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ElMaligno
Dec 31, 2004

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy6GJiQ8n10
In this Coast Guard video you see how loving fast drug-semisubs can sink. :stare:
Also I wish I could sound that badass when I scream in Spanish. :smith:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYaWXDJ8ZA

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I will do a small derail detailing the history of beards, Harpoon missiles and stupid loving sirs commandants who where ahead of their time.


"Beard growing contest by crewman of USCG 82-footer Division 11, An Thoi. (No names or information received with these.)"
Good God look at those motherfucking beards, I loving hope the guy on the Top right won. Sadly came 1986 came this... Guy...


Admiral Yost banned beards in the coast guard in 1986. The connection? He served in a Patrol Boat in Vietnam, therefore he tried to win a beard growing contest but only prodeced only a shameful amount of hair. The enlisted men made fun of him and later that night he cried his little nerdy eyes out and said to himself "If i ever become the commandant I will ban beards FOREVER!"


"And put missiles on cutters too I guess"

Unrelated

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iyaayas01 posted:

That picture makes me :stare: every time I see it. IIRC from the last time you posted it the stress from mounting and firing the missiles did something screwy to the Mellon's structure/keel.

Yep.

Also, last year I found some old rear end (Unclass) maintenance documents that pretty much went "Congratulations on having a CIWS and a Missile installed on your boat!". Mind you I am on a much smaller cutter, so I don't want to imagine the kind of damage it would have done to the ship. Or where the hell they would put it.

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Would hug the poo poo out of that radar-dome (but only when its not rotating or radiating)

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Booblord Zagats posted:

MAGTAF still better than the entire Air Force

SOURCE!



This make me feel very proud about my branch.

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JSARSOM posted:

If I were a loving Delta operator I drat sure would wear BCGs.

I am no Delta, but I wear my BCGs when I workout or underway.

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iceslice posted:

Seriously all I see in that picture is that dirt rear end stache. I'm as far from "SGM UNIFORM HOOAH" as you get, and I think they should be seriously outlawed. The only exception is when you have so much rank and badassness (pilot, or crusty old warrant/SGM) that you can rock a totally out of regs stache of pure respect. Anything short of giving the Army regs the bird and you just look like a pedophile.

Until 1986 the Coast Guard looked like this:


Then they banned the beard and added rules and regulations to the moustache and in the best of cases (for White guys) it would look like a pedophile stache. Hell even when I grow it and keep it in "regs" it still looks like poo poo.

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He served as a CO on a patrol boat during Vietnam. That picture is (probably) enlisted people growing beards. So its my pet theory that the little white Mormon officer got schooled by the enlisted people on the PB, so he cried his little royalty tears and swore revenge.

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http://imgur.com/gallery/Fsr4R

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cmdrpinky posted:

why do most naval ships have a two tone paint scheme, namely the red paint at the waterline and below?


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Its anti-fowlingfouling paint, it is also available in black.

ElMaligno fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Feb 8, 2014

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Mad Dragon posted:

Ducks and geese will still poo poo on a boat. :v:

homonyms :negative:

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MrYenko posted:

My limited nautical knowledge is mostly comprised of booze cruising the extremely hazardous waters of Fort Lauderdale, but isn't getting close to a submarine under way extremely dumb, for reasons outside of the angry Coast Guard Defender with the M240 on the foredeck?

Yes

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Since we are posting missiles, I found this in imgur.


This is giving me the best kind of boner.

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Tide posted:

I would love to see the source video for that. The sound effects in my head as I watch it are so cool.

I found this, not the same lunch but probably the same missle? And yes its loud as gently caress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMkr_3_CZO4

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Baloogan posted:

Anyone else as tired as I am of these guy's catchphrases? 'Allah Ackbar'x100000 is retarded.

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

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I bought an SR-71 T-Shirt at the air and space museum and its my prime workout shirt.
I have the biggest unashamed nerd boner for that plane.

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I would literary do anything If I could grow decent facial hair while serving this loving great nation.

Its as if facial hair regulation was made the whites, barest faced, guys who know poo poo about facial hair.

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Godholio posted:

Try blackface.

I know of a white read-headed dude from boston that had a shaving-chit and would grow his glorious red beard and make me jealous as gently caress. The reason he was in an accident and his facial nerves are hosed up. The act of shaving is literary the most painful thing for him.

