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white privilege posted:i pretty much want the entire middle east to burn. full on sunni-shia death war all over the region. qtiyd Also all ethnic groups in Afghanistan kill each other.
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Pretty offensive to our Moslem brothers in arms, IMO More seriously, I wouldn't wish the horrors of war on anyone, but most of the borders and governments in the region make no sense, sloppy leftovers of the colonials and the Ottomans, twisted by the Nazis and the Soviets. A slugmatch leading to a Peace of Westphalia reconstruction would probably vastly improve the region in the long run, for the survivors. But that's making the huge assumptions that the Sunni/Shia divide is remotely as bridgeable as Catholic / Protestant, or that it wouldn't devolve into nerve gassing each other en masse or nuking Israel as a side project.
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Jul 13, 2013 18:09
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Pro phone doublepostin'
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Snowdens Secret posted:Pretty offensive to our Moslem brothers in arms, IMO Our options are kind of this (shitstorm), tinpot dictators, or actually caring enough to put half a million troops in the region. We did the dictator thing for a while and it tended to work. They kept the water running, bread on the table, and a monopoly on violence. The Sunni/Shi'ia divide is perfectly bridgable, all you have to do is be willing to kill anyone who has power and isn't part of the single party. A lot of people are pessimistic about ever bringing Western-style guarantees of rights and non-tyrannical government to that region, stating that the culture is just too far removed from ours to be receptive to it. I don't think that's the case. I think citizens of Arab states just realize that elected governments in the region tend to be unable to consolidate enough power to have even a majority of control in a state, some don't even have a plurality of control (Yemen comes to mind). Divided control leads to lack of infrastructure which makes people hungry which makes them not care about ideals (which is why Egypt's Army, the thug/enforcer arm of the Mubarak criminal state, was recently welcomed back into power with open arms)
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Well you just ruined my day.
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quote:my kid could have taken T-38 fighter track but he wants to be a commercial pilot so he picked T-1s which is the transport/tanker track More like my kid sucks and couldn't get a -38 so he has to go T-1's instead and is justifying it with maybe getting an airline gig in 10+ years. No one cares what your class's patch is during UPT and no one cares after. It's how your class handles itself and acts that will earn a reputation that may (won't) follow you.
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Jul 14, 2013 16:51
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Baloogan posted:Well you just ruined my day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5Ypcyuf_I
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posted this in the AF thread yesterday, it's an actual pic:
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Disband the Air Force
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shyduck posted:Disband the Air Force
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why is it bronies the usaf has to deal with and not something normal like ICP fans
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Fallom posted:why is it bronies the usaf has to deal with and not something normal like ICP fans If it were Juggalos the Air Force could load them into their bomb bays and drop them on the enemy, except that given how many diseases those people carry it would probably count as biological warfare.
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Fallom posted:why is it bronies the usaf has to deal with and not something normal like ICP fans As glad as I am "jihadi pony" doesn't bring anything up in search, there's this: Crusader ponies I'm sure there's no sub-text there at all. Which one of you drew that? Oh poo poo. I'm on a watch list now, aren't I?
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Jul 15, 2013 08:50
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Done, son. Good luck in SuperGitmo.
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Fallom posted:why is it bronies the usaf has to deal with and not something normal like ICP fans
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Had a juggalo in my last squadron. Really solid girl to; instead of divorcing her husband (who was in the squadron of 150-ish people too so not small really, they agreed to an open marriage (BAH shamming), and she went on to have a months-long dangerous liaison loving their flight commander.
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Jul 16, 2013 02:59
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Ok, I just have to know what kind of pistol that is.
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Jul 16, 2013 03:00
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Looks like a Ruger MKII or other .22 LR pistol. I assume it is for killing dogs or other animals. 
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Scoped Out Operator Kill Them Dogs
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MRC48B posted:Looks like a Ruger MKII or other .22 LR pistol. I assume it is for killing dogs or other animals. "Hush Puppy"
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holocaust bloopers posted:Had a juggalo in my last squadron. Really solid girl to; instead of divorcing her husband (who was in the squadron of 150-ish people too so not small really, they agreed to an open marriage (BAH shamming), and she went on to have a months-long dangerous liaison loving their flight commander. Sport's girl?
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Godholio posted:Sport's girl? Huh? Dunno that. She was disgusting, had a medical condition to which I'd tell people her skin would slough off. She also smelled like death.
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Jul 16, 2013 03:58
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Oh...it sounded like the girl in the story we already discussed.
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Godholio posted:Oh...it sounded like the girl in the story we already discussed. Maybe. I don't remember. There's a lot of poo poo heaps in AWACS. A female Chinese fighter pilot. 
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If this has been posted, I apologize, but while I could get them to unblock the forums in Europe, the pictures are still blocked, so I can't see what anybody's posted. So... which of you Goons is this?
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BaconAndBullets posted:Ok, I just have to know what kind of pistol that is. Ruger Mark II with a KAC 5.56 suppressor mounted on it. Shooter is Travis Haley, of the Blackwater Najaf video fame. IIRC he said that it was a joke pistol setup but with the aimpoint and paint scheme I don't get it. sky shark fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jul 16, 2013 |
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MRC48B posted:Looks like a Ruger MKII or other .22 LR pistol. I assume it is for killing dogs or other animals. Prefacing this question by saying that I'm not a service member. I watched Generation Kill on HBO Go last month and the characters were really obsessed with killing dogs. Is it because they pose security risks (barking) or is it just because they are just dogs and you can shoot them?
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Beastie posted:Prefacing this question by saying that I'm not a service member. It's commonly because they are feral and carry all sorts of diseases, including rabies. Not personal experience here eighter (I wear blue some weekends...), but quite a few friends and aquantances were in Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing leaves behind a lot of feral dogs...
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Beastie posted:Prefacing this question by saying that I'm not a service member. Its because feral dogs are loving annoying and dangerous. They get into garbage, can be extremely territorial and carry disease.
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Beastie posted:Prefacing this question by saying that I'm not a service member. As mentioned they're terrible for diseases. We had a burn pit right outside our FOB and for the first two or three months we had to go out there expecting to shoot at least one dog. They're nasty, wild feral animals that will actually attack your vehicle and try to bite the tires if you get anywhere near them, forget doing it on the ground. Some of them were rabid (not conjecture, they were foaming and acting all funny) so down they went. Of course, you still have your fair amount of assholes that actually enjoy doing it. We did it because we had to for the safety of everybody, not for fun.
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In general, however, GiP loves doggies.
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We had a one-eyed cat that lived under our ops building. Apparently there were too many cats around the flightline, so a bunch of poison was laid out...poor One-Eyed Willy. 
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gently caress you guys we kept pups we found as pets on our COP :3 Edit: today's terminal lance is relevant to this discussion. http://terminallance.com/2013/07/16/terminal-lance-278-that-guy/ NIGGER DEATH TURBO fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jul 16, 2013 |
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Ah, I see. War dogs!    
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