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I did the weather briefing for this very flight 
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Jul 7, 2013 01:46
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so what caught on fire?
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Jul 7, 2013 01:46
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Pufflekins posted:so what caught on fire? It was a malfunction, this happened years ago
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Jul 7, 2013 01:47
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And that's why you don't smoke in places that say 'no smoking'
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Jul 7, 2013 01:53
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Any chance I can request fat_national_guard_dude_with_stack_of_pizza_boxes.jpg in here, because I can't find that goddamn picture to save my life.
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Jul 7, 2013 02:27
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Any chance I can request fat_national_guard_dude_with_stack_of_pizza_boxes.jpg in here, because I can't find that goddamn picture to save my life. GIS for Fat National Guard brought me to this: 
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Jul 7, 2013 02:33
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:GIS for Fat National Guard brought me to this: gently caress, my googling only got me as far as this:  Much obliged!
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Jul 7, 2013 02:36
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how the gently caress is that guy in the army? edit: we had a 400 pound medic. he was so fat that he snored no matter which way he laid down to sleep.
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Jul 7, 2013 02:43
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Pufflekins posted:how the gently caress is that guy in the army? Nattyg + surge.
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Jul 7, 2013 02:45
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I recall the equivalent of a 50-something-year-old S5-CSM in my bataillon that had suffered a massive stroke no less than a half year before his regular retirement with full benefits that we somehow managed to pull through despite every single person on post visibly perceiving a person no longer fit to serve sitting at a loving desk, let alone a somewhat important position, but this was a community effort in good intentions. National Guard Fatty is so far beyond my understanding.
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Jul 7, 2013 03:00
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Victor Vermis posted:Our ANA were mostly Dari-speaking Tajiks and were pretty cool dudes and (mostly) professional. The guys who were designated patrollers never took issue with doing long patrols or conducting their own VCPs for a few hours. By the end of our deployment we would hand them a radio and effectively have three fire-teams satelliting each other as we went along. Seeing that kind of progression left me feeling optimistic for the prospects of their Army, at the very least. We had one ANASF team that only had a single Pashto speaker on it with the majority of them being Tajiks and Hazarans. They were easily the best team, but I had a feeling it was because we were in a Pashtun area and the locals loving hated Hazarans.  That little dude was awesome.
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Jul 7, 2013 03:31
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Vasudus posted:Nattyg + surge. you'd think there would be some standards
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Jul 7, 2013 04:00
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Heck, they were waiving convicted felons during the surge, having some fatties were the least of their concerns.
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Jul 7, 2013 04:06
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Pufflekins posted:you'd think there would be some standards
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Jul 7, 2013 04:13
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I went through BCT during the surge. poo poo was hilarious. People weren't passing tests or doing anything correctly at all. They could practically call Drill Sergeant bluffs and get away with it. I'll never forget this asian dude named Lee who pretended to not speak English 80% of the time, and wouldn't even attempt PT, made it through.
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Jul 7, 2013 04:17
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iirc I remember reading a story somewhere about that picture. guy was irr or something and got called up for deployment and lost like 150 lbs throughout the deployment i remember seeing an after photo and he was skinny and muscles
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Jul 7, 2013 04:30
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DrCuntmuffins posted:iirc I remember reading a story somewhere about that picture. guy was irr or something and got called up for deployment and lost like 150 lbs throughout the deployment Sad story, I prefer to think that he was just fat as gently caress and living large, got off his deployment, separated, and claimed a lifetime of benefits based on injuries sustained while walking around. Some day I hope that's me
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Jul 7, 2013 09:41
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I enlisted during the surge. Pretty sure fobbits were gettin' fat off mid-rats prior to '07.
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Jul 7, 2013 10:11
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doogle posted:We had one ANASF team that only had a single Pashto speaker on it with the majority of them being Tajiks and Hazarans. They were easily the best team, but I had a feeling it was because we were in a Pashtun area and the locals loving hated Hazarans. I'm sitting here wondering what on Sparkles' rifle was OPSEC-sensitive.
