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Okay, so the loophole for this is that a lovestruck grunt or Noble will just sneak their girlfriend on base when she goes into labor, endangering both of them needlessly, simply so the child will be born on sovereign US soil and thus have birthright citizenship. Cool. 
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joat mon posted:There's no such thing as overseas bases are sovereign US soil (?) for geographical birthright citizenship. Not many people know that only US consulates and embassies are sovereign US soil. Hell, I remember overhearing some rear end in a top hat *years* ago who was spouting off at the mouth about "how all a woman has to do to make their kid a US citizen is crawl into any US military vehicle and give birth." So yeah, that's  .
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, it doesn't have enough thrust for major orbital changes. And even *minor* orbital changes are a phenomenally big deal.
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Aug 30, 2019 23:49
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FrozenVent posted:What the gently caress is that thing for? When asking about what the X-37B does, the answer should be framed in the scope of "what *can't* it do (either because of payload restriction or international treaty/law governing space weapons) and what *shouldn't* it do." The Soviets were poo poo scared of the Space Shuttle because they couldn't conceive of any other use for it other than a manned orbital nuclear launch platform. A manned and recoverable FOBS system - maybe even one that could be reloaded in orbit. It'd be a horrendous waste of resources to do something so dangerous, but the X-37 could deploy an RV from orbit with no launch indication and just obliterate a target with little to no warning. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Aug 31, 2019 03:03
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It would save time and transport costs. 
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Sep 7, 2019 18:16
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Dingleberry posted:
They're still making it, but they 'nerfed' it from its original formulation. I just read the other day that they're getting ready to put out a hard seltzer (because *that's* a 'thing' now) with 14% ABV. EDIT: \/
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Sep 8, 2019 20:07
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Memento posted:14% is stronger than wine "Danrk 4loko eryday noww mah teef r gon." 
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Sep 9, 2019 01:34
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Casimir Radon posted:The world is hosed because Fred Koch was a lovely abusive father. Makes u think And Fred Trump. Kill all Freds before they can breed.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:23
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 Boy oh boy my uniform's gonna get me laid any day now just you watch boy oh boy oh boy!!!
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Oct 12, 2019 03:15
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I quit the Civil Air Patrol cadet program when I was 15 after I got sick of getting yelled at by a kid two years older than me but was somehow an “officer” for having my rank insignia being 1/32 of an inch out of place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzG7Y3SPRA
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Oct 13, 2019 01:20
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I was all ready to hate all over this given the title, and it might be a bit serious business for this thread, but *drat*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g
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Oct 17, 2019 03:50
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I figure we're 2-3 blowups away from a "only second-generation Americans or older can enlist/join the military" tweet. 
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Oct 23, 2019 15:26
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It's simple, place President Smoothbrain's live speeches on a five minute delay. When he says something classified, just play Yakety Sax until he's back to talking about himself and his ~tremendous~ properties.
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Oct 29, 2019 02:22
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Sorry, but if you're willingly uploading compromising images of yourself to the internet for money while you're in a uniformed service (active *or* reserve) - needed though that money probably is/was - you're putting up a giant "I'M A POTENTIALLY EAGER/WILLING ASSET PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MY PRICE" sign. That's not victim blaming, it's common sense. She signed a contract and conduct unbecoming exists for a reason. She *certainly* doesn't deserve to be harassed or have those images passed around as spank bank material, but she unfortunately does deserve to have all clearances (assuming she had any) rescinded, and be reduced in rank or discharged. The converse should apply as well for dipshit assholes who send dick pics and set themselves up to be potentially honey-trapped. Even if they're in the motor pool and are about as much of a threat to national security as a wet fart in the wind.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:33
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CainFortea posted:Guessing he was going for Article 134, but couldn't think of the words.  And it's a loving travesty that DoD can't organize/subsidize child care. They somehow make Tricare work through wizardry.
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Guest2553 posted:Thank sweet baby republican Jesus for She speaks six languages including English. That's more than her husband, including the better command of English.
