Who writes the shit for this site?

CombatReform.org

They are an airborne think tank!

I vaguely remember these guys. They were the ones that thought the Stryker was the most evil idea in human history.

This is the M113 "Gavin" guy right?

We haven't done one of these threads in a while, should be fun.

I thought some of the things he went on about were hilarious,like how Baghdad should have been seized by swimming M113s out the back of C-130 flying boats...but he went off the deep end and became a truther and that isn't funny. Hopefully he got some meds that worked.
I don't know if they're still up but he had some hilarious YouTube videos doing things like suggesting soldiers carry an SKS with them to use captured ammo. It may have all been an Andy Kaufman style piece of performance art or he really is that bonkers.

Is Sparky still herping and derping?

The guy does some of the most scatterbrained writing (and drawn out) I have seen yet.

I also first saw the site when he started his M113 derp. Never knew he made YT videos to go with it (or his real name).

Has an obsession with the 113.

So he complains about how "thin skinned" the Stryker is, with only an inch of steel armor, plus ceramic and reactive armor add ons, but likes the M113s inch of aluminum armor that can't stop common medium and heavy MG or AP threats, much less RPGs? WTF M8?

He also contradicts himself plenty of times. I'm not sure if it is one moron that wrote the site himself or if one moron just slapped together a bunch of people's writings (not including all the stuff he found online and stuck in there).

Maybe Mel Brooks?

Here's the video on their homepage.

troll site.

Anyone have a link to his videos?

Sounds like they would be entertaining...

eta: found them on older section of the YT account sigp226 linked. Lots of derpy shit there.

What is fucked up about Sparky is that there are a few (very few) bits of actual good ideas buried in the sea of shit that is his website. And, probably, inside what passes for his mind, as well... But, since it is Sparky saying these things, the good is automatically rejected because of the sourcing.

Hell, I know the guy is nuts, but some of his shit isn't. Me and a couple of other formerly "too light to fight" types thought that there was some potential for that whole "mount some of the light forces on bicycles" thing, but good ol' Sparky pretty much poisoned that well for all eternity.

Didn't he propose combining a razor with a toothbrush to lighten soldiers' loads?

Oh god, the Gavin tards are back?
Fuck my life.

Kharn

That's an example of what I'm talking about... It actually isn't a bad idea, which was to turn the MRE spoon into a handle for a razor blade head and a toothbrush, which would be included in every third MRE. This would be smart, because then you wouldn't have to have everyone lugging around hygiene gear, and would give you clean stuff in the field a lot more often than if you had to rely on periodic trips to the PX.

Another one I saw over there, back in the days when I thought Mike Sparks might have a slight semblance of sanity, and I still went there, was the idea that absolutely everything we ship into theater ought to be reusable in some manner. It is flatly nuts that we ship in MRE boxes that merely contribute to the trash load of things we have to dispose of, for example. The boxes we ship those things in ought to be things we can reuse in building field fortifications, like little cubic sandbags. Same-same with all the farging pallets we ship in--It wouldn't take a hell of a lot to mod the design such that the standard military shipping pallets can be formed up into a box, lined with some geotex, filled with earth/sand/rocks, and then used like a Hesco bastion.

There was a bunch of stuff like that, mostly from contributors that thought Sparky might be on to something, and not all of it was completely nuts--Which is the tragedy of it all, because some of that stuff was actually of potential value, but because of the venue, would never be seriously considered.

I mean, seriously? Gavin? For the M113? WTF? What did an airborne general have to do with an APC mostly used by the mech/armored guys? Did I miss Gavin's time subbing in for Patton, or something? That whole idea makes no damn sense, whatsoever. If they were gonna name it anything, they should have gone for someone like Audie Murphy as a the source, because he actually had something to do with mech and armored infantry. Kinda. Sorta.

I'd almost be willing to suspect that Mike Sparks is running a false flag operation, to discredit any "outside the box" ideas that come up, versus the old-line military-industrial complex solutions. The argument over tracks vs. wheeled for infantry carriers is, in my mind, a legit one to be making. And, some of the points which were made were actually valid; I think a stretched and upgraded M113 might have been a more sensible solution for some of the Stryker missions, especially if they'd put some damn bandtrack on it to reduce the noise. Unfortunately, ol' Sparky done poisoned the well for all of us...

That's it! I over-simplified a bit for comic effect.