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Or one where their people keep getting arrested in Tijuana for getting in drunken bar fights. Can't stop them from doing that in the US, but you can dictate that.
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A Bad Poster posted:Or one where their people keep getting arrested in Tijuana for getting in drunken bar fights. Can't stop them from doing that in the US, but you can dictate that. How would this be different from any other Marine unit.
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Or his LT may know this kid is dumber than usual and knows if he goes to mexico he'll either come back married or with the clap.
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CainFortea posted:Or his LT may know this kid is dumber than usual and knows if he goes to mexico he'll either come back married or with the clap. Why not both? 
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There’s a band along the border that marines are blanket banned from without a really good reason like having family there. Travel to any foreign country requires additional authorization for your leave request and all sorts of other hoops.
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Back when I first enlisted AF or maybe DOD banned you from entering Mexico from a border town. You were ok to fly in, and maybe cross at one of those huge crossings, but that was it. All the idiots in my basic flight wanted to barracks lawyer the poo poo out of that and kept the what ifs? going for a good 5 minutes while the guy teaching the class just wanted to move on.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:52
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Or maybe he wants to avoid a wedding of a cousin or some other such gathering and told her that his unit forbids travel to Mexico
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Oct 22, 2019 15:13
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When we sailed from Norway to the US (San Diego) in '07 to participate in CSSQT, we were specifically told not to go to mexico. The very first weekend two junior officers wound up across the border during/after a night out drinking
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throw to first drat IT posted:Or maybe he wants to avoid a wedding of a cousin or some other such gathering and told her that his unit forbids travel to Mexico Wouldn’t that be giving the Marine too much credit?
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She said that the Trump administration had banned travel for all parts of the armed forces to Mexico because of the wall or something. I was like 'WHAT? REALLY?'. I suppose her son is lying to her about the reasoning or whatever, then. I think she just hears what he says about it. She did mention Tijuana too. (She's not a Trump supporter). Thanks for the info! I though it was too weird to be true.
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redreader posted:She said that the Trump administration had banned travel for all parts of the armed forces to Mexico because of the wall or something. I was like 'WHAT? REALLY?'. I suppose her son is lying to her about the reasoning or whatever, then. I think she just hears what he says about it. She did mention Tijuana too. (She's not a Trump supporter). Thanks for the info! I though it was too weird to be true. Look, you want to play dumbass telephone, you go ahead.
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redreader posted:A (USA) colleague just told me her son can't go to Mexico because he's in the Marines. She said nobody from any of the armed forces is allowed there on vacation. Is this real? This is the last guidance I heard. redreader posted:She said that the Trump administration had banned travel for all parts of the armed forces to Mexico because of the wall or something. I was like 'WHAT? REALLY?'. I suppose her son is lying to her about the reasoning or whatever, then. I think she just hears what he says about it. She did mention Tijuana too. (She's not a Trump supporter). Thanks for the info! I though it was too weird to be true. Oh yeah that's all bullshit.
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Blanket ban would cause an outrage, lot of military members with family down there they visit.
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EBB posted:Blanket ban would cause an outrage, lot of military members with family down there they visit. You act like one more outrage would be anything other than a drop in the ocean at this point, "suport da trupes" or not.
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I figure we're 2-3 blowups away from a "only second-generation Americans or older can enlist/join the military" tweet. 
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Godholio posted:This is the last guidance I heard. The level 4 red zones in Mexico are pretty much no-gos. Which is a shame because 10 years ago I went on a cruise to Manzanillo, Acapulco, and Zihuatenejo and they were all awesome and I wish I could go back. Zihuatenejo is one of the most beautiful beaches on earth. It was pretty weird in Acapulco to watch a Mexican navy truck patrol with 8 armed marines in the back loaded out with full helmet/armor/rifle plus an officer. There were also cops with rifles patrolling on foot up and down the beaches in Manzanillo.
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I’ve visited family in Baja but usually I just said I’m taking leave to CA since it requires so much extra hoops at most commands. There definitely isn’t a blanket ban though. I couldn’t go to a wedding in El Salvador though.
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canyoneer posted:The level 4 red zones in Mexico are pretty much no-gos. Yeah a buddy of mine took his family to (can't remember the name but a gulf coast Mexican tourist city) last year. He's at the resort and like "this is loving fine what's the problem with Mexico?". He went for a walk one day and got three blocks back from the beach and walked into a military checkpoint that among other things had dudes on mounted M2s on top of permanent fortifications. They politely turned him back to the beach.
