Chieftain's Q&A Pt 16½. The Continuing Mission

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  @Luwinkle · 5 years ago

  I have a friend who was a bradley gunner in the initial iraq invasion.  He told me a story of him finding a MP40 and carrying it around for a while telling people it was a new experimental crew weapon.  He got away with it until a british officer visited the base and busted him on it.

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• MA

  @MajesticDemonLord · 5 years ago

  Chieftain - just as an FYI, I&apos;m sure I speak for most people on this channel - but never apologise for going off on Tangents.<br><br>The longer you ramble about Esoteric and interesting subjects, the happier I am

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• DA

  @danieldegoey5283 · 5 years ago

  &quot;The patron saint of track tensioning&quot;....Has a nice ring to it.

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• TO

  @TotalRookie_LV · 5 years ago

  Tank is a Scotsman - brutal, but has skirts.

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• TH

  @TheParkerrrrrr6 · 5 years ago

  Learning that the chieftain is a red vs blue fan has made my day

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• JO

  @johnshepherd8687 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Re: &nbsp;fighting the something less than the first team. &nbsp;Back in the early 90s an Air Force briefing team was making the rounds and showed up at NAVAIR to talk about aircraft losses in the Gulf War and projections for the future. &nbsp;The briefer had a slide showing the steadily declining sortie attrition rates from WWII through the Gulf War. &nbsp;He pointed to Vietnam and said we will never see even this level of attrition ever again. &nbsp;A contractor from in the back of the room spoke up with &quot;I was a flight engineer in the 8th AF and let me tell you, you weren&apos;t exactly flying against the Luftwaffe.&quot; &nbsp;Like the Germans in 1939-41 the US military has fooled itself into thinking we would never again face peer/near peer competitor based on our recent successes.

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• PU

  @pubbarian · 5 years ago

  &quot;I&apos;ll be doing one in November...&quot;<br><br>&quot;oh cool. soon&quot;<br><br>&quot;... of next year&quot;<br><br>&quot;less soon&quot;

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• SL

  @SlavicCelery · 5 years ago

  The absolute smug look on the chieftains face when mentioning track tensioning in the sci-fi/fantasy series, made this whole video a veritable treat, as it were.

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• MA

  @MajesticDemonLord · 5 years ago

  &quot;Cast a Tank Horror Film&quot;<br><br>surely that would be:<br><br>British weapons procurement process

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• CI

  @cirian75 · 5 years ago

  Lots of Americans suddenly discovering Cpt Scarlet, excellent

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• ME

  @meanmanturbo · 5 years ago

  Sweden buying BMPs was to finally give the large bulk of the large conscript army, the infantry brigades, some armor protection instead of just soft skin vehichles (or even older, bikes dragged by tractors). Sweden tested them, trained conscripts and had drawing up plans, TOE and stuff for a new type of infantry brigade. But post cold war was a time of increasingly dropping funding and in 2004 it was basically decided, in infinite wisdom, that it would be peace forverer and all the infantry brigades were scraped and the use for the BMP dissapeared.

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• ER

  @ericgrace9995 · 5 years ago

  The East German question was a good one....

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