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psydude posted:Now call the wrecker and watch as the drive shaft shears off. Oh I've seen it happen. Such is the course of army.
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psydude posted:Now call the wrecker and watch as the drive shaft shears off. I remember hearing radio traffic when I was in Haiti that a wrecker got stuck, then the backup wrecker got stuck, they were calling up the third and last US wrecker on the island. I don't know what happened since I ended up finishing up my guard shift but man was that hilarious.
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 I am king of stuck truck. For reference, the ginger wasn't driving. He got left with me when my driver took off in his truck to go get the tow straps. Because, obviously, we didn't bring any out here.
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I watched a 20 ton dump truck sink into 3 feet of moon dust mud because our battalion insisted that earthmoving was possible in the rain. I then watched two separate wreckers get stuck trying to pull it out. The best part was watching the Joe driving the dump truck hop out and immediately end up waist deep in mud. He had to be pulled out by his buddies. Good times.
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I never once broke track on my Bradley. Another idiot driver hosed up his brad somehow so they took ours for a patrol one day. 5 feet out the gate he broke my loving track.
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Apr 21, 2015 17:59
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i never broke down in my m997 i flipped it once or twice, and tore more cv boots than anyones business, but the bitch always ran
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Apr 21, 2015 18:03
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Don't worry you can just drive on the road wheels 
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Apr 21, 2015 18:05
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Nothing better to do right now than try and tan.
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Apr 21, 2015 18:37
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Mike-o posted:Don't worry you can just drive on the road wheels Which already have broken caps anyways because the manufacturer didn't think the vibration of driving on a tank trail would break the plastic. Oil everywhere, spent most of that day deadlined in the field.
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That one time I rolled over my MRAP. We were going the wrong way (as you did in Mosul to avoid traffic) and an Iraqi going the right way watched my lead vehicle go by, with siren blazing, and then did a blind u-turn right in front of me. My driver was 5'3" and couldn't see it coming, jerked the wheel and rolled us over. I helpfully warned everyone what was about to happen by declaiming "OOOOOH, FUUUUUUUCK!" My gunner dropped his rear end down the hatch based on that and managed to not decapitate himself. The Iraqi car looked like this. I was going to call for extraction equipment, but before I could even start 20 screaming Iraqis with impromptu crow bars pried the driver out of there, threw him on a backboard I offered up to the cause, and drove him to a hospital.  I was on a QRF call when this happened. Someone else had to do the QRF, and yet a third patrol come help recover my vehicle. Not my best day. The Slithery D fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 20:02
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Haha holy gently caress his door is hooked on your front bumper. You straight up monster-trucked that guy.
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Pro tip: that's also a good way to clean all the dust out from behind your radio mounts and other hard to reach crevices. I thought we were on fire for a couple of seconds.
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Apr 21, 2015 20:35
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psydude posted:You straight up monster-trucked that guy. good job.
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The Slithery D posted:Pro tip: that's also a good way to clean all the dust out from behind your radio mounts and other hard to reach crevices. I thought we were on fire for a couple of seconds. I thought we were hit when all the dust kicked up like that when an RPG skimmed off our Humvee hood and exploded a couple meters away, along with the IED they set off at the same time. I was pretty sure everyone else died except me. Luckily not.
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Fire suppression in a M1151 went off on the eastern afghanistan 8' wide switchbacks and I was like fuuuuuuuuuuck  til we figured out what it was
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My nations military is full of idiots, but its usually mechanics and cooks. Working with the US army has made me appreciate them more, I can't wait till this BS training is done and I can go back to home and question ilegal immigrants about ISIS! Who I pissed off to get this GOODWLL CROSS EDUCATION WITH AMERICA Idk man. Intel is supposed to be intelligent people wtf
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Pesticide20 posted:Helping with land nav training today my driver and I got a little lost, which is understandable since the dumb gently caress E6 in charge didn't even give us maps. Anyway, here's my current situation. Oh, hey, a CROWS II. They ever fix the issue where the thing would break itself and report blockages and servo problems? Mine did that on '09.
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Pesticide20 posted:Helping with land nav training today my driver and I got a little lost, which is understandable since the dumb gently caress E6 in charge didn't even give us maps. Anyway, here's my current situation. 82nd.txt
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McNally posted:Oh, hey, a CROWS II. They ever fix the issue where the thing would break itself and report blockages and servo problems? Mine did that on '09. I honestly don't know, I've never been trained on the CROWS despite being in heavy weapons for four years and two units. When I was a gunner I was in an open turret on the Mk19.
