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drat i should probably just close the door on my way out cause I'm like 3/10 dad maybe, y'all intimidating, but something to aspire towards
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:hey shim General Stanley McChrystal was a goddamned soldiers soldier. He was the kinda general that ate (his one meal a day) side by side with enlisted schlubs. When TDY with his entourage they would do group pushes to lovely places like Chilis or Buffalo Wild Wings and get pretty drunk. He was a blue collar general. I know from several different people that he (prior to the Obama firing at least...) was a big (D) supporter. He had a lot of positive poo poo to say about Hillary and Bill Clinton when he was the CO of 2nd Battalion 75th and then later as commander of the 75th. I learned that directly from SNCO's that served under him in the Regiment. So the guy isn't at all out of line politically with Obama, though his hands were dirty with GITMO, Extraordinary Renditions, Black Sites, and yes torture. Not done by him but under him, obviously. Despite that, he got plucked from JSOC (which he took from a 2 star command to a 3 star command) to command ISAF. You don't have a background as checkered as that of JSOC after 9/11 unless you yourself are a goddamn terrorist. So something tells me Obama trusted him politically. Note the lack of criticism and back stabbing from McChrystal. He was ultimately fired for hubris. Bringing The Rolling Stones onboard to cover him in an expose was a loving awful idea. He was a former PR guy as a one star. He did the pentagon press room briefings for a time. He's media savvy. He and his team got way too loose and honest, on the record, in front of a Rolling Stones writer. Hence his downfall. In all reality what the movie called SNORP is something called the F3EA cycle (Find Fix Finish Exploit Analyze.. wash rinse repeat) and it's something JSOC cooked up under McChrystal and Flynn. And it was a brilliant counter terrorism tactic, and is why we killed targets like AMZ and UBL. It's not called F3EA anymore but a version of it lives on today. It's uniquely adapted to allow operations to drive intelligence activity and vice versa. There's a ton of integration of intel at the assault force level for just this reason. I think the movie didn't portray McChrystal realistically in that he was a very cerebral and energetic leader. Yes he was a good old boy off duty, but he was a consummate professional in even the strangest environs. The movie made it seem like he had only commanded in Iraq. He commanded major military forces in 3 countries, and smaller ones in countless other countries spanning every COCOM. All at once, not at separate times. As a 3 star. He was the most powerful and influential 3 star in the military. I don't know dick about his time spent leading ISAF, I wasn't there. But the movie under played a great,if misunderstood, general. Maybe I'm biased, he promoted me twice, signed off on 4 of my medals, and coined me 4 separate times (The fourth time I told him I already had 3 coins and the guy reaches in his pocket and gives me this giant commanders coin/beer bottle opener instead of a regular coin. Dude was a class act) The movie was funny because they nailed his entourage down to the black kid (in reality there were two) from the JCU that did his comms. He's the farthest thing from a Luddite so he kept those guys busy with all manners of poo poo. Apparently they followed him to ISAF according to the movie. They really nailed the entourage. Not sure why they chose to make him such a buffoon. He wasn't one. I enjoyed the movie. I was pretty drunk for most of this post but now I'm switching to weed. God bless.
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Did McChrystal really run like C-3PO or what?
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May 28, 2017 10:36
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War Machine was awesome. Sand Castle was okay too.
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May 28, 2017 13:06
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I watched Sand Castle a few days ago. I don't normally watch stuff like that but my girlfriend loves watching GWOT-type movies and she sold me on "and they have to get water flowing!" because that's one of the major things I did over there. It's like you take Jarhead and Generational Kill, make them about the Army instead, and then water it way down. It was ok. I'm probably gonna watch War Machine at some point either tomorrow or later on in the week.
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May 28, 2017 13:34
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We spent the first three months of our deployment drilling or digging or whatever for water. On the side of a mountain. Think about that for a second.
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May 28, 2017 13:39
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What's the difference between a $120+ power drill and a $50 power drill? I won't be using it much, but over the last two years I've borrowed my neighbor's enough that I was thinking of getting one for myself. Also if you're up for recommendations, cordless is really my only make or break requirement.
