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holocaust bloopers posted:http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/14/us/bowe-bergdahl-active-duty/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Oddly enough, that's only the second most interesting thing in that article. There's an American Association of Suicidology.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:14 |
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Godholio posted:Oddly enough, that's only the second most interesting thing in that article. There's an American Association of Suicidology.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:55 |
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Casimir Radon posted:How long can you work there before also committing suicide? You misunderstand. They're finding more effective ways to persuade the undesirables to remove themselves from the population. It is its own reward.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 21:49 |
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Since I'm a civilian, could someone explain to me why someone who was held by an enemy for 5 years is being returned to active duty after less than 2 months back? This seems a recipe for a mental collapse.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 21:56 |
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Gyre posted:Since I'm a civilian, could someone explain to me why someone who was held by an enemy for 5 years is being returned to active duty after less than 2 months back? This seems a recipe for a mental collapse. The military doesn't exactly have a track record of making intelligent decisions. That's not a snarky answer, it's just how things are.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 22:01 |
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:The military doesn't exactly have a track record of making intelligent decisions. That's not a snarky answer, it's just how things are. Re: GiP
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 22:03 |
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Gyre posted:Since I'm a civilian, could someone explain to me why someone who was held by an enemy for 5 years is being returned to active duty after less than 2 months back? Because he never left active duty. He hasn't been discharged because they're not sure whether he's going to be tried for desertion. Gyre posted:This seems a recipe for a mental collapse. Which is why he's got two babysitters.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 22:09 |
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Gyre posted:Since I'm a civilian, could someone explain to me why someone who was held by an enemy for 5 years is being returned to active duty after less than 2 months back? This seems a recipe for a mental collapse. Look every contract is for 8 years minimum -some portion active and some reserve, no loving exceptions, and
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:00 |
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Is he being sent back to active to outprocess? That seems like a very Army thing to do.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:03 |
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gleep gloop posted:Is he being sent back to active to outprocess? That seems like a very Army thing to do. Yeah fortunately that E-5 pay is going to help against the sting of statement of charges from CIF
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:05 |
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Gyre posted:Since I'm a civilian, could someone explain to me why someone who was held by an enemy for 5 years is being returned to active duty after less than 2 months back? This seems a recipe for a mental collapse. 'Active duty' does not mean he's actually doing any military stuff. If you're on med hold (because you're bonkers) you're active duty but that doesn't even necessarily mean you put on a uniform very much. gleep gloop posted:Is he being sent back to active to outprocess? That seems like a very Army thing to do. They do that to the guys they pick up after being deserters for 30 years, supposedly
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:05 |
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I mean it does kind of make sense that he needs to outprocess. I'm sure he'll probably be escorted everywhere and wont have any responsibilities during that time. Still, probably going to be a very awkward time.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:16 |
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psydude posted:Russia may have gotten its Gulf of Tonkin. It appears a Ukrainian AN-26 just got shot down by Russian aa from across the border.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:24 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:'Active duty' does not mean he's actually doing any military stuff. If you're on med hold (because you're bonkers) you're active duty but that doesn't even necessarily mean you put on a uniform very much. When all the federal and state criminal databases were getting online and widely available in the early-mid 90s we had a 45 year-old private cutting grass for a few weeks. For the 15 years before that he had been a trucker, until he got stopped for a speeding ticket. Apparently back in 1971 he took his CO's GET THE gently caress OFF MY GODDAMNED BASE tirade a bit too literally. We ADSEP'd him.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:40 |
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Gyre posted:Since I'm a civilian, could someone explain to me why someone who was held by an enemy for 5 years is being returned to active duty after less than 2 months back? This seems a recipe for a mental collapse. His PFT and rifle qual are out of date. Worse yet, he's got a case of yuck mouth with a class 4 dental.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 00:14 |
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"Please fill out these forms to reactivate you AKO account; you're showing overdue for all the CBTs and we have to brief that at the Brigade meetings."
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 00:34 |
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suddenly his decision to join al Qaeda are becoming more and more crystal clear
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 01:51 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:"Please fill out these forms to reactivate you AKO account; you're showing overdue for all the CBTs and we have to brief that at the Brigade meetings." I don't doubt for a loving minute the dude has years upon years of CBT poo poo to catch up on. Some SNCO is most assuredly going to make sure Bergdahl does them all too.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 02:06 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:"Please fill out these forms to reactivate you AKO account; you're showing overdue for all the CBTs and we have to brief that at the Brigade meetings." I guarantee this happened.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 02:06 |
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Does the military keep paying POWs?
