The Slithery D posted:

I just found out I only get 20%.

The Slithery D posted:

I just found out I only get 20%.

LCL-Dead posted:

From the Destiny forum or reddit, not sure as the original link wasn't provided:


Context: Bungie went through and banned a good amount of people for network manipulation/cheating and now their forums/reddit are spammed with "BUT WHY ME?!"

ded posted:

I have PTSD when I hear 60hz fans from my time as a sonar tech.

STS2(SS) ded

A Kpro posted:

I used to moderate those forums... I see nothing had changed.

quote:

Vilseck-based soldier gets 25 yearsfor distributing 13,000 Ecstasy pills
By Lisa Horn
Stars and Stripes
Published: September 18, 2003


A Vilseck, Germany-based soldier will spend the next 25 years behind bars for selling and distributing the popular party drug Ecstasy.

In a two-day jury trial last week, Army Pvt. Christopher Peiffer was found guilty of distributing 13,000 Ecstasy pills over an 18-month period, according to Capt. Brian Sardelli, lead prosecutor in the case.

The lengthy sentence is equivalent to the crime, Sardelli said.

“From the government’s perspective, I think it’s a just sentence, considering the number of pills he was found in possession of,” Sardelli said. “Twenty-five years is a long time to serve, but the thing that stands out is just the number of pills.

“This is not your average case of 1,500 pills or something like that.”

Peiffer, a former soldier with the Headquarters, Headquarters Company of the 2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment, was also given a dishonorable discharge, reduced in rank to E-1 and ordered to forfeit all pay and allowances.

According to court testimony, before he enlisted in the Army Peiffer devised a plan to distribute the drug along with Christopher Yerbey, a friend in Alabama.

The two would go to Amsterdam, buy the pills and Peiffer would ship the pills back to the States for Yerbey to distribute.

“Pvt. Peiffer would take [the Ecstasy] back to the Vilseck area, and ship it via UPS where … Yerbey would sell it,” Sardelli said. “My understanding was … Pvt. Peiffer was also skimming off the top and selling here.”

After being tipped off by a confidential informant, Criminal Investigative Command officials caught Peiffer last October with 4,600 Ecstasy pills in his barracks room.

Peiffer is being held at the U.S. Army Confinement Facility at Mannheim, where a final decision will be made as to where he will serve his prison term, Sardelli said.

“My understanding is, because of the sentence, that he will be sent to [Fort] Leavenworth [Kan.],” he said.

There are currently 28 inmates out of a population of 450 at the Fort Leavenworth U.S. Disciplinary Barracks who are confined for drug possession, drug use or trafficking. All inmates at the prison must have a sentence of at least seven years and one day in order to be confined there.

Yerbey was extradited to Germany where he was convicted and is currently serving a 3½-year jail term at a German confinement facility.

During their investigation, CID agents discovered a second Vilseck soldier was also distributing Ecstasy tablets.

The soldier, Pvt. Michelle Lord of the 201st Forward Support Battalion, was caught selling the tablets to an undercover CID agent. She was convicted in April and sentenced to 44 months in prison.

She also was called to testify against Peiffer at his court-martial.

The information from the investigation has been shared with other law enforcement officials in the hope that the two dealers in Amsterdam who sold to Peiffer will also be apprehended, Sardelli said.

Arishtat posted:

So I met up with an old friend from Germany and found out that a mutual friend of ours got nailed by CID for purchasing X on the local economy and shipping it back to a friend in the US to distribute. He also sold some locally along with another soldier. She got caught selling to a CID agent and rolled over on him. He's now serving a 25 year sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas.


Ell Oh loving Ell

The funny thing is he wasn't a bad guy, he just thought he was a bit smarter than the people who were in charge. He also was guilty of buying a lowered, eighth-hand Joe BMW 318i that had to be rescued a couple of times when he high centered it on those gravel pulloffs that were common in Bavaria.

Arishtat posted:

So I met up with an old friend from Germany and found out that a mutual friend of ours got nailed by CID for purchasing X on the local economy and shipping it back to a friend in the US to distribute. He also sold some locally along with another soldier. She got caught selling to a CID agent and rolled over on him. He's now serving a 25 year sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas.

cult_hero posted:

Hah, dude gets 25 in Leavenworth while his accomplice gets 3.5 in Eurojail.

