History, Politics And Current Affairs

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2026 9:45 pm I'll admit, I always thought we needed a half dozen more Kidd class

The Ayatollah’s Gift to the USN… we needed something like a dozen of them…

Lordroel wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2026 11:10 pm

Wolfman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2026 10:56 pm
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OOC: should now be fixed.

Yep, it is!

Lordroel wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2026 5:11 pm Photo: HMS Hermes (R12) during a convoy mission, photo was taken in 1986 before she was damaged by Soviet ‘Backfire’ bombers and sunk by a Soviet submarine while limping back to a British port.

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Even if work on the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) isn’t sped up for the war, she’d still be ready by late 1986…

Any time from late October 1986 through to the end of the war works for using the Theodore Roosevelt…

Why would an Atlantic Fleet Tomcat be in the Indian Ocean, unless it’s during CVW-8’s Odyssey to get back home after Nimitz was damaged…

By the way, Matt, Pratt & Whitney doesn’t build the F110 engine, General Electric does. You might want to correct that…

Yes. After he started his Leavenworth course. That’s what I thought. Hopefully he earned himself some time in the Hole for his reaction to the picture… Frequent visitor to keep the other convicts from killing him. Maybe the guards also. All the guards have to do is look the other way and another co...

Sam Neill died within the last day…

Senator Lindsey Graham has died. How do we want our characters to react to this?

The NTSB certainly was at the beginning of the war, and the accident investigators knew it…

Those guys get upset about the weirdest things…

I remember you complaining about that on an earlier incarnation of the board, Matt. That, and they wanted us to disable our ejection seats. Again, the supervisor was much more understanding after a Check Ride where I explained that it made no sense to not have operational ejection seats-and that Mi...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2026 9:09 pm If I remember correctly, it worked perfectly. It brought down every aircraft that tried launching it.

Ah, it worked out in our favor, not Ivan’s. I wonder how many people got sent to the gulag or shot for the failure?

And another legend has passed away: Bonnie Taylor has died within the last few days…

Quite the interesting divert, indeed, Matt.

Candygram for Mongo!

I’m guessing that it didn’t work.

I remember you complaining about that on an earlier incarnation of the board, Matt.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:32 am One of the HH-3Es that then-Capt. (now Lt. Col., ret.) Bev Lynne flew during the war. This was at a postwar air show at Beale AFB, CA, prior to the AF Academy returning to Colorado Springs in 1998:

Isn’t that bird in the Euro 2 scheme?