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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/20/2012 8:46:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think there is another candidate for the bombardment TF but you probably want to get her started to SoPac now...

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/20/battleship-iowa-to-be-towed-along-california-coast/?hpt=hp_t2

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/20/2012 9:00:47 PM   
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Of course the Aussies are shiny, having been sandblasted in N. Africa for 2 years the customary dirt is long gone ...


They fought in Syria against the damned Froggies, I hope they gave them one in the eye for Uncle Helmut




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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/20/2012 9:01:45 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/20/2012 9:20:00 PM   
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You can take Repusle, PoW,


Firstly we have to work out where to take them.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/20/2012 9:37:30 PM   
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You can take Repusle, PoW,


Firstly we have to work out where to take them.


Yes, yes, but we can flesh out the details like where the attack will be later. It is bound to make the PM happy. I would suggest we take Turkey off the list.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/20/2012 9:51:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I favor Sumatra over Java. Burma or Siam is a stretch right now because of the current weakness of Allied bomber strength in CBI.

I like the simultaneous attack on Padang and Siboeret notion. It improves our chances of seizing at least one airfield by day 2 and we have a good chance of surprise. Maybe Sipora too, which has no airfield but is buildable and likely has no garrison and could serve as a PBY base until the airfield is built. Two airfields are harder to shut down than 1.

I see these benefits:

1) Chance of surprise

2) 2 existing level one airfields in close proximity

3) Very good protection/warning of JJ surface attack because they have to circumnavigate Sumatra to get to us.

4) Very good opportunity to achieve local air supriority over Palembang and blow the crap out of it once we have level 3 airfields.

Main disadvantages:

1) Crappy port

2) Almost impossible to recon.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 2:59:48 AM   
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Of course the Aussies are shiny, having been sandblasted in N. Africa for 2 years the customary dirt is long gone ...


They fought in Syria against the damned Froggies, I hope they gave them one in the eye for Uncle Helmut




Hmmm - like the allied officers on USS Missouri in a previous posting, these fellows all seem to have midriffs that are larger than their chests ... looks like you can be chintzy ... er ... thrifty - with the supply for the first month.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 3:09:19 AM   
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Is nest the collective noun for LYB airfields?

Cluster?
Cloister?
Clutch?
Hatch?
****load?

I vote for gaggle.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 3:01:08 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 3:14:21 PM   
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Who said you could vote? This is not a democracy.


Speaking of that, did you really have an uncle with the Hun in the Great War? I had thought it was some kind of literary reference that none but Englishmen would understand. You aren't one of them Saxe-Coburg's are you?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 3:49:10 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 3:57:20 PM   
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Lord Admiral von Sprior? It just doesn't sound right.


No, not really. <goes to look at map to make sure Graf Spee has snuck up behind me into the San Diego to Sydney oceanic super highway>

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 4:32:54 PM   
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Who said you could vote? This is not a democracy.

They don't vote in constitutional monarchies? Oh drat!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 5:26:26 PM   
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It has a nice ring to it. That's what I'd vote for if this wasn't a benevolent dictatorship..

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 6:18:31 PM   
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Go with the crows - A murder.

It has a nice ring to it. That's what I'd vote for if this wasn't a benevolent dictatorship..

"Benevolent"?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 7:32:36 PM   
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uncle with the Hun in the Great War?


No my real family history of war-fighting is:

Great-great uncle Killed 1918 This is probably what did for the poor sod.

Both grandfathers fought in WWII, one captured at Dunkirk, the other fought in India but he died before I was born.

My dad fought in Korea.

I hid in a submarine from mean Russians.



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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 7:34:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well if they aren't benevolent I'm sure not going to be the one pointing it out. I could end up making an opposed landing against elite imperial troops in fortified positions by myself with part of a field kitchen, $6 dollars in invasion currency, and a Tannese translation pamphlet...

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 7:37:48 PM   
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goes to look at map to make sure Graf Spee has snuck up behind me


We took care of that. You're welcome.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 7:44:27 PM   
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elite imperial troops


Such as these?






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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 8:57:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Two muscular native gentlemen 'assist' a disheveled american pfc with 'ARGOS' stenciled above the left breast pocket around a velvet rope and toward a seat at a table in John Frum's Kava Club. The PFC seems to have experienced some sort of trauma as he mechanically repeats over and over 'You cant believe how ludicrously fast those imperial troops are.'

First muscular gentleman to PFC, 'You will be happy to note that tonight's $10 cover charge includes a date and the world premier of a new play, Arsenic and Old Lace'

PFC Argos, realizing that things could get worse, snaps out of his trance and replies, 'But I only have $6'

Second muscular man, 'Well then let me introduce you to your date for the evening, Ms Sapphire "Choko" Nakamal'.

He motions for a large woman with pasties that look to have been created from the unaltered bases of a BL 8" Mark VII powder charge, who begins to move her 35+ stone frame towards the table.

PFC Argos scans frantically through a damp, tattered pamphlet pauses at an entry and then shrieks in horror.

The entry, 'Choko: a foul tasting indigenous vegetable; also slang for: commando.'


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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 9:25:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm guessing 35+ stone is a lot for an "exotic" dancer

I know a guy that happened to...and he was wearing shorts.


By ra way, since when do people in Idaho use "stone" for a unit of weight?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 9:28:13 PM   
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35 stone times ~14 lbs per stone = not good....

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 9:28:42 PM   
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goes to look at map to make sure Graf Spee has snuck up behind me


We took care of that. You're welcome.


Say, I've been meaning to bring this up before but I had a great grandmother by the maiden name of Heinkel. To my knowledge, she never did any aircraft design.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 9:32:43 PM   
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It was an unadulterated suck up to Lord Admiral Sprior... [/quote

A man of discretion and taste I see.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/21/2012 9:55:05 PM   
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goes to look at map to make sure Graf Spee has snuck up behind me


We took care of that. You're welcome.


Say, I've been meaning to bring this up before but I had a great grandmother by the maiden name of Heinkel. To my knowledge, she never did any aircraft design.


Ahh...so...

Confuscious say, "Woman who fly upside down will have crack up."

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/22/2012 1:45:57 AM   
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I hid in a submarine from mean Russians.

LOL, so did I. I was on the 637 boat (deep diving, fast attacking, torpedo firing, subroc launching, depth charge dodging USS Suckfish). Yours?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/22/2012 6:07:25 AM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/22/2012 10:10:23 AM   
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SSBN01, HMS Resolution. I was a Weapon Launch Supervisor.
oooh, a luxury liner! I was the Leading Engineering Lab Tech.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/24/2012 5:18:40 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 5/24/2012 7:59:34 PM   
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