>that one time the US military decided to create an entirely fictional country with separate uniforms, history, ranks and even language and dress u...

>that one time the US military decided to create an entirely fictional country with separate uniforms, history, ranks and even language and dress uniforms all for an OPFOR exercise
but why

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    autism and realism

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >start interesting premise
    >refuse to post any details
    Sir no.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      google Circle Trigon party

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        kino

        • 11 months ago
          Sea King

          These look like the old cringe Mexican presidential guard uniforms.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It looked better on paper.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It looked better on paper.

          Forgot the picrel.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/nWqDjpY.jpg

          Operation Longhorn. Those Trigonist bastards invaded Texas.

          Reminds me of "Invasion!" from 2000AD.

          Ever since the Trigonists killed mee-maw and pee-paw, I've been greasing up the one thing I have left, my double-barreled shotgun... greased up for those dirty, twinkle-toed Trigonists!

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ooh, that's a deep cut. Personally the circle and triangle insignias were making me think of the Southers from Rogue Trooper.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          So that's where Zion got their uniforms

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          i wish i could find that army manual in color.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The uniform looks like it came from one of the old civil defense corps.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >triangle man, triangle man, does everything i triangle can

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          These look like the old cringe Mexican presidential guard uniforms.

          https://i.imgur.com/y10pNd5.jpg

          i wish i could find that army manual in color.

          >triangle man, triangle man, does everything i triangle can

          >Circle Trigon party
          >kino
          Cool... getting cozy Mission Hill vibes from this.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I recall one of these sims had the Taliban/ISIS (I can't recall which) btfo the US forces because the scenario placed no limits on the number of motorbikes permitted to either side, and the bikes were assumed to travel essentially instantaneously from one base to another. US side just straight up never considered bikes whereas they formed the backbone of the Taliban/ISIS strategy in this scenario. I'm obviously grossly paraphrasing but it was along those lines.

        You are talking about Millenium Challenge, which AYRT was also referencing
        what happened was something like:
        >General: okay so you're not allowed to intercept my comms
        >GM: why
        >General: I'm using motorcycle couriers
        >GM: but you're actually using radios (since we don't have motorcycles in the exercise)
        >General: just pretend they're motorcycles and don't simulate interception
        >GM: but your couriers would be sending messages at the speed of radio
        >General: you said I could use any unit I could imagine. I thought of motorcycle couriers.
        >GM: no I can't allow that
        >General: OMG THIS GAME SUCKS YOU'RE BEING SO TOTALLY UNFAIR TO ME I'M TELLING MUM

        What pisses me off about the bullshit surrounding MC2002 is that a ton of extremely practical lessons were learned and applied to the US military, but it wasn't flashy and cool stuff so nobody cares to discuss it. People will talk nonstop how Iran could totally destroy carriers by firing 999,999 missiles at once, nobody cares about improved BDA and fire support prioritization programs.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          That’s because the people who know , well know, and everyone is thirdies who avoid anything positive about the military anyway

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          that's because you're getting your information from 'articles' that are the verbal equivalent of basedface. turns out when Generalissimo Autismo rule-lawyers so hard that teleporting motorbikes and magic detection are allowed, you don't actually learn anything all that useful.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Operation Longhorn. Those Trigonist bastards invaded Texas.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        > Sir, they occupied the damned Piggly Wiggly
        > Gentlemen, this will not stand. My meemaw buys her wonderbread there. Mount up.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        [...]

        ?t=41

        https://i.imgur.com/BpAJYsa.png

        >that one time the US military decided to create an entirely fictional country with separate uniforms, history, ranks and even language and dress uniforms all for an OPFOR exercise
        but why

        looks just like the VNV flag
        I'm more a Verdinaso man myself but still based

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        RAMIREZ, GRAB THAT BAR AND LIBERATE THE PIGGLY WIGGLY

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not the Piggly Wiggly! God damn those TrigoBlack folk!

