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The only thing I got out of BOLC II was six solid weeks of drinking and permanent damage to my left ear.
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https://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/05/30/056-armor/quote:Wow, what is there to say about John Steakley’s Armor? Strap on your favorite defense mechanisms and join J. and Collision as they try to answer this difficult question about a novel that dares to answer the less difficult question “what if Starship Troopers were incredibly stupid and repetitive?”. Yes, we take on Armor, the book that should have been called A Constant Reminder of Better Books: The Book. As a read, Armor is a terrible slog that looks you square in the eye and shows you atrocities while growling “war…is heck” before bafflingly pivoting to whimsical wisecracking and brief interludes of rough sex. This read was not the smoothest ride, is what we’re saying. I read Armor years ago over a couple drills and it was bad.
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I'm dying laughing because right now a bunch of people with uniforms are seeing that and turning beet red.
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the world is entirely too online
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i too have ancestors who did things and stuff during eras
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Wild T posted:My maternal grandfather did ten years after being drafted into WWII. His shadowbox had him as a Corporal. Evidently he liked to drink and party a lot so he'd make Sergeant, get busted to PFC, make it back to Corporal, bust down to Private, etc. He continually volunteered for any training that got him sent back to England, where he'd generally just get drunk and bang British girls. One time him and his buddy were having so much fun they went AWOL for a couple weeks, and only came back when they heard their unit was being shipped back. gently caress that's enlisted.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:My great grandfather was at Gallipoli and was wounded in the head, apparently not during combat. sometimes the sheep kick
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I'm here to conduct legitimate soldiering duties and nothing else, I gots this pass see, here's a dollar kid go have a coke.
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When he says helicopter rides he means the Scarface variety, right?
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Oh. Lovely.
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Liquid Communism posted:I'm just imagining the fun when someone gets reassigned back to the states and can't take their kid because they don't have citizenship. Imagine the paperwork. Pre-deployment, not taking care of your family readiness plan is something the chain of command will murder you for. Coming home? Together, alone, in a plane, or in a box, we got the work out of you so gently caress your benefits.
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I think it's kinda like when we dropped Fat Man in that it's a wee bit hard to put the genie back in the bottle.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Friends. Soldiers. Officers. Please. This is DoD classification we're talking about. You're expecting it to make sense? You're expecting its enforcement to make sense? I have quite literally sat in a classified briefing where they took great care to confiscate everybody's cell phone, but still had to confiscate handwritten notes at the end because we are required to have paper and pencil as part of the uniform. This was years before I ever saw The Wire or the criminal conspiracy scene. I even had a moment where I turned to one of my brother LTs who pulled out his notepad to ask him why he was taking notes when they just yanked our phones.
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Lost some brain cells reading that
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*in line at the post office* oh dang i forgot my social again what ever am i to do
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My old CO used to say that tanks kill, and they don't care who they kill. Same goes for most dangerous equipment.
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Has he made a shoe knife yet?
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Internet Wizard posted:Remember how Melania’s signature issue as First Lady was supposed to be countering cyberbullying Not quite, her signature issue was to not cyberbully Melania Trump.
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Viva Miriya posted:Ok I will. nice post for a clown to make at the circus
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PurpleXVI posted:God, Wohl's latest enterprise is one gently caress of an own goal. It seems to have convinced no one, has shown what a hilarious loser he is once again and only seems to have increased support for Warren. If she wins he'll brain worm spin it into him being some deep state q fourth dimensional chess move that helped warren. Wohl be brokebrain.
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ur fuckin dead kiddo
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Blanket ban would cause an outrage, lot of military members with family down there they visit.
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Internet Wizard posted:Wyoming disenfranchises California in the same way LA, SF, and SD disenfranchise the entire rest of the state The rest of the state has lovely politics hth
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maybe a form of government created to benefit white male landowners isn't super practical 200 years on
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MA-Horus posted:So on a scale of "a good talking to" to "supremely turbo-hosed", how turbo-hosed is this guy? He sold his primary body armor. That's bad.
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Turn down deployments heh
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rough chuckles
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no but im loving dead laughing
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Oh lord I forgot about swiss seats. It's like having your nuts in a vice.
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Trotter has been in long enough that she probably got picked up by China in the OPM sweep like the rest of us. She should know better.
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muh stolen valor
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Vengarr posted:There are definitely jobs that really should preclude you from putting naked pictures on the internet. I see this boiling down to excluding people from office based on how they choose to express their free speech. Without even getting into issues of feminism it's no bueno.
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McNally posted:Looks like it's time for the monthly reminder that this thread is for talking ABOUT idiots. So there's this idiot I know who thinks sex workers should have fewer rights than everybody else...
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GTA cheats in real life
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Memento posted:Am I pregananant? how am babby formed how am girl get pregant
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1195890104751005696
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Dan Halen got taint cancer that way
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2025 07:41 |
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Max really hit close to home this week. Panel 2 minus the text was pretty much the entirety of my career.![]()
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