Ha, didn’t see it, I have him on ignore.
All I know is if they find a parachute downriver we might owe someone a big apology!
Then again, maybe not…
I don’t know where you intended to put that but this is clearly the wrong thread. That’s not the guest of dishonor there.
Some time ago, the guest of dishonor suggested parachuting in fighters on motorcycles to solve some kind of war problem.
Benghazi, if I’m not mistaken.
The whole problem could apparently have been avoided by just parachuting some motorcyclist commandoes.
I had always assumed that thus was some kind of exaggerated parody of what he said.
Was there also some kind of monkey king fu thing? Like for real?
Magiver says a lot of dumb stuff, but motorbike ops are a real thing that the Rangers trained. Not via parachute, because parachuting a motorcycle is dumb, but out the back of a cargo plane.
One of Rangers’ specialties is seizing airfields and preparing them for follow-on forces. Airfields are really big, so a fast way to get things done is land a C-130 with a squad of bike-mounted infantry who could zoom out the back and very quickly get the airfield marked and cleared of obstacles, and then secure key parts of the facility like control towers and ingress/egress.
I’m not clear if this method has actually been employed in airfield seizures, but the capability was certainly trained and rehearsed.
Thanks. Post looked like a misguided pitting of markn_1 without that detail.
Both have an “M” icon, y’know.
There was, scroll back up to post 404 for pics
Absolutely the military will drop cargo, including vehicles, & will also drop soldiers…separately. I believe our guest of dishonor stated they should parachute soldiers in while on motorcycles so they could immediately ride off to their destination. Even if they were to drop them strapped into a Humvee it could, possibly, maybe work but there’s no way a soldier can hold onto a motor cycle all the way down & it would present a hazard below them upon ground impact.
OTOH, as for an 8yo’s battle plan, it’s a great idea!
Yes. It was Hillary’s fault for not stopping the attack on the Benghazi consulate by mobilizing the nearest US military troops (which IIRC were in Italy), flying them to Benghazi (which had no suitable airfield) and parachuting motorcycle-riding troops into the city. When the rather considerable logistical problems with this plan were discussed, he doubled down on it nonetheless.
It’s not quite as bad as the infamous “paper towel roll” theory from another poster re the Penn State abuse scandal, but it’s certainly just as memorable.
There was stupidly long thread where he argued that if you are attacked by a monkey, you can defeat it with a double-punch on either side of its head. If you punch it from both sides at once, the force is more than doubled because of the conservation of momentum. This went on for hundreds of posts.
I wish this was a parody or exaggeration.
In any other place I frequent on the internet or in real life, I would be wondering why anyone would be discussing contingency plans for monkey attacks. But this is the Dope.
You’ll thank us later.
Yeah, some of those threads got surreal.
And, even if Hillary Clinton had done the terrible things they accused her of in Benghazi (and of course she didn’t), they’d be considered quaint compared to some of the shenanigans the current crop of criminals in charge of the country have pulled this month alone, much less since the beginning of the year or the beginning of the term or much of the first term.
Is there a place where these legendary sagas of old are preserved for the enrichment of others?
Other than the board itself? I don’t think so, but here are links (be warned, they are mostly stupid and pointless and boring) to the Double Monkey Punch and the interminable Benghazi (since locked) threads
Double Monkey Punch would be a perfect band name.
Or a cocktail.
Double Monkey Punch
3 6 oz pineapple juice
2 4 oz orange juice
1 2 oz dark or white rum
1 2 oz coconut rum (or banana liqueur/99 bananas)
1 2 Splashes of grenadine
Serve in a hollowed out pineapple motorcycle helmet, garnish with an umbrella a parachute.
I’m reporting this for false advertising- there’s absolutely no monkey in this cocktail at all.