Recent content by Sherwood4459

I find this rather confusing that there would be this amount of pro-Russian sentiment within Ukraine- or is it more of anti-NATO feeling? Isn't there alot of Russians in the Ukraine?  I think there is a long standing dispute over the Crimea, it was part of Russia but  Khrushchev gave it to the...

Didn't a unit of SF at Ft Devens do this years ago.  I seem to remember reading a book by some New Age guy who ran a program at Ft Devens that included yoga and I think Aikido. 

"Lt Flynn was punished for lying[making a false statement],adultry and disobeying orders all are UCMJ offenses. LtCmdr Dickinson also violated the UCMJ by conduct unbecoming of an officer and was given a punative letter of reprimand.Its best to remember all members of the military are held to...

I don't remember where I read it but didn't the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry have a point system.  They looked at the histories of all the units and gave them points for certain things.  The top scoring units are kept active the low scoring unit are dropped.  This may have more to do with...

Being part of the 1st Cavalry Division the brigade's line battalions had "Cavalry" designations.  I assume the battalions will also be reflagged with the heritage of an armored and an Infantry regiments.  Do other armies reflag units like the US does?  I'm not talking about something like a...

Is there any reason you couldn't have a mixed buy.  It is all well and good that you have two competitors but when you choose a single source you have granted that company a monoply for whatever system you're talking about.  If in the future Northrop Grumman-Airbus has problems with quality or...

Didn't the same article say that World War Two cost about $5trillion dollars.  Is it just me or does that sound just nuts?  I have no doubt that the Iraq war is costing more than the Bush Administration PR said it would, by a wide margin.  But I find it hard to believe that it would be in the...

The OPFOR at the NTC has VISMOD (visually modified)vehicles to simulate enemy.  Do they do the same thing at BATUS?

I don't know much about the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) but it sound like the US's National Training Center at Ft Irwin.  Can anyone compare the two?

Couple questions for wiser heads: -What happened with the old Hi/Lo Mix .  Buy a limited amount of top line systems and then a large number of cheap systems.  Does every fighter plane the USAF buys really need to have stealth?  Couldn't you get by with a limited amount of F-22/F-35 and then...

Blackadder Sorry,    I was talking about replacing the CG’s 418 foot 4300 ton National Security Cutter(planned 8) or the 360ft 3715 ton Offshore Patrol Cutter(planned 25) with the LCS. As for problems with the LCS, most of the problems I've heard have been with the Lockheed Martin LCS1 and...

Why Not -- Could you be more specific.  I admit that I’m no expert,  so I don’t see that much different between a small frigate size vessel with a big landing deck and a CG “cutter”.  Are you saying that the LCS is lacking something or that it is overkill for a cutter?

Can't the Coast Guard join Navy and buy some of the LCS's?  Why do they need their own design?  Are the needs that different? One of the things they say about the LCS is it will be config'ed with mission packages.  Can't they have a mission package geared for the CG?

I seen it proposed before and it seems logical - if the USAF treats the A-10 like its got smallpox and the Army needs better close air support-  turn the A-10 and maybe the  AC-130's over to the Army.  The USAF can then concentrate all it's efforts on high tech air operations in the wild blue...

This is most likely a stupid question but can't they make a tanker out of the C-17?  Is price the many reason? It may cost twice as much, but would you have to buy less aircraft?