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movax posted:I install Cloud to Butt on any unlocked computer I find. Same, but Guns to Keytar
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Wrr posted:Should tank drivers have seat belts or would that only slow them down when trying to evac and the tank shouldn't be flipping and poo poo to require it? I've been in lots of AAVs and MGSs with seatbelts, and I've never seen anyone wear one inside of them. I can't imagine it's any different for 19Ks. The only 'seat belt' I've ever used or really seen used is a gunners restraint harness.
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Canadian LAVs have seatbelts but you can tell nobody wears the things when the vehicles roll over (every year baby!) and everyone inside gets mashed up like they got rattled around in a tin can.
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Next time I'm in the cable shop I need to get a picture of the cable stretcher. That's a completely standard tool for flight control cables and I have no idea why it's being treated like blinker fluid or a sky hook.
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Leviathan Song posted:Next time I'm in the cable shop I need to get a picture of the cable stretcher. That's a completely standard tool for flight control cables and I have no idea why it's being treated like blinker fluid or a sky hook. https://youtu.be/-FhrDcQwOzc
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Leviathan Song posted:Next time I'm in the cable shop I need to get a picture of the cable stretcher. That's a completely standard tool for flight control cables and I have no idea why it's being treated like blinker fluid or a sky hook. I used to switch it up when I was a carpenter, I'd ask someone if they had a board stretcher after making a cut a little too short or something.
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GD_American posted:My first field problem ever, they locked me in the switch and told me if I had a problem, the TMs were right there. I thought it was a hazing thing, but no, they legit locked me in until chow and locked me back up. I'm not familiar with this - they locked you in a switch? What's a switch in this context? TM would mean Technical Manual?
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DarkDobe posted:Canadian LAVs have seatbelts but you can tell nobody wears the things when the vehicles roll over (every year baby!) and everyone inside gets mashed up like they got rattled around in a tin can. Would it matter too much with boxes of ammo flying around? We had that issue with armored trucks having cages in the back but when the trucks rolled the loose coin boxes would fly around and gently caress up the guy in the back pretty badly.
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Crab Dad posted:Would it matter too much with boxes of ammo flying around? We had that issue with armored trucks having cages in the back but when the trucks rolled the loose coin boxes would fly around and gently caress up the guy in the back pretty badly. I think most of the time when we have these incidents, it's a mixture of folks not wearing belts and the hatches being opened with people stickin' out. They have five point harnesses on the gunner and driver seats - and even something crazy top-heavy like the new TAPV has seats with harnesses that are on their own suspension rig attached to the ceiling (pretty sure that's for shock absorption from explosives) - but they tip over easy, too.
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Pikehead posted:I'm not familiar with this - they locked you in a switch? What's a switch in this context? Oh, yeah, Signal speak, sorry. Mobile telephone switch. The previous (or poo poo, is it now two?) generation's tactical phone network, with an operator in a box on the back of a Humvee. And yeah, Technical Manual.
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Wasabi the J posted:Ctrl + Alt + (down/left/right) I walked back to the engineroom one day to see one of my sailors (Pants-making GBS threads Racist) with a laptop perched on its side, squinting furiously and trying to use the touchpad to navigate. Had a laugh and showed him how to fix it. A few months later I get called in to work to relieve the other mechanic on duty, because PSR had gotten so mad at the other guy doing that to him, then locking the computer (ctrl+alt+up doesn't work until you log in) that he had punched the laptop to death, and would break down rage sobbing every time he saw the other duty mechanic. Stupid gently caress got to stand both watches for the rest of the night, because I wasn't qualified to stand Shutdown Roving Watch anymore. I am infinitely grateful I don't have to work with that motherfucker anymore.
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Its not even stretching the cable. Its just holding onto it and pushing the lever thingy back 
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Wild T posted:The classic Windows 95 era trick was to take a screenshot of their desktop, move all their icons into a folder and drag it offscreen. Lower the task bar all the way, too. Then set the picture of desktop as the background. I did this with a screenshot of my outlook inbox. Until the AF locked down desktop backgrounds and screen savers, I was able to just leave my computer running and go to the restroom or whatever. Nobody had enough time to figure out why their pranks weren't working. For CACs, we usually taped over the chip or drew dumb poo poo with dry erase markers, or taped it to the office doorframe. We zapped (squadron sticker on the back) some SSgt's at another base because he left it in a computer over the weekend while we, uh, visited their empty building.
