Nathan Wailes 🇺🇦🇹🇼

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@SoldiersWhisper This is the crux of the issue: "From the time he was brought up in church as a small child he was taught Thou Shall Not Kill, but at the age of 18 he was commanded to kill."

This is my father, John Hardy Fish. He did two tours of duty in Vietnam. He suffered 3 gunshot wounds and was left with PSTD that didn't leave him until his death on 2/14/2016. I was aware he had served in the Vietnam War but he wasn't willing to talk about it with me until I was well into my thirties.  He came face to face with two men he killed and watched die.  One came up on him in the jungle and Dad’s aim was better than his.  The other one aimed to shoot him from an airplane.  Dad's aim was better and he watched the man drop to his death and fall close to him.   He always wondered whose child he killed, whose brother he killed, whose uncle and possibly father he killed.  He said he knew it was much more but those were the only two that were up close.  From the time he was brought up in church as a small child he was taught Thou Shall Not Kill, but at the age of 18 he was commanded to kill. He said my generation could never comprehend what all soldiers went through over there.  He said he would wake up and have to walk past dead bodies stacked up.  He said he would oftentimes have to lay down in the jungle and not know if he would wake up getting shot at or a snake slithering over him.   #the50grandfinale VietnamWar #Military #Easter

@isaiah_bb A&A is more complicated than its reputation because the combat resolution process is such that you need a Monte Carlo simulator to understand what units you should purchase.

So when I said this was “basically just RISK,” that may have been a lie.

If you're feeling stressed, read the transcripts of Hitler's post-1943 military conferences. At least you aren't an adjundant to Hitler in 1945, trying to distract him from his hoe-scaring ideas, like restoring Germany's pre-WWI battleships:

@marvingardns no, it's implemented with JavaScript, you can play it in your browser if you go to the link.

@NathanWailes Hell I didn’t even know that. Through TTS?

Another game of sea control, of which there are far too few in this sub-genre of maritime warfare games. This one is “Shores of Tripoli” by Fort Circle Games covering the First Barbary War of 1801-1805, America’s first foreign conflict. It uses the Action-or-Event style engine where either the Americans or Tripolitans can play a card from their hand for one or the other. The object of the Tripolitan player is to launch raids into the Med to ‘plunder’ a fixed amount of gold coin pieces, winning by acquiring them all from the American player. They construct Corsair ships and can enlist the aide of the other Barbary states like Tunis, Algiers and Morocco. The American player has but a few frigates, and more are scheduled to arrive. Aboard these were some of America’s first naval ‘heroes,’ not all of them amiable with one another - James Barron, Edward Prebble, Stephen Decatur, et al. The objective for Thomas Jefferson’s Navy is to protect sea zones from which the Tripolitans can extract plunder and to either force a treaty upon the Pasha of Tripoli, or to overthrow him with his brother. To accomplish this, the American player can either bombard the pirate state into submission, and/or assault Tripoli with a joint force of US Marines and Arab auxiliaries under William Eaton. In this first semi-legendary action by the US Marine Corps, Eaten advanced over 500 miles to capture Derne in Eastern Libya with nine Marines, three dozen Greeks and around 500 Arabs. The game is flavorful as most Fort Circle Games are. I eagerly await receiving my copy of Halls of Montezuma by them, which covers the Mexican-American War. It has been on back order for almost two years now.

@TheNameofWar the M48 Patton is *HUGE* when you're actually standing next to it in-person.

The commander of an M48 Patton tank looks through his lens during Vietnam War, 1967.

@Bazooka_Chip @WeaponsVault lazada.co.th/products/pdp-i…

@WeaponsVault I have a small cross body pack for theme parks and not a fanny pack guy; however, I would utilize this in the right environment. Anyone know where we could snatch one up?

Not gonna lie, this look pretty innovative. Still won’t catch me fanny pack carrying.

@Quarktoro1 @OliverJia1014 that was my first thought too

@OliverJia1014 While it's not 100% I'm pretty sure this scene was an homage from the Simpsons. youtube.com/watch?v=9Gq3UE…

Rewatched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for the first time in probably ten years since Gene Wilder died. One underrated scene is the computer who refuses to disclose the location of the Golden Tickets. Hilarious, especially for 1971 and the AI world we live in now.

@JoePostingg I've been telling my older guy friends this. My cousin is a nurse and she told me the majority of the deaths she's seeing are downstream from falls.

My most crank belief is that we should be putting old people on anabolic steroids. The QOL benefits of extra muscle would surely outstrip any negative health effects.

@battlefieldexpl BF Skinner tried to convince the US military to let him develop pigeon-guided bombs but they didn't seriously pursue it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_P…

Yes, this is a piloted V1 Flying Bomb! During WWII, Germany officially considered suicide attacks incompatible with its military tradition. That did not stop the Luftwaffe from recruiting over 70 volunteers for the Fi 103R Reichenberg programme in 1944. They would fly a V-1 with a cockpit fitted just ahead of the pulsejet intake. They should not go down with the bomb but bail out at the last second. However the survival odds were estimated at one percent, at best. On 15 March 1945, Hitler was finally persuaded the concept was un-German. The unit was disbanded that same afternoon even though 175 aircraft had already been built. Approximately 5 original Fi 103R Reichenbergs are now on display in museums worldwide, this picture was taken in La Coupole near Saint-Omer, France.

@hw97karbine where did you find this video? I see more armor on the left, it's not clear what's going on.

View from Axis lines as a Sturmgeschütz fires on troops in the open at point blank range and a salvo of rockets is launched at Kerch in 1943

@HistorylandHQ is that a photo?

German supply train during Operation Barbarossa, Winter of 1941

@Mountain_Navy games should be played. It's just a shame it's impossible to order a new printing on demand.

New arrivals. Boxes have seen better days but it’s the #wargame inside that counts, yes? Definitely “player’s copies” 🙃

@Shin_chan911 I should learn Korean...

한국어 강사님 잘 보면 보임

@darrenrovell @propstore_com

The "butt birth" mechanical rhino from "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" just sold at @propstore_com for $59,850. The high estimate was $8,000.

@MAXIMUM_ODEN wow this really made obvious the difference between a normal sherman and a firefly, that firefly barrel must've been a nightmare to try to swing around in tight spaces.

バルジの戦いを記念してバストーニュに集結した戦車。シャーマン戦車に同乗するビル・ホワイト米国大使。

@nosilverv those are the bad books. Good books either use the extra length to provide examples to make the simple ideas stick (e.g. "Economics in One Lesson" or "How to Win Friends and Influence People") and/or provide a dump of "this is what happened" and let you draw your conclusions.

Ever since I read this (by Borges) I haven't been able to unsee it… Warning: infohazard

.@shipito seems to have missed a small plastic baggie of cardboard counters when consolidating a bunch of hex-and-counter wargames to send to me and is refusing to reimburse me the $10 so I can buy the game again...

@uskglasses youtube.com/watch?v=7R_il5…

I think I've discovered that eating five eggs with butter (good eggs, French butter) before bed helps me to sleep *way* better.