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ORIGINAL: gladiatt

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Work from home day!

would like to. 10 to 20 inch of snow expected in a few hours before i get back home.....[X(]

Wow, that's a real snow storm, no matter where you live! Be safe, Eric.

Snow? What snow? [:D][:'(]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: gladiatt




would like to. 10 to 20 inch of snow expected in a few hours before i get back home.....[X(]

Hmmm ... that doesn't sound so good. I'm going for a recce to the Ardennes area (IVO Sedan) on friday morning and staying until sunday. Was hoping for a little better weather :-/

You would have hard time to get your Tigers out of the wood, Per...
Oh wait, wrong timeline [:D]

Definitely no Tigers as we will look deeper into the 1940 battles.

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: sprior

Work from home day!

would like to. 10 to 20 inch of snow expected in a few hours before i get back home.....[X(]

Wow, that's a bunch. Stay warm and drive S...L...O...W...L...Y

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: sprior

Work from home day!

would like to. 10 to 20 inch of snow expected in a few hours before i get back home.....[X(]

Hmmm ... that doesn't sound so good. I'm going for a recce to the Ardennes area (IVO Sedan) on friday morning and staying until sunday. Was hoping for a little better weather :-/

Well, it should be perfect for your students, Per. I mean, lousy snowing weather in the Ardennes in November or December. No one would launch a major offensive in that weather in that place.

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy



What's the other way?

To start answering and go off on a massive tangent before sauntering back to the original question briefly before totally losing interest and achieving a UNP or Faber.

Saunter? Hah, you're lucky if they bimble back, let alone saunter.

What about moseying back?

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: sprior

When I was 12 I was at a jumble sale and found a book called Escort by D A Rayner. It was an original from 1955 but it somehow wandered off. Now I have a copy from The Naval Institute and I still enjoy digging it out and reading it. If you haven't read it I can heartily recommend it.

I've never read that one. I managed to scrounge a copy of U-Boat Killer and Walker, RN.

He also wrote The Enemy Below which originally had a British ship. I think the U Boat was still German.

The 1966 Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" is closely based on this film, with the USS Enterprise cast as the destroyer and the Romulan vessel as the U-boat.
The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "Killers of the Deep" was not only based on this movie, it also re-used substantial amounts of footage from it.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: gladiatt




would like to. 10 to 20 inch of snow expected in a few hours before i get back home.....[X(]

Hmmm ... that doesn't sound so good. I'm going for a recce to the Ardennes area (IVO Sedan) on friday morning and staying until sunday. Was hoping for a little better weather :-/

Well, it should be perfect for your students, Per. I mean, lousy snowing weather in the Ardennes in November or December. No one would launch a major offensive in that weather in that place.

True ... [:D] But then, we will go there with our students coming May ... [:)]

I really need to do something......

Headline this morning on MSNBC

Judges: Its not illegal to use someone else's SSN.

My first thought was, "What do you mean it's not illegal to use someone else's nuclear attack submarine?"[:D]

My commute home today took 2 hours, rather than the usual 45 minutes. This winter has officially lost its novelty value.

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Grollub



Hmmm ... that doesn't sound so good. I'm going for a recce to the Ardennes area (IVO Sedan) on friday morning and staying until sunday. Was hoping for a little better weather :-/

Well, it should be perfect for your students, Per. I mean, lousy snowing weather in the Ardennes in November or December. No one would launch a major offensive in that weather in that place.

True ... [:D] But then, we will go there with our students coming May ... [:)]

This is an interesting point. From an military educational perspective, which Ardennes battle do you feel is most critical to show your students on site and why?

ORIGINAL: Terminus

My commute home today took 2 hours, rather than the usual 45 minutes. This winter has officially lost its novelty value.

Well, the extra hour and 15 minutes could be used to socialize with your fellow countrymen, get into the holiday spirit, enjoy the wintry landscape and bone up on your Christmas show tunes. All the while smiling at the other passengers and inquiring about the well being of their lovely families and children. [:)][:)][:)]

Thanks, Chickenboy, you owe me a new Sarcasmometer after that.

