GySgt Cole

bumping with one of my oldest @GySgt Tullo @GySgt (Ret) Reeves@HM2 (FMF) Bezzy @SSgt (Ret) Derr @Cpl Melo and an extra just to tag the lovely @Capt Hito and @Capt Kardnal

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"A sweeping sunrise view of the city is known to urban explorers who climb the roof of Target, right off exit 3 of I-93." "From the edges of the downtown, one can see the new apartments that supply young professionals for the server farms and spreadsheet mines." "The First Church of New Sheffield is the main landmark of the Firstchurch neighborhood, followed by Clarana Creek Park." "Quaker High School, Home of the Boomers, is fronted by the thoroughly urban Crowley Park, which adjoins the neighboring project." "Early morning construction of a new pair of homes in the historic Firstchurch neighborhood disturbs neighbors." "Quaker HIgh's rear parking lot and basketball courts, like the rest of the school, are in dire need of repairs and modernization."

Hey all I've been playing Cities Skylines again and feel like showing off some pictures. I've been working really hard on my current city, handplacing buildings and most props (some building have included props). It's pretty detailed so far, for some perspective I'm maybe 20 hours into this build and have maybe 8 "complete" city blocks. I'll update periodically when I have new stuff to share, but if anyone wants to see ugly WIP stuff I'll throw that in too. "The comedy clubs and bars of the Riverside neighborhood draw crowds of the rapidly gentrifying populace through the night." "Revitalization projects along East Main Street bring young professionals, along with their startups and avocado toast." "Crowley Circle, a public housing development, is one of the last remaining bastions of the old East Main neighborhood."

I left because Bezzy touched me

It looks pretty meh, especially when I already own an uninspired modern FPS that still looks great and have literally 10x the content *cough* BF4 *cough*. I'll save my money for BFV.

Cole's non-fiction WW2 Roundup: I gave the first three of these books to a friend of mine who wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the Second World War. The latter two are also excellent books but more niche reading. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel Less a tale about the war itself, and more of an exploration of the men and women who fought in it, The Good War consists of long form interviews with 121 people the war touched. It paints a vivid picture of the human factor of war. World War Z (which is a great non-fiction read, by the way, and nothing like the movie) was based on this book. Note that this book is American-centric, but if you've ever had that longing feeling for a fight in a massive, global "good war" that your grandfathers and great grandfathers did, this book indulges that perhaps slightly dark urge. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector The Pacific Theater of Operations is an oft under-read theater by most folks, and this book widely covers it from the American perspective. While it is about the American perspective (i.e. doesn't go into great detail about the Sino-Japanese war, which tied up the bulk of Japanese forces and had far more casualties than any front besides the Eastern Theater in Europe), it does an excellent job of talking about women's and minority contributions to the war effort in the Pacific. This is probably the best one-volume history on the PTO. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder If you want to hear about the staggering numbers, terrible crimes and undertold stories of the Eastern Front (or Ostfront if you're a neonazi), this is the book for you. Very balanced in its approach to the epic struggle between two problematic regimes, the book is essentially the best well sourced popular history book for the long hidden war crimes of the Eastern Front. It presents the crimes not as a "who was worse! [political opinion]", but as a well narrated catalog of the massacres and crimes as they occurred, set against the backdrop of the war. I highly recommend this to anyone who has ever tried to defend either German or Soviet actions in the war. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime A narrow but expansive history of the rapid conversion of American business into a nationalized war effort in support of both allied and American forces. Goes into great deal about the relationship between Henry Ford and his son, Edsel. The numbers that American factories put out are hard to comprehend, even looking back from today. When FDR set production targets of "60,000 aircraft in 1942 and 125,000 in 1943; 120,000 tanks in the same time period and 55,000 antiaircraft guns", industry men laughed at the prospect. In the end, they outproduced those targets. America built more aircraft in 1944 alone than Japan did in the entire war. Note that this book only lightly touches on how this all lead to the military-industrial complex of the post-war, there's better books for that out there.

AOR actually is going away though AFAIK

AOR is going away, SEALs are picking up MC from what I've heard from O-1 Air Force Reservists on Instagram

BTRs are light mechanized, as they provide protection to occupation to occupants as opposed to soft skin motorized units.

you need to change one of these to "a siren is left on"

@Maj Jennings I can't post in resignations so I'm posting this here to demonstrate my total, undying command of the Meme Thread. You're the best memester this unit has had and were an amazing Team Chief that helped seal my love for Viking.

@Maj Makowski on any given weekend

@Capt Hartand the men of 8312 disembark at an undisclosed COP in Iraq, 2018, colorized

Unit websites that link directly to the forums with no landing page are lame, I asked for a landing for basically the entire time I ran S-5. The people looking to join large units (read: 15-22y/os not in the military or older guys who probably have prior service) love nice landing pages with cool aesthetic moto shit (and in the case of the older guys proof of authenticity and MISSION STATEMENTS) and probably don't care about load times since it's 2018 and people playing video games for at least 4 hours a week probably have good internet. Sure the page linked isn't the nicest shit I've seen but at least it's something Here's some of my favorites: https://4thib.co.uk/ http://4thmrb.net/ http://1stmrb.us/ http://www.unscdf.us/ note how two of them are MRBs which while they may or may not be shit units will catch more eyes than our website (the heist of 3dmrb.com didn't help) But what do I know I just worked in recruiting for a year and talked to practically every recruit that came through and spent the off hours talking to other units to see what worked for them 🤷‍♂️

@GySgt Specter @HM2 Boardman @SSgt Kozak and the immersion specialist crew

be safe in your hurricane if hurricanes are a threat to your vacation/business trip

Live footage of Command Staff Public:

When I look at what has happened to my meme thread