Here's a Weird Picture

[Raellus]

The motley appearance of the Iraqis in that photo probably mirrors the hodge-podge of uniform items soldiers would be wearing in the later stages of the Twilight War.

[Gabe The Gun]

Originally Posted by Raellus

The motley appearance of the Iraqis in that photo probably mirrors the hodge-podge of uniform items soldiers would be wearing in the later stages of the Twilight War.

Close, but our beloved games hodge-podge would be FAR worse, rarely to see two outfit alike in my opionion

[HorseSoldier]

I figure there'd be an attempt to at least keep some standardization among organized forces, both for IFF purposes and to help instill some extra discipline and cohesion when trying to incorporate the last ditch levies of conscripts from back home and any volunteers who can be rounded up from host country militia who speak enough English (or whatever) to work with.

My take was that there'd be an attempt to get everyone in at least generally matching tops -- shirts/jackets/smocks/whatever. If available supplies of woodland BDU, DPM, flecktarn, etc., weren't available, I'd picture a lot of units in winter cantonment making up garments that matched pretty well, even if the end result looked more like a WW2 Denison smock with colors matching whatever camo pattern was appropriate.

I could see oversized national flags possibly gaining popularity and (much as it pains me to think about it) am emphasis on things like nice and shiny boots and pressed uniforms (in cantonment, anyway) and such, with the goal being to distinguish organized military forces from the marauders who may have just raped and looted their way through the same town while at least some of them were wearing pretty much the same uniforms, carrying the same weapons, and operating the same vehicles.

[waiting4something]

I know the Chechs do use Hmmvws. When I was in Kuwait with a CJTF I had to do port security waiting for these Chech Hmmwv's to come in on a ship. They where supposed to be then driven back to our base by these third country nationals. However, their was some labor dispute so when the vehicles got there we waited around for another 12-13 hours. Their wasn't enough nationals to drive all the hmmwvs back so half are security had to drive the other ones too. It was chaos. I saw more wrecks that night then ever in my whole life. I don't think most this guys ever drove before in there life, and we lost a good number of them before we made it back. Plenty that did make it there where busted up too. We had a couple close calls ourselfs as I remember getting whipped around like a rag doll up top as my driver evaded a couple accidents. You just kept going no matter what and never stopped to see how anyone was. It was just pieces of automobiles shattered all over the highway. I felt sorry for the Kuwaiti's, I sure they never got a warning a bunch of people who couldn't drive where going turn their highway into a autobrahn/demolition derby.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by waiting4something

I know the Chechs do use Hmmvws. When I was in Kuwait with a CJTF I had to do port security waiting for these Chech Hmmwv's to come in on a ship. They where supposed to be then driven back to our base by these third country nationals. However, their was some labor dispute so when the vehicles got there we waited around for another 12-13 hours. Their wasn't enough nationals to drive all the hmmwvs back so half are security had to drive the other ones too. It was chaos. I saw more wrecks that night then ever in my whole life. I don't think most this guys ever drove before in there life, and we lost a good number of them before we made it back. Plenty that did make it there where busted up too. We had a couple close calls ourselfs as I remember getting whipped around like a rag doll up top as my driver evaded a couple accidents. You just kept going no matter what and never stopped to see how anyone was. It was just pieces of automobiles shattered all over the highway. I felt sorry for the Kuwaiti's, I sure they never got a warning a bunch of people who couldn't drive where going turn their highway into a autobrahn/demolition derby.

Crazy story man. I love it!

[waiting4something]

Yeah, another point I have to add was I had never fired or worked with a M2HB before or anything in a turrent ring. But they just said "here you go". Thankfully we had a couple guys from a CATT team in are security team that told me I have to cock the weapon and then quater cock it after that. I was like "why"? They tried to explain, but I said "f--k it, I'll cock it twice". They said "yeah that works too, just do that".