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I read - years ago - that the most active combat was in the area around London. Not a small area, but it allowed RAF to move squadrons to lower threat areas for reconstitution and rebuilding before rotating them back to a hot area.
Absent the ability to assault across a beach, those Iraqi divisions would have been on the border.
A battle in 1942 was lost, badly, because the USN crews were zonked from a routine that gave them almost no chance for sleep.
> No they don't.
Could be you are a deaf and mute yak herder in Outer Mongolia and suffer the heartbreak of psoriasis. Your situation is unique and you have my pity.
For those of us in the mart of competitive commerce there is no possible way a person can exist in this economy without knowing people.
> join some closed and insular groups
You have no idea what you are talking about.
You have my pity.
You work with people. Those people know people. They know other people. Someone says 'I need a good PHP guy' and a guy in the network replies 'I know a guy, SadWebDeveloper - here is his email address'. Boom: you have made contact with someone who wants to hire you.
Join the Whatever User Group in your area. Go to the meetings - introduce yourself. Be a presence on their mail list. Boom: more networking contacts.
This is a really good example. TJIC and I have talked on the internet for -years- via email and twitter and blog. A customer of mine mentioned she was looking for a local developer (Los Angeles) but couldn't find anyone who met even her minimal standards.
I said 'Hey, I know a guy', he lives 8,000 miles away, he's about a hermit and a half, and he knows his sh*t' and a few weeks later TJIC got some months of work and everyone was happy.
And now, here we are, talking. Maybe I can be converted to a networking contact. You never know, hunh?
Then it started raining. Too bad the tents were in the first load.
I believe they did not: teevee was broadcast live, and mostly not recorded. IIRC.
Ah! I read that '95, and recently got to wondering what the title was. Could not think of it for the life of me.
To eradicate the enemy, and save his company, he pointed the tube of his mortar straight up, dropped a shit-load of rounds down the tube, one at a time. The rounds went up (pretty far, but I no longer recall how high up they go) and came back down all over the place.
Risky, but Marines, generally, were in their holes, the bad guy were not, and so were more exposed to blast and shrapnel.
There was, iirc, an article in the Gazette about this. Guy ran the numbers, and it worked out okay: the Corps could run X squadrons per wing, at cost Y per year, plus buy up the spare parts inventory and keep them running for Z years.
It is certainly the kind of airplane a Marine would love, and would fit the Corp's persona.
> the only pilots that ever allowed us to shoot 81mm
Well .. you know. A mortar round would bounce off an A-10. Kinda trash a Harrier.
Man, the DoD is just not thinking outside the box.
I know this because he grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and made me read it, as part of up-close and personal counseling.
Which passage in the Bible tells Christians to shun higher education?
Guns and drones are, however, an interesting subject. Wildly impractical, now, due to safety, payload, and usability issues.
A RS that sells electronics and guns. I would patronize that store so _hard_.
I recall hearing that about Sun, too. Now they're just a minor cog of a database maker.
Well .. _I_ never thought that.
MAD is great theory, but it's got some some really bad failure modes.
Sure there is. Like this ..
We need to be able to destroy a lot of Russian tanks, and logistic tail.
We'd like to be able to do this when they are beyond artillery range.
Rockets are unreliable. Airplanes can be shot down.
Thus, nuclear land mine.
For a while I stood sentry at a post that, I always felt, was a candidate for attack. At least, we had a bomb shelter and drilled on relocating, and living in that thing.
At 03:00 on cold mornings I wondered if, looking up, I'd see the re-entry glow on a warhead.
Duck and cover wasn't bizarre, in context: it's a way to survive a nuclear explosion that isn't in one's lap.
Public shelter drills, also: if one expects one's country to be bombed, then knowing where one's nearest shelter is makes sense.
Got a use case or two?