::rolls up sleeves; cracks knuckles:: Alright then, I think I can handle this...
1) This is President John F. Kennedy, giving his famous "No man can stop me now! I am invincible, bwa-ha-ha!" inaugural address.
2) This is when the fighter pilot "Maverick" tries a tricky maneuver to get close to MIG plane. One of his fellow pilots loses his nerve during this incident, a factor that will gain "Maverick" a harsh verbal reprimand and natural distrust from the likes of "Ice Man".
3) This is, of course, a picture of football legend George "The Gipper" Gipp in his later years.
4) This is Russell Casse's plane, which performed a kamikaze attack on an alien destroyer ship during the Independence Day Offensive of 1996.
5) This is the helicopter whose pilot would later report that a "man of liquid metal" had forced him out of the cockpit and hijacked it. The embarrassing incident was blamed on both a Communist plot and hippy drug abuse.
6) This is a modern battleship, which can take three direct hits without sinking. However, the advent of modern naval warfare has to a large extent made battleships obsolete due to their vulnerability to air and strategic missile attacks; they are only slightly less vulnerable than the cumbersome aircraft carriers. The modern admiral often trusts his life to the more reliable destroyers and submarines, or, if he is fortunate to have any under his command, the ever-elusive patrol boats.
7) This is a depiction of the 7th cavalry, led by Lt. Colonel Hal Moore during the Battle of la Drang in the Viet Nam conflict. U.S. forces were on the verge of losing the battle after some of their forces were cut off, but the military in Seoul considered a Lt. Colonel too important a personality to lose, so they napalmed the whole of Northern Viet Nam, decisively winning the war at that very moment (but at great cost).
8) This is a nuclear submarine. As discussed above, it sacrifices endurance (it sinks after three direct hits) for a limited guerrilla hiding ability, though this exchange is not as drastic as that of the supreme patrol boat. All experts consider the nuclear submarine equal to the destroyer in every given way.
9) This is some other boat, or possibly a ship.
10) Ah, the notorious Hum-Vee. This was a light vehicle unit that could only be built in the weapons factories of Global Defense Initiative (GDI) forces, though there have been documented incidents of terrorist groups capturing these factories with engineers to build such vehicles themselves. It is notable that the Hum-Vee, unlike treaded tank vehicles, could not kill an enemy soldier by running over him.
11) Speaking of terrorists! This is one of the NATO transport planes that has been implicated in delivering armored weapons and artillery to the Brotherhood of Nod, a global terror group bent on world domination from the beginning of time. The resulting scandal was a major contributor to NATO's dissolution. These transport planes, by the way, were widely held to be invulnerable to enemy fire.
12) The world was shocked when a brave Chinese civilian stood in front of that tank in Tiananmen Square and was subsequently blown to smithereens. The current location of the actual smithereens are unknown to this day, though there is much speculation.
13) This is an inside-out view of a NATO All-Terrain Armoured Transport (AT-AT) during the Battle of Hoth against militant fundamentalists.
14) These are the various warlord banners of pirate and ninja forces during the great Inter-Genre War.
15) This is, of course, the shuriken insignia of the United Ninja Front, who triumphed in the Inter-Genre War. Pirates as well as Ninja dissidents contest the victory to this very day, vowing revenge as they secretly rearm their patrol boats...
Did I get them all?
