tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post1002661125749117779..comments2024-03-28T04:45:31.553-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: Combined ArmsOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-33273648442887193932019-12-21T19:51:10.363-08:002019-12-21T19:51:10.363-08:00Interesting!Interesting!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-89857207404509411052019-12-21T19:50:28.604-08:002019-12-21T19:50:28.604-08:00Ammo. Ammo. Ammo.Ammo. Ammo. Ammo.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-8221479294701851522019-12-21T19:49:54.157-08:002019-12-21T19:49:54.157-08:00Never knew Caidin wrote a book on bikes. Interesti...Never knew Caidin wrote a book on bikes. Interesting. So you didn't care for him?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82993696765267734472019-12-21T19:48:26.959-08:002019-12-21T19:48:26.959-08:00Beans - Heh.Beans - Heh.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-59024253881471526892019-12-21T19:47:57.545-08:002019-12-21T19:47:57.545-08:00Hahaha!
Smart guy!Hahaha!<br /><br />Smart guy!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-58213932310941312202019-12-21T19:47:27.840-08:002019-12-21T19:47:27.840-08:00Leon Uris had some great books, not exactly histor...Leon Uris had some great books, not exactly history, but not exactly fiction either.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-88709548596713198412019-12-21T19:46:10.860-08:002019-12-21T19:46:10.860-08:00Added to the long list.Added to the long list.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-37734389977802176282019-12-21T19:45:47.038-08:002019-12-21T19:45:47.038-08:00We NEED a mine warfare capability, LCS ain't i...We NEED a mine warfare capability, LCS ain't it.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-35268247159860222692019-12-21T19:45:01.387-08:002019-12-21T19:45:01.387-08:00Concur.Concur.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-87202543233408364032019-12-21T16:23:20.763-08:002019-12-21T16:23:20.763-08:00(Don McCollor)...I think the Berlin Airlift was we...(Don McCollor)...I think the Berlin Airlift was were ground controlled approach was born. It required precision flying of a different sort. Cargo planes would take off, fly and land at three minute intervals day and night in appalling weather, and would fly back to West Germany on a missed approach, returning in the next bloc. Final approach was below and between high rise apartment buildings under ground radar control. With the C54, ten tons of cargo was landing every three minutes. Although fictional, Leon Uris (1963) gives a good account of it in "Armageddon"...Don McCollorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028324869570493102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-620485724474961442019-12-20T23:38:54.200-08:002019-12-20T23:38:54.200-08:00The LCS is a complete waste of everything involved...The LCS is a complete waste of everything involved. I would much rather have Marinette Marine make NANSENs license built as DEGs.SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-8021308667922075312019-12-20T23:35:13.306-08:002019-12-20T23:35:13.306-08:00SS ROBERT E. PEARY. I read a book on Liberties, th...SS ROBERT E. PEARY. I read a book on Liberties, the author of which was an officer on a different Liberty. When the PEARY set sail, the author's CO pointed to her, and said, " They built her on four days. Thank God I am not on board her! " SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-83408033525985190662019-12-20T23:28:42.047-08:002019-12-20T23:28:42.047-08:00One sees a LOT of photos of GIs in Europe, with th...One sees a LOT of photos of GIs in Europe, with their eight pouch cartridge belts, and a bandoleer of another eight clips for the M-1. SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-42109199572756359602019-12-20T23:22:11.899-08:002019-12-20T23:22:11.899-08:00Back when I was in high school, Wisconsin Public T...Back when I was in high school, Wisconsin Public TV had a program on about armor in WWII. They asked a German PanzerGeneral what tank, if he could have any tank of WWII, would he have equipped his forces with. Everyone thought Panther, but he said he would have chosen the Sherman, armed with the 7.5 cm KwK42/L70 of the Panther. The Sherman would always start, no matter what, and would keep on running, while the KwK 42 would allow it to poke holes in anything it came across. <br /><br />He basically wanted the ISherman, which the Israelis had pretty good luck with.SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-45117837923144324432019-12-20T22:47:01.863-08:002019-12-20T22:47:01.863-08:00Thanks for the shout out for MIW. LCS is not the ...Thanks for the shout out for MIW. LCS is not the best we can do, but it's all we will have soon. Then again- maybe not: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/19/congress-slashes-funding-for-the-navys-lcs-sensors-again/<br /><br />There are a ton of sailors sitting on ships and ashore right now awaiting those looooooong delayed mission packages. Waste of manpower. Tunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930237104692982421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-45394811477121645862019-12-20T22:41:31.288-08:002019-12-20T22:41:31.288-08:00Ah, 'The Expanse,' it was great until all ...Ah, 'The Expanse,' it was great until all my favorite characters were killed or turned out to be turd-burglars. And with my hearing, I have to turn the tv up pretty high to hear her throaty, sexy, furry fingernails running up and down my spine voice.<br /><br />One of those 'If I was single I'd try propositioning her just to get the opportunity to get shot down by her' people,Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-83417027671025688062019-12-20T22:36:46.040-08:002019-12-20T22:36:46.040-08:00Oh, better yet, I read "Bicycles in War"...Oh, better yet, I read "Bicycles in War" by Martin Caidin (whom I met, before his death, well, lets say it's sometimes best not to meet the people behind the books) which does a very good job of dealing with, well, bikes at war, from pre WW1 all the way up to the Vietnam Wars (French and ours, two distinctive wars, they ran theirs badly and lost ground, we ran ours badly and were held back from going north.)<br /><br />Good book. The things you can on a bike, besides ride it, that is.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4811578357135697712019-12-20T19:43:49.755-08:002019-12-20T19:43:49.755-08:00Have a book! A very good read, if somewhat long.
