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Godholio posted:WWII was a lovely deal for bomber crews. 8th Air Force's casualty rates were obscene, especially when you start comparing them to other groups. Thats what happens when you fly thin aluminium into high velocity chunks of metal that fill miles of sky.
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I was thinking more of dogfighting. WW2 would also suck for tanks if you were in a sherman. For a more refined list: Cool: Spec ops:Vietnam-SOG,Angola War-Recces Infantry:WW2-U.S. or German, Korea-U.S. Armor:WW2-German Eastern Front Air:WW2-German Eastern Front. Korea-jet figher pilots over mig alley lovely: Infantry: Same as previous but now I'll also add in anyone on the losing side of a battle in ancient times where you just had to start running for your life and probably still just end up getting cut down from behind or getting captured by nice people like the Assyrians, also WW2-Russian Eastern Front Air:Vietnam-U.S.(not super deadly but annoying), WW2-bomber crews and Soviet pilots in the Winter War Armor:WW2-sherman crews Naval: WW2-German U-boat crews
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8lbsofanalsex posted:Cool: I feel like if at any point you're reduced to stacking the frozen bodies of your enemies on roads just so your tanks can get traction on the mud, you've got a lovely war going. Actually when writing that out it sounds pretty metal, so maybe not.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:I feel like if at any point you're reduced to stacking the frozen bodies of your enemies on roads just so your tanks can get traction on the mud, you've got a lovely war going. I think the riding around in Tiger and Panther tanks popping T-34s by the dozens would make up for most of that.
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8lbsofanalsex posted:I think the riding around in Tiger and Panther tanks ftfy Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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8lbsofanalsex posted:I think the riding around in Tiger and Panther tanks popping T-34s by the dozens would make up for most of that. Duzzy Funlop posted:ftfy Please do not encourage other dorks to come and post in excruciating detail about this.
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Tiger's broke the gently caress down and the eastern front was an incredibly lovely mud- and deathfest, not sure how that's encouraging anyone to go all  . I'm firmly in the camp of masturbating over huge deathmachines with fuckoff guns.Speaking of fuckoff guns, I would have loved if the tank museum at Bovington had spent a gazillion man hours and cash to restore this thing. 
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How about a laser? USN-Laser-Dewey-03 by Jeff Head, on Flickr USN-Laser-Dewey-04 by Jeff Head, on Flickr USN-Laser-Dewey-05 by Jeff Head, on Flickr
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moosepoop posted:How about a laser? MassivelyBuckNegro posted:Please do not encourage grover to come and post in excruciating detail about this.
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I may have asked this before but what happens if the lens gets wet? What if some teachers pet named Kent smears axle grease across the front?
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Tide posted:I may have asked this before but what happens if the lens gets wet? What if some teachers pet named Kent smears axle grease across the front? Not much, the energy density of the beam at the aperture is lower than the energy density of the beam at the target, because it's being focused there; this one is actually 6 individual beams that are all aimed to hit the same point. Also this is only a ~30kW laser, not a 5 megawatt one you could use to vaporize a human target from space if you have a phase conjugate targeting system.
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Grover posted:Not much, the energy density of the beam at the aperture is lower than the energy density of the beam at the target, because it's being focused there; this one is actually 6 individual beams that are all aimed to hit the same point. Also this is only a ~30kW laser, not a 5 megawatt one you could use to vaporize a human target from space if you have a phase conjugate targeting system.
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I am currently reading a German account of the Eastern Front- it was cool for nobody, except the Officer's at their desk back at high command.
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There is no desirable position in WW2. Everyone shared in the misery.
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Man gently caress lasers. KE penetrators are cooler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_vuX5_oAk
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holocaust bloopers posted:There is no desirable position in WW2. Everyone shared in the misery. Not entirely true 
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Zeris posted:Not entirely true Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that. Frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Man gently caress lasers. KE penetrators are cooler. 
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that. Frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies. 
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Add WWI air to your lovely list. No parachutes. Rudimentary training. Wood and cloth planes that'd tear their own wings off.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Add WWI air to your lovely list. No parachutes. Rudimentary training. Wood and cloth planes that'd tear their own wings off. And wacky engines without real throttle control that like to plunge the plane into the ground when you turn
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that. Frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies. Teddy fuckin' Williams!