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Godholio posted:I did this with a screenshot of my outlook inbox. Until the AF locked down desktop backgrounds and screen savers, I was able to just leave my computer running and go to the restroom or whatever. Nobody had enough time to figure out why their pranks weren't working. I like to flip the display and then change it portrait and also rearrange the monitor s in multiple displays. Bonus points for increasing mouse sensitivity.
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GD_American posted:Oh, yeah, Signal speak, sorry. Mobile telephone switch. The previous (or poo poo, is it now two?) generation's tactical phone network, with an operator in a box on the back of a Humvee. Good ol memories of the AN/TTC-42 cropping up now
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Cyberpunk 2077 movie adaptation looking... mediocre.
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Carth Dookie posted:Cyberpunk 2077 movie adaptation looking... mediocre. Not sure if trolling or unaware of Marvel movies
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PathAsc posted:Good ol memories of the AN/TTC-42 cropping up now We didn't play with those (Marines? USAF? Can't remember). I was in an AN/TTC-47 (Node Center, Echelon Corps Below), but I'm sure the suck was similar. Only the DoD could buy its own proprietary digital voice and data network....in 1989. (For those non-Signal folks, this was MSE, Mobile Subscriber Equipment. Switches and phone hookups in humvee shelters. They tried keeping it limping it along for years by attaching commercial routers, but by the time I deployed in 2004 it was already laughably obsolete.)
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Not sure if trolling or unaware of Marvel movies I am aware of the Marvel movies, I just saw that picture and saw parallels between the Winter Soldier and Johnny Sivlerhand character designs.
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https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1376653334396903428
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"notice to delete it occurred telephonically" is so loving military.
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for some homegrown thread content, our new IKs. volunteering is for rubes. 
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I was the Idiot this time I might have shared this story before. We found this siren unit from a cop car and being the nerds we were we found power supply to power it. We were now in command of a 120 watt PA with 4 siren sounds. We were giddy with our new found treasure! Let me tell you we were being true Idiots and lit up that siren like we were a stationary Ambulance for 10 minutes. We then thought it would be funny to start reciting mathematical equations over the PA. Then more math problems were told. I am not sure why that was a good idea at the time. Still not sure why but we were laughing our asses off all through this. I think someone said "Hey we might get caught" so radio silence commenced. We all still got caught.
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Wow, brings back a memory of a cop that thought a great second date would start with HIS kids serenading my friend with PA and sirens. It turned out GREAT, a touching ending! She had enough connections to make sure that he never contacted her again.
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A guy from my high school went into weird conceptual performance art for a while. One of his works was to recreate a police car, and get a performer to pull up in the car at the exhibition opening dressed as a police officer and serenade the attendees with "Can't take my eyes off you". The actual police station was one block away. http://www.west-denhaag.nl/artists/Simon_Gush/0/24/ He also did a thing where he sold an artwork called "21 Gun Salute for the Death of a Collector". The totality of the artwork was a contract (and money put in trust) requiring the purchaser to have a 21-gun salute at their funeral. http://www.west-denhaag.nl/artists/Simon_Gush/0/35/
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Speaking of guns and idiots, a few years back the Swedish royal family was visiting Finland and when they landed in Helsinki harbor they got a multi-gun salute (with vintage cannons) from a re-enactor group dressed in Swedish early 19th century uniforms. The group had informed the police well in advance, but the cops on duty that day hadn't gotten the memo and so they got calls to the tune of "who is firing cannons in the harbor when the royals are coming?" and didn't know what the hell was happening. It was sorted out eventually, as someone found the notice from the cannon group and the whole official visit wasn't disturbed, but the cops racing down to the harbor on reports of cannon fire must have been really confused for a while
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Lead out in cuffs posted:A guy from my high school went into weird conceptual performance art for a while. One of his works was to recreate a police car, and get a performer to pull up in the car at the exhibition opening dressed as a police officer and serenade the attendees with "Can't take my eyes off you". The actual police station was one block away. That 2nd one is rad tho
