PFC Mongoose

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Jinef @ April 14 2003,22:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Okay, i was told that the SAS has a lot of Royal Marines in it by, suprise suprise, a Royal Marine. I could have said more about the UK SF but basically everyone is interested in the SAS and SBS, i'm sure America also has small groups of people it denies the existence of. *cough* Delta Force *cough* I saw a video of these American SFs (don't know who) walking along with some Kurds towards the Iraqi Saddam Airport. Then they see Iraqi positions about 100 metres in front of them, and our highly experienced operative stands in the middle of the road and says 'contact front' in his radio. In the ten seconds they were standing there the Iraqi guys saw them and opened fire. Well he yelled something obviuos like "they're shooting at us" as he ran around a bit and then jumped into cover. The reporter and Camera man also jumped down with them. "It's been 2 hours now, and the American special forces are trying to call in air support on the what we now know to be as a MG position." said the reporter in a slighty monotone voice. Also a 60 year old reporter in a helly hansen coat was reporting from no mans land and he spotted Americans special forces in a LUP "being covert before the assault begins" were his words. Thank god no Iraq sixty year old in a helly hansen coat was there!<span id='postcolor'> I honestly can't see any trained solider of a modern military acting like that, much less a special Forces agent of the most Advanced Military on earth. Not doubting that you saw it, just doubting heavily that it is what you claim to be.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ April 15 2003,11:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (PFC Mongoose @ April 15 2003,10:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">See, I think destroying these weapons may not be the best solution. Â Personally, especially considering all the valuables in the Husseins' gun collections, if I were U.S. brass, I'd be trying to round up as much of the stuff as I could, and bring it back to the U.S.<span id='postcolor'> hmm .. just send them to the baghdad museum to replace the stolen artefacts .....<span id='postcolor'> I doubt many acheologists and anthropologists would appreciate that. If you want to get really conpiratorial, it's possible the U.S. LET the museum be looted, and sectrretly used Spec Ops to gether up all the artefacts ot make a fortunae on them. Between that and the oil grab, and it could be theoried U.S. is making a killing in Iraq. Pardon the atrocious pun.

Wars by U.N. Charter membver nations are illegal without consent of the U.N. Security Council. This mean, to my knowledge, every single war foguht during the Cold War was illegal. Now, here's an interesting thought; what if France pulls a Soviet Russia and just auto-vetos anything proposed in the Security Council by the U.S. or U.K.? Highly unlikely, but all thkis talk of legality got me considering the possibilities.

Sounds interesting... but I suck heavily at OFP, so I think I'll stay away from this pack. As it is, I'll engage a distant enemy with my m16, and spray burst after burst, and he'll almost always kill me with one shot.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ April 15 2003,05:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ April 14 2003,16:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Actually, Messenger is turned 'on' by default in most installs of 2000 and XP.  It's not activated by spyware or trojans generally. Basically, as far as I can tell it was originally intended to allow a network admin to send messages to folks on the network.  like service announcements and such. Then the marketing scumbags figured out how to send spam to EVERYONE with the service running, and ran with it  <span id='postcolor'> Yeah, this is almost as bad as people who don't know you but have the gull to call you on the phone and make special offers.   WTF is that, should be illegal.<span id='postcolor'> Nah. IMO, MEssenger is much, much worse. If you have a good caller ID, it'll usually tell you when the persona calling is from a corporation. And if' it's a telemarketer, as soon as they start pitching the sale, I just hang up. But Messenger makes Half-Life crash, and sometimes, it pops up a stupid window as often as once every 30 minutes. That makes me seriously angry.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Koolkid101 @ April 15 2003,02:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Whats the best paintball gun for the cheapest price? $100-200 Also a realistic gun would be nice, just not so realistic that the police are gonna shoot me. Also are there any airsoft arenas in vermont?<span id='postcolor'> I've always only ever used the guns they carry on site. You know, the cheap pump-action and semi-autos they carry, with the big-ass hopprs on top. And even then, I only use pump-action.

