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USA military like Chuck Norris in Greece!
I just had to congratulate the military on their amazing victory in Central Greece today. They have been working on this for more than a week and today they pulled it off. I got to watch the last half hour or so of the fight and was proud to be able to release some extra funds from Fort Knox for the final push and then Central Greece was liberated from PEACE along with the high iron that exists there.
I think it was the single best day that I've had while playing eRepublik so far!
Further, because Central Greece is back in Greek hands and we have a MPP with Greece, any attempt to retake that region can be defended from home by all of us while fighting from New Jersey or Florida (or anywhere else for that matter). I wish I could have gone over to fight with them but it was a lot of fun to watch all of our Marines, Mobile Infantry, Army, and Airborne throwing in with our best allies from places like Spain, Romania, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Greece, Croatia, and many others. Beyond that ... another thing that helped us to win was our 20% tax rate that funded the Military in their efforts.
I'd like to point out several great articles and make a few other comments before signing off and letting the praise come in for our troops (along with the usual trolls).
Harrison Richardson
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/salute-to-the-united-states-military-830210/1/all
WahooBob
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/victory-in-turkey-830217/1/all
Joe DaSmoe
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/salute-o7-830198/1/all
Then there was Tiacha who was saying too bad ... so sad to GLaDOS who got himself temp banned today and missed the whole thing.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/what-peace-threat--830150/1/all
The Military won today despite that there was a major hack or glitch that resulted in the Marines losing 600 gold and about as many weapons and other assets today. Joshua Hoss alerted us to this today.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/breaking-news-eusa-military-funds-hacked--829888/1/all
Admin has been contacted about the problem from many sources but The Black Lotus has started an e-petition to raise awareness about this issue.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/petition-to-admins-830256/1/all
Update ... it's fixed (and those links were taken down):
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/joao-satan-hero-and-thanks-to-the-admins-830999/1/all
Sadly, it wasn't all awesomeness today. A well-known PEACE operative who often trolls my articles ... Zoli ... wrote a scathing article about the amount of money that he said that my Administration was "wasting" on the military instead of on useless infrastructure.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-needs-of-the-many-prevail-over-the-needs-of-the-few-really--829634/1/all
Our Romanian friend Sebahmah wrote a response to this that focused mostly on Zoli himself while johnpauljones did an excellent analysis of the arguments used by Zoli and the scare tactics that were meant to tell America to not fund its military.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-needs-of-the-many-out-weigh-the-needs-of-the-few-or-one-830235/1/all
To my surprise my predecessor, Uncle Sam, jumped on this issue as well as one of my most ardent haters pyroelectricity.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-if-you-would-hang-me--829931/1/all
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/consistent-hypocrisy-or-hypocritical-consistency-830213/1/all
Now, I can understand pyro jumping on the bandwagon as that is what he does with his usual unsophisticated vigor but to see Sam asking why I'm not being impeached over using our tax dollars to do exactly what I said I would do with our tax dollars 4 months ago is just a bit much.
Remember this old campaign article?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/drums-of-war-victory-alone-743206/1/all
Sam seems to be whining around about why he was impeached when I'm not being impeached and it's because Sam did more than simply spend money ... he wasted money in a useless war against real estate that had no value (Mexico) and then he completely failed to communicate with Congress and others who needed to know what he was doing. I thought that Sam and I had laid our differences to rest. Apparently not.
Nevertheless, I am proud of our military. They performed exactly as they needed to. Our military has grown substantially under my Administration and are stronger and more efficient due to the excellent management of Eugene Harlot as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as all of the other excellent commanders who are too many to name without slighting those who I forget. When I took office I said that I would use our funds to build the military and would use them to try to reach achievable objectives rather than useless wars. This is what we were waiting for. FER almost worked and today the liberation of Central Greece (as well as the liberation of the remainder of Israel and several other territories) is the result of all of that budgeting, training through the war games, and coordination of the Military Commanders. And now we have one more high iron region in our hands and not in the hands of PEACE. This is a great victory.
Make sure you congratulate the military when you get a chance. Please visit the articles linked here (at least the top ones written in support of the military) and vote them up and leave your comments.
It's 2 hours before server reset on Party President Election day and so far PEACE hasn't pulled their big attack yet. If they do we'll respond to it with the fierceness that we showed in Central Greece today. The sleeping giant is awakening ... and it's looking good so far.
scrabman - eUSA President
I think it was the single best day that I've had while playing eRepublik so far!
