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quote:US Navy Destroyer not allowed to enter Japanese Port Local Island Discovers One Weird Trick to Keep Sexual Assault Rates Down. Foreign Navies Hate It!
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Harbor masters are the fire marshals of the Sea.
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You guys need to get launch service next time you negotiate your contract.
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This never would have happened under Fat Leonard's tenure.
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Acorn Causes Assault & Battery
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Thank you, thread, for confirming that the officer was in fact as foolish as it seemed.
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Tbh it's pretty safe to not give benefit of the doubt when a cop allegedly does cop things. It's practically tautological.
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Smdh if you are giving a cop the benefit of the doubt for any-drat-thing in the current environment. Pig says the grass is green, you find a window and make sure for your drat self.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Smdh if you are giving a cop the benefit of the doubt for any-drat-thing in the current environment. Pig says the grass is green, you find a window and make sure for your drat self. Wait for the cop to leave first
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Moon Slayer posted:Local Island Discovers One Weird Trick to Keep Sexual Assault Rates Down. Foreign Navies Hate It! 10% UKC is a bit high, but hey, good on them. Most harbours and companies have a fixed UKC, like minimum 1 meter or something like that, but I can see why you’d do something relative if you have a wide range of drafts and depth.
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Moon Slayer posted:Local Island Discovers One Weird Trick to Keep Sexual Assault Rates Down. Foreign Navies Hate It! I once had PNSY reach out to our customer support center and ask if our sounder indicated depth-below-keel or depth to the actual transducer face. Question came to me, and I provided CSC the answer but pointed out that the difference is only inches and that it's a scary question to ask and made me think they were about to do something dumb. (PNSY has always been a problem child, I expect dumb from them.) Sure enough, they wanted to move the boat to a berth where they weren't sure they had enough water. I think they ultimately decided to put the boat someplace else.
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It's not running aground, it's "damp docking"
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Sailed hard and put away damp
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Any ship can be berthed anywhere ... once.
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So this seems like a good place to ask this. I've noticed some posts around the internet saying quote:“If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge [sic] me.” Is this actually in any way associated with the USMC? It looks like the official USMC account posted it on Twitter ten years ago, but I'm not really finding much in the way of history or origins, other than SEO trash on the internet about this. https://twitter.com/USMC/status/378805924456321024 Because I know for sure it was the swearing-in oath of Ossewabrandwag, a Nazi militia in South Africa during WWII... (Searching Google books seems to suggest that it did, in fact, originate in South Africa.)
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US Marines willingly or unwittingly Nazi symbols??? You don't say.....
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Lead out in cuffs posted:So this seems like a good place to ask this. I've noticed some posts around the internet saying It's a Henri de la Rochejaquelein quote if I remember correctly. Usually called upon by right adjacent people.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Because I know for sure it was the swearing-in oath of Ossewabrandwag, a Nazi militia in South Africa during WWII... It was most widely popularized by Mussolini but predates the British rule of South Africa. There's a neat WWI-era photo of it in a French trench near Verdun. "WikiQuote posted:* "If I advance; follow me! If I retreat; kill me! If I die; avenge me!" It's also the motto of the Kaibiles, special forces of Guatemala.
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I'd follow that mouse to the gates of hell itself!
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Scratch Monkey posted:I'd follow that mouse to the gates of hell itself! But just to kick him in and slam it shut.
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Gruntstyle knows their market. Hard to find a group of people more enamored with edgy graphic print tshirts than modern chuds.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Gruntstyle knows their market. Hard to find a group of people more enamored with edgy graphic print tshirts than modern chuds. You own one.
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So, If you retreat I have to kill you. Okay. But that means that you have died and now I have to avenge you. Presumably by committing suicide and leaving some other poor sucker to avenge my death on my own body?
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MarcusSA posted:You own one. Truly disturbing news.
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EmptyVessel posted:So, We're getting really weird at trying to find ways to divide by zero
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fun part is at best they are advocating commisars which is it own level of weird.
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I wish I could say I'm surprised that after all these years I'm just now learning where that quote is from and that it's from terrible origins. I can't say that, and honestly the surprising thing is more that I never looked it up when I was much younger and used to try find the sources and that one just didn't end up being one of them. I just assumed it was made up, but ofc not.
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I remember one of my boots texting me this years ago ahh man good times
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SlowBloke posted:It's a Henri de la Rochejaquelein quote if I remember correctly. Usually called upon by right adjacent people. Thanks, did not know this. Also lol that he was a French Royalist, so would have been an enemy of the American state at the time too. Digging further into this, it really looks like the motto largely disappeared from consciousness after WWII, outside of South Africa. In South Africa, it seems like it was somewhat popular with at least some of the police and army, many of whom were probably in Ossewabrandwag and the later AWB. Google books ngrams and search trends don't even track the motto, and a search of Google Books brings up a ton of South African books with a sprinkling of books about Mussolini and the French Revolution. But one of the results that comes up in a Google book search is Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove, which was published in 1992. I haven't read it (and it sounds like I shouldn't), but I guess it makes sort-of sense. The book is about time-travelling South African neo-Nazis, so they'd say South African Nazi things. And it also aggrandizes the South, so would have been read by the hard-right. So my guess would be that Guns of the South was how the phrase entered the US right-wing (and USMC?) vernacular... (It could also have been "FW:FW:FW:White Genocide" emails from the 90s, though.)
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Isn't it a plot point in that series (never read it) that the southerners get a look at the time-travelling nazis and say "gently caress, we do not want to end up like that" and become less racist?
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An army that never retreats sounds very easy to destroy via repeated ambushes.
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The Lone Badger posted:Isn't it a plot point in that series (never read it) that the southerners get a look at the time-travelling nazis and say "gently caress, we do not want to end up like that" and become less racist? Yeah, it intensely rehabilitates Robert E. Lee as a good man who eventually rejects the South Africans and reforms the victorious south into a more egalitarian society IIRC.
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Bring back the practice of having a giant display gun made to teach soldiers what each part does, I say.
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Moon Slayer posted:Bring back the practice of having a giant display gun made to teach soldiers what each part does, I say. I didn't realize "Small Soldiers" was a documentary.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:fun part is at best they are advocating commisars which is it own level of weird. Army & Air Force Execution Service
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McGavin posted:I didn't realize "Small Soldiers" was a documentary. Somewhere a Marine just got irrationally angry.
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Moon Slayer posted:Bring back the practice of having a giant display gun made to teach soldiers what each part does, I say. I want a Souls game that uses the oversized BAR as a melee weapon. Requires 60 strength to wield.
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