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Isn’t a Soviet Army more like a western corps, though?

In all seriousness. Before 2020, I knew of exactly 1 person who had actually taken a flu test and knew that what they had was the actual flu, and that was my grandmother-in-law who was tested when she was moved from the hospital to rehab. Everyone else in my life (I realize that I am a numerator of 1 in a denominator of billions) that said they had “the flu” had some sort of crud and got better. After the showing that the public health community made in 2020, who is actually listening to them any more?

This one? https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/product/the-bear-went-over-the-mountain-soviet-combat-tactics-in-afghanistan-les-grau-2/ it’s not really a novel, more a series of case studies. One of the Clancy sequels in the Jack Ryan-verse1 had a small scene in Afghanistan (or at least an area that hinted at Afghanistan). I haven’t read these, but I know (served with) the author, and they have potential. Not directly Afghan war related: https://claynovak-author.com/titles There are a lot of story-ish books, not sure if they count as novels: https://www.amazon.com/Bravo-Company-Afghanistan-Deployment-Aftermath/dp/1419751158 https://www.amazon.com/Red-Platoon-Story-American-Valor/dp/1101984333 https://www.amazon.com/Into-Fire-Dakota-Meyer-Bing-West-audiobook/dp/B009GBVDSC https://www.amazon.com/NUMBER-25-personal-American-Afghan/dp/B0F67M739Q https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Platoon-audiobook/dp/B007EJSJX0/ https://www.amazon.com/The-Chosen-Few-audiobook/dp/B07CY2RL2M/ https://www.amazon.com/Damn-Valley-Airborne-Arghandab-Afghanistan/dp/B0CTN3MT53 https://www.amazon.com/Lions-of-Kandahar-audiobook/dp/B0082EH80G https://www.amazon.com/000-Days-War-Firsthand-Operator/dp/1955026432 https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-2-1-Bravo-Paratrooper-Afghanistan-ebook/dp/B089SB8WKG

What is Rybar.ru? I would really like to see a legitimate source for this one!

There’s checking the box and there’s real issues. So a sniper is supposed to qualify each year, both day and night. Suppose it’s a busy time, say (just for grins) a campaign season. A sniper who qualifies at night on day 364 is probably just as good on day 366 as the one who qualifies both day and night, or the one that is on day 363. Skills just don't atrophy that way. Second, it says that some snipers didn’t conduct annual day qualification in the 1st and 2nd quarters- so does that mean that they were actually out of tolerance, or just didn’t do the quail in that quarter. Anyway, i don’t think this is a big deal.

Again before my time, but we could put all of the .50s on a tripod and dig it in if necessary. AFAIK, TOWs, too. I never saw/used TOWs during my limited mech inf time. IIRC, the tripod and ring mounts would be a separate line items on the TOE.

The .50c in the HQs was for the supply 2-1/2t truck, likewise in the maint section it would have gone on the 2-1/2t. Of course, one could put it on the jeeps. My time is after this, but the complete TOE (not the pics from the ST) should show ring mounts for the 2-1/2 or pedestal mount for the jeep. But those might have been authorized in other ways than as end items on the TOE.

DTIC has the 1981 ST 17-1-1: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA115855.pdf

Our reference library did not see that TOE number. What unit are you looking for? Tank and mech infantry battalions?

f you mean both armored infantry and mech infantry, then we would not have that. But both armored and mech infantry divisions standard TOEs, as well as MTOEs, would have battalions of both armor (tank) and mech infantry.

Let me check at work. We should have it.

Bad idea if it’s on our own. Partnered ops are different- I have no doubt that were already working with every military and LE org that we can safely work with. I’ve been a soldier my whole adult life- literally completed initial training before I turned 18. But this isn’t a military problem, and there is no military solution. At best, military ops can be a component of the solution, but leading foreign policy with the military hasn’t panned out so well, especially without a declaration of war.

Remorse? For saving an estimated 5 MILLION lives by ending the war, instead of a conventional fight thru the Japanese home islands? And for ending a vile, sadistic, military regime, see Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March, etc. Remorse? Forget about it.

Interesting, but irrelevant. The Constitution, linked above, gives the Congress discrete powers- Avery explicit and detailed list. Which of those powers is this particular monument executing?

Which article in the Constitution authorizes the fed.gov to confiscate money from people for this kind of thing? https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text