Further, because Central Greece is back in Greek hands and we have a MPP with Greece, any attempt to retake that region can be defended from home by all of us while fighting from New Jersey or Florida (or anywhere else for that matter). I wish I could have gone over to fight with them but it was a lot of fun to watch all of our Marines, Mobile Infantry, Army, and Airborne throwing in with our best allies from places like Spain, Romania, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Greece, Croatia, and many others. Beyond that ... another thing that helped us to win was our 20% tax rate that funded the Military in their efforts.
I'd like to point out several great articles and make a few other comments before signing off and letting the praise come in for our troops (along with the usual trolls).
Harrison Richardson
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/salute-to-the-united-states-military-830210/1/all
WahooBob
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/victory-in-turkey-830217/1/all
Joe DaSmoe
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/salute-o7-830198/1/all
Then there was Tiacha who was saying too bad ... so sad to GLaDOS who got himself temp banned today and missed the whole thing.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/what-peace-threat--830150/1/all
The Military won today despite that there was a major hack or glitch that resulted in the Marines losing 600 gold and about as many weapons and other assets today. Joshua Hoss alerted us to this today.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/breaking-news-eusa-military-funds-hacked--829888/1/all
Admin has been contacted about the problem from many sources but The Black Lotus has started an e-petition to raise awareness about this issue.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/petition-to-admins-830256/1/all
Update ... it's fixed (and those links were taken down):
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/joao-satan-hero-and-thanks-to-the-admins-830999/1/all
Sadly, it wasn't all awesomeness today. A well-known PEACE operative who often trolls my articles ... Zoli ... wrote a scathing article about the amount of money that he said that my Administration was "wasting" on the military instead of on useless infrastructure.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-needs-of-the-many-prevail-over-the-needs-of-the-few-really--829634/1/all
Our Romanian friend Sebahmah wrote a response to this that focused mostly on Zoli himself while johnpauljones did an excellent analysis of the arguments used by Zoli and the scare tactics that were meant to tell America to not fund its military.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-needs-of-the-many-out-weigh-the-needs-of-the-few-or-one-830235/1/all
To my surprise my predecessor, Uncle Sam, jumped on this issue as well as one of my most ardent haters pyroelectricity.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-if-you-would-hang-me--829931/1/all
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/consistent-hypocrisy-or-hypocritical-consistency-830213/1/all
Now, I can understand pyro jumping on the bandwagon as that is what he does with his usual unsophisticated vigor but to see Sam asking why I'm not being impeached over using our tax dollars to do exactly what I said I would do with our tax dollars 4 months ago is just a bit much.
Remember this old campaign article?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/drums-of-war-victory-alone-743206/1/all
Sam seems to be whining around about why he was impeached when I'm not being impeached and it's because Sam did more than simply spend money ... he wasted money in a useless war against real estate that had no value (Mexico) and then he completely failed to communicate with Congress and others who needed to know what he was doing. I thought that Sam and I had laid our differences to rest. Apparently not.
Nevertheless, I am proud of our military. They performed exactly as they needed to. Our military has grown substantially under my Administration and are stronger and more efficient due to the excellent management of Eugene Harlot as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as all of the other excellent commanders who are too many to name without slighting those who I forget. When I took office I said that I would use our funds to build the military and would use them to try to reach achievable objectives rather than useless wars. This is what we were waiting for. FER almost worked and today the liberation of Central Greece (as well as the liberation of the remainder of Israel and several other territories) is the result of all of that budgeting, training through the war games, and coordination of the Military Commanders. And now we have one more high iron region in our hands and not in the hands of PEACE. This is a great victory.
Make sure you congratulate the military when you get a chance. Please visit the articles linked here (at least the top ones written in support of the military) and vote them up and leave your comments.
It's 2 hours before server reset on Party President Election day and so far PEACE hasn't pulled their big attack yet. If they do we'll respond to it with the fierceness that we showed in Central Greece today. The sleeping giant is awakening ... and it's looking good so far.
scrabman - eUSA President
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cool story brah
omg Glados u did it again
Glad to help give you a victory, scrab!
Thanks for the mention, great article. USA really kicked some turkish tucas today.
scrabma, i got your back. just wish i didnt have o go through such a load of useless whiney wusses. but yeah, ill still serve them when i can. btw boss, your military is mostly useless. i just tried o quit, usually they wanna kick me, now they cant unless i stop teling them off in my mail, ridiculous crap. they dont supply me, so i no longer take orders.
