Gonna dive into the second stage of Luke because ESB is a Christmas movie and I won't hear a word said otherwise
Gotta love everyone walking by Han and Leia having arguments in the hallway as if this was all just perfectly normal:
"Just gonna squeeze by here, on my way to the staff update brief, don't mind me, two senior members of this crap shoot having it out, I get it, normal"
Clearly, cold weather survival classes were not a priority for senior leaders at Echo Base. Or, Luke just slept through them all.
Oh good, a linear defense against a head-on assault with no obstacles in the way
The Rebellion absolutely sucks at ground combat
Luke is so mean to Dak, ignoring him the whole time, while Wedge is encouraging and motivating to his gunner
Yep, Wedge is a better leader
As Luke orders an attack run into the 20% radius of the enemy armor that can actually shoot. He's SO BAD AT THIS
Gotta feel for those Imperial bomber pilots
"We finally got a mission!"
"WHAT WE BOMBING?"
"Uh, about that..."
"is it rocks again? Are we bombing rocks?"
"Yea..."
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Number 8 was my guide for incoming company commanders (I forgot to add "leave a full-ish bottle of whiskey in your desk drawer for your replacement"): angrystaffofficer.com/2020/03/27/ass…
Since the Lee monument was FINALLY removed from the Capital today, I thought it would be fun to look back at the moment of national unity in 1910 that brought it there in first pla- oh, wait, no, the opposite happened.
Here's New York's GAR with a WTF and a GH Thomas namedrop
Here's Indiana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a double shotted "aw hell no"
Lol Horatio Gates wanted to invade Canada again in the DEAD OF WINTER in 1778, putting Lafayette in charge - who finally got to Albany in Feb & found a tiny, ill-equipped invasion force. L wrote to GW about the insane plan, the first GW had heard of it. GW then wrote Gates to
Gates was such a moron when it came to field operations. Gawd. What an incompetent buffoon.
Washington, sitting in Valley Forge, freezing his ass off, trying to keep his army together, reading Gates' plans to invade Canada in the winter (again):
There's a special type of rage that exists when you go to leave in the morning and find that the snow plow has made yet *another* pass and left a berm of hard-packed snow blocking the driveway
I know they don't mean to do it but
They totally do
You see, winter is a campaign. And you have to fight it as such, using combined arms operations to survive. It is a months-long combined arms breach. First you create a lane in your driveway. Then you improve the lane. Then you breach footpaths for your dismounts
You also have to create sustainment lanes - for your CL III and your CL I/VI. Your enemy, the snow, only cares about countermobility. It will sometimes work in concert with the snow plow to repair a breach if you don't provide overwatch, forcing a hasty breach IOT get to work