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 Warmachine Cryx Battle Group Box Set PIP 23001 $39.99 Very good starter kit, if you are just starting with Warmachine this is what you need!  HELMAND MISSION: With 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup in Afghanistan 2008 $19.95 After celebrating St. Patrick's Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training the nascent Afghan National Army (ANA) and many of its engagements were alongside Afghan soldiers. Well trained and with an operational maturity gained from deployments in every year but one since 1998, they were considered the unit in 16 Air Assault Brigade best suited to the critical task of mentoring the ANA. One company deployed with 2 PARA Battlegroup in the Sangin valley. Its soldiers saw intense action against the Taliban, especially through the latter's use of IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices). Another company was given the task of ensuring the safe passage of an additional generator for the Kajaki dam and was involved in heavy fighting while so doing. TA soldiers from 2 R Irish formed Imjin Company which provided security but also deployed on wider tasks. Professionalism, high levels of trust and the unique humor of Irish soldiers ensured that they had a successful tour and accomplished their missions.This is the stirring story of a regimental family at war and of those who sustained them, including their remarkable chaplain, Padre Albert Jackson, and the rear party which supported the families, especially those whose fathers or sons suffered injury or death. Above all, it is the story of a highly professional unit demonstrating its skills to the world and helping make Afghanistan a better place for its people.  An Evaluation of the Budget and Readiness Impacts of Battlegroup Sparing $29.95 This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A330733. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Battlegroup sparing is an inventory strategy that can significantly reduce the initial outfitting costs of a weapon system by greatly reducing the range and depth of spares required to outfit individual ships. This strategy moves low demand items from shipboard spare part inventories to intermediate level inventories which support an entire battlegroup. This thesis extends the techniques of Readiness Based Sparing (RBS) and proposes a method for defining suites of spares at both the shipboard and battlegroup level which augment each other to achieve a desired level of system readiness while realizing the efficiencies of battlegroup sparing. To evaluate the impacts of this strategy, this thesis develops a computer simulation, which can be utilized to evaluate the budget and readiness impacts of applying this or any other inventory strategy to a weapon system. The methodology proposed by this thesis was then applied to the Cooperative Engagement System (CES), reducing initial outfitting costs by nearly 50%, an overall savings of over thirty million dollars in scarce outfitting funds. |
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