotel rooms, so a civilian trapped inside died of smoke inhalation.
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Dilettante. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIC2lI2Exys&t=166s lmao @ that dude running across the road eating poo poo.
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Jesus, make sure you stick around until at least the 5m mark.
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bitcoin bastard posted:Jesus, make sure you stick around until at least the 5m mark. Holy gently caress... glad to have never seen worse than halfassed mortars and 107s
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Heh a Russian dude condemning just wasting the gently caress out of civies in a hostile area. 
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Noslo posted:I wonder how they steer this thing. Can they steer it? Do they even really need to? Steer by slowing one side down.
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Just like any tracked vehicle, differential track rate (or the screws on that thing) give you a turn. One track moves while the other one is motionless or moving slower.
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Mike-o posted:Just like any tracked vehicle, differential track rate (or the screws on that thing) give you a turn. One track moves while the other one is motionless or moving slower. Nerd
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