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ok then. question asked question answered in near record time for this thread!

that might not be too what-iffish there Spinners. what are you guys doing with the Harrier force?

sadly a prime way to end the threat of terrorism, at least in the current schematic wont be acted on by the west. a Marshall Plan type action would do wonders across the board and in the long term. the terrorist trigger pullers/bomb detonators are coming predominately from the poorer middle eastern nations where the education level is lower and jobs scarcer. the financing for materials and payment (of trigger puller or guy to recruit a fanatic to do it for free) is coming mostly from guys in the richer nations (Saudi, UAE) who have fingers in enough pies that we dont go after them for fear of oil prices going up or another banking downfall. if we were to create some real jobs, not just oppurtunities for contractors to get rich and split, then maybe things settle down. (i think it was GEN Clay in 1948 speaking about Berlin who said something about a choice of democracy on 1000 calories a day or communism on 1500. for folks with kids such scenarios start becoming important) also people tend to remember who helped in life and who screwed em over. while Europeans might have a dim view of American policies right now, how many want to see America fail or Americans die? while stationed in Germany in 2000-2002 i met some Germans who didnt like us and wanted us to leave. Not a one was older than 25. the rest remembered the Berlin airlift or the threat they faced from the Russians and were at least 10+ when the Wall came down. overall i've found that say 98 percent of the world just wants to get on with their lives and have a decent future for themselves and their families. it's the other 2 percent that screw it up for everyone else. @ Teras stay safe and a salute for joinin your army under the circumstances. while we face the possibility of dying far from our home, we dont face the a threat directly against our loved ones.

happy bday to both the Eric's

some blues,miles davis, 80's metal(dio, judas priest, metallica upto the black album), the original wave of grunge, various current songs as they catch my attn, rap(not gnagsta FU crap but sugarhill gang, wil smith/fresh prince, etc), and most anything played on a classic rock station these days(tho it can be depressing to see what considered classic now).and im slowly building the completedigital works of Queen(Freddie Mercury only). to answer as others have why the variety ya get a range of exposure during 12 month stints in the desert.

how about for post war in the ANG and 86th FW capping the Airlift? at least some of us remember who won

thats cool. they were some pretty laidback cats when i was there. amazingly even their senior officers and NCO's. and i loved the fact that their PX sold marlboros for 17 a carton right after the federal tax boosted AAFES prices to 40 a carton. hmm should we ask one of the 3D modelers for a new building for afghanistan terrian?

can it be countered with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

not in a 52d TFW F-4D in 1977. and the EF-4C that was Weaseling carried Shrike or CBU, no HARM or even AGM-78. besides its fun to go with your hair on fire and tends to scare the locals below you, friendly or not

good luck! glad to hear things are lookin up for you

damn im runnin late on this thread. to all my fellow Soldiers out there for all the vets or the most recent wars(and esp for crazyhorseb34) and just cause i've been missin seeing this at Bragg happy birthday US Army. HOOAH

at home it can be a struggle to get time in there to go aviating. when deployed its a different creature for me tho. no modding or flying on duty time of course, but one can find themselves with a bunch of down time if lucky. (all my deployments have been to airfields fortuneatly, lotta resources avail) you figure 20-60 min to talk to the family back home and then the rest of the day is yours. dont get me wrong in my case i'd rather be at home but if i got to be gone might as well take advantage the lack of family time. thats for SF2 but i figured the input for this thread would be good whatever era you fight in, virtually or in RL!

as observed 75% of the time here at CA http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2011/05/24

poopyhead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110613/pl_afp/usmilitaryuniform_20110613230044 still in use for Class A's excuse me dress blues (should be the exclusive terrian of The Old Guard up in MDW tho them blues) thank you SMA Chandler for ending GEN Shinseki's experiment. when you try to make everyone special, aint no one special and i know many Rangers that are still pissed all these years later! no more tryin to figure out which cover to wear on Monday. I say Hooah!

yes it was found in bin Ladens and Saddams collection

yet another reason to stay on the deck at warp 5......

thanks Fubar and PureBlue. time to search the internets again heheheh...

most i've ever seen were made in Canada, Mexico or Pakistan. I havent even heard of a Chinese one since the EP-3 went down in early 2001 (see my earlier post above) but in my opinion the Paki made ones actually fit the best with least shaping effort. course notice there doesnt seem to be America in the list of producers of American Military Headgear! what i forgot to mention in the above story was that as i recall all the chinese made berets were burnt or sold off to other countries. thats why half the Army had to wait til Feb the next year to get em.

no doubt on the coolness of a beret depending on how you came about it. the beret for the airborne, Rangers and Green Beanies is the outward symbol of their esprit de corp, not the main source of it. as i recall the beret got issued to all so everyone can feel special... course this has been a part of a long line of tryin to teach Soldiers things that they inherently get or else cant be taught.like the Soldier's Creed, released after Jessica Lynch announced that she was too scared too shoot back. Yet the other female, the cook did her job and took rounds in her legs while layin down fire so her Troops could pull back and had trouble getting disability. sorry done ranting. was outta coffee and Household 6 aint lettin me smoke no more. makes me a lil cranky

what, preferably free, tools are there for finding mesh names? or is it a function of 3DS Max? trying to find out what the top of the fin on the Netz is called and would be nice to figure it out on my own rather than always ask you guys what something is.

funny story when they started issuing the berets. half the initial batch was made in china but this was right after the recon plane was downed by china. of course it wouldn't do for our new headgear to be made by the enemy. so Korea and CONUS got the new berets made elsewhere on Jun 14 2001 and the Guard and USAEUR got them in the middle of Feb 2002. Of course i had been a Bragg before being stationed in Germany so i had to listen to a SSG tell me how to wear a bere-T (like what ladies wear in their hair) instead of a bere-AY( like the headgear worn by Airborne personnel and units). Needless to say the class was interesting if he couldn't even pronounce it right! @ Dave if i remember your wife is a 92G or works with em. are the cooks still wearing berets in whites?

appreiciate it dels. didn't put a level 2 in the decal.ini for the RDAF Grey skin for the Netz (hey it only has 3 line entries!) and so the service stayed the same but i can now choose the squadron. gonna hafta edit the ini in the Dutch skin for the Netz so that it akes advantage of them stock decals for the RNLAF. kinda a screwy system but it dont mess up my Phantoms (got levels 0-3 there) so i can live with it!