Posts made by Redleg13A

The last unit I was in is over there right now…it is very frustrating knowing that they are over there…and I’m sitting at a desk…I’m not yet ready to give up time on the line it seems…

It’s amazing how quickly soldiers categorize “needed” and “unneeded” items after just one patrol…We have a saying “ounces equal pounds and pounds equal discarded”…

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have an incredible urge to go and try an help “thin the herd” so to speak, of these extremists…pretty bad when Al Qaeda won’t even affiliate with them…

Perhaps I should just start a new thread altogether then.

@djensen:

Cow has 24 hours to clean it up.

As for the thread, Cow was right, it doesn’t really belong in the Global forum. That, however, does not excuse his behavior.

Should it be moved then? It started as a discussion about using global as a training tool then morphed into what it is now…perhaps it would get more feedback in general discussion anyways…

@Cow:

I will remove the bulk of my posts from the thread. I just wanted the thread moved, house rules or general discussion.

Still waiting…

Gladly!

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32878.0

I didn’t realize we were enemies…

I have been having problems in a thread I created in the global 2nd edition category with a member by the name of Cow that is intentionally spamming and derailing the thread. He’s also sent insults to me personally via private message. I’ve reported at least a dozen of his posts to the moderators over the last 5 days with no results. What is the problem? Is this site no longer being moderated? The last activity from any of the mods was 8 months ago…how is that acceptable?

Can anyone clarify things for me…

Perhaps I should post all of the PMs he sent also. Mr cow claims to be a veteran and is apparently really angry with me for being in the military. I have reported many of his posts to the moderators so they can see that he is simply trying to derail this thread and is admittedly trying to troll me. I thought there were repercussions for that kind of conduct on this forum …am I wrong? I thought that part of the agreement that every member signs is that we won’t be discriminatory towards other members. Cow is clearly breaking that term of use…so, where are the mods I ask?

To mr cow, you never served. Claiming to be a veteran when you’re not one is illegal and there is a new fervor in the US to catch these phonies. You’re not nearly as anonymous as you think you are…

You drove?…that’s it? Where were you at?

Global is an introduction. It is good to show basic concepts. I had the first year cadets last year. After a few games of that we go down to the operational level with vignettes and a decision making process under a time standard. Then we go to the tactical level with the flames of war which has been modified to fit our needs. We’ve incorporated the troop leading procedures into each “battle” along with preplanned fires, mlcoa/mdcoa, commanders intent, terrain analysis, battle tracking, 9 line medevac/uxo, salt reports, and a living breathing opponent in real time. Oh, and they can’t see their pieces and they have to estimate the enemies location based off of subordinate leaders reports. Then, the consequences of the battle they’re fighting will be felt 2 weeks later when they have to fight the next one. That’s what we are working with in a nutshell.

When did this become a discussion about the validity of the state? You’re the one who took the first shit. Not me. I don’t owe you an answer anyways. It likely wouldn’t matter the answer I give. I sense a bit of tea party rhetoric with your comments about the necessity of a civil war and enthusiasm for firearms. Saying this is a police state is a bit of a stretch. Wanting a civil war tells me you haven’t experienced how terrible combat really is. The thought of my children having to experience the things I have is simply unacceptable.

I started the thread in global almost a year ago when I was new to the forum as well as new as an instructor . I started with global as evidenced by the pictures I posted of my cadets playing the game. I modified it over time thinking those that gave me good feedback and advice or showed genuine interest would like to know what was happening. You’re taking its place in the global section a little too hard. Why did you hijack the thread? What was the purpose of that? The moderators didn’t think it needed to move so what made you think it was your responsibility to kill it? Perhaps you’re omniscient and we are just ignorant of that fact. It was certainly a dick move. Explain it to me? Wearing your ideology and beliefs on your sleeve is never usually productive.

Also, when and where were you stationed if I may ask? And when did you got to benning for osut if you were an 11B first…

Read the whole thread.

@Cow:

Try playing Battlefield 4 competitively. It is pretty bad for Joes that have PTSD as the gunshots are realistic and the combat experience is relatively similar.

Good for squad based tactics against an equal size equally equipped squad. America is not always going to be picking on little guys forever. Personally I would never fight the Russians in a war unless the Russians declared it themselves, trust Putin more than Obama, trusted Putin more than Bush 10 years ago, nothing changed.

