What did you do at work today?

[motorheadmike]

The commies like to show their junk off in parades. We'd rather show them how it works.

Sometimes it is just as simple as this:

The main VII Corps attack, coming from farther west, caught the defenders by surprise. At 0538, Franks sent Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Rhame’s 1st Infantry Division forward. The division plowed through the berms and hit trenches full of enemy soldiers. Once astride the trench lines, it turned the plow blades of its tanks and combat earthmovers along the Iraqi defenses and, covered by fire from Bradley crews, began to fill them in. The 1st Division neutralized ten miles of Iraqi lines this way,
killing or capturing all of the defenders without losing one soldier, and proceeded to cut twenty-four safe lanes through the minefields for passage of the British 1st Armoured Division.​

Simple, but effective.

They really should have read the 17 million leaflets that explained the horrors that were coming, and gave clear instructions on how to surrender.

 

[fleming442]

Sometimes it is just as simple as this:

The main VII Corps attack, coming from farther west, caught the defenders by surprise. At 0538, Franks sent Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Rhame’s 1st Infantry Division forward. The division plowed through the berms and hit trenches full of enemy soldiers. Once astride the trench lines, it turned the plow blades of its tanks and combat earthmovers along the Iraqi defenses and, covered by fire from Bradley crews, began to fill them in. The 1st Division neutralized ten miles of Iraqi lines this way,
killing or capturing all of the defenders without losing one soldier, and proceeded to cut twenty-four safe lanes through the minefields for passage of the British 1st Armoured Division.​

Simple, but effective.

They really should have read the 17 million leaflets that explained the horrors that were coming, and gave clear instructions on how to surrender.

I was thinking more along the lines of Daisy Cutters, Bunker Busters, etc., but that works, too.

 

[motorheadmike]

I was thinking more along the lines of Daisy Cutters, Bunker Busters, etc., but that works, too.

Yeah, those component capabilities are notes for my paper. I just happened to find that quote above which confirmed a long-standing rumour about that tactic being used. Talk about digging your own grave.

 

[Streetbu]

We've been slammed at work trying to finish three separate pieces we're making for IBM. Two are almost identical. They are for electroplating during the manufacturing of semiconductors. This is the stage I'm at on one of them. They need to be completed, tested, cleaned, labeled, crated, and shipped by the 21st. Second one isn't as far along. Going to be a busy couple of weeks for us.

 

[joesregalproject]

Only said "f*ck" 417 times today.

Place is f*cked.

Make that 418.

 

[CopperNick]

Spent a silk on satin day moving internal mail for the City. Nice temps, no s*** even the sun was out, which was the only pain because right now it is so low on the horizon that avoiding getting an eyeful while still being able to see out the front windshield gets complicated. Still, this is a gig that makes periodic income for me so the bills get paid: which is good.


Nick

 

[pagrunt]

They really should have read the 17 million leaflets that explained the horrors that were coming, and gave clear instructions on how to surrender.

Personal experience, not a lot of them quite understand clear instructions that well. Sometimes a more aggressive method does work better. But the buisness end of a .50 cal does wonders even with out having to make it bark.

 

[Dayzedandkonfuzed]

Been jumping around a bit but finally got to spend some time on the drivers door today


And came up with a color. Used the formula for the factory colour, changed it to a heavier metallic and added some copper mica. customer is very happy with it. Going to properly spray a card over the weekend, should end up slightly lighter than this draw down.

 

[ssn696]

Pounding away on another paper for staff college, this time it is a case study on air power in Desert Shield and Storm. It was my chosen topic. And between this paper and my last one on Somalia I am really starting to gain perspective on things that happened globally in my formative years and gave little mind to (because hormones).

Thus far I have established that the US military really loves its "stuff", and to use it.

Big investment of your time. Multiple languages, no less. Does this earn you a graduate degree, or is this a major career step for promotion?

 

[motorheadmike]

Big investment of your time. Multiple languages, no less. Does this earn you a graduate degree, or is this a major career step for promotion?

It used to be a stepping stone to a Master's in Defence Studies, but is still worth some post graduate credits. But, mostly it is a qualification to get promoted to LCol. To get.to Col I will need French and more Army and normal learning (a completed Master's).

Zero expectations on my part, aside from getting the opportunity to prove myself and earn it.