(01-10-2018, 04:10 AM)Hugmenot Wrote: [ -> ]Should I bite and ask what about the other 1 time?
Nobody liked that platoon much anyway.
(01-10-2018, 04:10 AM)Hugmenot Wrote: [ -> ]Should I bite and ask what about the other 1 time?
That's why we were all given the option to enroll in SGLI (Service Group Life Insurance) on entering boot camp. That's the $10,000 payout when an American service member dies in the line of duty. It was an easy sell - given someone with and another someone without coverage, who do you think gets to walk in the line of fire first, hmmm?
Peace. Michael
(01-10-2018, 04:10 AM)Hugmenot Wrote: [ -> ]Should I bite and ask what about the other 1 time?
Well, there was that one time with the Donkey cart.... but I'm sure he didn't feel a thing...
SGLI. Has gone up significantly. It was $200,000 when I went to basic training in94, and went up to $400,000 in around 2004; with an additional $100,000 death gratuity to the family. In essence I am currently worth more dead than alive right now.
I signed up for SGLI in June 1972.
The rules for the use of smoke state " So a 12-turn game allows for two rounds of smoke/illumination, while a 36-turn game would allow four turns. To track usage, place either a Smoke or Illumination marker under the firing unit to indicate one usage, or note off-board artillery's usage on a piece of paper". It would seem that "rounds" would mean only 2 smoke firings in a 12-turn game, whereas "turns" would imply that all units capable of firing smoke rounds could each fire smoke in a given turn, and do so for one other turn. Should this be two rounds fired in a 12-turn game, or e.g. 6 rounds fired in two separate turns if one had three 16 OBA?
(12-15-2021, 03:07 AM)Schoenwulf Wrote: [ -> ]The rules for the use of smoke state " So a 12-turn game allows for two rounds of smoke/illumination, while a 36-turn game would allow four turns. To track usage, place either a Smoke or Illumination marker under the firing unit to indicate one usage, or note off-board artillery's usage on a piece of paper". It would seem that "rounds" would mean only 2 smoke firings in a 12-turn game, whereas "turns" would imply that all units capable of firing smoke rounds could each fire smoke in a given turn, and do so for one other turn. Should this be two rounds fired in a 12-turn game, or e.g. 6 rounds fired in two separate turns if one had three 16 OBA?
I've always played that it's one use of smoke or illumination per ten turns.
I recently played a 22 turn night scenario from Black Panthers. When the American tanks closed with the German held town German officers called in star shells three times to give a nearby 88 a chance to shoot at the tanks.