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Happy BD Vern and many happy returns on the day! Mark

General Shinseki was the Cheif of Staff, which is for all intents and purposes an administrative job. The CoS is responsible for the non-combat side of the Army, making sure that combat ready units are getting sent down range, ensuring the Army is getting funded and so forth. Where/when did you...

Politicians always tell generals what to do. This was not something that just started or is an aberration from the normal state of affairs. Razorguns, you still haven't answered my question about 9/11. Is it your opinion that the United States is responsible for the attacks of 9/11? regards, Mark

+ 1 from down south. This is the best moderated forum on the web.  :salute:

So let me get this straight. You think 9/11 was our fault, is that right? and while you're at it, explain please where we would find these 500,000 troops to occupy Iraq on a long term basis. Thanks, Mark

I'm with Tomahawk on this one. Our forces in Korea are postured for a defensive mission and it would take an incredible (like Desert Shield but bigger) build-up to even get close to an invasion scenario.

Not to pick nits Tomahawk, but that's still two brigades...

Hey Cougar Shark: Good question about the 2nd ID, but it is different from every other division in the US Army. It has heavy (i.e. mechanized infantry and armor) and light battalions and only has two brigades stationed in Korea. There are also two brigades based in Fort Lewis, WA but these are...

Farewell to a warrior and God bless his family. :cdn:

The road wheels on the hull are what support the weight of a tracked vehicle and they ride on trailing arms that are attached to torsion bars, which are big steel bars that bear the weight of the vehicle. A drive sprocket is linked to the transmission and actually turns the tracks. An idler...

Oh man, that is too funny. I thought I's heard every acronym, but that was a new one. I can't wait to tell my buddies. This must be a Canadian acronym, because I don't think we've discovered it down south!  :cdn:

I would also disagree that Russia is no longer a threat. They have been flexing their muscle and will do so more frequently as they get more cash from oil and gas revenues. It is a major mistake to assume that 1) The Russians are our friends/allies and that 2) the North Atlantic Alliance has...

Help me out here. What's a Mike Charlie Foxtrot?

Top speed in an armored vehicle is in my opinion basically meaningless. Horsepower-to-weight ratio is a much more meaningful expression of a tank's cross country mobility. When you think about it, vehicles in combat formations are never going at top speed since they have to maneuver together and...

This idea that getting wounded is your own fault or a sign of failure is worse than wrong. It's just plain dumb. War is not a football game and bad things happen to good people in battle. You might be the most squared away Soldier, but if a mortar round lands on your fix, or a sabot round goes...

BernDawg: I would say that applies anywhere that we have a training area.  :tank:

What the heck is Omnicide anyway? Maybe it's something to do with killing tofu or something? Pathetic too, since Victoria is a beautiful city most of the time...

Ya'll have to check this out. It fits pretty well on this thread and it's funny as hell. This is a You Tube video that shows what NOT to do in a tank. http://youtube.com/watch?v=de8vL1QMQLg

Piper: A year to the day after Desert Storm I was in recruiting too and remember standing in the door of our station thinking how much the world had changed for me. Remember, as a recruiter you cannot predict for an applicant what will happen to them, good or bad, in the Army. That is for them...

There were some armored fights in OIF I during the march up to Baghdad. Jason Conroy, who commanded a tank company in the 3rd ID, wrote about them in his fine book "Heavy Metal." This should be in every armo(u)red soldier's bustle rack.  ;) http://books.google.com/books?id=RpuPngViOrEC