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Love how the dude who did the panicked dismount prolly ended up worse off than if he'd stayed aboard as he was then fully exposed to the blast from the impact. Whoops.
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Dingleberry posted:Love how the dude who did the panicked dismount prolly ended up worse off than if he'd stayed aboard as he was then fully exposed to the blast from the impact. Whoops. Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
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Madurai posted:Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines. But the right week to start taking SloMo. 
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Dilettante. posted:https://soundcloud.com/magneticart/firefight-no-name-village semi related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhKbBrRHHo 
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Dilettante. posted:https://soundcloud.com/magneticart/firefight-no-name-village Pro click right here. Holy poo poo, amazed at the quality of this.
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Speaking of, new photo-gallery from the Atlantic:    http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/the-vietnam-war-part-i-early-years-and-escalation/389054/
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Generation Internet posted:Speaking of, new photo-gallery from the Atlantic: Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:semi related
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Omi-Polari posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyfriipc61A "We won all the tactical battles but lost the strategic war because of those goddamn commie symp hippie war protesters" * Ignores the literally dozens of battles where the US got their asses soundly kicked, not the least of which would be the time in the twilight of the war where we got a whole bunch of B-52s shot down through sheer incompetence.
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iyaayas01 posted:"We won all the tactical battles but lost the strategic war because of those goddamn commie symp hippie war protesters" Turns out there's lots of primary source material from the government at the time that studied that very question, and deemed it impossible. We literally could not have kept U.S. troops in North Vietnam supplied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOjLrUsE6IU
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It's even more fundamental than that...there was no way to win. It wasn't even a question of materiel or troop strength or even ROE. Our enemy was an entrenched ideology, and our very presence (along with some brutal coercion on the part of the communists) united factions that otherwise wouldn't have cooperated with each other. We were foreign invaders, fighting a war many of the locals didn't want us to fight, propping up a government many of them didn't want or support. Why does this sound familiar?
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Godholio posted:It's even more fundamental than that...there was no way to win. It wasn't even a question of materiel or troop strength or even ROE. Our enemy was an entrenched ideology, and our very presence (along with some brutal coercion on the part of the communists) united factions that otherwise wouldn't have cooperated with each other. We were foreign invaders, fighting a war many of the locals didn't want us to fight, propping up a government many of them didn't want or support. "I never understood why the Americans wanted to come to my homeland. I didn't grasp the details. I never could comprehend with the Americans come over here and attack us."
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Cracked interviewed a Viet Cong fighter recently. It's written stupidly, because its Cracked, but there is some really good stuff in there. "Most of them were aware that Stalin and Mao each had movements named after them (Stalinism and Maoism), so they just assumed Socialism was named after a guy named Social and Communism was named after a guy named Commun. A distressing number of my co-soldiers still thought we were fighting France. They knew of Ho Chi Minh, but only in vague propagandistic terms, not the man's actual history. When we told them we wanted a Socialist society, they just said yes because they were mostly poor, grieving peasants living through a shortage of damns, and thus had none to spare for politics." "The first time was right after a firefight, and we were shocked to see how blackened the bodies were. We thought they must have been charred by an explosion until we realized their skin was naturally black. None of us had seen a black person before. Some people thought they were myths." http://www.cracked.com/article_22206_8-facts-about-vietnam-war-i-learned-as-viet-cong_p2.html
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Scratch Monkey posted:Bet you guys are 2LTs Far from it. E-4 mafia.
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:Far from it. E-4 mafia.
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William Calley on leave.
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bitcoin bastard posted:William Calley on leave. 
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Dilettante. posted:https://soundcloud.com/magneticart/firefight-no-name-village Jesus.
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Omi-Polari posted:This is a fortuitous topic because last night I listened to this lecture by John Prados, who's a pretty cool historian (who also works with the National Security Archive that does a lot of FOIA deep diving). He pretty much debunks all the myths about "how the U.S. could have won the war," like invading North Vietnam. I've read the RAND report on using tacnukes in Vietnam. They said essentially that it'd work, but wasn't worth the escalation risk with the Soviets.
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Madurai posted:I've read the RAND report on using tacnukes in Vietnam. They said essentially that it'd work, but wasn't worth the escalation risk with the Soviets. Bathing the problem in nuclear fire is always going to work.
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Madurai posted:I've read the RAND report on using tacnukes in Vietnam. They said essentially that it'd work, but wasn't worth the escalation risk with the Soviets. Bathing the problem in nuclear fire is always going to work.
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Madurai posted:I've read the RAND report on using tacnukes in Vietnam. They said essentially that it'd work, but wasn't worth the escalation risk with the Soviets.
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 A member of Syria's female Republican Guard battalion.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:
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Keep dreaming. The A-10 suffers from a lack of thrust. That's putting it kindly.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Keep dreaming. The A-10 suffers from a lack of thrust. That's putting it kindly. It has the exact same powerplant as the S-3 Viking, which seemed to do okay.
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Madurai posted:It has the exact same powerplant as the S-3 Viking, which seemed to do okay. The S-3 also has almost literally a thousand times better range and likely built to literally crash on daily basis (a carrier landing).
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AV-8B Harrier doing an emergency landing without the front gear lowering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhefke0Q9Y
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brains posted:f-22 engine vectored thrust demonstration: As if someone removed Mecha Godzilla's mouth.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Keep dreaming. The A-10 suffers from a lack of thrust. That's putting it kindly. Also lol if you think anyone outside of the USAF is going to spend the money to keep the A-10. They'll bitch all day that we're cutting it but god help you if you suggest that maybe they should pony up some money of their own if they want us to keep it in service forever so badly. That isn't even the best artist rendering of the proposed Sea Apache...the next version is pretty reasonable, if a little odd looking:  Basically an Apache optimized for service at sea (wider gear, radar instead of TADS, extended sponsons for fuel/electronics, refueling probe, and no cannon.) The third version though:  Because why wouldn't you want a helicopter to have the same radar as Hornet, that makes complete sense 
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who loving thought it was a good idea to call it the sea apache, yea lets name this naval attack chopper after an aboriginal american tribe that didnt live anywhere near the loving ocean, instead of going with a radical as gently caress snake name like water moccasin or jormugand or something like all the other naval attack choppers?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:who loving thought it was a good idea to call it the sea apache, yea lets name this naval attack chopper after an aboriginal american tribe that didnt live anywhere near the loving ocean, instead of going with a radical as gently caress snake name like water moccasin or jormugand or something like all the other naval attack choppers? The US has never had any rad naval attack chopper names. Sea Cobra/SuperCobra and Seahawk are about the sum total. Like the second picture says there was talk of naming it Gray Thunder which is at least nautical related even if still pretty dumb (although arguably makes for a nice movie reference)
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iyaayas01 posted:The US has never had any rad naval attack chopper names. Sea Cobra/SuperCobra and Seahawk are about the sum total. uh what about the ah1z viper? either way a snake is cooler than a group of brown people that got their asses handed to em by blankets and booze
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iyaayas01 posted:The US has never had any rad naval attack chopper names. Sea Cobra/SuperCobra and Seahawk are about the sum total.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:uh what about the ah1z viper? I don't count dumb Marine renamings (same applies for the Venom). If you're gonna use the same designation system to keep up the fiction that you aren't buying new aircraft, then you have to keep the same name.
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