Quoted:
And...it’s me and my wife’s anniversary.  Almost forgot

Quoted:

Congrats! What did ya get her?

Quoted:
Y'all ain't too slutty this week.

Quoted:
10,000

For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine.  Kinda long but whatever.  I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics.  

My granddaddy left home in his mid teens, I can’t accurately describe his relationship with his dad without painting one of them as a “bad”, which neither of them were, but they both were hard people, which led to head butting.  His dad came through the depression, as well as other hard times, so he was not very forgiving or patient.  My granddad put the mules up one night and they stated fighting, so to keep one of them from getting hurt (mules were their livelihood) granddaddy departed them by putting one out to pasture.  When his dad came home and saw one of the mules out, he got mad (at a fault) and wouldn’t let my grandad explain, so instead of arguing, my grandad left, went up the road to his uncles and lived for a short while.  His dad told him that he would come home when he got hungry.  A few months later, his brother was sent up the road to tell my grandad to come back home.  Granddaddy said, “tell him I’m not hungry yet”.  Both were too stubborn to reconcile at the time, which they did a little later fortunately.

During this, Pearl Harbor happened and granddaddy joined the Navy at 17 and was assigned to the USS Downes, which was sunk at PH and rebuilt and recommissioned in California.  He always said he felt lucky bc most of his ship were veterans, he was one of a few new guys.  He was also one of the only southerners, so his Navy nickname was “Reb”.  I don’t know much about his Navy time but he was a “torpedo man”. ??  I believe he was in the ship from 43-45, fighting in Eniwetok, Truk, Iwo Jima, Guam, Anatahan, Sargihan, the Philippines, and other places.  

After the war, he went back home to S. Ga, farmed and owned a general store, then started the contracting business I own today with my brother.  As a kid in the early 90s, I would go to his house, and he would tell me about the war.  “Son, a boy your age ought not to hear these sorta things, but I’m gonna tell you anyway.”  He told me about bodies being hung up in propellers, islands going from post card beautiful one day to smoking ash pits over night, a storm that scared him more than any battle, whales, picking up crashed pilots in the ocean, and drinking beer on Jap islands after battles.

So onto my rifle.  Dad was born in 50’.  So sometime around 58-62, daddy says they were home, and my grandads mom called, asking if she could throw away a duffle bag that had been in a barn or building or whatever.  Daddy says granddaddy screamed “No” into the phone and hung up.  He and my dad went over to her house and he got the duffle bag, unpacked it, and this carbine was in there.  I don’t know if it was assembled or not, but it was packed away in the bag.  He started subtly crying and daddy, being very young and naive, asked what was wrong.  Granddaddy replied, “son, the man that had this rifle didn’t need it anymore”.  Daddy knew his dad for 46 years and says it may possibly be the only time he ever saw him emotional.  I don’t know why granddaddy forgot about the rifle at the time or how he actually obtained it.  I do know it was on a beach somewhere, and sometimes granddaddy would have to run a small boat onto these beaches after a battle, but I don’t know much about this, I just have to assume that’s how he got it.  

So daddy had the rifle all of my life and last year he came by the house and said “here, put this in your safe”.   So I guess it’s mine now.  It’s a Saginaw receiver with Saginaw S’G’ on the receiver, which is supposed to be slightly more rare than others.  Serial number puts it prior to May 43’.  It has an Inland barrel and RMC Rock-Ola stock.  It’s been shot some by my dad and by me as a kid, but it just sits in the safe now.  I don’t know if there’s any paper work on it or not, if there is, my dads lying, thieving, definition of evil brother has it, along with any and all other military records or information that I’ll never see.  And being he doesn’t have children, he’ll probably set all my grandads stuff on fire before he dies just so no one else will get it.  Whatever.

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/8F6B2BAA-2AB5-4000-AB24-F9BE44BE26CA_jpe-1390584.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/FB4ED4D8-BFF8-43FF-827C-991FE8EF7D36_jpe-1390586.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/A8B37301-6C8C-40AD-94EE-AE631532FEE6_jpe-1390587.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/22B622DB-DE93-4688-8012-6E2E2807F048_jpe-1390588.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/3612DF91-6693-4C58-9C9F-651D894E5C8D_jpe-1390589.JPG

TL;DR and all that, I still love you guys!

Quoted:

Conference calls are dumb as fuck.

Quoted:
I might do something stupid.

