Up to you guys to work it out. I will draw the line at anything at over a Willy's jeep with a pair Lewis guns, but you guys can discuss it.

Added a new guy, he should be posting in soon. This will get the team back up to five members so keep that in mind as well.

Figure out what type of vehicle you want, remember it will be something from before 1993 in NATO and 1990 in the Warsaw Pact.

In reply to Dr. Strangelove (msg # 187):

Three V-150's are owned by the Florida Highway Patrol.


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I do have a range rover I bought, I figure the Dshk would like nice on that...

What where you thinking if we went a soviet apc, wheeled or tracked?

Hi all, I'm the FNG.  Working up a gear list now.

Quick question - what's the most reliable, easiest to deal with suppressed weapon system of the period?  AKM with PBS-1 seems to need subsonic ammo and the rubber wipes in the can need to be replaced.  MP5 Navy should fit the period.  Is anything else relatively common?  OSS grease gun doesn't need subsonic ammo IIRC.  Just looking for options to fit in with you high speed, low drag types.

In reply to Patrick Walsh (msg # 189):

Probably the BTR series and if we went tracked then something like the MT-LB or BTR-T, though I think they may not be as stealthy as we would need.


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I'm using the MP5SD as my suppressed weapon.

The MAC 10, M3, and Uzi are all easy to come by in .45 ACP.

As we now know that we have no one with the Large Caliber Gun skill at all (unless the new guy has it) I don't think that an auto cannon or at gun of any kind is a priority.

Something that's main armament is an atgm of some kind fits our skillset better.


As for the suppressed weapon, Roger's choice is rather exotic. I also endorse the variety of .45acp smgs since most .45 ammo is subsonic. That said we were provided with a number of MP5SDs that may or may not still be available at no cost to your character.

New guy is U.S.M.C. Armor Branch and has LCG.  :)

Thanks for all the input!  I'm going with an M3A1 Grease Gun, since those would be readily available to armor crew (Army was issuing them during the First Gulf War IIRC), and the High Standard suppressors are screw in and look to be easily maintained (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNLrDbw8nc).

Well damn, you're late for the tank. We could have made an even bigger mess.

A marine.... ;P

Gotta have someone to keep the squids from holding hands...

The gist of the new mission is to conduct a scout operation to the Flagler County Airport to ascertain 3 things:
1. The condition of the runways
2. The disposition of enemy within two miles of the airport
3. The likelihood of an enemy encounter once the airport has been taken over

The expected length of the operation is 72 hours, with a maximum of 120 hours. After that a secondary plan will be initiated that will include a sustained barrage targeted against the airport.

Another recon element will be operating to the northwest with the task of searching out a multiple launch rocket battery. No sense in setting an air field with the reach of several missile launchers capable of smashing it all flat.

Don't expect to come back to the ship. HQ is in the Marineland ocean park. Don't expect to be spending much time there. The battle is starting to pick up momentum so you guys will probably be spending a lot of time hoping from frying pan to frying pan while trying to avoid the fire where possible.

Work out you plans. Oh, Andrew reminded me about the map on the Polish Officer's kit. I will work out some notes Andrew could have taken while Roger translated.

The desert patrol vehicle, often called oil strikers, was capable of running about sixty mph on hard surfaces, could carry around 1500 lbs. of personnel and equipment, had two gun mounts for the man next to the driver and the man sitting up and behind them. These vehicles mount an M2 HB .50 HMG in the upper mount. The lower mount will take any standard NATO mounting so you could mount any personally owned MGs there.

500 rounds .50 BMG ammo (10 cans, 50 round belts, considered 17 shots)
1 x secure manpack/vehicle radio (vehicle 1)
1 x 50 kn secure vehicular radio (vehicle 2)
10 x Jerry cans of gasoline (5 lts each, each vehicle)
2 x Jerry cans of water (painted blue, each vehicle)
2 x spare tires (each vehicle)
3 x case of MREs (each vehicle)
20' x 20' camo netting (each vehicle)
fore and aft winches with 30' of steel cable
6 x personal first aid kits (each vehicle)
mounted white light spotlight (above driver on roll cage)
excavation tools (shovel, pick, axe, and sledge hammer on each vehicle)

In reply to Dr. Strangelove (msg # 200):

Can we get a MK.19 grenade launcher as well for one of the passenger mounts ? Thanks.


