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[Sweet_pup 0]

Quote[/b] ]A little offtopic perhaps but I just thought I'd recommend this great book I just bought :

Chariots of the Damned-Helicopter Special Operations from Vietnam to Kosovo By Mike Ryan and Major Mike McKinney

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Have any of you BAS guys heard of it or read it? If so I very strongly reccommend it you won't regret it.

As much as I would like to agree with you, cause that is a pretty good book, there is one I like a lot more.

Yea that's right, Michael Durant's story. If you need to know about the 160th SOAR, this is where to begin and end...

Sweet_pup

[Eviscerator 0]

oxygen masks (That would be my guess)

Its a face mask used to allow communications to still work while at high speed, in wind, with the doors off or with the gunner sticking his head out of the window, no oxygen capability.

[Cloney 0]

Why do you guys think about the release dates so much? It's a bit too much like masturbation without the pay off.

Oh and, JAM rocks. You guys will love it.

Cloney: I am not sure if I was one person you were referring to, but actually I don't think about addons that much, sure I check the OPF news everyday but that is while I am taking a break from my other duties, most importantly college and waiting to receive my officers commission in the US Marine Corps(if I don't injure myself again). Plus a whole host of other stuff. If it was not directed at me, sorry, I am not upset, just clearing something up. Sorry Forum Mods for not taking it to PM.

PS I know I'll love JAM, especially since so many good people and groups are collaborating on it. Yeah, I do see it as one of the most important developments in the Flashpoint community, can't wait for it, will probably integrate it into Inquisitors HD Weps Pack for the people that like that addon.

George

It wasn't meant as a direct personal attack towards anyone, I'm just saying no matter how much you ask about the release date you're never going to find out because BAS doesn't release them. Perhaps they'll release some BAS-Viagra to sustain us.

I'll stop talking in Masturbation metaphor now.

[Sweet_pup 0]

Quote[/b] ]Its a face mask used to allow communications to still work while at high speed, in wind, with the doors off or with the gunner sticking his head out of the window, no oxygen capability.

Ofcourse, why didn't I think of that? Man, that really does make alot of sense. Even my microphone cuts out half the time when I'm in a closed cockpit. Thanks Evis, you just made my morning complete.... not in a sexual... mas.... uhhh... cloney.....I gotta go....

Sweet_pup

[Shashman 0]

Quote[/b] ]A little offtopic perhaps but I just thought I'd recommend this great book I just bought :

Chariots of the Damned-Helicopter Special Operations from Vietnam to Kosovo By Mike Ryan and Major Mike McKinney

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Have any of you BAS guys heard of it or read it? If so I very strongly reccommend it you won't regret it.

As much as I would like to agree with you, cause that is a pretty good book, there is one I like a lot more.

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Yea that's right, Michael Durant's story. If you need to know about the 160th SOAR, this is where to begin and end...

Sweet_pup

Doesn't that just focus on Operation Restore Hope?

Chariots of the Damned is about many operations.

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[dm 9]

A little offtopic perhaps but I just thought I'd recommend this great book I just bought :

Chariots of the Damned-Helicopter Special Operations from Vietnam to Kosovo By Mike Ryan and Major Mike McKinney

img]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312291183.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg[/img]

 

Have any of you BAS guys heard of it or read it? If so I very strongly reccommend it you won't regret it.

Beautiful action paintings and very detailed accounts of the Koh Tang island Marine led USAF HH-53 landings in 1975, the disaster that was Desert One to the rescue of Scott O'Grady behind enemy lines in Bosnia in 1995.

I own both books, and both are great reads, and very informative, tho I must say that the British cover (could just be a newer edition) looks a lot cooler/meaner  

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[tankieboy 0]

Mike Ryan?

[Shashman 0]

A little offtopic perhaps but I just thought I'd recommend this great book I just bought :

Chariots of the Damned-Helicopter Special Operations from Vietnam to Kosovo By Mike Ryan and Major Mike McKinney

img]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312291183.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg[/img]

 

Have any of you BAS guys heard of it or read it? If so I very strongly reccommend it you won't regret it.

Beautiful action paintings and very detailed accounts of the Koh Tang island Marine led USAF HH-53 landings in 1975, the disaster that was Desert One to the rescue of Scott O'Grady behind enemy lines in Bosnia in 1995.

I own both books, and both are great reads, and very informative, tho I must say that the British cover (could just be a newer edition) looks a lot cooler/meaner  

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Aye that's the edition I got (I bought it from Waterstones)

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[Shashman 0]

You BAS guys must have read quite a few SOAR and other Special Forces related books. Could you reccommend any others? This subject is particularly interesting

[SelectThis 0]

Chickenhawk, by Mason (I think) is my fav heli book, it's about his tour in nam flying hueys.

