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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

He also wrote about how he shot two robbers at a gas station that there was no police report of or that anyone could find any proof that ever happened.

Kyle and Luttrell, with a side of O’Neill are the biggest contributing factor to why the seals are a joke.

Imagine being the sheriff in texas to be like "lol that SEAL is so full of poo poo". Which is exactly what happened

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Milo and POTUS posted:

Oh man if they do a report on grover.
*in extremely npr voice*
One man. One vision. One house. Well, if you could call it that

Someone should conglomerate grover posts and publish a magazine about the tales of his exploits and visions. The Groverhaus issues could be special editions like those thick rear end magazines at Home Depot or Lowe's that are promoting something dumb as fashionable, like pallet furniture.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Betty White died.

:smith:

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

boop the snoot posted:

Betty White died.

:smith:

Wtf i just saw some article about an interview she did this week about how she lived so long.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Ahh nuts. I was hoping she'd see a full century.

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

This was literally what i saw when doomscrolling fbook this other day wtf

https://people.com/tv/betty-white-reveals-her-secrets-to-long-happy-life-at-100-exclusive/

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Just a final gently caress You from 2021

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





It's 2022 though

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Comrade Blyatlov posted:

It's 2022 though

Don't you put that evil on my 2022 Ricky Bobby

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

It's 2022 though

Final gently caress you or first gently caress you.

Pick your poison.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





boop the snoot posted:

Final gently caress you or first gently caress you.

Pick your poison.

Let's just call it a double gently caress

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Stravag posted:

This was literally what i saw when doomscrolling fbook this other day wtf

https://people.com/tv/betty-white-reveals-her-secrets-to-long-happy-life-at-100-exclusive/

Honestly if Betty White’s last actions on earth helped caused an issue of People to be screwed up in someway, absolute queen till the end.

Also 2022 stay the hell away from Mel Brooks!

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Be prepared
Fun Shoe

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

He also wrote about how he shot two robbers at a gas station that there was no police report of or that anyone could find any proof that ever happened.

Kyle and Luttrell, with a side of O’Neill are the biggest contributing factor to why the seals are a joke.

Kyle and Luttrell are also the biggest liars ever. Luttrell is making GBS threads and pissing on the memory of his teammates by lying about everything from the numbers, but also the "vote." His book sucked.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Marshal Prolapse posted:

Also 2022 stay the hell away from Mel Brooks!

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
I hope 2022 ends the British monarchy.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
There has been a COVID outbreak in Antarctica.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/health/199687/belgian-scientific-base-in-antarctica-engulfed-by-covid-19-despite-strict-measures

Someone please check on Madagascar.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWAFfGpQ9lU

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Current Event: Spider-Man No Way Home is a fun and good film

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006

Bored As gently caress posted:

Kyle and Luttrell are also the biggest liars ever. Luttrell is making GBS threads and pissing on the memory of his teammates by lying about everything from the numbers, but also the "vote." His book sucked.

That’s what I was getting at with they are major contributors to Seals being a joke. Luttrell and his teammates were ambushed by 8-12 guys and he never fired a shot. Somehow the turned into killing hundreds of haqqani despite no bodies and him having 11 full mags.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

measures so strict that they were not

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Be prepared
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/PeterLucier/status/1477034613419786242?t=pproUNI_IneIB4JI4adjxw&s=19

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

That’s what I was getting at with they are major contributors to Seals being a joke. Luttrell and his teammates were ambushed by 8-12 guys and he never fired a shot. Somehow the turned into killing hundreds of haqqani despite no bodies and him having 11 full mags.

If a site that has a big chubby one for SEALs as much as SOFREP publishes an expose as damning as this one then drat you know you’re hosed up.

