Kiowas Retired from Army Service

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mirth

July 31, 2015, 11:07:58 AM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Mr. Bigglesworth

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July 31, 2015, 11:41:13 AM
That's kinda sad. Drones make better scouts, no doubt about it.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; "
- Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598

mirth

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July 31, 2015, 11:53:54 AM
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on July 31, 2015, 11:41:13 AM
That's kinda sad. Drones make better scouts, no doubt about it.


Drones can't land and talk with the ground pounders about where they need fire support.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Mr. Bigglesworth

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July 31, 2015, 11:57:44 AM
Got comms? Landing the helo for a chat seems dangerous.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; "
- Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598

bayonetbrant

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July 31, 2015, 12:10:40 PM
it happens.  a lot.
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mirth

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July 31, 2015, 04:06:17 PM
Brant, I have an unrelated question for you, but I don't want to start a new thread for it. What's the likelihood that an American FAC, capable of calling A-10 support, would be embedded with a West German territorial unit in about 1985. Assume that WWIII has broken out and an American unit is backstopping the Germans.

I ask because it came up in a game I played last weekend.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

#6
July 31, 2015, 04:15:33 PM
And I'm talking division-level for the Germans. Division, or higher, for the Americans.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bayonetbrant

#7
August 01, 2015, 07:51:45 AM
Not improbable.  There were several German divisions that were TACON to US corps HQs in the war plans, so including US FACs in their DIV HQs isn't unreasonable.

That said, if you can find an AF guy from back then, he could tell you if there was ever anyone actually assigned that mission on a planned/expected basis.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

mirth

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August 01, 2015, 08:06:10 AM
Thanks. I was mainly looking for a general sense of probability. It's not a big deal, just a game thing. Sounds like it's at least plausible.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus
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