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I think it's a damn shame you guys didn't get to take part in Desert Storm. This is the first I ever heard that Canada was considering an armored unit for the Coalition forces. Considering we had a whole Syrian division in the Coalition that never fired a shot, we could've used some more tanks...

Lance, you made a good point about when the M1 was designed and the US Army still at the time being in draftee mode. Thanks. TCBF– I wasn't commenting on whether or not a draftee army is better or worse than a volunteer. Each has strengths and weaknesses and in American history, draftee armies...

Listen guys, it's real easy to overexaggerate the so-called maintenance problems with the M1. I don't know where Lance has the idea that M1s were designed for draftees, since we don't any have in the US Army and all our tankers are volunteers. I served in several heavy armored units during my...

From the standpoint of the fire control system and first round hit probability, the Challenger 2, M1A2 and the Leo 2 are all very close to parity. I will admit the M1 is a gas hog and there's no doubt about that. I wonder if the Army will re-engineer it for a diesel engine since it will be...

If it wasn't so pathetic it would be funny.

Fascist Libertarian: I have been researching about the Pacific War for many years. Cite your sources for this claim — "American troops raped a lot of Japanese. " How many is "a lot"? Is it 10, 20, 75, 2,000, or what? This claim is totally without merit if your source isn't cited. I for one am of...

My condolences to his family.  :cdn:

So what if American Soldiers and Marines went to whorehouses and what made that in and of itself a war crime?

Well there's a fundamental difference between whorehouses set up in Allied occupation zones and what happenend under Japanese rule in the Pacific. There just is no comparison between the two. Yes, there were incidents of rape in Europe by US, Canadian, and British soldiers but this was no...

I don't know anything about the Germans and brothels, etc, but there is absolutely no comparison to the so-called "comfort women" forcibly kidnapped into sexual slavery by the Japanese and anything in relation to the allied forces in World War II. I'd like to know what sort of things we in the...

You're probably right George! Mark

There's no arguing that I'm a big fan of the Leopards and I've always thought they were awesome tanks, and every bit as capable as the M1-series. To be fair though, it will take a whole heck of a lot more than 20 tanks in Afghanistan for the Leo 2 to have the same combat proven stamp that the M1...

Let's go HoM. Scan 'em and let's see what ya' got. We can make it like a poker game, only all the cards are brown....  :salute:

All this talking about class I downloads sent me back to my photo album for one of my favorite shots. This is me back in 91 taking care of some pressing business. (Bet nobody has a picture like this...)

Oh yeah, now you're talking. Repeat, over!

In the United States, DOD initially only awarded the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal to US servicemembers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The rumor at the time was they didn't want to spend the money on dedicated campaign medals. In any event Congress interceded and forced the...

Just to give everyone some frame of reference about me, I served for three years as a US Army recruiter from 92-95 and spent 37 months on numbers. I never rolled a donut and made my quality mission every single month but I missed my volume mission a couple of months. Recruiters take a lot of...

Whether or not individual Soldiers want to be deployed (especially in the National Guard since it's so state-centric) has nothing to do with rotational schedules, which in the US Army are dictated by DA based on requirements coming in from the joint and unified commands (i. e. CENTCOM.) FORSCOM...

I just got home and looked through this thread and read what that moron wrote on his stupid-blog. As an American, I'm ashamed at what he wrote about the Canadian Forces. I just want you to know that I am humbled and grateful for the sacrifice and professional soldiering that Canadians have...

It isn't about funding at specific posts or what MPs want to do. The Army is trying to build a brigade based force structure that has maximum deployability. Every Soldier who isn't standing on a gate can be freed up for a deployable unit. The Army has an end-strength that has to be met every...