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Just to clarify,

1. Anything we leave behind will be absorbed into general equipment or is our gear safe and we will get it later?

2. Do we leave Torv's gear or is it general spoils?

3. Can we resupply on used items, first aid kit, helmet, ammo?

4. Who is our CO and what is the line of command above Pat?

5. How much of the explosives did we bring back?

1. Anything we leave behind will be absorbed into general equipment or is our gear safe and we will get it later?

Not on the ship, it can be kept with the Division supply section, stored in portable lockers, and most likely kept out of the way until someone decides that for the good of the unit they need to open it up and issue your gear to someone else. How do you think you got a pair of M2s? It will not be easily accessed in the field at all, I would advise you to pack everything you want to be able to get to without going through significant hoops to get it.

2. Do we leave Torv's gear or is it general spoils?

This is in the gear list.

3. Can we resupply on used items, first aid kit, helmet, ammo?

Resupply is very limited on the ship. Most everything has been transported to shore. You can obtain a Kevlar helmet, replenish common calibers (9mm, 5.56mm, 7.62 NATO, .45 ACP), replace used batteries for charged ones, grab some clean BDU's, and pcik up some more socks. Hand grenades are is short supply onboard ships, not to useful.

4. Who is our CO and what is the line of command above Pat?

You men have been reassigned as a part of the Intel group. You work for the head of S-3, Captain Stanwick, directly. So, the chain of command is short, and the you do have the actual radio frequencies in your newly issued code books to contact the Intel section directly as well.

5. How much of the explosives did we bring back?

This is in the gear list also.

In reply to Andrew Johnson (msg # 201):

Sorry, nope, but if it makes you feel better you can lay claim to the DShK and set it up whenever you want to. It will not fit any of the mounts, different design and dimensions.

Also, the M2s are mounted in a way that they have arc of fire 60 degrees wide, that is 30 degrees right or left with up to 75 degrees of muzzle elevation and right at forty degrees of muzzle depression. They can fire one target as close as four or five meters in front of the vehicle. There isn't any stabilization for firing on the move, so keep that in mind when using the M2s. The space around drop in a 'tall cam' or a Navy issue .50 ammo can designed to hold 100 rounds (33 shots) of belted ammo. So, you could load two belts at a time.

The lower mounts in front of the passenger have the same traverse, but elevation is only forty degrees and the muzzle depression is a mere ten degree, but it is only twenty six inches off the ground and can fire out to about three meters in front of the vehicle.

Who is our scrounger?  I have a landrover and a 1 ton cargo trailer you can trade for a few m249s and ammo if we are quick enough.

Roger has Scrounging at 60.

In reply to Roger A Castle (msg # 206):

I'm at 50.

Let me introduce you to one Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway, Company Sergeant for the Echo Company (Force Recon), 713th Infantry Battalion, 86th Infantry Regiment, 5th Marine Division (a unit of 71 officers and men representing the pride of Force Recon in the USMC).

MGS Highway and six others were wounded in the first anti-air engagement. The helicopter they were aboard was struck with 14.5mm heavy machine gun fire from one of the few surviving radar controlled, low altitude interdiction, heliborne counter batteries (basically a pair of 14.5mm KPV HMGs set up with ground hug, also known as ground bouncing radar designed to pick up on low and slow aircraft, mainly helicopters and shoot them full of holes, 2 guns at 750 round per minute can be extremely rough on the paint job).

Their Huey was riddled and came limping back with several casualties, MGS Highway had stepped in to help 'repower' or reassign personnel and equipment planning due to the fact several choppers were down for repair or had been combat losses. He 'has the keys' to the Force Recon supply and armory containers.

In order to obtain something he doesn't have but desperately needs; a ground vehicle that will allow him to move his remaining 5 Marines and more supplies to the forward deployment location for his Force Recon element he could be persuaded to do some fast and dirty trading.

Are you guys interested?

Go get em guys, the Rover has low mileage and one lady owner who used her to drive to tge village shpps and back...

Yes, I think we are. Let's get to tradin'.

Also despite the fact we are extremely unlikely to need it I'll be packing the Castlebreaker along rather than leave it behind to end up in the hands of some other shooter.

In reply to Dr. Strangelove (msg # 208):

Sounds good. Andrew might do some scrounging around the boat see what odds and ends come in with the wounded and then discarded by the medical staff, usually there's a big old pile of webbing, helmets and boots.


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