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Maggie’s Military Jeopardy
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If we were talking about the early 1990's when I was down that way, I'd say it was for most simultaneous cases of the Clap....
But I read that one of their chaplains set a world record for speed marching with pack?
On the helicopter formation thing... I thought that the largest helicopter formation ever was set by Francis Ford Coppola in filming Apocalypse Now? There was some record set in that 'run into the beach' scene, IIRC.
Cheers,
Sirhr
From their state of the division report July 2016. FWIW
Finally, on April 15th, the 82nd bid adieu to the storied OH-58 Kiowa Warrior. As a fitting farewell for the battle-tested and beloved air-frame, Pegasus conducted a final fly-over of 30 Kiowas, with hundreds of Service members, veterans and civilians gathering to witness. The formation landed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest helicopter formation in history!
Finally, on April 15th, the 82nd bid adieu to the storied OH-58 Kiowa Warrior. As a fitting farewell for the battle-tested and beloved air-frame, Pegasus conducted a final fly-over of 30 Kiowas, with hundreds of Service members, veterans and civilians gathering to witness. The formation landed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest helicopter formation in history!
Well, fuck. Okay, I have to admit I didn't expect that many records to be set at one post but they have a lot of great guys...
I don't want to give too much away but let me just say it's a record the soliders are proud of, but I'm pretty sure the post command wasn't.
Sirhr is pretty close on the timeline though...
PS, don't know if they still hold this record, but if they don't I REALLY want to know who beat it and how, because it's gotta be tough to beat.
Well, I have learned a lot about the 82 nd in the last few days but apparently not this answer.....
Okay, shit. I thought it'd be great because it didn't turn up in search engines too easily. I figure some of you may actually know this too, hell, some of you probably helped set this record!
They have the record for the most retail alcohol sales in a 24hr. period from the 24hr. shoppette on post (the shoppette actually holds the record) definitely in US (possibly global). Newspapers also ran an article after this called, "The Most Fit Drunks in the Army". As you can imagine, COC was NOT too happy about this. I knew a guy down there when it happened too, but I think he was still a German soldier at that time (now a US citizen, probably a 1SG somewhere).
The way I hear it, they come back from a long deployment (what, where I can't recall) and just fucking emptied the place. The way I hear it, not one drop of alcohol was left, they took it ALL.
That's pretty impressive, I've never seen THAT shoppette, but I know the ones on Ft. Lewis probably don't stock enough to pull that off. Then again, not that many people here and half have been usually deployed since 9/11 almost... But when I was there, I regularly downed a 12 pack or more each night, got up and ran 6-12 miles, depending. It didn't get in my way of PT, that's a fact. We'd have to hold onto each other during stretches and have to down a half gallon of water prior, but we were animals.
Read that alcohol records have been deemed politically incorrect, so I guess they may be harder to find.
Who has another good question? Some of you are awesome at coming up with questions, me, not so much. Mine are either too easy or too obscure.
They have the record for the most retail alcohol sales in a 24hr. period from the 24hr. shoppette on post (the shoppette actually holds the record) definitely in US (possibly global). Newspapers also ran an article after this called, "The Most Fit Drunks in the Army". As you can imagine, COC was NOT too happy about this. I knew a guy down there when it happened too, but I think he was still a German soldier at that time (now a US citizen, probably a 1SG somewhere).
The way I hear it, they come back from a long deployment (what, where I can't recall) and just fucking emptied the place. The way I hear it, not one drop of alcohol was left, they took it ALL.
That's pretty impressive, I've never seen THAT shoppette, but I know the ones on Ft. Lewis probably don't stock enough to pull that off. Then again, not that many people here and half have been usually deployed since 9/11 almost... But when I was there, I regularly downed a 12 pack or more each night, got up and ran 6-12 miles, depending. It didn't get in my way of PT, that's a fact. We'd have to hold onto each other during stretches and have to down a half gallon of water prior, but we were animals.
Read that alcohol records have been deemed politically incorrect, so I guess they may be harder to find.