Of note, Gulab was the Afghan who saved Luttrell, and it seems like Mr. Lone Survivor really has no qualms about loving him over.

quote:


About 10 days after he got off the plane in the U.S., he spoke to a friend in Kunar province. He still hadn’t heard from Luttrell and wanted to fly to Houston to hash things out. Now that he was in the States, he hoped the former SEAL would help him find a job. But his friend advised against it. Not long after Gulab arrived in the U.S., this friend said, someone from Luttrell’s camp asked the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to send him back to Afghanistan, afraid he would harm the family. (Both the State Department and Department of Homeland Security declined to comment, citing privacy concerns.) The Luttrells wouldn’t directly confirm or deny the claim. When Gulab heard this, he panicked. He says he was afraid the U.S. would send him back to the Taliban. “If I’d known that Marcus was such a dishonorable person,” he says, “I would not have come to America.”

Gulab claims Luttrell promised to link him up with Patrick Robinson, Lutrell’s co-author on “Lone Survivor,” so he could tell his version of how they met, and the Afghan could keep the profits from his own book. Gulab also maintains that Luttrell promised him a 50-50 split on whatever he made from the movie. Later, the villager claims, he asked the interpreter if Luttrell and Universal would draw up a contract. Gulab recalls the translator telling him not to worry about it and saying, “Whatever [Luttrell] says, he will do.” Gulab never received a dime for the book or the movie. Gulab only received a portion of the advance for his own book and Lutrell took one-third of the profits from Gulab’s book, “The Lion of Sabray.”

“I’ll never regret saving Marcus,” he says, “[But] I regret what I did to help the movie. [And] I pray that one day Marcus tells America the truth.”

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Be prepared
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/BillyWayneDavis/status/1476924119757176836?t=AzURQ2Ma00zrOcCLXsvkxQ&s=19

Arcella
Dec 16, 2013

Shiny and Chrome
Real fuckin cool

E: re: Luttrell

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

If a site that has a big chubby one for SEALs as much as SOFREP publishes an expose as damning as this one then drat you know you’re hosed up.

Of note, Gulab was the Afghan who saved Luttrell, and it seems like Mr. Lone Survivor really has no qualms about loving him over.

Jesus, what a motherfucker.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Bored As gently caress posted:

Kyle and Luttrell are also the biggest liars ever. Luttrell is making GBS threads and pissing on the memory of his teammates by lying about everything from the numbers, but also the "vote." His book sucked.

his book is amazing, according to his book he was taking a nap when they first got shot at lol

edit: seriously everyone should read the book. Just skip right to afghanistan.

PookBear fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jan 1, 2022

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

My favorite take is that they’re saying it to make fun of the media for mixing up gently caress Joe Biden and Let’s go Brandon in the first place.

Wrong Theory
Aug 27, 2005

Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code

pantslesswithwolves posted:

If a site that has a big chubby one for SEALs as much as SOFREP publishes an expose as damning as this one then drat you know you’re hosed up.

Of note, Gulab was the Afghan who saved Luttrell, and it seems like Mr. Lone Survivor really has no qualms about loving him over.

I had no idea the Afghan guy wrote a book. Anyone read it? Is it worth checking out?

PookBear posted:

his book is amazing, according to his book he was taking a nap when they first got shot at lol

edit: seriously everyone should read the book. Just skip right to afghanistan.

Even in the movie, like why is everyone asleep in enemy territory? loving Seals man, can't even do the basics of a fire guard.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
For real fun track down an AAR of Operation Red Wings. Say, do you need extra radio batteries on a mission?

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Be prepared
Fun Shoe

Wrong Theory posted:

I had no idea the Afghan guy wrote a book. Anyone read it? Is it worth checking out?

Even in the movie, like why is everyone asleep in enemy territory? loving Seals man, can't even do the basics of a fire guard.

maffew buildings posted:

For real fun track down an AAR of Operation Red Wings. Say, do you need extra radio batteries on a mission?

This reminds me of something I remember someone saying on a podcast. To get to be a Green Beret, someone has had to go to AIT, jump school, and usually RIP and Ranger school, where they learn leadership skills and advanced small unit tactics, then they go through SFAS and their year+ MOS training and Robin Sage, so they have years of training in basic infantry tactics, Op plans, etc. Some of them have combat deployments under their belt by the time they become a Green Beret.

