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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:42:29 PM EDT
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Lavender means "you didn't ask, but I'm telling anyway." |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:42:38 PM EDT
[#2]
Purple smoke means teh ghey
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:43:38 PM EDT
[#3]
White means "bring more cheetos."
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:44:06 PM EDT
[#4]
He was full of shit.
You use multiple colors to keep the bad guys from spoofing you. You ALWAYS make the other guy tell you what color smoke HE sees, too. |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:45:30 PM EDT
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I prefer the IR smoke.
way stealthy |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:48:12 PM EDT
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If it starts out one color then turns gray, you have set the brush on fire and should leave the area.
Ask me how I know. 
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:48:59 PM EDT
[#7]
Brown means "Oh ***".
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:49:40 PM EDT
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Depends on what the "loose a page out of this book, go to Ft. Leavenworth for the next ten years" codebook sez for that day.
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:55:59 PM EDT
[#9]
sounds like my childhood. Don't ask..................and yet they still sell me guns, |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:56:07 PM EDT
[#10]
Ummm, so I'm thinking he was full of sh**?
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:57:53 PM EDT
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It only means something to someone that you have radio contact in the green with and then only for a short time and rarely will the same color mean teh same thing twice |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:58:55 PM EDT
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Hmmm, thats interesting. The guy that told me this is a former Air Force C2 Systems Engineer, so I figured it was legit. |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 12:59:18 PM EDT
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Depends on what the color is designated as per the Warning Order and Op Order.
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:00:47 PM EDT
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Each unit designates the meaning and purpose for each color (white tends to be used to mask movement/confuse enemy, etc. only). Sometimes each mission may dictate different color signals for different meanings (lift & shift fire, phase line reached, extract, etc.). See also uxb's response, oporder/warning order.
In other situations, different colors are meant to mark positions to aircraft to verify that the force on the ground popping smoke is who they say they are. In peacetime red typically meant that there is an injury and all training is to be halted until the injury is addressed. It may be the same in this war, but I can't say I know. Sua Sponte, Prib |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:03:39 PM EDT
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That sounds about right from everything I've studied. Your first comment about units designating colors before entering an engagement sounds like that might have been what this guy was talking about. |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:11:37 PM EDT
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Goofy Grape! |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:14:25 PM EDT
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For general position marking, you pick the color and the other guy identifies it.
For specific signals, at specific times, for specific units, you use the color for that unit, for that time, that is listed in the SOI. Forgot about that, it has been a while. (Yes, I was a flag waver.) |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:16:42 PM EDT
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i prefer rainbow smoke colors when i need an evac
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:18:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:26:38 PM EDT
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Let me tell you that a yellow smoke grenade will disperse an angry mob of Iraqis pretty fast
My guess is they think its some Chem-weapon mustard gas. Either way its a damn good trick play.The color of a smoke grenade is for signals, and what they mean is determined by the signal plan. That changes pretty damn often, but White Smoke is usually to conceal your movement, more than sending signals. |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:29:22 PM EDT
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HC with a little WP can certainly mask a position and quickly.
amazing how quick that stuff builds up. |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:31:03 PM EDT
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Sylvan, whats HC? And do they still use willey-pete in grenades? |
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Posted: 10/16/2007 1:36:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:04:24 AM EDT
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I think they are really not worth having...I have personally set more than one fire    with a tactically employed smoke grenade. We always have enough troops present to go stomp them out, but for the casual SHTFer, just not worth it.
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:14:36 AM EDT
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 My unit managed to destroy several hundred acres of brush at Ft Huachuca that way in 87. The bright side was the helo pilot could not claim he didn't see our smoke...
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:39:35 AM EDT
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HC = hexachoroethane. HC smoke is a mixture of equal amounts of hexachloroethane, zinc oxide, and approximately 7% grained aluminum or aluminum powder. Upon combustion, the mixture produces zinc chloride, which rapidly absorbs moisture from the air to form a grayish white smoke. More humid air results in thicker smoke. Other chemicals also are released in the combustion process, such as chlorinated hydrocarbons (eg, phosgene), chlorine gas, carbon monoxide, and several other compounds. |
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