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Aw lordy they dam well took the Piggly Wiggly
        I don’t even know what a Piggly Wiggly is but I will dam well fight to the last breath to retake it

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Piggly wiggly was the first self serve grocery store.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The Piggly Wiggly is a strip club that's popular with the chubby chaser crowd.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I never heard about this until today, but I am filled with hate and demand revenge for the Piggly Wiggly.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Arise Texans!

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            REMEMBER PIGGLY WIGGLY!

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Make them fricking triggers pay for turning the piggly wiggly into the cucking cow

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Listen, if some dudes came around wearing strange uniforms and speaking Esperanto, I'm shooting

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        it blows my fricking mind that not only is piggly wiggly a real store. but it's also been around for-fricking-ever.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        it blows my fricking mind that not only is piggly wiggly a real store. but it's also been around for-fricking-ever.

        >ha ha, what a silly name for a store
        >small town Texas sure doesn't take itself too seriously, that's nice to see
        >look it up
        What the actual frick

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Is this not a common knowledge? Closest I've ever been to Texas was Atlanta and I knew it was a thing.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          We have Piggly Wigglys in Wisconsin

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I wish I had a Wobbly Hog on this side of the River

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          We have a bunch in Alabama

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          we have a lot of them in south carolina

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Used to have one where I lived in Arkansas but it closed a long time ago (like back in '05). Remember it as being unremarkable except for carrying more of the weird gross stuff, but I always appreciated seeing the kino pig sign as a kid.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The South in general doesn't take itself too seriously, it's why you'll see people flying the Stars and Bars alongside the American Flag on the 4th of July and other holidays. Marines would fly Old Dixie in Iraq and Afghanistan too.
          Best to just roll with it, nobody means any harm. C'est la vie.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I unironically miss my local piggly wiggly

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/nWqDjpY.jpg

      Operation Longhorn. Those Trigonist bastards invaded Texas.

      ?t=41

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I want Aggressor Annie to talk dirty to me.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Now that's LARPing

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because strategic-level leadership in the USis very autistic and conversations and ideas can easily drift into /tg/ territory. I mean, they were playing absolute ‘tism simulators like C:MO but on a fricking board game with dice (original harpoon game). Not to mention if you replace “general xyz” with “dungeon master” it’s the exact same bullshit.
    >hey! Brigadier gen. Anon you CANNOT put anti ship missiles on those fishing boats in this simulation, they weigh more than the boats themselves!!!
    >go frick yourself General, it’s not my fault you didn’t properly world build before we started

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >/tg/ territory
      Well, the OG war game (so old it was just called "The War Game") played by the Prussian Army ran off D6s so...

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >two guys in the middle fighting over the rulebook and house rules
        >guy on the far left who checked out twenty minutes ago and is getting wasted
        >guy on the far right stealing all the snacks
        >guy sitting at the table in the "why can't this just be a normal game night" posture while his buddy consoles him
        mankind really doesn't change

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Don't forget
          >guy on the right lifting the back of his chair cause he's bored waiting for his turn and is probably ignoring what everyone else is doing

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous
          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Heheh.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I still laugh at that shit-eating grin of the man that has succeed where so many have failed.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the guy looking in the mirror wondering where his life went wrong

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      omg they're just like me fr fr

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I recall one of these sims had the Taliban/ISIS (I can't recall which) btfo the US forces because the scenario placed no limits on the number of motorbikes permitted to either side, and the bikes were assumed to travel essentially instantaneously from one base to another. US side just straight up never considered bikes whereas they formed the backbone of the Taliban/ISIS strategy in this scenario. I'm obviously grossly paraphrasing but it was along those lines.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are talking about Millenium Challenge, which AYRT was also referencing
        what happened was something like:
        >General: okay so you're not allowed to intercept my comms
        >GM: why
        >General: I'm using motorcycle couriers
        >GM: but you're actually using radios (since we don't have motorcycles in the exercise)
        >General: just pretend they're motorcycles and don't simulate interception
        >GM: but your couriers would be sending messages at the speed of radio
        >General: you said I could use any unit I could imagine. I thought of motorcycle couriers.
        >GM: no I can't allow that
        >General: OMG THIS GAME SUCKS YOU'RE BEING SO TOTALLY UNFAIR TO ME I'M TELLING MUM

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        There was another exercise where an entire US fleet got wiped out by fireboats because the Navy forgot that ships under a certain size could only be targeted manually back then and the carriers had a significant blind spot.
        Suicide VBIED speedboats "took out" three carriers.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm sure you can source that. Surely

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's also Millennium Challenge.

