Some war activist stole a tractor yesterday on the mall, right by the Washington monument and stuff. I guess he drove it into the pond at one point, and somehow got it out. They have a lot of the roads downtown blocked off and stuff it's really funny.
As far as our advantages in the city, well we do have some. The new NODs (Nght Optical Devices, Night Vision) PVS-14s are bad ass. They are a single tube monocle. Clearest I have seen yet, you can really tailor them to your eyes. There is a laser aiming device know as a PAQ-4 that you can only see through your NODS, so it's not like your telling the enemy where you are, unless they have night vision also. Plus we use 86's, a red dot scope from aimpoint, makes sighting in when in a house super fast. Good pic of an M4 here http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/machine_guns/aimpoint/aimpoint2.h tml, and the full kit here http://www.black-ops.wz.cz/clanky/zbrane/799.jpg. So we so have some technological benefits. It's still hard. Booby traps, hidden rooms and doors. Tunnels. Nasty place to fight. Oh well we'll see how it goes. Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:12 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW? huh tractor tell us more? Yea i know i find it crazy that we broadcast all this crap i mean we basically gave saddam 48 hour notice thats crazy now he knows for sure its on and he can hit first or do something else nasty. I would have prefered if we just do it and then find out later we started its hard to keep secrets in todays world i guess at least secrets like a war and such :). And i think the Generals are going to be in for a big suprise i mean urban fighting as you probably know is still pretty much the same as it was in WWII & WWI it sucks our technology is way less of a factor in street to street fighting. Does anyone have to look back to stalingrad when the stupid germans had to try and take the city street by street? I mean its not going to be the same type disaster but just to show the point that urban fighting is going to take alot out of the troops. Maybe i could be wrong maybe we'll just sweep through and kick ass without many losses but for all our technology you have guys fighting room to room in a building you can run into ambushes you can run into things where our standoff weapons don't matter. Oh well i wish them all the best of luck, i hope the bonehead doesn't send too many of my friends and family to their deaths. My old boss if a FAC with a Marine Regiment who is on the move this morning. He's a major now and they pulled him from Inactive Reserves to come up and take over a FAC job, he used to be a chinook jockey but in Gulf War 1 he got pulled to be a FAC. Hopefully he is going to be alright, sitting in an Abrams is probably a pretty safe place about now. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: RE: WOW? T minus 48 hours (from 8:00 PM last night) until we take the gloves off. Kind of disturbing really. I mean the whole idea of fighting a war this way is really alien to me. We were always taught that force protection and not letting anyone know who what where or when were very important. I mean as it sits now you can go in any major news outlet's web site and get an order of battle for our forces, locations, key officers. It's insane from an intelligence perspective. Another thing that bothered me was what some of the talking heads had to say about the coming conflict. They had a retired general on NBC right after his speech who didn't think that the coming battle was any big deal. He though that we would just sweep right through Iraq and be done with it. Guess he never went on a patrol in a city. Don't misconstrue this to mean that I am against this action completely. I have some issues with it (most notably that no war is being declared, and I don't think that congress has the constitutional ability to hand off that responsibility to the president). However now that we are there, now that the decision has been made, we need to stop debating this as a country and support our troops. BTW how has the commute been this morning for all the DC members? All the roads around here are closed down for the moron on the tractor at the mall. I just wonder why they haven't tazed the kid and pulled him off the tractor. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:11 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: WOW? what did hw say, i missed it -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 March 2003 12:08 To: CF-Community Subject: WOW? I come in this morning and see NO topics about dubyas talk last night? 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