Booblord Zagats posted:

WW2 seems like the best case scenario for a complete breakdown of the CoC

Mustang posted:

Didn't that one LT in band of brothers execute a squad leader for cowardice at one point? If I remember correctly the guy reported his actions up but everyone in his chain of command ended up dying and nothing ever came of it.

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Sobel returned to the United States after the war, and worked as an accountant before being recalled to active duty during the Korean War.[7] He remained in the Army National Guard, eventually retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He later married, and had three children.[8]

In the late 1960s, Sobel shot himself in the head with a small-caliber pistol.[9] The bullet entered his left temple, passed behind his eyes, and exited out the other side of his head. This severed his optic nerves and left him blind.[9] He was later moved to a VA assisted living facility in Waukegan, Illinois. Sobel resided there for his last seventeen years until his death due to malnutrition on September 30, 1987.[9] No services were held for Sobel after his death.[9]

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Sobel?

also goddamn dude had a rough life

Mustang posted:

Didn't that one LT in band of brothers execute a squad leader for cowardice at one point?

LingcodKilla posted:

I got to spend an evening and bunk house with the non famous E company medic years ago during a reenactment event. I was top bunk and he was bottom and he told me stories until I passed out.

It was magical.

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Three feet high and only half as wide, the 178-foot tunnel burrowed beneath a pair of camp fences and exited on the banks of the Arizona Crosscut Canal. It was illuminated by an electric light and was filled in places with muddy water. Although U.S. Army archival drawings made after the tunnel's discovery show a neatly dug underground trench, Moore writes that these sketches are far too flattering. "Nobody had the slightest idea how to dig a tunnel," he quotes one of the fugitives as saying. "It was our first, you understand."

Hoza says that most of the deserters knew a successful escape was a long shot. "They didn't think they'd make it back to Germany," he said. "They treated it like a big prank. They were bored."

Palmer recalls being more hopeful. "I thought if I could get to Mexico, I could make it home," he says. "My plan was to try to go to Guaymas, then stow away on a ship to South America. From there, I could return to Germany and the war."

Lammersdorf stayed behind. "It was useless to go into the desert without a clear plan. Mexico was far away, and most of us had no desire to expose ourselves to real hardships. We had a good life. We were well fed, we spent many hours reading and relaxing, with no trouble from our friends, the guards."

LingcodKilla posted:

And this is why I'm never opening the surprisingly heavy scrotum shaped leather bag we found in pop-pops war chest.

Phanatic posted:

At the annual WWII airshow in reading I got to talk with one of the German POWs who was held at the POW camp on the outskirts of Phoenix. The Phoenix alt-paper had a really great article on these guys, it was a total shitshow of Marx(brothers)ian proportions. Nobody really gave a poo poo because even if they broke out they weren't getting far. A bunch of them did break out and...didn't get very far. One of them would repeatedly break back *in* to pick up on camp gossip about where they were searching, and he'd break out again to relay the info. One turned himself in when he found out what the camp Christmas menu was like. Some of them brought along planks so they could build rafts to float down the Salt River, and were dismayed to find that the Salt River is often not really a river, just a dry bed.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/flight-from-phoenix-6418278

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"Most of them were 4F, the lowest military rating, and couldn't qualify for combat. They became military policemen and prison guards."

MurderBot posted:

At least she can do all the prison photoshop tasks, probably beats kitchen duty.

Mike-o posted:

She paid someone else to do the photoshopping.

Edit: was going to pay but he did it for free because he thought a mother was actually grieving and not a murderous bitch.

Mike-o posted:

She paid someone else to do the photoshopping.

Edit: was going to pay but he did it for free because he thought a mother was actually grieving and not a murderous bitch.

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In between, Ditty sought out the services of Sunny Jo, a Pennsylvania-based photographer who specializes in photoshopped portraits with deceased family members. Ditty told Jo that her daughter had choked to death on a banana.

“I felt so bad for the grieving mother that I decided to do $500 worth of work for free because of the situation,” Jo told WNCN-TV.

canyoneer posted:

http://jezebel.com/woman-who-commissioned-ghost-photos-with-dead-daughte-1768422467

Mom: toughest job in the Army

Soulex posted:

Oh my god.

Also choking on a banana? That's pretty obscure

Mike-o posted:

She paid someone else to do the photoshopping.

Edit: was going to pay but he did it for free because he thought a mother was actually grieving and not a murderous bitch.

canyoneer posted:

http://jezebel.com/woman-who-commissioned-ghost-photos-with-dead-daughte-1768422467

Mom: toughest job in the Army

Godholio posted:

canyoneer posted:

http://jezebel.com/woman-who-commissioned-ghost-photos-with-dead-daughte-1768422467

Mom: toughest job in the Army

Bulky Bartokomous posted:

Would

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Jarring videos showing the moments when an Albuquerque police officer was shot several times by his own lieutenant during an undercover operation were released Thursday, following the settlement of a lawsuit that awarded the wounded officer $6.5 million.

"I didn't know it was you!" says Albuquerque Police Department Lt. Greg Brachle moments after putting at least eight bullets into APD Officer Jacob Grant in January 2015.

Video from Brachle's lapel shows him running up to a vehicle that Grant was sitting in with suspects and yelling "gun," then promptly firing his weapon.

"Oh s---, that was Jacob! F--- me!" Brachle is heard saying. "Are you OK?" Brachle asks Grant. "No," Grant answers.

An officer is heard yelling "Jacob hang in there man!" after the accident. The lawsuit later filed by Grant said the officer lost 80 percent of the blood in his body.

A suspect asks why they were being shot at. The charges against the two suspects in the undercover drug operation were eventually dropped, according to NBC affiliate KOB.

canyoneer posted:

http://jezebel.com/woman-who-commissioned-ghost-photos-with-dead-daughte-1768422467

Mom: toughest job in the Army

Wild T posted:

I want to send this to every rear end-kissing, soldier-sniffing sycophant motherfucker who someone determined that a uniform equals a higher standard. Yeah, I did some time, leave me alone and stop talking. By the way, here's a mom who exploited your sentient to get extremely poorly made photoshops done for the kid her and her beau just beat to death.

Fay Ett loving Nam. I need to go drink beer now.

DownByTheWooter posted:

Isn't Abq the police department with the Feds in their rear end for shooting people all the god drat time, too? Hahaha I'm pretty sure that came about from that sick gopro video from the end of an M4 clone lighting up some homeless dude.

DownByTheWooter posted:

Isn't Abq the police department with the Feds in their rear end for shooting people all the god drat time, too? Hahaha I'm pretty sure that came about from that sick gopro video from the end of an M4 clone lighting up some homeless dude.