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Ron Jeremy posted:Add WWI air to your lovely list. No parachutes. Rudimentary training. Wood and cloth planes that'd tear their own wings off. So its like this: Cool: Anywhere but WWI lovely WWI gently caress even being on-board a boat in the USCG you where liable to get sunk or damaged by German U-Boats because we had no sonar or radar back then.
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holocaust bloopers posted:There is no desirable position in WW2. Everyone shared in the misery. I heard the US mainland coastal batteries was pretty sweet place to be.
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Motorpool ftw.
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Phanatic posted:phase conjugate targeting system. Like this is a real thing. Have fun building your death star, the rest of us in the real world will kill people with magnets: EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Man gently caress lasers. KE penetrators are cooler. By the way this program produced the coolest name the Navy has ever come up with "Velocitas Eradico".
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Genocide Tendency posted:Like this is a real thing. I was referencing the same movie Tide was, not going Grover. gently caress the F-35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNgAiGQ_IM Chinatown posted:Motorpool ftw. I'm pretty sure my grandfather was the inspiration for the Don Rickles character in Kelly's Heroes: 
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Phanatic posted:I was referencing the same movie Tide was, not going Grover. gently caress the F-35. It was friendly fire. I just quoted you to have a lead in to "Have fun building your death star, the rest of us in the real world will kill people with magnets". That and phase conjugate what the gently caress ever doesn't even sound like english.
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Every time I see this pass I am on loving awe. How did he get that?
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What is so special about that pass
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It's basically permission-to-loot.jpg, which means he can in turn trade for whatever his unit needs, which will make him a loving hero.
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Three weeks to do whatever whenever wherever in a port facility. Jesus Christ. What port is that? I can't get any google hits for "Captain R.J. Manson." e: I suppose it's gotta be somewhere in North Africa given the timeframe.
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moosepoop posted:How about a laser? I'm knocking over things with my boner.
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movax posted:I'm knocking over things with my boner. Grover alt-account spotted.
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Lou Takki posted:Grover alt-account spotted. Nah, Movax is actually insightful and funny most of the time. The antithesis of grover
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All wars have lovely things going on so it will never be fun 24/7. I was more going for combat scenarios that would be memorable if you were lucky enough to not die as war is the only place you can get those. Probably the thing that most makes me view a job in wartime as lovely is if you had no good chance of affecting the outcome. If you want to talk about lovely living conditions or being at a high threat of death there are plenty of places in the civilian world where you can find those. For annoying maintenance problems, I can just try driving my car.
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I can write a list of the times that my mil job felt worthwhile: --providing command and control for the rescue of 7 people on Haiti during the earthquake humanitarian efforts --real world search and rescue of a bush pilot --the time we intercepted a drug runner, handed the coordinates off to the Colombian AF, which promptly shot the plane down That's all I got. About 20 hours of mission time out of 1100+. Yep.
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Lou Takki posted:Grover alt-account spotted. "He knows too much." >readies ether rag
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One time an AF osprey blew an engine or some poo poo and did an emergency landing in the boonies in Djibouti. They flew a new engine out on a 53 and we provided security for about 45 minutes. They gave us 2 full magazines for about 12 of us. And no we didn't spread load those either. Welp that's my story
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Mortabis posted:Three weeks to do whatever whenever wherever in a port facility. Jesus Christ. What port is that? I can't get any google hits for "Captain R.J. Manson." e: I suppose it's gotta be somewhere in North Africa given the timeframe. I believe it was Portsmouth. He didn't see combat, so far as I know, but he worked supply in the 8th Air Force and did a lot of TDY to forward areas to set up supply chains. Like this:  I think AAF 389 was in France. The gallery of his poo poo that I've scanned in is here: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/phanatic/sets/72057594139739640/ I've posted this before in another thread, and it's loving hilarious: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/phanatic/155807906/in/set-72057594139739640 https://secure.flickr.com/photos/phanatic/155809090/in/set-72057594139739640 https://secure.flickr.com/photos/phanatic/155811321/in/set-72057594139739640
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