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RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:12 pm
by sprior
And finally Port Blair:



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RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:22 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
No offense to the Danes but I'm more interested in the Dutch field hockey team. [:D]


I like the women's beach volleyball. It's a tough sport though. I've only been watching for 10 minutes and already there is a wrist injury.

I'm hoping with some ice and ibuprofen I will be OK in a couple of days.

This is supposed to be an AAR, right? I didn't think that kind of action was included. [X(]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:25 pm
by sprior
Just be thankful there are no screen shots of it.

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:29 pm
by Onime No Kyo
That would be more damaging to Mandrake's rep than the colon shots. [:D]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:29 pm
by geofflambert
Is this a PBEM? I just hope he's not doing it while driving. He might be pulled over in several states here.

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:31 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Is this a PBEM? I just hope he's not doing it while driving. He might be pulled over in several states here.

Or near an elementary school.

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:34 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Is this a PBEM? I just hope he's not doing it while driving. He might be pulled over in several states here.

Or near an elementary school.

So he's on one of those lists, is he? [:-]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:25 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Is this a PBEM? I just hope he's not doing it while driving. He might be pulled over in several states here.
That would be quite a long drive.

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:08 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: sprior

Troops prepping for Ramree Island

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662 AV just for Ramree Island?! You really really want it, don't you. As The Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy (amid a flurry of fluttering, slightly charred bank notes) "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" [:)]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:23 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Is this a PBEM? I just hope he's not doing it while driving. He might be pulled over in several states here.

Or near an elementary school.

So he's on one of those lists, is he? [:-]

Shhhhh! [:-]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:14 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

Troops prepping for Ramree Island

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662 AV just for Ramree Island?! You really really want it, don't you. As The Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy (amid a flurry of fluttering, slightly charred bank notes) "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" [:)]

I think the idea is to hire local sampans or take a ferry to the mainland, once ashore. We, therefore, need to be prepared to handle substantial enemy forces.

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:25 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Aquarians? Hippies. [:'(] By Summer 1986, we were the Dolphins.

Not so much of a draft problem then. I once knew a guy that served in Grenada. That's about the same though.

Well, at least you wernt the "Gondoliers". [8|]

Oh, you poor, poor man. Were you beat up often because of it?

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:34 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

Troops prepping for Ramree Island

Image
662 AV just for Ramree Island?! You really really want it, don't you. As The Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy (amid a flurry of fluttering, slightly charred bank notes) "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" [:)]

I think the idea is to hire local sampans or take a ferry to the mainland, once ashore. We, therefore, need to be prepared to handle substantial enemy forces.

And bring exact change. Those sampan drivers are notorious.... [:-]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:34 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Aquarians? Hippies. [:'(] By Summer 1986, we were the Dolphins.

Not so much of a draft problem then. I once knew a guy that served in Grenada. That's about the same though.

Well, at least you wernt the "Gondoliers". [8|]

Oh, you poor, poor man. Were you beat up often because of it?

I'd rather not talk about that. [:(]

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:53 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Ramree Isrand is barely an isrand. Even the biggest esutuarial channels dividing it from the mainland are less than 500 ft across. I shudder to think what a malaria and croc hell-hole it was in 1945(a).

Jan/Feb 1945 Operation Matador

http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Lo ... -Feb_1945/

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RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:57 pm
by Walloc
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Ramree Isrand is barely an isrand. Even the biggest esutuarial channels dividing it from the mainland are less than 500 ft across. I shudder to think what a malaria and croc hell-hole it was in 1945(a).

Jan/Feb 1945 Operation Matador

http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Lo ... -Feb_1945/

U got Crocodile Dundee preped too, right?

Rasmus

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:33 am
by Moondawggie
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy




Dude, things must have changed in Pali between 1968 and my time at Pali high in the mid-80s! We tended to argue about important things: BMW vs. Mercedes; Maui 'wowie' vs. Humboldt Gold, etc.

I graduated Pali in Winter 1970 (The Aquarians); how 'bout you?

Of course, back then we had a draft with a one-way ticket to some nice big war-games our parents had arranged in SE Asia upon graduation if you didn't head off to college or end up with a high draft lottery number (my best friend got #365, which was good but not perfect; 1970 was a leap year, after all...)

Aquarians? Hippies. [:'(] By Summer 1986, we were the Dolphins.

Not so much of a draft problem then. I once knew a guy that served in Grenada. That's about the same though.

No, dude, I'm talking about Pali class nicknames---Pali itself was always the Dolphins, even when it opened in 1965, but each graduating class had to select it's own identifying name. In winter 1970, it was a close vote: 78 for Aquarians, 68 for Bacchanalians (hey---that was my vote!), 34 for "Stoned Dopers." The Age of Aquarius hippies narrowly won. See; 15 years later things didn't change much...[;)]

Me---I served in the Grenada invasion too as Navy Doc running a surgical support team---probably the only other Pali grad who did.

About that time Jay Schroeder was playing High School football there; he later led the Redskins and ultimately the Raiders in the NFL, all the way to the 1990 AFC Championsip game as starting NFL QB. Lotsa interesting grads from that High School over the years. (Don't even ask about Jennifer Bogart and her affair with the MASH actor Elliot Gould during her High School career when I was there...)

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:36 am
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


I think the idea is to hire local sampans or take a ferry to the mainland, once ashore. We, therefore, need to be prepared to handle substantial enemy forces.

And bring exact change. Those sampan drivers are notorious.... [:-]
A word of advice - don't take a ride with any Sampan operators wearing cloaks and calling themselves "Caron" ....

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:39 am
by Itdepends
You know the game allows you to march overland from the mainland to Ramree island and back again right?

RE: Hearts and Minds

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:49 am
by sprior
Yep, that's why we're going there.