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  1. Small Crew Carriers

    No, but it Lowers your capability, now you have to reshuffle your crew as you cannot longer mount a half sleep, half awake duty roster (nor fulfill al other details). If a squad gets two additional casualties, it will be considered combat ineffective ( under 60%) and would need to be...
  2. Small Crew Carriers

    You are entirely correct, I fought the same fight at the Fires Center when I was in charge of the M777 and M119 programs from 2011 to 2014. It is not about what is the minimum number required to operate the system, but rather the manpower necessary to fight with the system. when you are...
  3. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    Great story, awaiting news on the reconstitution of the units who fought in the campaign. A further butterfly, is what would happen to the Puerto Rico National Guard 295 th and 296 th RCT which in OTTL we’re relegated to duties in the Panama Canal and American theater of Operations? Would the...
  4. 2kt Suitcase Nuke: City of London 2006

    Buckingham palace untouched, AQ an international pariah, every country were AQ is hiding turn them in lest they be blamed. UBL publicly captured and hung by the Pakistani government.
  5. Make the Soviet Union collapse 10 years earlier

    Read "Children of Apollo" one of my favorite alt history books
  6. In an 1980s nuclear war how many would refuse to launch?

    As a former nuclear capable artilleryman, I agree with gatordad. we got emergency action messages all the time and went thru the drill without knowing if it I was real mission or not until the very end, many times after “ pushing” theaunch buttons. If you refused to execute ou where relieved and...
  7. To Grasp the Heavens

    I think people will simply call it “THE COMET” or they language equivalent mostly because it makes it unique in psychological sense, and also because if no other name was given to it before that what people would have been using as a name in conversation and the media. Ie Here are the latest...
  8. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    From a proud member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 1988. I answer here!
  9. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    Last ’42 Muster Survivor Passes Away Lt. Col. William A. Hamilton, Jr. ’40, the last survivor of 1942’s legendary “Muster on the Rock” at Corregidor in the Philippines, passed away Jan. 4. Here.
  10. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    So sorry, my prayers are with you and your family
  11. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    GB I been looking for my regimental coin, so I Could send you a pic
  12. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    But the airborne success of Malta might give the IJN/IJA ideas ( they both had airborne units) and both have to save face. The fact that gb mentions more than 1 amphibious attack on Corregidor, kind of let the cat out that something else is coming unless you count the post on page Uy and the...
  13. Beyond Ares: A sequel to Baxter's Voyage.

    Epilogue July 2030 Brownsville, Texas Natalie York thumbed through the pages on her slate, looking at the timeline that Space Enterprises had provided for viewers of today's launch. She smiled when she she saw the mentions of her four flights, Mars, Skylab and twice to the Moon. When she...
  14. To Grasp the Heavens

    The drive won’t be re entering. The v ship is a real spaceship. Ie vacuum only, and the REE try capsules, shuttle do not carry a nuclear drive
  15. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    Actually a better recognition would be that by act of Congress those units shall remain in perpetuity on the active roll of the US Army. Ie their colors shall never be retired or the units deactivated. note: although not officially, the US army has done this with the BIG RED One, 1st Cav...
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