Who has another good question? Some of you are awesome at coming up with questions, me, not so much. Mine are either too easy or too obscure.
This game has pretty lax rules, if there's another answer that fits then it counts too. Go ahead and ask questions, the more we have to work on the better this game is. Not what I was looking for, but it is a record set by the 82nd at Bragg and that's definitely within the parameters of my question.
I didn't know they canned the Kiowa... That's sad.
Damn, I should have got that one, down here in Australia we have a reputation for that. When I was serving in Darwin (the booze capital of Aus) my secondary duty was running our club, for the three years I did that we were rated number four in the Northern Territory overall for sales and many months we were number one. On more than one occasion I had to arrange supplies to be flown in from down South by C130 because the local suppliers could not keep up with our demand.
that was my guess.............there was a time murderers could go there and change their name and the legion would protect them......not any more.
US Embassy in Moscow.... across the road from the Our Lady of the Microchips chapel?
Cheers,
Sirhr
Ding Ding Ding... for the win!
More than 500 years. Don't f&^$ with them either. They carry corkscrews and toothpicks and Philips-head screwdrivers and tweezers and really, really nice STGW-90 Assault rifles with grenade launchers. Plus those pikes are sharp.
Cheers,
Sirhr
With all the protocols in place makes you wonder how they got bugs 10' up power an "other" cables,.. plus they were not even fried during the highpot protocol? The boggy man one strong on that one, or was he?
Ft. Meade... Spent a lot of time there. I have the coffee cup.
But the REALLY cool Faraday cage... is at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow.
So question... what is Our Lady of Microchips?
Cheers,
Sirhr
But the REALLY cool Faraday cage... is at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow.
So question... what is Our Lady of Microchips?
Cheers,
Sirhr
Our Lady of the Microchips is the 'church' in Moscow(?) that is so bugged, and right next door to the American Embassy (or something like that, I forget) that any/all confessions are listened in by a fleet of devices, simulcast to an audience of 'listeners'. It isn't just the confessions, it's pretty much anything that goes on in or around the building. I'm thinking there are devices aimed specifically across the street, too.
Or something to that effect. I remember reading a fair bit about it, long ago, and now I'm not sure what I'm remember. And no, I'm not googling the answer.
Or something to that effect. I remember reading a fair bit about it, long ago, and now I'm not sure what I'm remember. And no, I'm not googling the answer.
Russians were bugging our embassy there since the last days of WW2. Theremin planted a passive listening device similar to RFID in 1945 in the US Great Seal presented as a gift. It was a no-shit Trojan Horse and it sat in there in our ambassador's office for 7 years undetected and was only found by accident. It took the CIA almost another decade to copy it, it was called "The Thing" and was way ahead of it's time. Russia spent so much of it's time and energy in the past trying to copy us, and it paid off HUGE with the atom bomb, that they totally wrote off their own scientists --Theremin and this one rocket engineer in particular, they were WAY ahead of their time.
Theremin also pioneered the use of lasers (IR beams originally) right after WW2 to spy on us. It wasn't until nine years ago that a patent was filed in the US for the laser microphone!
Then when Russia built a new 8 story embassy (in the 80's?) they planted so many bugs in it, poured in concrete, that it was totally unusable by the US.
I wonder what cutting edge stuff they have today. The stuff we'll read about in 20 years or so.
Theremin also pioneered the use of lasers (IR beams originally) right after WW2 to spy on us. It wasn't until nine years ago that a patent was filed in the US for the laser microphone!
Then when Russia built a new 8 story embassy (in the 80's?) they planted so many bugs in it, poured in concrete, that it was totally unusable by the US.
I wonder what cutting edge stuff they have today. The stuff we'll read about in 20 years or so.
Speaking of WW2 and spies... Hitler's loss of this one essential war material likely changed the outcome of WW2 and the future of the entire planet. What was it?
LOL! Yeah, they're a limited distribution.
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You showed me yours....
Cheers,
Sirhr
I think the biggest help in the war was breaking the Jap code and the german enigma machine code............
