Aahahhahaha! LOL! Ok this is porbably not how it happened, but I got a picture of a battlefield strewn with trash, empty magazines, Mcdonalds warppers, styrofoam cups, discarded equipment.... and a lone Brittish farmer looking at it in despair with a single tear running down his cheek.

Also as a Belgian I feel I should point out all of you (Mericans, Brits, Ze Germans) left quit a lot of stuff strewn about the Flemish countryside! Every week they still find unexploaded ordnance and munitions from WWI in Flanders fields. A hundred years have gone by and that stuff is still dangerous...

(R.I.P. All soldiers who died during the Great war)

Also we are tight fisted in comparison to the colonials, I couldn't get in because of asthma but I have friends who served one Sam was a quartermaster and he has loads to say regarding yanks, one weekend they did a cross training exercise on the firing range the brits were using their magazines up and putting them back in their pouches to hand in later for replenishment but the Americans even though they'd been asked to were not they'd expand one and just throw it away.

So Sam had to stay on the range till they recovered every last bit of equipment he wasn't overly impressed.

I sincerely doubt that's the case.

Aahahhahaha! LOL! Ok this is porbably not how it happened, but I got a picture of a battlefield strewn with trash, empty magazines, Mcdonalds warppers, styrofoam cups, discarded equipment.... and a lone Brittish farmer looking at it in despair with a single tear running down his cheek.

Also as a Belgian I feel I should point out all of you (Mericans, Brits, Ze Germans) left quit a lot of stuff strewn about the Flemish countryside! Every week they still find unexploaded ordnance and munitions from WWI in Flanders fields. A hundred years have gone by and that stuff is still dangerous...

(R.I.P. All soldiers who died during the Great war)

And yet, in my mind, the lone British farmer looks exactly like the American farmer from American Gothic . Except with a flatcap.

Also we are tight fisted in comparison to the colonials, I couldn't get in because of asthma but I have friends who served one Sam was a quartermaster and he has loads to say regarding yanks, one weekend they did a cross training exercise on the firing range the brits were using their magazines up and putting them back in their pouches to hand in later for replenishment but the Americans even though they'd been asked to were not they'd expand one and just throw it away.

So Sam had to stay on the range till they recovered every last bit of equipment he wasn't overly impressed.

I sincerely doubt that's the case.

Yeah... I've never been to a range where range control didn't give a **** and let you leave brass every where.

And I never met a supply NCO who would issue more mags just because you felt like leaving yours strewn all over the range.

We did used to pick up all used brass back in the day, one as its just good area discipline and clean but also to deny the IRA a brass shell to reload.

The chucking mags about sounds a bit extravagant but I do remember a mate of mine on deployment in the US once watching mobile pizza outlets and taco bells turn up. That would have shocked him had they not been digging in earlier on and while they were sweating away with picks and spades the neighbouring US unit were sitting on their bergans 'waiting for the excavators'.

Im pretty sure the above is not an indication that the US dont know how to dig in by hand.. just that they dont HAVE to like we do

I do remember hoarding 'colt' made m16 magazines for ages as they were infinitely better than the 'radwell green' made ones we had for our rifle but 'nato standard' compatible.

Like you know when you see people slam magazines into magwells? Do that with an RG magazine and you can expect to dent the retaining horns and either have a stoppage or watch the rounds cascade everywhere when you change mags before clearing one fully.

So we used to push them in firmly til they clicked with RG mags but you could be a bit more rapid with colt mags, they also fed better.

Anyway I had pretty much a full set of them until after a particularly entusiastic company attack we were doing the re-org and just told to pool magazines... i think i got one out of about six back.

I was gutted.

The only benefit is that I didnt pay for them, i just made sure I grabbed colt mags whenever I saw one i could swap for an RG one.

The sa80 is a much maligned (and actually incredibly good assault rifle) but the magazines were terrible. Every stoppage i ever had was ammo or magazine related. never the working parts of the rifle itself.

Aahahhahaha! LOL! Ok this is porbably not how it happened, but I got a picture of a battlefield strewn with trash, empty magazines, Mcdonalds warppers, styrofoam cups, discarded equipment.... and a lone Brittish farmer looking at it in despair with a single tear running down his cheek.

