This report is just part of what the Pentagon does every day, it war games and creates plans for every conceivable scenario, now matter how far fetched. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that we’ve quietly wargamed against Britain, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, all of our allies and friends or at the very…

I don’ think that this is scare tactics or fear mongering, this is just standard Pentagon practice, be prepared for anything. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have updated plans somewhere for what to do in the case of a war with Britain, or with Europe, or even with Japan again and I’d equally surprised if all of the…

No, EvilFd is correct, Total War means all out war where nothing and nobody is off limits, we haven’t fought a Total War since WW II. One’s economy has nothing to do with Total War, I’d argue that Germany started WW II off using the principles of Total War before they shifted over to a full scale war time economy. I…

FYI, it’s Lend/Lease not Land and Lease.

In a way our lack of large scale organization would be an advantage, it would mean no large groups of people who are readily targetted, not that any invaders would necessarily target unions or churches as organizations for potential uprisings. Regardless, at the very least it would mean that any invader would have a…

Thank, RIP was what I was thinking of. As far going to Ranger School to become an NCO in the Rangers, it was something that I read on SOFREP a while back, one of the main people there was a Ranger and helped explain things some but it just left me a little confused.

MOI, AMOI? I’m not familiar with those acronyms. All I know is that Marine officers, with the possible exception of Academy grads, go through OCS then TBS before going to their respective MOS schools and units. One of the reasons that I decided not to pursue a commission after boot camp like I was thinking of…

I’d have no problems if a woman wanted to become a Navy Seal and they lowered the standards, I’m not sure that there are really standards to be lowered in order to become a marine pineped, a Navy SEAL, on the other hand, is another matter entirely.

Isn’t there another course/school that you have to go through to actually qualify for the 75th? Or is that after you’ve joined the Regiment and wanted to become an NCO or Staff NCO? I get confused on how the Rangers work exactly since there’s the whole tabbed but not actually a Ranger thing.

We use it in the Corps as well.

What laws do the Kuwaitis use and why would they use Russian ordinances instead of their own, it’s not like it’s that hard to come up with laws, rules, and regulations.

I was going to mention Girls und Panzer but you beat me to it. It would be awesome if we could work out a way to do actually do what they show in Girls und Panzer but how to accurately simulate munitions that can create smoke, throw dirt around, and throw tracks without actually penetrating is beyond ne

Since we’re on the subject of Marine squadrons, here’s the unofficial patch from my old unit.

Sheer number of F-22s? We have less than 200 of them with no more on the way, that’s not a whole lot when you divide them across the US and other places, ones down for maintenance, ones devoted to R&D, & ones for training. In an active shooting war with a high op tempo you’ll have even fewer available as planes are…

But we don’t have enough of them so a lot of the work is still going to be left to our older planes. Our F-22s will definitely help but the question remains if we have enough of them to actually make much of a difference.

Very mature response there.

Meanwhile China is starting to sell to South America and is increasingly selling to sub-Sharan Africa, previously a prime pruchaser of Russian arms.

Because people are cheaper. You just assign a Petty Officer or a Chief to grab a handful of people E-3 and below and that’s all you really need. It’s only really heavy things that the military actually uses mechanical equipment for, all else you use lower enlisted muscle power.

That certainly makes sense, I wonder how difficult it would be to add a heater to these things? Worse comes to worse I’m sure they could devise a waterproof heating vest for the SEALs to wear while inside the SDV.

I never said anything about our total numbers, I was strictly referring to the F-22 and how almost 200 is not enough. And while we still have a lot of planes, I wouldn’t say that they’re way better. They’re very good but the rest of the world hasn’t been exactly sitting still since we came out with our Teen Series of…