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redreader posted:I read "armor" because of this thread or the previous one. I was on my kindle so I kept track of the good and bad bits. Armor bits starring felix: from 0%-22% of the book. Then Jack Crow from 22%-70% of the way through. Then Felix for about 4%, then Jack Crow again until the last 2 pages. It's like 2 books, a great one and a really poo poo one. The poo poo one is most of the book. I also read it. It was ok/pretty good for hard sci-fi of the era. The forever war is much much much better. I read it twice in a row. I love me some military sci-fi
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All of my interactions with the French military boiled down to three points. 1.the french are dicks 2.the french are good at their jobs. 3. The dick french that are good at their jobs will run you the gently caress over if you aren't good at yours and leave you there, come what may.
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Midjack posted:France is overall a very competent nation politically, economically, and militarily. The “cheese eating surrender monkey” reputation is really undeserved. I think that they have some very painfully learned institutional knowledge built into their structure that Americans just don't have due to pure hubris.
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That guy is a goddamn badass.
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Hyperlynx posted:
He changes drastically the more he is exposed to Felix. It's worth sticking it out. You are supposed to hate crow.
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mllaneza posted:The book is called Armor. To add to this "the engine" is Felix's real armor. And has his story goes on it begins to fail. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Jealous.
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That's honestly impressive. I don't know what side the impressive part lies on whether it's the incompetence of law enforcement or the fact that two idiot Junior enlisted managed to go so far down the rabbit hole but that's quite a trip and would probably make a really interesting movie.
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LingcodKilla posted:When I was doing sea scouts as a teenager I thought being a BM in the coast guard would be the most awesome thing ever but I got distracted chasing tail and ended up joining as an IT in the Navy 20 years later. I was Navy then CG. Being a BM in the CG was pretty tits.
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Memento posted:Yeah a buddy of mine took his family to (can't remember the name but a gulf coast Mexican tourist city) last year. He's at the resort and like "this is loving fine what's the problem with Mexico?". I spend a fair amount of time in Baja over the years and bit in the DF (Mexico City) and things are generally fine. Near either border it if you are trafficking drugs is a bad idea. It's not abnormal to see moderately armed police in those and the tourist areas. I don't feel any more in danger in Mexico than I do in most of Central America and definitely safer than parts of SE Asia. I'm also a moderately sized white dude, so that may have something to do with it, but I usually travel with my wife. Seeing cops with rifles and military is usual in a ton of the world. The cartel stuff is a poo poo show though and is really our fault. Ruining a lot of great countries and countless lives because of puritanical ideals. (Your buddies story kinda stinks, I can't think of a tourist area that's isn't surrounded by towns swarming with tourists, both the good and bad types.) I'll be back in Mexico for a few weeks in the next few months. I'll take more pictures. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Oct 27, 2019 |
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Nullify the Senate and increase the house. Bing bang boo. So simple.
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Build an office building.
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Vengarr posted:To be fair, 435 members is already pretty big and unwieldy. So is America.
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