Really cool M8 AGS link

[kicker]

This is a really cool sight about why we need the M8 AGS, as far as I know it has not been posted before. If it has then I apologize. http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Qu...lighttanks.htm

[Hannibal]

Very nice!

Please do me a favor when you see websites like that, send the webmasters email about Trackpads and see if they would like to use our hosting instead. I will definately give them more space and no advertising.

Whenever a website signs up that you refer you get a +3 for your post count

Thanks!

-Jason

[Garandman]

Gentlemen, that is one of the myriad websites of Mr. Mike Sparks. He is a former Marine and purportedly currently serving Reserve or National Guard NCO or junior officer - it isn't easy to find out which.....

He has some interesting ideas, which are hampered by the lack OF ANY MODULATION, and the fact that you will be personally attacked if you disagree with him at all. You can read some comments by Colonel Hackworth (by contrast, a less controversial figure because he's BTDT) at http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rong...and_sparks.htm

There is a leadership lesson here. Reasonable men may disagree. But as you learn in OCS (and presumably other commissioning sources):

The discipline that makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart instructions and to give commands in such manner and such a tone of voice to inspire in the soldier no feeling but an intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey. The one mode or the other of dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the respect which is due to others cannot fail to inspire in them regard for himself, while one who feels, and hence manifests disrespect toward others, especially his inferiors, cannot fail to inspire hatred toward himself."

SCHOFIELD'S DEFINITION OF DISCIPLINE
- MG John M. Schofield, in an address to the Corps of Cadets, 11 August 1879

If you want to be effective at killing the enemies of our nation, you must respect them and understand them. Mr. Sparks many treatises supply heat, but precious little light. That's not to say you cannot learn from them.

A website that is similar in intent to this one and worth linking to is www.paratrooper.net.

[RetPara]

There are a whole slew of interconnecting site surrounding this one. If you wanted to flow chart it the best way would be to spiderweb a windshield and start drawing blocks.

A lot of the information on the sites is very good. If he wasn't so shrill in the presentation it would help.

http://www.geocities.com/air_mech_strike/

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/5265/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2116/