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Memento posted:Yeah a buddy of mine took his family to (can't remember the name but a gulf coast Mexican tourist city) last year. He's at the resort and like "this is loving fine what's the problem with Mexico?". I spend a fair amount of time in Baja over the years and bit in the DF (Mexico City) and things are generally fine. Near either border it if you are trafficking drugs is a bad idea. It's not abnormal to see moderately armed police in those and the tourist areas. I don't feel any more in danger in Mexico than I do in most of Central America and definitely safer than parts of SE Asia. I'm also a moderately sized white dude, so that may have something to do with it, but I usually travel with my wife. Seeing cops with rifles and military is usual in a ton of the world. The cartel stuff is a poo poo show though and is really our fault. Ruining a lot of great countries and countless lives because of puritanical ideals. (Your buddies story kinda stinks, I can't think of a tourist area that's isn't surrounded by towns swarming with tourists, both the good and bad types.) I'll be back in Mexico for a few weeks in the next few months. I'll take more pictures. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Oct 27, 2019 |
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In further military news from the idiot-in-chief. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1188958893923278849 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/officials-cringe-trump-spills-sensitive-details-al-baghdadi-raid-n1073001?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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So, maybe we should do something about that "President can unclassify anything they want whenever they want" thing. I guarantee you that Donny has no idea what is or isn't classified and what is or isn't tactically sensitive, we've seen as much evidence to that point over the last 3 years. Just makes the "buttery males!" thing that much more galling.
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A Bad Poster posted:So, maybe we should do something about that "President can unclassify anything they want whenever they want" thing. I guarantee you that Donny has no idea what is or isn't classified and what is or isn't tactically sensitive, we've seen as much evidence to that point over the last 3 years. Just makes the "buttery males!" thing that much more galling. The solution to that is impeachment and removal, but here we are I guess.
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It's simple, place President Smoothbrain's live speeches on a five minute delay. When he says something classified, just play Yakety Sax until he's back to talking about himself and his ~tremendous~ properties.
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Volmarias posted:The solution to that is impeachment and removal, but here we are I guess. Yeah, this is the main problem. All of the legislation you'd need to deal with Trump is predicated on "What if a senile narcissist with a long criminal history and designs on fascism was compromised by Russia and became the president?" There's a lot of problems before the point of revealing classified intel if someone like that can get to that level of authority.
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I never imagined how much of our government was founded on the principle that we have an adult incharge capable of discretion
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Stravag posted:I never imagined how much of our government was founded on the principle that we have an adult incharge capable of discretion The entire existence of the Electoral College comes from a belief that the fair and intelligent electors would never elect someone like Donald Trump, even if it went against the will of the people.
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chitoryu12 posted:The entire existence of the Electoral College comes from a belief that the fair and intelligent electors would never elect someone like Donald Trump, even if it went against the will of the people. Guess we showed them ! Make it idiot proof and we're gonna make several hundred million more idiots
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Stravag posted:Guess we showed them ! Make it idiot proof and we're gonna make several hundred million more idiots If you make something an idiot can do, you end up with idiots doing it.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It's simple, place President Smoothbrain's live speeches on a five minute delay. When he says something classified, just play Yakety Sax until he's back to talking about himself and his ~tremendous~ properties. Just replace all of his speeches with Yakety Sax.
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Stravag posted:I never imagined how much of our government was founded on the principle that we have an adult incharge capable of discretion I just want to empty quote this forever.
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A Bad Poster posted:So, maybe we should do something about that "President can unclassify anything they want whenever they want" thing. I guarantee you that Donny has no idea what is or isn't classified and what is or isn't tactically sensitive, we've seen as much evidence to that point over the last 3 years. Just makes the "buttery males!" thing that much more galling. Yeah, even if you made it so the president wasn't allowed to unclassify anything they want, the only way you could enforce that would be impeachment, and you'd still be left with the problem that the president's party isn't willing to do that even though the president in question is a glaringly obvious threat to national security.
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Stravag posted:I never imagined how much of our government was founded on the principle that we have an adult incharge capable of discretion
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evil_bunnY posted:It's based on the premise that congress would impeach such a person, which they won't do because senate is locked because state are gerrymandered to gently caress because courts are packed. There. How does gerrymandering affect the Senate?
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McNally posted:How does gerrymandering affect the Senate? wyoming exists
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McNally posted:How does gerrymandering affect the Senate? As stated above, Wyoming. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem
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Our system of checks and balances functions on the honor system lmao
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Flying_Crab posted:As stated above, Wyoming. Of course, you can turn also turn hyperdimensional gerrymandering into a powerful data analysis tool
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shame on an IGA posted:wyoming exists Flying_Crab posted:As stated above, Wyoming. Wyoming is not an example of gerrymandering
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