tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post1373467806539175106..comments2023-10-31T05:07:19.353-04:00Comments on Delenda est Carthago: Dr. Φhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-395868172877502722012-01-27T19:46:59.533-05:002012-01-27T19:46:59.533-05:00Airforce = zoomie
navy = squid
Doesn't matter...Airforce = zoomie<br />navy = squid<br /><br />Doesn't matter what job they do, only what it says across from the name tag.<br /><br />When I was a team chief, I bought a bag of coins to hand out (100). Some people liked them. Iraqis looked at us like we were nuts. They wondered what their cash value was. When we told them it was just for fun, they thought we were either trying to swindle them, or we had lost our minds.<br /><br />The policy for giving away coins totally depends on who owns the coins. The coins I had belonged to me because I bought them with my own money, so I could give them to whoever I wanted. We gave them out liberally to anyone who showed a little effort to help us out. Or if they had a nice rack. Standards vary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-15350945590095915962012-01-26T22:54:24.317-05:002012-01-26T22:54:24.317-05:00Yeah, I wondered about the whole smoke grenade thi...Yeah, I wondered about the whole smoke grenade thing too.<br /><br />I can't speak to Army coining standards, but my understanding is that Combat Control is the most selective of the SpecOps programs. "Zoomie" is hardly appropriate.<br /><br />I wasn't aware of the body count policy, but clearly it wasn't followed here.Dr. Φhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-78594971059906867302012-01-26T09:13:53.321-05:002012-01-26T09:13:53.321-05:00I should also point out that it has been the polic...I should also point out that it has been the policy of the US military since Desert Storm to specifically not use body counts as a metric for success or to publish them in any context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-31137408497521563812012-01-26T08:20:11.577-05:002012-01-26T08:20:11.577-05:00Didn't we spend a billion dollars on laser des...Didn't we spend a billion dollars on laser designators so Air force guys wouldn't have to do this sort of thing?<br /><br />Who gave that zoomie a grenade launcher?<br /><br />I am guessing the 6 army guys who were with him got commemorative unit coins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com