h...Have a book! A very good read, if somewhat long.<br />https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/beans-bullets-black-oil.htmlSCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-62668129428170519672019-12-20T18:46:28.348-08:002019-12-20T18:46:28.348-08:00A great line, it's true ya know.A great line, it's true ya know.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-65330388168462399392019-12-20T18:45:27.954-08:002019-12-20T18:45:27.954-08:00Bicycles were standard issue in some western Europ...Bicycles were standard issue in some western European armies. If you can, find the Danish movie <i>April 9th</i> (that date was in 1940, hint, hint). Bicycles are involved. It's a brilliant movie in my estimation, brilliant. (It is available on Amazon Prime.)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-46307518599123517422019-12-20T18:44:06.032-08:002019-12-20T18:44:06.032-08:00In Robb White's novel "Up Periscope"...In Robb White's novel "Up Periscope" (soon to be a major motion picture!) USS Shark is beached in the lagoon of an atoll trying to repair hull damage. A Japanese (perhaps more than one, it's been a while) bomber attacks and they shoot it down. After the action the ship's cook comes up on deck to look around. He picks up a spent 20mm case and remarks that they cost a dollar apiece ($15 in 2019 bucks). One of the crewmen then mentions a War Bond billboard he'd seen in San Francisco which said, iirc, "It takes millions to win a war. To lose one takes everything you've got."PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-22722861797311908282019-12-20T18:41:39.930-08:002019-12-20T18:41:39.930-08:00Beans - My Dad was actually stationed in Berlin du...Beans - My Dad was actually stationed in Berlin during the Airlift. Which was an amazing thing, we pretty much told Stalin to shove his blockade up his Georgian ass.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-18059387426339351972019-12-20T18:40:23.550-08:002019-12-20T18:40:23.550-08:00Don - Ah, I thought it was but wasn't sure unt...Don - Ah, I thought it was but wasn't sure until now. The Red Ball Express was so quintessentially American.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-34622112350150003422019-12-20T18:39:14.377-08:002019-12-20T18:39:14.377-08:00Beans - Ah yes, narrators, Morgan Freeman is a fav...Beans - Ah yes, narrators, Morgan Freeman is a favorite, <i>The WSO</i> posted the following on Facebook, made me laugh...<br /><br /><i>Mom: If y'all don't stop it right now, you won't get a single present this year!<br /><br />Morgan Freeman: But it didn't matter how the children behaved - they would get presents. She knew it, they knew it, Santa and Baby Jesus knew it.</i><br /><br />Concur on Shohreh Aghdashloo's voice. Wow. She's also pretty easy on the eyes. (Plays a great character in <i>The Expanse</i> as well, a show I need to get back to watching...)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-70646827057370918792019-12-20T18:37:04.818-08:002019-12-20T18:37:04.818-08:00The Red Ball Express was a particularly American c...The Red Ball Express was a particularly American creation. Everyone else wanted and used rail, we used trucks, lots and lots of trucks. And we still couldn't keep up with the advances.<br /><br />We Americans are weird. Like the Berlin Airlift, a very American thing (yes, the English participated, but in reality it was us the USA. And us who did weird and wonderful things like attach candy bars to parachutes from flares in order to drop them to children.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.com