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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 4:25:28 PM

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**************Darwin/Katherine Link-up************

All the B-17's at Merauke and perhaps half the B-24's at Alice can now soften up the LYB's at Katherine. When Darwin airfield is rebuilt, some of the heavies can move there.

I will send the armor, the USMC combat engineers the arty and proably 2 regiments of Marines South. Aus I Corps can rest and refit and start prepping for your Sumatra thingy.

Probably we should sent something to cut off the track to Wyndham.

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:26:18 PM

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Dr. Grumpy's patient quote of the day:

"I have a huge pituitary tumor. They told me it was pressing on my sciatic nerve."

"huge" would be the right adjective, then.

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:39:59 PM

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Even though a few units at Katherine are in the red, the supplies are very close to meeting needs and I think we could try an attack after a couple of days of bombing. On the other hand, we could wait for help from the North.

If I were JJ, I think I would try to get the best units out of Katherine and leave a rear guard, hoping the retreating units from Darwin can get out over the desert. They are really in a bad spot trying to hold Katherine.

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:47:27 PM

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 6:43:50 PM

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As you hit those units retreating from Darwin they will attempt to draw supplies, in case Katherine has any. Making them retreat continuously would be best and give your attacking units more and more experience.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 3:12:56 PM

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Stalker Girl is reading Fifty Shades of Grey. Help! If I stop posting for more than 3 d somebody send a small, agile SCTF to look for me. And bring a hacksaw.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 4:09:49 PM

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************Bali Hai Club, Perth, Jan. 6, 1943(c)***************

<There is a sursuration in the club as two sergeants of the Royal Military Police stride up to the bar. A man in fine linen slacks quickly greets them>

Man in fine linen slacks: Good afternoon, gentlemen. What would you like? It's on the house.

Sergeant Jones: Sorry, governor, we are on duty. Are you the proprietor?

Man in fine linen slacks: Strictly speaking I am acting as a fiduciary, with stipend, for the General Partner.

Sergeant Jones: Ah, may we speak to the General Partner, then?

Man in fine linen slacks: Yes.

Sergeant Jones: Well?

Man in fine linen slacks: Well what?

Sergeant Jones: Well, governor, you said we could speak to the General Partner?

Man in fine linen slacks: You are.

Sergeant Jones: We are what?

Man in fine linen slacks: Speaking to the General Partner.

Sergeant Jones: I thought you said you were the fiduciary?

Man in fine linen slacks: Yes.

Sergeant Jones: So you are both then?

Man in fine linen slacks: Yes.

Sergeant Jones: Why didn't you say so?

Man in fine linen slacks: I just did.

Sergeant Jones: <shows some frustration> Look, this question is for the General Partner. We are looking for a certain Sergeant Dada previously in the employ of His Majesty. Do you know of him?

Man in fine linen slacks: I'm afraid you will have to wait for the LLC meeting in April to adress your questions to the General Partner.

Sergeant Jones: But you are here now?

Man in fine linen slacks: Yes, but it would be improper for me to comment without the permission of the LLC public relations subcommittee.

Sergeant Jones: <beginning to get angry> Well, may we speak to the fidcuiary, then?

Man in fine linen slacks: Ah, why didn't you say so? What can I do for you gentlemen?

Sergeant O'Boyle: It's about Sergeant Dada, sir. We have reason to believe he is in your employ?

Man in fine linen slacks: But wouldn't that be against regulations?

Sergeant Jones: Yes, several.

Man in fine linen slacks: Ah, what does he look like then?

Sergeant Jones: He's black.

Man in fine linen slacks: All black?

Sergeant Jones: What do you mean all black, sir?

Man in fine linen slacks: Well, I mean is he black in entirety?

Sergeant O'Boyle: No sir, not LITERALLY. He's African, sir.

Man in fine linen slacks: Ahhhh, AFRICAN! About 5 ft 10?

Sergeant Jones: Yes.

Man in fine linen slacks: Stocky?

Sergeant O'Boyle: YES!

Man in fine linen slacks: Short cropped hair, mid to late 20's, thick accent? Boastful fellow?

Sergeant Jones: YES! YES! YES!

Man in fine linen slacks: Jack Muslim?

Sergeant Jones: YES! THAT"S HIM!!

Man in fine linen slacks: Never seen the man......

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 4:12:37 PM

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Did I use that Fifty Shades of Grey joke already?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 6:31:28 PM

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Did I use that Fifty Shades of Grey joke already?

No, you just forgot that you haven't forgotten ...

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 6:38:29 PM

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Did I use that Fifty Shades of Grey joke already?

If we told you that it was in the manual, would you reference it to prove us wrong?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 9:11:41 PM

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Inside HMS Plymouth, she looks remarkably like the Galatea when I was on her.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 10:25:07 PM

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What is with the floral upholstery?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 10:30:40 PM

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Cool bar. Not sure what the plaid thingy is for? Maybe the for the Glenlivet?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/14/2012 10:54:43 PM

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I was kidding about the bar until I just saw the Heineken bottles?? Maybe Becks?

Anyway, the question I have is could you really order a beer aboard a Royal Navy vessel? I know the rum ration was abolished a long time ago.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 12:08:08 AM

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Inside HMS Plymouth, she looks remarkably like the Galatea when I was on her.

