Post AMNFjFV6JgWNPCfKyG by AntonChigurh@poa.st
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 (DIR) Post #AMNEDdaP8E80suVcRM by deprecated_ii@poa.st
       2022-08-10T04:26:39.485351Z
       
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       does the air force have some seabee or engineer equivalent who can quickly repair airfieldstoo lazy to look it up but if I drop cratering charges all over a runway do they need to spend three months hiring a civilian contractor to fix it or are there gonna be guys out there mixing concrete in wheelbarrows 5 minutes later
       
 (DIR) Post #AMNFjFV6JgWNPCfKyG by AntonChigurh@poa.st
       2022-08-10T04:43:36.299749Z
       
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       @deprecated_ii Yes, it’s called RED HORSE or something like that. That’s the extent of my knowledge.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMNN0cSYuLghDJhxo0 by deprecated_ii@poa.st
       2022-08-10T06:05:10.433195Z
       
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       @AntonChigurh I read a bit about themThey're very much a modern force in that they're like whiz bang smallish units (~400 men per unit, and the only have a few units) and in a peer war they'd be useless because there just aren't enough of them to remediate the infrastructure damage that would happen in the opening days
       
 (DIR) Post #AMO67gMJIyczGsWfVw by AntonChigurh@poa.st
       2022-08-10T14:30:41.162368Z
       
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       @deprecated_ii Good point. The Air Force doesn’t exactly have a reputation for either hard work or improvisation so most of what’s broken/bombed/destroyed is going to stay that way until Army engineers come to fix it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMOBUZHeHBEPl84s9w by ThatWouldBeTelling@shitposter.club
       2022-08-10T15:30:50.867320Z
       
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       @AntonChigurh @deprecated_ii Seabees are still a thing, per Wikipedia three active duty battalions each Atlantic and Pacific, and five reserve units, HQ’s three in California, two in Mississippi.Current logo is cool, bees having six limbs two holding a gun, then one each wrench and hammer.  WRT to airfields, they built a lot in WWII, and one of the insights of the essential Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813338697/ as in over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, Japanese non-combat arms got no respect.  Also, at no time did either side have more pilots than operational aircraft.Thus the Japanese lost way too many planes to sub-par civil engineering, like bad taxiways between aircraft revetments and runways.Come to think of it, training is also a non-combat arm.  The US rotated combat experienced pilots back to the states to help train newbies, the Imperial Japanese Navy not only didn’t increase the throughput of their pilot training system, they raided its instructors for combat.  The above campaign “used up” most of their remaining trained pilots.Thus by mid-1944 while per Wikipedia they still had three fleet carriers and six light, ~450 carrier aircraft and ~300 land based ones, they were all but entirely useless in the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Battle of the Philippine Sea which 550–645 are estimated to have been “destroyed.”  After this their remaining carriers were worth literally nothing more than bait for what became the Battle off Samar.