          What happened is that Van Riper attacked the Navy with a wide variety of suicide boats, the worst of which was a hypothetical motorboat armed with antiship missiles, as well as his entire arsenal of shore antiship batteries and so on, in one single massive strike.

          This scored fantastic results against the USN task force because they had turned off their automatic anti-missile defences so as not to engage every passing civilian ship in the exercise area. This is unrealistic because in a real shooting war, the Navy would declare an exclusion zone, and sink anything in the zone. But this is not possible in an exercise.

          Actually one of his better tactics that didn't get publicised is planting a dummy container ship amongst the follow-up logistics waves. That was realistic and heavily damaging.

          Which is why I hate Van Riper, the bullshit he spun overshadows the greater lessons learned from the exercise.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            makes me wonder how tight security would be for the containers and port port facilities loading the logistic ships.
            Seeing how much drugs gets smuggles out via containerships.
            You wouldn't even need a lot of bang to take out a ship, just find if a ship is carrying explosives, find the container and fir them with a detenator.
            Not easy peasy but some thing a determined nation state might be able to pull off.
            Figgure out where the support logistics will be coming from, get to the containers with munitions, fit them with a timed detenator and get out.
            If all goes well a decent chunk of the sea borne follow up logistics goes boom and blub at more or less the same time.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              cont.
              Naval instilations have security details. But commercial ports get infiltrated by drug and people smugglers every day/night. And if you need to charter civilian cargo you will probably have to use civilian instelations.
              It's not just the weaker security but the extra cost for chartering replacements, compecating the owners, the blowback from civie losses (just think of a ammodump being held in a civiy port near a major city waiting to be shipped getting blow up) and the domestic mayham and panic it would cause.

              I'm sure that anti drugs and anti terrorist services have a decent tap on the usual suspects trying to get into ports. But it would be a nation actor using non nation tactics and might be able to exploit a gap and/or rivalry between the various services

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              cont.
              Naval instilations have security details. But commercial ports get infiltrated by drug and people smugglers every day/night. And if you need to charter civilian cargo you will probably have to use civilian instelations.
              It's not just the weaker security but the extra cost for chartering replacements, compecating the owners, the blowback from civie losses (just think of a ammodump being held in a civiy port near a major city waiting to be shipped getting blow up) and the domestic mayham and panic it would cause.

              I'm sure that anti drugs and anti terrorist services have a decent tap on the usual suspects trying to get into ports. But it would be a nation actor using non nation tactics and might be able to exploit a gap and/or rivalry between the various services

              in finland's recent war game against notrussia, btrs rolled out of a civilian cargo ship and troops siezed and airport after landing in a passanger plane

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That would had been more sensible then Russia's actual plan.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                We world in conflict now

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I have always maintained that being in a peace time army is just extreme LARPing

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Anon you CANNOT put anti ship missiles on those fishing boats in this simulation, they weigh more than the boats themselves
      Germans designed towed missile pods for the V-2s and up to 3 pods could be towed by single u-boat

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >one time
    >he doesn’t know about Robin Sage

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wish less people knew about Robin Sage because every time someone learns about Pineland they come here to start screeching about how the gubmint is training to kill them because the Q course happens within the US and not in some other country

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    FM 30-102 is a 400-page manual on the nation of Aggressor army and the Circle Trigon party's paramilitary forces.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/FM_30-102_%28_Handbook_on_Aggressor_Military_Forces_%29_9-23-1955.pdf

