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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


I had a coworker (marine vet) who would jerk off and try nail the field mice in his base at night while wearing night vision goggles.

Seems complicated but I've never been there.

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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

LingcodKilla posted:

I had a coworker (marine vet) who would jerk off and try nail the field mice in his base at night while wearing night vision goggles.

Seems complicated but I've never been there.

sounds like good training hooah

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

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.

They also have a couple of smoking hot broads working there.

And back to WWII idiot stories:

The only real story my granddad every told was about his time in infantry right after the invasion. He and a buddy got separated from their squad, and wandered through the night until they found an American AAA unit. They chilled with them and were in the middle of eating when a P-47 flew overhead in a close dogfight with an Fw-190 (he was always an airplane guy, with his own T-6). He said the AAA guys started lighting up the sky, and accidentally shot down the P-47. The guy parachuted out, and a little while later came up to them screaming. He maintained, for 60 years, he had never seen a human being as angry as that pilot that day.

Can't say I blame him.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
How does that German WWII joke go? Field identification if aircraft: if they're shooting at us, they're British. If they're shooting at everyone, they're American. And if they're invisible, that's one of ours

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris
proof that ada has always been full of dumb fucks

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



canyoneer posted:

How does that German WWII joke go? Field identification if aircraft: if they're shooting at us, they're British. If they're shooting at everyone, they're American. And if they're invisible, that's one of ours

It works for if you come across an unidentified company of infantry as well. If you come across a group that you can't identify, fire a warning shot and gauge what you get in return. If it's a withering barrage of accurate rifle fire, it's Brits. If it's a withering shredding of machine gun fire, it's Germans. If you get nothing, retreat, because it's Americans and they're about to pound you with artillery.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

There is a reason that even in a nation that hanged their last murderer in the late 60's, then had the high court determine that executions were unconstitutional in the early 70's, that you can still be executed for poo poo like that in the military.

Effectively, it is automatically commuted to detention at the pleasure of Her Majesty, but still. Sometimes people desperately require a good hanging.

Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 5, 2016

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Spacman posted:

There is a reason that even in a nation that hanged their last murderer in the late 60's, then had the high court determine that executions were unconstitutional in the early 70's, that you can still be executed for poo poo like that in the military.

Effectively, it is automatically commuted to detention at the pleasure of Her Majesty, but still. Sometimes people desperately require a good hanging.

Dig up Albert Pierrepoint. He'd come back from the dead for this.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

canyoneer posted:

How does that German WWII joke go? Field identification if aircraft: if they're shooting at us, they're British. If they're shooting at everyone, they're American. And if they're invisible, that's one of ours

Variation was: If an aircraft is camouflaged, they're British. If an aircraft is silver, they're American. If they're invisible, that's one of ours.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Dig up Albert Pierrepoint. He'd come back from the dead for this.

Pierrepoint is a great example. He realised that capital punishment was totally useless in the late 30's, kept doing it during the early '40's then, at the request of the home office, hung a fuckload of nazis because they were nazis. Then after hanging a fuckload of nazis quit the list.

The dude realised capital punishment was poo poo and wanted out but realised some fuckers need to hang.

e: There is a highly modified version of his hanging activities in movie form: Pierreoint the last hangman out there. Fucker hangs nazis by the bushel for days.

Ohhhh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lqYoBS5kQ Youtube

Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Apr 6, 2016

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Frosted Flake posted:

Variation was: If an aircraft is camouflaged, they're British. If an aircraft is silver, they're American. If they're invisible, that's one of ours.

I don't get the invisibility bit. Are they saying they had no air support or that they had the best planes?

Affi
Dec 18, 2005

Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA
No air support

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Kawasaki Nun posted:

I don't get the invisibility bit. Are they saying they had no air support or that they had the best planes?

By the late stages of the war the Allies had pretty much destroyed the German air force, and had total air superiority over Europe.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Kawasaki Nun posted:

I don't get the invisibility bit. Are they saying they had no air support or that they had the best planes?

Read primary source German descriptions of what happened at the battle of the bulge during withdrawl under constant attack aircraft harrassment.