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Dead Reckoning posted:I'm sitting here wondering what on Sparkles' rifle was OPSEC-sensitive. 'My Little Pony' sticker.
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Jul 7, 2013 14:10
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hazza posted:'My Little Pony' sticker. Close. The team stenciled their logo on everything, especially if it wasn't theirs.
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Jul 8, 2013 00:46
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shyduck posted:Pretty good doc done in coordination with Vice about the challenges in trying to prepare the ANA for 2014 handover. It paints a pretty grim picture. Holy poo poo, this guy could very well be the best officer to have ever lived. 
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Jul 8, 2013 02:08
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I watched those Vice docs a while ago, and even wrote a quick guest column about them for Tom Ricks over on ForeignPolicy.com. Basically, if you think that anyone in the US military or government is going to be able to form a coherent and capable ANSF (even just Afghan good enough), you're loving high. There is zero hope for it and it's not going to happen. Full stop.
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Jul 8, 2013 02:47
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Got a link to that column?
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Jul 8, 2013 03:31
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Link here Like I said, just a real quick column. I mainly wanted people to watch the documentary, to get an actual feel for how useless ANSF is. I wrote more in the comment section as well. It kind of turned into a debate on the merit of R2P (which is a terrible loving idea).
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Jul 8, 2013 03:36
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white privilege posted:Link here Do you have a link that does not require me to register?
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Evil_Urna posted:Do you have a link that does not require me to register? Sometimes it asks you to, sometimes it doesn't. I don't know.
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Jul 8, 2013 03:47
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Watching that Vice documentary. Jesus what the gently caress are we doing there?
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Jul 8, 2013 04:28
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As someone with no military experience whatsoever I thought that officer guy was the loving goodest of cunts, real straight up dude.. but having read a lot of your guys posts regarding military politics I can't help but wonder if he would have been disciplined for voicing what he did. Have you guys heard of anything happening to him? I hope not but it wouldn't surprise me  e; VVV drat, thanks! Click Beelay fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Jul 8, 2013 04:36
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Watching that Vice documentary. Jesus what the gently caress are we doing there? The better question is, what the gently caress have we been doing there for the last decade? That Major seemed so goddamn disillusioned with the whole thing
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Jul 8, 2013 04:37
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Throwing money and young men and women into a burning pit?  It'll be interesting to watch the historiography develop from these two wars.
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Jul 8, 2013 04:40
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Click Beelay posted:As someone with no military experience whatsoever I thought that officer guy was the loving goodest of cunts, real straight up dude.. but having read a lot of your guys posts regarding military politics I can't help but wonder if he would have been disciplined for voicing what he did. Have you guys heard of anything happening to him? I hope not but it wouldn't surprise me He seems like a good dude so if he didn't get hosed over for this then he probably just got hosed over on something else later so someone incompetent could be rewarded.
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Jul 8, 2013 04:49
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He's probably short and doesn't give a gently caress.
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Jul 8, 2013 04:51
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:He's probably short and doesn't give a gently caress. Like most good officers.
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Jul 8, 2013 04:52
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Welp, all the money & attention went towards the Iraq war, so it's not suprising how Afghanistan is now. I feel sorry for the poor schmucks that gotta train the ANSF; I worked with ANSF officers and they weren't bad (pretty chill, friendly dudes actually), but all the poo poo I've heard & read about dealing with the Es is just too crazy to be made up. Hopefully Afghanistan can stand well enough on its own if we keep throwing money at it after we leave. Worked in Vietnam 'til we got cheap and yanked the flow of cash. Hell, even the USSR did it after they said "fuckit" and pulled out of Afghanistan, and that government was able to outlast the USSR a little when the cashflow stopped.
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Ivan Drago goes hunting.
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EBB posted:Vladimir Putin goes hunting.
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