Middle East conflict

[facthunter]

Heavier Planes are More of a Problem where the earth is not able to support them. Pavement Depth Factor.  Nev

[kgwilson]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

With the U.S. military, it is. Remember, these are the people who expended 40,000 rounds of ammo for every enemy killed in Vietnam.

And they still lost.

[randomx]

5 hours ago, onetrack said:

With the U.S. military, it is. Remember, these are the people who expended 40,000 rounds of ammo for every enemy killed in Vietnam.

 

My God, that's insane , but so American.

Must be like in their movies to where they can't hit the broadside of a house.

 

 

 

 

[randomx]

Did you guys see what Chump wrote on his social last night ?

Open the fkg straight you crazy bastards .

l say again and this is the man running the US atm, or should l say ruining, along with the rest of the world.

Mind blowing . 

Edited 8 hours ago by randomx

[Jerry_Atrick]

Ahh.. but he is the master of the art of the deal...

 

 

In his own mind

[willedoo]

5 hours ago, onetrack said:

With the U.S. military, it is. Remember, these are the people who expended 40,000 rounds of ammo for every enemy killed in Vietnam.

I reckon the GE miniguns would account for a fair percentage of the total. They used them like whipper snippers.

[onetrack]

Willie - But it wasn't uncommon for U.S. troops just to hold up their weapons, and empty magazine after magazine, on auto, just firing into a patch of scrub, where enemy were "suspected" of hiding.

[willedoo]

I'm sure the M-16 three shot burst setting was designed with US troops in mind, but I reckon a lot would have used auto a lot. Giving them an auto setting is a bit like giving a kid the keys to the lolly shop. When you see a lot of Vietnam footage of them firing, they seem to hugely misinterpret the concept of covering fire. Apparently they were a bit that way in WW2 as well, although they mostly had semi-autos there. My dad always used to say when he was up in the islands that they felt safer fighting the Japanese than they did being anywhere near the Americans.

[willedoo]

Getting off topic a bit here, but this photo of my dad and his platoon making their way up through Balikpapan was taken on the first day of the landings. The same day, another platoon in their company got strafed by a trigger happy American plane. Lucky nobody was killed but some were wounded. They were right out in the open as well, in clearly visible land just off the beach. 

[facthunter]

. To be a POW of the Japanese was No Fun. My Flying instructor was in Changi.   Nev

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. Nev

[onetrack]

I can recall a few Changi POW's telling me how they always used to take the piss out of the Japs at every opportunity - and the Japs often didn't understand the piss was being taken out of them.

[willedoo]

When the war finished they had a lot of Japanese held in pow type camps awaiting repatriation back to Japan. In a lot of them they didn't have allied soldiers guarding them, they were doing it themselves. One night my dad and his mate were returning back to camp from a local watering hole and walked past one of the camps. All hell broke loose, the sentry called the alarm and the camp commandant roused the whole camp of Japanese out of bed to form up on the parade ground. He got my dad and his mate who were full as a boot to inspect the troops. The old man said it was one of the craziest experiences he had over there, two private ranked Australians with the wobbly boot on walking up and down the Japanese ranks inspecting them. He told me they hammed it up a bit and did a fairly dodgy officer impersonation to give the commandant a bit of face.

[red750]

Reports on ABC 10.20 pm news that America has attacked the military base on Kharg Island, but not the oil depot.