Questions about soldiers

[Cyph3r]

Hi everybody im a very fanatic of all half-life history when i discover this web i enjoy much. Well i have a few questions:

In one of the episodes of op4 the tittle was foxtrot uniform what is this meaning of this tittle?

How many soldiers do you think gman send? i suppose that a 1000 i have count in all three games about 590 soldiers died. What lie he said to all families of soldiers? in black ops there isnt problem they are like a elite soldieres without any contact with families or something like that they were trained for highly dangerous misions.

 

[ferd]

well i think youre completely right

 

[Runteh]

Died in action - Classified

I rekon...

 

[Axyon]

Hi everybody im a very fanatic of all half-life history when i discover this web i enjoy much. Well i have a few questions:

In one of the episodes of op4 the tittle was foxtrot uniform what is this meaning of this tittle?

It's the phonetic alphabet, so think about what those two letters mean

 

[sharp]

But these black ops (small fast people dressed in black) in HL/OP4 were not on the side of the soldiers , they were even fighting them I can remember

 

[Runteh]

Well the grunts were sent in to clear everyone out, so I guess they were told to clear everyone out as well

Its a vicious circle...

 

[RoguePsi]

Foxtrot and Uniform are the 'code' words associated with letters. Letters can be misheard when spelling but entire words can be understood so they are used by police and military.

Foxtrot = F
Uniform = U

So F U basically!

 

[EVIL]

Echo Victor India Lima

http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/phonetic.htm

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Considering this, along with the manipulator letters pulled off that building in the strider vid, "FU" is nearly a motif.

 

[Rupertvdb]

i's obvious valve actually hate the community they are always sending derogatory messages through their games ;(

 

[Sulkdodds]

How many soldiers do you think gman send? i suppose that a 1000 i have count in all three games about 590 soldiers died. What lie he said to all families of soldiers? in black ops there isnt problem they are like a elite soldieres without any contact with families or something like that they were trained for highly dangerous misions.

Proababy about 1500. As for the Black Ops, their main mission was to detonate the nuclear warhead - and that meant killing any soldiers who got in their way.

 

[Brian Damage]

Weren't the Black ops sent in when things went bad (And Black Mesa basically became a total write-off)?

 

[MultiVaC]

Whoa, is this the infamous easter egg from the E3 2003 videos? That there is FU being thrown at the Strider, and there is esentially and OP4 level called FU (Foxtrot Uniform).

 

[Rupertvdb]

Black Ops were there to make sure the place got nuked and kill any marines, basically another layer of silence. Black ops kill Marines kill civilians. Wonder who gets the black ops...

 

[Flyingdebris]

really really blacker ops

they are so sneaky that you never ever saw them ever cause they were invisible and totally silent, in the shadows, but rest assured all those black ops guys were taken out, all of them.

then the really really blacker ops get cleaned out by Mr. Blackerest of Opses who then hits a nuke with a hammer and saves everyone the trouble of silencing him.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Whoa, is this the infamous easter egg from the E3 2003 videos? That there is FU being thrown at the Strider, and there is esentially and OP4 level called FU (Foxtrot Uniform).

You could be right there. I bet if we look hard enough, there are other instances of 'FU' in the videos.

Weren't the Black ops sent in when things went bad (And Black Mesa basically became a total write-off)?

Well, yeha. THye were sent in to finish the situation quickly an efficiently...with a nuke.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Weren't the Black ops sent in when things went bad (And Black Mesa basically became a total write-off)?

Yep. And the Black Ops are coming back

 

[Brian Damage]

I'm going to assume that that's not a beta spoiler... you being a mod, and all, CB...

 

[Axyon]

Well yes, it does stand for F U in the phonetic alphabet, but it also means something more to military groups. To say Foxtrot Uniform is to say ****ed Up, too.

 

[PvtRyan]

I'm going to assume that that's not a beta spoiler... you being a mod, and all, CB...

This time they seem to be white, I think Badger is pointing at the female assassin concept art from HL2.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Or maybe it's his mod he's talking about.

 

[Brian Damage]

I'll take "Sulkdodds' theory" for $500...

 

[RotorHead]

U in this case isn't YOU it is in reference to UP.................
so the FU is F---ed up refering to the situation...................

 

[Brian Damage]

Okay...

Everyone stare at RotorHead's avatar now...