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For starters, like the IRA, they picked an easy target that wasn't immediately likely to fire back. There is no legal, moral or religious justification for what they have done. Anyone who says so is...

@paul G, using the Casa as a ME trainer would be hugely wasteful. No-one does ab-initio on such a large aircraft, it's just not feasible. As for the Caravans, well, a lot of ink, electronic and...

in terms of usable air assets for such a force, I agree with Aidan. An integral UH for medevac as a given., ie, no deployment without it; RP/MG armed UH for light defensive work and manned...

You can hang it on the Wright Flyer if you like. No point in bringing a VIP taxi to a combat zone. No armour, no self-sealing fuel tanks, no redundant controls, no defensive suite...no chance.
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Nice thread. Given how long the DF have had a good mortar set-up (WW 2), it's more than about time that they brought enough of them abroad and in mobile form. Surely a mortar Mowag is not beyond the...

In effect, it has already happened in the Leb. Irish soldiers could not count on any organic or friendly artillery support and only a token AFV support and the rules meant that they operated with one...

I remember some of the old training films showing a fighting patrol being of about 15 men/two MG because the section of ten was too light and anything bigger was too unwieldy to move without obvious...

The Swedish Navy donated one of their Fast Attack Craft to the Maritime Museum in Stockholm, where there is a fleet of volunteer-maintained ships on public display, very near the wonderful "Vasa"...

Is a fighting patrol of platoon size not too big? What kind of distribution of weapons does it have?

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Ropebag, in the DF, the concept that the ordinary soldier can be anything other than a spear-carrier who cannot think for himself, or for his mates, is realistically not more than 20 years old....

Tell ya what, Murph. Just for you, we'll put a 105 on a barge and tow it out to the Sinkex area so you can "fire on the up". We'll even bring along a 90mm AML so you can watch the HEAT rounds...

Murph, if a 57 or 76 couldn't sink one, then they have no business being on a naval vessel! You don't need a proper shipyard to scrap them. Just tow them up the Shannon until they ground, as near as...

Sinkex (well offshore)for one and dive wreck (inshore) for another.

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Two points about the punishment meted out to the deserters; in a lot of cases, the punishments were not official Army punishments, ie, on any disciplinary scale or related to any charge but were...

regarding post 100 by HH, not true. When the casualties in Normandy required 100 per cent replacement of some units' manpower, the miners were allowed to join up. It is mentioned in at least one of...

Given that the average Russian soldier of 3rd Shock Army would have been wearing clothing and kit not unfamiliar to his dad's of 1944, then you were probably better off than you think.
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That's what drove me mad with Q people. They'd try their best to charge you if one round went missing yet they (the DF) were well able to squirt the stuff away like rainwater when it suited them. I...

yep, the supremacy of the bureaucrats. One box-ticker beats another. Good "Q" and Stores people are an absolute boon, the worst of them are a menace.

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GF, that's by staying road-legal on the M9. Slowest part of the journey is getting onto the M9 at the Curragh end. I'll be doing it again next Monday so I'll time it from my door.

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True. issuing stuff causes problems and when the fools actually lose or break stuff, it gets worse. All hail the magic of the "write-off". 100 rounds per man on a wet range in January, not 99, not...

Curragh to EIWF, two hours without sweating, at road-legal speeds.

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thou shalt not fire more than the holiest of holies, the annual allocation, per skull per annum, lest an Officer or a Quartermaster be found wanting in the numbers game. Being a good "Q" has more to...

Cessna 209 ended it's days in EIWF so the lads involved are not too far from it, especially the guy with the GPMG.

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what's TES?

GF, I'm perfectly aware that the civvies have right of way(in certain places and spaces) and that the Curragh is allegedly protected. It isn't. Civvies and servicemen ignore the no-cars-on-the-grass...