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MegaJoe89 posted:Intel is supposed to be intelligent people wtf So when do you ship out
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MegaJoe89 posted:Intel is supposed to be intelligent people wtf lol
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MegaJoe89 posted:Intel is supposed to be intelligent people wtf if you really believe this then i recommend you go intel.
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Cole posted:if you really believe this then i recommend you go intel. to get in one needs to meet the minimum of a card collection that shames all other card collections in a 50 mile radius you get to decide which card, though. could be yu gi oh, pokemon, or some other thing. this requirment also applies to commo
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Apr 22, 2015 15:45
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I believe the man children's card game of choice is magic the gathering
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Cole posted:if you really believe this then i recommend you go intel. I am from another country here on a GOODWILL TRAINING MISSION,I am an Intel analyst in my country. I go home next week, I am confident these people with high level clearance could be bribed with World of Warcraft and Hentai. Its kind of sad really....the navy VBSS guys are much cooler and much much much less retarded But I swear if people keep asking me about pasta and I'm going to scream. And no were not offended by Mario and Luigi gently caress! That and the folks at DLI when I went for a course 4 years ago, they were mostly okay. son gay. so what fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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Retarded Americans get even more retarded when a foreign person comes around and all they know about that country is vague cultural references and dumb stereotypes. Add to that even dumber army people, even worse are the dorks in intel.
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Mike-o posted:Retarded Americans get even more retarded when a foreign person comes around and all they know about that country is vague cultural references and dumb stereotypes. This is the fuckin' truth. Cue Texans proclaiming how Texas is bigger than your home country no matter what country you are from. No, fuckhead, 13 Texas' fit in my home country, look at loving globe for gently caress's sake.
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not caring here posted:This is the fuckin' truth. are you from china
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No, I have sisters.
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Mike-o posted:Retarded Americans get even more retarded when a foreign person comes around and all they know about that country is vague cultural references and dumb stereotypes. Add to that even dumber army people, even worse are the dorks in intel. Lol an American First Lieutenant took us to the Olive Garden, it was not a garden of olives nor was it Italian food. I appreciated the thought and everything and the wine wasn't horrible. I think she just wants in my pants but i feel as if my commander would frown upon THAT goodwill mission.I now know why some of my uncles moved to the U.S.! To be fair a lot of Italian women like foreigners too.
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When I was in Italy the only good place I ate at was some fried chicken restaurant outside of Venice.
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I used to get a lot of Australian military coming through my course. My students would always take them out to the outback steakhouse
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faddypaddy posted:When I was in Italy the only good place I ate at was some fried chicken restaurant outside of Venice. Venice sucks. Honestly anywhere the place is overrun with tourists is going to be either subpar or horribly expensive. Or both usually. And the really good places no one will tell you about because they're afraid it will become overrun with tourists. most of the taxi drivers are bribed by lovely tourist restraunts to bring them to their lovely restraunt. Sorry you didn't enjoy yourself it also depends what kind of food you like really I guess, were you stationed in Italy? I know a good deal of Americans and it always seems like they get screwed over and when I was living near Vincenza I tried to help them find cheap residences and food because the locals love boning Americans over and pulling the "I don't speak English" but they do.
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I was just visiting. Yes Venice itself sucked that fried chicken place kicked rear end though.
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MegaJoe89 posted:Venice sucks. Honestly anywhere the place is overrun with tourists is going to be either subpar or horribly expensive. Or both usually. And the really good places no one will tell you about because they're afraid it will become overrun with tourists. most of the taxi drivers are bribed by lovely tourist restraunts to bring them to their lovely restraunt. Sorry you didn't enjoy yourself Worst restaurant food I ever had was in Rome. Lot of nice-looking places that serve you 30 dollar balls of hair.
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faddypaddy posted:When I was in Italy the only good place I ate at was some fried chicken restaurant outside of Venice. That's really sad actually. I ate three or four of the five best meals I've had in my life during two weeks in Italy. e: christ, even street food like paninis and seafood sandwiches is pretty great. You can't throw a stick without hitting some market or cafe with fresh pizza and bread and cold cuts and coffee and poo poo. I can see you getting a few duds because Rome and Venice are packed with horrible tourist traps but still. Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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MegaJoe89 posted:Lol an American First Lieutenant took us to the Olive Garden, it was not a garden of olives nor was it Italian food. I appreciated the thought and everything and the wine wasn't horrible. I think she just wants in my pants but i feel as if my commander would frown upon THAT goodwill mission.I now know why some of my uncles moved to the U.S.! To be fair a lot of Italian women like foreigners too. Please bone that LT, especially if you are not an officer yourself.
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