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So did I. AB posted:
Ah, Dagestan (or whatever). The first time I watched that video I had a Pizza Hut ad pop up on the page stating something about slashing prices. I alt+ctrl+prntscr'd it but that was on my old computer. I'll dig around on it tonight and see if I can find it. loving classy. E: Here it is, I forgot I posted it on reddit when I got lurk-ish over there before the kiddy porn scandal. 
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Jan 11, 2013 01:52
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bawahahaha, that's hilarious and horrible, spongebob! They couldn't have picked a worse ad if they'd tried.AB posted:E: Grover, give it a watch. It's not so terrible. Not like that Chechnyan beheading video, that's really something I wish I hadn't watched.  for sure, but I had feared so much worse.
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Jan 11, 2013 02:23
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If I'm ever around when some guy gets his head blown off I guarantee my first instinct won't be "pick it up and show it to the camera."
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Jan 11, 2013 03:21
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Scratch Monkey posted:If I'm ever around when some guy gets his head blown off I guarantee my first instinct won't be "pick it up and show it to the camera." You might be surprised how often people will pick up pieces of suicide bombers and stuff. What won't surprise you is how often it's an American service member. "DUDE I FOUND HIS DICK AHAHAHAHAHAHA"
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iyaayas01 posted:That, the wing sweep is manual (you sweep the wings by pulling a lever, and doing so at the wrong speed/AoA/other flight regime can send the aircraft into uncontrolled flight), and it is pretty easy to overspeed because once you hit a certain point (IIRC somewhere just below Mach 2, give or take) a friction lock engaged making it impossible to rapidly reduce the throttle. From the idiots thread: Thanks for mentioning that book in the other thread, read it the other week and it was excellent.
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drgitlin posted:Thanks for mentioning that book in the other thread, read it the other week and it was excellent.
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The result of C4 on top of a bunker filled with Russian explosives of all kind in Baqubah, Iraq 2003.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:40
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Isn't there a PYF Huge Explosions thread? If not, there should be.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:47
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Ruse posted:Isn't there a PYF Huge Explosions thread? If not, there should be. I'm not sure but that's a great idea and would definitely instill me with perma wood.
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Epiphyte posted:Which Red Eagles book is the recommended one? Amazon has one by Davies and another by Peck I've read both...read Davies' first. It's a good overview that goes pretty in depth to the overall program although it kind of focuses pretty heavily on the ops side of things because for several reasons the maintainers weren't very forthcoming to him when he was doing his research. However, the biggest reason to read Davies first is that it is quite a bit better written than Peck's, mostly because a) Davies is a writer for a living, and b) Davies actually had editing support from his publisher, for some reason Peck really didn't and it shows. If you read Davies' book and you want more, then pick up Peck's. Peck's book goes into quite a bit more detail about the maintainers and some of the background of the start of the program and setting up the site at Tonopah (since he was involved with the program from the very beginning...the PEG in CONSTANT PEG was his wife). If you are interested in the program, Peck's book is worth slogging through...but make no mistake, it is definitely a slog, which is really a shame because it has a lot of unique information and all it really needed was a good editor. If we're talking about explosions, the '04 Kirkuk MSA..."incident" is required viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOqTQiKsJ0Q For added irony.
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Jan 12, 2013 02:29
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The guys in the funker vids continue to uphold the level of excellence that we expect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCN0y4BHiGs
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Jan 12, 2013 05:55
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Cross-posting this from the D&D picture thread. Love the distinct lack of the ACU. Fandyien posted:
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Jan 12, 2013 07:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeqZPjuLtlw Awesome.
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Jan 12, 2013 20:45
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Colored WW2 pics are always chill                  
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Christoff posted:Colored WW2 pics are always chill It will always be a terrible shame that Kodachrome wasn't a success. 
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1stGear posted:It will always be a terrible shame that Kodachrome wasn't a success.
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1stGear posted:It will always be a terrible shame that Kodachrome wasn't a success. Kodachrome was an enormous success, it only stayed in production for 75 years. More JDAM party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilo2wxk_KMA (You can mostly skip ahead to a minute in.)
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Christoff posted:Colored WW2 pics are always chill This is going to sound dumb as hell, but for whatever reason old B&W photos never feel real to me. Like, it's old, this happened in history. But when they're colored it's like woah. These are real people and places.
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http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/ Barely a hundred years ago. We spent a huge portion of an art appreciation class I took covering the early days of photography and color photography, incredibly interesting if that's your thing. Helped a lot that my instructor was a huge camera nerd.
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Jan 13, 2013 07:10
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I was hoping that would show up; I had no idea what the site was.
