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I joined a Facebook group for ex-CMs and while most of it is nostalgia huffing, I still catch some of the undercurrent of people who ruined their lives in the aftermath of being the CCC. One guy was relating how his time on a fire crew in the CCC really helped him out when he ended up in an inmate fire crew. So, uh, it's good for something I guess.
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Leaving an abusive relationship often takes a lot of time effort and therapy
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Internet Wizard posted:Leaving an abusive relationship often takes a lot of time effort and therapy Yeah, but the VA just kills us. It's faster.
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Guest2553 posted:Yes. It seems like an easily mitigated risk when the upside is (a strong probability of) having less victims of opportunity. Controls could include: not pulling people over for mickey mouse poo poo; having squad cars operate in groups of two; providing ITWs to places where shooting is imminent or occurring; cross-cue of reports to known locations of cops. I'd give the benefit of the doubt if information wasn't released through a social media feed where you have even less control over it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJqIcQCWVXM
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It's still the "Oh gently caress oh gently caress where is my cover I can't go out without it" anxiety dreams for me if I dream anything.
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I had "Oh Christ how is my hair three inches long and shaggy and quarters is in two minutes I am going to get my rear end kicked" dreams for about five years after I got out even though I keep my hair cut pretty short due to balding like a motherfucker. Haven't had one in a while though.
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bird food bathtub posted:It's still the "Oh gently caress oh gently caress where is my cover I can't go out without it" anxiety dreams for me if I dream anything. im just getting back in after a long time of not wearing hats and ill tell ya this much, ive walked outside more than once without my hat and not realizing for about 25 ft
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My Spirit Otter posted:im just getting back in after a long time of not wearing hats and ill tell ya this much, ive walked outside more than once without my hat and not realizing for about 25 ft WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL YOUR COVER?
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It's Head Dress goddamnit
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“My dome lid”
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Drill Sergeant called them thimbles because we "looked like a bunch of loving thumbs."
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Booger Presley posted:Drill Sergeant called them thimbles because we "looked like a bunch of loving thumbs." I actually like this one. That's pretty inventive.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:It's Head Dress goddamnit its a hat
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I've been out since 1998 and still have nightmares of waking up late and missing inspection formations or weapons draws.
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I never got any of that stuff because I was only ever in the Weekend Warriors™, but for the ~4 months after I finished my thesis I would be sitting down relaxing and think "poo poo shouldn't I be reading a journal article or re-analysing data or iterating on my model or something?". Takes you a while to get accustomed to the lack of pressure.
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Man, y'all have much less intense Army nightmares than me. Lol
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"Oh god, did I just lose an anchor nut in the cockpit" has a special place in my anxious milspec dreams.
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We recently had a pilot who, during debrief, realized his wing patch was missing from his flight suit. Another pilot spent hours trying to find it for him, checking dorms, life support, etc. When I left at the end of the day he was steeling himself for a chat with maintenance.
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Godholio posted:We recently had a pilot who, during debrief, realized his wing patch was missing from his flight suit. Another pilot spent hours trying to find it for him, checking dorms, life support, etc. When I left at the end of the day he was steeling himself for a chat with maintenance. Can you explain this more in depth? I can't parse why losing a patch would be a problem, unless has a patch I'm not aware of?
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Because it can fall into things and make things connect that shouldn't or make things not close that should is my guess. Would be a shame if your throttle got stuck open because the patch fell into it and jammed it when you were trying to reduce power.
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Items unaccounted for in aviation are bad news. Every tool has a foam cut out it must be returned to at the end of every job. Every bolt/nut/screw must be signed in and out. Every thing done with either of them must be two-person integrity. Maintenance in aviation is serious loving business.
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It's why the KC-46 is such strong proof that Boeing has become more hosed up than anyone would've possibly imagined five years ago
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bird food bathtub posted:Maintenance in aviation is serious loving business. I have a friend who was a flight engineer on an ANG C-130 and did airplane maintenance in civilian life. He's were I learned about the concept of locking-wire on nuts, because when a plane is flying there things you really, really can't afford to work themselves loose.