Then realise that the AH-64 and the A-10 were developed from their initial engeneering drawings with that situation in mind in the Fulda Gap...

Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 7, 2016

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

LingcodKilla posted:

I had a coworker (marine vet) who would jerk off and try nail the field mice in his base at night while wearing night vision goggles.

Seems complicated but I've never been there.

princecoo
Sep 3, 2009

Thump! posted:

It works for if you come across an unidentified company of infantry as well. If you come across a group that you can't identify, fire a warning shot and gauge what you get in return. If it's a withering barrage of accurate rifle fire, it's Brits. If it's a withering shredding of machine gun fire, it's Germans. If you get nothing, retreat, because it's Americans and they're about to pound you with artillery.

and if it's a withering barrage of accurate rifle fire, then afterwards you find somebody has stolen all your equipment, it was Australians

Rude Dude With Tude
Apr 19, 2007

Your President approves this text.
Holy poo poo, Caro lives https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e1a3_story.html

Washington Post posted:

The Syrian government has freed an American freelance photographer who was abducted after traveling to the country in 2012, according to two U.S. officials.

Kevin Patrick Dawes, 33, from San Diego, was released following many months of negotiations, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details of Dawes’s release have not yet been made public.

Dawes has been allowed to call his family and receive care packages, a signal to officials that the Syrian government was moving toward releasing him, officials said. The U.S. State Department had taken the lead on winning Dawes’s release.

Officials said the Czech Republic, which represents American interests in Syria, played a role in talks with the Syrians. The United States closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012 as the war intensified.

Dawes’s family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Dawes’s case drew little attention in the media but his release is believed to be a positive sign in securing the freedom of freelance journalist Austin Tice, another American hostage and former U.S. Marine who disappeared in Syria in 2012. Tice had been contributing articles to The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other news outlets.

The Syrian government has never acknowledged detaining Tice, but U.S. officials believe the government or a group affiliated with it is holding him.

“The [Dawes’s] private, painful ordeal is finally over. We are delighted for Kevin & his family,” said a statement from a Twitter account associated with the Tice family.

State Department spokesman John Kirby on Friday confirmed that an American had been released.

“While privacy considerations prevent us from commenting further, we continue to work through our Czech protecting power in Syria to get information on the welfare and whereabouts of Austin Tice and other U.S. citizens missing and detained in Syria,” Kirby said in a statement. “We appreciate the efforts of the Czech mission on behalf of U.S. persons.”

Dawes was taken after crossing into Syria from Turkey, according to the FBI. This wasn’t the first time he had gone to a conflict zone.

In June 2011, he traveled to Libya as a medical aid worker but then fought alongside forces battling Moammar Gaddafi’s government. He said the Libyan government had been targeting medical workers.

“It was at that point we decided we had no choice,” he told NPR in an interview in 2011 from Libya. “It was either this, or perish from here.”

Dawes told NPR that at one point in Libya he started carrying a rifle and began working as a “counter sniper. Actually, I watch windows and take out people cliquing at us.”

Dawes told NPR he was never in the U.S. military but had 10 years of experience as a trained marksman.

Dawes described in the interview his reasons for being in Libya. “See the world, experience new things, get in way over my head, but, you know, ultimately survive.”

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
It's amazing how news about Caro actually fits in so many threads.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

who is Caro?

Just a journalist that was like "Gonna go cover this here war!"?

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost
Holy loving poo poo

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Soulex posted:

who is Caro?

Just a journalist that was like "Gonna go cover this here war!"?

Replace "journalist" with "guy with a camera who honestly believed the CIA was after him."

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Godholio posted:

Replace "journalist" with "guy with a camera who honestly believed the CIA was after him and that he should perform untrained battlefield surgery in Libya and Syria."

Nerdlord Actual
Apr 14, 2007

Awaken to your true self with Wisconsin Potatoes
Grimey Drawer

Soulex posted:

who is Caro?

Just a journalist that was like "Gonna go cover this here war!"?

Okay so.