I've actually been working on a mission using the units from the mini-demo, the bunker pack, a .30 cal that I don't know WERE I got (probably either you guys or WW2EC, though almost all their stuff is Resistance) and Rebuilt Kojugev... however, I have to tone down the number of rifle Grenadiers the Germans have, the hilliness of Koljugev makes them excrutiaginly lethal. It's really just for my own enjoyment, though. I might send it to SFG, and if he likes it, he can put it up, or something.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 15 2003,10:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 15 2003,07:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Addon makers take note: A gold plated German-made MP-5 submachine gun that soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment found in an arms cache in Baghdad, Iraq.<span id='postcolor'> My god. Saddam is truly the undisputed king of tackiness and kitsch.  Thtat thing is just so damn ugly  I don't think it is very useful in combat either. If you have four guys with AKs and The Man With the Golden Gun, who will you shoot at first? <span id='postcolor'> I think it looks wicked. As for drawing fire, camo cloth. I want to see one of those gold-plated M1 Carbines, though. See, I think destroying these weapons may not be the best solution. Personally, especially considering all the valuables in the Husseins' gun collections, if I were U.S. brass, I'd be trying to round up as much of the stuff as I could, and bring it back to the U.S. They could sell what they don't need, and keep what they did. It's greedy, but it's almost definately what I would have done. And just for the record, I think I would have put a bit more deterring security around the Baghdad museum. More guards, and perhaps an M113 nearby with a VERY twitchy-looking, chain-smoking gunner.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 14 2003,20:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">CNN: </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Meanwhile, U.S. troops believe they have found 11 mobile chemical and biological laboratories buried south of Baghdad, a U.S. general said Monday. No chemical or biological weapons were found along with the labs, but soldiers recovered "about 1,000 pounds" of documents inside them, said Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakly of the Army's 101st Airborne Division. <span id='postcolor'> (Emphasis aded)<span id='postcolor'> They might have poisoned the ink. Break out the HAZMAT suits, boys....

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wardog @ April 14 2003,12:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GrimmDraco @ April 13 2003,02:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">HAHAHAHAHAHAH, bail out, right... my MOS has a motto folks.... DEATH BEFORE DISMOUNT!!!!!!! oh, that was funny, thanks for the laugh....on a more serious note...to clear a few things up, when the drivers hatch is open, the turret dont move, unless you turn the override on...dunno why, if the barrel rotates to that mil, the barrel atuomatically elavates to go over it...but all the same its a safety issue.<span id='postcolor'> That's odd. Granted we're talking about WW2, but My dad's mob had a motto too: "Get the fuck out before you're burned alive."<span id='postcolor'> Well, from my experience in Op Flash, if you're in a tank engagement, and you get hit, and you're immobilized, chances are, you're dead whether you get out or nnot if another MBT sinks that last shell into yours. So, usually I chance it, stay in, and hopfully try to disable them before they finish me. Rarely works, though.

Remember that one Halloween episode of the Simpsons? With the Evil Krusty Doll? <Salesman> I have this one Krusty the Clown doll left. <Homer> That's good! <Salesman> However, the doll is CURSED!!!! <Homer> ....that's bad. <Salesman> But it comes with a free frogurt!!! <Homer> That's good! <Salesman> The frogurt is also cursed. <Homer> .....that's bad. <Salesman> But it comes with your choice of sprinkles! <Homer> That's good! <Salesman> The sprinkles contain [whatever that stuff was called]. <Homer> .... <Salesman> .....that's bad. <Homer> Can I go now?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ April 14 2003,18:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">you will notice i often talk about Bosnia , but you know why <span id='postcolor'> I don't.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 14 2003,18:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, selected quotes. From http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com<span id='postcolor'> I don't know who probably wants that guy more badly, Washington, or Hollywood.

Thank GOD!!! That program is Satan incarnate, I swear. It's not so bad in Op Flash, but it will severly mess you up if it pops up while you're playing Half-Life (for Day of defeat) Abnd Half-Life can't handle being minimized, so... Thank you, thank you, a thousand times, thank you.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ April 14 2003,15:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (killagee @ April 14 2003,15:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Much of our expertise is in Peace Keeping and De-Mining. We are bloody good at it. So are the Swedes, British and Romanians (funnily enough..)<span id='postcolor'> and us ?? <span id='postcolor'> AND us. Hell, Peacekeeping is about the only thing the Canadian military is good for.