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Phanatic posted:They have to. Congressional mandate. Navy wanted to wait and use the second one off the line, they were overruled and ordered to carry the test out on the Ford. My dad spent most of his career in that group, and rode the TR shot, who the hell are you  e: Have a video of what happens inside the ship when they light the bomb off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogmVzCqkTAI TasogareNoKagi fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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In case someone here is holding their breath and waiting for me to make the obvious joke, please contact to Guinness WR before you expire.
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TasogareNoKagi posted:My dad spent most of his career in that group, and rode the TR shot, who the hell are you That video owns, all these middle aged dudes standing there holding for their lives. I get why they do it but there's something really funny to me about spending billions of dollars on a fancy new ship and getting everything meticulously painted and sealed and you get all the manuals on the shelves and the computers set up just so and then BOOM and everything just falls on the floor.
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aphid_licker posted:Calling cellphones "Handy" is creative and fun sentences are one or two lines tops. everyone spells their own name the same way every time.  edit: also it's probably kind of bad manners now for whoever heads their army to write to a friend of his, "Well, we're going to give [the enemy] one behind the ear" HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Any reccomendations for the drug wars in Colombia during the 80/90's? I got Killing Pablo but want something about his rise, and something more extensive in scope as well.... E: while im at it, something on Grant, Sherman or TE Lawrence would be nice too
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bewbies posted:That video owns, all these middle aged dudes standing there holding for their lives. Similarly I get why it's there and important but all that cool ship stuff going by and then just a toilet floating through at 7 seconds is priceless.
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Waroduce posted:Any reccomendations for the drug wars in Colombia during the 80/90's? I dunno if this is what you're looking for but I just got Narconomics (haven't finished it yet). It is really highly regarded at least and it looks really neat. https://www.amazon.com/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1610395832
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Waroduce posted:Any reccomendations for the drug wars in Colombia during the 80/90's? Read Grant's memoirs, they're great.
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xthetenth posted:Similarly I get why it's there and important but all that cool ship stuff going by and then just a toilet floating through at 7 seconds is priceless. Important thing to learn really, I bet battles have been lost on not having a sturdy enough shitter. if someone educated wants to talk on the importance of hygiene on the battlefield that would be cool
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DesperateDan posted:hygiene haha ahah aaaaaaaaaaaa
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P-Mack posted:Read Grant's memoirs, they're great. Sherman's too. Even better is they're like 99¢ on Kindle too and it's a nice edition that's been proofread and everything.
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DesperateDan posted:]if someone educated wants to talk on the importance of hygiene on the battlefield that would be cool What the gently caress is tha *dies of typhus*
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DesperateDan posted:Important thing to learn really, I bet battles have been lost on not having a sturdy enough shitter. U-1206, you're welcome.
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DesperateDan posted:if someone educated wants to talk on the importance of hygiene on the battlefield that would be cool Here are some hygiene tips from the Hundred Years War: 1) Are you having digestive issues before a battle? You can just pull down your hose around your ankles so you can poo poo while shooting French people with arrows. 2) Is your water going bad? Have no fear, simply find a wine-producing village and steal their wine. Also steal all of their food and any stuff they have that you like. 3) Are you camping out in front of a town that won't surrender and dying in droves from dysentery? Channel all of your rage at the cruelty of God into sacking the town after you take it. It won't bring any of your diseased friends back to life, but you will feel slightly better about the situation because you will be drunk.
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Waroduce posted:Any reccomendations for the drug wars in Colombia during the 80/90's? "Kings of Cocaine" is an older one, that was pretty good.
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So in a change of Plans I'll be in the wizard's own city of Prague instead of Paris next week. Of course I know I should visit the The Army Museum Žižkov, Aviation Museum Kbely and Military Technical Museum Lešany. But what else should I considering seeing for MilHist/in general?
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you can see anything you want except the library, which--funny story!--is in stockholm
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HEY GAL posted:you can see anything you want except the library, which--funny story!--is in stockholm Where can I find Pike Square though!?? 
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HEY GAL posted:you can see anything you want except the library, which--funny story!--is in stockholm Queen Christina really likes books, ok. Also, I have the impression that stealing all the books in the library to bring home to the queen is one of the least destructive things an army in a city could be doing.
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blackmongoose posted:Queen Christina really likes books, ok. Also, I have the impression that stealing all the books in the library to bring home to the queen is one of the least destructive things an army in a city could be doing.
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Xerxes17 posted:Where can I find Pike Square though!?? Unfortunately, that is in Washington.
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Tevery Best posted:Unfortunately, that is in Washington. That's probably to do with the fish and not the best way of war 
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So it's been debunked in this thread that medieval and Early Modern people drank alcohol 24/7 because water was so poisonous from making GBS threads in all the drinking water that it would be downright lethal. Exactly how often was alcohol drank compared to plain water in these time periods? Like for HEY GAL's Germans, about how much plain water would they drink compared to wine and beer? Not including watering down drinks.
