When I was in the air force I had to buy my own everyday uniforms. They issued us any "special" gear like parkas and gloves.Nope
When I was in the air force I had to buy my own everyday uniforms. They issued us any "special" gear like parkas and gloves.Nope
I edited to cover all cases.When I was in the air force I had to buy my own everyday uniforms. They issued us any "special" gear like parkas and gloves.
When I was in the air force I had to buy my own everyday uniforms. They issued us any "special" gear like parkas and gloves.
Seem to be enjoying themselves in the commentary.
@SSG T or someone else can comment, but I think the U.S. has for a long time provided a uniform allowance, and it's on the members to buy their own uniforms (desire being to put the onus on them to take care of them, I guess).
Close. Looked like this:
It depends.
Generally, enlisted get their uniforms provided, officers have to pay. However, Senior Non-Commishioned Officers (First Sergeants/Sergeant Major) many times have to buy, as do many special duty troops like Drill Sergeants.
I think my last uniform allowance was $550 per year. Which buys about 2 ACUs (duty/field uniform) and a pair of boots. When they switched to the ASUs for dress uniform from the old green Class As, it cost around $700 for the uniform, sizing/fitting, accessories (stripes, service/combat stripes, new ribbon rack, etc) and shoes. Plus I needed a new pair of boots.
They made me give it back when I separated. I think the enlisted got to keep theirs. I did get to keep my green wool under gloves and leather outer gloves, which I still wear when blowing snow.I still have one
Me too, issued in 1965.I still have one
The problem is if they calculate that if they limit a nuclear strike to a interior Ukrainian target....the scenario you describe won't happen.Something tells me they do not intend to see every major city in Russia turned to glass and their entire population annihilated. They are bluffing.
We know that the West must have plans and prepared for something like this -they have already warned Russia against using chemical and biological weapons or face a "severe price". Just what would the West retaliate with-a battlefield nuke to presumably match what Russia did?The problem is if they calculate that if they limit a nuclear strike to a interior Ukrainian target....the scenario you describe won't happen.
yep...don't want to find out.We know that the West must have plans and prepared for something like this -they have already warned Russia against using chemical and biological weapons or face a "severe price". Just what would the West retaliate with-a battlefield nuke to presumably match what Russia did?
Hope we never find out. I atill can't imagine the Russian military using nukes just to save face for Putin.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/cou...apons-in-ukraine-the-threat-is-very-real.html
As they leave Ukraine and/or consolidate in Crimea, that danger would seem to grow.I still think the Russians are going to do something big and nasty. I don't trust those f'ers.
I still think the Russians are going to do something big and nasty. I don't trust those f'ers.
Need to check underneath Kherson and Melitopol for caches of wildfire.I still think the Russians are going to do something big and nasty. I don't trust those f'ers.
As if the Kremlin regards them as anything more than a payout to their next of kin.I would capture as many Russian POW's as possible. That is Ukraine's best bargaining chip.
On the flip side, if I was around captured Russian equipment, the first thing I'm doing is getting some green spray paint and getting rid of the big white Zs.I would capture as many Russian POW's as possible. That is Ukraine's best bargaining chip.
I'd wager that a significant number of higher level commanders don't approve of what Vlad is doing.Yeah this is potentially scary the more and more this looked like a potential embarrassment for Putin the bigger probability that he will do something extreme to try and save face.
Our response doesn’t have to be nuclear.The problem is if they calculate that if they limit a nuclear strike to a interior Ukrainian target....the scenario you describe won't happen.
When our bus tour in East Berlin went down a street with 'officers housing' we were told we weren't allowed to film. My dad laid his video camera on his lap, so you could still see out the top half of the window.If you want to see the difference in communism and capitalism, please visit Leipzig, which used to be in East Germany and Munich, which was in West Germany. If you cannot decipher the difference, please visit an ophthalmologist immediately.
The House on the Embankment was pretty plush as well. I'd be scared to death to live there though.When our bus tour in East Berlin went down a street with 'officers housing' we were told we weren't allowed to film. My dad laid his video camera on his lap, so you could still see out the top half of the window.
I saw that some animals are more equal than others before I read it in the book.
Doesn't matter what the Kremlin thinks. Enough moms and babushkas start marching on Moscow and that midget is screwed.As if the Kremlin regards them as anything more than a payout to their next of kin.
Doesn't matter what the Kremlin thinks. Enough moms and babushkas start marching on Moscow and that midget is screwed.
But if there was film of the thousands of Russian prisoners sent throughout Russia, along with the real body count, it would increase the size and voice of the anti-war voice substantially.As if the Kremlin regards them as anything more than a payout to their next of kin.
Me too, issued in 1965.
LOL. Checkout fat Dr. Strangelove at 1:37
This.His ability to activate our state department (a state department that had been thoroughly gutted and depleted by the previous administration I might add) and swiftly enact US-Euro relationships, strategy, and coordination of response to Russias illegal and criminal invasion of a sovereign nation may go down the most impressive action of his entire administration. It really has been incredibly impressive.
If for nothing else, the free world owes Joe Biden this debt of gratitude.