Sorry about the premature meming
New & Improved!
Now with urban camo parachutes, safety warning labels, OSHA-approved ratchet straps, and even an inspector to ensure safe delivery.
Superior memes via Regurgitation!
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That machine pictured is a mashup photoshopped with real people.
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Flintlock 1984 - a water jump into the North Sea with our uniforms underneath our dry suits. Somehow the rubber boat must have been attached to the pallet like in the first meme, because we lost the RHIB, the pallet, the outboard motor - everything, when they slid the palletized rubber boat out of the C-130. Thank God we didn’t rig it ourselves. It must have been 10th Group riggers we brought with us.
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Yeah…the 101st Army Airborne can move the M10 Bookers by other means such as barges. If the 101st really needs to get somewhere, it can do so and find a way around those “Structurally weak bridges.”
Just park the M10s by the waterways and build new guarded warehouses for them.
It’s called “Not doing your homework and research,” and in many workplaces, that person will be fired or written up for making such a misinformed decision that will affect the lives of thousands of people/workers, but I’m tiptoeing into the minefield again… 
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The danger of drones:
Short range drones smuggled into Russia hidden in
shipping containers. Even if Russia leaks like a sieve
other nations need to take notes and think about
counter measures for this type of assymetric threat.
Trumpeter 01076 had larger missiles hiding in 40 foot containers
This video is more talkative (more hype), contains some design info
on those containers and more video sequences:
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Yes, it’s quite a surprise attack, and goes to show that having more troops and armored vehicles may be required instead of cutting troops and canceling armored vehicles.
C-UAS sentries standing guard and driving around in HMMWVs and JLTVs with “drone-buster devices” and other sentries with carbines having Smart Shooter’s SMASH 2000L (3000) may be the answer. Yes, it’ll cost some money, but to protect multimillion and multibillion dollar assets, these may be the cheaper solutions.
Militaries are going to need more personnel assigned to the task of counter-drone, not fewer. And that also applies to unmanned ground vehicles. We haven’t seen an unmanned armored ground vehicle tank barge through the sentry gates yet, but you never know.
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Didn’t ze Germans lose WW2 comprehensibly? Don’t know what value quoting failed German generals brings to the argument.
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Some of these threads have a total word count per poster higher than some Masters’ theses I’ve seen. And while it can sometimes be entertaining, let’s not forgot two things. Yes, they are SOF truths, but I think they apply to Big Army as well.
People — not equipment — make the critical difference. The right people, highly trained and working as a team, will accomplish the mission with the equipment available. On the other hand, the best equipment in the world cannot compensate for a lack of the right people.
A small number of people, carefully selected, well trained, and well led, are preferable to larger numbers of troops, some of whom may not be up to the task.
One need only look at the disparity in numbers in 1967 and 1973.
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