UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

The war is on and the boys overseas badly need these supplies, I'll just go down to the docks and have a little picking over.

Scratch Monkey posted:

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Y'all are a bunch of dumb nerds if an access card is the height of cool

LingcodKilla posted:

Welcome to Something Awful?

A used parachute could get you layed for a month during wartime. Think of what a box of chocolates could get you.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Y'all are a bunch of dumb nerds if an access card is the height of cool

FrozenVent posted:

Christ you’re boring, have you ever left home?

Bernard B. Fall posted:

What Sgt. Kubiak did not know was that there was another Kubiak at Dien Bien Phu--and that he fought on the other side. He was Major Stefan Kubiak, a Pole born in 1923 in Lodz. The son of a poor weaver, Kubiak joined the Communist Polish Army after World War II. A good party member, he had been posted to the Army Political Commissars School. When he found that his wife was having a love affair with one of his superiors, Kubiak deserted from the Polish Army, drifted to West Germany, and eventually enlisted in the Foreign Legion. Sent to North Viet-Nam in 1947, he soon was disillusioned with the French and deserted from the Foreihn Legion in 1947 at Nam Dinh in the Red River Delta.

Received at first with distrust by the Viet-Minh, he soon rendered them important services by training their troops in using and servicing the American weapons which they captured from the French. This was particularly important since the Viet-Muinh did not have, until early in 1950, good direct overland communications with the Red Chinese. Kubiak distinguished himself for his bravery during the battle for the Hoa-Binh salient, in 1951, and was "adopted" by Ho Chi Minh himself and given the name of Ho Chi Thuan. Promoted to the rank of captain, and the major, Kubiak served at Dien Bien Phu with the 312th Division and had personally participated in the attack on Beatrice in which, unknowingly, he had probably faced his French namesake. This was to occur again when during the last days of the battle some of the Foreign Legionnaires were also thrown into the Five Hills area.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

No, I enlisted and deployed through a program that allowed me to stay at home all the while

Scratch Monkey posted:

drone pilot?

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Here's a story about both an idiot and an actual badass

LingcodKilla posted:

Here’s the problem. That’s just a dude sticking to his guns no idiot involved.
You in the wrong thread.

canyoneer posted:

Other grandpa did supply stuff in the Army in WWII. He didn't drink or smoke, so he had a lot of currency to trade with those who did.
He came back with a bunch of cool stuff. He had this gigantic flag that was 15 feet across that used to hang in a German officer's club.

Chichevache posted:

Uhhhh... what was on that flag?

Viva Miriya posted:

It's this not the other thing.


Did not know this but also not a 4chan dude so v0v. How's the CYOAs going btw?

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Y'all are a bunch of dumb nerds if an access card is the height of cool

Platystemon posted:

It’s not the access card.

It’s the action it implies.

Literally everything is uncool if divorced from context.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Y'all are a bunch of dumb nerds if an access card is the height of cool

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

You idiots are missing the forest for the tree. It’s WHO had that card. He was a mobster.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Even the implied action is lame as gently caress. Oh boy I can go rifling through supplies!

e: Fun fact, you can do all of those "implied actions" without bothering with an access card, or even one that is more restrictive than the one that is just so cool we're gonna rub ourselves raw at the thought of it.

Smiling Jack posted:

citation needed

Fearless posted:

Luciano did have something worked out with the US government in which mobsters were tasked with port security during the war. I wouldn't be surprised if that card was connected to that.

Scratch Monkey posted:

At the time you probably could have. It wasn't like now back then. There were so many weapons arriving, being distributed, getting used, destroyed, lost to capture... it was almost impossible to give a gently caress.

quote:

Madre de Deus attracted all manner of traders, dealers, cutpurses and thieves from miles around, from as far as London and beyond. At seeing this huge vessel, pandemonium broke out amongst the townspeople; they visited the floating castle and sought out drunken sailors in taverns and pubs, buying, stealing, pinching and fighting for the takings. Local fishermen as well ventured aboard, further depleting the cargo.[1]

aphid_licker posted:

Two thirds of the cargo of Walter Raleigh's largest prize was stolen in port

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Flores_(1592)#Mass_theft

Tias posted:

Well, it's not like Richard Spencer, who sat in on the NSC board meetings used to it to greet fellow nazis or anyth.. oh.

Fine! Currently goons are marching space peasant levies into machine gun fire with gusto

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

https://twitter.com/_johnswish/status/1164255285508235266?s=19

Tias posted:

Well, it's not like Richard Spencer, who sat in on the NSC board meetings used to it to greet fellow nazis or anyth.. oh.

Fine! Currently goons are marching space peasant levies into machine gun fire with gusto

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

https://twitter.com/_johnswish/status/1164255285508235266?s=19

CommieGIR posted:

*glances at sleeve with single stripe*

Yup.