No….no it’s not. At least not my combat experience anyways which includes the battles of Baghdad and the second battle of Fallujah…the FoW allows for a company sized or more fight. Battlefield can’t simulate lack of logistics, enemy capturing your intel, or you as a leader only working with part of the picture from a map. You can’t use pre planned fires, co-ordinate close air support, or ensure each platoon stays on line to prevent gaps where the enemy can slip through.

Picking on little guys…seems to work just fine for them, if anything we will be fighting “little guys” for the foreseeable future. We’ve been doing it since we started this country. Ever since we’ve had an army there’s been some LT with his platoon all by themselves in the middle of nowhere tasked with doing a job that a battalion should be doing…the formula for success in a big war at the company level is pretty cut and dry. The formula for success in a “little guy” war is much more elusive because it requires finesse, study, and surgical precision direct action.

I’m migrating to the 2nd year cadet instructor position which means I get to keep the guys, for the most part, that I had last year. Also, I’m working towards having this instruction block streamlined into the curriculum at my program because it appears to be quite effective.

I plan on trying to get some participation from the Captains career course at Ft Sill to not only see where our holes are in the instruction, but also to validate the training. We have an ambitious plan this year, but with all the changes in cadet command, I imagine we might be able to get some official support to make this type of instruction more prevalent in an official capacity at my university.

@Narvik:

I think this link give a good over view

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic

I figure MacArthur would teach the Japs a lesson

Just like he taught the Chinese right?

@Narvik:

I figure the Allies would lose 200 000 men, and Japan lose 8 million.

If we compare to the Korean war, the western allies USA, UK, Canada and ANZAC lost 180 000 men of a total force of 1.200 000 soldiers. The Commie allies North Korea, Sovjet Union and China lost 600 000 men of a total force of 1.200 000 soldiers, plus 3 million civilians. The Commies had short supply lines and were defending their homes, but the western weapons, training and tactic were superior.

Japan was depending on ships for 90 % of their consume, and in 1945 they were strangled by the blockade, and USAF had bombed all industry. There were no way Japan could supply any fighting force with guns and ammo in 1945. Even if they had high morale and would fight to the dead, they would be using sticks and knives, against tanks, artillery and aircrafts. It would look like the Roarkes Drift were 5000 Zulu warriors was defeated by 137 Brits with rifles.

40% of all ammo in the Japanese inventory was cached on Kyushu…

Over a million Japanese soldiers were on that island alone…

Over 10,000 Kamikaze’s were available for the defense of Kyushu alone…not to mention the hundreds of suicide submersibles they had available…

They had mobilized the population to fight and even if 10% of them did that’s still a force multiplier on the magnitude of millions more combatants…

You sound dangerously like the intel analysts who said Pelelieu would take 3 days to pacify, Iwo Jima would take 10 days, and Okinawa 2 weeks…

I was being conservative and put my answer at a million ALLIED casualties…I think Pelelieu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa were accurate portrayals of what we could have reasonably expected to encounter on the home islands…but on a MUCH bigger scale. I also think Olympic would have been disastrous, at least at first, because there were WAY more of everything defending Kyushu than the allied intelligence had predicted.

Every allied intel prediction as to the disposition, nature, and time necessary to fight and defeat Japanese forces on Pelelieu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa was unequivocally wrong. The tenaciousness of the Japanese fighting soldier seemed to be underestimated by everyone but the guys actually fighting them. I don’t see why it would be any different during the invasion of Japan. Furthermore, they would be fighting for their homes, on their turf, with shorter supply lines, on islands…Nothing but the total destruction of Japan would have pacified that fight…

I’m certain if the invasion had taken place, millions more of EVERYONE involved would have perished…

Very disappointed in this series…The inaccuracies are simply glaring…not to mention they gloss over a ton of even bigger players like Zhukov, Monty (as much as I hate to admit it), and Eisenhower! How do you leave out the supreme allied commander in Europe but then talk about Patton like he won the war himself?! WTF? Then there is the marginal mention of major German and Japanese players…This isn’t even a cliff notes on this time period… more like reading paragraphs spread  throughout a semi accurate text book and simply ignoring everything in between…

Also, I guess the SMLE were the end all be all rifle on all sides of the wars! again…WTF

Since one of my kids managed to make it into a pic I suppose it’s only fair they both do…The top one is my daughter and the bottom one is my son.

Here’s everything I’ve gotten done so far.

And a closer look at the AA guns for Spitfire. (that’s my daughter creepin in the pic).