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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Who the gently caress is running these C-RAM’s anyway? Are they run by contractors? Or do we take navy folks who know how to maintain CIWS or whatever and make them do it in land locked Afghanistan for 6-12 months? Looks like they gave it to air defense artillery. https://www.army.mil/article/120148/avenger_crew_members_transition_to_c_ram quote:The temperatures may have been cold here last week, but Thompson Hill Complex was hot as about 70 Soldiers from B Battery, 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., performed live-fire Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar training.
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Loden Taylor posted:Looks like they gave it to air defense artillery. Well I’ll be damned, the Army does own it. That makes waaaaaaay too much sense for the military. I seriously anticipated reading that USN Sailors we’re getting mobilized to loving Afghanistan to maintain and operate those guns, since they have so many of them on ships. I seem to recall Mr. Nice relaying a story about losing an Aegis FC from his boat to Iraq, or Afghanistan. That’s probably where I got it in my head that it was USN. That and their already existing expertise with the systems. MLMP08, you are an ADA soldier, how big is the Army C-RAM force? We talking a battalion sized element? A couple companies spread across different ADA battalions? A brigade (Doubtful but who the gently caress knows)? I’m curious. It seems like a really cool job, and additionally a very important job.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Who the gently caress is running these C-RAM’s anyway? Are they run by contractors? Or do we take navy folks who know how to maintain CIWS or whatever and make them do it in land locked Afghanistan for 6-12 months? I realize from what others posted that it is the Army doing it but I wouldn't have put it past Big Navy to Roger Up for that mission with all the other Navy folks I was with over in Afghanistan. What a loving waste of lives, time, and treasure
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Wikipedia seems to indicate they’re company sized elements in existing ADA battalions.
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Back in 06 on Balad, it was Navy dudes in Army uniforms. I spoke with a Navy dude who had an 82d patch on.
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Crosspost from the Weather thread:Deteriorata posted:Heavy rains in Michigan are causing some problems for my home town:
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Stravag posted:I think mcnally literally just mailed my operation useless dirt shirt to stravag so v0v I sent a secret santa gift to "Mr. D. McDef" because I had reason to believe a box full of wires, batteries, and dense cylindrical objects addressed to "Deathy McDeath" would result in unfortunate police interactions for me
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BigDave posted:Crosspost from the Weather thread: That's a lot of water flowing over that earthen dam. That whole structure is going to be gone soon, and that's the upper dam. If the Lowry dam doesn't hold, that's a loving LOT of water coming downstream.
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shame on an IGA posted:I sent a secret santa gift to "Mr. D. McDef" because I had reason to believe a box full of wires, batteries, and dense cylindrical objects addressed to "Deathy McDeath" would result in unfortunate police interactions for me Mods were called
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This footage is of the Edenville dam, which is ~10 miles upstream of the Sanford dam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQh7kIDvNLw The dam system operator, Boyce Hydro, had their license revoked by the FERC because they "failed to increase the [Edenville dam] project's spillway capacity to safely pass flood flows." In January 2020 a task force (to protect that lakefront property?) bought the upstream dams from Boyce. An engineering estimate of work needed from the task force was expected to be completed by the end of 2020. This is the Sanford dam ~10 miles downstream. 
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Holy gently caress. All of this poo poo happening during a loving pandemic. Jesus Christ these loving ghouls are incompetent. We need a competent FEMA and fed government at the helm for the coming hurricane season. We're not ready to open the country up again - we don't even have the needed contact tracers, nor the testing infrastructure in place. The second wave is gonna hit loving hard, all the while people in hurricane alley are forced to shelter close together or evacuate to gyms and hotels and shelters. All while a pandemic goes on. Now we're adding dam breaks to it. What next?
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Someone buy an emoji that's this one  but :dam:, instead
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Bored As gently caress posted:
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Proud Christian Mom posted:the GOP doubling down on McSally after she lost to Sinema is hilarious All you want to do is drive away McSally, ride, McSally, ride
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Who the gently caress is running these C-RAM’s anyway? Are they run by contractors? Or do we take navy folks who know how to maintain CIWS or whatever and make them do it in land locked Afghanistan for 6-12 months? Navy under Army opcon is correct. I was in 2005-2011 and typically one, sometimes two people were detached from our division for Iraq/Afghanistan tours. We did not receive replacement manpower. If you made it to shore duty you were almost guaranteed either Great Lakes or Afghanistan.
