Folks will quote page 6 for centuries
Now for the real question: how can we take something this simple and make it mind-numbing complicated so we can then sell a lot of systems necessary to make it work?..
Simplified Version of FM 3.0
Courtesy of the inimitable T.X. Hammes.
Folks will quote page 6 for centuries
Now for the real question: how can we take something this simple and make it mind-numbing complicated so we can then sell a lot of systems necessary to make it work?..
Got to
Love that.Originally Posted by SteveMetz
Particularly loved
this . . .
I've been wondering what the ACU is supposed to blend in with for a while now. . .Soldier: Individual speaking in expletives and wearing cool-looking digital camouflage that doesn’t blend in with anything.
Good read.
Matt
"Give a good leader very little and he will succeed. Give a mediocrity a great deal and he will fail." - General George C. Marshall
Well, it *does" blend with other soldiers who are also wearing it. I suspect it's the old thinking that says one does not need to be able to run faster than a bear, just faster than your buddy.
"The new Army BDU pattern seems to be quite effective, even in the most mundane of urban settings."
http://op-for.com/2006/12/camo_testing.html
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Last edited by Norfolk; 12-21-2007 at 05:19 PM.
Sources, we don't need no stinking sources
But where are the footnotes and bibliography??????? Let's hope the Chicago U. Press doesn't pick this up for publication.
My understanding is that it is peer reviewed and vetted by experts. However, the version we are seeing is the non-academic version. Somebody likely has a draft that show's the footnotes but they were removed during editing for space reasons.But where are the footnotes and bibliography??????? Let's hope the Chicago U. Press doesn't pick this up for publication.
Sam Liles
Selil Blog
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It is also important to note that no anthroplogists or other social scientists were called on to compromise their research ethics during the new FM's production. However two admin assistants did receive paper cuts when collecting printed copies of the annotated/footnoted draft from the laser printer's tray. At least that is what I've heard from usually reliable sources, taught at some military seminar by Steve Metz, who were involved in writing the original draft.
Everyone knows that we went to the new digital uniforms in anticipation of the future war with the robots.
"I can change almost anything ... but I can't change human nature."
Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan
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Like Tom Odom I'm a bow hunter. Sneaking up on a deer is one thing, but as a bow hunter I want to go in and out of public land without being seen too (unless I like watching my stuff walk away). Digital would be the last thing I'd use to hide but then again maybe not being able to hide is the inventors mind set? I was told that camouflaging a tank is like giving an ICBM a pretty paint job. It's only good for in barracks and nobody on the receiving end gives a darn how pretty it looks. Hence maybe digital is supposed to be "sexy".
Sam Liles
Selil Blog
Don't forget to duck Secret Squirrel
The scholarship of teaching and learning results in equal hatred from latte leftists and cappuccino conservatives.
All opinions are mine and may or may not reflect those of my employer depending on the chance it might affect funding, politics, or the setting of the sun. As such these are my opinions you can get your own.
Nah, they won't want it;But where are the footnotes and bibliography??????? Let's hope the Chicago U. Press doesn't pick this up for publication.
first of all none of the writers gave up their names; second, even if they did i dont think any of them are of rock-star status.
Last edited by Gian P Gentile; 12-22-2007 at 12:37 PM.
Great work here! Almost as good as The League of Disgruntled Majors stuff!
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I thought...
"The redistribution or impairment of biological functions intended to eliminate intercellular cooperation within a sentient organism" was the definition of "Happy Hour."
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No. Happy Hour is "The redistribution or impairment of mental functions intended to eliminate sentience within an organism""The redistribution or impairment of biological functions intended to eliminate intercellular cooperation within a sentient organism" was the definition of "Happy Hour."
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