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Nam Dad - Mine was aircrew on early warning planes based stateside so he said he just spent his 4 years during Vietnam getting drunk in Biloxi
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yall got old dads
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Sep 26, 2014 00:13
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My uncle was in 'nam. He was a mechanic on Hueys, worked the door-guns on occasions. Crappy hearing in one ear from the M-60s.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:25
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My dad was a filthy hippy, did a bunch of drugs and rode motorcycles.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:30
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My mom was protesting the war and burning bras. I have no idea how my folks wound up together but I suspect it had something to do with me being present at the wedding.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:34
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my dad was in a seminary to become a priest. that didnt happen
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Sep 26, 2014 00:38
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my dad's number didn't get picked, but then again he turned 17 in 1972
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Sep 26, 2014 00:42
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Victor Vermis posted:yall got old dads No poo poo. I thought I was older than most of this forum by a couple of years, but my dad was in grade school/jr high.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:47
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My dad was repairing B-somethings in Hawaii right as Nam was kicking off. Air Force guy. The AF offered him a WO spot and flight training if he stayed in and he was like "lol go gently caress yourself" and got out. Says he doesn't regret not fighting the war.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:56
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my old man was in infantry OSUT at Ft Lewis, and right as he was about to graduate vietnam ended so  then he got to see a lot of dead browns on the highway of death in Desert Storm when he was attached to the marines or some poo poo. He's never said whether he got to shoot at any browns at all but I've still got a shitload of pictures he took of burned out T-72s, trucks, etc.
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Sep 26, 2014 01:18
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Godholio posted:No poo poo. I thought I was older than most of this forum by a couple of years, but my dad was in grade school/jr high. Your dad screwed up a little later than the rest of our dads.
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Sep 26, 2014 01:20
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I know a lot of people from my hometown whose parents were under 18 when they were born so never be dissin on old dads
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Sep 26, 2014 01:28
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My dad was in his 40s when I was born. He's 80 now. 
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Sep 26, 2014 01:31
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Nam Dad: worked on trucks at Cam Rah Bay, due to rotate just as Tet was picking up. Told me the best moment was when they opened up the armory and told his unit to take all the ammo they could carry. He was seriously due to rotate within a few days when Tet started, family luck at work. Also told me about running convoy up Route 1 and how they always saw burned out ambush cases. Also met the South Koreans and noted that those dudes were bad rear end about killing VC.
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Sep 26, 2014 01:53
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500 bad enough dudes from 1st Infantry going to Iraq. Time to triple down on losing another trillion dollars
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Sep 26, 2014 02:00
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Victor Vermis posted:yall got old dads My grandfather got drafted I'm not positive whether it was for Algeria or Indochina but he deliberately pissed the bed every night in boot camp until they sent him home. He had a wife and baby to support and wasn't exactly patriotic to begin with. Pretty much everyone who got drafted with him down to the last man was killed in action.
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Sep 26, 2014 02:56
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We maintain three different types of strategic bombers. Despite this, we haven't leveled any cities since 1945. That poo poo needs to change. Send in a couple hundred B-52 sorties, and change some hearts and minds.
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Sep 26, 2014 02:58
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MrYenko posted:We maintain three different types of strategic bombers. Despite this, we haven't leveled any cities since 1945. There's absolutely no reason to send in hundreds of flights when a single one with the right loadout can do the job. This makes me wonder when the last time we from-scratch manufactured an iron bomb was, and if the factories and companies even still exist.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:04
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Why send a flight when you can turn a key and be in your local Kansas dive bar by happy hour?
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Sep 26, 2014 03:07
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Snowdens Secret posted:There's absolutely no reason to send in hundreds of flights when a single one with the right loadout can do the job. All I know is that as of a couple years ago we were still using bomb bodies and 20mm that were manufactured when Rolling Thunder was going on. fake edit: Apparently there's a GD factory in Texas that is the only factory that is DoD certified to manufacture, among other thing, Mk 80 series bomb bodies.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:10
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I wouldn'tve been surprised if we were still running through WWII leftover stock.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:12
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Snowdens Secret posted:I wouldn'tve been surprised if we were still running through WWII leftover stock. From what I've been told we burned up the last bit of our Korean war era bombs during Kosovo. Still have a big back log of Vietnam-late Cold War ones laying around, though
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Sep 26, 2014 03:15
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Snowdens Secret posted:I wouldn'tve been surprised if we were still running through WWII leftover stock. I think the Forrestal fire had something to do with getting rid of whatever was left of the really old Comp B poo poo.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:16
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iyaayas01 posted:All I know is that as of a couple years ago we were still using bomb bodies and 20mm that were manufactured when Rolling Thunder was going on. I think a lot of people really underestimate how many loving bombs and rockets we have left over from that poo poo I know NASA lights off parts of their old AF stockpile every day for fun (disposal) at the Wallops range When the Peacekeeper ICBM program got canceled, what do you think happened to all the hundreds of unused rocket motors?
