MCG_Rattlesnake

"The EOD pic is from the early days right after the base opened up during OIF. " The Iraqis had absolutley TRASHED Jalibah. They're probably still doing EOD for all the wee bomblets and mines that were all over that place. We couldn't go off the runways and taxiways, and were actually doing the K-Bar landmine probing bit, until the SgtMaj caught someone doing it.

Meesta Mudd said: However now i am involving myself more into Developer relations and Upcomeing flight sim projects that will limit my activities with a Squad. LIKE WHAT ? LIKE WHAT ? How d you keep an a-hole in suspense? Write stuff like that! LOL So what's in the works? A Kick Ass helo sim? Hmmmm?

Looks like EOD still cleaning up in the second pic. They nearly blew up our plywood shiiter one day. Is that Tallil? Looks like Tallil, but I only saw it in the dark, ya dig?

Keep in mind also that most countries with vast expanses of territory (like, for instance, Iraq - a locale with I am very familiar with) their military centers of gravity and their population centers are closely intermixed, thus intimidation - shocking and aweing - of the populace is an unfortunate byproduct of scaring the bejesus out of and killing the enemy - "prosecuting targets" on the TNL and pop-ups. We of course try to keep the civilian population out of it, but this is sometimes impossible. Most times the only things worth striking are in fact downtown. In other words, there's not very much out in the boonies worth a pilot, airframe, fuel and ordnance worth striking. This is one of the reasond we not to Baghdad so damn fast. We bypassed (hauled ass) a lot of little stuff for the "meaty" centers of gravity. In the case of Iraq this time around it required as much political-strategic goals as well as tactical. We had to knock out the Saddam Structure. It wasn't simply a matter of bombing them into the stone age. That would have been a completely diffrent war, one I'd be less proud to have taken part in. It is for this reason - winning the hearts and minds, or at least not alienating them with indiscriminate bombing - that PGM's are playing an ever-increasing role in how those targets get serviced.

That's the stuff!!!

Hey thanks for the info! Ordered it, too. I hope someone is working on a -60 pit.

I'm planning a LOMAC squadron offshoot of our clan MARINE CORPS GRUNTS. We are a clan comprised of Active and Former Marines (note: only convicted felons and notorious clock tower snipers are Ex-Marines. Ex-Marines are shunned) who share a love of Corps, Country, and Raven Shield and other FPS. Our allied clan, FMF, is comprised of members of other services, as well as our brothers in law enforcement. As of now I've got four or five good sticks along with me. The more the merrier. If you're a Marine, soldier, airman, sailor, or LEO, check out Marine Corps Grunts Semper Fidelis!

Can you tell me how to get up with Gunship? Is it worth it? Can I fly Blackhawks? How are the graphics? Will it work on XP? Will it runn on my rig? Or do I have too much (this is keeping me from Longbow 2)? P4 2.8/HT 800 FSB Aduigy 1394 ATI 9800 Pro 1Gb RAM

SEMPER FIDELIS! I'd fly nothing else but Cobra Cobra Cobra all day and night.