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Re: Transformers
« Reply #50 on: August 07, 2007, 12:18:09 AM »
Quote from: elf chang on August 06, 2007, 07:51:20 PM
Transformers Theme is great,too.

As much as I appreciate the effort, was the post really worth it?
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #51 on: June 08, 2008, 10:32:55 PM »
BUMP!

I've been sick for days, so I'm having a movie marathon.  There's a line in this movie that really annoys me.  It's the Sector 7 guy saying, "What you are about to see is totally classified."  Really?  TOTALLY classified?  As opposed to sorta-kinda classified?
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #52 on: June 09, 2008, 12:02:42 AM »
"Fatally killed" fits in with that, too.

Speaking of transformers, they're filming Transformers 2 about three miles from where I live at the old Bethlehem Steel plant.
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #53 on: June 09, 2008, 12:31:22 PM »
Seen any robots down there then?
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #54 on: June 09, 2008, 12:39:37 PM »
Quote from: Chris on June 09, 2008, 12:02:42 AM
"Fatally killed" fits in with that, too.

Speaking of transformers, they're filming Transformers 2 about three miles from where I live at the old Bethlehem Steel plant.

I've been there! Well, driven past it. :-)

You should "totally" go and get some spy shots.
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #55 on: June 10, 2008, 08:59:49 AM »
Pretend to be one of the extras in a scene, then when they are shooting yell out "NOW I KNOW WHY THEY CALL HIM "MEGA"TRON! COCKS LOL!!!"
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #56 on: January 29, 2009, 10:58:07 PM »
I'm massively bumping this thread again.  I'm sitting here wacthing this movie again, and I have a question for some of the military types around here.  When the military guys are in fight scenes and they're calling in air support, they keep referring to "Killbox One Alpha".  I've googled it and can find nothing really useful about the term.  Is it made up for the movie or is a real battle term?  If so, what exactly does it mean?  I ask because they use the term in both the city and in the desert.  How can both places, separated by such distance, be called Killbox One Alpha?
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #57 on: January 29, 2009, 11:11:40 PM »
Sounds made up to me. I've never heard it. Sounds like someone saw a real map once with the "boxes" ( grid lines ) and thought it up trying to sound . . . whatever they were trying to sound like. Trying to sound 'real' or 'authentic'.
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #58 on: January 29, 2009, 11:19:03 PM »
Oh; and when you call CAS, (Close Air Support) you call in YOUR position and the target's location relative to that. The pilot starts to scope out the area keeping where you are in mind.
 Sort of the same for artillery; but with that it depends on the mission and the targets.
 For example; if you were being overrun and needed a general barrage (<--NOT an 'official' term); you would call your position and the targets' respective. If you were an forward observer; your mission might be to find targets, get their coordinates, and call in the ordinance on that target specifically; using those coordinates.
 
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #59 on: January 30, 2009, 12:49:46 AM »
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081006133849AAHUvNH  :w:

Also, scroll down to the bottom of page 12 of the document embedded here.

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Re: Transformers
« Reply #60 on: January 30, 2009, 01:32:27 AM »
Quote from: ivan on January 30, 2009, 12:49:46 AM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081006133849AAHUvNH  :w:
I originally googled that close to a year ago...that lady's question was only posted 3 months ago.  I admit that I was lazy tonight and didn't re-google.   :-P

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Also, scroll down to the bottom of page 12 of the document embedded here.
I like that, it was useful.  I think it also tells me that you can't have two "Killbox One Alpha"s...since it seems to be an overlay on a map.
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #61 on: January 30, 2009, 05:44:56 AM »
Quote from: ivan on January 30, 2009, 12:49:46 AM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081006133849AAHUvNH  :w:

Also, scroll down to the bottom of page 12 of the document embedded here.

 Your find-fu is impressive!

 Just so I don't look quite so stupid, I never heard of this "killbox" thing-a-ma-jig in ten years of service (combat included); however my hitch ended in 1996.
Ground Truth:  The Implications of Joint
Interdependence for Air and Ground Operations
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Colonel L. Ross Roberts, USMC
 
March 2006   <------  (NOT 1996!)

 This is ten years later; and they quit calling me and asking my opinion some time ago.
 Sorry for being misleading, Ves.

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Re: Transformers
« Reply #62 on: January 30, 2009, 10:35:23 AM »
Quote from: 12AX7 on January 30, 2009, 05:44:56 AM
  Just so I don't look quite so stupid, I never heard of this "killbox" thing-a-ma-jig in ten years of service (combat included); however my hitch ended in 1996.
Ground Truth:  The Implications of Joint
Interdependence for Air and Ground Operations
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Colonel L. Ross Roberts, USMC
 
March 2006   <------  (NOT 1996!)

 This is ten years later; and they quit calling me and asking my opinion some time ago.
 Sorry for being misleading, Ves.



You didn't sound stupid -- I figured it was a new term. With the rate of change in military technology, I bet there's an entire new jargon every 4 years or so. I bet you had a whole secret language of your own.
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Re: Transformers
« Reply #63 on: February 02, 2009, 03:41:40 PM »
You mean tp fu can mean something different now?
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