    There's also FM 30-101 ("Aggressor: The Maneuver Enemy"), FM 30-104 ("Handbook on Aggressor Insurgent War"), as well as rulebooks for the exercises themselves like FM 105-6-3 ("Nuclear Play Calculator: Aggressor"). The US Army also taught the soldiers playing the Opfor conversational Esperanto.
    Sheer. Total. Autism.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bro all those sound like names of fiction novels that you find at trucks stops. Makes me wonder if those generals go on to become those same larping military fiction novelists.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Makes me wonder if those generals go on to become those same larping military fiction novelists.
        who knows, they might be publishing under a pseudonym

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        come on, you know how the govt works
        >Colonel X, go find somebody to write this thing
        >yes General
        >Captain Y?
        >yes Colonel X?
        >I hear you've got a real gift of the gab. also that you had a Fanfiction.Net account in high school under the username xXMasterChief69Xx with 5 posted stories and an average of 17 reviews.
        >wait where did you get
        >never you mind. I have an assignment for you....

        it helps people to take the exercise "seriously". it's the same reason why sports teams have uniforms to an extent. you could play a game of rugby using coloured ribbons around your arms but making it "look serious" makes people take it serious.

        it's also a way to get people engaged. guys might not give a shit about exercise purple dragon cloudsparkle 2018 designed to test the BCS*1800347810 principle of strategic dynamic effect control tactic synergy network infrastructure, but getting to design lmao funny uniform is fun and getting to LARP is fun too.

        i did a similar thing for a while doing mock diplomatic negotiation exercises and while the exercises themselves weren't that exciting for me after the 8 billionth time, getting to put on a massive cowboy hat and sunglasses and turn up in a hawaiian shirt and pretend to be the chain-smoking moronese-speaking dictator of some shitty post-apartheid white nationalist breakaway state in south africa was fun and funny as frick and it was a way to make very dry and boring material engaging and fun for the students. i got to play the comically inept and evil "bad guy" and they got to "beat me" and they learned valuable lessons about the limits of international pressure and NGOs along the way, and why you can't just roll into a shithole country and fix everything overnight (they were undergrads, be gentle on them).

        people learn through stories, and stories have characters. real life is boring.

        of course it doesn't always work, but trust me if you've ever had to teach anything the hardest part is getting people engaged. anything that helps is worth doing.

        >they learned valuable lessons about the limits of international pressure and NGOs along the way, and why you can't just roll into a shithole country and fix everything overnight
        My favourite undergraduate "game" example is the model UN my university hosted. Basically it was same old model UN, all talk, except each player was also handed a diplomatic position to argue for, and concessions their country would NOT accept. Things rapidly escalated of course.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Makes me wonder if those generals go on to become those same larping military fiction novelists.
        2034: A Novel of the Next World War was co-written by a retired US admiral. The plot is ridiculous and constantly crosses (and then re-crosses) the line between based-moron and regular-moron. If you're interested, there's at least one /k/ thread about it out there somewhere.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      you forgot they worked out all of the insignia so that you could tell from the eppilettes what division/regiment/brigade each soldier was from

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >one time

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ian Mccolum's Elbonia was long tradition

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ian stole Elbonia from Clott "Stay the Frick away From Blacks" Adams

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Elbonia is from Dilbert, zoomer

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Zoom

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Ian Mccolum's Elbonia
        It's all so tiresome

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        ZOOMER ALERT
        ZOOMER ALERT
        ZOOMER ALERT

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Atropia has a baller flag.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >better borders than the real countries

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ukraine is Gorgas now

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        homie you dumb.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Australians had something like that, it was kinda kino given the uniform they made for opfor turned out to be surprisingly good for parts of the desert.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Musorians and Kamarians are like fake SEA countries

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >but why
    You posted a pic with no context or linkage to the reasons why because you're an idiot.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The Circle Trigon Party speaks Esperanto as their language
    Kino

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The US military has create several countries actually: the nation of Aggressor, the Republic of Pineland, the *People's* Republic of Pineland, Atropia, Krasnovia, Atlantica, Freedonia, and the former People's Republic of Danubia (now the independent nations of Sowenia, Vilslakia, and Juraland). Those are the ones I know of, but there's probably more.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dirtland and Mainlandia are two I’ve seen.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Mainlandia is an island.
        That's some real fricking Greenland-tier false advertising bullshit, right there.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're giving Project Aces a run for their money.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Those 8s....is that you <<<Buddy>>>?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      My favorite fictional country created by our government has got to be Liberia.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Don't forget Afghanistan

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Krasnovia

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >ERAbrams

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      My favorite fictional country created by our government has got to be Liberia.

