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Naked Bear posted:aaaaahahahahahahaha Been in a similar situation in a humvee, but hahahaha that has to suck one million times more.
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One of the nice things of going through ABOLC and being a scout the entire time is never having to worry about getting a tank stuck or popping track
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Ain't seen a problem yet an 88 can't fix. but for reals that's a really bad problem.
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The M88 is a thing of brute magnificent power. Working one is probably the only armour job I'd be willing to take.
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not caring here posted:Ain't seen a problem yet an 88 can't fix. If you do a really thorough job of getting stuck it takes two M88s. 
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Mustang posted:One of the nice things of going through ABOLC and being a scout the entire time is never having to worry about getting a tank stuck or popping track I was an FO attached to scouts. I didn't know what a wash rack was until I went to JRTC after Iraq. I can just spray my boots off with a hose. Have fun in your fart cans you mech dorks.
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Phanatic posted:That's just a little prick. That poo poo was metal as gently caress.
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Richard Bong posted:I was an FO attached to scouts. I didn't know what a wash rack was until I went to JRTC after Iraq. I can just spray my boots off with a hose. One thing I noticed is that 19 series consider SBCTs a light assignment and 11 series consider them a heavy assignment. Personally I think they have more in common with IBCTs but with obviously more maintenance. I like strykers, they're pretty comfortable as scouts because there's only like 5 or 6 dudes per stryker. Still spend most of our time dismounted though.
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holocaust bloopers posted:EBB, how does this make you feel? My eye is twitching and I feel a flashback coming on.
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"Wikipedia posted:There are currently three variants, the M88, M88A1 and M88A2 HERCULES (Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lifting Extraction System). That is a great backronym. Edit: I don't know why it's adding quotation marks, but that's loving up the link to the wikipedia page.
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Hahahhaha, that's pretty good.
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That checklist forgets to ask about a micropenis.
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https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/830807426735628289 They've been weaponizing drones the past few weeks (multiple groups, not just ISIS)
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Should have set his hours right and widows wouldn't have forced the update.
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Richard Bong posted:Should have set his hours right and widows wouldn't have forced the update. Just sayin', I would guess the capability exists to do that intentionally. ISIS and the other folks in that region aren't stupid, but properly securing their communications channels with drones while western special forces are running around the region isn't going to be an easy task. Could work with fixed waypoints I guess but that's not nearly as handy.
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Isn't the Mexican Military or at least their Marines or commando or w/e the nation's police force. I've heard a lot of good things. They aren't corrupt as gently caress and do their job etc
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I've spent the last few months working on a new Atlantic Council report, Breaking Aleppo, and as part of it Forensic Architecture at Goldsmith's University put together the following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CJ-KKLzyBU They used photographs and videos of M2 hospital, damaged in multiple bombings, to reconstruct the hospital in 3D, then map videos into the model in the exact positions where they were filmed. Long term we hope to do this with multiple locations and turn it into a VR experience.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Isn't the Mexican Military or at least their Marines or commando or w/e the nation's police force. I've heard a lot of good things. They aren't corrupt as gently caress and do their job etc Part of it is that they aren't local, and don't live in the community so it is much harder to threaten them or their families.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Isn't the Mexican Military or at least their Marines or commando or w/e the nation's police force. I've heard a lot of good things. They aren't corrupt as gently caress and do their job etc The Mexican Marines are just the rich people's personal police force. It's why they get direct federal funding whikle 80% of the Mexican police force are geared using "Private donated funds" which just means bought by whichever local cartel wants legalized muscle
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Brown Moses posted:I've spent the last few months working on a new Atlantic Council report, Breaking Aleppo, and as part of it Forensic Architecture at Goldsmith's University put together the following video This is a hell of a project.
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Hope you rotate off poo poo like that sorta how paramedics do. Don't need another broken brain round these parts
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Hope you rotate off poo poo like that sorta how paramedics do. Don't need another broken brain round these parts Everyday for 6 years would be bad then?
