@aequitas:
@ABWorsham:
@wittmann:
RedLeg: do ISIS really have T55s and T62s and Artillery?
Yes, they have heavy weapons.
wich scale? 1:35?
Only in Tamiya or Dragon brands. If you want anything else it has to be in 1/72nd…
Marines vs Soldiers
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The field uniform change has been in the workd for a long time part of the futrue force warrior program. It is suposed to be designed to be fiited with electronics for weapon integration, cameras, battery packs, beter knee elbow pads etc. I think they made the ACUs as an attempt to get rid of the multiple camo paturns, Desert and Woodland it also add som of the ideas planned for 2010. That when the new Uniforms are suposed to come out. It’s a different camo too, I think it’s called multicam or something like that.
As for the class A’s yep, they are doing away with the greens. Personaly I think they should get rid of the greens and the blues and put something together that resembles the Ike jacket with kakki shirt from the 50’s. That uniform had style.
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never thought Blues were right for the Army. don’t know, it seams wrong, like the Navy’s Green uniform.
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To be honest, I’d like to see a return to the Colonial Blue Uniform, but I’m just an archaic kind of girl. (Hell, I was born in the wrong millennium. I’d love to have a man put me on a pedestal and protect my honor so I can spend all day playing with my kids and getting the housework done (even better if we have house servants!))
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Personally, I’m not a fan of digis, though I have to admit they are a better form of camouflage. The Army’s digis just plain out suck, because the only work in an urban environment. Try hunkering down in the woods with those and you can be spotted from a mile away. (It’s one of the reasons we always owned the Joe’s in exercises at Drum)
As for dress uniforms, IMO they are only good for commercials. I’m pretty sure they are designed to be uncomfortable just to test our willpower. And in this department, I must say that the Army is out of their mind if they are getting rid of the greens.
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Yea, I noticed they didn’t work against trees, but, to be honest, they are desert camos, not really urban, IMHO. Urban is more gray/black I believe.
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I am reminded of an old George Carlin bit from the Beirut deployment era…
“Have you seen the video of our Marines in Beirut? They are wearing camouflage. There aren’t F’ing trees within 20 miles of Beirut. The should be wearing store fronts and car grills on their uniforms.”
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Do not make jokes about Beirut Switch.
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@ncscswitch:
I am reminded of an old George Carlin bit from the Beirut deployment era…
“Have you seen the video of our Marines in Beirut? They are wearing camouflage. There aren’t F’ing trees within 20 miles of Beirut. The should be wearing store fronts and car grills on their uniforms.”
I actually thought it was pretty humorous.
Honestly, I saw some infantry pukes running around Fort Benning in their basic training and wondered what they were hiding from because it must be bats or something else that was blind, cause that camo was SOOO Bad against the trees it woulda been better to run around naked with a bright halogen flashlight on.
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@M36:
Do not make jokes about Beirut Switch.
The bit was done before the bombing.
And I drive down that stretch of highway outside Camp Lejeune fairly often with the incredibly long row of trees… one planted for each Marine lost, so I know where you are coming from.
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BTW: When I went through BCT at USAFA we actually STILL were wearing the old OD Green FATIGUES!
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@ncscswitch:
BTW: When I went through BCT at USAFA we actually STILL were wearing the old OD Green FATIGUES!
Yer OLD!
Pickle suits have been gone HOW long now?
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We had the old pot’s like a44BigDog’s avatar, but the od’s were long gone.
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It was ONLY 1987… :roll:
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@ncscswitch:
It was ONLY 1987… :roll:
And I was only ten years old in 1987. :)
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Hey, my first Commander in Chief was Ronald Reagan. I am not THAT old :-P
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Okay, the first president I experienced was Jimmy Carter, so I guess you aren’t that old. But wait, the first President I can actually remember was Ronald Reagan, so maybe you are?
Let’s see, in 1987 I moved from Bolingbrook, IL to Hoffman Estates, IL. I was in the 5th Grade and had just gotten my first training bra.
You were issued a full suit of adult clothing and were signing legally binding contracts. Hmm….maybe you are old?
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My first POLITICAL memory is the resignation of Nixon.
I admit that I am now alive in my 5th decade (alive in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s), But I am actually a Rabbie (The generation after Yuppies, the Rabbies… Reagan Babies; now known as the oldest GenXer’s)
And GenX is not a generation… it was Billy Idol’s first group (the one that had White Wedding as a hit).
Lastly… I HATE digital camo. The first 100 times I saw Marines wearing it at Lejeune it was all I could do to not laugh…
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Our’s isn’t really that bad. At least we have more than one kind.
And just as a note, my first memory of politics was Bill Clinton getting blow jobs in the oval office…Kind of a bad introduction.
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I have to be honest…
If I were to ever become President…
There would be a WAITING LIST for women to sit under my desk and give Lewinski’s in the Oval Office :evil:
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If I were President, I’d be in Congress with a six shooter on my hip and a duster on my shoulders asking them, politely, to please pass my bills so I can sign them into law without needing to shed blood.
But that’s just me. I want to be the first female and the most effective, President ever to trod Capitol Hill. :evil:
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