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I remember when they were testing c-rams at Anaconda in 2005. There was one posted about a 1000 feet from my companys' area (next to the ed center). Definitely wasn't expecting it at PT formation that first time. loving wild at the time. My company was dumb and we'd do PT all of 200 feet from the perimeter fence. And the c-ram didn't register the rocket that hit my building without detonating (a French made rocket, go figure). Still have a tailfin as my keychain. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 08:31 on May 20, 2020 |
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The BBC has nailed this headline. Nancy Pelosi accused of fat-shaming 'obese' Trump https://www.bbc.com/news/52733199 BBC |
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Maybe making fun of conservatives for things SJWs fight for is the quickest way to get social justice. Like arming minorities to get gun control.
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shame on an IGA posted:Also as regards self-policing of languange we're not keeping up with the rest of the forums, we're leading, and have been for years, and I'm drat proud of it. I've noticed this too, and I respect all y'all for it
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Oh and just in case you thought Trump might be helping Michigan... https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263074783673102337?s=20 Spoiler: he's not.
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https://twitter.com/nailpounder/status/1263017470593511425?s=19 Who had toxic slurry on their bingo card?
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Trump having yet another normal one over Twitter, first going after Michigan, then Nevada, for offering up mail-in ballots for the elections. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263094958417985538 It’s really something how the Republican Party isn’t even pretending that the only way they can win elections long-term is to suppress turnout by whatever means necessary. Also Trump seems to be back-handed to calling for Joe Scarborough to be attested or killed or something for reasons I don’t care enough to dig into. Hail 2020, may the passing of toxic sludge flood water cleans the earth.
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Alaan posted:https://twitter.com/nailpounder/status/1263017470593511425?s=19 This is some Simpsons-level disaster skit
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Trump having yet another normal one over Twitter, first going after Michigan, then Nevada, for offering up mail-in ballots for the elections. Michigan is sending out mail in ballot applications. It’s not even ballots. Michigan is doing the same thing Georgia is doing (and several other states) but look at who the governors are and you can figure that one out. I don’t really know anything about Nevada.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Who the gently caress is running these C-RAM’s anyway? Are they run by contractors? Or do we take navy folks who know how to maintain CIWS or whatever and make them do it in land locked Afghanistan for 6-12 months? https://www.sdefenses.com/what-we-do/current-contracts/ First item
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Georgia decided various nonessential businesses can open up, but it would be too unsafe to hold an election for a Georgia supreme court judge, so they'll just let the Republican Governor pick one instead.
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mlmp08 posted:Georgia decided various nonessential businesses can open up, but it would be too unsafe to hold an election for a Georgia supreme court judge, so they'll just let the Republican Governor pick one instead. Got a link for this? Want to pass on to a friend.
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BigDave posted:Oh and just in case you thought Trump might be helping Michigan... As Michigan residents, my wife and I agreed that getting the ability to vote without having to go to the voting place is loving awesome. We got our forms in the mail a couple of weeks ago, maybe last week, and we even had the option to select to do that forever. That's awesome.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Who the gently caress is running these C-RAM’s anyway? Are they run by contractors? Or do we take navy folks who know how to maintain CIWS or whatever and make them do it in land locked Afghanistan for 6-12 months? A lot of the more significant maintenance and technical setup work is run by contractors. Manning of the fire control systems, 10-level maintenance, reloading, etc, is done by air defense soldiers primarily, but field artillery units have also been performing the mission for a while, because there are not enough air defense formations around to feed the demand. NAVSEA (Naval Sea Systems Command) also has GS technicians on loan to the Army in various locations. When field artillery units do the C-RAM mission, they go through training and certification under an air defense unit before shipping out to CENTCOM.
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That Works posted:Got a link for this? Want to pass on to a friend. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...p-a9523056.html
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mlmp08 posted:Georgia decided various nonessential businesses can open up, but it would be too unsafe to hold an election for a Georgia supreme court judge, so they'll just let the Republican Governor pick one instead. per your link quote:The ruling found that in Georgia law, a justice is only replaced via election if they are beaten at the polls, and not if they have already declared they will leave the post. 
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This year is ticking a silly amount of items off its fuckit list. Im just happy i have a dog who wants nothing more to be a couple feet from me at all times. Really is making this year... well not tolerable but not a complete fuckfest of stupidity and depression. Also she decided she wanted to do catte things last week idfk
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There's also a TRIGA research reactor at that Dow site in Midland like the one GeorgiaTech has
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Basticle posted:per your link Even better then, I guess they can just have judges quit by choice a week or a few before elections and then always allow 2-year gubernatorial appointments. There are problems with electing judges, but deliberately gaming the system to only allow judges from the party other than the governor to face election is a bad precedent.
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