GQ_jumper

I doubt the coroner has much experience playing HALO. The Great British HALO playing public will doubtless take note the next time the U.S. is looking for allies. They all have an equal say on the issue despite your contempt for them. Quote It has nothing to do with hating people that don't want to come out and play, what I take offense to is the fact that anytime there is a fratricide incident people scream about how the US is doing it on purposed and all of us who wear Old Glory on our shoulders are undisciplined gunslingers with the intent of killing everything that moves. And Juanesky, I'm in Germany right now waiting for my connecting flight in country, I won't be near Balad but I'm sure I'll swing through there once or twice, I'll PM ya History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm not good at this: Fastest - rounds 3,5,6,7, 8 - I'd nod to M-13-17 or G-4-N-B Slowest - between 4 and 9? 6-11-20 Quote You know I spent all weekend wondering how the hell this thing turned out!!! It's noon on monday where I'm at(Germany) and I finally got a chance to check the scores, they look fucking awesome! I was halfway expecting the top three positions to be in the high 21's, maybe a 22 at the most with this draw. Can't wait for the video to get posted(hurry up Kurt,PLEEEEASE!!). Gotta plane to catch for now though, take care everyone History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I doubt they'll get off, dirty cops are the worst, just makes people not want to trust any cops. I hope they get slammed. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Kind of an awkward sequence of events all around, have you found anymore articles that explain the situation a little better? History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

No that was tim Sylvia History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's going to happen, it's inevitable, I love Randy to death, but Mirko's kicks are devastating. What's your thoughts? History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

2. The MASH episode where Henry Blake got shot down on his way Stateside and Radar tells everyone - Cry every time. Quote There's quite a few episodes of MASH that get me every time, still love the show though. Black Hawk Down however gets me every time, I used to be in 3/75 so I kind of have a bit of history there. We Were Soldiers, Band of Brothers, they all get me. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

*sigh of relief* I don't use that kind. If something ever happened to my baby I'd be devastated my dog is my best friend. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's nothing better than _______________ Quote waking up to a blowjob, I swear to god it was SUPER Gotta love Air Force Luitenants History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

agree. She's already beautiful enough.Quote I'm in no way against women who get them, I spent last weekend with a girl that had a boob job and they looked great on her. My ex-wife had them and they looked great on her as well. However, my ex-wife looked great before she got them as well, she just lacked confidence in herself without them and that wasn't sexy. I did everything I could to convince her she didn't need them but she had already made up her mind so I supported her(hell, I bought em). The big thing is what makes YOU happy, if you have always been happy with who your are but are suddenly finding yourself a little self-concious I'd recommend no, don't get 'em. You're just a little uncomfortable because as you say 40 is right around the corner, well I tell ya what, I'm 25, young and really athletic, and there's been a handful of 40+ women who have put the moves on me, they had confidence and that was incredibly sexy. OTOH, if you've always felt like you need it, than go for it. One of my best friends has always wanted them, I recently sawa her with her new ones and it definitely changed her personality, for the better. She's more confident in herself now. In the end the decision is yours alone, don't let your SO affect it, but don't do it because you suddenly feel like you are lacking when you've always been happy in the past. You're beautiful the way you are. Hope this helps.

Who needs a mascot when you got thousands of drunken holligans?Quote Hey now, I was one of those hooligans!! When Denver won the super bowl the second time I was in high school and ran downtown to join the shennanigans great memories History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is a pretty complete text transcript earlier in this thread. It incudes one pilot saying that they're screwed because of the orange panels after learning they had attacked friendly forces. As I have said before, the enemy has these orange panels, they get their hands on all kinds of things. I'm not here to argue SkyChimp's credentials, according to his post he has served in a conflict and I'm not going to argue that, but it has been the case countless times in Iraq where our own identification measures have been used to get past us. So the simple fact that a vehicle had panels on it in no way means the pilot's didn't know what they were doing. The panels throw up the red flag that says, "confirm this target", I have yet to finish reading the transcript, I'll try and finish it up tomorrow(three hours on the phone with a loan company and I don't have the patience to read it all tonight) but from what I have read so far they were making every attempt to confirm that there were no friendlies in the area. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Are you going to inform yourself about then comment upon the actual incident or just stick with ad-hominem attacks (and other logical fallacies) on people who clearly know more about the specific facts than you? Point out one of mine that was. And I have done this where? It's simple, everytime someone starts a thread about an incident in Iraq countless people chime in and talk about how wrong it was and how it is supposed to be handled differently. Funny thing is the majority of the people opening their mouths have no military experience. So how does me commenting on how things actually work consitute a logical fallacy?? Once again I will apologize for serving my country as it does not allow me to open the link at the beginning of the thread, but I won't apologize for correcting the BS that people post about the C2 infrastructure on the battlefield because last time I checked I've been around it a few times. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Confidence is sexier than bigger boobs, keep what ya got History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