A SEAL gets taken off the street, goes through BUDS, then goes through SEAL training. They have zero background in basic infantry and small unit tactics - basic poo poo that even Specialist Shithead would know, not even SOF knowledge. Then the SEAL gets through a 26 week Q course, then 6 months of training. But they have no infantry experience, no deployments under their belt, no knowledge of basic poo poo every Joe knows.

This lack of experience is so evident in the way SEALs operate overseas.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Yeah but you see their PT scores?

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
I'm sure the phrase "but you see that's an *advantage* because they're clean slates with no bad habits to unlearn!" has been uttered at some point.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
happy new year, here's a guy in a large hat

https://twitter.com/TerminalLance/status/1476954525202141185

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
That is an entire cow on his head, holy poo poo.

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I'm sure the phrase "but you see that's an *advantage* because they're clean slates with no bad habits to unlearn!" has been uttered at some point.

What are you talking about this is how its always been done

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



Posting from the future in GMT-5. News: nothing significantly lovely has happened in 2022 yet, since Betty White's loss happened in her time zone's 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adwni-Jt8qQ

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Happy new year, I spent midnight watching Don't Look Up. That was a very funny and probably 100% realistic movie.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

Bored As gently caress posted:

This reminds me of something I remember someone saying on a podcast. To get to be a Green Beret, someone has had to go to AIT, jump school, and usually RIP and Ranger school, where they learn leadership skills and advanced small unit tactics, then they go through SFAS and their year+ MOS training and Robin Sage, so they have years of training in basic infantry tactics, Op plans, etc. Some of them have combat deployments under their belt by the time they become a Green Beret.

A SEAL gets taken off the street, goes through BUDS, then goes through SEAL training. They have zero background in basic infantry and small unit tactics - basic poo poo that even Specialist Shithead would know, not even SOF knowledge. Then the SEAL gets through a 26 week Q course, then 6 months of training. But they have no infantry experience, no deployments under their belt, no knowledge of basic poo poo every Joe knows.

This lack of experience is so evident in the way SEALs operate overseas.

There’s a reason the Tier 1 SEAL’s do nothing significant without a Tier 2 Ranger QRF on hand. Full stop.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

There’s a reason the Tier 1 SEAL’s do nothing significant without a Tier 2 Ranger QRF on hand. Full stop.

Rangers are Tier 1 and SEALs (that are not in DEVGRU) are Tier 2/3 going by the actual system.

It's based on some sort of state-of-readiness metric and how many hours/days it at minimum takes to get the unit from zero to on site a mission, has nothing (directly) to do with "elite-ness."

Also DEVGRU vs regular SEALs is a whole different level. I think DEVGRU cuts the vast majority of applicants from the regular teams.

Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jan 1, 2022

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LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

Rangers are Tier 1 and SEALs (that are not in DEVGRU) are Tier 2/3 going by the actual system.

It's based on some sort of state-of-readiness metric and how many hours/days it at minimum takes to get the unit from zero to on site a mission, has nothing (directly) to do with "elite-ness."

Also DEVGRU vs regular SEALs is a whole different level. I think DEVGRU cuts the vast majority of applicants from the regular teams.

Dude, this bullshit was my early and mid twenties. I worked with every tier of every level of JSOC. It’s all been written about elsewhere, but I know my poo poo when it comes to those idiots in SEAL Team 6. Or the regiment. It was a 3 star capture and kill command. All else was secondary or tertiary. Capture and Kill were the marching orders.

Also, not to correct you but only the regimental recon company is Tier 1 for the Rangers.

The tiers are just stupid readiness and money things like you said. But the RRC Rangers will quickly correct you about their tier if you are ever privileged enough to work with them.

For me the biggest LOL is how well the USAF has obscured its JSOC involvement. It’s loving huge. I can never remember what’s classified and what’s not so I go 100% classified even though I know that’s not what it is. My point being, lotta Air Power gets ate up by JSOC.

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