      Don't forget Afghanistan

      for me it's Israel

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This guy forgot about Limnadia and Nowheristan what a revisionist.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm kind of disappointed that Cowadooty never came up with a game based on one of these factions.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      For me, it's Redland, Orangeland and the Sowhatki Gap.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    war games are fun.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is chud a foreign volunteer? Why do cobsons have the sun on their side?

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yet another Ukraine thread?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Actually pretty funny

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      no, belarus

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    There's a reason we call it wargames, in the end boys will be boys.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Peter Sellers is great in that movie.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That movie is so fricking kino

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Funny how this basically predicted the Ukraine War.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    LONG LIVE DONOVIA!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are those dressed up M113?

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fun?

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its smart, because one day that country you didn't see as a threat can charge its banner and become one EG USSR and Nazi Germany.

    This is why I laugh when people say "they were all dummies pre 1990". No they really were not.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Look, man, I don't know but check out those helmets. The absolute drip on them mfers.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone knows that playing OPFOR is the most fun thing you can do in the military. Why not make it more fun?

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i think the U.S. military will be studied for centuries. unironically one of the greatest government institutions in the history of humanity.

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminds me of how China's OPFOR- the Blue Wolves OPFOR Brigade- is basically GI Joe Cobras with all their blue tinged equipment and balaclavas.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Chinese OPFOR also has rectangle blocks on the tops of their helmets

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        they also put them in us marpat

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/MLwDckE.jpg

      Australians did this too with the "Kamarian" Auscam/DPCU

      https://i.imgur.com/YEnXmY0.jpg

      uk opfor

      it's so embarrassing when they give them an intentionally bad camo pattern. Almost like North Korea tier propaganda

      Train how you fight, your enemies aren't going to be wearing bright blue or red uniforms

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        blue seems to be the traditional camo for opfor
        but its probably the reason why the uk went from blue to grey

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, who could be so stupid as to dress up in blue pajamas while antagonizing the west?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          To be fair those are amphibious vehicles of the chinese marines. They decided the camo was for when they need it the most which would be an opposed beach landing. Which is sort of... defendable?
          Then they made it standard... which is moronic but it's how every army works.
          They're phasing it out btw and colors are no longer service based (which so far is smart, until a general decide it's not smart enough).

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Chang Marines don't wear blue on deployment anymore.

          See the big Chang marine base in Djibouti.

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it helps people to take the exercise "seriously". it's the same reason why sports teams have uniforms to an extent. you could play a game of rugby using coloured ribbons around your arms but making it "look serious" makes people take it serious.

    it's also a way to get people engaged. guys might not give a shit about exercise purple dragon cloudsparkle 2018 designed to test the BCS*1800347810 principle of strategic dynamic effect control tactic synergy network infrastructure, but getting to design lmao funny uniform is fun and getting to LARP is fun too.

    i did a similar thing for a while doing mock diplomatic negotiation exercises and while the exercises themselves weren't that exciting for me after the 8 billionth time, getting to put on a massive cowboy hat and sunglasses and turn up in a hawaiian shirt and pretend to be the chain-smoking moronese-speaking dictator of some shitty post-apartheid white nationalist breakaway state in south africa was fun and funny as frick and it was a way to make very dry and boring material engaging and fun for the students. i got to play the comically inept and evil "bad guy" and they got to "beat me" and they learned valuable lessons about the limits of international pressure and NGOs along the way, and why you can't just roll into a shithole country and fix everything overnight (they were undergrads, be gentle on them).

