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Godholio posted:That seems insane since there's an open hatch 2 inches above the water line. im wrong. not supposed to sit that low but the difference between good and bad isn't large because there isnt a lot of freeboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAN15ndvljk
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Cole posted:We had a guy hand his NODs off to someone to use. And then that guy handed them off to someone else to use. And three hours later in the dark we are looking for NODs on the range even though somebody has them, we just don't know who. yeah never loan someone issued
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Reverand maynard posted:yeah never loan someone issued When I was like a year in my 1SG told me to leave my rifle on the 203 range because there weren't a lot of 203s and I had to be somewhere. I hand-reciepted the poo poo out of it to someone and when it turned up missing for a while they got FUUUUCKED. Made sure that the person I gave it to and my 1SG signed it. And then everyone clapped.
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Wouldn't an engineer recce team do a survey to determine how the river usually flows when the position was first established? I don't know how things are done in the US, but when my battery had to cross a water obstacle the engineers were out for days before marking routes and measuring depth. They still hosed up by not accounting for moving the guns off the ferry, and that turned into a 18 hour ordeal when our recce, FOOs, CP, security element and rations all crossed the river and we didn't. That was a long couple days of being parked beside the road, waiting for food and to re-establish contact with the unit.
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Frosted Flake posted:Wouldn't an engineer recce team do a survey to determine how the river usually flows when the position was first established? I don't know how things are done in the US, but when my battery had to cross a water obstacle the engineers were out for days before marking routes and measuring depth. Any time something goes wrong for apparently stupid reasons and you ask "Wouldn't a [person who has a specific job] have done a thing to prevent the thing?" the answer is no, because we're hosed up and too busy sitting in the arms room waiting for the CO to finish napping, or doing more mandatory quarterly trainings
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:https://www.facebook.com/dan.gardner.961/videos/10101038800913374/  Back in 2007, our OpsO proposed the idea of floating some of our LAVs across the euphrates in order to avoid a black route between Al Qaim and Rawah. I imagine that it would've ended a lot like this.
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Deathy McDeath posted:
Hey guys where have you been? We spent 72 hours recovering a vehicle adjacent to a black route. Three dead, five wounded. But we got all the sensitive items back so OpsO gets his Bronze Star for the tour.
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Deathy McDeath posted:
What a wimp. Everyone knows you ford every time.
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Redeye Flight posted:What a wimp. Everyone knows you ford every time. Hiring the Indian guide is out of the question with Haji, so I agree with you on principal here
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Dec 9, 2015 20:25
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Dysentery from the Euphrates would kill your whole party.
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if you aren't hitting bodies of water with your foot to the floor you're doing it wrong
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Dec 9, 2015 20:47
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Tanks rule for that. Floor that poo poo and don't stop until you have to hold your breath. Pro level kamikaze results in skimming across the water for a time.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:23
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Fuuuuuuuck cleaning tanks that have been sunk. It's loving miserable.
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gently caress anything to do with water at all, I was in a C130 that had a fuel leak where they had to shut off one of the engines and the fire crews were hosing the thing down with foam when we landed and I would definitely prefer that to riding in a big metal box that constantly looks like it is on the verge of sinking.
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This really doesn't have to do with an idiot, per se, but kinda. And it is a joke you can play on your friends if the situation lines up like it did for me! A guy at Ft. Campbell loaned me his car one day. But he couldn't find his keys, so he gave me the spare. When I got back, he wasn't there. So I held on to his spare key. A few days later, I realized I still had it, and he hadn't asked me about it. So I decided to have a little fun with him. If you have been to Fort Campbell and you are familiar with 1BCT and 2BCT's footprints, you know that there are two parking lots that the people living in the barracks use 24/7: one across the street from the barracks, and one behind the company. So every few days I would go out and find his car and move it from one parking lot to the other. It took him about three weeks and moving his car maybe seven times for him to ask me for his key back.
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That reminds me of a friend in high school that had an old 1984 Mercury Topaz. Apparently that was before car manufacturers started putting shifter lockouts of any kind on automatics...if he left his doors open, which he always did, we could hop in, shift to neutral, and push his loving car down the street. And we did, every chance we got. It still took months before he finally started locking his doors.
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Our NCOIC had this lovely 90s Mustang he wouldn't shut up about despite being the smaller engine of the line, and an automatic. But his parking brake sucked so it was simple to push it around anywhere we wanted to. Or watch from a house party as his mustang slowly rolled down the hill he parked on to hop a curb into the bushes. Fun times.