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Nov 14, 2019 04:52
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Don Shipley (a guy who has a very enthusiastic hobby of taking 'fake SEALs' to task) has a great line about the "I can't talk about my time in the service/with the teams because it's classified": Ops are classified, service is not. Anyone who says their military record is classified is 100% full of poo poo, 100% of the time. I would bet *money* that this "friend of a friend" loves to hit people up for money using his ~cred~ as an ~honourable souldieur~ as proof that he's 'good for it.' BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Nov 15, 2019 |
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Nov 15, 2019 22:56
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Carth Dookie posted:I'm the undetectable melanoma Don't worry, you can cure all cancer with juice cleanses and  massages . Ask Steve Jobs.
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Nov 26, 2019 00:17
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It's an urban legend. By the time the Soviets had "satellite intelligence," they'd have had a small legion of spies, from the compromised to the incentivized and ideological, to tell them it was just a hot dog stand in a courtyard. Everyone knows the secret entrance to the *real* NMCC is in the back of the kitchen in Tony Luke's, anyways. >.>
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Jan 2, 2020 01:29
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Not sure if this has ever been posted, but I came across it watching Generation Kill clips and honestly thought it was a deleted scene I'd never seen before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnWOks7zsk
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Memento posted:This is a loving lovely thing your dad did that you should absolutely blame him for my goon. Yeah, seriously. My father got out as an O-5 and right up until the end he picked country over family, until refusing a bonus command, which is supposedly what hosed him out of making O-6, in addition to loving over admirals abusing hazard/sea pay for day trips out to boats while he was at BUPERS (something he went whole hog on after getting passed over the first time). Fucker left my mother in the hospital the day after I was born to (voluntarily - his CO, MoH recipient Clyde Lassen, had given him leave) go on flight ops. Found that out when I came across his 1981 logbooks. He was absolutely abhorrent to anyone 'under' him (including my mother and I), but anyone else, he'd bend over backwards to please and placate, even if we got to hear - at length - about what "idiots" and "fuckwits" they were once he got home and drank himself into a stupor. Every night. I still can't watch (or read) The Great Santini. It's borderline autobiographical, save for the ending and branch of service. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2020 04:13
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Liquid Communism posted:'Garbage' is deeply understating it. It only really exists to serve Ft. Sill, and was built on land seized from the natives in 1901. I went down there a few years ago for a buddy's wedding when he was stationed there. The same can honestly be said about the entirety of Hampton Roads. It's like Flint, Michigan with a good health insurance policy. Partially-abandoned strip malls everywhere with almost obvious shell businesses in them, thick-rear end weeds growing out of cracks in the parking lots...
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Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, Lawton was basically a WalMart, a casino, and a bunch of payday loan joints, tattoo parlors, and car lots to prey on the enlisted. Again - sounds a lot like most of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, and *definitely* Chesapeake and Suffolk. Except the casino. Those'll probably come after Pat Robertson dies.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:The fast-food wars have begun, just like Demolition Man predicted. "Now all restaurants are Chick-Fil-A, and everyone must say 'my pleasure' instead of 'you're welcome.'" 
