Just wondering. I miss that place and those people. Those were good times. I used to be Skunky over there. I had a Slade avatar.
The direction of the force should still be parallell to the direction the object is facing and its position/origin should also be relative to the position and rotation of the object. Just like a fixed rocket thruster would be fused to the side of a cube (and not pointing inwards to the cube) for example.
I am guessing I would be using "AddForce" and also some Vectors (Vector3) to fix the direction and position of the force, but I havent gotten it to work as intended
I'm interested in what was effectively an undeclared war the US was engaged in against Central America in the 1980s. Organizing the Contras to try to overthrow Nicaraguas government (or at least make it look bad, undermine its efforts, and perhaps provide a justification for invasion) and aiding the dictatorships next door El Salvador and Guatemala fight counter insurgencies against their own populations.
Has much been written about, or anyone heard much about, US special forces operations in the region at that time in support of this?
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In Holly Sklars book Washingtons War on Nicaragua and Leslie Cockburns Out of Control both refer to the 160th Aviation Regiment operating in Nicaragua in support of the Contras, with Sklars book alleging that some of the training accidents the unit was experiencing in its early days were in fact a cover up of personnel being shot down.
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Cockburns book also refers to a similar, or maybe they were part of the same overall project, "Operation Elephant Herd" which allegedly transferred Vietnam War surplus light attack planes from the Air Force to the CIA and then flown in Nicaragua by either CIA (probably Air America veterans or Cuban exiles) or Alabama Air National Guard personnel. If it were Alabama Air National Guard that is interesting because the 20th Special Forces Group is a National Guard unit based in Alabama and is part of the Southern Command, could the ANG personnel have been transferred to them or the SF personnel worn ANG insignia to disguise their operation? (And if you want to go really deep down the rabbit hole well then the Contra-Cocaine allegations involve the Contra supply flights loaded with drugs returning to airbases in Alabama)
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Eric Haney in his book Inside Delta Force describes leading an attack on a Sandinista camp on the Honduran border, in fact he goes on to claim that he found among the dead a Latino man he went through Delta training with and speculated the man had been transferred to the CIA to infiltrate the Sandinistas and was probably responsible for the camps location becoming known but was unable to escape before the attack.
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Judging from the citations in Sklar and Cockburns books there was a fair bit of coverage of this in newspapers at the time but that is pretty much impossible to check without going into physical archives, nevertheless I have found these two articles about a memorial unveiled at Arlington in 1996 for SF personnel killed in El Salvador in the 1980s whose deaths
