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Jul 19, 2018 22:10
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Here's another angle, if it'll help anyone:
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Sep 2, 2018 17:38
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Dilettante. posted:Some dudes getting chased by the police got into a Air Force base and got murderized when they drove through a F-18 stabilizer. Naval base.
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Oct 9, 2018 20:34
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Blind Rasputin posted:I wanted to watch something cool for a bit last night so I put on Hunt for the Red October. I got to wondering if Sean Connery knew Russian from the start or took lessons, since he was quite convincing, so I Wikipedia it. I did not figure out the answer, but I did learn about this cool little bit of trivia: I watched this movie the other night. Dallas didn't chase Red October through the canyon at all so if anyone said anything in the movie about milligal anomalies, it's background chatter completely independent of context.
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Oct 10, 2018 15:31
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Elendil004 posted:http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/02/the_hunt_for_red_october_movie_revealed_classified_information_about_u_s.html I'm doing some searching and I can't find any reference to when in the movie it happens. Just that it supposedly does. In my mind, that makes this story apocryphal. "At some point in the movie" is so meaningless and useless that it may as well be "My second cousin's best friend's girlfriend's uncle once heard..." I can find a clip on YouTube of a fairly obscure film from the 70s that had that one funny line, but I can't find any solid reference to Hollywood revealing top secret information?
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Oct 11, 2018 18:22
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Ragtime All The Time posted:whats the flapping thing in front with the hazard and anger on it? It's something to (hopefully) set off IEDs early.
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Oct 27, 2018 01:09
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EBB posted:If he didn't poo poo his pants we all owe him a beer The nice thing about the rocket chair is that you really have to want to poo poo your pants to overcome the force of the rockets up your rear end.
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Dec 9, 2018 20:35
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:How do Vietnam era bomber crews sleep at night? I get doing your job to an extent, but bombing civilian infrastructure, irrigation canals, villages, etc to the tune of likely millions of innocent deaths seems to be well into the "just following orders" camp. Did any refuse to attack civilian targets? Innocent civilians were actually popular targets for US aircrew during Vietnam and they all sleep soundly in their beds to this day. To quote a passage of the memoirs from Major T.J. “King” Kong of the 843rd Bomb Wing, “your trolling is low effort, get the gently caress out of GIP.”
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Dec 13, 2018 02:02
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mlmp08 posted:Kind of, but that’s like every single movement to contact in the history of warfare, but grunts don’t always get silly patches for doing that. Army grunts do. It goes on the right shoulder. McNally fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Dec 14, 2018 00:16
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Like I get the first and second images. But that third one looks like a practical joke Yeah, I'd love to be able to say it was some staff officer making the most ridiculous diagram they possible could for shits and giggles. But you know it's in painful earnest.
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Dec 15, 2018 02:12
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I have shot an M82 and I can say that goddamn I hardly felt any recoil at all.
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Apr 14, 2019 23:07
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EBB posted:The Soviets were also nuts in that they air dropped light armored vehicles with the crews inside My old PL had a story about meeting Russian paratroopers at some event or other he did years ago and that's how he learned the Russians air-dropped their vehicles with their crews aboard. Upon seeing the look of incredulity on his face, the two enlisted men with the Russian officer took off their berets and revealed they had identical scars on their heads from smashing into things. The Russian officer then barked a command and they mimed bracing for impact. They only had lap-belts. The officer had a harness.
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Jul 4, 2019 02:47
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Mzuri posted:The RDAF was in good company at the Roskilde Air Show this weekend. That's Sally B, which "played" Memphis Belle in the movie. I was in Dayton last week and saw the real deal.  Technically it was a reunion. 
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Aug 25, 2019 17:42
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Wtf did they do to the paint? Got rid of the swastikas and the crew names and poo poo They painted her as she looked at the end of her last mission. The swastikas and crew names were added during the publicity tour. And I was actually in my 20s here.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:33
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DurosKlav posted:One of the coolest things I've done was I got to meet the left waist gunner Bill Winchell at an airshow shortly before he died when I was a kid. He let me wear his jacket. I dont know if it was authentic from the war or a reproduction but it was still loving cool as hell when you're like 10 years old. Pilot Robert Morgan used to do the airshow circuit back in the day, met him a couple times.
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Aug 25, 2019 22:24
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Could be a regimental number on the insignia.
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Aug 28, 2019 17:23
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And then they tried to block his Medal of Honor because they didn't want to admit they'd left him.
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Sep 30, 2019 18:43
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EBB posted:Should have used it for the Notre Dame fire I can't imagine that would have been a good idea.
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Nov 4, 2019 20:42
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lol goddamnit
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Nov 4, 2019 20:48
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Dont use retarded like that poo poo, I missed that. Good catch.
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Nov 12, 2019 19:56
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Handsome Ralph posted:Honest related question, where are we on using "sperging"? Cause I let that slip at work today and looked like a total rear end in a top hat for a minute once my boss put two and two together. I think it's something we should avoid using.
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Nov 13, 2019 04:45
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fart store posted:Not slowed, delayed. The pace can be the same but the beats are all collectively a little later. Collective delay. Here's the thing: I come out and say "use of the word when it's used in its intended format in technical contexts is okay" and I'm going to be deluged by chucklefucks trying to barracks lawyer their way out of being punished for it because they used it in a "technical context." So don't use it.
