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Ensign Expendable posted:Ground pepper and condoms. Condoms do apparently make excellent rifle covers. They'll keep the barrel clean and dry, and then you can shoot right through them if you need too.
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shallowj posted:all the descriptions online of Operation Paul Bunyan (in response to the "Axe-Murder incident") mention SF guys strapping claymores to their chests.. probable exaggeration or serious SF bravado? Apparently they were South Korean SF, which is a special brand of crazy.
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:It ended with an officer noticing and losing his voice yelling at everyone involved. I don't know how you would even begin to write up a reprimand for that kind of thing. Not sure about a reprimand but the OSHA thread had the safety update briefing the incident spawned. 
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Azipod posted:Apparently they were South Korean SF, which is a special brand of crazy. PittTheElder posted:Condoms do apparently make excellent rifle covers. They'll keep the barrel clean and dry, and then you can shoot right through them if you need too.
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:It ended with an officer noticing and losing his voice yelling at everyone involved. I don't know how you would even begin to write up a reprimand for that kind of thing.
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SkySteak posted:Found this, not 100% sure its true. Did stuff like this actually happen? It's believable in the sense that stuff like this happened, but instant coffee and filters had been invented and mass produced some 15 years prior and as far as I know all the major powers used that for their militaries when they could. The United States is known for requisitioning every pound available from the G. Washington Instant Coffee Company.
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AceRimmer posted:I've also heard the same Stalingrad story, only the shipment was entirely left boots. Sounds like it's being conflated with another Soviet story, that a factory produced nothing but left shoes in order to meet its monthly quota. The order didn't specify making pairs of shoes, and since it's easier to configure the equipment to only make one kind of shoe...
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I was going to say, it's probably way more efficient to have one factory make right boots, and another make left boots. In the Soviet Union, Twix is boots.
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PittTheElder posted:I was going to say, it's probably way more efficient to have one factory make right boots, and another make left boots. I can't imagine it would be, since you'd need another facility to box the boots. Probably better to consolidate that in one place. Also, in World War II, if one of those factories gets bombed or captured you suddenly have a factory that's only producing useless singleton boots that can't be paired with the other factory's production.
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Yeah there's no way that a factory would produce only left-sided boots and would ship them like that. Once you factor in all the different sizes and models, trying to pair and distribute them would be a complete poo poo-show even during peacetime. And I can't imagine any meaningful increase in efficiency from running a single pattern in two factories versus one factory running two patterns.
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Kaal posted:Yeah there's no way that a factory would produce only left-sided boots and would ship them like that. Once you factor in all the different sizes and models, trying to pair and distribute them would be a complete poo poo-show even during peacetime. And I can't imagine any meaningful increase in efficiency from running a single pattern in two factories versus one factory running two patterns. Besides, I'm pretty sure that separating boots into artificial classes like "left" and "right" is a decadent western bourgeois affectation. In a true communist state, all boots are equal.
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sullat posted:Besides, I'm pretty sure that separating boots into artificial classes like "left" and "right" is a decadent western bourgeois affectation. In a true communist state, all boots are equal. All boots are equally uncomfortable, comrade, da?
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All boots are made on production lines easily adaptable to make AK-47 magazines.
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Slavvy posted:All boots are made on production lines easily adaptable to make AK-47 magazines. Boots double as emergency rations.
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wikipedia posted:In the Russian army, footwraps remained in use for tasks requiring the wear of heavy boots until 2013, because they were considered to offer a better fit with standard-issue boots. Their use is to be abandoned by the end of 2013. "...a better fit with standard-issue boots [circa 1944]."
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See? Foot roll up.
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Frostwerks posted:All boots are equally uncomfortable, comrade, da? One size fits none Trin Tragula posted:100 Years Ago If any photogenic dog would save Antwerp, it would be Patrasche. This past weekend, Antwerp constructed a pontoon bridge over the Scheldt to commemorate the War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTfNZSu7dAA
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Comfort is a sign of weakness and decadence. The worker's feet should be hard and durable, like Russian turnip.
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Some hikers I know still swear by footwraps instead of socks.
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Hunterhr posted:The 'Smoking me be hazardous to your health' warnings that started appearing on packs during Vietnam tend to show up a lot in memoirs as a source of great amusement to men who are trying to avoid being blown up/shot on the reg. My father saw one of those labels for the first time in a C-119 over Norway, during a night-time combat-equipment jump. He's said that the whole stick was still giggling when they made the jump a few minutes later.
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MrYenko posted:My father saw one of those labels for the first time in a C-119 over Norway, during a night-time combat-equipment jump. He's said that the whole stick was still giggling when they made the jump a few minutes later. The VC really were loving tenacious.
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Out of curiosity, is there a book you guys would recommend that explains North Korea? As in, talks about how the country came to be and how hosed it is right now, how it works internally, etc. North Korea seriously looks like something out of a Tom Clancy book.