The draw is up, here it is 8-7-C J-2-12 O-E-19-5 3-21-16 H-14-L-P M-13-17 K-9-1 G-4-N-B 6-11-20 18-F-A-22 Looks like a there's a couple fun rounds in there, how bout a guess on what the highest an lowest rounds are gonna be. Anyone, Bueller, Bueller? History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

you have it all wrong, watching black hawk down and playing HALO makes you a subject matter expert on combat History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

We certainly know more about this incident than you seem to. I tried to avoid speaking directly about this particular incident because I haven't had a chance to watch the video and don't know the details involved with the incident, I am at the office at the moment right now and can't access websites like that on a government computer. I was arguing all the people going in and slamming the US military with arguments about how the US has a disproportionate amount of friendly casulaties. When you look at the size and scope of US operations in comparison to ones other countries pursue the number of soldiers involved in our operations is typically far greater than those of other countries. So like my first post mentioned when you have that many working pieces keeping track of all of them is an insanely difficult task, C2 mistakes happen unfortunately, and just because friendlies were killed it doesn't always mean that it had anything to do with some gung-ho US attitude of wanting to kill everything. And as for someone speaking of the lack of quality of US soldiers based on their take of recent US conflicts, every one of those conflicts was tied down by politicians, they are the reason we have such a hard time doing our jobs, they make us look bad. You wouldn't believe the BS I hear everytime I prepare to deploy and get an ROE brief. Basically politicians have completely taken away my ability to kill a man in defense of another American, BS like that is why conflicts end the way they do. So once again, I never argued that point, but on the same note would anyone in this thread care to argue that they know more about combat than me, feel free to list reasons that would make you more knowledgeable than myself. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

It must make some pretty good noise! Quote Double Ear-pro, seriously, foam ear plugs with a headset over them, you'll need it with a .50. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

The old man said that they just taped 2- 1/4 lb blocks of TNT to the grenades at Guadal Canal, brought up lots of fish. Beat K rations.Quote That's quite a bit more kick than just a frag History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

POPOV36 saw orange panels and said so, he later attacked, he should not have done that, this much is absolutely clear. Quote A little lesson in how things work in combat for everyone here who have never been yet seem to think they are subject matter experts on it. Orange panels on the top of a vehicle mean diddly fuck. when a unit goes somewhere they are responsible for telling the powers that be there route and keeping those in control of all friendly assets aware of their current location. Iraqis get their hands on VS-17 panels all the time, Iraqis get their hands on US military unifomrs on a fairly regular basis, and ocassionaly Iraqis get their hands on friendly vehicles. These have been used countless times to get close to us and attack us. When you have CAS in the area you immedeatly call the C2 element and identify your location to them, they will either relay it to the birds circling overhead or give you the birds freq. and let you call them yourself, it is up to you to ensure you don't get yourself killed. The pilots got confirmation that there were no friendlies in the area, so basically they were told that anything below them is fair game, orange panels or not. So if the British soldiers didn't let people know how far north they were than it was either because they were lost or hadn't done their jobs. And as for everyone acting like the US just goes around slaying whatever they see, if you had the slightest idea how difficult it is to control 1000's of moving pieces in the middle of a conflict, when everytime someone takes fire and tries to call troops in contact their message gets interrupted by another unit making the same call, and people on the ground in the shit have seconds to tell dozens of seperate manuever element where to go as well as control all the fires to make sure they don't fire on each other, it's insane. It can sometimes be hard to control a squad size element of 9 guys in the a firefight. Although I doubt this post will have much affect on all the people arguing about how US forces roll because you all obviously know more than those of us in this thread who have actually been to combat but I figured I'd take a shot in the dark anyways History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

don't give away any hillbilly secrets onlineQuote Well we only got one fish to come to the surface History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

The real question is...who is Miss Congeniality?!?!? Quote How could that even be a question, Eliana has that one locked up, she's a sweetheart I'm as jealous as you though, I'll be over the Atlantic while it's going on and won't even be able to keep up with the scores History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

perceived mistreatment by othersQuote with the columbine shootings however the kids involved really were mistreated. I'm not saying it justified the shootings but they were driven to act out. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here's some more specialized ammo for submerged targets. Bye Bye Frogman Quote Actually you would be surprised at how much effect you lose by detonating a grenade under water. I did some tests a few years ago, tossed a whole case of grenades into a river, the first few probably had about a 1-2 second delay after hitting the water and you barely saw anything on the surface. There were a few that we cooked off for a few seconds before we tossed em in, and one or two where the person throwing had a long throw so they detonated almost immedeatly after impact and never once did we see more than a very small bubble on the surface. there was a lot of overpressure, we could feel it in the ground, but in terms of shrapnel the water pretty much stopped it. Either way, it's always fun to play with things that go boom History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm really interested to see how this is going to turn out, please keep us updated as it gets goin. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower