Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Battle Order" channel.

  1. I framed the speeding ticket an MP gave me while driving a Gator (golf cart) on Camp Victory. :/
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  2. MP PFCs have had the last word on many a career...
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  3. I LOLed @0:33 '03 to '0...?. the doctrine was "makin' shit up as we go..." TO&E and doctrine rarely ever matched reality. Units were chronically understrength and most units fell in on whomever's equipment they were relieving. It didn't matter what your notional unit was or even your MOS most people found themselves doing light cavalry roles. Patrolling, route recon, convoy escort, ect. For example: We were a heavy cav troop of a HBCT on paper, We trained up as light cav, but no one got reclassed, and we did not do M1 or Brad gunnery certification. We we got to Baghdad, someone "found" an extra platoon of ratty tanks. We then "borrowed" them for six months before someone came looking for them. After than, even us mechanics were out driving around and getting blown up.
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  4. @7:50 The M42 was replaced by the M-163 Vulcan and M-48 Chaparral NOT the Hawk. The Hawk was a medium to long range SAM that replaced the Nike/Nike-Hercules. There were still ADA battalions in the '60s and '70s, but they were deployed in Europe. Just like with M-60 armor units drawing M-48s instead, units that deployed to Vietnam drew M-42s and did the base defense and convoy security job.
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  5.  @kevinblackburn3198  That isn't the mission being spec'ed for. Think Operation Dragon (Iraq) or Tomahawk (Korea).
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  6. Of course they knew exactly where you were and had no other mission or anyone else to shoot at. Stinger team's survivability comes from being easy to hide and totally passive. CAS coming in to attack targets would never see you until missiles were in the air and then they would be too busy to do anything to you. MANPADS took a huge chunk out of the IDFAF in '73 and Ukrainians are downing a lot of Russians with them.
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  7. The Soviets didn't, but Imperial Russians did. General Brusilov's assault tactics were copied by the Germans. Also "Blitzkrieg" was very different from assault tactics. It is "maneuver warfare". You avoid assaulting strong points and exploit weak ones to bypass them and envelope enemy forces instead of attacking them directly. All of these historical tactics were on a much larger scale that the tactical level of the Sturmtruppen. Not really comparable.
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  8. Still need a video on the Mexican Army barber corps.
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  9. Literal copy pasta.
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  10. The Guard weren't silent, just no one cared.
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  11. This is the TLDR summary of this video. Without the TO&E.
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  12. Its like the Army has lobotomized everything it learned in 20 years in Iraq and A-stan and completely sticking their heads up their "third point of contact" about Ukraine.
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  13. Literally to do the paperwork and just maintain the facilities and any equipment they actually had.
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  14. I've lived thru two of these conversions, and yeah, its as bad as you imagine.
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  15.  @fridrekr7510  Stosstrupptaktik is still necessary to create the break through because a "weak point" in a defense is relative. It could still be formidable. And then there is the need to reduce bypassed positions at some point if nothing else than to force their capitulation.
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  16. Confused is the general state of the Army National Guard. Its either the sandbox for the Army to try Gud Ideas, the last to get the latest Bold New Plan, or usually, somewhere in between.
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  17. Right up to the point where the IED goes off.
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  18.  @VT-mw2zb  Unfortunately the Army makes it a job and suck.
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  19.  @nomadmarauder-dw9re  That was a joke.
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  20.  @ShatteredQvartz  Who is the "we" you are referring too?
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  21. And of course the ever present threat from the Generalissimos.
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  22.  @moic9704  Think more type less.
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  23.  @Tobi-ln9xr  That is false. Uniform colors had nothing to do with symbology or gender identity, All that crap is late 20th century marketterring. They were chosen for practical reasons. Either visibility on the the battlefield in Napoleonic era, and then for camouflage after. Red was a fairly rare color chosen for uniforms, while blue, even pale blue, was a very common color.
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  24.  @kalathesergal1754  That is not true. Military fashion had little to no relation to today's association with masculinity.
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  25. They are a bit of both. In the event of a SHTF invasion, they would probably operate like the Rangers, being light infantry operating in enemy rear areas, messing stuff up and being "force multipliers". For the contemporary "less than war", SF they are trained in counter-terror/insurgency against PLA shenanigans on the main and outlying islands. They do not have the same "expeditionary" function as SF doing non-kinetic training and mentoring etc. They are all teeth.
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  26. My ex had put in his packet put in to convert to !9Z and attend Airborne School, when the program got cancelled...
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