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Azran posted:Out of curiosity, is there a book you guys would recommend that explains North Korea? As in, talks about how the country came to be and how hosed it is right now, how it works internally, etc. North Korea seriously looks like something out of a Tom Clancy book. First of all, you need a quick introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqc6H4RXos
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Azran posted:Out of curiosity, is there a book you guys would recommend that explains North Korea? As in, talks about how the country came to be and how hosed it is right now, how it works internally, etc. North Korea seriously looks like something out of a Tom Clancy book. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a good book for learning about how everyday people cope. It follows several defectors from their lives in North Korea through the path that brought them to South Korea, and their experiences coping with life there. The Aquariums of Pyongyang was highly recommended to me several times; I never got around to reading it, but it's supposed to be a great perspective on life in the prison system.
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Azran posted:Out of curiosity, is there a book you guys would recommend that explains North Korea? As in, talks about how the country came to be and how hosed it is right now, how it works internally, etc. North Korea seriously looks like something out of a Tom Clancy book. I would also recommend The Cleanest Race. From looking at the Amazon page, I see that it's been updated to include information about Kim Jong-Un, and while I can't vouch for that part of it, when I read it a few years back, it was quite informative as well.
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my dad posted:First of all, you need a quick introduction video: Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk
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Pyongyang by Guy Delise is a great graphic novel (graphic non-fiction?) of his time in North Korea as an animator for a French company. It's a relatively quick read but one that stays with you about how really hosed up things are over there.
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I have no idea how accurate it is how whatever but the Orphan Master's Son is pretty fantastic. edit - apparently it won the pulitzer?? Well I'll be damned
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AceRimmer posted:Strapping a claymore to yourself seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction to the possibility of being captured by North Koreans. I'm pretty sure this is a mutation of the Soviet joke where the right hand glove factory challenged the left hand glove factory to a production race. Slavvy posted:"...a better fit with standard-issue boots [circa 1944]." When foot wraps were scheduled to be canceled, basically everyone complained, so they got to stay. Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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 7 steps to wrap foot. No need step 5.
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wdarkk posted:Wouldn't that be carcinogenic as hell? So's wood smoke.
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SkySteak posted:Found this, not 100% sure its true. Did stuff like this actually happen? According to my Grandfather absolutely. In Vietnam they used to cook "Everything stew" in a k-pot (Steel Helmet) and one of the primary ingredients was rat which they had shot via means of basically jury rigging home made rat shot into a 45 ACP round fired from a grease gun (Not a literal grease gun, this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_submachine_gun).
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Rhymenoserous posted:According to my Grandfather absolutely. In Vietnam they used to cook "Everything stew" in a k-pot (Steel Helmet) and one of the primary ingredients was rat which they had shot via means of basically jury rigging home made rat shot into a 45 ACP round fired from a grease gun (Not a literal grease gun, this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_submachine_gun). How was rat anyway.
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shallowj posted:all the descriptions online of Operation Paul Bunyan (in response to the "Axe-Murder incident") mention SF guys strapping claymores to their chests.. probable exaggeration or serious SF bravado? Possibly, but maybe not. Prior to the 80's SK was effectively a military dictatorship so you could imagine how screwy the military was in terms of ideology. NK wasn't the absolute laughingstock/depressing humanitarian disaster it is now, so simply ignoring them wasn't something advisable.
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Here are the Englishmen in that one company with all the Englishmen in it. Wilhelm Broxolme aus Linken (Lincoln?) Othmill Schmidt aus Engellandt Thomis Harttung Engellandt Peter Kerre aus Engellendt Heinrich Poole aus Engellandt Thomas Reems aus Engellandt For some reason, they're all pikemen. Edit: Also, the Lieutenant's a Dane and there's a dude there last name Pamzkofsky. No place of origin given, but 
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Any Irish names showing up? I'm just curious because the standard procedure for Irish mercenaries was that they were recruited at home by travelling agents into already existing Irish brigades. Whereas those English guys seem to have just enlisted in a German unit?
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Rabhadh posted:Any Irish names showing up? I'm just curious because the standard procedure for Irish mercenaries was that they were recruited at home by travelling agents into already existing Irish brigades. Whereas those English guys seem to have just enlisted in a German unit? I'm not sure how these guys got where they are. Although, I did read a letter once by a dude who was deserting (if you're literate, it's customary to leave a goodbye letter) who said that since the lieutenant who recruited him was leaving the regiment he felt no obligation to stay, so I'm guessing personal ties, feudal ties, and happenstance. Or you just hop on Soldnr and see who's hiring in your area. Edit: Broxolme is listed as "reformed Fendrich" ("reformed" means "fired"), so now I'm wondering if he and the other Englishmen are remnants of some English-heavy previous company? Edit 2: God, there's no way a German speaker could spell that on the first try, so now I'm imagining Broxolme walking the Musterschreiber through it carefully one morning... HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Scottish mercenaries. The city is full with places named after them.
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JaucheCharly posted:Scottish mercenaries. The city is full with places named after them. I was just going to ask, wasn't there a rather notable amount of Scottish mercenaries running about in the 30YW? I seem to remember there being a whole Scottish company/regiment/I don't know the right word for the size of guys employed by either the Danes or Swedes, and their commander seemed to be something of a big deal.
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