Excellent work everyone!
Scrab, I think you're doing a bang up job. Drop the backlashing at the butthole hater trolls, it ONLY serves to bring you to their level.
He pretty much has to, most of the people are idiots and believe anything they read
If only that iron region was actually in OUR hands.
I joined the Airborne just yesterday. Coincidence?
HUGH KUDOS to every branch of the eUS Armed Forces... today was an outstanding day to be a soldier and an eAmerican!
Thanks for the leadership, Scrab. Your support and support of your cabinet made it possible for us to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
And man it feels good.
Proud to have been a part of it
Proud to serve in the eUS military. Salute to the country's leaders of all parties and persuasions who have worked together to make this victory possible.
You call me a troll because sometimes I do not agree with you. Sorry but I will not be an a** kisser like many others who never question your decisions.
Congratulations, eUSA, this is your first big victory in a foreign endeavor of your own!
Your victory is hardly worth the money spent on it and now you'll PTO Greece to have almost-direct control over its iron, but the success in such a battle is impressive, no doubt about that, especially considering the wall was at 115 K half an hour before the battle time was up.
GLaDOS, why are you in the U.K?
Just wondering.
Pleasure to fight with the eUS military!
All of Greece thanks their friends, the Americans, and their President, Scrabman, for liberating the long oppressed lands of Greece. Everyone in Greece knows to thank their friends for our deliverance. Long Live Greece and her mighty allies!
All of Greece thanks their friends, the Americans, and their President, Scrabman, for liberating the long oppressed lands of Greece. Everyone in Greece knows to thank their friends for our deliverance. Long Live Greece and her mighty allies!
O7
Holly sh*t, 6000+ GOLD spent by USA. Next victory will be much harder without that, no worries
Victory!
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1425311" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/prof[..]25311</a> well with your kind stealing our gold of course it will be harder
Thank you USA!
Central Greece is Greek again as it should be
Hail to the brave and glorious US army
This was a great week.
Americans, supporting smaller occupied nations, fighting smart, and getting the job done.
This, in spite of someone stealing 600 of our gold today, in the middle of the critical Battle of Central Greece.
After a lot of incredibly hard work, America has finally begun to emerge onto the world stage.
It was freaking dramatic-- we went into extra innings.
The whole US military, all branches, our allies (whether close or somewhat estranged), independent fighters for Greece, the Greek people themselves, made key contributions that resulted in a decisive result in a very narrow battle.
I've heard rumors that in the end, it was Swedish tanks that turned the tide.
If so, anyone who has read my articles about the Swedish/German situation knows I have a lot to think about.
A Caveat: Israel and Greece are still countries with small populations. These countries have computers in RL! They need to get their friends online!
In addition to MPP's, we will need to watch elections in these countries carefully. The Air Force/ Flying Unicorns become more important than ever.
But overall today, I am very proud to call myself an eAmerican, and to have played a tiny part in Central Greece as an independent citizen yesterday.
Congratulations to President Sophotatos, and OPAA!!!
Thank you USA, thank you US armed forces, thank you Scrabman!
This is a day eGreeks will never forget!
For Freedom and Justice in Greece and the hole world!
PEACE propaganda.
@Grakulan
Turkey and her alliances used much more money then we did.
You didn't write Croatia, we helped a lot in last minutes!
Congratulations to the US military and all it's allies on a well earned victory! Thank you for mentioning my article. Watching the last hour of that battle was great fun. Excellent article, but you don't need me to tell you that, everyone knew the moment it was Chuck Norris approved.
It has been a pleasure to serve with the military throughout this war and throughtout most of my eRep life. Congrats to every branch of the military. WE deserve this. Now lets go kick some more tail.
good times were had by all
Now perhaps you can free eGermany that had a mpp with you..oh wait!
@ Bearsfan30: Of all countries involved on both sides eUSA bore the main burden and spent the most. This is why I congratulate you, and not the Romanians, Swedes, Croats, Poles, etc.. whose tanks and common citizens also did quite a bit of damage.
I enjoyed watching ex-ATLANTIS countries come together and melt tons of gold to liberate a country, even if with ulterior motives
Oh Yeah! I was in Greece, I saw us, we kicked butt. Don't listen to Peace trolls. Nice article scrab.