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/214090/20200428_131946_jpg-1390652.JPG

#deejthefuckout

Quoted:

Ah, OK.  I had no intention of being critical of your answer.  I was just pointing out that your Militia Supreme Commandant^TM was really having to twist things to make the Battle of Rorke's Drift into a modern scenario.  

BNR throws his PME hat on:

In reality, there is no real right or wrong answer to the situation posed there- and nor should there be.  These Tactical Decision Games/Exercises are meant to train young leaders in how to make decisions quickly in a situation of incomplete information and under stress.  They are also meant to be points of discussion and learning, which I suppose they are here as well.

Where your MSC is doing you a great disservice is presenting these scenarios without any training in how to solve the problem in an Approved Military Manner.  From what I have seen in his previous presentations, he is used to doing this for young Marine officers.  They have some training in tactics and such.

Now, you did have some training, but 30 years ago, and from the private soldier level.  Go here- Do this because I said so --- this is a good thing for your cannon fodder grunts, but not for the Elite Revolutionary Guard of Pioneers to overthrow the communist government in Raleigh.  MSC should be providing some resources for basic education.  It is kind of usual to teach first- then give the test on what was taught....

Now, that being said--- no one is going to learn to be Napoleon via reading one internet post, but let me help give you some tools on how to approach these critical thinking and decision making exercises:

Given a situation- quickly think through some things-- Who are we?  What are we doing?  What are we supposed to be doing?  Who is the enemy and what are they doing?  What is the general situation around us?  What info do I have and what info do I need?  How long do I have to prepare/react?

Or perhaps METT-TC.  
Brief overview of METT-TC

Some additional readings:

Operational Terms and Graphics- or what do those funny symbols on the map mean?

USMC Tactical Decision Making

USMC Decision Making

USMC Tactical Planning

Tactical Decision Game weapons guide, Marine Gazette

Marine Gazette's Mastering Tactics book

What Now Lieutenant?  9th Div, tactical decision making from 1975

Brigade Cdr Tactical decision exercises

Scouts in Contact- tactical vignettes for cavalry leaders

Armor Magazine compiled TDEs

4th Generation Warfare Tactical Decision Games

Quoted:
One of my great uncles brought an Arisaka back from the pacific, I'll never see it thanks to estranged family members

Quoted:
@kalahnikid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x6o_tBU8DU

Quoted:
Employer gives union workers the choice to take a leave of absence. 800 choose to do so.

Employer asks salary employees to work production while they’re out.

ha_ha.puck

Quoted:
Epcot could also be a good place to try lots of different food from varying countries within a short amount of time

Quoted:
And...it’s me and my wife’s anniversary.  Almost forgot

Quoted:

 I wouldn't read it either.  But AJ's Pioneer Battle Buddies group is lernin' how to do revolution things and stuff....

Quoted:


AJ will print it off and have someone else read it to him.

Quoted:
Spent all afternoon doing more yard activities.

Getting closer to being what Im going to consider being "done"

Just need a place to dump about a pickup bed load of dirt. I could load it up at some point and post of fb asking if anyone wants it...but thats so peopley.

Quoted:
And...it’s me and my wife’s anniversary.  Almost forgot

Quoted:
Spent all afternoon doing more yard activities.

Getting closer to being what Im going to consider being "done"

Just need a place to dump about a pickup bed load of dirt. I could load it up at some point and post of fb asking if anyone wants it...but thats so peopley.

Quoted:
Spent all afternoon doing more yard activities.

Getting closer to being what Im going to consider being "done"

Just need a place to dump about a pickup bed load of dirt. I could load it up at some point and post of fb asking if anyone wants it...but thats so peopley.

Quoted:

It's a good hedge against the governor trying to get rid of our mountains.

Quoted:

I would stock up on dirt as well.  Soon you are not going to be able to buy it at Walmart!!!!

Quoted:


Walmart!? Why would anyone buy Chinese dirt?

Mine is locally sourced, sustainable, vegan, non gmo, organic dirt.

Quoted:

But Colorado dirt has all those pot needles in it.  

Quoted:

I literally just bookmarked this post to read everything later, when I'm not in a Sudafed coma.

Quoted:


You could use it as a compost pile starter and then compost people you don't like. You know, like the founder of earth day did. You'll be one green mother fucker.

Quoted:



Thank you , BNR. Looks like I got some reading to do.