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Robert Rogers Rules of Ranging: http://rogersrangers.org/rules/index.html They predate the US Declaration of Independence and US Army Rangers still abide by an updated version of those rules.

The comfort while seated does depend on the coat's fit, the vehicle's roominess, and the wearer's size.

Much higher, in fact. The less literate scribblings - as you call them - would not have existed to such a degree that Mary Chestnut openly mocked them in her diaries if literacy wasn't so widespread that she got to read captured letters.

Compare that to US Civil War soldier literacy rates (80-90% fifty years earlier) and you're going to get a shitshow.

The first Japanese ironclad was originally laid down in France for the Confederates in 1863. The IJN came into posession of her in a rather roundabout manner. There were actually two. USS Wolverine (IX-64) and USS Sable (IX-81).

Jimi Hendrix was 101st Airborne. Only lasted a year before being discharged.

Museum ships mostly. The Japanese still have the pre-dreadnought Mikasa. USS Constitution is the oldest one in commission and seaworthy. HMS Victory is not seaworthy and permanently drydocked. Mikasa was an exception to the battleship scrapping in the aftermath of the Washington Naval Treaty...

Someone in his position should know better than to say anything to the press when asked about operations beyond basically "Things are going well" and keep their mouth shut when pressed for details.

At Midway the Japanese were actually outnumbered 4:3 when it came to the aircraft count.

The worst led USN fleet of WWII was the one that got ambushed in the middle of the night near Savo Island. "The Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks". A deceased cousin used the photo of USS Quincy while she was sinking and on fire taken from a Japanese cruiser while she was being illuminated by...

I also forgot to mention that SoDak and Wash would not have been there if the US hadn't basically ran out of heavy cruisers and had to toss two fast battleships into Ironbottom Sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasekura_Tsunenaga One of my sisters is married to a guy who might be a descendant of that mission.

Don't need to. William Adams built ships for the Shogun which were as good as the ones the Japanese used when they sent a mission to Rome into unknown waters across the Pacific and Atlantic.

By the time WWI rolled around the British were asking to borrow the Kongo's to reinforce the Grand Fleet. When WWII rolled around it took two American fast battleships (South Dakota and Washington) to stop a Kongo (Kirishima) in a night battle.

That was a Russian ship. The greatest ones were built by 三浦按針 (a Samurai also known as William Adams in England ... because that's where he was from) back around 1600-1620.

USS Indiana - brought to you by Walmart - is something that I hope to never see. If I see something like that all bets are off because I know about things which, once ignited, can not be extinguished by any known means.

Blame Congress and the other military branches for that. Front-line warships are very expensive just to build and extremely expensive to maintain because they require support vessels that are also expensive. A Burke-class destoyer is much more expensive than an NFL football stadium. You'll...

I never thought I'd ever hear someone from Eastern Europe say that the Soviets were worse than the Nazis. Granted, IIRC from what you've said, you're Polish. Poles have long history of getting shit on by everyone else that continues to this day if the news stories I've read over the years...

James Doohan, best known as "Scotty" from Star Trek, was injured by friendly fire during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

We are very large and dangerous apex predators. My youngest daughter could - and did - say to a wolf "I'm bigger than you" when she was in middle school.