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Speaking as a former maintainer, surges and exercises were the perfect time to deal with pocket discrepancies and extra nitpicky BPO's - you were there for 12 hours anyways. I'm surprised no one in leadership noticed that FMC rate dropped like a rock whenever we went on mandatory 12's.
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Godholio posted:
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For the benefit of those of us who do not happen to work in the United States Armed Forces, what do the acronyms PAA/PAI/FMC represent?
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hazza posted:For the benefit of those of us who do not happen to work in the United States Armed Forces, what do the acronyms PAA/PAI/FMC represent? People Are Assholes, People Are Idiots, Fiddle My Cock.
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RichieHimself posted:People Are Assholes, People Are Idiots, Fiddle My Cock. Sounds legit.
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ghost bones posted:When is the Navy not gay, though? navyberthing.mpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7762K3Q5fRs
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It came from the awkward fanart thread in PYF: Why do I get the feeling I know what the artist of this looks like. How do people like that even get into the military, anyway. better content: Listen to the jungle, the gruntin' and the breeze As she rolls along the runway, by the Back 9 and the trees Hear the mighty roarin' engine as you leap off in the fog You're flying through the jungle in Republic's Ultra Hog!  We came up from old Korat one steamy summer day, As we pitched up from the target you could hear all the gunners say 'She's big and fat, and ugly; she's really quite a dog, She's known around the country as Republic's Ultra Hog!'  Here's to MacNamara, his name will always smell He'll always be remembered down in Fighter Pilot's Hell He frags all the targets and sends us out to die He sends us into combat in Republic's 105  A single F-105 could carry a bombload at or above that carried by a WW2-era B-17 or B-24. It also has yet another one of those ur-Cold War origins, having been originally intended as a high speed, low-level tactical nuclear strike aircraft. The bomb bay was designed to rapidly snap open over the target and kick the bomb out, before the pilot pulls up and hauls rear end away as fast as possible. I'm fortunate enough to have two airframes preserved nearby, one being combat veteran 59-1771: http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Republic-F-105D-Thunderchief/2021540/L/&sid=8759e0d0f43a2d25f068d7da2a06f1e3 Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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Jul 11, 2013 02:50
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:It came from the awkward fanart thread in PYF: "and a little bit of Japanese" paints a picture.
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Victor Vermis posted:"and a little bit of Japanese" paints a picture. I'm actually pretty sure that the whole quote comes from a previous version of the America's Army game, where an actual 18A talks to the player character, explaining his role in the team.
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McNally posted:I'm actually pretty sure that the whole quote comes from a previous version of the America's Army game, where an actual 18A talks to the player character, explaining his role in the team. I thought I was the only person in the world who remembered that. It was in the mandatory obstacle course part of the game where you talk to omg real rangers and all of them are like "I speak farsi, italian, and a little bit of _______" that was a bullshit obstacle course followed by an online MOUT course where you shoot at people and then loud beeping ensues edit: im pretty sure to unlock the "medic" specialty a couple years later they made you literally sit through a simulation of a powerpoint presentation about combat lifesaving
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McNally posted:I'm actually pretty sure that the whole quote comes from a previous version of the America's Army game, where an actual 18A talks to the player character, explaining his role in the team. Was his name CPT Sonic T. Hedgehog?
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DinosaurWarfare posted:
Yep, it was about 10 seconds into this portion that I immediately quit this game. I didn't think people willfully submitted to Death by PowerPoint.
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There was literally a test at the end.
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hailthefish posted:There was literally a test at the end. And bear in mind that the Army intended this to be a recruiting tool.
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At least the Bridge Crossing map was actually really fun. All the training missions were aggressively stupid and the Army-flavored fluff even more-so. Getting sent to Leavenworth for friendly fire was funny though.
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Haven't you guys ever seen the John Wayne movie The Green Berets? In the intro they're doing a presentation for some civilians and each team member explains his role on the team and what languages he speaks. If I remember correctly they're called Gabriel Demonstrations, not sure if SF still does them. Tried to find the intro on youtube but couldn't find it.
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hailthefish posted:At least the Bridge Crossing map was actually really fun.
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Mustang posted:Haven't you guys ever seen the John Wayne movie The Green Berets? In the intro they're doing a presentation for some civilians and each team member explains his role on the team and what languages he speaks. If I remember correctly they're called Gabriel Demonstrations, not sure if SF still does them. That movie owns, John Wayne owns.
