News from Ukraine Conflict

[OJsDad]

So the USMC is prepositioning heavy armor in Norway again: http://m.theweek.com/article/index/270353/why-is-the-pentagon-stuffing-caves-in-norway-full-of-tanks

Back to he good ol' days looks like.

You mean the President doesn't have his head buried in a hole and is making some proactive moves.  Or maybe he doesn't know about it.

[Centurion40]

So the USMC is prepositioning heavy armor in Norway again: http://m.theweek.com/article/index/270353/why-is-the-pentagon-stuffing-caves-in-norway-full-of-tanks

Back to he good ol' days looks like.

Does the Corps cover Scandinavia, and the Army cover the continent?  I ask because my reserve regiment once (in war games) went up against USMC reservists, in Norway, in the winter.  I wasn't there, but I'm told that those poor bastards really didn't like the snow and cold- whereas our guys were acclimatized to it.

[Gusington]

Uh oh now you've done it...prepare for incoming response from USMC...

[GDS_Starfury]

yes Cent.  during the Cold War the Marines were tasked to play in Norway.  shriveling their peckers in Arctic water just makes em meaner.

[Centurion40]

yes Cent.  during the Cold War the Marines were tasked to play in Norway.  shriveling their peckers in Arctic water just makes em meaner.

'k.  Woulda been around 1983.

[OJsDad]

yes Cent.  during the Cold War the Marines were tasked to play in Norway.  shriveling their peckers in Arctic water just makes em meaner.

And uglier.  If that's possible.

[Gusington]

^That's right smack in the middle of our own Gunny's time in, IIRC. He was probably shaving away a tobaggen path on someone.

[LongBlade]

^That's right smack in the middle of our own Gunny's time in, IIRC. He was probably shaving away a tobaggen path on someone.

Ha!

[Centurion40]

^That's right smack in the middle of our own Gunny's time in, IIRC. He was probably shaving away a tobaggen path on someone.

Yeah, but these guys were USMC reservists from Boston or NYC.  Smuck was a full-time jarhead.

[JasonPratt]

Considering how much of Scandanavia is jagged coastline, the Marines make sense as the Corps being divisioned there. Or brigaded or regimented or whatever (as leading elements for a division.)

[Gusington]

Gunny is a full time Marine forever.

[Centurion40]

Considering how much of Scandanavia is jagged coastline, the Marines make sense as the Corps being divisioned there. Or brigaded or regimented or whatever (as leading elements for a division.)

Agreed. I am curious to know if the US military has a division of "boots on the ground" labour in Europe, meaning assigned regions for the ground forces of the Navy & the Army.  Makes perfect sense.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Many planes. Are they trying t get us complacent about these bomber flights?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/29/us-nato-russia-exercises-idUSKBN0II27S20141029

[LongBlade]

Many planes. Are they trying t get us complacent about these bomber flights?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/29/us-nato-russia-exercises-idUSKBN0II27S20141029

Nah. They're just being nice about telling us how many missiles to buy before we start shooting them out of the sky.

[mirth]

In the biggest exercise, four Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers, a Cold War icon since the 1950s equivalent to the U.S. B-52, flew out over the Norwegian Sea in the early hours of Wednesday, accompanied by four refueling tanker aircraft.

4 Bears and 4 tankers? Wow. We can't repel firepower of that magnitude  ::)