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just hire broken people from gip to do the bad poo poo for you
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Brown Moses posted:Everyday for 6 years would be bad then? I would assume so, though some people just seem to be able to handle that poo poo easily
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Hope you rotate off poo poo like that sorta how paramedics do. Don't need another broken brain round these parts How do us paramedics rotate off of poo poo? Been working the same twelve hour overnight schedule in the same poor cities for ten years now. Which leads to a relevant point: stuff like that video makes me feel extremely fortunate to do what I do in the US. Sure, people on PCP try to fight us all the time, and I've had coworkers stabbed and poo poo at work, but at least nobody's targeting the hospitals from aircraft. The last ICU/peds hospital in Aleppo, with what looks like all of like sixty beds. What a loving nightmare.
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Frosted Flake posted:Part of it is that they aren't local, and don't live in the community so it is much harder to threaten them or their families. Right, I guess that makes sense
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Here's a bit of footage we used for the reconstruction of the hospital, this is the security cameras from M2 during the July 16th 2016 attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBfCb4OGoDI I took this and lots of other photos and footage to figure out the floor plan, and the position of the cameras. The stinker was each floor had a near identical lobby area, but I figured out the cameras were numbered in reverse order from bottom to top, which along with other information allowed me to figure out which floor they were on. After that I used things like the different shades of floor tiles to match other footage to the floors featured in the security cameras.
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 post-avatar combo of the century Those recreations are pretty loving cool, though. I'd love to see more interesting details on how you put it all together if you feel like posting more about it.
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Does jihadi music score your dreams, Brown Moses?
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holocaust bloopers posted:Does jihadi music score your dreams, Brown Moses? I watch the videos with the sound off so I don't hear the screams.
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Moses, I don't know where you're based, but if you're ever around Madison, Wisconsin, you're not allowed to pay for drinks. Ever. PM me to redeem this offer.
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Brown Moses posted:I watch the videos with the sound off so I don't hear the screams. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh 
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I think it's time to promote yourself and train someone to watch video for info and you help tie it all together or something like that. Or a long vacation every year.
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Brown Moses posted:I watch the videos with the sound off so I don't hear the screams. aw man
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whats for dinner posted:Those recreations are pretty loving cool, though. I'd love to see more interesting details on how you put it all together if you feel like posting more about it. Generally with Syria it's the same process for every incident. In opposition held areas you only get a small number of social media accounts, usually associated with organisations, activists, armed groups, and media centres, so the first thing to do is find and review those for material relevant to the incident. I have these collected already, but if you didn't you can find a lot of them by finding a video or post related to the attack, copy the Arabic text, and paste it into Google Translate where you can highlight keywords you can copy back into search engines, which will lead to results including the social media pages. We'll also reach out to organisations who are sharing materials, plus activists and groups we have relationships with that are working on the ground, to see if there's any unpublished material. With M2 hospital we had lots of photographs sent to us by SAMS-USA of various attacks on the hospital, which proved very useful. Then we organise the material by date, and try to establish where it was recorded. So with M2 we had lots of images which claimed to be from inside the hospital, but the question was how we could confirm it was definitely M2, and not another hospital. I did that by finding exterior photographs we could match to satellite imagery of the area, then found video that showed movement from inside the hospital out to the exterior, where we could match it to the images we had found on satellite imagery. Here's the sheet I put together for M2 linking all the videos together. Then we review all the witness statements and other stuff said in videos, compare them to reports, and try to document the visible injuries and deaths in each video, to get the best picture possible of what happened. We'll also archive all the evidence we find to ensure it's not lost if accounts are closed, etc. I'm actually working with some international organisations to answer the question of how can we archive this material in a forensically sound way so it can be used in future prosecutions. It's actually a pretty interesting period in that regard, there's a lot of international judicial and accountability organisations who want to use this sort of material in prosecutions, but very little legal precedent for it's use in international courts, especially in war crime prosecutions, we're trying to make sure the preservation of material is done in the best way possible, and the analysis methodologies are tested thoroughly before they're used in a court, because if the first attempt is a gently caress up it'll impact the use of this sort of material in the future. In the recent past it was assumed it would be possible and preferable to get the original media used to record the images out of the countries effected, but it's become clear it's often impossible, so the use of content shared on social media has become increasingly important. Anyway, as this is the picture and video thread, here's a video of the latest chemical weapon used in Syria, an IRAM fitted with a gas cylinder filled with chlorine gas, used on Jan 30th, and likely other dates since then as well. More details here.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HXZjvHxdJE
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