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[acidcrash 0]

yup i agree with stt about that, well worth it

[tankieboy 0]

Chickenhawk, by Mason (I think) is my fav heli book, it's about his tour in nam flying hueys.

SelectThis

Yep thats a good book

[EMAN 0]

Tigershark,

Thanks for the update on BAS upcoming projects.

So does that mean the OPFOR and Desert Pack are on hold, they looked nearly complete.

Thanks

[Placebo 29]

As interesting as a book group is this thread is not here for that, there's an old book discussion thread in OT, if you can find it you have my blessing to resurrect it

Edit: Found it.

[Eviscerator 0]

Tigershark,

Thanks for the update on BAS upcoming projects.

So does that mean the OPFOR and Desert Pack are on hold, they looked nearly complete.

Thanks

No, the OPFOR and desert pack are not on hold, nor are they nearly complete.

[Sxep 0]

Tigershark,

Thanks for the update on BAS upcoming projects.

So does that mean the OPFOR and Desert Pack are on hold, they looked nearly complete.

Thanks

No, the OPFOR and desert pack are not on hold, nor are they nearly complete.

Wups overread "the nor" are they nearly complete

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Is OFP 1.91 a "must" for the Blackhawks?

If yes, I hope BIS is working hard on a new Linux dedicated Server.

It´s so sad that I can´t use the MH47 in my CTI map.

It will be terrible if I can´t use the blackhawks too.

MfG Lee

[Landwarrior87 0]

"very very VERY Close"

yo.. im almost done with my missions.. got eh enemies layed down.. now im assigning waypoints to my rangers.. and i realized that i want them to fastrope.. does the Blackhawk have to be apart of your group to fast rope out of.. cuz if it has to be ive got to get rid of 2 members.. that means one less machine gun and AT Guy.

thats all i need then my mission is very very very close... oh and i was thinking if the rangers are released too have the gun names changed?? cuz if so ill have to replace all the rangers guns and things.. i hope the rangers ell just overwrite the old to work with existing missions or no?

[Koolkid101 0]

Is OFP 1.91 a "must" for the Blackhawks?

If yes, I hope BIS is working hard on a new Linux dedicated Server.

It´s so sad that I can´t use the MH47 in my CTI map.

It will be terrible if I can´t use the blackhawks too.

MfG Lee

Maybe it'd be 1.92? I bet even you would download it if it fixed the memory map problems.

[Sxep 0]

"very very VERY Close"

yo.. im almost done with my missions.. got eh enemies layed down.. now im assigning waypoints to my rangers.. and i realized that i want them to fastrope.. does the Blackhawk have to be apart of your group to fast rope out of.. cuz if it has to be ive got to get rid of 2 members.. that means one less machine gun and AT Guy.

thats all i need then my mission is very very very close... oh and i was thinking if the rangers are released too have the gun names changed?? cuz if so ill have to replace all the rangers guns and things.. i hope the rangers ell just overwrite the old to work with existing missions or no?

They would have told us before they said ...make some missions...otherwise they get SOME pissed people

[EMAN 0]

Tigershark,

Thanks for the update on BAS upcoming projects.

So does that mean the OPFOR and Desert Pack are on hold, they looked nearly complete.

Thanks

No, the OPFOR and desert pack are not on hold, nor are they nearly complete.

ahrmm, I said "looked nearly complete", not that they were. That is the reason I asked. Thanks for the answer anyway.

[ebud 18]

The OPFOR have a looong way to go. After the current releases go out the door the island will be a priority over them as the OPFOR need a home. There are no other islands out that can come close to being a natural environment for those troops. So I would not expect them any time within the next 2-3 months just to be safe.

[Cpt. FrostBite 0]

is it 2-3 months or 4-6 months; double post, dude

But good to hear you're working on it. I look forward to that nice island.

[Cloney 0]

Ahh. Well I can deal with killing communists instead of OPFOR for a few months.

[AngusHeaf 0]

Ya know, I never post here and only sometimes bother to read this thread.... So I thought to myself, "self, maybe you should post something in that thread. Sure it has 40 pages but what's 40 pages if not a single one is graced with your presence." To which I responded, "ya know, you're very right and I'm going to go post something."

So here I am. Hello to you all, you weirdo chronic masturbators. Stop posting so much in these threads and go play more OFP, or build stuff for OFP. That goes for you BAS guys too! Bunch of Chatty Cathys. Cut your string!  

Hehe. ;)

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