Maybe you have a point, maybe you don't, but unfortunately you couldn't eloquently place it, nor could you come up with any real arguments. Saying 'the US won WW2 is not true' does not make it that way in other people's minds. Rather, we need a more substantial argument.
the US didn't even join in until it firmly noticed the war was on its doorstep.
So, are you saying the US should have been involved in the war earlier? How much earlier? Should the US have persuaded the European states to not follow 'appeasement'? Failing that, should the US have invaded Germany without European support?
All touch-screen implementations that I have come across have calibration tools to ensure coordination between the stylus and the feedback from the display cursor.
Which also means that a soldier's family cannot be prosecuted for running a blog for or about a soldier, contrary to what severely misinformed people have already posted a little ways above.
Statisticians today held a press conference concerning the rapid increase in number of violent crimes committed worldwide, noting a growth at a rate almost consistent with the rapid increase in the world's population.
If we don't rely on calculations, what are we going to rely on? Magic and hocus pocus, or maybe we'll do our real life-size model milky way to test for it.:)
Do you feel that the entire world's cosmologists and astrophysicists are getting too excited to stop and look at their methodology? I assure you in this one instance you are wrong.:)
I was playing Point of Existance 2, the #1 mod of the year, no less than five minutes ago. It's an incredible mod, every map is new, and it fixes nearly everything that was wrong with just plain ol' vanilla Battlefield 2. I wouldn't be playing BF2 anymore if it weren't for this mod.
I play as USARMY JeonJiHyeon, so if you see me there give me a holler. Point of Existance 2 is absolutely a great reason to pick up your old BF2 box and start playing again. I hope to find you there!
I got 1 yen coins all the time. The thing I hated was having 100 and 500 yen coins, so after a day of doing anything you arrive home with a pocket filled with coins to the size of a grapefruit.
Even if every soldier always wore the armor necessary to stop a 7.62 mm rifle round cold, it would be heavy and hot, and they'd just get sniped in the face and upper leg more often.
Every soldier leaving the wire around their bases in Iraq wears the armor necessary to stop multiple 7.62-mm hits to the upper body. And good luck shooting somebody in the face, it's actually not as easy as it sounds.:) You're right, however, about the fact that insurgents will change their tactics--as a matter of fact, they have changed their tactics to fire on soldiers when their side is facing the sniper. Without getting issued modular add-ons to overcome this shortcoming, the side of the vest is only made out of flexible Kevlar fabric and is designed only to take typical low-velocity 9-mm pistol rounds. I think nowadays, most soldiers are getting the side-armor add-on, but some squads or soldiers may choose not to wear it, favoring mobility over added protection.
Load-Bearing Equipment or Load-Carrying Equipment, both are commonly used and refer to the same thing. I personally prefer to say LCE, others prefer to say LBE.
Short Answer: Actually, you are incorrect. Our armor is designed to take multiple hits from 7.62-mm ammunition.
Long answer: What the hell are you talking about? This isn't Desert Storm, this is 2007, baby. Check out the Interceptor Body Armor, which has been standard issue for all troops being deployed for a while now.
There are parts of the Interceptor Body Armor that are made of only Kevlar for its flexible properties, such as the groin protector that is hanging off the body armor in the picture. However, as the op says correctly, the thin Kevlar is not designed to take anything more than 9-mm rounds, ideally. The actual parts designed to accept 7.62-mm rounds, "stop plates" as some call them, cover the entire from torso from collarbone to belt buckle, front and back. They are made from some rather advanced ceramics. Nowadays, they even issue armor for your sides and your shoulders, two common places some people get shot and end up dying.
We also wear helmets. In the Army, they're commonly referred to simply as "Kevlars" (Typical example: "Uniform for the EST will be IBA with your kevlar, no LCE." Translation: That means you're going to the computer-simulated firing range with your Interceptor Body Armor and your helmet, but you're not bringing your 'pistol belt' or the canteens and ammo pouches that are typically attached to the pistol belt. The army loves acronyms). Anyway, there are true stories of kevlars taking 7.62 rounds and surviving, but even the helmet made out of kevlar molded to a hard, shaped shell is only designed to accept 9-mm rounds.
And thusly return us to the original short answer, that is: Troops in Iraq wear body armor that takes multiple 7.62-mm rounds. Stay classy, San Di-Slashdot.
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Oh no, not underage drinking! Horror of horrors.
Maybe you have a point, maybe you don't, but unfortunately you couldn't eloquently place it, nor could you come up with any real arguments. Saying 'the US won WW2 is not true' does not make it that way in other people's minds. Rather, we need a more substantial argument.
the US didn't even join in until it firmly noticed the war was on its doorstep.
So, are you saying the US should have been involved in the war earlier? How much earlier? Should the US have persuaded the European states to not follow 'appeasement'? Failing that, should the US have invaded Germany without European support?
All touch-screen implementations that I have come across have calibration tools to ensure coordination between the stylus and the feedback from the display cursor.
