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So it's a status thing? Only the important guys rank high enough to earn a pistol.
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Yeah it's a status/"you gone and hosed up now son" type thing. It didn't work every time, but playing off the fear of the past regime is really effective at crowd management over there.
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That's a neat war anecdote.
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My go-to excuse for why I couldn't stop and visit was always "my sergeant will beat me if I do" because Arabs understand that, right?
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Non deploying navy fail fags whove never heard the pistol story before found, nice job wimps. Next youll be telling us youve never heard afghans refer to americans as russian and chem lights being used to make force fields and dick sucking/anal fingering actually being really cool to do while deployed with your wife at home cause it relieves some stress, you queer navy fucks
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Whoa, theres a pool where saddam executed some soccer team? And cumming in a dudes mouth might feel better than a womans? No way!--some gay navy retard whos never deployed, fag
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I'm an AF vet and I've deployed to the Dutch Caribbean. How about you show some goddamn respect?
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holocaust bloopers posted:I'm an AF vet and I've deployed to the Dutch Caribbean. How about you show some goddamn respect? thanks 4 ur service
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holocaust bloopers posted:I'm an AF vet and I've deployed to the Dutch Caribbean. How about you show some goddamn respect? You should thank us for your service.
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anne frank fanfic posted:Non deploying navy fail fags whove never heard the pistol story before found, nice job wimps. Next youll be telling us youve never heard afghans refer to americans as russian and chem lights being used to make force fields and dick sucking/anal fingering actually being really cool to do while deployed with your wife at home cause it relieves some stress, you queer navy fucks  Also, cornhole with nods.
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Also, corn hole with nods. expert mode no depth perception challenge
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That pistol thing is not true and anyone who says different is a loving liar, on par with some brit saying he bayonetted people while clearing houses. lol
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FISTS CURE WOMEN posted:That pistol thing is not true and anyone who says different is a loving liar, on par with some brit saying he bayonetted people while clearing houses. Soldier who led Afghanistan bayonet charge into hail of bullets honoured
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FISTS CURE WOMEN posted:That pistol thing is not true and anyone who says different is a loving liar, on par with some brit saying he bayonetted people while clearing houses. I bet it does jack poo poo now. But it worked (most of the time) when Iraqis thought all marines had to kill their family to join or that nods are literally magic. Or any of the other fifty million things they would believe. I question your faith in the average Iraqi civilian intelligence.
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holocaust bloopers posted:I'm an AF vet and I've deployed to the Dutch Caribbean. How about you show some goddamn respect?
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holocaust bloopers posted:I'm an AF vet and I've deployed to the Dutch Caribbean. How about you show some goddamn respect? The weirdest thing about my career is that was my least enjoyable deployment. Certainly can't call it bad, but it was definitely the one I had the least fun on.
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Godholio posted:The weirdest thing about my career is that was my least enjoyable deployment. Certainly can't call it bad, but it was definitely the one I had the least fun on. That's because the Caribbean is just West Africa with better advertising
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Booblord Zagats posted:That's because the Caribbean is just West Africa with better advertising 'Bola and the beach.
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Y'all can read more about my deployment at cisvet.tumbler.com
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Vasudus posted:I thank my lucky stars that all the times I fired warning shots at civs I never had a bad ricochet. Because seriously what the gently caress. I've seen/heard some absolutely insane things happen with those. Same thing with the Afghans. The explanation I heard was that the Russians executed guys with pistols. Everything else is abstract, but if you flash a pistol they think you're about to put one in their dome.
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Yep he sure actually stabbed someone in that "charge" too didn't he? Vasudus posted:I bet it does jack poo poo now. But it worked (most of the time) when Iraqis thought all marines had to kill their family to join or that nods are literally magic. Or any of the other fifty million things they would believe. Mmmhmm yes because this is all very true and realistic. Frosted Flake posted:Same thing with the Afghans. The explanation I heard was that the Russians executed guys with pistols. Everything else is abstract, but if you flash a pistol they think you're about to put one in their dome. Is GiP just full of idiots who have never actually done anything in the military now?
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FISTS CURE WOMEN posted:Is GiP just full of idiots who have never actually done anything in the military now? I thought GiP was mostly a safe space for chickenhawks with reprehensible opinions at this point
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Smiling Jack posted:I thought GiP was mostly a safe space for chickenhawks with reprehensible opinions at this point also butts and dogs
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FISTS CURE WOMEN posted:Is GiP just full of idiots who have never actually done anything in the military now? I'll have you know they had to re-write the RoEs when I cleverly side-stepped all international laws of warfare by targeting enemy belt buckles with a ma deuce. Now who is the idiot.
