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Maybe a joint service achievement medal? Agree its poorly written
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 03:29 |
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# ? Jun 2, 2024 01:56 |
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The Article posted:Cooper was deployed with the 41st Expeditionary ECS in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and the Resolute Support mission at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. During this period, he was injured due to a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device attack while ensuring precision electronic attack support was provided to coalition forces throughout Afghanistan. He got a bit blowed up, so naturally the commander wanted to talk about him fixing computers. I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not.
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# ? Jul 17, 2020 04:21 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:Air Force, well Air Forced They fixed the description of the Purple Heart, but never added what the other medal is. I'm thinking it's an achievement medal. The ribbon looks like it has green in it but I think it's just the lighting or something.
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# ? Jul 17, 2020 04:27 |
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Speaking of idiots: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/07/the-littoral-combat-ship-and-the-folly-of-concurrency/quote:At the program’s inception, Navy leaders projected each ship would cost $220 million. To no one’s surprise, the costs more than doubled so that each of these ships cost taxpayers approximately $600 million to build. But did they learn anything from this? quote:The Navy plans to make up for the smaller Littoral Combat Ship fleet by buying 20 new frigates. The ships themselves will be built by Fincantieri Marinette Marine and based on an existing Italian design, which will reduce some of the risks hazarded by the Littoral Combat Ship program. Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract to kit out the new frigates with their actual warfighting systems. In that contract, the Navy designated Lockheed Martin as the lead systems integrator for the frigate’s combat systems. Of course not.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 01:11 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Speaking of idiots: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/07/the-littoral-combat-ship-and-the-folly-of-concurrency/ They learned that, once again, no one will get fired for funneling billions of dollars for no actual result.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 02:14 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Speaking of idiots: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/07/the-littoral-combat-ship-and-the-folly-of-concurrency/ Well - there are competing interests in the FFG program but to cover some of the main ones: 1) Get something worthwhile over the LCS 2) Get something as fast as possible None of the weapon systems on the FFG program are new or bespoke for the ship. The LCS had basically, almost all new weapon systems outside of the 30mm gun and 57mm gun and I think the 57 was new to the US Navy at that time. The minesweeping package, the Non-line of sight missile system (guess where that went) were all concurrently developed. All of those have had hosed up problems and the Non-line of sight solution is now a hellfire that I think still isn't being fielded. The Navy weighed the risk during the procurement to use a parent based design to help speed up the procurement and to use weapon and defensive systems already in use. The major thing that the FFG doesn't have is it's main radar, but, that's being developed for the Flight III Burke, a backfit option for Flight IIs, and for use on the next Ford carrier. So while they may gently caress up the radar, I doubt it will be because of the LCS replacement. The main challenge with using a parent based design, is that it's a contractor provided estimate and my guess is getting a 3rd party audit of the costs opens up all sorts of legal issues due to proprietary company data. This isn't the case of the Navy designing a ship and putting it out to bid ala DDG-1000. Speaking of the Navy's other surface combatant initiative, check out that poo poo show. We now have a "stealth" DDG that's had all sorts of poo poo bolted onto it, plus 2 155 guns with no ammo. Aside from the VLS, all the weapon systems forward the bridge are essentially prop-guns. And, if we continue with a "traditional" procurement, let's check out the Ford - on the other hand, no, let's stay with this parent design for a second. Additionally, the FFG is a fixed-price incentive contract which should help drive costs lower to the target set by the Navy. I think everyone expects the costs to be above the estimate, but, it's not starting off as a cost-plus contract and the weapon systems and other GFE are either existing or major programs of record (ESSM Block IIs, etc.) So, given the resounding success of the DDG-1000, CVN Ford, and LCS, I'm cool with seeing if this parent based design strategy helps get a ship closer to build time and budget.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 02:44 |
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TCD posted:The main challenge with using a parent based design, is that it's a contractor provided estimate and my guess is getting a 3rd party audit of the costs opens up all sorts of legal issues due to proprietary company data. Crap on that, if they want to score a trillion dollar contract they can open up. NDAs exist if that makes them feel better, but not getting an independent estimate on this procurement especially since its immediate predecessor went so far off the rails is ridiculous.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 03:00 |
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19 year old father who posts nothing but uniform pics, I'd probably want to go to war as well.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 03:28 |
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Memento posted:
I remember being this monumentally stupid as a 19 yo Grunt.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 06:11 |
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I remember talking to some guys at SWCS back in 2013 or so, when Syria started popping off, who were super stoked to get in there. I had to explain to them how loving stupid of an idea America getting involved in that conflict was.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 06:27 |
