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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I saw the Airborne Test Board try a heavy drop with a Sheridan and a new parachute package on Sicily DZ back in 1987. The chutes all had catastrophic failure and an AFV burned in from about a 1000'. I swear to God, every component inside the vehicle was squeezed up and out through the turret ring like a mechanical fountain. I wish this was on video. I've got to see a Howitzer (whatever kind they used in the 82d in 03) and a couple Humvees burn in, in person. It's always awesome. I also got to watch a pair of slingloaded Humvees get dropped from 150-200 feet, because it was rigged wrong, and shifted. Cut sling load, cue sad NCO noises.
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GD_American posted:Can't mention JATOs in an idiot thread without the original urban legend Thanks for that memory, haha. Wired re-hosted the story.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I saw the Airborne Test Board try a heavy drop with a Sheridan and a new parachute package on Sicily DZ back in 1987. The chutes all had catastrophic failure and an AFV burned in from about a 1000'. I swear to God, every component inside the vehicle was squeezed up and out through the turret ring like a mechanical fountain. I feel like this is mandatory to post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YsSL65quM Some idiot rigger cut a bunch of straps that were out of sight, and got convicted for it.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I saw the Airborne Test Board try a heavy drop with a Sheridan and a new parachute package on Sicily DZ back in 1987. The chutes all had catastrophic failure and an AFV burned in from about a 1000'. I swear to God, every component inside the vehicle was squeezed up and out through the turret ring like a mechanical fountain. That's really cool (except for whoever had to clean it up). Good thing it was only a Sheridan. Also, I went on the internet and I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTVY57oXe0 Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Got me curious how many riggers have sabotaged poo poo, and I came across PFC Alvin Williams. Basically, a Captain turned into a lawn dart due to a cut static line, they suspected murder and interrogated the rigger who packed the chute, PFC Williams. CID interrogated him for four days, and he confessed. Several other parachutes were discovered to have been sabotaged. He was later acquitted at court martial.  quote:Pfc. Alvin Williams arrives for his trial on May 22, 1980. The 20-year-old parachute rigger had been charged with sabotaging the parachute worn by Capt. Lawrence Hill. He was later acquitted of all charges. [Staff Photo/The Fayetteville Observer] Of course, what would any story be without RUMINT. (couldn't c/p text, sorry) 
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GD_American posted:Got me curious how many riggers have sabotaged poo poo, and I came across PFC Alvin Williams. I mean, the idiot in that story is the CID dude who knocked out his front teeth.
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I demolished my "last post" reading chain to bring a topic up for advisory. Folks in QCS has brought up the idea of FORUMS COURT. Needless to say, as fans of idiots, this would being a whole new avenue for idiots to be read about and tell on them selves.
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QCS is a magnet for the most maladjusted people on the forums, kind of amazing and sad at the same time
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This flippant disregard for the seriousness of posting on the forums is precisely why I'm taking many of you in here to Forums Court for your crimes against posting
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KirbyKhan posted:I demolished my "last post" reading chain to bring a topic up for advisory. Like hell am I going to create joinder. My account will die in a virtual shootout with the Forums Marshals when they come to serve a notice to appear via PM. I do not recognize the authority of Forums Court because none of the banner ads have a yellow fringe of JPEG artifacts surrounding them; also my username (not my account) is not subject to forums law. I’m not posting, I’m engaging in Electronic Communication while traveling the Shitposting Superhighway.
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QCS seems to be the very most extremely online CSPAM posters screaming for bans at the last neocons/neolibs at the site, FYAD posters trolling, and maybe 10% of the rest are people actually there in order to put in their two cents who are also getting screamed at by the worst exiles from CSPAM, this week was a fascinating learn for me on QCS since I don’t think I ever posted there before. Actual CSPAM threads with one or two exceptions are like 1000% more chill and sane.
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I always figured this thread was for "pew pew" idiots, rather than plain old internet idiots.
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KirbyKhan posted:I demolished my "last post" reading chain to bring a topic up for advisory. What if everyone involved was a barracks lawyer? Is this covered under UCFJ?