Arishtat posted:

So I met up with an old friend from Germany and found out that a mutual friend of ours got nailed by CID for purchasing X on the local economy and shipping it back to a friend in the US to distribute. He also sold some locally along with another soldier. She got caught selling to a CID agent and rolled over on him. He's now serving a 25 year sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas.


Ell Oh loving Ell

The funny thing is he wasn't a bad guy, he just thought he was a bit smarter than the people who were in charge. He also was guilty of buying a lowered, eighth-hand Joe BMW 318i that had to be rescued a couple of times when he high centered it on those gravel pulloffs that were common in Bavaria.

lightpole posted:

The US Merchant Marine Academy had something like that. One cadet had a bunch of his friends on ships going to northern Europe grab pills and he would sell them in the US. He was caught when his girlfriend sold him out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938652/posts

MANGOSTEEN CURES P posted:

Fast attack guy takes selfies in reactor spaces and with plot table, sends to chief, is surprised by crushing fist of God falling upon him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173842/U-S-sailor-charged-taking-photos-inside-nuclear-submarine.html

Godholio posted:

The timeline of that investigation makes zero sense to me.

Godholio posted:

That's a very Air Force thing of the Navy to do.

MANGOSTEEN CURES P posted:

Fast attack guy takes selfies in reactor spaces and with plot table, sends to chief, is surprised by crushing fist of God falling upon him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173842/U-S-sailor-charged-taking-photos-inside-nuclear-submarine.html

Godholio posted:

MANGOSTEEN CURES P posted:

Fast attack guy takes selfies in reactor spaces and with plot table, sends to chief, is surprised by crushing fist of God falling upon him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173842/U-S-sailor-charged-taking-photos-inside-nuclear-submarine.html

suboptimal posted:

Tried to search for it but came up empty.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

MI5 must be doing its job

Genocide Tendency posted:

Tell me thats lube

Lie to me if you have to.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

suboptimal posted:

On an unrelated note, what happened to that British sailor who publicized (whistleblowing, in his own words) a bunch of stuff about UK nukes as part of his aspirations to be the next Snowden or whatever? Tried to search for it but came up empty.

joat mon posted:

No charges or court-martial, just discharged. I guess the US equivalent world be a "good of the service" discharge.

SumYungGui posted:

Oh come on now, your discussing the American military. He'd only get that if he was an officer. Enlisted would get E1, loss of benefits, dishonorable and avoid Leavenworth if he got on someone's good side or there was a bigger story in the media at the time to distract the public's goldfish memory.

joat mon posted:

I was trying to translate the characterization of his discharge into US terms, rather than guess what he'd get in the US. I guess we'll find out, though the US kid seems more stupid and less nutty, as opposed to his British counterpart.

Filboid Studge posted:

I would expect charges will happen.

We have a much stronger secrecy culture in the UK- it may be that there is a court injunction to prevent any more reportage of the case, and a super-injunction to prevent reportage of that injunction or itself.

The Guardian posted:

McNeilly has not been heard from since he handed himself in to the police at Edinburgh airport on 18 May, the day after his story broke. While absent without leave, he had posted a dossier online alleging 30 flaws on the submarines that carry Britain’s nuclear warheads and warning that Trident was “a disaster waiting to happen”.

The navy described his dossier as “subjective and unsubstantiated” and launched an inquiry that concluded by dismissing his allegations as “factually incorrect or the result of misunderstanding or partial understanding”. But now he has hit back, fiercely defending the accuracy of what he said.

All but three of the safety flaws he highlighted were “either witnessed or read in documented reports on the patrol,” he says. The remaining three “were accurate reports of what was described to me by experienced submariners.”

“Other submariners have been anonymously releasing information to journalists. It’s only a matter of time before worse information comes out, and everything is proven to be true,” he adds.

“All of the charges against me were dropped; there’s nothing that I can be charged with now. Most people know that I acted in the interest of national security. However, I was still given a dishonourable discharge from the Royal Navy.”

He was discharged “on the claim that my sole aim was to discredit their public image”, he says. “The truth is I view the Royal Navy as the greatest navy in history.”

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Got a third of the way into Command and Control today and it seems miraculous that we didn't have any kind of accidental detonation during the fifties.

Smiling Jack posted:

Quite possibly one of the most terrifying books I have ever read.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Jet fuel does melt nuclear weapons.