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grover posted:Since when do carrier air wings have commodores? You mean the CAG? And no, it doesn't surprise me in the least. Every dollar spent on the F-35 is a dollar he's not getting for maintenance, training, fuel, etc., and poorly managed programs that just hemorrhage money tend to piss off pretty much everyone that deals with budgets. A CAG is equivalent to a commodore...they're both titles and the only reason the title CAG still exists is  tradition.
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Godholio posted:A CAG is equivalent to a commodore...they're both titles and the only reason the title CAG still exists is
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Commodore on a carrier is traditionally (since the 90s) an O-7. It's a position, not a rank. And a non-carrier air wing is commanded by a commodore who's probably an O-6...so yeah, equivalent to a CAG.
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I've seen the term 'commodore' for destroyer and submarine squadron commanders before, and they'd be O-6 level. In these cases the Captains of the underlying ships are generally O-5s. The commodore I did my part in getting fired was an O-6.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Dude its ridiculously easy to dent an aircraft. That aluminum is pretty thin.
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Hydrolith posted:Cool. We don't have any rangers, though. I've done a bit of digging, and apparently TF 66 was comprised of SASR, 2Cdo and SOER. Which is more or less all the SF we have. Ah, cool. Makes sense. No one ever really explained it to us beyond "Aussie ranger regiment". We had a kind of muddled, overlapping AO and we both did a horrible job chatting with each other so we were constantly stepping on each others' toes. Still got along real well though. The actual SF we supported were cool but they seemed a bit too chill to me. I mean I understand that they're well trained and know their poo poo, but when we go on an combined air and ground raid deep into Taliban country with plans to emplace over 500 lbs in demo, you'd think the joint brief would take longer than 5 minutes. They did give us two of their motorcycles though, and those were pretty sweet.
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Oxford Comma posted:Is it possible to be SF and not be cool as gently caress? Yeah. I've met some MARSOC dudes who were serious assholes. But then again you really can't get mad at any actual combat arms Marine for being a dick to air wing.
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Hydrolith posted:Cool. We don't have any rangers, though. I've done a bit of digging, and apparently TF 66 was comprised of SASR, 2Cdo and SOER. Which is more or less all the SF we have. We did missions with TF 66 last year from our VSP, some of which described themselves as the equivalent of rangers in the US army.
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I did exactly one mission with SOF ever. All it really was was cover for a source meet they wanted to do, and they just needed a Marine who could run (or pretend the run) the BATS machine and make a show of not being able to read a guy's fingerprints and/or irises. I scanned a whole construction site full of iraqis while complaining about "the poo poo's not working" and "what's the deal with this crap?". Meanwhile, a bunch of SEALs stood around and pulled security, and intel got to talk to a particular guy whom I claimed came up on BATS as being a suspect. Basically, I had to pretend to be a bonehead who couldn't use some semi-complicated technology so they could talk to an iraqi about something. LAMEST OP EVER.
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Deathy McDeath posted:LAMEST OP EVER.
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grover posted:CAG is usually an O-6 Captain, and subordinate to the O-6 CO of the ship. Commodore is traditionally an O-7. There is a "Commodore" onboard most carriers, but for the attached destroyer squadron, not the air wing. CAG is subordinate to the CSG Admiral. He defers to the CO of the carrier in operations that are specific to the carrier. CAG is not subordinate to the CVN CO.
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Half of this thread makes no sense to me; so I like to make up the meanings of the acronyms. Picture for the picture gods:
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N17R4M posted:Half of this thread makes no sense to me; so I like to make up the meanings of the acronyms. Picture for the picture gods: Portugal? Rhodesia? The Rhodesians put old WW2 German 20mm MG 151's in their Alouettes and turned them into Gunships  The Falcon 900 in the background probably means it's not Rhodesia, though.
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Malta. Apparently we have missile pods for the drat things; because there's a missile control panel in the cockpit. The most I've seen these be armed with is an PKM, and even that was for display, never seen them be deployed armed. They're mostly used for search and rescue, as can be seen in the photo, that was a winch demonstration for some school kids.
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I used to play Halo with a few SEALS in Afghanistan and they would shout at each other to get on the crew serve and then one would jump on a mounted gun and lay down some solid suppressive fire.
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Yeah I saw that too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj74k4wu3-U
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Scratch Monkey posted:
Worked with the guy on the right with his hands kind of on his knees. That F-16 was running when all this was taking place, they were in the middle of a launch during an ORE (which is why a couple of the guys in the picture are in MOPP gear). He said that bitch just ran around for a good 20-25 minutes in and around a bunch of running aircraft before the wildlife guys were able to corral her off the flightline, guess she didn't mind loud noises. Moose/other wildlife on the flightline is almost a monthly occurrence up at Eielson.
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I think I've posted this but my instructor at nursing school was a MARSOC corpsman (until he was DADT'ed out.) I've never heard someone's voice project quite like his....
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did someone say Rhodesia?
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Somebody shaves his legs! Hubba hubba!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVkwltV1_I What is this from? E: I guess the video title was more descriptive then I thought. The Boys from Company C. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077270/ Has anyone seen it? Any good? Smoke Crack fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 25, 2013 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsV7DZmxoU
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Holy poo poo.
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Well, that was precise.
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allahu ackbar
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Is that kinda what a drone strike looks like from the receiving end? Only without the shooting-back part?
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:allahu ackbar Seriously it's the phrase for all occasions.
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Smoke Crack posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVkwltV1_I It's not bad, kind of a proto Full Metal Jacket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmqlvnHGEY
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grover posted:Is that kinda what a drone strike looks like from the receiving end? Only without the shooting-back part? For a drone strike, just pretend the guys are checking their mail or pulling weeds or something and then that happens.
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I was a bit shocked at how casually they walked around and in front if that muzzle. Then everything exploded
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Scratch Monkey posted:I was a bit shocked at how casually they walked around and in front if that muzzle. Then everything exploded Yeah I was waiting for that guy to shoot his buddy while he was loving around in front of the weapon then BOOM, death from above bitches!
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:allahu ackbar God is so great, He just blew up a bunch of my friends! Were they saying that all the time in the Libya videos too, or is it just a Syrian thing?
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Mortabis posted:God is so great, He just blew up a bunch of my friends! Were they saying that all the time in the Libya videos too, or is it just a Syrian thing? It's basically the islamic world's equivalent to using "oh my god" as an exclamation of shock, surprise, excitement, etc.
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Slashrat posted:It's basically the islamic world's equivalent to using "oh my god" as an exclamation of shock, surprise, excitement, etc. Which begs the question, does "oh my god" sound as creepy as "allahu ackbar" to non english speakers?
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Here's your American ALLAHU ACKBAR ALLAHU ACKBAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdD9L06Nqo&t=33s
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Inshallah bitches. Mufti and his friends were martyred fighting against the devil Assad. Allahu ackbar!
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