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DesperateDan posted:Important thing to learn really, I bet battles have been lost on not having a sturdy enough shitter. if someone educated wants to talk on the importance of hygiene on the battlefield that would be cool I'm not that educated but I think that for most of history more soldiers in active wars died of disease than in battle
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Elyv posted:I'm not that educated but I think that for most of history more soldiers in active wars died of disease than in battle I think that is true all the way through WWI even. If I remember correctly WWII was the first where battle casualties exceeded medical ones.
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Waroduce posted:Any reccomendations for the drug wars in Colombia during the 80/90's? Actually, is there anything about Colombia in the 90's/00's?
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Waroduce posted:Any reccomendations for the drug wars in Colombia during the 80/90's? Not a book, and obviously a dramatization, but Narcos on Netflix is a fun watch. It was pretty popular when I interned at the DEA this spring, at least 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Not a book, and obviously a dramatization, but Narcos on Netflix is a fun watch. It was pretty popular when I interned at the DEA this spring, at least That show was awesome, and I'm curious to know if anyone can speak to how historically accurate it actually was? I mean, even the broad strokes are kind of incredible, so it feels like a story that almost doesn't need artistic liberties, but then again everything I know about Pablo Escobar I know from Narcos (please don't spoil whether pablo dies) so I'm curious how much the real story matches up.
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I'm not an authority at all on this but after watching Narcos I read some on Escobar thinking "this poo poo can't possibly be true" and yet pretty much everything I saw in the show was, or at least close to it. Like a drug dealer was one of the wealthiest people on earth. This happened in my lifetime.
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Ainsley McTree posted:That show was awesome, and I'm curious to know if anyone can speak to how historically accurate it actually was? I mean, even the broad strokes are kind of incredible, so it feels like a story that almost doesn't need artistic liberties, but then again everything I know about Pablo Escobar I know from Narcos (please don't spoil whether pablo dies) so I'm curious how much the real story matches up. Spoiler alert the guy dies
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Spoiler alert the guy dies Wow, I specifically said
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bewbies posted:I'm not an authority at all on this but after watching Narcos I read some on Escobar thinking "this poo poo can't possibly be true" and yet pretty much everything I saw in the show was, or at least close to it. I saw Narcos as well; I thought it was based on somebody's memoir? Also, the show does a good job at showing how a drug kingpin could be so successful that he was literally undermining a national government. I found Pablo Escobar a more sympathetic character than Walter White, and he blows up a goddamn airliner
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chitoryu12 posted:So it's been debunked in this thread that medieval and Early Modern people drank alcohol 24/7 because water was so poisonous from making GBS threads in all the drinking water that it would be downright lethal. Exactly how often was alcohol drank compared to plain water in these time periods? Like for HEY GAL's Germans, about how much plain water would they drink compared to wine and beer? Not including watering down drinks. They probably drank what we would consider unsafe amounts of "beer." This however was frequently closer to O'Doul's or Buckler than Guinness, and was generally seen as a good way to consume calories without having a full-on meal. At most it imparted a mild buzz after concerted drinking efforts. However, water was almost certainly the primary source of hydration for the average soldier.
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50 pages into that biography of Gallas, and according to this guy Matthias Gallas Did Only One Or Two Things Wrong, Maybe. Montecuccoli respected him, Wallenstein relied on him a lot in addition to Holck and Pappenheim, loving Tilly is why he got promoted in the first place, and there's a bunch of historians who thought he was legit (when he was sober). Will keep you guys posted on the rest of the book, but so far this has been an exciting read. Edit: Also, he and Aldringen knew each other since at least 1618, since Aldringen worked for Gallas's father, who was also a mercenary. I like reading about those two, bros4life. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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I had this pet project a bit back where I tried to read a bunch of early BRD bestsellers and in Kirst's Die Wölfe it's a plot point how they give babies booze to calm them down a bit and the whole thing goes wrong when in one family mom and dad accidentally both booze up the baby and it dies. Village doctor covers it up because they're punished enough already. Really striking scene.
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The Lone Badger posted:How drunk should you be when showing up to battle?  that's Jacob Duwall, whose last name is the result of a German failure to spell/pronounce "MacDougall." I found an Obrist Lieutenant named Jobst MackenSehe in a Saxon roll once--prob Mackenzie. edit: Actually it's a Swedish failure to pronounce MacDougall, the guy's father was an immigrant. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Duwall HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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aphid_licker posted:I had this pet project a bit back where I tried to read a bunch of early BRD bestsellers and in Kirst's Die Wölfe it's a plot point how they give babies booze to calm them down a bit and the whole thing goes wrong when in one family mom and dad accidentally both booze up the baby and it dies. Village doctor covers it up because they're punished enough already. Really striking scene. Never mind that, they were doping babies up on cocaine and poo poo into the 20th century.
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FAUXTON posted:They probably drank what we would consider unsafe amounts of "beer." This however was frequently closer to O'Doul's or Buckler than Guinness, and was generally seen as a good way to consume calories without having a full-on meal. At most it imparted a mild buzz after concerted drinking efforts. However, water was almost certainly the primary source of hydration for the average soldier. Did they have any kind of water purification outside of turning the water into alcohol?
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HEY GAL posted:50 pages into that biography of Gallas, and according to this guy Matthias Gallas Did Only One Or Two Things Wrong, Maybe. Let me guess, those two are getting drunk on the job once and never sobering up again.
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