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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 6:41:42 PM   
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Sorong: This was odd. We greatly reduced our air strength at Sorong for the big push at Lingayen. Evidently, JJ noticed this. I think they sent these transports to rescue their substantial force stuck at Sansapor (just East of Sorong). We spotted them and sent a few SBD's and TBF's to Sorong. Their putative evacuation effort isn't going to work. The LB-30 "squadron" (3 planes) at Sorong had a fun day.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Sorong at 84,104

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 3
SBD-3 Dauntless x 4

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Yubari Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Ayaha Maru


No torps for the TBF's. I blame the staff flunkie.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Sorong at 84,104

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Allied aircraft
TBF-1 Avenger x 16

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Yubari Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Tihuku Maru
xAK Kisogawa Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 15000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb


Thank God and Greyhound for the SBD's

Morning Air attack on TF, near Sorong at 84,104

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 7 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Allied aircraft
SBD-3 Dauntless x 4

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Tihuku Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 6:44:32 PM   
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Port Hedrand: ALSP does some recon by arty at Port Hedrand. Sweet Jesus! Look at all that stuff trapped there!


Ground combat at Port Hedland (57,129)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4109 troops, 136 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 206

Defending force 26947 troops, 98 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 605

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
2/11th Armoured Car Battalion
2/5th Armoured Regiment
32nd Infantry Division
2/6th Armoured Regiment
22nd (East African) Brigade
7th RAN Base Force
34th Aviation Base Force
10th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2nd Medium Regiment
14th USN Naval Construction Battalion
1st RAAF M/W Sqn

Defending units:
65th Brigade
66th Infantry Group
5th Division
24th Infantry Regiment
6th Guards Division
4th Infantry Regiment
22nd Air Flotilla
16th Army
56th Engineer Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Field AF Construction Battalion
51st JNAF AF Unit

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 6:51:59 PM   
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It's like Aldertag.




Is that when only old geezers fly the bombers?



Yes. And everyone gets a Traveler's Companion to deal with the prostate issues.*


*Note: This is something you strap to your leg, not a coed from SUNY willing to go with you to the Caribbean if you pay for everything.

The kind in the note sounds better.


It does to me too. Plus it probably isn't illegal as long as there is no quid pro quo, although I strongly advise you consult a lawyer first. Also, don't tell your spouse/significant other.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 7:10:21 PM   
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Not sure what was wrong with the LYB units at Shwebo to just fold like that. Maybe the air bombardment did it. All those poor Vengeance drivers accomplished something. Looks like they mean to form a line at the Irrawaddy.




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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 7:13:29 PM   
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Yes. And everyone gets a Traveler's Companion to deal with the prostate issues.*

*Note: This is something you strap to your leg, not a coed from SUNY willing to go with you to the Caribbean if you pay for everything.


Strapping a prostate to your leg? Sounds like a pretty severe case of prostratomegaly.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 7:15:23 PM   
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Where did they get all these damned fighters from all of a sudden?


It-ah carred rope-a-dope! Hai!

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 7:17:01 PM   
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Port Hedrand: ALSP does some recon by arty at Port Hedrand. Sweet Jesus! Look at all that stuff trapped there!



Yes. You do have a lot of Indian units trapped there. What are your plans for getting them out intact?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/28/2013 7:45:20 PM   
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Port Hedrand: ALSP does some recon by arty at Port Hedrand. Sweet Jesus! Look at all that stuff trapped there!



Yes. You do have a lot of Indian units trapped there. What are your plans for getting them out intact?



East Africa Brigade is NEVER going to be mistaken for an Indian unit although there might be a lance-corporal Singh for all we know.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:32:22 AM   
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I watched the replay. Prince William was indeed finished off by an Ida attack.

Here is what Eisenhower said about Mussolini's death. "God, what an ignoble way to go". The same can be said about Prince William. I should have left her at Iba.

Even worse, 46 years later a plastered captain of Exxon Valdez will spill 6 million gallons of oil in Prince William Sound. Let's not name anything else "Prince William" for a while, OK?


Both Bettys and Kates (and fighters) are operating from Leyte. There is not even an airfield icon lit up. Used to be you could count on that. Damn fog of war. Bloody, inscrutable little yellow baaahstards.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:42:54 AM   
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I watched the replay. Prince William was indeed finished off by an Ida attack.

Here is what Eisenhower said about Mussolini's death. "God, what an ignoble way to go". The same can be said about Prince William. I should have left her at Iba.

Even worse, 46 years later a plastered captain of Exxon Valdez will spill 6 million gallons of oil in Prince William Sound. Let's not name anything else "Prince William" for a while, OK?


Both Bettys and Kates (and fighters) are operating from Leyte. There is not even an airfield icon lit up. Used to be you could count on that. Damn fog of war. Bloody, inscrutable little yellow baaahstards.



Doesn't Prince Harry have a brother? His name is on the tip of my tounge..

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 4:35:43 AM   
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I suppose it would be even more odd if a Kate torpedoed Prince William instead of the other way around.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:00:23 PM   
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There is not even an airfield icon lit up. Used to be you could count on that. Damn fog of war. Bloody, inscrutable little yellow baaahstards.


