Be funny if the Ukrainians stole them and replaced them with Hooters uniforms. At least it would make tv coverage of the fighting a little more fun.
(10-02-2022 09:43 PM)banker Wrote: [ -> ]Be funny if the Ukrainians stole them and replaced them with Hooters uniforms. At least it would make tv coverage of the fighting a little more fun.
Probably would just sell them on the black market like they do with shite we send them. Maybe cut a deal fo sone of the billions of stuff we left in the middle east. Look good in russian clothes while you use american equipment.
Its what all the fashionable oligarch mercs are doing this fall.
To die for, fabulous
This is very odd. The wife and I, along with several other couples, just ordered a bunch of 'old' Russian military uniforms through Alibaba for a Halloween theme party we are hosting.
(10-02-2022 09:43 PM)banker Wrote: [ -> ]Be funny if the Ukrainians stole them and replaced them with Hooters uniforms. At least it would make tv coverage of the fighting a little more fun.
…would it?
Into different things huh?
Back when Haile Selassie ran Ethiopia, they merged with Eritrea to give them a seacoast. They had a naval academy at Massawa, which became one of the better universities in the country. But they didn't really have a navy. So to give their newly-minted naval officers a taste of life at sea, they invited every navy in the world to send ship to Ethiopian Navy Days at graduation time, and all the ships would go out to see and operate together, with young Ethiopian ensigns onboard as observers. It was quite amazing to see USN and Russians operating together.
Another part of the festivities were competitions among the various ships--bands, drill teams, tug-of-war, shooting, various events. If your ship was the Ethiopian Navy Days ship, right beforehand you got a bunch of temporary duty sailors aboard, and they turned out to be experts in all the competition fields. It was quite an amazing spectacle.
Having provided the deep background, I'll tie this to the thread, I had a Polaroid camera. The Russian sailors were fascinated by it. Fraternization between the two navies was forbidden. But you could walk down to where the Russian ship was tied up, take a Polaroid, and swap it with the sailor you photographed for a set of Russian Navy dress blues.
My guess would be that the uniforms were never produced. It's not hard to imagine how that would happen. Say there's the equivalent of $300 million allocated for a million and a half uniforms to be produced. Paid the right people along the way and you can get documentation showing production, an invoice showing payment, and information showing they were received and stored. Free money to buy a super yacht or european Villa or whatever it is Russian oligarchs buy. Fast forward to the only problem.....they need those nonexistent uniforms now. So the lieutenant general in charge has to come up with some fantastic story like "hey they were here, and now they're not! I have no idea." Weirdly, that excuse appeared to work. I wonder why?
(10-03-2022 10:31 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]My guess would be that the uniforms were never produced. It's not hard to imagine how that would happen. Say there's the equivalent of $300 million allocated for a million and a half uniforms to be produced. Paid the right people along the way and you can get documentation showing production, an invoice showing payment, and information showing they were received and stored. Free money to buy a super yacht or european Villa or whatever it is Russian oligarchs buy. Fast forward to the only problem.....they need those nonexistent uniforms now. So the lieutenant general in charge has to come up with some fantastic story like "hey they were here, and now they're not! I have no idea." Weirdly, that excuse appeared to work. I wonder why?
Isn't this similar to how we paid for the Afghan army to recruit & train new units? Whole regiments on paper, but the money was in a Swiss bank account somewhere?
Could be worse.. They could've lost billions of dollars of weapons..
Let's see conscripted men ....some who really don't want to be there. Send them without supplies or proper winter gear or training. Some signing up so they can get out of prison, (see the Wagner conscription,) some with a history of alcoholism, some as old as 60, and give them guns. Sounds like a potential morale problem.
(10-02-2022 11:16 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: [ -> ] (10-02-2022 09:43 PM)banker Wrote: [ -> ]Be funny if the Ukrainians stole them and replaced them with Hooters uniforms. At least it would make tv coverage of the fighting a little more fun.
…would it?
Into different things huh?
You seriously don’t think it would be funny to see a bunch of Ivans firing a grenade launcher during the Ukrainian winter in a Hooters outfit?