^^^ Petroleum. According to Richard Overy's "Why the Allies Won" and "Daniel Yergin's -- The Prize."
Heavy water was irrelevant. German Nuke program was still-born.
Cheers... and welcome back!
Sirhr
Heavy water was irrelevant. German Nuke program was still-born.
Cheers... and welcome back!
Sirhr
Ok, new forum... new question...
In East Africa, during WW1, the Germans weaponized this... and won a battle in which they were out-numbered and then drove the English into the sea.
This battle was remembered in WW2 prior to Operation Sea Lion (which never happened)... and because they remembered... the British responded by doing what?
Cheers,
Sirhr
In East Africa, during WW1, the Germans weaponized this... and won a battle in which they were out-numbered and then drove the English into the sea.
This battle was remembered in WW2 prior to Operation Sea Lion (which never happened)... and because they remembered... the British responded by doing what?
Cheers,
Sirhr
Sirhr - I'm going for Bees. That's right, weaponized bees. Germans ain't the only ones that use bees though. Not sure about the connection to Sea Lion though, so I can't take it across the goal line (if I'm even right). (Was typing)
The only reference I can find is a statement by Harris in The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 saying "During World War II, a weekly Air Ministry bulletin ridiculed an old lady's suggestion that strategically placed bee hives be incorporated into Britain's coastal defenses, but Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris took the editor to task, reminding him of the battle of Tanga. Giving the bees somewhat more credit than was their due, he wrote; "The intervention of those bees cost us 150,000 to 250,000 casualties and three years of war in East Africa [sic]. So now apologize to the lady who made the suggestion at which you so sneeringly mock. Have her posted to the Air Staff against the apprehended invasion. Meanwhile, we are collecting bees; and not in our bonnets."
So, I'm guessing that they placed some bees about ...
So, I'm guessing that they placed some bees about ...
ADA... you even found the quote I used!
The action in the UK was that Harris got thousands of bee hives moved to strategic points all over the UK. And Home Guard troops were trained to shoot into the bee-hives in order to disrupt German advances. There were also thousands of pillboxes built all over the countryside. mainly by Farmers. There is a whole subculture of people who go visiting them.
Little old Lady's still have some good ideas... if anyone is bright enough to listen.
Now I won't pose it as a question, per se. But who has heard of the bat incendiaries that were planned for use in Japan?
Cheers,
Sirhr
The action in the UK was that Harris got thousands of bee hives moved to strategic points all over the UK. And Home Guard troops were trained to shoot into the bee-hives in order to disrupt German advances. There were also thousands of pillboxes built all over the countryside. mainly by Farmers. There is a whole subculture of people who go visiting them.
Little old Lady's still have some good ideas... if anyone is bright enough to listen.
Now I won't pose it as a question, per se. But who has heard of the bat incendiaries that were planned for use in Japan?
Cheers,
Sirhr
Yep, Deuterium Oxide. Heavy water, essential in the production of the atom bomb.
Sirhr, I thought of posing that as question when I asked about the one about the cat guided bomb, but figured it'd be too easy. But yeah, it would have worked but they had already funded the atom bomb and also the guy set the base on fire when a few bats thawed out faster than they figured they would.
It worked, too well I guess. The bats were huge, and loaded in canisters that opened up and dispersed them over the city. Thousands and thousands of bats with incendiaries strapped to their chests looking for a dry place to roost. Japanese cities were more than happy to oblige them.
I'd say maybe there's a point where the war could have been ended without the production of the atom bomb, but I think that was in the works long before and only became inevitable with that war.
It worked, too well I guess. The bats were huge, and loaded in canisters that opened up and dispersed them over the city. Thousands and thousands of bats with incendiaries strapped to their chests looking for a dry place to roost. Japanese cities were more than happy to oblige them.
I'd say maybe there's a point where the war could have been ended without the production of the atom bomb, but I think that was in the works long before and only became inevitable with that war.
Here is the pillbox map and info. Totally awesome stuff!
http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/uk-defence-locations/
Cheers,
Sirhr
http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/uk-defence-locations/
Cheers,
Sirhr
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