The Lone Badger posted:

What do you do if a grenade duds in actual combat? Just try to remember where it is so you can avoid standing there? Throw another grenade at it?

mlmp08 posted:

"YO, I KNOW YA'LL ARE HAVING A ROUGH NIGHT, BUT SOMEONE'S GOTTA PAY FOR THESE PIZZAS!!!"

mlmp08 posted:

For clarity, that was the pizza guy bellowing over the Battalion commander from the sidelines in a very funny interruption to the commander saying we were locked down for the foreseeable future.

mlmp08 posted:

For clarity, that was the pizza guy bellowing over the Battalion commander from the sidelines in a very funny interruption to the commander saying we were locked down for the foreseeable future.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

*stares expectantly at the highest pay grades*

Like, you make 2-3x what the grunts are pulling in, buy some loving 'za for your guys.

bird food bathtub posted:

Probably still true, but years ago Fort Huachuca Papa John's would deliver to grid references. Pretty cool for our FTX, and they got super big tips.

not caring here posted:

Fort Knox as well absolutely would. I heard that at Benning as well, but never saw it.

It was one Fort Knox guy they would send out, he was prior E and knew the FTX sites well.

cnn posted:

Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside before realizing their mistake, the FBI said in a statement to CNN.

The FBI said its Boston division was helping the military with a training exercise around 10 p.m. Tuesday “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment.”

“Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” the FBI said.

“First and foremost, we’d like to extend our deepest apologies to the individual who was affected by the training exercise,” USASOC Lt. Col. Mike Burns told CNN.

The exercise was meant to “enhance soldiers’ skills to operate in realistic and unfamiliar environments,” Burns said, adding the incident is under review.

No one was injured, the FBI said.

The incident took place at the Revere Hotel Boston Common, according to the Boston Police Department. CNN has reached out to the hotel for comment.

A Boston police incident report said officers were called to the hotel around 12:20 a.m. Wednesday, and were met by law enforcement agents conducting a training exercise.

Local news reports said the person who was in the hotel room and detained by federal law enforcement is a Delta Air Lines employee.

The Atlanta-based airline told CNN it is looking into the “alleged incident in Boston that may involve Delta people.”

Punished Ape posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/us/fbi-us-army-personnel-raid-wrong-room-hotel-guest/index.html

When I was in Germany, they were doing one of those giant MASCAS events that was supposed to culminate in a simulated nuclear strike (lol). It started with simulated protests and at one point they told me to detain 'a suspicious individual' outside one of our gates. They had some local German roleplayers involved and the individual would be wearing a red sweater. So I look around for a while, and I see an older lady in a red jacket go into an apartment building. It wasn't immediately obvious they were a roleplayer, so I call back to confirm that they want me, an armed American soldier, to leave post and enter a civilian building and detain a civilian. They say yes.

I started having premonitions of ways this could go, so I just sat in my jeep for 15 minutes before radioing back that I couldn't find her. Never heard anything about it.

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Soldier thinks before acting, hesitation problem, disrupts own ooda loop, sets bad example for peers. Do not promote.

bulletsponge13 posted:

It fits hand in hand with don't moving faster than you can process info.

bird food bathtub posted:

Probably still true, but years ago Fort Huachuca Papa John's would deliver to grid references. Pretty cool for our FTX, and they got super big tips.

bulletsponge13 posted:

It fits hand in hand with don't moving faster than you can process info.

shame on an IGA posted:

Steezo posted:

why does 4chan look like a shittier FYAD?

FrozenVent posted:

Not almost.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Also FYAD is funny.

Crab Dad posted:

Well who the info saying was going well for?

Crab Dad posted:

Well who the info saying was going well for?

A.o.D. posted:

If you hold any sort of clearance you shouldn't be discussing it until it's declassified or at the very least an official source makes a public comment about that data.

Crab Dad posted:

Eh my mistake I thought the article was like the reporting of the war thunder leaks.

A.o.D. posted:

I have to sit through a damned controlled information course every year. In my line of work I'm most likely to run into PII, non-export, or trade secrets, but half of the course is about secret classifications, and the gist is that if you believe it to be sensitive information, you are required to treat it as such NO MATTER WHERE YOU ENCOUNTERED THE INFORMATION. That means if it's a SECRET document and they're talking about it on 60 minutes and you reasonably believe it is not declassified, don't loving talk about it. The Feds couldn't touch the NYT, but if you're a clearance holder, a piv badge holder, and a government facility access haver, you can lose all of those. If you're military, you could face NJP, a Court Martial, and/or an end of promotion opportunities, and there's gently caress all recourse you have if it gets to that point.

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for falsely accusing a veteran of stolen valor, when she couldn't give any details about her service?

quote:

I (34m) served as a Captain in the Marine Corps. I have left the service, and right now I am doing an MBA. One of my classmates (31F), who we'll call "J", is very gentle, very soft-spoken and unassuming. J and I were working together on a case study once, and I started opening up to her about my military service and all the lessons that I've learnt from the Corps. J enthusiastically told me "that's so cool! I was a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy!"

I immediately felt suspicious about this claim. As I said, J is very demure, and she doesn't really have the bravado that is required in the military environment (at least, I feel like a certain amount of bravado is required). I still humored her, and began asking about the details of her military experience - where she deployed, what courses she went through, what ship she served on, etc etc. Suddenly J got all tight-lipped, and she couldn't say anything specific about military life. She kept making excuses along the lines of "it just wasn't a good period of my life" and "I'd rather not talk about it". Eventually I felt like I had done enough snooping around, and I bluntly told her that she was bullshitting, and that I'd rather not work with a phony.

I talked about this experience with my friend, M, at our school's veterans organization. I told M to be wary of anything J says. M responded by telling me that J did serve, he's seen her paperwork and ID and everything, and that in fact, one of her MBA recommendation letters was written by a retired rear admiral (O-8) who held J in high regard. Whoops.

The next time I met J, before our class started, I tried to act chummy towards her and make up for accusing her of being a liar. She laughed in my face and told me to "pound sand, poolee". And for those of you who don't know, yes, she was being derisive here.

AITA?

Kurieg posted:

Hah, you say you're a veteran? Name three wars. I thought not.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Citation needed

Grip it and rip it posted:

Literally every other board on SA copies poo poo from fyad