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 02:30 |
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You mean during captivity? Yes. I'm not sure what happens with MIAs though. Edit: Well, here we go. All pay and allowances plus 50% of the worldwide average diem for POWs. MIAs also accrue a bunch of poo poo: quote:Payments continue though date of receipt by the Army of evidence of the death of the member or date of presumption of death made by the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary's designee, or date of return to Army jurisdiction. Godholio fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jul 15, 2014 |
# ? Jul 15, 2014 02:31 |
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BAH too? Is his pay non-taxable because he was in a warzone? Man that's some sick rear end back pay.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 02:33 |
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CIF is going to take a big chunk of it for all this poo poo he lost though.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 03:11 |
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holocaust bloopers posted:BAH too? Is his pay non-taxable because he was in a warzone? Man that's some sick rear end back pay. I don't think its back pay. I think they just kept depositing his check in his account. But I don't know. Anyone from finance in here? Not that you will admit it because the rest of us will hunt you down and murder you for all the times our pay got hosed up.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 03:56 |
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Genocide Tendency posted:I don't think its back pay. I think they just kept depositing his check in his account. But I don't know. Anyone from finance in here? i'd probably squeeze the life out of a finance person just for somehow being a more vacuous waste than me
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 04:13 |
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Larry Parrish posted:i'd probably squeeze the life out of a finance person just for somehow being a more vacuous waste than me I'll save that justification for the time I meet someone who willingly admits they were a registration clerk at med clinic.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 11:13 |
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So the cease fire is broken
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 13:13 |
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shyduck posted:So the cease fire is broken Being whoever tries to honestly negotiate those things must have an incredibly high rate of people giving up on humanity and eating a shotgun barrel.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 14:14 |
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psydude posted:In an unexpected, but in hindsight totally foreseeable turn of events, Hamas has apparently started using drones, some of which may be armed. But a drone doesn't necessarily need to be anything fancy to be a real drone. Just talking in general and not about the Hamas iDrone.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 15:13 |
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chemosh6969 posted:But a drone doesn't necessarily need to be anything fancy to be a real drone. Just talking in general and not about the Hamas iDrone. I wonder how far you could get an RC plane with a hand grenade
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 15:16 |
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Accretionist posted:I wonder how far you could get an RC plane with a hand grenade Like four seconds or else who is gonna pull the pin IDIOT
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 15:19 |
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Accretionist posted:I wonder how far you could get an RC plane with a hand grenade I guess you could pull the pin before launch and come up with a mechanism to release the spoon remotely assuming you don't care about retrieving the drone. After that it's timing and aiming- all of the M67s I've thrown detonated six seconds after the spoon was released. Also, shut up Cole.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 15:31 |
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If we can strap fireworks to shoot on an RC plane, moving up to grenades can't be that much harder.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 16:34 |
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Accretionist posted:I wonder how far you could get an RC plane with a hand grenade We basically already use those. They're not very effective though; most of the ones that I saw employed crashed or missed their target. psydude fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Jul 15, 2014 |
# ? Jul 15, 2014 16:46 |
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psydude posted:We basically already use those. They're not very effective though; most of the ones that I saw employed crashed or missed their target. I know of at least one that was used recently that they forgot to arm before crashing into a guy. God I wish I could get that video.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 17:26 |
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Pesticide20 posted:I know of at least one that was used recently that they forgot to arm before crashing into a guy. God I wish I could get that video. Haha, wow, that somehow makes it seem even more violent Edit: I want, "...the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time," painted on a rock tied to the front of that drone Accretionist fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jul 15, 2014 |
# ? Jul 15, 2014 17:38 |
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Bushman made an R/C drone with an infrared camera strapped to it to look for pigs on his brother's farm. If a guy who runs around barefoot killing pigs with a spear can do it, Hamas can do it.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 18:05 |
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I think he also did the bottle rocket thing.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 20:12 |
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Interview with an Armenian who fought as a separatist in eastern Ukraine. http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/i-was-a-pro-russian-separatist-fighter-in-ukraine/374411/
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 01:21 |
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shyduck posted:So the cease fire is broken It only lasted 47 rockets this time, that's crazy fast, usually they get to at least three digits
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