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Funny that has come up... the other day I glanced at my duals on the back of the Power Wagon.
I'm quite close to CFB Suffield...hence we see the overflow from the base. Picked up used tires off a local business... Goodrich tires 'Made in England'.
The truck has been mine for 20 years now. And the tires were well used when I got them.
It's a low mileage farm truck, so it sounds most of it's time sitting in the corner of the yard...the tires have nary a crack as far as weathering though... Her Majesty's forces wear good shoes...so do the vehicles.
I'm quite close to CFB Suffield...hence we see the overflow from the base. Picked up used tires off a local business... Goodrich tires 'Made in England'.
The truck has been mine for 20 years now. And the tires were well used when I got them.
It's a low mileage farm truck, so it sounds most of it's time sitting in the corner of the yard...the tires have nary a crack as far as weathering though... Her Majesty's forces wear good shoes...so do the vehicles.
You can't really go by the Finnish experience. The Finns were desperate enough to fly anything they could get their hands on and usually make it work. They even flew Brewster Buffaloes, fer Gawd's sake, and were reported to have had pretty good success with them.
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Indian pilots, RAF:
Sharp looking lads.
Sharp looking lads.
The old and dry part is key, those vehicles did not get the required maintenance and sat for long times outdoors without the tires being rotated. when they lowered the pressure for off road driving they ran into the problems.
Bought a car with Russian made tires, my regular tire guys said, better replace them before they fail.
Grizz
Luís Fróis, the Portuguese who helped to understand Japan
Born in Lisbon in 1532, Luís Frós would join the Society of Jesus in 1548.
In 1565, he joined a Jesuit mission to evangelize the Japanese territory, twenty years after the establishment of relations between Portugal and Japan.
He would arrive in 1566 in the city of Kyoto, where he would be received by Ashikaga Yo####eru, then shogun, commanding general of the Japanese army.
Fróis would eventually settle permanently in the residence of Oda Nobunaga, daimyo who would become known as the great warrior who would start the reunification of the Empire of the Rising Sun, in the city of Gifu.
Luís Fróis developed an in-depth work of understanding and describing the Japanese traditions and culture of the 16th century, writing letters in which he described them to Macau, the Holy See and the Crown.
Having been guided by the Portuguese missionary Gaspar Vilela, Fróis recounted in his letters the civil war that was unfolding around the capital of the Japanese Empire, which were translated into several languages and gained great fame in Europe.
Luís Fróis would finish in 1585 his “Treatise on the Differences between Europe and Japan”, a work in which he explained in detail, using more than 600 examples, that the two civilizations were opposites in their practices, but similar in the fact that they were equally civilized.
Fróis was able to establish the difficult balance between two civilizations that, from the start, seemed to be completely antagonistic, studying Japanese culture in depth without ever putting aside his Portuguese roots.
Proof of his great understanding of Japanese traditions is the occasion when he wrote about the differences between suicide in Europe, a sin for the Catholic faith, and the practice of Seppuku, a Japanese suicide ritual that could be the greatest honor in a warrior's life.
Luís Fróis would die in 1597 in Nagasaki, at the age of 65, but the texts that the Portuguese wrote describing his vast experience of 34 years in Japan are still an unavoidable source for understanding the History and culture of the Empire of the Rising Sun. .
Miguel Louro
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War in Ukraine...
I am alive. For proof, here I am in the position of a super tactical sniper special forces commando warrior in a ball pool.
The rumors that I died in the fight were completely ridiculous. The truth is we have taken the enemy's ground in addition to causing him losses. Unfortunately, we also lost comrades, dead and injured.
The Russians are afraid of a close fight. They prefer to bomb, over and over again, destroying houses, such as frustrated thugs.
Faith and Fight
W
War in Ukraine...
I am alive. For proof, here I am in the position of a super tactical sniper special forces commando warrior in a ball pool.
The rumors that I died in the fight were completely ridiculous. The truth is we have taken the enemy's ground in addition to causing him losses. Unfortunately, we also lost comrades, dead and injured.
The Russians are afraid of a close fight. They prefer to bomb, over and over again, destroying houses, such as frustrated thugs.
Faith and Fight
W
Is that pic from inside a bouncy castle? At least Vasily Zaitsev and Simo Hayha were smart enough to STFU and stay low profile.
Is that pic from inside a bouncy castle? At least Vasily Zaitsev and Simo Hayha were smart enough to STFU and stay low profile.
Not entirely sure...but I think Vasil was pumped up pretty hard on a propaganda level as well.
I never have fired a round in anger nor had one fired at me...so that's been said.
But the nature of conflicts have changed... perhaps some PR wizard in Ukraine decided this was the ticket.
I somehow doubt he is a 'retard'...and I might cast shade upon those whom would call him one.
Looks silly to me as well... but then again...I'm no expert at Propaganda either.
He's there, by accounts he's fighting... casting shade upon him from behind a keyboard in Canada... not the bravest thing I've seen.
But he does look a tad silly...likely this is some convoluted Psyop manuver...or just a poorly thought out photo shoot.
I've been under very stressful circumstance where shots were traded back and forth. To my best recollection, not one of those shots was fired under angry conditions. Anger got you killed or someone else killed very quickly. Same goes for uncontrolled fear.
I'm really surprised that fellow actually posed for those pics and was OK with them being spread all over the world wide internet.
For the most part, Ukrainians and Russians look alike, speak the same language, etc.
It wouldn't take much for a trained professional to infiltrate and take him out, especially if there was a decent reward placed on his head.
Even a traitor within the ranks could get away with it.
He's allowed the Ukrainians to pin a target on his back for a few fleeting minutes of notoriety, which is the last thing he needs at this point.
Leave your wife and child to go half way round the world to kill people you have never met and know next to nothing about, in a cause that was doomed and defective from the start?
Maybe he still gets a big kick out pulling that trigger? The US DOD now grooms and selects dedicated war-gamers to sit in shipping container offices piloting drones and killing people they know nothing about half way around the world. They even get medals for it.
Some of them get sick of it after a while and come away wondering WTF they were doing and why. And then there's the baggage they'll carry around for the rest of their lives, if it doesn't shorten those lives considerably.
It's not like a bunch of Russian conscripts are the Waffen SS.
Maybe he still gets a big kick out pulling that trigger? The US DOD now grooms and selects dedicated war-gamers to sit in shipping container offices piloting drones and killing people they know nothing about half way around the world. They even get medals for it.
Some of them get sick of it after a while and come away wondering WTF they were doing and why. And then there's the baggage they'll carry around for the rest of their lives, if it doesn't shorten those lives considerably.
It's not like a bunch of Russian conscripts are the Waffen SS.
No, they more like Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army.
