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MA-Horus posted:I don't know much about mortars, but I'm pretty sure they aren't straight contact fuzes anymore. I think the fuzes can only be armed by actually firing them, so the only real danger would've probably been something closer to this:  It was a definite "Oh poo poo"-moment, though.
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Missionary Positron posted:I think the fuzes can only be armed by actually firing them, so the only real danger would've probably been something closer to this: You wanna be the guy that drops the mortar in the tube the wrong way though?
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Peetown Manning posted:That scene in Saving Private Ryan throwing mortars by hand Yeah But I just looked it up, mortar fuzes need the acceleration from the charge firing, airflow concurrent to the speed of a shell in flight through the fuze and the general flightpath of a shell in flight before arming. This differs from a howitzer fuze which uses rotational count before arming. Missionary Positron posted:I think the fuzes can only be armed by actually firing them, so the only real danger would've probably been something closer to this: Oh yeah, the moron gun det commander I had who tried unloading a 105 round using a cam-pole because he was too lazy to unpack the unloader didn't really run the risk of detonating the round by smashing a piece of wood against the fuze tip...he was just loving stupid as gently caress.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Whoa buddy, this is the country where O.J. got off, soaybe you could set the bar a little lower for your legal expectations. You keep mouthing off like that and we won't let your kind work here! Well, OJ at least got a not-guilty verdict out of his clusterfuck. The NAU shooter got a mistrial thanks to idiocy on both sides. Kids are losing their loving poo poo over here at the moment. It's like Black Lives Matter, but...uh...with Frat Boys and with justice literally done. http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/252087036-story
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MA-Horus posted:Oh yeah, the moron gun det commander I had who tried unloading a 105 round using a cam-pole because he was too lazy to unpack the unloader didn't really run the risk of detonating the round by smashing a piece of wood against the fuze tip...he was just loving stupid as gently caress. It never ceases to amaze me that the world's militaries actually manage to field units that aren't decimated on a daily basis by incompetence related mishaps.
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Missionary Positron posted:It never ceases to amaze me that the world's militaries actually manage to field units that aren't decimated on a daily basis by incompetence related mishaps. Now I'm curious what percent of stuff like design, engineering, man power and overall resources goes into not letting your own military members kill themselves through incompetence instead of the enemy. For training exercises it sure felt North of 50%.
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bird food bathtub posted:Now I'm curious what percent of stuff like design, engineering, man power and overall resources goes into not letting your own military members kill themselves through incompetence instead of the enemy. For training exercises it sure felt North of 50%. I'm pretty sure it's the design concept that underscores every navy vessel design since sailors became a thing
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bird food bathtub posted:Now I'm curious what percent of stuff like design, engineering, man power and overall resources goes into not letting your own military members kill themselves through incompetence instead of the enemy. For training exercises it sure felt North of 50%. There's a sign next to the doors of a black hawk telling you to not run toward the tail rotor for a reason.
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mlmp08 posted:I filled out an accident report for an off duty slip on wet grass that jacked someone's knee up. It got kicked back because I didn't fill in a corrective action to prevent such future incidents. "Pray to the sun gods for a drier spring"
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Trabisnikof posted:They were convicted. Facing up to a year in prison for laughing at Sessions:
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Laughter is banned in Trump's America. That was about all we had.
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Small government, constitutional rights being sacrosanct...except when they use it to mock me.
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mlmp08 posted:I filled out an accident report for an off duty slip on wet grass that jacked someone's knee up. It got kicked back because I didn't fill in a corrective action to prevent such future incidents. Put a sign up that says "keep off the grass."
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Mr. Nice! posted:Put a sign up that says "keep off the grass." post soldiers at regular intervals in full kit to say "keep off the grass"
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CHICKEN SHOES posted:post soldiers at regular intervals in full kit to say "keep off the grass" Coat the grass with a reflective material
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Have a massive no bid contract to half-assedly remove the grass.
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DoktorLoken posted:Have a massive no bid contract to half-assedly remove the grass. Remove the grass, replace with rocks, have privates paint the rocks green, keep calling the rocks grass, have privates mow the grass weekly.