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Booblord Zagats posted:

I swear to god I joined the gayest loving service

No


Seen this at the exchange in bumper stickers and t-shirts.

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The coast guard finally destroys something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7e6kwABIaU
a RC helicopter "drone"

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FAT SLAMPIG posted:

if you don't constantly live your life wishing that outer heaven was real then idk what to say to you

No because the Coast Guard would look like bigger dorks. I mean look at this guy:

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Booblord Zagats posted:

Coast Guard guys and Air Force Admin people are the biggest "gun nuts" in the military. Everyone else either sees them as a work tool or 'those stupid loving things I have to clean all the goddamed time'

This is so loving true. But it's mostly because we don't handle weapons that often and they never get to be on the large cutters and never experience the bigger guns.

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terrez posted:



i feel appropriate posting this from japan

Would

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If some of you fuckers are nerd like me and love to people talk about useless poo poo I recomend Hardcore History he is right now doing WWI, his episodes are long as gently caress and after a while his new episodes become premium.

Its so good I feel awful and miserable after listening to one.

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Slim Pickens posted:

Don't know much about WW1 other than what I learned in college history and that it would've been miserable to fight in. When dudes would bullshit about which war they would want to fight in, WW2 was always first and WW1 was usually last.


This is Fort Douaurmont at the start of the Battle of Verdun.

On the first day of the day of the battle the Germans with the help of 808 guns would lunch approximately 1,000,000 shells in a period of 10 hours. Thats 100,000 shells per hour, 1,667 shells per minute, 28 shells per second.


Same fort as above after the battle.


This is modern day Verdun.

No I would never want to fight in WWI.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDF6rRxkraA
Here is the game
http://itch.io/jam/7dfps/rate/13791

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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Man gently caress lasers. KE penetrators are cooler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_vuX5_oAk

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Ron Jeremy posted:

Add WWI air to your lovely list. No parachutes. Rudimentary training. Wood and cloth planes that'd tear their own wings off.

So its like this:

Cool:
Anywhere but WWI

lovely
WWI

gently caress even being on-board a boat in the USCG you where liable to get sunk or damaged by German U-Boats because we had no sonar or radar back then.

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holocaust bloopers posted:

I can write a list of the times that my mil job felt worthwhile:
--providing command and control for the rescue of 7 people on Haiti during the earthquake humanitarian efforts
--real world search and rescue of a bush pilot
--the time we intercepted a drug runner, handed the coordinates off to the Colombian AF, which promptly shot the plane down

That's all I got. About 20 hours of mission time out of 1100+. Yep.

I have failed to safe 5 lives, all of them where going to be dead by the time we lunched assets and we started the search. :smith:
I have saved 7 people in my 4 years in the coast guard by doing my job on the radio and coordinating the search efforts.

Also 3 and a half tons of the devil's weed (who cares) and 160 Haitian migrants that where returned to Haiti (and almost rioted on the ship too).

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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

maybe if you stopped eating all the assets they wouldve lived you fat rear end in a top hat


But I cant get enough of those deliciously cherry helos :fatsmith:

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Chinatown posted:

Oh, those are people standing on the top. :stonk:

This and the boat sinking on a moonless night where my nightmares while I was on a boat. :stonklol:

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Madurai posted:

Nuclear Santa is Best Santa


All i want for christmass is to be washed away by the holy fire of nuclear explosions.

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No, they just made some ground beef.

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Hellsing (the second one, not the lovely first one) is one of the handfull of pro as gently caress animes.

Its however a taint in the SR-71 reputation.

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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

I should have taken a dump in your box.

Just be glad im at work and unable to post the moest military anime pictures japan has ever made.

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Im so loving happy that the worst thing I ever did with anime was just... watching anime. No toys, no pillows, no posters, no loving any of the above, nothing. Just watching and being briefly in an anime club while i was in college almost a decade ago.

poo poo I still regret joining.

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stealie72 posted:

I know National Priorities Project is a pretty lefty org so everything in the military probably looks repugnant to them, but they could have used a less kick rear end picture.

It seems they just want to play balance the budget, showing your tax receipt and who benefits from tax breaks.

Even lefty as gently caress orgs don't even think about loving around with taxes.

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