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Jan 13, 2013 07:14
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grover posted:What photoshop filters can simulate using kodachrome film? Mostly just bump the saturation and contrast up a bit. Just like everybody does, for everything. Though slide film in general has a ton of saturation and acuity because they are first generation. You are actually looking at the positive. The real awesome thing about Kodachrome is that it is color stable for a couple hundred years, so poo poo looks as good now (provided it was stored anywhere but a hot wet attic) as it did when it was new. Also, the Palmer collection images are 4x5's which is a ton more resolution than you'll get off a 12 megapixel camera. (don't have any numbers I trust, but a 4x5 is probably 400 megapixels worth of data) 329 images from the Office of War Information: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Alfred+Palmer&sp=1&co=fsac&st=gallery Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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Fister Roboto posted:This is going to sound dumb as hell, but for whatever reason old B&W photos never feel real to me. Like, it's old, this happened in history. But when they're colored it's like woah. These are real people and places. It's funny, but I had the exact same reaction.
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Fister Roboto posted:This is going to sound dumb as hell, but for whatever reason old B&W photos never feel real to me. Like, it's old, this happened in history. But when they're colored it's like woah. These are real people and places. Nah man, doesn't sound dumb at all. I feel you 100%. What's kind of interesting to me, is that I find women from that time to be more attractive than today. Probably because I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere so whatever.. It's strange seeing things in color for that time. When movies like Saving Private Ryan, and shows like Band Of Brothers sort of came out with the sharp, digital representations of that era it was really mind blowing to me. When I think WWII era, I think in black and white. So seeing it in color is kind of a mindfuck.
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Jan 13, 2013 10:16
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Prokudin-Gorskii's work does the same for Tzarist Russia. Most of them aren't military related, but here's one of Austro-Hungarian POW's.
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Certainly right there. I saw the post and the comment that WW2-era colour pictures were awesome. I then proceeded to wonder who was dressing up in WW2-era clothes for the photos. They look amazing, and my mind just doesn't straight away correlate colour photos with that time period.
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GAS CURES KIKES posted:Nah man, doesn't sound dumb at all. I feel you 100%. The clothes were better, so everything fit better, because poo poo wasn't just bought off the rack manufactured by machines in China. Stuff wasn't as cheap or disposable so you bought stuff because you wanted it to last. Scanned a bunch of my grandfather's stuff in, look at this suave motherfucker:    And included in his box o' memorabilia is this little cupcake who is definitely *not* my grandmother. Go, gramps:  Casimir Radon posted:I jerked to it anyway in case that was reverse psychology. I hope you're proud of yourself. No, seriously, not my grandmother. Pretty sure given some of the other letters in that box of papers that he was definitely getting something on the side when he was over there. Completely unheard of, I know. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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Jan 13, 2013 16:34
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Phanatic posted:And included in his box o' memorabilia is this little cupcake who is definitely *not* my grandmother. Go, gramps:
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Here are some old family war chromes I've scanned over the years. Grandpa Roy was a photographer with a Catalina unit mapping Greenland and South America  LockheedGreenland by RReiheld, on Flickr Great Uncle George was a Radioman with the Railsplitters  GeorgeThigpenWarloot by RReiheld, on Flickr Dad was a flight doc with a VF-92 and VF-96  nam1big by RReiheld, on Flickr My friend Jen's grandpa was a civilian test engineer at Wright-Patterson, Worked on the F-111, among other things.  f104f105 by RReiheld, on Flickr
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Armee de l'air in Mali https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YSdhus5l-0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&vFf1y1_QGqnc
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Spongebob Tampax posted:Cross-posting this from the D&D picture thread. Love the distinct lack of the ACU. Dude at the end is in ACU? Reminds me of the Private Murphy comic banner  It always cracked me up how everyone is loaded for combat except the Cold War Murphy who has a mop
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Ah. Must be blind. Just saw desert, desert again, then the vest and my mind shut off.
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Jan 14, 2013 16:31
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ACUs after swamp phase in Ranger school.
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That's custom camouflage. My kit looks like its from WWII with tiger stripes of ash and dried sweat. I never wanted to wash it because it was far more effective then the clean ACU pattern.
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Slim Pickens posted:ACUs after swamp phase in Ranger school. Nice, I actually like the swamp camo better than the ACU by far. Did you pass swamp phase?
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Slim Pickens posted:ACUs after swamp phase in Ranger school. Oh my god, a decent foliage pattern!
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AB posted:It looks like poo. Yeah brand new ACUs look like poo poo I agree e: 
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Jan 15, 2013 01:56
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Not my ACU's, they were posted on facebook. I went through in BDUs (back when it was hard  )
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Found a pretty good video from Afghanistan, as well as an AAR from one of the guys who was there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC-w2dIxZc quote:1- grenades, use lots of grenades, between the 4 of us we had 1 grenade left at the end of the fight
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