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crosspostin'
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grover posted:You mean the level on the supposed recruiting tool where players would die instantly from unseen snipers whenever emerging from cover? I hated that map. Couldn't understand why people would play that and be all YEAH I WANNA GO BE SNIPER BAIT FOR REAL! Fun fact: the army program director for this game?  The guy on the right.
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The way the guy below him is looking is really a great punchline for that image.
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Is that the Afghani Ice Cube? 
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:Is that the Afghani Ice Cube? Hah, I thought of that photo too.
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It was a good day, today I used my AK.
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 http://www.visionofhumanity.org/pdf/gpi/2013_Global_Peace_Index_Report.pdf [quote=Figure 1.18 Number of deaths from organised internal conflict, 2007 and 2012] 2007: Iraq: 12,050 Afghanistan: 4,210 South Sudan: 2871 India: 2675 Sri Lanka: 2054 Other: 13,409 2012: Syria: 72,900 Libya: 30,828 Mexico: 25,321 Pakistan: 9,153 Iraq: 5,474 Yemen: 5,295 Afghanistan: 5,146 Somalia: 4,101 Nigeria: 3,604 Cote d'Ivoire: 3,108 South Sudan: 2,871 Other: 10,436 [/quote]
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How is Mexico on there in '12 but not '07? Doesn't make much sense. edit: where did they even get that number? That's closer to the total # of deaths in their drug war than the total for 2012. Captain Amerikkka fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Captain Amerikkka posted:How is Mexico on there in '12 but not '07? Doesn't make much sense. "Organized internal conflict" presumably refers to civil wars, not crime. Mexico's got like three civil wars going right now. What those charts show is that you're far better in the long run getting invaded by US imperialists than just collapsing into civil war by your lonesome
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Captain Amerikkka posted:How is Mexico on there in '12 but not '07? Doesn't make much sense. They're getting it from the International Institute for Strategic Studies's Armed Conflict Database, which has a page here: http://acd.iiss.org/ Edit: The report says the primary driver behind the increase in violence in Mexico is drug-related, and they appear to be counting the cartel violence, including localized wars for control over specific areas against the army and police. They estimate total deaths in the Mexican drug conflict since 2005 to be somewhere between 60,000 and 90,000, with the conflict escalating dramatically over the past few years. MiltonSlavemasta fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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MiltonSlavemasta posted:They're getting it from the International Institute for Strategic Studies's Armed Conflict Database, which has a page here: http://acd.iiss.org/ So you're not gonna read that poo poo either huh
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Captain Amerikkka posted:So you're not gonna read that poo poo either huh I read the pdf file I posted, but more detailed sources for their armed conflict statistics are behind a $600/year paywall, so not likely.
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idgi is that supposed to make us want to invade syria and libya because ~~RESPONSIBILITY 2 PROTECT~~
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here are my top 4 reasons for not intervening in syria or pretty much any other middle eastern country: we have no dog in this fight bad people are killing each other on both sides (a good thing) any possible outcome won't be good for the US i don't give a poo poo seriously, all the western circlejerking over the "liberal elite" in middle eastern countries is ridiculous because those slices are so small and disorganized that it is unrealistic that they will ever be able to take and hold power. also are goons still jerking off over how great al jazeera is despite their blatantly MB-biased coverage in egypt?
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white privilege posted:also are goons still jerking off over how great al jazeera is despite their blatantly MB-biased coverage in egypt? goons jerk off over al jazeera because they think the only country they ever favor is qatar
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Fallom posted:goons jerk off over al jazeera because they think the only country they ever favor is qatar Qatar sucks anyway "Don't use your left hand to hand them your ID!" *Qatari uses left hand to hand ID back* Seriously don't even want to know how much money we fork over annually to those fucksticks due to their "immigration" policies For the thread, some pics from work:     
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I dunno, Al-J's soccer coverage is still pretty good
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Is that a length of muffler flex pipe?
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Evil_Urna posted:Is that a length of muffler flex pipe? I was thinking painted dryer ducting. Milspec, $500/ft
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Ikarus posted:Qatar sucks anyway A valid point. I was charged $2,600 at customs because my passport "had discrepancies." I trudged on over to their immigration office to try and figure out what was wrong and they just shrugged their shoulders. Christ I want that country to burn. ROPES CURE NIGGERS fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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kuwait has a similar scam where they "forget" to stamp your passport out when you're leaving and then charge you a 900KD (about $3,500) fine when you come back. i pretty much want the entire middle east to burn. full on sunni-shia death war all over the region.
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We used to have to rescues civilians coming through Kandahar airport all the time because the ANP would try to shake them down. Middle eastern (or Southwest Asia if you're nasty) countries are just huge on bribes and extortion apparently.
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