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FLAK
Your training film this morning is an introduction to FLAK. It’s being used everywhere, and the gunners are good, especially the Germans. This stuff doesn’t just foul up engines. It goes right through windshields and fuselages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYVwqHM488 German antiaircraft: 88,mm to 105mm, not to mention other artillery. Japanese antiaircraft: 75mm Anyone who falls asleep […]
American ISIS bride who left for Syria now wants to come home
Hoda Muthana and son Honda Muthana is one of a small number of U.S. citizens who’ve joined ISIS, but America’s Syrian allies are thought to be holding around 800 foreign ISIS fighters along with their wives and children. Muthana has expressed remorse and the U.S. government hasn’t said what will happen to her and her […]
10th Mountain Infantry WWII
Thunderstixx sniffled a little over my post of the Army’s WWII tanker training film. Thunderstixx says: on February 11, 2019 at 11:25 pm How come you never do anything for us US Army 9th Infantry Division Ski Instructors ??? I’m crushed… I did due diligence on this, but found that there weren’t any 9th Infantry Ski Instructors, because […]
Tankers Training Film
This is a 1943 Army training film from the Army’s “Fighting Men” training series. It’s labeled “Restricited”, so you probably shouldn’t watch it, unless you’ve got a clearance for it. I thought the Old Tankers in the crowd might like to see it. The narrator is Dick Purcell, whose accent has to be the […]
R&D Underway
While youse guys were snickering a while back over those 60-pound rifles on a mechanical harness used as props in the 1985 movie “Aliens”, the Army took a hard look at them in 2017 and said “We want those guns ‘n’ stuff!” https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/wearables/us-army-seeks-to-build-guncarrying-third-arm-first-seen-in-aliens-movie/news-story/1abbe3f289a1470f5fe60e4b2a200aea Considering that Jenette Golstein got the part of Vasquez because she was […]
Bon Voyage to Army Sailors? Belay That
LCM-8 boats, U.S. Army Here’s Perry with another essay, this time looking into the Army’s Brown Water Fleet (the Army has littoral and inland waterways boats- who knew?) and weighs the impact of realigning this capability. I’ll let Perry take it from here: Perry Gaskill A TAH post from last month predicting the end of […]
Twenty Percent of Army Generals not Deployable in 2016
This was the status as of 2016. Given the scandals that were occurring, involving Generals and Admirals, this study was inevitable. One of the things that they found was that out of every five generals, one was not eligible to deploy. This is only a part of the overall readiness issue, where officers, warrant officers, […]
Army Retro Uniform OKd for 2020
Well, it’s official: the U.S. Army is going retro to its World War II “pinks and greens” for officers by 2020, as was discussed on TAH last year. The remainder of the force has until 2028 to change from current blue uniforms to the Army greens. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/11/11/for-veterans-day-the-army-has-a-present-a-long-awaited-new-service-uniform/ The Army Blues will revert to being strictly […]
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