Four Marines in space suits on a screen. One is pulling a hand cart. Their names are Sally (short for Salamanca), Shoey (short for Schuster), Nav (short for Navarro) and Arnie (short for Arnold).
caseamber.com/index.php/Vi... New Vignette: USAF Battery Blue's 🇲🇽 Mexican Marine exchange officer heads out on a routine patrol on the lunar surface, but is caught off guard when interceptors start firing
This is my fanfic #ORBAT of the 28th Infantry Division as it might've appeared in the @caseamber.com timeline. Two mechanized infantry and an armored combat command. Also includes a Combat Command from the Maryland NG and a Delaware NG AA unit.
A US Army Pershing nuclear medium range ballistic missile on a little trailer unloaded from a Chinook helicopter
Definitely going to need a Field Artillery Battalion, Pershing, Airmobile
The organization of French power armor infantry regiments in Case Amber. There are 5 active and 1 cadre regiment. Each has a command and echelon company, 4 combat companiea ans a scout and support company
🇫🇷 Organization of French power armored infantry regiments—woodland and urban warfare specialists
🇫🇷 Lore snippet on the French Army’s power armored infantry:
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Thanks for the tip
caseamber.com/index.php/No... New article on the Soviet Union’s lunar republic in Case Amber
The 364th Support Command (theater logistics for the Moon) is also unique with units for operating the military logistics terminals on the US's space elvators, lunar railways, oxygen generation, and lunar construction. The 7th Transport Group in particular handles space elevator operation.
The 12th Infantry is unique as the only Army unit specialized in exoatmospheric operations. Its 2 active duty Combat Commands are motorized for rapid movement across the moon's surface, while its National Guard CCs specialize in navigating and securing the moon's partially underground settlements.
Organization of a fictional US First Army in the scifi Case Amber setting, including the 12th Infantry Division and supporting elements
🇺🇸 The US First Army commands all US Army forces in cislunar space, including the moon itself and Army-operate terminals on 3 space elevators (including 1 lunar elevator). Combat forces are mostly under the 12th Infantry Division (Lunar).
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caseamber.com/index.php/Ge... New article summarizing 🇩🇪 Weimar German elections and political events in the 1920s/1930s in the Case Amber universe
Organization of a fictional US I Corps. It has the 25th and 24th infantry divisions, 4th and 40th armored divisions, 11th airborne division, and corps troops
🇺🇸 The organization of US I Corps in Case Amber. As its units are largely garrisoned on the West Coast and Pacific Islands, with 1 Airborne Combat Command forward deployed to Japan, it's earmarked as the first wave of reinforcements to shore up IX Corps in China in the lead up to war.
Concept art depicting a dark green and white futuristic military helicopter. It features a large turret-like weapon system mounted on top, and the words "United States of America" are clearly visible on the side. The design has a sleek, advanced look.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016): Marine One, art by Khang Le
Climate on tidally-locked worlds:
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It's a great blog post on the research and simulations that reveal the bizarre patterns that can arise on this common planet configuration.
Cutaway of NASA's X-15 hypersonic rocketplane.
Space Truckers / Roughnecks
A militarized Reliant Robin, with the iconic single front-wheel, but rear tracks and a mounted machine gun
Another angle of the Rugged Robin, but also with a water cooled machine gun
Chat are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Gotta do arsenal ship
Redwood
8 | 🇺🇸 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division during Exercise Reforc 2062
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Also when the US Army infantry battalions would have Davy Crockett sections as augmentation, they were intended to go under the battalion mortar platoon
The Alamo nuclear weapon is probably more like an evolved version of Davy Crockett, so not much better lol
It's just a "Mortar Company" because it was originally only mortars
At least you didn't say TNO
While the Army settled on a smaller infantry division of 5 battle groups as the unit of action, the Marines moved towards Marine Brigades based on an Infantry Regimental Combat Team supported with aviation and divisional assets as semi-independent units of action
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... invested in technological solutions. This included VSTOL aviation to allow amphibious task forces to disperse well offshore to reduce vulnerability to nuclear strikes. This was initially accomplished with helicopters, and then tiltrotors, and then the UV-19D Petrel. bsky.app/profile/case...
The U.S. Marines were much more conservative than the Army when reorganizing for the nuclear battlefield. They didn't do anything as radical as Pentomic, but added nuclear capability to their Regt Mortar Company, enlarged battalions to 4 Rifle Companies to increase flexibility and autonomy, and...
An orangeish map of southern China in a CRT screen and "British Hong Kong" labelled
Experimenting with After Effects map colorations
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So, a while back, I ran a one-shot (read: two-shot) where my friends played an elite squad infiltrating a citadel ahead of the main army. As reference, I made a map of the nation they had invaded, which turned out to be a fun way to try out some new hillshade techniques and a few other items.