Also as a Belgian I feel I should point out all of you (Mericans, Brits, Ze Germans) left quit a lot of stuff strewn about the Flemish countryside! Every week they still find unexploaded ordnance and munitions from WWI in Flanders fields. A hundred years have gone by and that stuff is still dangerous...

(R.I.P. All soldiers who died during the Great war)

France too, i've heard its often left at collection points by the roadside in ordnance heacy areas for the authorities to dispose of.

Horrifically i remember reading about some young girl dying on some 'trench visit' in the early 2000s after acidentally unearthing a still dangerous pocket of gas from a preserved trench. I'd have to search to see if i did read that or im misremembering and was told it by a pal in the JNBC reg back then.

When i did my basic training it was drilled into us that while we would pick up any brass or kit on a range or training exercise we were *never* to pick up 'dropped kit' in the province as the IRA again had a lovely habit of leaving desirable looking kit or magazines on patrol routes... you'd think the guy before you or the previous brick had dropped it, pick it up to give back later (or more likely thieve for yourself) and 'bang', the guy fifty metres behind you would go down.

Not anyone specific mentioned but, yep, they are still killing people every now and them when 100 year old munitions go off.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/first-world-war-bombs-still-3862370

How bout the Civil War:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/02/virginia-man-killed-in-civil-war-cannonball-blast.html

Your article made me remember that one from 7 years ago.

I never touched anything on the ground when I was over there. We got stuck clearing a bunch of UXOs on the north side of our FOB. These were munitions that ANA and MARSOC shot that didn't go off. I kept a safe distance while this crazy ass Navy EOD guy went over and nudged a mortar round with his foot. Turned out is was Russian and had probably been sitting out there since the 70s. Hadn't been fired yet, but probably abandoned in place and likely buried in a shallow hole. Winds finally uncovered it. There were tons of them out there. It was kind of cool to find all the old Russian stuff that the Afghans didn't get a hold of.

The Russians also dumped glass everywhere around their old perimeter of their base. A lot of Afghans back then didn't have shoes. Made the hillside glimmer in certain lighting conditions.

France too, i've heard its often left at collection points by the roadside in ordnance heacy areas for the authorities to dispose of.

Horrifically i remember reading about some young girl dying on some 'trench visit' in the early 2000s after acidentally unearthing a still dangerous pocket of gas from a preserved trench. I'd have to search to see if i did read that or im misremembering and was told it by a pal in the JNBC reg back then.

When i did my basic training it was drilled into us that while we would pick up any brass or kit on a range or training exercise we were *never* to pick up 'dropped kit' in the province as the IRA again had a lovely habit of leaving desirable looking kit or magazines on patrol routes... you'd think the guy before you or the previous brick had dropped it, pick it up to give back later (or more likely thieve for yourself) and 'bang', the guy fifty metres behind you would go down.

Awww jeez, that's nasty. especially if it was Mustard gas. That filth took my great grandfather in the war.

Also Obus shells: You can hit a freshly dug up one twenty times with a hammer and nothing will happen. Then you kick it with your foot and it goes off.

How bout the Civil War:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/02/virginia-man-killed-in-civil-war-cannonball-blast.html

Your article made me remember that one from 7 years ago.

I never touched anything on the ground when I was over there. We got stuck clearing a bunch of UXOs on the north side of our FOB. These were munitions that ANA and MARSOC shot that didn't go off. I kept a safe distance while this crazy ass Navy EOD guy went over and nudged a mortar round with his foot. Turned out is was Russian and had probably been sitting out there since the 70s. Hadn't been fired yet, but probably abandoned in place and likely buried in a shallow hole. Winds finally uncovered it. There were tons of them out there. It was kind of cool to find all the old Russian stuff that the Afghans didn't get a hold of.

The Russians also dumped glass everywhere around their old perimeter of their base. A lot of Afghans back then didn't have shoes. Made the hillside glimmer in certain lighting conditions.

Man the army sure loves its abreviations....

