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

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma: SPrior-san...err..I mean Lord Admiral SPrior talked a bunch of Chinamen into attacking in Burma. Probably golf course time shares.

Ground combat at 60,47 (near Mandalay)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 25388 troops, 142 guns, 226 vehicles, Assault Value = 1200

Defending force 13539 troops, 131 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 413

Allied adjusted assault: 466

Japanese adjusted defense: 1438

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: op mode(-), shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1428 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 63 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1918 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 205 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Assaulting units:
54th Chinese Corps
255th Armoured Brigade
60th Chinese Corps

Defending units:
143rd Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Cavalry Regiment
124th Infantry Regiment
22nd JAAF AF Bn
23rd JAAF AF Bn
35th Field AA Battalion
36th JAAF AF Bn

[Cap Mandrake]

I spend probably 40-50K repairing the house, repainting, sanding and pimping out the wood frame windows and the &$^#@&@&@ HOA calls me to a hearing because we left a &#*@*!** ladder lying on the ground![:@]
Numerous neighbors have stopped to say how nice everything is.

I am "permitted to bring legal counsel". I should hire the firm of
Smith and Wesson.

What if I were on steroids or picked that week to give up G&T and martinis? Do they send
mailers like that to menopausal women? People trying to quit smoking?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I spend probably 40-50K repairing the house, repainting, sanding and pimping out the wood frame windows and the &$^#@&@&@ HOA calls me to a hearing because we left a &#*@*!** ladder lying on the ground![:@]
Numerous neighbors have stopped to say how nice everything is.

I am "permitted to bring legal counsel". I should hire the firm of
Smith and Wesson.

What if I were on steroids or picked that week to give up G&T and martinis? Do they send
mailers like that to menopausal women? People trying to quit smoking?

If you were running a crack house you wouldn't have these problems.

Have your legal counsel bring up the mental anguish that the $10,000 mailbox inflicted on you, and the HOA's negligence in not addressing it, as they have established that they are so clearly into details as to issue a bench warrant for your appearance due to a ladder on the ground!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Burma: SPrior-san...err..I mean Lord Admiral SPrior talked a bunch of Chinamen into attacking in Burma. Probably golf course time shares.

Ground combat at 60,47 (near Mandalay)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 25388 troops, 142 guns, 226 vehicles, Assault Value = 1200

Defending force 13539 troops, 131 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 413

Allied adjusted assault: 466

Japanese adjusted defense: 1438

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: op mode(-), shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1428 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 63 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1918 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 205 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Assaulting units:
54th Chinese Corps
255th Armoured Brigade
60th Chinese Corps

Defending units:
143rd Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Cavalry Regiment
124th Infantry Regiment
22nd JAAF AF Bn
23rd JAAF AF Bn
35th Field AA Battalion
36th JAAF AF Bn

Some unit made a shock attack while not in combat mode? Does the LAS have a staff problem?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs
Does the LAS have a staff problem?

That seems a tad personal question for a public AAR like this, in my opinion. [:-]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I spend probably 40-50K repairing the house, repainting, sanding and pimping out the wood frame windows and the &$^#@&@&@ HOA calls me to a hearing because we left a &#*@*!** ladder lying on the ground![:@]
Numerous neighbors have stopped to say how nice everything is.

I am "permitted to bring legal counsel". I should hire the firm of
Smith and Wesson.

What if I were on steroids or picked that week to give up G&T and martinis? Do they send
mailers like that to menopausal women? People trying to quit smoking?

I thought you had Dewey, Cheatham and Howe on retainer? I realize most of their practice is corporate "arrangements", but surely they can dig some dirt on the HOA prez?
Have them check her garbage for roaches or broken glass pipes ...

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I spend probably 40-50K repairing the house, repainting, sanding and pimping out the wood frame windows and the &$^#@&@&@ HOA calls me to a hearing because we left a &#*@*!** ladder lying on the ground![:@]
Numerous neighbors have stopped to say how nice everything is.

I am "permitted to bring legal counsel". I should hire the firm of
Smith and Wesson.

What if I were on steroids or picked that week to give up G&T and martinis? Do they send
mailers like that to menopausal women? People trying to quit smoking?

A lot of charities here ask, that on a certain date, people put gently used clothing in a cardboard box and leave it on the driveway.

I get threatening letters from the HOA for doing that.[:@]

[Cap Mandrake]

Sign posted on Bulletin board of VMF 222, San Diego

[font="Courier New"]PTO All-Allies Pilot's Union


Labor Action Today!


Unfair Labor Practices by Allied Air Forces.

NO SCABS!


[/font]

[Cap Mandrake]

99.999% of all Allied pilots honored the strike, including all the reserve pilots, the trainees flying mail planes in Oz, the quadruple aces flying P-38's ...even the Chinamen....GONE.

[8|]

[Cap Mandrake]

The wages of sin. See, this is what happens when you start making stuff up. Nobody believes you after a bit. [:D]


We REALLY did lose all of our pilots. Anyone have this happen to them?

[witpqs]

Don't recall ever hearing about it. Have you checked with Michael?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Anyone have this happen to them?

Vaguely recall hearing about someone with a similar plight. I concur with my Argletonian colleague about a note to Michael M being in order.

[Cap Mandrake]

Seems to me something similar happened to GreyJoy and Rader before Rader took over the Tonight Show or some such thing.

[sprior]

Dixie posted these on FB, thought you guys might like to see:

[sprior]

Another:

[sprior]

And another:

[Cap Mandrake]

Why is the vertical stabilizer on the Lancaster so scalloped? Is it fabric?

Also, you put flush rivets on the Lancaster fuselage and she might have broken the sound barrier.

[sprior]

They're all-metal. Don't know why they're that shape but the B-24's is too.

[witpqs]

Old things get wrinkles - duh!

[zuluhour]

That monkey selfie picture has involuntarily grabbed a lot of attention from me lately.........You know what I think he's thinking?

"You push button, we make fire."

....sorry for hi-jack, and yes it was a picture of my real life furry freak brothers, Cheech N' Chong, tool'n down the road with a ____ as big as I wish mine was.