Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Have you considered secession?

You no longer pay the Mayan, so you can afford a border guard.

That is not a crazy idea. I am pretty sure I could get the whole street to go along after the way they treated us with the "no left turn" edict. There is only one way out. We could put a smoothbore Napoleon loaded with grapeshot down at the end of the street and have all the stay-at-home wives man the thing. Of course, they could blockade us too. That would be bad.

[Argos]

I can answer that - I have been dropped on many times and I am still not a first person shooter type.

Depending on plane height being in the drop zone can run from mildly annoying (I have boots and sunglasses stained that unique red shade; had a bald volunteer chief who looked like he had a viscous sunburn for about 10 days-6 years later the inside of his command rig is still red), to downright dangerous.

I have worked ground under air support on a lot of fires and you would be surprised the variation in quality of the pilots - we had one outfit that the safest place to be was where they were supposed to be dropping. (They were missing an active fire by literally miles..) Then you occasionally run across the mythical 'old, bold pilot' and my god are they good. I had one guy dropping downhill in a canyon greater than 800 ft deep with a nasty 90 degree turn at the end and I swear on two consecutive runs I had the mike open to get recovery operations going.

Chopper pilots are an interesting group as well. Had a NG unit just back from Afghanistan helping us with bucket work on a fire we had to have a talk with. One of the pilots was having trouble letting go of the low level egress SOPs and kept blowing through the 20 man crews with the bucket about 3 ft off the ground which was dangerous but funny to watch.

On a hot day, with a working fire when they are bringing water in you try and sneak under their flight line to cool off from the bucket slop over in the rotor down wash. The choppers are really effective and accurate.

[Cap Mandrake]

Sure, but how do you know you didn't used to be Bobby Fischer until they dropped the stuff on you, causing amnesia? After all, they would try to keep it a secret so you don't file a lawsuit.

AE might be a step down for you.

[Argos]

I'm not nearly as attractive as Bobby Fischer....

[Cap Mandrake]

Sigint for Burma/Siam 4-30:

1187 men are based at Rahaeng (58,56)

93rd JAAF AF Bn is located at Pegu(55,53)
7th Field AF Construction Battalion is located at Pegu(55,53)...back-up airfield for Rangoon?

RTA/A Cavalry Division is located at Bhamo(63,44)...to keep us from doing para assaults

2nd Field Artillery Regiment is located at 58,48 (SW of Miktila)

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Argos

I'm not nearly as attractive as Bobby Fischer....

[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Sigint for ALSP:


7th RTA/A Division is located at Mergui(53,62) (SW Tavoy)

15th JAAF Base Force is located at Pegu(55,53) (a second AF support unit at Pegu)

4th RTA/B Division is located at Rangoon(54,53) (Somebody needs to give a lecture on radio discipline to the RTA)


36th JAAF AF Bn is located at Mandalay(59,46


More stuff headed to Aparri and San Fernando on Luzon

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
It sounds like a communication between the Arries after I got Warspite sunk. [:D]

Yer right. "Exploding enflagration" doesn't have a very good ring to it in a formal salutation though, does it? Also, "All may kneel, trembling before us" didn't do very well in the Berchtesgarten HOA marketing focus group.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Argos

I'm not nearly as attractive as Bobby Fischer....

I think that's the Cap'n's point. Wouldn't you have been as attractive as Bobby Fischer but for the flame retardant drops? Honestly Argos, you've got to think like an over-litigated Southern Californian a little more.

[Argos]

As an escaped SoCal native I try to immediately treat thinking like an 'olSC' with any means available.

[zuluhour]

8) Milo's new breastaurant at Batangas is open and there is a long line to get in.

photo op?

[sprior]

Air losses

[sprior]

I give in, how are these guys getting supplies?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I give in, how are these guys getting supplies?

Which guys, Sprior? Some are clearly on roads, some on trails, others on cities and some in the sticks.

[sprior]

The ones around Chengtu

[witpqs]

They Chengtu on bamboo.

[sprior]

Think about the Pandas!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I give in, how are these guys getting supplies?

I'm guessing Sian has enough dried fish head soup and knee mortars to supply via the rail to the NW, thence southward down the Yeti Trail to the Valley or Mordor.

It could also be Inchon to Novosibirsk to Minsk to Ulan Bator and then Lanchow thence southward down the Yeti Trail to the Valley or Mordor.

[sprior]

So Basically they're supplying an entire army along a track across the mountains and through the jungle? This better work for us in Burma.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

So Basically they're supplying an entire army along a track across the mountains and through the jungle? This better work for us in Burma.

Well, you're relying on your magical, mystical Ramree island supply chain to serve your entire army in Burma, no? Cause that's what it will do. Doesn't make any sense there either. Just think of the RL supply 'shrinkage' from the croc/porter interface if nothing else.