Thread: MPnet's Fire Support Base Vengeance: Dry Mess & Canteen

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthony91 View Post
    Yeah, it's by far my favorite of the novels. The VADM Preston J. Cole biography was, in my opinion, the best out of all of them.
    im not that far, just finnish o'conners one about the odst alone on the ship. it was great.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BRAVO JULIET View Post
    im not that far, just finnish o'conners one about the odst alone on the ship. it was great.
    You'll love the story about the SPARTAN-III "Headhunters".
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    Post #2000


    Let's have a party! I bring the beer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soldat_Américain View Post
    Where the hell do you buy that?
    You can buy them in all German supermarkets pretty much.

    But you have to live in Germany of course :P
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    So I woke up this morning to find a "ticket" on the boat saying, that I have exceded the 14day limit on this mooring, and I must continue my journey
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    Quote Originally Posted by wotsnext View Post
    So I woke up this morning to find a "ticket" on the boat saying, that I have exceded the 14day limit on this mooring, and I must continue my journey
    Oh wow! How does that work?
    You just move a long downstream? Or did you forget to pay rent?
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    its raining here and foggy, probably the closest I can get to a white christmas in the tropics!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evolv5 View Post
    Oh wow! How does that work?
    You just move a long downstream? Or did you forget to pay rent?
    Normaly you would simpy move a couple of miles along the canal, no big deal really, but at the moment the boats are frozen in, and could remain so for weeks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wotsnext View Post
    Normaly you would simpy move a couple of miles along the canal, no big deal really, but at the moment the boats are frozen in, and could remain so for weeks.

    Isn't there a risk of damage to the boats if it freezes too much?
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    Quote Originally Posted by junglejim View Post
    its raining here and foggy, probably the closest I can get to a white christmas in the tropics!
    Not much snow where I am, but loads of ice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shiftypowpow View Post
    Isn't there a risk of damage to the boats if it freezes too much?
    No, not really, as long as you dont try to move them, most of them are built of steel, with a typical thickness of 6mm, moving them through ice though, will very quickley remove all the paint/tar from the hull.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wotsnext View Post
    Not much snow where I am, but loads of ice.
    Yeah I remember living in the high deserts of California and leaving gallons of water outside our house just to see it frozen. My first snoe experience and our neighbor had to tell me to go back into my house and wear winter clothes on... I dont think it was even an inch of snow but i was hell bent on making a snow man. Sure it was more brown than white but damn it that was my snow man.


    Damn you climate change for being too slow!
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    junglejim wots hows things guyz?
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    Quote Originally Posted by beatles101 View Post
    junglejim wots hows things guyz?
    Good beatles, Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by beatles101 View Post
    junglejim wots hows things guyz?

    Quiet since everyone's asleep.
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