Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 3:30 am
You guys are killing CQ's thread....lol
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Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 3:32 am
48 PAGES!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 12:56 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 1:27 pm
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:36 amAnd I didn't have to spend a whole day looking back 2+ years to find it.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:40 am But, please. Go back the 2+ years of UJR and waste your time trying to find the one time I ever said something that sounded like I was speaking for someone or everyone. You won't see it once, ever.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 5:13 am
I learned that it takes this plane 10 minutes to turn 180 degrees at Mach 2.
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 6:21 pm
Refused his booster shot?
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:30 pm
Lest I continue
My complacent way,
Help me to remember
Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war,
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?
~unknown, inscribed on the Memorial in Hawai'i
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:35 pm
i heard part of an interview with a Pearl Harbor survivor yesterday. And at one point he said, "All of my life people have told me that they thank me for my service. I always tell them that you are worth serving for".
it made me think about that. he was obviously very old and there is no telling how many times he had that short exchange. But it occurred to me that no matter who it was that said it, that was his answer "you are worth serving for".
it made me think about that. he was obviously very old and there is no telling how many times he had that short exchange. But it occurred to me that no matter who it was that said it, that was his answer "you are worth serving for".
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:16 pm
One of the great mysteries of the December 7th, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Did a Japanese midget submarine actually penetrate US Navy defenses and participate in the attack on US ships? Photo taken by an attacking Japanese aircraft and I believe found after the war in the Japanese archives.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:28 pm
They're not sure, but so far they haven't really accounted for one of the subs, so I guess it's possible.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:42 pm
If you looked closely at the photo, there appears to be 2 torpedo wakes. They assume one missed. Look at the 3rd ship from the bottom of the photo- the one on the outside (USS West Virginia). You can see the explosion just as it starts to appear with a concussive wave toward the left.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:50 pm
*DecemberCentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:16 pm One of the great mysteries of the January 7th, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Did a Japanese midget submarine actually penetrate US Navy defenses and participate in the attack on US ships? Photo taken by an attacking Japanese aircraft and I believe found after the war in the Japanese archives.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:57 pm
"The commencement of war between the US and the Japanese Empire will begin with a surprise attack on Hawaii on a calm, quite Sunday morning". Quoted by General Billy Mitchell, 1925.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:58 pm
fixed Thanksstonedmegman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:50 pm*DecemberCentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:16 pm One of the great mysteries of the January 7th, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Did a Japanese midget submarine actually penetrate US Navy defenses and participate in the attack on US ships? Photo taken by an attacking Japanese aircraft and I believe found after the war in the Japanese archives.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:48 am
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:57 pm "The commencement of war between the US and the Japanese Empire will begin with a surprise attack on Hawaii on a calm, quite Sunday morning". Quoted by General Billy Mitchell, 1925.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/spe ... /91625442/In his 1925 book, “Winged Defense,” Mitchell detailed how Japan might attack Hawaii — starting at 7:30 a.m. with 60 Japanese pursuit planes destroying hangars and planes on the ground at Schofield Barracks, followed by 100 bombers striking Pearl Harbor’s naval base.
It was was inspired by a book and also based on a previous successful attack by the British on the Italians in 1940.
https://www.businessinsider.com/british ... ck-2020-11Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto conceived the Pearl Harbor attack and Captain Minoru Genda planned it. Two things inspired Yamamoto’s Pearl Harbor idea: a prophetic book and a historic attack. The book was The Great Pacific War, written in 1925 by Hector Bywater, a British naval authority. It was a realistic account of a clash between the United States and Japan that begins with the Japanese destruction of the U.S. fleet and proceeds to a Japanese attack on Guam and the Philippines. When Britain’s Royal Air Force successfully attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto on November 11, 1940, Yamamoto was convinced that Bywater’s fiction could become reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pacific_War
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:32 am
What's amazing he predicted they would follow up with an attack on US forces in the Philippines within 24 hours. Dead spot on 16 years before it happened that way.
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:21 pm
A B-17 of the 381st Bomb Group pops red flares as it comes in for landing, indicating wounded on board. Ridgewell, Essex, 1944.
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:08 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:23 pm
Maybe he meant posthumously the brain dead guy next to him
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:38 pm
A soldier assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as "The Old Guard," walks the mat during a snowstorm at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., January 3, 2022.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:02 pm
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/navy-s-13-b ... -1.1712708
The testing office said the Ford is unlikely to achieve its goal for the number of sorties it can launch over a 24-hour period, saying it’s “based on unrealistic assumptions.”
It also said that during 8,157 takeoffs and recoveries through last year, the carrier’s new electromagnetic catapult system made by General Atomics demonstrated a reliability of 272 launches “between operational mission failure,” or “well below” its required 4,166. Similarly, its system to snag landing aircraft demonstrated a 41-landing reliability rate “well below the requirement of 16,500,” the testing office said.
The testing office said the Ford is unlikely to achieve its goal for the number of sorties it can launch over a 24-hour period, saying it’s “based on unrealistic assumptions.”
It also said that during 8,157 takeoffs and recoveries through last year, the carrier’s new electromagnetic catapult system made by General Atomics demonstrated a reliability of 272 launches “between operational mission failure,” or “well below” its required 4,166. Similarly, its system to snag landing aircraft demonstrated a 41-landing reliability rate “well below the requirement of 16,500,” the testing office said.