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Why only one PPSH? They should all be rocking them.
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Me trying to play a casual round of CoD at the weekend to relax in between shifts of my back-breaking labour job: The pre-teens turning up in my lobbies to ensure I get a perfect 0:50 K/D:
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Bored As gently caress posted:Why only one PPSH? They should all be rocking them. Handed them all out to militias?
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Stravag posted:Handed them all out to militias? 
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It's the Navy's turn. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16m5c4FrWU/
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Dec 15, 2025 16:50
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Wasn't it the navy's turn earlier when that CO was shooting with optics facing backwards? https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-photo-rifle-scope-mounted-backward
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Dec 15, 2025 17:57
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I don't really view it as "turns" so much an ever-present, shifting, amorphous blob of "You done hosed up" that appears more concentrated in some areas than other at different times but will then shift into some other configuration.
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Dec 15, 2025 18:00
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it's everyone's turn. always.
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Dec 15, 2025 19:51
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This is probably perfectly realistic, isn't it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcKWGJlhtxY
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This is probably perfectly realistic, isn't it? The last one in particular.
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Dec 16, 2025 02:35
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Remember the guy who nearly hanged himself with his static line? https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jumpmaster-save-paratrooper-video/
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Dec 19, 2025 16:02
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A CSM did something…good/right? Sorry, what were we talking about? My eyes glazed over and the preceding text is illegible and incoherent.
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Dec 19, 2025 16:08
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I hope they sent the jumper to mental health or Basic Refresher, because God drat.
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Dec 19, 2025 16:23
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Recruiter recruits jumpers for jump school, misunderstands
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Dec 19, 2025 18:38
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Recruiter recruits jumpers for jump school, misunderstands Holy poo poo lol
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Dec 19, 2025 18:58
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Recruiter recruits jumpers for jump school, misunderstands Ah, the 81st Kinetic Impact squad.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Recruiter recruits jumpers for jump school, misunderstands New thread title
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Put on parachute? Don't, just jump!
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Dec 19, 2025 20:45
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CainFortea posted:Remember the guy who nearly hanged himself with his static line? Humbug Scoolbus posted:Yeah, that was a JM test. I had to catch the same sort of thing on mine. Jesus poo poo, that happened for real!? We had a situation like that on our JM test, so I thought this was a screenshot from somebody's Jumpmaster Class. What the absolute gently caress was that trooper thinking?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:What the absolute gently caress was that trooper thinking? he wasn't
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Imagine dying for something as irrelevant as airborne operations
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Why would you
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Punished Ape posted:Why would you Because it wasn’t a perfectly good plane to start with, and the Air Force sucks at flying them beyond that  Seriously though…the planes we got for jump school had so many issues that they ended up calling in other planes from some neighboring state’s air national guard. Those planes (in their turn) had their own issues, but none so serious that they were grounded and stuck there for a bit waiting for parts. That and the pilots had to have been having some fun tossing us around in the back, I was loving ready and willing to jump when the green light came on. Thankfully I never went to an actual airborne unit, just a Stryker unit in a place that was regularly -40F/C (at that temp, both scales read the same!    )
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Punished Ape posted:Why would you Extra money, and jumping is fun as hell, even static lines. MFF was a lot more fun but came much later in my career.
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That bone on bone poo poo is too appropriate.
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Oddly enough, Dad, with 350+ military jumps, had no knee problems. Everyone else (non-jumpers) needs at least injections if not replacements. He did have "10%" hearing loss officially, but Mom highly doubted that.
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I have 20% hearing loss. USAF C130s suck rear end.
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Look at you chumps who didn't go for max score with bone on bone everywhere.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Thankfully I never went to an actual airborne unit, just a Stryker unit in a place that was regularly -40F/C (at that temp, both scales read the same! Fun fact: That's colder than the freezing point of 80 proof liquors!
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MonkeyFit posted:Fun fact: That's colder than the freezing point of 80 proof liquors! That’s why it goes in your belly, duh 😋
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Icon Of Sin posted:Seriously though…the planes we got for jump school had so many issues that they ended up calling in other planes from some neighboring state’s air national guard. Those planes (in their turn) had their own issues, but none so serious that they were grounded and stuck there for a bit waiting for parts. Airlift has loving insane ops tempo to the point that Reserve and National Guard airlift units are basically active duty with an asterisk. This has the effect of making sure everything is flying with a backlog of maintenance requirements that aren't quite serious enough to ground the plane yet.
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I really liked getting to my first duty station and looking at the plaque thingy that registers the planes to see that the airframe was built in the mid '60s. Airplane of Theseus by that point sheesh.
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bird food bathtub posted:I really liked getting to my first duty station and looking at the plaque thingy that registers the planes to see that the airframe was built in the mid '60s. Airplane of Theseus by that point sheesh. You say that, but the mechanical savants that maintained the RCAF Sea Kings for decades raided American boneyards to keep them operational and a couple that would have been written off by other more sensible militaries after crashes were repaired and put back into service. I'd be genuinely interested to know how much of the surviving airframes were original when they were finally retired in 2018. The joke for years was that they were painted grey to hide the duct tape.
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Fearless posted:You say that, but the mechanical savants that maintained the RCAF Sea Kings for decades raided American boneyards to keep them operational and a couple that would have been written off by other more sensible militaries after crashes were repaired and put back into service. I'd be genuinely interested to know how much of the surviving airframes were original when they were finally retired in 2018. The joke for years was that they were painted grey to hide the duct tape. Ah, a state-sponsored version of the same energy that keeps those 50's American cars on the streets of Cuba into the 2020's. Weren't the last B-52 airframes made in the 60's?
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canyoneer posted:Ah, a state-sponsored version of the same energy that keeps those 50's American cars on the streets of Cuba into the 2020's. The remaining active B-52s are all from 1960-1962. They are surprisingly not that ship of Theseused. Most of the metal is original, but almost all of the equipment has been swapped out (some more than once).
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canyoneer posted:Ah, a state-sponsored version of the same energy that keeps those 50's American cars on the streets of Cuba into the 2020's. With all scorn due to the government, I'll never cease to heap praise on the maintenance crews that kept those things operational. That requires some incredible skill and dedication; a genuine triumph of ingenuity over entropy.
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The only jump I had "scrubbed" (postponed while we sat in harnesses waiting for a new aircraft) was because upon landing and doing post flight inspection, the wing was visibly cracked. That's what we were told. All of us were cool with passing
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