[:D]

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Anybody want to buy an aircraft carrier? Invinciables for sale. http://blog.american.com/?p=23120

OK, a project for The Thread. I think we need to take up a collection and buy it ! A little paint, some engines, and off we go !

I've a pond in my backyard!

I imagine it'll be a skating rink shortly.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy



Well, it should be perfect for your students, Per. I mean, lousy snowing weather in the Ardennes in November or December. No one would launch a major offensive in that weather in that place.

True ... [:D] But then, we will go there with our students coming May ... [:)]

This is an interesting point. From an military educational perspective, which Ardennes battle do you feel is most critical to show your students on site and why?

I'll give you a true staff officer answer; "That depends ... [on what points/things/themes you want to teach or discuss]" ... [;)]

It also depends on what meaning you put in the word "battle" - Low level skirmish? A campaign?

In this particular case however, we're will mainly look at the 1940 campaign and the values of "Auftragstaktik (/"Mission type orders")" and wargaming an operational plan to name just a few points among many. The asymmetry between French and German doctrines that paved the way for the outcome is also interesting to discuss. Having access to relevant background material from both sides and trying to understand why the commanders made the decisions they made, and doing it in the actual terrain where they made those, is also invaluable. Then, trying to synthezise those lessons learned into something that has relevance nowadays (or in the future) is also something that we always do.

We've going to have to change the structure of this trip for various reasons, so that's why we are going on a new recce. Given how many battles that has been (historically) fought in that area however, I wouldn't be surprised if we happen to find some new interesting "stop". Some years ago, we had a (from the 1940 campaign) deviating stop at Bastogne, where the theme for discussion was "tenacity" [;)] One other stop that hasn't got anything to with 1940 is at Verdun, where we will discuss "consequences". A sobering place to discuss that theme.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Thanks, Chickenboy, you owe me a new Sarcasmometer after that.

[:D]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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not necessarily the act of examination, but the use of such big and expensive words...[;)]

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Bravo! Its things like this that make this place absolutely irreplaceable.

Hey, it worked for me. I'm married to a veterinarian. Apparently, she found this sort of pillow talk at best intriguing, at worst tolerable. [:'(][:D]

Каждой твари по паре. [:D]

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Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Apollo11



Brother Onime - have you seen 6 part documentary (done for victory day 2010) - "Velikaja Voina"?

No. Gotta check it out.

Edit: any idea where I can find it?

Here it is (it was aired on Russian TV and later availabe on DVDs)...


Great War" ("Великая Война"). 8 Films:

http://www.1tv.ru/documentary/fi=6510


WW2 Documentary - Great War (Великая Война). 8 (split) films on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 22E025873F


Leo "Apollo11"

Thanks Leo. I'll have to dig a bit. I found some episodes online but havent seen a site that has all of them yet. From the tidbits so far it looks amazing. Better yet, I ran across a forum of anti-Soviet history revisionists (Stalin planned to sacrifice the Red Army to Hitler in hopes of appeasement, the Red Army refused to fight, the NKVD executed anyone who retreated, that sort of thing) and they seem to have hated it, so its probably very good. [:D]

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: gladiatt


Oh damn, snow is beginning to fall right now [X(]

[Yorkshire]
Pfft, you call that snow. In my day we were glad of the snow. It were better than walking the 54 miles to the coal mine outside Harrogate in bare feet across boiling lava to work 18 hours down the mine before leaving the mine and walking another 16 miles to school. Of course in them days we were grateful for the chance to walk across lava and snow in our bare feet, we were lucky to even have feet. Course, anything less than 18 feet of snow was just a light dusting, we didn't call it snow until it were above the tops of t' trees.

Not only that, but we still had time to be respectful to us elders. And no-one ever had to lock their doors on account of thieves not being invented yet. And don't get me started on this so-called modern music. Or modern food.

[/Yorkshire]

I suspect it is a quote frome something, but what ?? [&:];
or is it just you ? [;)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Dixie did very well for the "genre". [:D]

Tithe[&o]