UXO: UneXploded Ordnance ("duds")
FOB: Forward Operating Base
ANA: Afghan National Army

MARSOC: MARine Special Operations Command (Marine Force Recon turned up to 11, fka and known again as, "Raiders" or Marine Raiders)
EOD: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (guys who take care of stuff what blows up that you don't want to blow up - usually by blowing it up)

I'm glad I know just IED (improvised explosive device) wich seems to me one of the more important ones to know.

(also, why don't they just yell "bomb"?)

Oh the british army is terrible for three letter abrieviations.

Some days.you you'd do your NSPs on you LSW then TAB to the LUP

They love that stuff.

In english thats safety checks on the support weapon, then advance to the staging area.

Oh the british army is terrible for three letter abrieviations.

Some days.you you'd do your NSPs on you LSW then TAB to the LUP

They love that stuff.

In english thats safety checks on the support weapon, then advance to the staging area.

In Canada, we don't say three letter acronyms, we say, TLAs.

Man I can't wait to get my Mauler MBT and HAVOC ready for action. Oh and the MOBAT needs new batteries.

Did any of you have an AWE Striker or Warthog AIFV back in the 80's?*

* Now let's see how long it takes before somebody figures this stuff out...

Oh the british army is terrible for three letter abrieviations.

Some days.you you'd do your NSPs on you LSW then TAB to the LUP

They love that stuff.

In english thats safety checks on the support weapon, then advance to the staging area.

Just don't get an NJP.

We had a few two letter ones too. Like ND.... ND was a *bad* thing. I only ever had one on the ranges as a recruit and I got away with it as i pulled the trigger at about the same time we were told to begin.

I seem to recall the rate was about £90 in fines for each round negligently discharged. We were on a range day with some reservist nurses once and there was a glorious chatter of automatic fire from one of the ranges... clearly someone had done their daily cleaning, checked the 'full auto' selector works and the bolt cycled freely but forgotten to flick it back to 'repetition' (single shot) before doing five round 'watch and shoots'.

That must have cost them a months wages or more

Robin. I used to have a fair bit of that in the 80s but in the UK it as 'Action Force' not GI Joe and we had about 50 per cent commonality with the US range but a lot of the stuff in the uk was renamed and sometimes repainted. The 'wave2' of action force we had was about 80 per cent the same as gi joe and the last lot that came out was near identical.

When it came out in the UK it was initialy wwii uniform and falklands war 4" gi joe minis that then went a bit more 'fantasy' with SAS Force, Z force and 'space force' , the bad guys were 'red shadows' led by baron ironblood.

Most of that wave was repaints. Like the z force 'quarrel riding crossbow motorbike' was a repainted 'scarlet' figure with blonde hair and green and black combats rather than black and brown.

like this:

http://www.action-figure-supplies.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/f/af-rfmq-comp-01-01.jpg

That was one of my fave toys as a kid as the gi joe repaints were fully articulated and pinned... the normal blister pack minis were aticulated like star wars miniatures. 'quarrel' was cool as she could do more realistic poses, the only other one like that in 'zforce' was the tank commander 'steeler'. A few others were repaints of stalker, cobra commander and one other i cant recall but they were like the only five fully articulated ones in the whole range and most came with really expensive vehicles.

Quarrel and the motorbike was cheap enough to be a birthday pressie so it was the first fully articulate mini 'gi joe' i ever had.

MBT is an abrieviation we still use but most tankies (never call them tankers in the uk, they hate it) called their wagons 'panzers'.

Yay! Gadge called it!

Man, Action Force was awesome!

Especially this thing!

I remember them having articulation similar to Kenner Star wars figs.

A few years ago Hasbro folded them back in the official GIJOE canon.

Great commercial aswell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWtuZikt6Y

You may want to reconsider your punctuation (or lack thereof). Action Force and Man Action Force have two entirely different connotations.

There, I've fixed it.

Hey, G.I.JOE had "kung fu grip", It's only fair Action Force should get some "Man-Action"!

I used to have that roboskull as a kid. Unfortunately i had the early one with a terrible 'red wolf' pilot, the later ones came with the 'wild weasel' rattler pilot with full articulation.

I don't think i cared that much at the time though.

I think the cop over reacted. After they found out the guns was a prop and unmasked the yoyo they should have Gibb's slapped him for not thinking and sent his butt home. The guy should've Gibbs slapped himself for not thinking.