Which also means that a soldier's family cannot be prosecuted for running a blog for or about a soldier, contrary to what severely misinformed people have already posted a little ways above.
"Catch-22", a great book. Reading this article was already bringing back the memories. :)
Do you accept wampum?
Follow the money. Don't stop at Parties. Don't stop at banks. Stop at the Federal Reserve.
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Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Statisticians today held a press conference concerning the rapid increase in number of violent crimes committed worldwide, noting a growth at a rate almost consistent with the rapid increase in the world's population.
Film at eleven...
If we don't rely on calculations, what are we going to rely on? Magic and hocus pocus, or maybe we'll do our real life-size model milky way to test for it. :)
:)
Do you feel that the entire world's cosmologists and astrophysicists are getting too excited to stop and look at their methodology? I assure you in this one instance you are wrong.
That's exactly the point he's making, silly.
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Is this illegal? I'd imagine not.
I was playing Point of Existance 2, the #1 mod of the year, no less than five minutes ago. It's an incredible mod, every map is new, and it fixes nearly everything that was wrong with just plain ol' vanilla Battlefield 2. I wouldn't be playing BF2 anymore if it weren't for this mod.
1 34:16567/TacticalGamer.com_-_PoE2_-_62_Open_Slots. html. It's always full in the US evenings after dinnertime.
If you want to play on a populated server with mature adults who keep positive control of their server with a whole lot of personal integrity, check out the server at http://www.game-monitor.com/GameServer/64.34.165.
I play as USARMY JeonJiHyeon, so if you see me there give me a holler. Point of Existance 2 is absolutely a great reason to pick up your old BF2 box and start playing again. I hope to find you there!
I got 1 yen coins all the time. The thing I hated was having 100 and 500 yen coins, so after a day of doing anything you arrive home with a pocket filled with coins to the size of a grapefruit.
Even if every soldier always wore the armor necessary to stop a 7.62 mm rifle round cold, it would be heavy and hot, and they'd just get sniped in the face and upper leg more often.
:) You're right, however, about the fact that insurgents will change their tactics--as a matter of fact, they have changed their tactics to fire on soldiers when their side is facing the sniper. Without getting issued modular add-ons to overcome this shortcoming, the side of the vest is only made out of flexible Kevlar fabric and is designed only to take typical low-velocity 9-mm pistol rounds. I think nowadays, most soldiers are getting the side-armor add-on, but some squads or soldiers may choose not to wear it, favoring mobility over added protection.
Every soldier leaving the wire around their bases in Iraq wears the armor necessary to stop multiple 7.62-mm hits to the upper body. And good luck shooting somebody in the face, it's actually not as easy as it sounds.
Load-Bearing Equipment or Load-Carrying Equipment, both are commonly used and refer to the same thing. I personally prefer to say LCE, others prefer to say LBE.
Short Answer: Actually, you are incorrect. Our armor is designed to take multiple hits from 7.62-mm ammunition.
Long answer: What the hell are you talking about? This isn't Desert Storm, this is 2007, baby. Check out the Interceptor Body Armor, which has been standard issue for all troops being deployed for a while now.
There are parts of the Interceptor Body Armor that are made of only Kevlar for its flexible properties, such as the groin protector that is hanging off the body armor in the picture. However, as the op says correctly, the thin Kevlar is not designed to take anything more than 9-mm rounds, ideally. The actual parts designed to accept 7.62-mm rounds, "stop plates" as some call them, cover the entire from torso from collarbone to belt buckle, front and back. They are made from some rather advanced ceramics. Nowadays, they even issue armor for your sides and your shoulders, two common places some people get shot and end up dying.
We also wear helmets. In the Army, they're commonly referred to simply as "Kevlars" (Typical example: "Uniform for the EST will be IBA with your kevlar, no LCE." Translation: That means you're going to the computer-simulated firing range with your Interceptor Body Armor and your helmet, but you're not bringing your 'pistol belt' or the canteens and ammo pouches that are typically attached to the pistol belt. The army loves acronyms). Anyway, there are true stories of kevlars taking 7.62 rounds and surviving, but even the helmet made out of kevlar molded to a hard, shaped shell is only designed to accept 9-mm rounds.
And thusly return us to the original short answer, that is: Troops in Iraq wear body armor that takes multiple 7.62-mm rounds. Stay classy, San Di-Slashdot.
Did you let your mum and sister choose FF, or did you hoist it upon them in the same way you say that IE does?
Maybe a better title for this story would be Giant Rabbits to Feed North Korea's Military.
Don't people glow in the infrared? Remember that infrared is also light, just not visible light.
You would have to pass within the old radius of the sun to see any new effects.
It wasn't obvious that the op could've answered it through research, that is why he asked.
Shut up, it's funny. No need for your agenda here. :(
Try the Coral: http://www.attrition.org.nyud.net:8090/postal/z/03 3/0871.html
:)
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Don't forget bunker-clearing, when the South Rises Again.