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Icon Of Sin posted:Are either of these Stalin’s cannibal island, or is there a fresh new wave of horror that I’m about to discover? The heavy metal mine sounds like Norilsk which is a city built next to a massive nickel mine if I recall correct.
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Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara, mentions an encounter in which an enemy submarine is spotted south of the Philippines due to one of the sub sailors on deck lighting a cigarette. The sub was spotted at an estimated 4.000 meters distance after the initial flicker of light brought the attention of the crew upon them. Page 82-83 for those interested in looking it up.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:18
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If none of the printers work and the notepads/pens get confiscated after each meeting, then yes...yes the Navy is going to be paperless.
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Sep 14, 2021 09:29
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Davethulhu posted:
Whether or not this period is what they meant with the phrase "short window", this period of time was not one I would have described as feeling...short...or having passed quickly... Quite the opposite really.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:19
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Did you at least get to piss hot?
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Nov 19, 2021 11:52
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Was that before or after they had that "blown out of the sky" thing happening to them?
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Nov 21, 2021 20:29
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So...working on firearms in a room occupied by private dipshit and private dumbass is fine? neither of them are ever gonna get laid so they are as good as sterile right? *muffled sound of instructor running down the hallway screaming up a storm*
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:YOU TAKE THAT BACK How many times have you posted a picture of a dog, where the response was "I'm ded"?
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Jan 7, 2022 09:48
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Okay, I didn't see that sneaking up on me. Good show.
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Jan 7, 2022 20:51
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I'm so proud of the absolute chaos my drive-by shitpost has created.
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Jan 9, 2022 09:40
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Thread title, Best title.
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Jan 9, 2022 21:36
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Leftbehind colonels
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Jan 27, 2022 22:00
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Why is he the only one with a name tag across his chest?
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Apr 6, 2022 15:39
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Oh they're just obscured? Fair enough. I thought he was the only dude walking around with his nametag showing, while the rest of the group didn't for whatever weird reason. Wait, is it also considered good practice to obscure the "Marines" nametape part? Why? SerthVarnee fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Apr 6, 2022 18:22
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They probably have a Tesla caused incidents hotline with some REALLY jaded and cynical workers.
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Apr 22, 2022 20:38
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Assault & Battery Buddy?
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Jul 17, 2022 21:54
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Have the kid apprentice with Crabdad?
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Aug 19, 2022 15:39
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See, I can sort of understand that feeling. I'm never more awake, attentive and on top of everything than when there is an emergency unfolding and I'm in the middle of it, trying to mitigate the damage. Legit massive confidence booster whenever something terrible happens in my family and I can suddenly access an otherwise sealed off supply of energy, overview and decision making skills. Can't say I'd specifically enjoy being teargassed, but the crisis "high" is awesome. Just too bad about the crisis happening during that high.
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Nov 24, 2022 20:30
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:That would never happen if artillery crew spoke French Reminds me of that beautiful story told by someone here. Standing in formation while a French Canadian exchange officer tries to impress the troops: "You think I know gently caress nothing." "You are wrong." "I know gently caress all."
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I second that vote, once my face recovers from the permanent horrified recoil it has going on atm.
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Dec 11, 2022 09:05
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Life boat perhaps? they did say Pacific, so odds are good.
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Jan 2, 2023 14:33
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Just gonna leave this thing here, saw it in a random discord channel, figured it would entertain you lot.
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From what I've been told, the image story is fake due to the date format and the XM177E1 only being in service from 1966-67. I do love the part where it took you lot between 2 and 5 minutes to start crying for blood/story time.
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Mzuri posted:When my conscript company went to the grenade range, my lieutenant was the safety officer. Everything went well until Private Jensen's turn, when his grenade didn't go off - his throw was perfect otherwise, pulled the pin and everything. I showed that one to my dad asking if that was something he had been party to. He countered with no, but: ca. 1972 En meget studentikos rekrut var fremme ved kasteskærmen. Han blev instrueret i at skrue detonatoren ind. Trække sikkerhedspilten og kaste. - Intet skete, normalt kunne man høre anslag og hvislen mens, timeren brændte. Da der ingenting skete, var der kun tilbage at bande færdig og efter 15 minutter gå ud og se, hvad der var sket.. Jeg forudså at jeg skulle gå tæt på en "levnde# granat pacere 200 gram trotyl og bortsprænge den. Gamle erfarne rotter havde sagt at der startede en hvislen, skulle jeg falde ned med hjælmen og hovedet i retning af granaten. ..... Det viste sig at rekreutten var så nervøs at han ikke havde skruet detonatoren i og ikke ikke trukket sikkerhedssplitten. Så jeg kunne bar samle den op. gå i dækning, trække sikkerhedsspiltten og kaste granaten. Jeg gemte den split i lang tid. Jeg har kun været sikkerhedsofficers for kast af knap 300 håndgranater, både feltmæssigt og på bane translates to: ca. 1972 A very studious (I think anyways) recruit was up at the throwing screen. He was instructed in how to screw the detonator in, pull the safety pin and throw. - Nothing happened, normally you can hear impact and hissing while the fuse/timer is burning. Since nothing happened, there was only swearing to do and then after 15 minutes, get out there and see what had happened... I predicted that I would have to go close to a live grenade, place 200g tnt and blow it up. Old experienced rats had said that if a hissing sound started, I was to fall down with helmet and head in the direction of the grenade... It turned out that the recruit had been so nervous that he hadn't screwed the detonator in and hadn't pulled the pin. So I could just pick it up, walk into cover, pull the pin and throw the grenade. I kept that pin for a long time. I've only been safety officer for throw of just under 300 hand grenades both in the field and on range. I find it very amusing to get this sort of stories out of him when I share things from you lot, since my memory of my dad has been the mix between his white collar civilian job and his staff officer in the reserves at the rank of major. The concept of him being an old panserafværgekanongruppefører (AT-gun crew group leader) is completely foreign to me.