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Madurai posted:So, nothing's changed since I left thirty years ago, is what you're telling me. Zero's Subs is still precariously clinging to life.  Oh, and they built a really tall building near Pembroke Mall because "have you heard about ~The NEW Virginia Beach~?"  ~WELP~ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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So I asked my father to email me a more specific retelling of this story, and he refused, so this is gonna be slightly paraphrased, but in light of the Kobe crash, he talked about one of his pilots doing something stupid during his command tour. His squadron was making a run out to the USNS John Lenthall in the early 90s and one of the pilots (I won't be giving out names here even though all of them have long since retired) decided to express his frustration at the ship not being at flight quarters by buzzing the ship at 150 knots *in a CH-53E*, and doing a zoom climb to ~1000ft before coming back up to land on the pad at the back of the ship. In doing so, he put such a stress on the rotor system that he snapped one of the shock absorbers. The helo landed safely despite "a funny noise," and the 'frustrated' pilot tells the other pilot he knows the chief engineer on the ship and he'll go below decks and ask him what those noises might mean. While he's down below decks, all loving hell breaks loose - along with the remaining shock absorbers as the helo starts to *bounce* on the deck and the springs start rocketing out of the rotor assembly and landing ~500 yards behind the ship in impressive parabolic arcs. All the sailors get wise *real* loving quick and run like hell as the rotors come loose and *thankfully* the other pilot - clued in that a bouncing helicopter making BRRRRRRTTTTWHOOOOSSSH (again, paraphrasing here) noises (the 'whoosh' noise being the sound a shock absorber makes when it's unexpectedly granted its freedom) is probably hosed up in some way, shape, or form and kills the engines. The helo had to be craned off. He recounted this story because he thinks that might've been what happened to Kobe's helicopter - the pilot got spooked, zoom climbed too fast to allow radar to pick him up and tell him where the gently caress he was, broke a shock absorber in doing so, imbalanced his rotor system (people report having heard 'a strange noise'), and in the disorienting environment of pea soup cloud cover, the weightlessness of the apex of the zoom climb (and people probably shouting/screaming behind him as they levitated out of their seats), he lost control and the helo lawn-darted into the ground. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jan 29, 2020 23:32
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bulletsponge13 posted:That sounds right. Tom Clancy was an rear end in a top hat. I remember when the news was clamoring for 'experts' on 9/11, CNN got him on the phone and all he could do was talk about how similar the attacks were to the attack on the Capitol in Debt of Honor until they could find someone who wouldn't self-promote amidst a national tragedy. Then there was a friend of mine who worked at the MCX in Quantico when he was dropping by for a book signing. He had a rider that demanded he be provided cigarettes from the store's stock free of charge. He treated the staff like poo poo and it took months for them to get the smell entirely out of the carpet. Also, the last book he wrote - and that's honestly debatable - was The Teeth of the Tiger. All the series and books after that just had his name on them, were ghost-written, or were "with so-and-so." The last one I *tried* to read was The Bear and the Dragon, but could only get ~25% through before donating it to the local library system. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Godholio posted:He was an Irish-American Catholic. That's accurate af. Which makes it funnier in the Harrison Ford movies because Anne Archer is a *fervent* Scientologist.
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bulletsponge13 posted:She ran away from the bad guys, he rescued her, they boned, and she immediately fell in love with him before being shot in the head(?) at a red light. Blatant ripoff of Tracy Bond.  Diana Rigg.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I mean, if you are the type to think torture alone produces reliable information- and that torture has to be painful, it's not a bad call. Sadists Egotists And Leches
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Stravag posted:Holy poo poo did the dude riding on top get launched? If you look closely in the last few seconds he's draped over the HMG at the top. Probably not feeling too good, but wasn't thrown from the tank.
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LingcodKilla posted:I need a new hobby in Norfolk. Gonna be here a while. Photograph all the deserted strip malls with grass growing up through the parking lots.
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LibCrusher posted:I got in trouble for dropping a GBU-12 on a donkey that was standing in the shade of a range target What an rear end.
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It's sublimely upsetting that whenever Veteran's and/or Memorial Day come around, HBO plays the poo poo out of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, but they've consigned Generation Kill to the shitbox.
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I'd imagine it's worse for women, because as ~everyone~ knows, when you recognize a porn star in the wild, they *owe* you something, because *reasons*. Like catching a leprechaun, or knowing a demon's true name!  ...to say nothing of the fact that you can forget ever getting a clearance, even if it's something you don't deny/aren't ashamed of.
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Milo and POTUS posted:She's gone to speak with the owner
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You'd probably get pulled over by cops thinking that it's some kind of anti-laser measure.
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CainFortea posted:Roll the army into the airforce. Ultimate power move. Roll Navy and Marine aviation into the Air Force... ...then make the Air Force have to do carrier quals.
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Volmarias posted:He wanted to break 1,000,000 before he died, it was really a race against time. "They send you a T-Shirt!"
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"Because I'm allergic to being stabbed with a knife."  Always answer a stupid question with a stupid answer.
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