Caro was a regular here on the forums or a long while before his 'Death Camp' issue happened. He regularly came walking into the Cop and Milthreads claiming that the people in them were agents of the CIA and that they were out to get him and also that he knew the deep secrets of reality and how the government conspiracies worked. Standard paranoid schizophrenic stuff. Eventually, once the war in Syria and Libya kicked off, he decided he was going to go off and be a 'journalist' and 'medic' and 'sniper' only he vanished.

We all figured he'd been dumped in a mass grave somewhere.

Guess not.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Godholio posted:

Replace "journalist" with "guy with a camera who honestly believed the CIA was after him."

Haha what the fyou ck

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Phuzzy posted:

Okay so.

Caro was a regular here on the forums or a long while before his 'Death Camp' issue happened. He regularly came walking into the Cop and Milthreads claiming that the people in them were agents of the CIA and that they were out to get him and also that he knew the deep secrets of reality and how the government conspiracies worked. Standard paranoid schizophrenic stuff. Eventually, once the war in Syria and Libya kicked off, he decided he was going to go off and be a 'journalist' and 'medic' and 'sniper' only he vanished.

We all figured he'd been dumped in a mass grave somewhere.

Guess not.

:gonk: wow. That's uh... Wow

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
It's worth mentioning that he went to Libya, returned successfully (I believe he made the news while there), then decided to go to Syria.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Phuzzy posted:

Okay so.

Caro was a regular here on the forums or a long while before his 'Death Camp' issue happened. He regularly came walking into the Cop and Milthreads claiming that the people in them were agents of the CIA and that they were out to get him and also that he knew the deep secrets of reality and how the government conspiracies worked. Standard paranoid schizophrenic stuff. Eventually, once the war in Syria and Libya kicked off, he decided he was going to go off and be a 'journalist' and 'medic' and 'sniper' only he vanished.

We all figured he'd been dumped in a mass grave somewhere.

Guess not.

also he hated shep most of all

and he would PM people unabomber messages that were insanely long and insane

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah
His hatred of shep was what reminded us all that even with the darkness in his mind, he was still human

Nerdlord Actual
Apr 14, 2007

Awaken to your true self with Wisconsin Potatoes
Grimey Drawer

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

also he hated shep most of all

and he would PM people unabomber messages that were insanely long and insane

Oh right he also :toxx:ed for a fightfight with Shep but vanished before it happened.

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost
I think one of the mods had a friend or some poo poo who claims to have seen him in a Syrian death prion begging people to kill him and I never believed it.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

Dillbag posted:

I think one of the mods had a friend or some poo poo who claims to have seen him in a Syrian death prion begging people to kill him and I never believed it.

That wasn't a mod friend, that was a dude who got away from there and was debriefed, IIRC.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
youtube screwing up

This was his user id

user/orac22/videos

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Its good to see that being an American still means something!

BlueBull
Jan 21, 2007

Godholio posted:

It's worth mentioning that he went to Libya, returned successfully (I believe he made the news while there), then decided to go to Syria.

Basically, John Rambo

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


The Czech Republic, not just good for porn.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

princecoo posted:

and if it's a withering barrage of accurate rifle fire, then afterwards you find somebody has stolen all your equipment, it was Australians

My wife's grandfather was court-martialled just before VJ day for stealing bedsheets from the RAN ship his army unit was hitching a ride on. The full colonel in charge of the trial gave him and his mates some extra PT even though the charge could have carried a sentence of execution, with the rationale of "there's a war on and we need all the men we can get". The story goes that they were doing jumping jacks when word came that the bombs had gone down and the Rising Sun had gone tits-up.

Also loving amazed that Caro lives. I assumed his remains would have been exhumed as part of war crimes investigations sometime in the 2030s.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Keep in mind that like, half of the offences in the UCMJ have a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment anyway. It just means that the judging official or whatever they're called gets to pick the sentence.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Casimir Radon posted:

The Czech Republic, not just good for porn.

Thank u for your cervix.

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

Larry Parrish posted:

Keep in mind that like, half of the offences in the UCMJ have a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment anyway. It just means that the judging official or whatever they're called gets to pick the sentence.

depends on who is presiding

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Booger Presley
Aug 6, 2008

Pillbug
Watch Caro get arrested after he returns for fighting for another country or some such.

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