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Good article, but one quibble. Like common misunderstandings about the battle of Britain, there is a big misunderstanding about German ground operations. That is, there was no such thing as "blitzkrieg" in German doctrine. In its day it was simply known as a war of movement. The term...

I teach HS science and there are schools who go soft on the subject. We had a surge of transfer students come in the last six week cycle and said they had not covered topics we had completed in the first semester. All comments above are essentially correct concerning some schools but not all...

We've seen this before where the author misinterprets Newton's Third Law: action-reaction. The action-reaction pair does produce equal force, but Newton's Second Law: Force equals mass times acceleration, means the acceleration is inversely proportional to mass. A person holding a two pound...

And yet YouTube allows so-called "history" videos which are mostly AI crap and/or the most error prone, amateur produced junk I've seen. And commenters point this out, but they keep coming back. Seems like these 13 year olds in their mom's basement can monetize a lot of junk.

Working in the National Capital Region especially at the higher levels brings on high intensity stress exceeded only by combat in my experience. Some can deal with it, some thrive in it, while in others it can take a toll physically, mentally and spiritually. I'm not saying I know what the...

Your experiences make sense. Everything was going to VN at that time. Manpower, support were all reduced in Europe. I was told in some units Captains were commanding battalions, Majors regiments, etc.

What years were this? I was stationed in Germany mid to late 70s and war damage was rare. In one case, our barracks still showed the pock marks from shell fire externally but were fixed up inside. The pock marks were left by the Germans as a remembrance of what had happened. If one wanted to...

Believe it or not, our squadron was flying AH-1 production models (Prods) as late a the summer of 1990. Typical minigun and 40mm chunker turret, rockets and TOW missiles. Once we were ordered to deploy to Desert Storm we transitioned to fully modernized models (Fox models) with 20mm cannon up...

I watched the trailer the other day and I don't think this is a remake of the original, which JMO was a horrible war movie full of inaccuracies and pop history. This one seems to be a composite of the book, "Those Damned Engineers" and historical accounts of overrun units which formed ad hoc...

At one point, the largest US investment in oil infrastructure outside the US was the offshore rigs in Nigeria. The Navy presence was fairly substantial, although not sure what it's like now. Still, be wary of any emails from Nigerian princes. :rolleyes:

Agree. I used to work with an ECMO who would go up to Whidbey regularly to do some training. If I wanted a demo team, the folks at Whidbey, though professionals they may be, would be the last ones I would call.

I just never heard of 3, 6. If one was in combat as an 11 or 18 MOS, Col or below, in a Brigade/Regt or below, then the CIB was awarded. The flags I saw were multiple combat tours in VN, or whatever brushfire war going on at the time. I never saw an official publication on 3,6 in 1968 or any...

I'm not sure what the time period was or where you saw this, but the Combat Infantrymen's Badge was awarded for being in direct combat with an infantry or SF MOS with the rank of COL or below in a unit of brigade/regiment or smaller. There was no 3 month time period. There were a lot of sour...

And a lot of those commies are in the National Capital Region.

VE Day was not the end of WWII.

Not quite. That would be Sept. 2, 1945.

April 1926 Route 66 was officially designated from Chicago to Santa Monica. Many events are happening this year. https://www.route66centennial.org/ Also, to help the mood: Good times gone by.

In the day, our cav squadron was essentially a Div 86 TOE which had both ground and air cav troops. Our aeroscouts had the OH-58C. Our pilots (a few of them VN vets) by far preferred the OH-6 and variants over the Kiowa.

I just love those old Soviet "photos." Half real, half charcoal drawings of people who didn't exist, or who did exist but were easily erased from memory.

I have Verizon but have not experienced this. I have, however, experienced the "issues" message from several other companies and it's really frustrating. I usually wait for them to solve their problem then submit payment.