I heard some rumblings about this guy and his posts before. But since I've never really gotten deep into any historical/military fora, I didn't know it was that big. I saw some people talking about it and posting up their interpretations of what this guys fictional "M113 Gavin" must look like, and ended up with a number of vehicles looking a lot like the M50 Ontos or some other such odd looking contraption.
Edit: wow this guy was a nutter.
Mike Sparks vs M-21 Sniper, email debate
M-21: 1. A tracked vehicle is never going to run
with a road wheel blown off like a stryker/LAV will.
MS: a. What blows off road wheel in Stryker mangles it and the otherwheels alongside it.
b. WHAT ABOUT THE FACT THAT ITS WHEELED IT GOT YOU
BLOWN UP IN THE FIRST PLACE?
M-21: 2. A tracked vehicle is never going to match the
on-road performance of a wheeled vehicle.
MS: WRONG. With band tracks M113 Gavins are faster than
Stryker trucks on roads, too.
WHY DO WE WANT TO BE ON ROADS ANYWAY?
PS, Sorry for temporarily hijacking your thread, mate. I'll shut up now.
Its a sniper rifle, not a "sniper"! You don't call an assault rifle an "assault"!
First Command Master Gunnery Staff Sergeant Major First Class of the Army (1CMGSSMFCOTA, E-25)
Hi tanitatt, never a tough crowd here. Always in fun and lots of help to be found.
I'm doing my own defense review of sorts this weekend and may have some NATO types and helo's to go.
5 Chally 1 IMP for sure (no UK force in my plans).
Depends how the beer flows and what I decide to go with this year.
I'll let you know.
Mk 1 wrote:
The US Army has never called the M113 anything other than the M113. Ask a vet, and the only name they may come up with other than '113 is likely to be "track", or a "rolling refridgerator", or "purple heart box", or "slab-sided taxi" or some other colorful localization. Unless you find the rare PFC who has been trained by "The Military Channel", which has occasionally been sucked in to Sparky's insanity when their research has gone only so far as first level googling.
Right on target. In all my years in the Army I never heard a 113 called anything other than a "one-one-three," a "papa-charlie" or a "track."
Mk 1 wrote:
You would be better to taunt Cthulu than to summon Sparky through using his magic name for M113 (the "track that must not be named").
Wow! How have we avoided this clown from poisoning our friendly repartee here at GHQ? Great moderatrors? Saving throws? Clean living?
Maybe he knows the knowledgable posters here would fire for effect on him and his nonsense and render him hors de combat.
Tactics are the opinion of the senior officer present.
tanitatt wrote:Okay, update on my vehicles up for trade ..
5 Tiger 1
10 Panzer IVH
5 M-47
6 M125
10 Merkava (Heroic and Ross ... I'll give these away for almost nothing)
10 Bradleys IFV (tentatively spoken for)
5 M1A1 Abrams (tentatively spoken for)
I'm looking for any ..
WWII German SP vehicles
Late war Panzer III
Modern NATO stuff
Modern Soviet stuff
Strykers
tanitatt wrote:Okay, update on my vehicles up for trade ..
5 Tiger 1
10 Panzer IVH
5 M-47
6 M125
10 Merkava (Heroic and Ross ... I'll give these away for almost nothing)
10 Bradleys IFV (tentatively spoken for)
5 M1A1 Abrams (tentatively spoken for)
I'm looking for any ..
WWII German SP vehicles
Late war Panzer III
Modern NATO stuff
Modern Soviet stuff
Strykers
Im looking for "SMALL" amounts of the folowing:
T72
M24
CT15a arm trucks
BMP's
M998
Hem Cargo and fuelers
Hesco
concrete walls and ravlens
walls Period
about 4 each prefer to pay by PP and prefer to do buz with folks in the US to save on postage....mikey
every man for all mens rights
all men for every mans rights
Greetings! I am looking for the following in trades:
WWII Russian
T-44
Russian individual infantry
T 70
WWII US
T-95
M 36 APC
WWII Brits
Centurian Mk1
Tortoise
I now some of these are really recent models and there might not be many takers but I thought I'd put out some feelers! I have lots to trade in return, PM me if you have something on my list and we can try to come to an agreement. I will also paint your miniatures in trade!
