Idiots Thread: I said it sounds like he's just feeding privates to DUI checkpoints

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ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Scratch Monkey posted:

Did the Iraqi army guns have "Property of US Army" stamped into them?

edit:

Do US Army rifles even have that stamp for that matter?

"AR" stands for "Army Rifle"

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# ¿ Nov 10, 2025 12:52

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

oll right!

# ¿ Apr 5, 2020 04:59

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

I thought thst then spent about a minute wondering if the base was flared enough

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 16:58

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Memento posted:

I guess he was ditching it, but my first though was that he was showing off and got wind shear'd.

My cousin used to fly Chinooks for the Australian Army, and he was barrelling along a beach in Western Australia circa 1998, at about 100 knots, around fifty meters up. His CO in the other seat said "how about a dust-up, get down near the deck and we'll give those guys behind us a show!". Well he did that, kicked up a bunch of sand and dust and then when he went past a bit of a cliff on the shore side, hit some wind shear and briefly bounced off the deck. All of the little porthole windows along the sides instantly popped out. They landed and went back and picked up the ones they could find, and then taped up the window holes and nursed it back to base.

He was written up for it, of course - a commendation for skilled flying in the face of dangerous conditions and managing to put it down safely after some "unforeseeable turbulence conditions" that affected their level, sensible flight.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2022 00:45

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Absurd Alhazred posted:

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# ¿ Jul 7, 2022 01:56

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1548866057376391169

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1548867706073427969

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 04:25

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Fearless posted:

When I was still in, I talked to a man (a warrant officer) who claimed to have been present in the base when members of the CAR tortured and killed Shidane Arone and swore up and down that they didn't hear anything while all of that was going on and claimed that the Airborne Regiment had been scapegoated. Precisely for whom, I have no idea.

quote:

Mike Abel, the only Canadian to die in the Somali operation, was allegedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan; colleagues disputed the evidence that racist literature had been found in his belongings, and asserted that it just floated around the camp and everybody read it.

Platystemon posted:

Does the Gillette company still send every eighteen‐year‐old male in America a kit for their birthday?

Not just males: I got one and i'm a cis woman with a gender-neutral name.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2022 20:44

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/13/january-6-military-intelligence-hatchet-speed/

quote:

The Navy says that Speed was cut off from access to classified information beginning in August 2021, when he was unable to perform his duties because he had refused to comply with the U.S. military�s Covid-19 vaccination mandate.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2023 20:02

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Is there a thread for sharing military spouse stories or is this also the thread for that idiocy?

# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 14:33

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

It was a LAPES run with a Sheridan. The aircraft came in too steep and too fast. My buddy had worked a ton of LAPES tests as a DZ Medic for the Airborne Test Board and said that the 130 was moving in a lot faster than he had seen before and tapped the ground, bounced up and and the pilot lost control and that was that.

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19870701-0

# ¿ Aug 5, 2023 17:07