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Sep 26, 2014 03:17
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I watched one get detonated at the UTTR near the Bonneville Salt Flats. Wicked cool watching a shockwave expand like that.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:21
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I want to say the Peacekeepers specifically got recycled into one of the (maybe private) satellite launch platforms but I don't remember the deets / too lazy to google
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Sep 26, 2014 03:22
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Snowdens Secret posted:I want to say the Peacekeepers specifically got recycled into one of the (maybe private) satellite launch platforms but I don't remember the deets / too lazy to google I worked that program for 2 years, we give the old ICBM motors to Orbital Sciences Corp to turn into Minotaur launch vehicles for gov't payloads but that only accounts for a few every year (when they do a launch). The rest are static fired to provide data for aging surveillance for use as launch vehicle motors, disposed (washed out or blown up), or just sit around in bunkers. Godholio posted:I watched one get detonated at the UTTR near the Bonneville Salt Flats. Wicked cool watching a shockwave expand like that. I've been to UTTR to inventory the motors, managed to miss all the static fires and disposals though.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:26
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Victor Vermis posted:yall got old dads My Dad is 16 years older than my Mom, who had me at 19. She was my Dad's second wife, but not his last- he knocked up a chick like 30 years younger (he was 63, she was like 35 I think) and then married her. My Dad is kinda OG like that. My Dad and my Grandfather were in Nam at the same time.
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Sep 26, 2014 08:52
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Snowdens Secret posted:There's absolutely no reason to send in hundreds of flights when a single one with the right loadout can do the job. The gently caress there isn't. Its not about efficiency. Its about bombing the gently caress out of anything larger than a rodent. 2 warheads for every rag wearing neanderthal in that god forsaken desert.
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Sep 26, 2014 13:29
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Nukes first, go back a week later with enough MK84s to put 2x on anything still moving around. E: Is there a Mother of all Cluster Bombs yet? Maybe one that just spits out AP mines that look like MREs? Hearts, minds, hands, and feet.
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Sep 26, 2014 13:36
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There's a couple thousand Ebloa corpses now, right? Sprinkle liberally over populated areas.
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Sep 26, 2014 13:52
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My dad beat hippies in Chicago during the '68 riots.
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Sep 26, 2014 14:03
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Yeah my dad was born in 63 so he didnt get to kill yellows
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Sep 26, 2014 14:04
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Ogrel72 posted:My dad beat hippies in Chicago during the '68 riots.  Buy him an account so he can troll D&D
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Sep 26, 2014 14:05
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Didn't we have a super graybeard goon that was a cop in 60's Chicago? He had great stories.
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Sep 26, 2014 14:56
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MA-Horus posted:Didn't we have a super graybeard goon that was a cop in 60's Chicago? He had great stories. Pretty sure that guy just got banned two days ago for sperging about pedophilia in the Archeage MMO thread
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Sep 26, 2014 14:59
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MA-Horus posted:Didn't we have a super graybeard goon that was a cop in 60's Chicago? He had great stories. He got banned for weighing in on the legalities regarding age of consent in an EVE thread where some dude was accused of diddling in an MMO or some poo poo
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Sep 26, 2014 15:00
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Wasn't he a teacher too? Or just retired from being a inner city teacher?
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Sep 26, 2014 15:19
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Can you imagine being banned from a forum at 72? What else are you going to do while you wait to die? Maybe he'll call in all his old favors and track down Ralp.
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Victor Vermis posted:Can you imagine being banned from a forum at 72? This is why I'm burning my candle at both ends, burning out sucks but smoldering is loving awful. - An actual jewish person
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