Speaking of this, was the removal of airfield-icon-intel-bonus in an update or Beta? If so, when did this happen? Don't tell me it was removed under AE???

Or was its removal itself "fog of war"? This was a gigantic inside joke, right? It's like you get 3 feet of toilet paper stuck to your shoe and nobody tells you. Sadistic baaahstards!!


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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:10:46 PM   
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Yes, it was in a Beta. As far as when, that's foggy to me. The toilet paper thing, sadly realistic.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:22:06 PM   
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Yes, it was in a Beta. As far as when, that's foggy to me. The toilet paper thing, sadly realistic.


Probably in one of those .doc files in the Beta zip folders. You know, the ones I never read. I can't read a list that goes past 3) anymore. I can't sit still in a conference either. Perhaps Odin is punishing me for writing all those Adderall prescriptions?

Maybe the updates should be restricted to 3 items.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:24:10 PM   
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I switched the game date with the real world date again. All day yesterday I thought it was May 1. It isn't. Maybe a house rule you can only attack in 3 places per turn?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 3:30:18 PM   
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So many funerals recently I have begun to think about issues of mortality. Here is my question.

At what age should one start going to church again so that one's family has someplace to have a funeral other than the Masonic Lodge?

See, my point is you don't want to start too early because you know you are going to get tagged for donations and then there is the time factor and all the macaroni and jello-fruit salad to suffer through.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 5:15:14 PM   
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So are we to understand that you're not the deathbed confession / absolution / eternal salvation sort?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 5:29:40 PM   
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So are we to understand that you're not the deathbed confession / absolution / eternal salvation sort?


Oh, heck no. I pray often.

"Please, Sweet Baby Jesus, please allow the numbers to keep coming. I have all the numbers covered with double odds and I just need a couple of more passes to make the mortgage! I promise to be much nicer to people on the freeway......."

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 5:44:12 PM   
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Just watch what you put on the "Come" line. [fnar, fnar...]

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 5:51:11 PM   
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So are we to understand that you're not the deathbed confession / absolution / eternal salvation sort?


Oh, heck no. I pray often.

"Please, Sweet Baby Jesus, please allow the numbers to keep coming. I have all the numbers covered with double odds and I just need a couple of more passes to make the mortgage! I promise to be much nicer to people on the freeway......."


Much easier to sacrifice a "craps virgin" to the Gods http://www.barge.org/barge_glossary.shtml (see "virgin")

There is a story in BARGE lore where in 1999 we dressed a young lady (Beth) in a toga and marched her from Binnon's to the Plaza ... to roll for 33 straight minutes .. These were the days of 10X odds downtown Vegas ..needless to say this was quite profitable for the right siders ..



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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/29/2013 8:17:20 PM   
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Much easier to sacrifice a "craps virgin" to the Gods http://www.barge.org/barge_glossary.shtml (see "virgin")


I can see the "WWOD" bumper stickers flying off of the shelves now!

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 3:18:09 PM   
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Royal Machines basic training http://mattaustinimages.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-royal-marines-training-camp-at-lympstone-devon-photographed-by-matt-austin/

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 3:18:33 PM   
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Much easier to sacrifice a "craps virgin" to the Gods http://www.barge.org/barge_glossary.shtml (see "virgin")


I can see the "WWOD" bumper stickers flying off of the shelves now!


I am not sure about Odin .. but I can tell you what the ADB's [Alt Drunken Bastahads ] would do [see the same link for context ...]

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 3:53:58 PM   
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Royal Machines basic training http://mattaustinimages.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-royal-marines-training-camp-at-lympstone-devon-photographed-by-matt-austin/


Fantastically photographed. Send this guy to Port Blair.






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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 4:12:18 PM   
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Training for the big St. Crispin's Day Review.




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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 4:24:43 PM   
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Training for the big St. Crispin's Day Review.





The Cirque du Soleil are looking for replacements ...

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 5:50:58 PM   
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As an RN apprentice we were taught (made) to do that rope trick too. Letting go with both hands when you're 12ft up a rope is an experience.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 6:51:40 PM   
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As an RN apprentice we were taught (made) to do that rope trick too. Letting go with both hands when you're 12ft up a rope is an experience.



But no Julie Andrews music, I imagine.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 8:21:54 PM   
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I worked in Las Vegas in 1995, and there were $.25 craps tables at the Horseshoe. You could also get 10x odds at the Horseshoe. The following year Jack Binion offered 100x odds on craps at his riverboat casino in Bossier City, LA. That was back in the era before all of the casinos were owned by publicly traded corporations, and the owners were willing to take risks that might cause earning to slip by $.01 per quarter without worrying about the stock price falling. They were fun times to work in the gaming industry.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 7/30/2013 8:22:48 PM   
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To tell you the truth, at this point, I'm not sure I could get to the 12 foot mark without a scissor lift and oxygen tank.


No clean dress shirts today so I am wearing a Mexican wedding shirt. If anyone says anything I'm celebrating Treinta de Julio.

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