For those war buffs

[Regulator75]

Inside Vietnam - starting now on History HD - 231 on Shaw.
It's a three part special.


edit: see last post.

National Graphic HD starting at 10:00 AM.

10:00 AM - Nazi Death Squads

11:00 AM - Hitler's Secret Bunkers

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM - All six parts of Apocalypse World War II

[Bigtime]

Shoot, I'm at work today. I wonder if they will be repeating it tonight?

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Shoot, I'm at work today. I wonder if they will be repeating it tonight?

I checked the PVR and they are showing it in non HD (channel 45) starting at 13:00. No other future dates are shown.

[MJM]

Damnit. Stupid work.

[CaptainCrunch]

Watching it now, really really well done.

History channel is starting a new show on Jan 4th called Tank Battles which is by the same people who did battle 360 and Patton 360 where they recreated battles using modern computer graphics.

[Gugstanley]

I can't find either show in the US.

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by Gugstanley

I can't find either show in the US.

They are not synced up... Just like Discovery US and Canada, very different programing.

[Jayems]

DAmn, I gotta look ahead more often. Would have liked this.

[wooohooo]

Managed to catch the last half. Very well written.

[Regulator75]

National Graphic HD starting at 10:00 AM.

10:00 AM - Nazi Death Squads

11:00 AM - Hitler's Secret Bunkers

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM - All six parts of Apocalypse World War II
(Still have these on my PVR, they are excellent)

[Shazam]

Apocalypse was very good. A little too summarized for my tastes but still lots of good info.

[Regulator75]

The Vietnam series is running again tomorrow.

[Bigtime]

Got my PVR set for all 3 episodes!

[SeeBass]

I actually really enjoyed the "Dogfight" series

Some of the stories are awesome. The one dogfight in the Korean war between the Sabre and the Russian trainer in the Mig was the best.

[worth]

I happened to come across that on the PVR and recorded the Inside Vietnam program. Haven't watched it yet.

[worth]

Something sort of struck me while watching this series on Vietnam. There are a lot of American soldiers who fire their weapons from the hip. Is this a kind of cultural thing during the time period? Or because of draftees and a perhaps a lack of discipline by the militaries of the US?

If you watch videos on YouTube about marines or army in Afghanistan or Iraq, most of their shots are well placed and aimed. There is no shooting from the hip. Has there been a fundamental change in the armies?

I remember reading that the reason 3 round burst was placed on m16's because of the amount of rounds spent in Vietnam. I don't know how true that is, but perhaps after Vietnam an emphasis was placed on fire control?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by worth

Something sort of struck me while watching this series on Vietnam. There are a lot of American soldiers who fire their weapons from the hip. Is this a kind of cultural thing during the time period? Or because of draftees and a perhaps a lack of discipline by the militaries of the US?

If you watch videos on YouTube about marines or army in Afghanistan or Iraq, most of their shots are well placed and aimed. There is no shooting from the hip. Has there been a fundamental change in the armies?

I remember reading that the reason 3 round burst was placed on m16's because of the amount of rounds spent in Vietnam. I don't know how true that is, but perhaps after Vietnam an emphasis was placed on fire control?

Training was a lot different and not as good back then, especially in the U.S. Army. The concept was maximum firepower, especially since they were mostly fighting an enemy that they couldn't see.

Discipline and especially fire discipline wasn't as good.

The Marines were an entirely different story, they had to carry ammo into the battle so they were careful with its use.