Military Pictures and Youtube Thread - I'm a Tomcat guy and a homo

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RichieHimself: May 27, 2004; No way dude, she looks like Gargamel.

Zeris posted:

Counterpoint: Kiowas.

Kiowa pilots are the annoying friend we all had in middle school who just had to lie and tell the worst stories about what he did after school, and ignored everyone's failure to take him seriously.

I have never seen an army sub-community more in denial at their lack of ability to contribute to the wars in Iraq/Aghanistan. Even chemical officers are resigned to their fate as the USR bitch (or whatever that spreadsheet pain-orgy was called). Field artillery becomes infantry or intel. MPs become detainee abuse SMEs.

But kiowa pilots, no, they put on their stetsons, fire their 9mils out the window and splooge a whooping 8 rockets and/or 300 rounds of .50cal poorly aimed by grease-pencil reticle drawn on their windshield interior (I am not making this up), assuming they haven't already gone bingo fuel thanks to hauling a franksteined-airframe with CMWS and useless FLIR, nearly doubled in weight in unironic yet unintentional homage to the Pentagon Wars, only to come back to base with their erection in one hand and a dip bottle in the other bragging to me about how they killed "about" 15 Talibans and "probably saved" the ground guys (actually, not implausible once 3rd BCT 25th ID rotated in).

And, like all actually good ideas, (army-wide multicam, etc.) Kiowas are only now being phased out of existence, to be replaced by more apaches.

poo poo man, I loved the Kiowas we had in Iraq. We rarely got drone coverage so most of the time the only way we could know what was going on around us was the Kiowas. Those guys always showed up when we had contact and were excellent at tracking poo poo and even just hanging around while we patrolled.

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Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

bitcoin bastard posted:

Are hangars filled with multiple multi-million dollar planes ever abandoned to the point where a sentry couldn't pull a fire handle?

Yes. We routinely operate Army aircraft (Well, they're DD1149'd to us) out of small private (and uncontrolled) airfields. There aren't "sentries" in the first place, there's probably a security guard at night once the offices shut down, but unless there's night-shift maintenance going on those hangars are locked and dark. The deluge system was required to be installed because otherwise the Army won't let us keep their aircraft in the hangar if it has fuel in it.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 14:47

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ? Aug 6, 2015 15:05

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

RichieHimself posted:

poo poo man, I loved the Kiowas we had in Iraq. We rarely got drone coverage so most of the time the only way we could know what was going on around us was the Kiowas. Those guys always showed up when we had contact and were excellent at tracking poo poo and even just hanging around while we patrolled.

That's interesting, and maybe explains why everyone was so excited to "contribute" in Afghanistan. I never witnessed their utility in (nor did I go to) Iraq. But it makes sense that they could do more on flat terrain, without the power concerns of flying at 7000'+ MSL and having to travel 60km+ just to reach their ground POC, etc.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 15:16

Sax Offender: Sep 9, 2007; College Slice

gfanikf posted:

The best gay pride photo.

I love the Vark.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 15:32

Dilettante.: Feb 18, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic

# ? Aug 6, 2015 21:49

Mike-o: Dec 25, 2004; Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed; Grimey Drawer

Hunter S Thompson is my spirit animal.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 22:04

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Mike-o posted:

Shim is my spirit animal.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 22:47

Booblord Zagats: Oct 30, 2011; Pork Pro

Col. Gathers is mine

# ? Aug 6, 2015 22:48

Fucitol: May 8, 2005; Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam

Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

i'm trans LGM-30G Minuteman III or RNEP depending on mood. please refer to me as either little boy or fat man

tia

# ? Aug 6, 2015 23:23

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkr9Q4llMc

# ? Aug 7, 2015 18:50

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

Chinatown posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkr9Q4llMc

mgs v dogge DLC looking good

# ? Aug 7, 2015 18:52

Scratch Monkey: Oct 25, 2010; 👰Proč bychom se netě�ili🥰kdy� n�m P�n Bůh🙌🏻zdrav� d�💪?

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Yeah, that's about right for the people you meet at Indiantown Gap.

I hope that place burns down.

At least they fixed up the barracks in recent years.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 20:55

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Scratch Monkey posted:

At least they fixed up the barracks in recent years.

