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2022-11-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

How lies destroy armies - Lies, coverups, and Russian failures in Ukraine

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-14 10:47|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Stole this from the comments - Burg will likey.

YCPlum
10 hours ago

A funny story involving mathematics when I was in the Army. I was an armored reconnaissance specialist (aka Cavalry Scout). During a training exercise we marched to a railroad bridge. We were given instruction on how to make rough calculations of the load capacity of the bridge based on the size, number, and construction material of the bridge elements.

At the end of the lecture, the instructor, our Plt Sgt, asked if the bridge can take the weight of an M1 Abrams tank.

I immediately said yes. Everyone was in shock. There was no way someone should be able to do the calculations in their head so fast and they knew I was not joking. However, I was also the only soldier in my platoon with a 4 year degree in engineering, other than the Plt Leader, of coursr.

Just maybe ... I did do some type of calculation.

The option sergeant slowly asked how I go that answer. I said according to the map, this is the only b rail line heading east from Fort Knox. All equipment moving to the East Coast of the US to potentially reinforce NATO (this wss before the USSR collapsed) has to go over this bridge. Not only can it support a M1 tank, it can support several M1 tanks sitting on railcars.

And that is the an example of Art (in map reading) vs Science in the military.

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