Recent content by Cedric

According to a Marine buddy of mine it was a case of crappy rules of engagement dictated by a State Department hack.

I echo one of the comments at the end of the article. Courage, innovation and tenacity of this unit is outstanding, but going into this deployment without the training and equipment to counter this threat is borderline criminal especially since we have been having drone wars with Iran since the...

Excellent.

On a serious note, in the Gulf War era and after, some Arab SF units used armored Hilux as their main vehicle. Heck, if offered here I'd get one armored or not.

The 90s saw pop music going into the tank. This is about the time CW started filling the void and eventually took the pop music mantle. This is also the time the Nashville CW music establishment started moving to the left with the acts following suit. Hope you get well Alan.

A couple of thoughts: - We can't completely comprehend the lighter armor of French tanks unless we understand their employment of nukes. The schism between NATO and France had to do with command a control of nuclear weapons, not an overarching desire to separate from the alliance. (We...

I'd rather go anvil shooting.

IIRC, the Hemi has been around since the 1956 Chrysler Imperial.

Loved the LRF. We did not have TTS. The first time I heard of TTS on Sheridans was Desert Shield/Storm with 72d Armor of the 82d Airborne, but I never had personal experience with it.

Thankfully, by 1976 we had the full belly armor kit installed and, as the schematic notes, retained the functionality of the escape hatch. BTW, the 551A1 still moved out martly with no degradation to mobility IMO. Yes, the swim requirement was a joke. The flotation barrier was a maintenance...

The numbers of troops on psycho-tropic drugs before we went into Iraq would shock you just as I was shocked during an AMEDD AAR in the fall of 2003. Another shock was that they didn't discuss root causes of this scandal, but rather how to get more pills into theater. I imagine after the Gulf...

If possible, don't ration water; conserve it. I.e, use it wisely. Rationing should be a last resort.

I've fired .308 and milspec NATO 7.62x51 from different sources in my L1A1 and never had a problem.

When they start questioning a brigade of the 82d Airborne sent to Detroit in the late 60s then I'll pay attention.

Houston, whoda thunk?