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Victor Vermis posted:I'll have you know they had to re-write the RoEs when I cleverly side-stepped all international laws of warfare by targeting enemy belt buckles with a ma deuce.
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Current events thread So shut the gently caress up about war Last war ended 2 days ago This is a peacetime thread
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poo poo has gone downhill every since Mr Rogers left the corps. Spicy Guacamole posted:That's dumb because it'll still blast them in half. You want to aim for their canteen so that it only blows their arms off. pro move is to fire 50 cal "warning shots." The air pressure is so extreme it will kill anyone who the bullet flies next to. Oohrah Best Friends Posts: 3789 Rank: Major Sergeant "Face Front Towards Enemey" 
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Zeris posted:Current events thread Is Iraq part III a war yet? It has a snazzy operation name now. Also In actual current events, sounds like we blew up some more al-Shahab dudes. I know that one's not a war but I don't know what else you call using military force to achieve political ends. Oh wait we don't have any political ends, we're just trying to kill people.
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Zeris posted:Current events thread If you don't see the correlation between urban warfare myths and the academic perception that the modern US military is FAILING to adapt to 4th generation warfare then I don't even know. It isn't failing. It isn't trying. Because voters don't give a poo poo about counterinsurgency anymore than they give a poo poo about social reform. Kill the browns/Arrest the browns. Just don't pee on them or bring a glock to a centuries-of-oppression-fueled fist fight.
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iyaayas01 posted:Is Iraq part III a war yet? It has a snazzy operation name now.
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Victor Vermis posted:If you don't see the correlation between urban warfare myths and the academic perception that the modern US military is FAILING to adapt to 4th generation warfare then I don't even know. We just weren't agile enough for these wars. We need US army battalion combat teams. Critical MOS shortages preventing this configuration, otherwise necessary to ensure six months of fighting/sustainability operations on foreign land, will be met by financial incentives, waivers, and lots o' women and gays.
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Is there a Time Machine Operator MOS? That might be a good start for un-loving the middle east.
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I'm just going to tell these 19 year olds with barely any education or experience with people other than themselves that they are going to a land full of evil savages who personally destroyed the world trade center, and that their mission in life is to kill, then i'm going to act extremely shocked and disappointed when some of them actually shoot iraqis. then i'm going to go on television and assure america that we are building a new, better, democratic iraq once the security conditions improve. then, I'm going to ask the 19 year olds to tear down some schools so iraqi peasants from the other kind of islam can build a fortress there instead. then i'm going to be extremely shocked when some iraqi peasants from the other kind of islam kill rape and pillage the local area. Oh no, it didn't work! It was probably because we didn't have enough "will."
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Asian airlines go one for three on finding missing airplanes in 2014, dashing mother nature's hopes for a no-hitter http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/30/world/asia/airasia-missing-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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meanwhile, in a landlocked ancient shithole hmmm, pouring infinite money into the most backwards, corrupt society on earth has not actually translated into scalable, viable infrastructure projects. and somehow, this society full of people who cannot read has not become a functioning democracy either. man, this lack of will is sure killing us here. just not enough gumption really. just need to put our backs into it.
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Best Friends posted:I'm just going to tell these 19 year olds with barely any education or experience with people other than themselves that they are going to a land full of evil savages who personally destroyed the world trade center, and that their mission in life is to kill, then i'm going to act extremely shocked and disappointed when some of them actually shoot iraqis. then i'm going to go on television and assure america that we are building a new, better, democratic iraq once the security conditions improve. then, I'm going to ask the 19 year olds to tear down some schools so iraqi peasants from the other kind of islam can build a fortress there instead. then i'm going to be extremely shocked when some iraqi peasants from the other kind of islam kill rape and pillage the local area. iyaayas01 posted:
At this point we have pretty much accepted that western military might is incapable of achieving any kind of goal or strategic progress, much less something approaching "victory", and is capable only of sowing further death, murder, ruin and destruction through the greater middle east. And I think most people in this thread are fine with that.
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Smiling Jack posted:Still angry about Lexington and Concord eh 
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Asian airlines go one for three on finding missing airplanes in 2014, dashing mother nature's hopes for a no-hitter 2/3, pretty sure they found the one in Ukraine as well. If you round up that's practically passing. http://observer.com/2014/12/russians-rage-against-america/ Russians mad. Ruble down more, things going to start looking grim over there soon.
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Don't get mad at us because your economy is poo poo and can't stand on its own legs.
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Victor Vermis posted:Is there a Time Machine Operator MOS? That might be a good start for un-loving the middle east. Reroute the enola gay?
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