All hail King Scrabman the Liberator!
Greetings to the Greek people and all those who fought for greek freedom
"I think it was the single best day that I've had while playing eRepublik so far!"
Agreed. The US military has officially arrived.
If you guys didn't watch the last hour of the fight you have no idea what you missed. Watching the eUS marines tank that wall down from 112,000 to the administration center as the whole world watched stunned.
In the end, it was the Swedish and Croatians who came in to drop that wall all the way to the underground as well as many friends and allies including Finland, Spain and of course the Greeks
There are some interesting comments and articles floating around, maybe I will add mine to the mix. Good article Mr. President.
USA #1! I was there and fought 5 times on day 1, and 7 times on day 2. It was an intense battle, and we couldn't have done it without Scrabman's generous funding. I'm not a Scrabfan, but I'll say he at least got the military aspect of his reign, I mean presidency, correct.
Claudius Caesar
Lieutenant, 7th Platoon, Alpha Company, Mobile Infantry
Both links about the miliary's missing gold (both the petition and the original article) take me back to the homepage. Have these articles been taken down?
Grats Greece. Kudos military.
no hate towards you Scrabman, I wrote the article just to justify myself.
besides, I spent Tax dollars to achieve victory in WSR, but that didn't really count did it? It was more about the spending of 432 Gold on the three tanks to help achieve that victory.
and finally Mexico was not a complete waste, the Goal was to start America on a more militant path, to increase our power, get a little war exp. The overall goal was accomplished in Mexico through bringing us from a military level only slightly better than the UK and Canada to being on par with Spain and Brazil.
I will not deny that there were communication issues, however even when I did communicate with them to help resolve the problem, I was still bitten in the ass. They practically had all information to the negotiation process at their hands, and it still wasn't enough. That's why the issue came to the 432 Gold, and that is the angle I'm getting at over this issue. There are many people Scrabman who say I was unjustly impeached because of a congressional freak out, even though I was working to fix the problems that existed in my administration.
You are just lucky enough to have time to fix those problems as the USWP will never impeach you. It's a shame that my support base was the AAP, not large enough to grant me more time to fix the issues that were already being fixed.
@Tohito ... yes.
@Uncle Sam ... I can understand why you'd be ego defensive. There were many problems during your term and you and I both know that a lot of them came from your failure to communicate what you were doing. You're brilliant at this game ... but you didn't share enough information. I share a ton more than you did and still have people demanding more.
Even San MArino could've won those RWs in Greece ..
lol
I think everyone did a great job, and i think Scrabman gave us the tools the US military needed for victory. Money comes and goes and i think actions against past presidents may have sucked, i think we need to focus on what happens now. (this is the closest i get to political) Knoj, XO US Army
Best day in me eRep life as well
I think gaining two solid allies (plus access to another high iron region) is well worth 6000 gold
lulz @ Unclesam and his constant douchebaggery
Hell yah, and who thinks our military fails? Definately not the turks now .
Proud to serve the eUS!
Semper Fi anyone?
Congratulations on your part in putting this together.
Mobile Infantry on the bounce!
Hooah!
Semper Fi indeed Man. This is one great day in eUSA history. Keep up the good work Scrabman, make your country proud!
I give credit where credit is due... I'm well impressed with the changes to our military during your time in office. You've picked some great leaders, Scrabman, and they've done a bang up job of making the eUS military a force to be reckoned with.
eUSA! eUSA! eUSA!
Hooah(Boo-Yah)
Grakulan go home, you just got your *filtered* kicked. Trolling here makes you look so stupid. This victory here means we CAN win and WILL win and that PEACE better be afraid as the US is ontop of it's A-game and rather than conquer land for it's own gain we liberate land for other's and gain allies in the long term. Sure more or less we did it for the Iron but we also gained a valuable Allys with valuable resources while we took away stuff from you. PEACE suffered a huge blow at Central Greece. It proved PEACE can not protect it's most valuable regions.
I'm still dazzled.
Bravo 3, Mobile Infantry. OOO-Rah!
Step one of the road to stop the PEACE. This was more a victory of a better organized military than anything else and if you want to give credit give it to our military leadership. Just dont forget Scrabman and our allies.
Hey Glados bra? You wanna surf later dude? Bra? Homes? Hey?
hmmm, maybe peace should focus on their loss and how to avoid such a thing happening again then the eUSA budget for war. Just my personal feelings.