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US Army To Discontinue Bayonet Training
Posted October 4th, 2010 at 09:24 PM by S.R. Krol
The Army is doing away with bayonet training. You know, history has shown it's never a good idea when the military decides to phase something out because they don't feel it's necessary anymore. "Guns on jets? This isn't WWII, we just need missiles!" Watch, in a couple of years some unit is going to be wiped out by a bunch of fuzzy wuzzies with spears.
What I wonder is does this mean we should not include melee combat rules for Army units in wargames set in 2011+?
What I wonder is does this mean we should not include melee combat rules for Army units in wargames set in 2011+?
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Fuzzy wuzzies? Really? Wow.
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Posted November 22nd, 2010 at 05:37 PM by frightlever
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Nah, include the rules, just make US infantry rubbish at it :P
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Posted December 12th, 2010 at 01:27 PM by Colonial
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Clearly the US army has never played Civ...
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Posted December 16th, 2010 at 05:00 PM by Ed Kolis
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heh, really. "Fuzzy wuzzy" has been a term of racial opprobrium since General "Chinese" Gordon went down to the Mahdi at Khartoum. It just looks a bit bad - I would think that it is conceivable that shrapnel's potential clientele include some who might take offense
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Posted December 18th, 2010 at 01:47 PM by archaeolept
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oh, I should take this opportunity to pimp Lytton Strachey's great account of Gordon's last stand, in his Eminent Victorians. The whole book is a fun read, anyways.
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Posted December 18th, 2010 at 01:56 PM by archaeolept
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Other potential clientele might take offense at a user avatar that says, "in the name of allah" on it.
The above message brought to you by the Department of Get Over It. === The British used a bayonet charge in both Iraq (Scots Guards FTW) and in Afghanistan. Which must have looked as odd as it sounds, with survival knives stuck on the end of SA-80 bullpup rifles. Apparently it worked out as such have almost always worked out. Nobody wants to be on the wrong end of such a charge, not even death lovers. COLD STEEL CREATES FEAR, R |
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Posted December 20th, 2010 at 10:28 AM by Render
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haha, i can only hope they do
 I, however, am not a representative of a company trying to sell something. Admittedly, most potential clients are probably cracker retards |
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Posted December 20th, 2010 at 02:59 PM by archaeolept
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