    people learn through stories, and stories have characters. real life is boring.

    of course it doesn't always work, but trust me if you've ever had to teach anything the hardest part is getting people engaged. anything that helps is worth doing.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >learned valuable lessons about the limits of international pressure and NGOs along the way, and why you can't just roll into a shithole country and fix everything overnight (they were undergrads, be gentle on them).
      could you elaborate on 'why you cant'?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I would have LARPed the Dance Commander.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        YOU MUST OBEY THE DANCE COMMANDER

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >HE’S THE ONLY ONE
          >who giiiiives the orders here

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This, tbh, the potential to dress up funny and do silly voices does wonders for troop engagement and morale.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >massive cowboy hat and sunglasses and turn up in a hawaiian shirt and pretend to be the chain-smoking moronese-speaking dictator of some shitty post-apartheid white nationalist breakaway state in south africa
      That's amazing

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it helps people to take the exercise "seriously"
      The funny thing about that is when the lore book ballooned, participants stopped bothering to read it. "Aggressors" stopped trying to take ground and evade detection and started sabotaging the exercise so they could get back to real duties as quickly as possible.

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >adidas stripes
    yawn, obvious russian villains

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Australians did this too with the "Kamarian" Auscam/DPCU

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Australians also called their opfor Musoria

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Garbagia
        dear god, the bants

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i want the kamarian dpcu

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/FM30-102_%281966%29.pdf

    >Aggressorland
    >Aggressor Task Force SCHNEE

    Never trust a native Esperanto speaker. These are clearly COMMIE-NAZIS

    Hey, wasn't there an aggressor force involved in pen-testing that went rogue and kidnapped and tortured a civilian security guard?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I found it!
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cell

      >On March 20, 1986, Red Cell team members kidnapped Ronald D. Sheridan, a civilian security guard who worked at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach in Southern California as part of an exercise to test the defenses of the base. They took him to a nearby hotel where he was held for 30 hours and tortured: stripped, kicked, beaten, and repeatedly dunked into a bathtub filled with water and a flushing toilet. While in theory the kidnapping could prove a weakness, actually committing the torture served no useful purpose. In addition, the kidnapping was not even successful as a show of weakness; Sheridan's wife saw the suspicious men with a van and got the drop on them with her own pistol, and was only prevented from shooting the would-be kidnappers by her husband calling her off and insisting it was part of an exercise, as he thought at the time it would be a brief matter. Since Sheridan was not naval personnel, he sued the government afterward.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the frick was wrong with them

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Richard Marcinko

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Navy officials, Pearlston said, have told the attorney that they consider Sheridan to have been a Navy employee. He said one official used the term “crybaby” to describe the security officer’s complaints.
        Wow, these guys are actual subhumans.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >be guard at naval base
          >a position where you may in fact be kidnapped or shot, if the balloon does go up
          >know there's a base defence hardening exercise
          >base defenders are supposed to be tested
          >get kidnapped
          >they run the ol mock interrogation routine on you
          >whine that you can't take it and sue
          yes, I'd say he's a fricking crybaby
          shit like this happens
          the SEALs themselves would have undergone it during their training

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >how dare you complain about being tortured and denied medical attention
            hmm yes very compelling

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Come to think about it, Why don't they use actual bullets to shoot at soldiers during exercises? They are soldiers: getting shot at and dying is literally part of their job. They knew that when they signed up so why not test them, what gives?
            Maybe the army is full of crybabies as well...