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Nov 16, 2019 21:45
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I've been told that I'm not doing enough to make people aware, so in the spirit of GIP I'm going to wildly overreact and post this same message in all the active threads. Another run of Useless Dirt shirts is being put together. Deadline to order is 11:59 PM Eastern time tomorrow. Info is here
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Nov 17, 2019 20:13
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CarForumPoster posted:Man what an offensive thing to wear in public. Like yea, its a poignant criticism in the context of the War on TerrorTM when we discuss it here...but referring to people's homeland as useless dirt while walking around is kinda gross. I know it's got presidents faces on it but its just not enough. You're not wrong. Should I put you down for two?
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Nov 17, 2019 23:15
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LibCrusher posted:What’s the current acceptable term for “gear queer” and how do you say it in Pashto Geardo works
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Nov 26, 2019 05:59
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LibCrusher posted:A lot of soldiers and marines these days have access to ear pro that amplifies voices and deadens gunshots. They always run outta batteries tho Also the earplugs that were supposed to block impulse sounds but allow everything else that the military issued out ended up being defective.
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Jan 23, 2020 00:16
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bloops posted:Literally everyone in the military has a good chance at a tinnitus rating. pkells posted:I used to maintain the ILS when I was active, and therefore spent a lot of time right next to the runway. I got to a point where if an F-16 taking off towards me wasn’t loaded up with anything, I wouldn’t even bother covering my ears. But if that jet was fully loaded with drop tanks and missiles, you bet your rear end I would jam my fingers in my ears. I have some news for you gentlemen! My dad did 3500+ hours on Looking Glass in the 70s and has high-frequency hearing loss from it. VA only rates low-frequency hearing loss.
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Jan 23, 2020 19:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86XhYS8GJI&t=130s These guys were firing a 12 pounder Napoleon with full powder charges as an experiment to determine where the remains of canister shot would have ended up so that historians could try to locate them using known artillery emplacements on Civil War battlefields, and vice versa. A full charge for a 12 pounder Napoleon was an entire pound of black powder. Edit: Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86XhYS8GJI&t=244s for an amazing sound McNally fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 02:55
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You'd think France would have learned their lesson about cuirassiers after Waterloo. 
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Feb 5, 2020 22:04
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A Bad Poster posted:Ouch. I'm sure he didn't feel a thing.
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Feb 5, 2020 22:14
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Caconym posted:That's a lot more impressive accuracy than I ever imagined. Civil War artillery had rifled cannons.
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Feb 6, 2020 01:23
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah I was staring at that earlier, and I think it's an unrifled Napoleon. Looks like it's bronze at least. I saw at least two different kinds of guns, but yeah neither of them looked rifled. Dang, I didn't realize the smoothbores could get that kind of accuracy either.
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Feb 6, 2020 06:31
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Madurai posted:Never underestimate the ability of military observers to watch an actual war and chalk up the fuckups to ignorant furriners. The trench war was clearly forecast by the western theater of the ACW, too, and plenty of European observers watched it happen and came to the conclusion that Americans were mobs with guns, and that could never happen with Proper Military Traditions leading the way. Things happening in the Boer War and Russo-Japanese War were points on the same line. Eastern theater.
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Feb 9, 2020 00:05
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PittTheElder posted:I don't know that the ACW is actually indicative of WW1 at all. The war is dominated by manouvre and seiges of strong points, which had been the European tradition for hundreds of years. It's the fact that armies can no longer manouvre that defines the puzzle of the Western Front. The Siege of Petersburg bogged down into trench warfare for nearly a year with more than superficial similarities to the Western Front of WWI developing along the way.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:59
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PittTheElder posted:Right, but early modern warfare in Europe had worked like that for a very long time. Trench warfare was super common in sieges, it's only the 'everything is one big siege' part that was new, and the ACW really doesn't have that. Even when Lee and Grant were stuck in at Petersburg there's multiple crucial campaigns going on elsewhere. By that logic, WWI didn't have that either because while the western front was bogged down in the trenches, the eastern front remained more fluid.
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Feb 9, 2020 23:04
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MikeCrotch posted:From a few years ago but I will always laugh at everyone's reaction when they see the needle Shouldn't he be wearing gloves for this?
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Feb 21, 2020 22:29
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PittTheElder posted:Although in the Forrestal incident wasn't he just the guy who's plane got hit with the errant rocket? He was one plane over.
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Apr 21, 2020 21:48
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Scratch Monkey posted:He also went below deck afterwards and eventually got a lift off the ship while everyone else was busy trying to put the fire out I'm 90% sure this is bullshit.
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Apr 21, 2020 22:39
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I laughed harder at that than I really should have.
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Sep 6, 2020 03:02
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Godholio posted:I knew a Lt who put a bulldozer through a wall. He's a Lt Col now. EBB posted:Had lunch with a 3 star who rolled a 113 down a hill Remember the time the Navy almost gave a star to a guy who'd shot down a USAF F-4 over the Med?
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Oct 23, 2020 23:29
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