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It's been a while... Let me tell you about: SHADOWBLADE In Korea we got a new guy. Seemed like the normal, quiet, small, nerdy guy. More or less the flag ship for when others thought of our MOS. He had a deep, dark secret. On his back was a full tattoo of a giant dragon. We are talking full back, no space left. poo poo must have taken weeks to complete. Granted, the nerd meter was off the charts, but he gained some respect for the commitment. As he attempted to integrate everyone felt he was... off. He never went drinking with us, only chilled in his barracks room. We all figured he was Mormon and left it at that. His barracks room was an unique situation. We had two buildings. One brand new, the other slated for demolition and rebuild. It was the last "old" building left. The few people in that building had their own rooms. They were large, and no one complained. It was the "perk" of staying in the old building. The place wasn't a total shithole, just old. So we figured he liked the solitude, that's why he spent so much time alone. Legend of his tattoo work quickly spread. Everyone wanted to know: how long? How much? Why?!? What does it mean? Turns out, there was meaning. A dark meaning. You see, he explained, that epic dragon tattoo was his real name. His TRUE name. SHADOWBLADE. "Wait... what?!?" We demand an explanation. He provides. Turns out, he isn't actually a human. He is the reincarnated spirit of a great alien warrior. The tattoo represents his TRUE name, SHADOWBLADE. He must live this life with honor, so when he dies he can return to his home planet once again. It is the reason he joined the Army, to ensure honorable death by combat. He joined as a satellite guy. If we see combat something went wrong (so horribly wrong) or we were VERY unlucky with taskings. Que his free mental health screening! Doc says he is fine, just really weird. We are unsure and slightly fearful of him now. One day he doesn't show up for PT. Calls for SHADOWBLADE ring out in the morning darkness. We search, they unlock his room, of course it is trashed. No sign of him though. We search for some hours, still no luck. Eventually two of us are tasked to stand guard by his open room door to catch him when he returns. One of the NCOs show up to check on us two privates. He informs us that the search is ongoing, hold in there, after 24 hours we can say he is AWOL and stand down guards and what not. At least there is a end to the madness. Then the moaning starts. Everyone freezes, looks at each other, then at the giant pile of laundry on the floor. Another moan. Holy poo poo, he is hiding under the laundry. Was he asleep? He's been there for a while. Clothes are removed from the pile to find SHADOWBLADE. He had made a nest of cough syrup bottles and dirty laundry. We had discovered his shame, the true reason he was sent to earth to atone. He loved to drink bottles of cough syrup until he passed out. Turns out he was the reason the small PX on our base had to start buying limits on the poo poo. He spent almost everything he had on the poo poo. We know he got sent to a hospital, eventually chaptered. Can't for the life of me remember the dudes real name, always wanted to see what he was up to.
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Kinda reminds me of that story with the psychopathic kid who thought he was a Super Saiyan. But with a way less  ending.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Kinda reminds me of that story with the psychopathic kid who thought he was a Super Saiyan. Yeah, everyone expected some grand meltdown. Maybe even the discovery of a "list". He just fizzled out and went away. The strangest part was he was (relatively) normal except for the fact he believed he was reincarnated alien warrior (and the drug abuse).
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I mean, wouldn't you go a-robotrippin' to cope if you were a reincarnated alien warrior?
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I had to train a late thirties cross trainee from a non technical field. She was okay at the material but training her was a chore because she smelled like cat piss and didn't wash her hair. I brought this up to superiors but nobody wanted to bother because they weren't in close enough proximity to care. So as a 21 year old I had to give the hygiene talk to a woman who could have been my mother. She did LARPing on the weekends.
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Holy poo poo dude I'm a 25S and the "old building" thing sounds like it would have happened when 25S barracks were getting moved in 2006, or a bit before then. Back then the 25S MOSQ unit was 447 then it went to 551 or something and we moved to refurbished barracks that allegedly had black mold and poo poo. I remember the new (to me) building felt shittier than the old one on the inside but we had new wall lockers and beds, so it was an overall upgrade. But I also think I remember hearing from the old timers of the AIT unit (basically delinquents waiting for a discharge or some other administrative limbo) that this was their second move from barracks buildings. Anyways I can't be sure where our stories nearly intersect, but being such a small world I can't help that ours almost do. One of my MOS classmates was taking packs of CCC recreationally in Gordon Hall. 2007 was a wild time. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Kinda reminds me of that story with the psychopathic kid who thought he was a Super Saiyan. Wait, what was that?
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Wasabi the J posted:Holy poo poo dude I'm a 25S and the "old building" thing sounds like it would have happened when 25S barracks were getting moved in 2006, or a bit before then. Back then the 25S MOSQ unit was 447 then it went to 551 or something and we moved to refurbished barracks that allegedly had black mold and poo poo. I remember the new (to me) building felt shittier than the old one on the inside but we had new wall lockers and beds, so it was an overall upgrade. But I also think I remember hearing from the old timers of the AIT unit (basically delinquents waiting for a discharge or some other administrative limbo) that this was their second move from barracks buildings. I was in Korea, Camp Carroll around 2004ish. Back then we were 31S... That is odd they moved the MOSQ guys to 447 for you, we just had a PLT of the guys going through 1C and the MOSQ, never left 551.
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ASAPI posted:It's been a while... Let me tell you about : was his name sean smith? 
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