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nullscan posted:Our NCOIC had this lovely 90s Mustang he wouldn't shut up about despite being the smaller engine of the line, and an automatic. But his parking brake sucked so it was simple to push it around anywhere we wanted to. Or watch from a house party as his mustang slowly rolled down the hill he parked on to hop a curb into the bushes. Fun times. why didnt the dipshit just leave it in gear then?
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Dec 10, 2015 03:44
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Come on, you already know that he bought an automatic. You know he's not one for making good decisions.
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loving christ I'm glad they didn't send us to Afghanistan in our tracks. I mean, poo poo AAVs could have forded that river no problem, but you'd get the same retards operating those who would leave the same hull plugs out, just with the caveat of the vehicles being 20 years older.
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Naked Bear posted:Come on, you already know that he bought an automatic. You know he's not one for making good decisions. if thats the case then the parking pawl wouldve stopped them from pushing it. unless the dumbass let that break and not fix it either
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Deathy McDeath posted:
not to assume anything(because that is a cardinal rule in life), but an active duty lav platoon sgt would have had 8+ years of experience. at least enough to know that the driver needs to put in the hull plugs before swimming. if not that, then the gunner or 4 vic vc should have supervised. i think we've talked about this before but i'm pretty sure you guys were going home when i was getting to iraq. Thump! posted:loving christ I'm glad they didn't send us to Afghanistan in our tracks. I mean, poo poo AAVs could have forded that river no problem, but you'd get the same retards operating those who would leave the same hull plugs out, just with the caveat of the vehicles being 20 years older. you should be glad you didn't go to afghanistan because it would have been provisional infantry aka guard bitch.
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Don't AAVs need to be constantly moving forward otherwise they'll sink?
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Justin Tyme posted:Don't AAVs need to be constantly moving forward otherwise they'll sink? Thats a shark
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Booblord Zagats posted:Thats a shark Canon Naked Bear posted:Come on, you already know that he bought an automatic. You know he's not one for making good decisions. I always buy automatics because I don't gives gently caress about trying to be all super racey and poo poo. When I drive, I want little effort as possible. Much like work.
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Sports car automatics have generally been garbage until recent years. Significantly lower performance in some cases. And we're talking a 1990s Ford. You don't want those automatics.
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Yeah, I wouldn't even buy one of those intending to get an automatic. I'm not a huge car guy, but I'm also not a loving pussy idiot.
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I usually forget that there are even bigger douchecanoes than the service academies:
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Let me commute an hour driving an automatic
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Stultus Maximus posted:I usually forget that there are even bigger douchecanoes than the service academies: The worst aspects of service academies (plus little-man syndrome for not being one), the worst aspects of fraternities and the worst aspects of the south. Reverand maynard posted:Let me commute an hour driving an automatic
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The few VMI guys I've met are even bigger ring knockers than West Pointers. Still haven't figured out why service academy guys and VMI dudes have to mention where they went to school every chance they get. ROTC and OCS guys somehow get by without constantly namedropping where they went to school/commissioned from.
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A&M people seem worse than mainline service academy people too. That said I've never actually met one. Most of the officers I know went to state colleges and are pretty normal.
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Justin Tyme posted:Don't AAVs need to be constantly moving forward otherwise they'll sink? Nah, they float kinda like a really slowly sinking boat. 8 hours I think was the max time you could spend on the water before they sank, even with the bilge pumps working and everything in tip top condition.
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Casimir Radon posted:A&M people seem worse than mainline service academy people too. That said I've never actually met one. Most of the officers I know went to state colleges and are pretty normal. actually the truth is they all suck and the baseline of suck is so high that it doesn't really make a difference who sucks more. like a&m guys might suck 1200 dicks and west point guys might suck 1000 dicks. guess what they both suck a lot of dick.
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Casimir Radon posted:A&M people seem worse than mainline service academy people too. That said I've never actually met one. Most of the officers I know went to state colleges and are pretty normal. im confused. if youve never met one....how do you know they suck?
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obviously afnmfh
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Casimir Radon posted:A&M people seem worse than mainline service academy people too. That said I've never actually met one. Most of the officers I know went to state colleges and are pretty normal. academy:ROTC/OCS::fake academy:academy
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It's me. I'm the idiot. I thought the VA could help.
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I'm sorry McNally. I really am.
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