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:QCS seems to be the very most extremely online CSPAM posters screaming for bans at the last neocons/neolibs at the site, FYAD posters trolling, and maybe 10% of the rest are people actually there in order to put in their two cents who are also getting screamed at by the worst exiles from CSPAM, this week was a fascinating learn for me on QCS since I don’t think I ever posted there before. Yeah it's pretty swell - people earnestly posting their delusional "fixes" for this forum. I think it works pretty well as a containment zone
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QCS shows me that people would have a legitimate metal health crisis if the forums suddenly disappeared. People take this dumb website way too serious. I never understood the Lowtax/other mod/admin worship. It’s the lowest common denominator of celebrity worship. McNally’s shirt prank is the closest praiseworthy thing a mod has ever done here and he wasn’t even a mod when he did it.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I wish this was on video. I'm sure it is on video. The ACE Board filmed everything and had a couple of prop planes with aerial cameras and a thing that looked like an old AA gun trailer with cameras instead of weapons. Every time I was DZSNCO, I hoped the Board would be kicking stuff out or doing LAPES. Some of the things I saw. A 5-ton that had one cute fail and the other tangle so it burned in hood first, leaving a loving huge crater. A road grader on LAPES breaking free of its tiedowns and zooming down Sicily DZ's runway under sheer momentum until it rolled across Longstreet and into the woods on the south side. GAMA Goats and 151s being used as test weights to see just how much load a chute can actually carry and those failures were pretty exciting too. A water bladder of some unimaginable fuckton capacity breaking free from its rigging, hitting the DZ, bouncing way too far up in the air, and rupturing at the apex, making it rain for about a minute.
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`Nemesis posted:QCS is a magnet for the most maladjusted people on the forums, kind of amazing and sad at the same time See, I left for the first time right after QCS started, literally as a "ask me about how the forums work" forum. How the gently caress did it it turn into HelldumpFYADLFwhatever?
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cavity resonance
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'm sure it is on video. The ACE Board filmed everything and had a couple of prop planes with aerial cameras and a thing that looked like an old AA gun trailer with cameras instead of weapons. Every time I was DZSNCO, I hoped the Board would be kicking stuff out or doing LAPES. So why can't I find it on pornhub?
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Godholio posted:I feel like this is mandatory to post: Didn't they administratively gently caress up the dude that was laughing about it too, for making the Army look bad?
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Notahippie posted:Didn't they administratively gently caress up the dude that was laughing about it too, for making the Army look bad? My understanding of the events was that the person taping that was either in on it or personally cut the straps and wanted to film it for laughs, or social media likes, or whatever. Investigation found the cut straps, found the one taping it, busted their rear end.
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https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/09/soldier-found-guilty-of-cutting-parachute-straps-in-botched-humvee-air-drop/ E-5 from the 173rd, drop was in Hohenfels, guy filming got a LOR
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GD_American posted:https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/09/soldier-found-guilty-of-cutting-parachute-straps-in-botched-humvee-air-drop/ “How will they ever find out?” Guarantee that was said.
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KirbyKhan posted:I demolished my "last post" reading chain to bring a topic up for advisory. I absolutely want this to happen, and for completely different reasons than those people. GD_American posted:See, I left for the first time right after QCS started, literally as a "ask me about how the forums work" forum. Lowtax got bored with the forums, let lovely admins and mods take over and a lot of things went to poo poo, and Helldump died (maybe not chronological order) so that content filtered back in. Godholio fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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GD_American posted:See, I left for the first time right after QCS started, literally as a "ask me about how the forums work" forum. politics broke people's brains
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`Nemesis posted:politics broke people's brains This is the idiots thread. poo poo was already broken, because idiots.
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They should apologize for thinking that they are cool.
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not caring here posted:They should apologize for thinking that they are cool. I know it was probably random but I have to laugh that the BRO got Annie.
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O4 marketing manager: "what's a superhero team we can use that Warner Bros. or Disney won't sue us for using? Homelander? Sounds good, go with it" E4, thinking about the Amazon legal team and how The Seven are white supremacists and child murderers: "uhhh.... yes sir"
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1st ID- biblethumper 25th ID- rapist 1st AD- pervert V Corps- junkie 7th ID- diva 2nd ID- useless 3rd ID- psychopath wait a minute, they're onto something
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GD_American posted:1st ID- biblethumper Checked with my brother who was a driver for a general and caught him balls deep over a desk in an enlisted...in the 1st AD List checks out
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Senior leaders must love the thought of loving on desks because a CSM in my BDE was caught doing the same thing.
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