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`Nemesis posted:the Gerald r ford is visiting Oslo right now... okay it took me a few reads, but goddamn!
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May 26, 2023 07:14
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All it takes is for the scammer to send an infected fleshlight as a "stand in" while the "relationship" is still long-distance.
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What? With a technician right there to do it for him?
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There was also one anecdote about a Japanese navy officer witnessing an American plane coming in to land on a Japanese Army airfield, only to get the gently caress out of town when the ground crew opened fire on them as they touched down. The really noteworthy thing was when the navy officer found the army commander and unloaded a ton of rage, while pointing out that the army had just thrown away a chance to reverse engineer the superior US plane and give the Japanese Empire an edge in the war. The army commander realized how much his men had just hosed while following his orders and bowed deeply to the navy officer while wholeheartedly apologizing for the errors made by the army. Considering how much the two branches hated each other and regularly tried to sabotage each other, this was one hell of a big deal.
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A.o.D. posted:gently caress you if you're still in, though. Don't worry, the service does this for you. No need to spell it out.
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bulletsponge13 posted:They might be handling it back at home, or they already intend to boot him. I can't wait until we learn all the missing details. Sending him back to boot camp seems like a cruel and unusual punishment. Oh man, forget Leavenworth or whatever you call that prison, imagine being sentenced to 6 years of boot camp.
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Well Iceland doesn't have that big of a population to start with, so you don't need many Poles to move that percentage compared to Poland. At the same time, Poland has had a history of neighboring countries collapsing and having their citizens "encouraged" to move out of Poland.
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just set up the same payment plan for the 4000$ fine and then the national budget is basically set for life.
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"You haven't shot anyone in the last 3 months, we're going to have to take your guns".
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The poor guy who took over the armory without going through everything in there first? Just signed off on it and waved to the previous dude as he sped off into the sunset. There was a box of undocumented crypto, a box of receivers (I think that's what they're called anyways. The thing that is considered the gun out of all the parts that go into making one) with their serial numbers filed off and two more boxes of equally insane poo poo. Goon consensus ended up somewhere between "get the commander down there ASAP if you think he can be trusted not to throw you under the bus", "get a shovel and a truck and then bury them all in the desert" and "get the commander, then get two shovels and a truck and help the commander bury that poo poo in the desert". I've never seen so many goons agree on something so fast before.
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They got a hold of their commander and the intel guys to tell them about the undocumented crypto plus other stuff. Had a lot of visitors within 10 minutes who took it all away. Commander thanked him for reaching out and not be a complete loving idiot. Goon consensus shifted to recommending he start buying lottery tickets since he seemed to be on a roll.
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SerthVarnee posted:The poor guy who took over the armory without going through everything in there first? Yesssss. It took me an eternity of rereading a ton of the previous idiot thread (which was absolutely worth it though), but look what I found: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3519705&pagenumber=92&perpage=40&highlight=armorer#post440224408 Edit: story ended up being more tame than I remembered it, but it certainly still got a lot of interesting reactions in the thread. SerthVarnee fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Oh yeah that one was awesome.
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The dunk was that he came in with a post where he was all "oh man I got a whole ton of stories about just how much bullshit happens under the table and behind closed doors in an armory" The dunk was then a very simple "any of them true?" To his credit he followed up with "nope, not a single one of them. But I'm posting them anyways if you want to read them."
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So out of curiosity. Let's pretend a marine NCO comes rampaging through the fields to yell at someone for having their hands in their pockets. Has anyone ever tried to answer in the affirmative when he ask the obligatory "do you think Chesty Puller walked around with his hands in his pockets?". Considering that one of the more famous pictures of Chesty is this. The senior staff of the 7th Marines on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Jan 10 1944. Chesty Puller is the second from the left. I'm mostly asking because I suspect the heat generated from the NCO's face would probably solve our energy problems for a year or two. Especially if we can get some sort of sonic pressure wave turbine running.
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Quite possible yes. But combine it with this quote: "A Marine with cold hands and warm empty pockets is a drat fool" -Lt. Gen Lewis "Chesty" Puller - Korea And you have a recipe for NCO aneurism.
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