You served on Galatea? Did you serve in the Falklands war?
I thought you were a sub-mariner?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 6:18:34 AM

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What is with the floral upholstery?

One word: Wardroom

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 6:20:09 AM

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Not sure what the plaid thingy is for? Maybe the for the Glenlivet?

Probably, it looks like the spirits locker.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 6:21:25 AM

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You served on Galatea? Did you serve in the Falklands war?
I thought you were a sub-mariner?

I did. I didn't.

There's no - in submariner and I was after serving on the Galatea.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 6:29:12 AM

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Anyway, the question I have is could you really order a beer aboard a Royal Navy vessel? I know the rum ration was abolished a long time ago.

Yes you can. The Junior Rates are limited to 3 tins a day. On Resolution we had a bar with a pump and a spirits bar. Strict bar hours were supposed to be kept but we agreed to keep the spirits bar locked at sea in exchange for a 24 hour bear bar.

Then I saw this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1111603/What-shall-17-000-drunken-sailors-Survey-reveals-shocking-extent-alcohol-abuse-Royal-Navy.html

Duh.
They paid people to find this out?

The researchers said that there was a tendency for sailors to �alternate between restraint while at sea and the opportunity for excess while on shore�.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 2:01:51 PM

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You served on Galatea? Did you serve in the Falklands war?
I thought you were a sub-mariner?

I did. I didn't.

There's no - in submariner and I was after serving on the Galatea.

(Nods sagely) Yes, I have heard some navies put everyone through a surface cruise first in hopes that afterwards the sub boys will remember that not ALL surface ships are hostile.

From the stories, I don't believe it works.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 3:56:36 PM

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What is with the floral upholstery?

One word: Wardroom

So you are saying the officer's did it? Weren't there any gay officers with a sense of style? I'm thinking hunter green leather and mohogany chairs with sudued greys and greens for the partition, perhaps an island/jungle motif ...and of course, classic white tablecloth.

Perhaps I have overshared?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 6:29:38 PM

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What is with the floral upholstery?

One word: Wardroom

So you are saying the officer's did it? Weren't there any gay officers with a sense of style? I'm thinking hunter green leather and mohogany chairs with sudued greys and greens for the partition, perhaps an island/jungle motif ...and of course, classic white tablecloth.

Perhaps I have overshared?

Alert! Dont ask Don't tell! Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 6:40:28 PM

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You served on Galatea? Did you serve in the Falklands war?
I thought you were a sub-mariner?

I did. I didn't.

There's no - in submariner and I was after serving on the Galatea.

Yeah, I know there is no hyphen, but it makes me grit my teeth

every time someone [including many newscasters] pronounce it "submarine-er". I put the hyphen in so that readers would keep the word "mariner" intact.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 8:29:44 PM

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hopes that afterwards the sub boys will remember that not ALL surface ships are hostile.

They're not, they're targets.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 9:31:46 PM

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Some posters

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/15/2012 11:26:25 PM

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Yeah, I know there is no hyphen, but it makes me grit my teeth every time someone [including many newscasters] pronounce it "submarine-er". I put the hyphen in so that readers would keep the word "mariner" intact.

Actually, I've read (in O'Kane's books) that the preferred pronunciation accents the I, since keeping the normal pronunciation of mariner implies that the guys are less than full mariners. What say the rest of you with modern naval experience?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/16/2012 5:11:19 AM

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Some posters

Interesting artwork - the artist who did this poster:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/9333793/British-World-War-Two-propaganda-artworks-released-on-Wikipedia.html#?frame=2249283
must have been prescient: he drew a nuclear cooling tower in the middle of all those chimneys!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/16/2012 5:14:44 AM

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Yeah, I know there is no hyphen, but it makes me grit my teeth every time someone [including many newscasters] pronounce it "submarine-er". I put the hyphen in so that readers would keep the word "mariner" intact.

Actually, I've read (in O'Kane's books) that the preferred pronunciation accents the I, since keeping the normal pronunciation of mariner implies that the guys are less than full mariners. What say the rest of you with modern naval experience?

Interesting perspective. I took my pronunciation cue from submariners I met while I was in the services.
To me a submarIner sounds like a sandwich maker at Subway ...

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/16/2012 12:18:13 PM

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Another good day:

Ground combat at Katherine (76,128)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27026 troops, 619 guns, 847 vehicles, Assault Value = 1333

Defending force 14224 troops, 189 guns, 64 vehicles, Assault Value = 286

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Allied adjusted assault: 2075

Japanese adjusted defense: 184

Allied assault odds: 11 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Katherine !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
5874 casualties reported
Squads: 223 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 95 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 74 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 122 (103 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Vehicles lost 56 (56 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
402 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Motor Brigade
3rd Army Tank Brigade
3rd Motor Brigade
9th Australian Brigade
6th Australian Brigade
2/4th Armoured Regiment
4th Armoured Brigade
18th British Division
205th Field Artillery Battalion
I Australian Corps
108th Tank Attack Regiment
NW Australia Base Force
1st Medium Regiment

Defending units:
20th Division
38th/C Division

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/16/2012 12:19:04 PM

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What say the rest of you with modern naval experience?

There's only me, the rest are pongoes, crabs or civvies.

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