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I had a dream where I was in my office working naked. Nobody seemed to mind, so I was just freeballing stress free in meetings. I do always have that post-deployment kneejerk of "oh Christ where did my weapon go" for at least a few months, every single time.
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Scratch Monkey posted:I have a friend who was a flight engineer on an ANG C-130 and did airplane maintenance in civilian life. He's were I learned about the concept of locking-wire on nuts, because when a plane is flying there things you really, really can't afford to work themselves loose. Meanwhile, some unnamed military's quartermasters are notorious for stealing the nuts off of emergency vehicles to sell for scrap, which is great until they are needed and you start hearing funny noises in mid-drive.
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Wild T posted:I do always have that post-deployment kneejerk of "oh Christ where did my weapon go" for at least a few months, every single time. Sup fam That poo poo has been rearing its ugly head quite a bit lately for me.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Can you explain this more in depth? I can't parse why losing a patch would be a problem, unless has a patch I'm not aware of? For the reasons already given, that plane basically comes off the schedule until the missing item is found, or they complete a search of the aircraft that involves removing a lot of stuff that otherwise wouldn't be removed, making MX's life hell for a while.
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Everyone I've known from military aviation has a story about a ratchet coming up with a missing BB and the whole shop shutting down for 18 hours turning the place upside down until the new guy happens to find it inside a ceiling light fixture
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I've heard this one before. When it turned up there were two ratchets
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Proud to serve on a forum that has to have a "don't make death threats you idiots" sticky, although I suppose it's mostly CSPAM
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Everyone I've known from military aviation has a story about a ratchet coming up with a missing BB and the whole shop shutting down for 18 hours turning the place upside down until the new guy happens to find it inside a ceiling light fixture 3/8 sockets are mischievous devils who love to vanish off your speeder and cause everyone to rock back and forth on the floor while whimpering. They are invariably where you have already looked seven times.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Everyone I've known from military aviation has a story about a ratchet coming up with a missing BB and the whole shop shutting down for 18 hours turning the place upside down until the new guy happens to find it inside a ceiling light fixture I remember a sortie being recalled shortly after takeoff because a maintainer left a tool in the gear well. aphid_licker posted:Proud to serve on a forum that has to have a "don't make death threats you idiots" sticky, although I suppose it's mostly CSPAM Almost seems like an unintentional critique about the overbearing eye of state security and their surveillance methods. I ate a probe once for an awkwardly worded compare-and-contrast between US' superpower suicide trajectory and France's Yellow Vest movement in regards to populaces upholding their end of the social contract. It's not like CSPAM is generating Nobel laureates, but it's also weird to think I could have eaten a perma for engaging in good faith current event discussion.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:3/8 sockets are mischievous devils who love to vanish off your speeder and cause everyone to rock back and forth on the floor while whimpering. Would coating the tool in high vis paint or something work in the shop?
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They're usually silver or chrome, so not exactly inconspicuous. All my snap-on tools were found in my cars months after work at the shop.
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Guest2553 posted:I remember a sortie being recalled shortly after takeoff because a maintainer left a tool in the gear well. I've literally been on a flight where that happened, though for us it was while we were on our way home anyway. Or at least, they thought they might have left a tool in the plane; by the time we landed they had found it in the shop.
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aphid_licker posted:Proud to serve on a forum that has to have a "don't make death threats you idiots" sticky, although I suppose it's mostly CSPAM I think a sizeable portion of it is coming out of D&D itself. The USPOL thread has been flying closer and closer to the sun for a while.
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Did I accidentally bookmark the announcement or was that a thing that happened to everybody, so they'd see it? Or am I the idiot for asking?
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Dick Burglar posted:Did I accidentally bookmark the announcement or was that a thing that happened to everybody, so they'd see it? It got added to every page of everything everywhere, and cannot be un-bookmarked.
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