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Maybe the army is full of crybabies as well...
              It is. Live fire exercises used to be a thing, like ducking out of the way from MG firing overhead staying in your pit as grenades/sims explosives goes around. If you acted like a moron you could very well die.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >If you acted like a moron you could very well die.
                but now that's the only demographic they can convince to enlist, and an army that kills itself before battle isn't very useful.
                >inb4 41%er joke
                (not that I disagree, but it's too obvious)

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I see you missed the point where the SEALS didn't get ventilated by his wife because he called them off.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              yes, and?
              most people going through the army's SERE twig before long that it's not real
              they go through it all the same
              how many lawsuits have come out of that, other than this fellow?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Is the SERE conducted by professionals who know what they're doing or a bunch of frat bros with guns? Why should he have stopped his wife from giving the SEALs some extra breathing holes if they were trying to be realistic to the point of inflicting harm during the exercise? Having a member of the OPFOR dead on the ground and others bleeding out would surely make for some interesting training.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Imagine the absolute seething from SEALs if she ventilated one of those frickers. There would be a shitpost about it on here everyday until eternity kek

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                should've told her to pretend shoot them and if they wouldn't have let him go shoot them for real

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I just want to hear them get bullied for being bested by a woman. How tf did she get the drop on them anyways?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                He was a civvie though

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cool, so there'd be nothing with letting the wife shoot them. Getting shot is something all soldiers are expected to experience after all, right?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sure no problem, if you let them shoot her, and they extract his teeth and electrocute him as per IRL interrogations

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                They were the ones unarmed and being held at gunpoint you dumb Black person

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Who is "they"?
                Learn to communicate clearly.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                go be illiterate somewhere else esl

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Either way, you're still wrong, because the employee was the only one unarmed, shit for brains

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                doesn't matter your speshul forces were crying and pissing their pants while begging for their life, because a housewife go the drop on them

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why say anything if you don't even know the details of the incident? Because you're shitskin? Learn to poo in loo then

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                who the frick cares? the red cell troonyhomosexuals got btfo by women and took it out on her husband like the low t incels they are

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >who the frick cares, said the deluded shitskin imagining things that never happened
                lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                deluded troonylover

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >n-n-no ur deluded, said the turdie
                >a-a-and troony, he added, his mind instantly jumping to the taste of wiener

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                seethe. your heroes are getting assraped in prison as we speak

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >inevitably, the turdie's fantasies always revolved around assrape

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                get over it you lost

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I lost a fantasy war of playground insults with no relation whatsoever to real life? wow that is such a bummer

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                seethe. your heroes are getting assraped in prison as we speak

                Is this some weird schzio samegayging or am i just getting too old to understand why an internet arguement can ruin your day and magically turn you into a homosexual?
                You both are wrong and homosexuals, and probably brown too. Definately underage. Frick offz

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Wasn't Marcinko a total fricking liar?

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    uk opfor

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      the uk seems to have moved from Blue DPM to grey DPM for it's opfor, probably as its more realistic, i presume the blue uniforms stuck out
      before they adopted the blue they used desert dpm and the found this was the problem, the desert dpm stuck out too much

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Love me saracens, simple as

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          luv me fake russian tanks

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Don't lie, you know just as well as I do this picture was taken three days ago somewhere in Luhansk

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >nobody mentioning the dwarf

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        its what people mean when they say little green men

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    cold war polish opfor

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Rembecki for tenth time shoe polish not of necessary kurwa mac

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      janich you get to play the squad Black

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        wasnt the only one

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/T2973yg.jpg

      wasnt the only one

      >Blackface
      I get the feeling they weren't taking it very seriously.

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the french use blue flecktarn

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Total Trigger Death

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >all these cool OPFORs
    We just give them some flecktarn jackets or whatever we happen to have in the box and call it a day.

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    lithuanian opfor

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hey at least Clancy Brown's still workin.

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    us army opfor

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    usmc opfor, allegedly

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's CADPAT with USMC insignia.

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    japan opfor

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.benning.army.mil/mssp/security%20topics/Global%20and%20Regional%20Security/content/pdf/DATE-2%201-Feb-2014-FINAL.pdf

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      didnt this map cause a minidiplomatic incident?
      as one or two of the real world countries not like it at all

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I can’t believe the US military made Strangereal, real

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Neat

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That flag is pretty rad.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It looks like Donovia now stretches to Moscow lol

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      A Donovian BMP. For OpFor exercises, it’s just a Bradley with a hat. A tank with ERA is spotted in the background, likely to emulate a T-72/80/90 series Donovian tank

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it’s just a Bradley with a hat
        >a Bradley with a hat
        best thing I've read this week

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        that's actually a M113 with a Bradley Turret

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the circle trigon also had their own hannoi hannah broadcasting to us troops during the excersise

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's the fricking Magic Eightball!
      I knew I didn't trust that thing.