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A Bad Poster posted:I remember talking to some guys at SWCS back in 2013 or so, when Syria started popping off, who were super stoked to get in there. I had to explain to them how loving stupid of an idea America getting involved in that conflict was. When you're told you're a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Jul 18, 2020 |
# ? Jul 18, 2020 07:30 |
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TCD posted:Well - there are competing interests in the FFG program but to cover some of the main ones: Someone remember to quote this post in a couple years when the frigates are hellaciously over budget and behind schedule and just generally a total clusterfuck.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 15:48 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:When you're hammered, everything starts looking like something to nail. Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jul 18, 2020 |
# ? Jul 18, 2020 16:03 |
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Dick Burglar posted:Someone remember to quote this post in a couple years when the frigates are hellaciously over budget and behind schedule and just generally a total clusterfuck. TCD posted:Well - there are competing interests in the FFG program but to cover some of the main ones:
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 16:06 |
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Vasectomies are good and cool. Eugenics is bad, especially since it was done to Puerto Rico by the United States quote:Sterilization procedures and coercion My mom was sterilized after she had me. Speaking of "Puerto Ricans being too poor and stupid" I present you Operation Bootstrap a very real operation made by the federal goverment and PR goverment in order to industrialize PR and make more jobs. Just read the "effects" portion for a "surprise".
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 16:24 |
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https://twitter.com/MlYOTAKANO/status/1256263260556460032?s=20
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 19:46 |
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God I love this poo poo
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 21:05 |
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I was listening to The Last Podcast on the Left today. They're doing a two-parter on Herbert Mullin, a schizophrenic serial killer I'd never heard of. They said that in 1972 he tried to join the Coast Guard but immediately failed the psych test because of the aforementioned schizophrenia. Disappointed but undeterred, he instead went to the Marines who accepted him with open arms (until he admitted that he had done drugs).
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 21:21 |
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Scratch Monkey posted:I was listening to The Last Podcast on the Left today. They're doing a two-parter on Herbert Mullin, a schizophrenic serial killer I'd never heard of. They said that in 1972 he tried to join the Coast Guard but immediately failed the psych test because of the aforementioned schizophrenia. Disappointed but undeterred, he instead went to the Marines who accepted him with open arms (until he admitted that he had done drugs). Coast Guard kicked out genuine crazy person Bowe Bergdahl 3 weeks into boot camp for psych reasons. Army was extremely happy to have him though
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 21:38 |
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Dick Burglar posted:Someone remember to quote this post in a couple years when the frigates are hellaciously over budget and behind schedule and just generally a total clusterfuck. It probably will be a clusterfuck. There are just a few programs that come to mind that haven't been dumpster fires in the past 2 decades. And to quote myself TCD posted:I think everyone expects the costs to be above the estimate The concept behind this procurement is that it should be less overbudget compared to the LCS and DDG-1000 programs and fielded/built faster. These are pretty low bars. The DDG-1000 took 8ish years from funding to commission and was ~215% to 535% overbudget. LCS-2 took 5 years from award to commission and was ~319% overbudget with a half functioning mission module. I think the mission modules were additional costs outside of the contract. Also - they want to decommission the LCS 1,2,3, and 4 now lol.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 02:45 |
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When talking about "staying under budget," it helps when you are a private company that artificially inflates the initial budget estimate to begin with, then demands no one be able to see how the gently caress you came up with that number (that you pulled out of your rear end) because ~trade secrets~. That way, when you demand another $940 million per ship, it's only 100% over-budget, despite that cost being 427% of the original estimated budget for the LCS.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:01 |
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canyoneer posted:Coast Guard kicked out genuine crazy person Bowe Bergdahl 3 weeks into boot camp for psych reasons. The dude in my EMS agency I describe as having an “active shooter haircut” who was pulled over on a college campus with 4 questionably legal guns in his trunk openly mentions he was gonna join the army but failed the psych. For some reason me yelling about that has not gotten any results. He even bought a bulletproof vest and wears it around despite being the reason a bunch of us have priced out bulletproof vests. E:may look into red flag law stuff in NY for this guy. Everyone is super uncomfortable about him. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jul 19, 2020 |
# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:11 |
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My dad's buddy is still in and sent along this gem: MP went to Captain's Mast for being a Phantom Shitter, ND'd into the desk during salute.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:20 |
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That's amazing, and unfortunately easy to picture
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:29 |
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...how do you ND during a salute? How are you even touching your weapon during a salute? Or are we talking about a "21 gun salute" style salute?
