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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:31 pm

Here is a pic of my grandaddy and his camp friend "Scout".

He was in the artillery. Not long after this pic was taken his entire unit was overrun by the Chinese and he and one other guy survived. According to that guy they used dead Chinese to hide.

Taken in Korea sometime in the Spring of 1952.
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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:10 am

Here is a pic of my grandaddy and his camp friend "Scout".

He was in the artillery. Not long after this pic was taken his entire unit was overrun by the Chinese and he and one other guy survived. According to that guy they used dead Chinese to hide.

Taken in Korea sometime in the Spring of 1952.
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Good stuff. WWII was obviously terrible, but Korea brought its own brand of terrible, and only five years after VJ Day. It's crazy how fast the world changed in that time.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:07 pm

"Colonel Puller, sir. The enemy has us surrounded."

"That simplifies things. We can fire in all directions now."

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Postby dodint » Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:53 pm

I never really subscribed to the Puller mythology. He put himself in for two of those Navy Crosses. Ribbon chaser.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:56 pm

What an utterly surprising take.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:39 pm

"Colonel Puller, sir. The enemy has us surrounded."

"That simplifies things. We can fire in all directions now."

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Chesty Puller's story arc at Guadalcanal intertwined with Douglas Munro, the only Coastie to win the MOH.
Soon after arriving on Guadalcanal, Lt. Col. Puller led his battalion in a fierce action along the Matanikau, in which Puller's quick thinking saved three of his companies from annihilation. In the action, these companies were surrounded and cut off by a larger Japanese force. Puller ran to the shore, signaled a United States Navy destroyer, the USS Ballard, and then Puller directed the destroyer to provide fire support while landing craft rescued his Marines from their precarious position. U.S. Coast Guard Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munro—Officer-in-Charge of the group of landing craft, was killed while providing covering fire from his landing craft for the Marines as they evacuated the beach and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for the action, to date the only Coast Guardsman to receive the decoration.
To this day the USMC and USCG have a special bond forged under fire in the Pacific.

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Postby dodint » Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:55 pm

What an utterly surprising take.
Dan Daley was a pacifist.

More of a fact than a take, but of the same theme.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:58 pm

We learned about Munro in boot camp.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:58 pm

Also, Smedley Butler.

What a guy.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:12 pm

We learned about Munro in boot camp.
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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:46 pm

Think about this most every Thanksgiving.


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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:02 pm

Sad


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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:21 pm

One of only eight Wasp class ships. That's a damn shame.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:32 pm

Ugh. That sucks, especially considering the ship was just about done with a full refit. But I don't think it's surprising. Everything I've read said that the amount of damage was massive.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:25 pm

79 years ago today.


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Postby tifosi77 » Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:26 pm

We're all fans of this guy's YT channel ITT.


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Postby Kaiser » Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:56 pm

@tifosi77
The U.S. Air Force's secret new fighter jet, which it designed, built, and tested in just one year, will feature some kind of artificial intelligence copilot—a trusted computer algorithm that human pilots can rely on to assume critical tasks in the air.

That's according to Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, who in September shocked the world when he revealed the surprise existence of the service's new, mysterious Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter.

The Air Force has been incredibly tight-lipped about the sixth-generation fighter, only confirming it exists, and it’s flying ... somewhere. But a few clues about NGAD have trickled out since the initial announcement, such as which defense contractor likely built the plane. And now, Roper has revealed (via Breaking Defense) that the NGAD will have an "AI-assisted copilot, maybe even ARTUµ.”

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:16 pm

What could possibly go wrong.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:16 pm

You jerk, you linked to a story with an auto-play Top Gun gif.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:22 pm

Also, this was a couple days ago over the parking lot of my grocery store.

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Not sure why two tiltrotors are transitioning Class-B airspace at 1,000', but whatevs. Seen this with some regularity over the past year or so.

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Postby Kaiser » Thu Dec 24, 2020 10:34 pm

You jerk, you linked to a story with an auto-play Top Gun gif.
I believe the legal definition is: "You're gay for looking".

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Dec 24, 2020 10:57 pm

God-****-turd-****

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Postby Shyster » Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:55 pm

Short and honest answer: Because both classes are pieces of **** and the first four ships were massive pieces of ****.


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Postby Dickie Dunn » Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:31 pm

I hate those things.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:31 pm

I may have asked this a while back, but does anyone else listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History? It is absolutely superb. I just finished Part IV of "Supernova in the East" about the rise of the Japanese Empire and the War in the Pacific. So damn good. The primary sources and quotes he uses makes it so much better.

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