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't know we are fictional.

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    American OPFOR in Germany

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Total gays for blurring out their faces. "Hrr we're opfor so tacticool"
      homosexuals. We all made fun of you gays at NTC.

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >all these people who think the Trigonians weren't real

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    BLUEFOR cannot triforce

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >but why
    White people, who rule the world, are more intelligent than Black folk like yourself. This is why you have $2.15 in your bank account and are addicted to a substance, whereas the white man has crafted the entire globe to suit his purpose. It's not up to you to judge the white man's methods. You can't even judge your own.

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kill Trigons. Behead Trigons. Roundhouse kick a Trigon into the concrete. Slam dunk a Trigon baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy Trigons. Defecate in a Trigon's food. Launch Trigons into the sun. Stir fry Trigons in a wok. Toss Trigons into active volcanoes. Urinate into a Trigons gas tank. Judo throw Trigons into a wood chipper. Twist Trigon's heads off. Report Trigons to the IRS. Karate chop Trigons in half. Curb stomp pregnant Trigons. Trap Trigons in quicksand. Crush Trigons in the trash compactor. Liquefy Trigons in a vat of acid. Eat Trigons. Dissect Trigons. Exterminate Trigons in the gas chamber. Stomp Trigons skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate Trigons in the oven. Lobotomize Trigons. Mandatory abortions for Trigons. Grind Trigon fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown Trigons in fried chicken grease. Vaporize Trigons with a ray gun. Kick old Trigons down the stairs. Feed Trigons to alligators. Slice Trigons with a katana.

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >But why

    I guess for the same reason you guys have frick huge comic conventions and cosplayers and and obscene generation of fanfiction.

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    for me its veyshnoria

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    In the Swiss Army we use desert DPM uniforms. They always call the enemy country "Elbonia" and insurgent groups "FEPs".

    Picrel is me playing OPFOR.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      interesting to know thanks anon

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are those jungle style mags standard issue or just something for OPFOR? They look pretty cool, but I've never heard of them being ready made rather than just taped together.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They are standard issue. SG550 mags have hooks to put them together.

        >triple jungle mags
        just when you thought shit couldn't get any more tactical

        It looks cool but I find it unpractical. It's bulky and if you ever have a malfunction (which are common with blanks) you might lose 3 mags instead of one. If you practice your mags changes enough you don't need jungle mags.
        In this specific situation I used it because as OPFOR I wasn't wearing any type of webbing or chestrig to carry my mags.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >triple jungle mags
      just when you thought shit couldn't get any more tactical

  49. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Weaponized Autism

  50. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >that one time the US decided to create an entirely fictional country with separate uniforms, history, ranks and even language and dress uniforms all for

  51. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Se vi nur scius kiom bonaj aferoj vere estas

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        And a ching chong to you too

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          fellow agressors i found an american

  52. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wonder if an OPFOR unit will ever go rogue and actually become hostile for real, led by an officer who refuses do drop the LARP.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I read a novel like that, a special forces guy hiding in a coyote den on an aggressor mission against an American city gets buried alive, goes nuts, then escapes a military asylum and tries to complete the "Mission"...

  53. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they still do! Hail Torrike/North Torbia!

    >t. Bad Geronimo

  54. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm US Army OPFOR at JRTC in Louisiana, we've got about 4 different countries we play around with. Picrel, my unholy "BMP" that's actually a M113 with a Bradley turret stuck in it

  55. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well we had to make a buffer state between Germany and England, and the "French" people needed a state so they could stop fricking with everyone else

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      anon that's no way to treat the french after all they did for you

  56. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    to spend your hard earned tax dollars

  57. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

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