Barely. There are still a lot of in-use shitholes there.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 21:55

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

# ? Aug 10, 2015 01:17

Genocide Tendency: Dec 24, 2009; I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.

Wedding photography class?

# ? Aug 10, 2015 01:52

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

Genocide Tendency posted:

Wedding photography class?

# ? Aug 10, 2015 02:11

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Genocide Tendency posted:

Wedding photography class?

noice

# ? Aug 10, 2015 02:48

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Genocide Tendency posted:

Wedding photography class?

Took me a minute

# ? Aug 10, 2015 04:46

Mike-o: Dec 25, 2004; Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed; Grimey Drawer

Holy poo poo I'm dumb, that took me four hours to get.

Tbf to myself I just kept thinking about how silly it is that the U.S. Air Force contracted out to a Russian plane sperg developer to make their a-10 trainer.

Mike-o fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Aug 10, 2015

# ? Aug 10, 2015 04:52

Sauer: Sep 13, 2005; Socialize Everything!

I think its some air national guard unit actually.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:48

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Individual units don't establish their own training materials and that thing doesn't count as a sim for currency or pipeline training. They're either loving around, or that's a very early intro to something or other in the pipeline.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:52

Mike-o: Dec 25, 2004; Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed; Grimey Drawer

So in other words it's "training" like the "training" my company had playing the military version of ArmA "learning" how to conduct convoy operations but ended up being a team killing free for all with our CO yelling in the background.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 06:17

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

lemme show yall somethin about Force Projection

*walk over and turns on projector*

# ? Aug 10, 2015 06:21

iyaayas01: Feb 19, 2010; Perry'd

Godholio posted:

Individual units don't establish their own training materials and that thing doesn't count as a sim for currency or pipeline training. They're either loving around, or that's a very early intro to something or other in the pipeline.

It's the RPA version of whatever that thing is that UPT students go through out at Pueblo where they fly around in little Cirrus's or whatever the gently caress for a couple of weeks with old retiree instructors (IFS I think, I can't remember what it's called for the RPA pipeline). It's down at Randolph and every RPA pipeline 18X'er goes through it for a couple weeks before heading to the FTU at Holloman.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 07:03

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Chinatown posted:

lemme show yall somethin about Force Projection

*walk over and turns on projector*

*sits down backwards on a chair, AC Slater style*

# ? Aug 10, 2015 07:27

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

That's actually ANG A-10 pilots.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 07:37

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYYFhCuRJyw
actual USMC training software.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 07:52

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

C.M. Kruger posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYYFhCuRJyw
actual USMC training software.

holy poo poo i heard about those back in the day and looked for months to get the wads but never did

poo poo i bet they're online somewhere now

also love the wolfenstein sprites in there

# ? Aug 10, 2015 08:40

Duke Chin: Jan 11, 2002; _{^{Roger That:}}
MILK CRATES INBOUND

_{_{^{- FUCK THE HABS -}}}

Genocide Tendency posted:

Wedding photography class?

...goddamn. :golfclap:

# ? Aug 10, 2015 09:26

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Are you guys saying... I can play video games if I join the military???

:captainpop:

And get PAID for it??

# ? Aug 10, 2015 16:00

Syncopated: Oct 21, 2010

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/630117316479614980/pu/vid/1280x720/NABeOKonN3mBh9Ti.mp4

Clip of Trump from the debate.

# ? Aug 10, 2015 16:51

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Syncopated posted:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/630117316479614980/pu/vid/1280x720/NABeOKonN3mBh9Ti.mp4

Clip of Trump from the debate.

Needs him imagining Megyn Kelly in GQ:

# ? Aug 10, 2015 17:12

Keppi: Jan 13, 2010

There's probably been loads of Robin Williams's stand up clips posted from when he was doing gigs for the troops, but this was new to me and cracked me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cheP56UP3oI

# ? Aug 10, 2015 17:14

hostile apostle: Aug 29, 2006; Stadia didn't outlive SA but it did outlive Lowtax - Happy Birthday Stadia! #ad

On August 7, 1955, Tex Johnston flew a Boeing 707 prototype over Lake Washington and executed two barrel rolls in one of the company's first commercial jets.

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