Thank you, and your dad for your family's service to this country.

oop Papa was my Grandad. I am sorry not to have clarified! I am very proud of him. He has passed away but He isn't forgotten <:AmericanFlag:720120797837918288> ❤️

there I fixed it 🙂

Oh, well thank you for your grandpa's service, we'll be thankful for his bravery, for what he has done for the country.

I am not positive, he always referred to them as "large machine guns" and I cannot for the life of me find out which ones on the ship he shot. There were multiple sizes, I believe.

these were the guns on board supposedly "twelve 12.7cm 5-inch/38 caliber guns in six twin mounts, 16 x 40mm guns, 16 x 20mm guns, eight torpedo tubes"

My great grandpa was killed by the Germans on June 22 1941, he was one the 1st soldiers who met the German advance.

I am sorry for that loss, but what a brave man. You should be so very proud.

Ahh, I called my mom into this. She said he shot 16 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

Oh

In that case, it would be better to call them autocannons rather than heavy machine guns

ah yes, but when he would tell me about them I was little so probably would not have understood. 😁 Thank you for the information- I shall change what I call them then.

Ok

to be honest sometimes he just called them "bigggg guns" to anyone who asked what he had shot 😆 But he didn't like to talk about it so he would probably say as little as possible.

I mean, with the recoil of a 20mm anti air gun firing over and over, I'd be surprised if they didn't feel bigger than they actually were.

Many MG34

I remember how my grandad had to retire from the Navy because *graphic warning* his toes all apart from his big one got crushed by the lid of a submarine. He was a really tough guy. Had to get his foot attached to his leg and stay like that in a bed for months and then had to walk around on his foot. Must have hurt a lotttt, but yeah he was tough.

Honestly I swear he could live through anything

My grandpa Schmidt served in in Korean war he passed away in 2018 along with my dad

He's probably referring to the 20 or 40 mm guns

he showed my mom and my mom looked it up- but you *might* be right. I don't know what he shot for a fact, only that it was large and caused him to almost loose his hearing entirely

We have been doing researched about the ship he was on and supposedly it was torpedoed the same year Papa was drafted. He was drafted near August and put straight on the ship, and then in November it was hit, although the torpedo didn't explode. It only ripped a hole in the back part of the ship. Papa never spoke about it but we are beginning to think he was on it when it was hit. 🤔

as a vietnamese, i'm only slightly offended -- mostly because it's true

Oof

My Grandpa went to Vietnam. He was a Sailor in the Navy. He was on U.S.S Iwo Jima. I believe.

So seeing stories of Vietnam... my Grandfather's brother volunteered to go to nam in the Marines, now I don't know all the facts like his MOS or anything but as the story goes is that he was in a fireteam attached to another squad of a few friends he knew. Anyways his job was to go to villages after the Air Force had laid waste to them and stack and burn the bodies... a real shit job. Anyways he had been in Vietnam for about 3 or 4 months when their squad was crossing a field just after doing their job in a village and they were ambushed. Only my great uncle and the squad leader survived, the other 10 perished. The squad leader and my great uncle were thought to be dead, the leader being paralyzed from the neck down due to his injuries and my great uncle taking a 7.62 round to the top left of his head and chest. Somehow he survived and still lives today. He is 68 and still kicking, tough guy.

yo who gave Castro the designs for our military fatigues, like, other countries that aren't allied don't look like that

Well, rhat may have to do with how different environmentally we are from Europe. While our Euro allies often use a variation of grey, we have alot more varied colors such as green and khaki due to how different the US geography is from Europe

With Euro's have more grey fatigues due to having a recent history of partaking in urban combat while fighting on the homefront

While for America, the most recent war we've had on the homefront was the Civil War and that one was almost exclusivly rural combat

Russian Knights have the best paint scheme of any demo team right now imo.

Orange man is pure evil, because he committed the cardinal sin of not starting a new war in the middle east.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mattis-says-he-hopes-joe-biden-takes-america-first-out-of-national-security-strategy

Oh my God

So evil

"incoming administration" mmk

Seriously though, Trump is the first American president since Reagan in the 80's to not start a new conflict in the middle east. That is blasphemy as far as the deep state is concerned

Fuck Jim Mattis, he is no different than the neocons in the establishment. Incarcerate him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maf6Chwh_0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCTO0hvuOo

I guess NK is taking a page out of China