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:53 |
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I could see it if he's saluting with a rifle. For some reason people move their finger to the trigger when they twist it. Edit: Did he hit himself in the face with the barrel when it went off? Edit2: Into a desk? Ok yeah nevermind. Godholio fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Jul 19, 2020 |
# ? Jul 19, 2020 04:02 |
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Dick Burglar posted:...how do you ND during a salute? How are you even touching your weapon during a salute? With your left hand thru a hole in your pocket?
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 04:19 |
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I imagine the idiot hit the weapon on his hip when cutting the salute, unless the prescribed method is to move the hand to the weapon for the salute. Either way, I can see it happening from pure stupidity and bad drill (lol). I imagine he was 3-6 inches from the desk when reporting. I think each service treats it differently, but depending on what you are armed with, and where, the salute is rendered in a different manner.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 06:35 |
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Kith posted:My dad's buddy is still in and sent along this gem: MP went to Captain's Mast for being a Phantom Shitter, ND'd into the desk during salute. Why did he have a firearm at mast? Edit before the rarely referenced trial by combat portion of the UCMJ.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 10:14 |
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Probably had dude come from post to mast with the intention of going straight back to post.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 12:27 |
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I haven't ever had cause to question it but I assume there are clearing barrels on a naval ship?
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 12:37 |
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Memento posted:I haven't ever had cause to question it but I assume there are clearing barrels on a naval ship? Yes. MP implies that he wasn't in the navy, though. Navy cops are MAs. It would have to be a large ship for him to be armed underway. Small boys only have one MA typically and they're never armed.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 12:54 |
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Kith posted:My dad's buddy is still in and sent along this gem: MP went to Captain's Mast for being a Phantom Shitter, ND'd into the desk during salute. at least he didn't poo poo on the desk, that would probably be admission of guilt.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 12:57 |
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PathAsc posted:Probably had dude come from post to mast with the intention of going straight back to post. I've never seen a mast where the mastee wasn't in a dress uniform. I'm assuming this is Navy, other services don't call it captain's mast, right? I'm almost wondering if some wires got crossed in the story and the ND was from the MA who escorts the guy getting masted, not the guy himself. That still raises a lot of questions, but... simpler ones, at least.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 13:03 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I've never seen a mast where the mastee wasn't in a dress uniform. I'm assuming this is Navy, other services don't call it captain's mast, right? Our masts were in the uniform of the day
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 13:13 |
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I got the story secondhand, so it wouldn't surprise me if something got garbled along the way - or it might be that he simplified details for my sake. Either way - it was a pistol, not a rifle. I'm mostly concerned that I didn't have to explain "Phantom Shitter" at all.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 14:42 |
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Kith posted:I got the story secondhand, so it wouldn't surprise me if something got garbled along the way - or it might be that he simplified details for my sake. Either way - it was a pistol, not a rifle. I figured Phantom Shitter is someone who shits in a public space and then beats feet for someone else to discover. We had it happen fairly often in the showers at DLI. This made a hilarious mental picture for ND'ing into a desk, so I'm fairly sure I've got my definition wrong.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 15:03 |
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dscruffy1 posted:I figured Phantom Shitter is someone who shits in a public space and then beats feet for someone else to discover. We had it happen fairly often in the showers at DLI. No, you got it right
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 15:09 |
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dscruffy1 posted:I figured Phantom Shitter is someone who shits in a public space and then beats feet for someone else to discover. We had it happen fairly often in the showers at DLI. This is the least surprising thing that's been posted in this thread for quite a while.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 15:40 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:This is the least surprising thing that's been posted in this thread for quite a while. I remember it being twice in the men's showers, once in the women's. The women's phantom shitter also drew on the walls with it.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 15:43 |