Thank you - this made a lot of sense.

My fav part was when you said ammo 3 times in one sentence lol

Yeah, almost like ammo was the most important part of fighting a war.

Thanks for putting in your two cents 😀

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@Batmanzeenee oh well done sweetie, that's very good, we can all see how hard you tried!😁 Now enlighten me oh wise one... what do you know about using interpreters? I mean actual, first hand, real time experience in a hostile environment where some not very nice people would like to do not very nice things to you, and you wouldn't like to be friends with them either? In some circumstances interpreters can be an invaluable asset - FYR for instance, UNPROFOR, IFOR, SFOR, KFOR. Sometimes having a local on hand who can express to the bad guys "yes, we are going to destroy all of your weapons and ammunition, no, we don't care if you're holding it at the time" can save a lot of hard work. As I'm certain you're very well experienced with however, a full blown battle is slightly different to holding a VCP, right? Perhaps you'll tell the people watching at home what the military definition of "err, there's plenty of people" is, or what you're basing this technical fact on? Maybe you'll, err,

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umm, err, explin how your imagination thinks a dynamic battlefield can be perfectly controlled at the battalion level when a bunch of newly released sex offenders are trying to coordinate with a few thousand veterans of the noodle wars using incompatible network kit so no one can even hear each other let alone understand what they're saying, amidst the chaos of being overrun but actual soldiers? Let's move on.. being as you're a REMF, I expect you know all about support personnel and logistics. How many soldiers do YOU think it takes to support a Rifleman? When you're hiding in your air conditioned hangar with your little spanner, is it just you supporting Gaverick and Moose or does someone help you? Could your unit support an extra 10 aircraft with completely different avionics and engines, no spare parts, and all the tooling was in the measurements the entire planet uses instead of medieval ones? Let's move on.. as 'murricans would say, thank you for your service, and I do mean that

sincerely. Whilst I think your a gobshite idiot who's got ideas above his station and I have a.. let's say I don't think highly of the USAF -which we can talk about if you want - whilst I'm pretty sure you're not going to send me a Christmas card this year, you and I are generally on the same team. I'm a veteran of Belize in 88 when Guatemala thought it'd be fun to invade but ran away with a bloody nose and missing teeth. Six tours of Ulster long before the 'Good Friday' agreement. UN DMZ in Cyprus. Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia. Sierra Leone. Five tours in Afghan, four in Iraq. Additionally I'm not a REMF unlike yourself, so while I respect your sacrifice I'd ask you not to try to hold it over me and to return the courtesy. We can turn this in to a d**k measuring contest if you like, I'm more than happy to oblige you in that. We could accept that after 27 years service being shot, stabbed, blown up, beaten, held hostage, set on fire and returning the favour tenfold ol' Sharpie over here maybe just maybe knows what he's talking about. Or we could both scroll way and go back to looking at funny cat pictures.. entirely your choice, I'm good with whatever.