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Pesticide20 posted:Remove the grass, replace with rocks, have privates paint the rocks green, keep calling the rocks grass, have privates mow the grass weekly. Hire a contractor who will eventually go massively over budget to install high tech thermal/acoustic sensors to detect if anyone is on the "grass".
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Also same thing happened when a private smashed his thumb in a bog standard door. Mr Safety Office I'm not having a class on door utilization safety.
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Peetown Manning posted:That scene in Saving Private Ryan throwing mortars by hand quote:He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. When a powerfully conducted predawn Japanese counterattack struck his unit's flank, he ordered his men to take cover in an old tomb, and then, armed only with a carbine, faced the onslaught alone. After emptying 1 magazine at pointblank range into the screaming attackers, he seized an enemy mortar dud and threw it back among the charging Japs, killing several as it burst. Securing a box of mortar shells, he extracted the safety pins, banged the bases upon a rock to arm them and proceeded alternately to hurl shells and fire his piece among the fanatical foe, finally forcing them to withdraw. Despite the protests of his comrades, and bleeding profusely from a severe shrapnel wound, he made his way to his company commander to report the action. T/Sgt. Anderson's intrepid conduct in the face of overwhelming odds accounted for 25 enemy killed and several machineguns and knee mortars destroyed, thus single-handedly removing a serious threat to the company's flank. Gobbeldygook fucked around with this message at 22:13 on May 3, 2017 |
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Gobbeldygook posted:That used to really work, although they've been private proofed since. MOH citation for Beuaford T. Anderson: 
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Your uterus would try to eat you too if you stuck things up there Dunham has Her relatives?
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Two Finger posted:whip your wife is in trouble Maybe Odell Beckham ignored her again? https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/859860781340536832 Please be real. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 21:57 on May 3, 2017 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:Please be real. I don't know much about that Claude person, but Rick Wilson backed up Claude the other day on the same thing, which was related to grand juries. Both heard the same thing, from different sources. My ears are perked up, but they're still both fringey sources. Better than that Louise Mensch person (she's brain-broken), but absolutely not nothing. It also goes along with what Comey said today, how he's working with TWO separate attorneys offices in the DOJ.
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facialimpediment posted:I don't know much about that Claude person, but Rick Wilson backed up Claude the other day on the same thing, which was related to grand juries. Both heard the same thing, from different sources. Yeah if it was just Louise Mensch saying something, I'd ignore it because she's made so many of those "INDICTMENTS ARE COMING, ANY DAY NOW!" claims it's white noise at this point. I only took notice cause John Schindler retweeted it.
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Missionary Positron posted:Hire a contractor who will eventually go massively over budget to install high tech thermal/acoustic sensors to detect if anyone is on the "grass". Do like Hickam did. Apparently it was too hard to mow the strips of grass between the sidewalk and curb so they pulled it up and replaced it with astroturf.
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mlmp08 posted:Also same thing happened when a private smashed his thumb in a bog standard door. I would 100% volunteer to create this power point. Though after I made a "Dangers of Sexting" power point I was politely told I wouldnt be required to assist in the future. Please dont post pictures of your  online folks.
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Multiple GOP aides say that they're going to vote on the AHCA tomorrow. Aside from all the poo poo that the bill does bad, and their own rules that they're violating, it's going to be a VERY interesting vote, given that here's where the numbers are: https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/859906178607919104 22-23 no votes kills the bill (depending on who you listen to). Still likely dead or heavily modified in the Senate.
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MA-Horus posted:Yeah With the new the electronic timed ones, I think they've phased out the mechanical time poo poo by now save for the VT stuff. PD/SQ still works that way though. Missionary Positron posted:It never ceases to amaze me that the world's militaries actually manage to field units that aren't decimated on a daily basis by incompetence related mishaps. Before we even get into other countries, their people and culture our active duty units spend more time, ammo and money in training than a lot of other countries even get to spend at war/internal suppression. I mean poo poo, Guard units will use more ammunition in a drill weekend than Chinese troops use in their entire career. I'm not sure how much of it is strong national identity vs budget though. I've seen people who try to pull the "I'll be the only one who knows so they can't get rid of me" poo poo get hosed for it. As opposed to that "Why Arabs Lose Wars" paper that's been floating around for a while. Or that series of ATGM videos where dudes go right back to milling around doing nothing but dying.
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