Enbloc is BACK in the building...

And of course first post back is accompanied by a much-too-large picture of something not firearm related.

Aloha from Hawaii...!
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Old, fat Elvis? No, no, no. I prefer the young Elvis who had Ann Margret in " Roustabout" and " Viva Las Vegas". That's how I like to remember the King. Welcome back.
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Welcome back, enbloc!
Thanks Cindy!

I'm hearing that enbloc is back in the building, but the posts are from all you guys, as well as Miss minininjer of course. So where is that s.o.b. anyway?
Hey! I've been humpin' your ammo up the line...!
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There. That should bring up the "Gun Count" in this General thread...
Lol, Missed you guys... and all you girls!
~Enbloc
 
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SIKE. He's probably gonna come back on from time to time to say "I'm back" and then bail for another month and then come back again to read all of the hilarity in this thread :confused:
Aloha from Hawaii...!
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Thanks Cindy!


Hey! I've been humpin' your ammo up the line...!
s-l300.jpg


There. That should bring up the "Gun Count" in this General thread...
Lol, Missed you guys... and all you girls!
~Enbloc
Aloha from Hawaii...!
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Thanks Cindy!


Hey! I've been humpin' your ammo up the line...!
s-l300.jpg


There. That should bring up the "Gun Count" in this General thread...
Lol, Missed you guys... and all you girls!
~Enbloc
 
And why do they always have to go UP the hill? Why does every Colonel want the top of a hill?
One Time At Boy Scout Meeting,
a senior yout (a "Green Bar") was supposed to
instruct the troop on Map and Compass.

Instead, he got a chalkboard and sketched out
how to defend a hill against the Cong
using three concentric circles of command-detonated claymores
ringing the base of the hill.

(It took me years to realize he must have had some ROTC under his belt).


I already knew how to use Map and Compass,
so it was a net win for me.

Hope those other guys have all straggled in from
the cross-country hike by now.
 
Yep. Mine hangs where it did through my Service. Between two dog tags...
 
One Time At Boy Scout Meeting,
a senior yout (a "Green Bar") was supposed to
instruct the troop on Map and Compass.

Instead, he got a chalkboard and sketched out
how to defend a hill against the Cong
using three concentric circles of command-detonated claymores
ringing the base of the hill.
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Hat tip: DefensiveCarry member LimaCharlie
 
One Time At Boy Scout Meeting,
a senior yout (a "Green Bar") was supposed to
instruct the troop on Map and Compass.

Instead, he got a chalkboard and sketched out
how to defend a hill against the Cong
using three concentric circles of command-detonated claymores
ringing the base of the hill.

(It took me years to realize he must have had some ROTC under his belt).


I already knew how to use Map and Compass,
so it was a net win for me.

Hope those other guys have all straggled in from
the cross-country hike by now.

Was his plan a realistic one? Or was it one like Sean Bean proposed in "Ronin" and got slapped down by Robert Deniro for.

Asking for a friend who has no infantry experience.
 
Was his plan a realistic one? Or was it one like Sean Bean proposed in "Ronin" and got slapped down by Robert Deniro for.

Asking for a friend who has no infantry experience.
Didn't see Ronin.

OTOH, in the intervening decades,
no one has ever told me,
"what you need to do to establish an epic defensive position,
is find the deepest swamp-filled sinkhole and hunker down in there
and wait for the enemy to suddenly appear over the military crest.


My boolits don't have names -
they have the OAL written on the case in sharpie,
to check for setback.
 
Didn't see Ronin.

OTOH, in the intervening decades,
no one has ever told me,
"what you need to do to establish an epic defensive position,
is find the deepest swamp-filled sinkhole and hunker down in there
and wait for the enemy to suddenly appear over the military crest.

You are missing a pretty good movie.

Five miscellaneous mercenaries are hired by an IRA-affiliated group to recover a stolen suitcase from some other guys. Robert Deniro is one of the mercs as are Jean Reno and Sean Bean as a twitchy Englishman. At one point they are discussing how to attack the people with the suitcase as they are driving from one location to another.

After some back-and-forth, Bean (who seems to claim some SAS experience) jumps up to the whiteboard they have and quickly draws some lines to show the road and a car driving down the road. His "ambush" is two sets of the mercs setting up on both sides of the road and firing across the road as the car enters the ambush zone. Of course both sets are downrange of the other, and could be victims of friendly fire. Deniro's character immediately jumps up, erases the picture and challenges Bean to "Draw it again." Bean starts getting nervous and defensive as Deniro keeps pressing him, ultimately revealing Bean as a "poser", finally finishing him off with this well-known line:

Sam: What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford? What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?

Bean finally withdraws into himself and shortly after is paid off and dismissed by the folks who hired him with a veiled threat that he better not talk about this.

Later the German member of the team asks Deniro what is the color of the boayhouse.

Deniro replies, "How the f*** should I know?"
 
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