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May 28, 2017 13:57
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the internals. battery size would be first guess. breaks right after warranty vs breaks the day after that.
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May 28, 2017 14:01
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The real answer is to be rich enough that you don't have to ask.
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A Bad Poster posted:Did McChrystal really run like C-3PO or what? gently caress, i was gonna ask that 
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TBeats posted:What's the difference between a $120+ power drill and a $50 power drill? I won't be using it much, but over the last two years I've borrowed my neighbor's enough that I was thinking of getting one for myself. I've had a Milwaukee cordless for years now and have been perfectly happy with it. e: it's not cheap but it will do a lot better than a $40 harbor freight. Stultus Maximus fucked around with this message at 14:15 on May 28, 2017 |
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May 28, 2017 14:12
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Yeah, he ran like that. Wonder how he feels about the movie.
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May 28, 2017 18:03
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His wife being the concerned voice of reason when everyone was shotgunning Jack straight from the bottle reminded me of my first school field trip after 9th grade (when teachers slowly started losing control over us), so I figured that must have been massively exaggerated. Then I remembered my own experience with USAREUR command and quickly accepted that they were probably being conservative with their depiction.
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May 28, 2017 18:35
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TBeats posted:What's the difference between a $120+ power drill and a $50 power drill? I won't be using it much, but over the last two years I've borrowed my neighbor's enough that I was thinking of getting one for myself. Quality, I have a $50 craftsman drill and it wobbles like a motherfucker, and it will probably break the first time it's dropped. My Milwaukee is made of better quality plastic, holds bits better, and the batteries last longer.
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May 28, 2017 19:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Dp3VDOjwQ
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I knew only of McChrystal through news reports and such, so I didn't have much of an impression of him going into the beginning of "War Machine." At the end, though, I couldn't decide whether he was a brilliant, if flawed, commander, or a complete buffoon. There were some laughs, sure, but it's like Netflix couldn't decide how they wanted to characterize McChrystal so they made this weird bipolar story about a dumb general and his merry band of feuding fuckups. It's like the first half was based on the sober characterization in the Rolling Stone piece ("The Runaway General") and the second half was based on the freewheeling activities portrayed in "The Operators" (and yes, I know that both were by the same guy). Ultimately, the movie was 
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I liked it, Pitts performance was hilarious  Though the whole boots on the ground stuff in the second half felt really awkward
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May 28, 2017 22:31
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:rip greg allman He was the lovely allman. Ratted out his bandmates (the black drummer iirc) when he got busted for drugs. I imagine Duane is just ignoring him now.
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May 28, 2017 22:32
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War Machine was alright.
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May 28, 2017 22:37
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What would harambe think about America today?
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May 28, 2017 22:46
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As long as he gets to kill more kids I doubt he cares
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May 28, 2017 22:51
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I met him once and he had the most limp noodle handshake I've ever experienced. Maybe he just didn't like shaking hands, I don't know.
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May 28, 2017 22:53
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Mike-o posted:I met him once and he had the most limp noodle handshake I've ever experienced. Maybe he just didn't like shaking hands, I don't know. Harambe doesn't shake hands, he shakes toddlers
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May 28, 2017 22:58
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Rad Lieutenant posted:Harambe doesn't shake hands, he shakes toddlers lmbo
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Koelsch isn't a lager though. Why not have a nostalgia beer? Miller, Coors, and A-B weren't always the continent-spanning pisswater behemoths that they are today. Years ago, before their sharper marketing and savvier distribution methods made them the Big 3 of Blandness, the country was full of cheap regional lagers. This isn't in the drunk thread because it's more dad than drunk. If you're an American, your father probably and your grandfather definitely drank these beers. Most of them were founded by German immigrants in the 19th century and marketed to working class German immigrants. Some have persisted in their own regions, and many have been resurrected by Pabst. Many have charmingly ornate old-timey labels. Beers like Stroh's, Olympia, National Bohemian, Stag, Narragansett, Lone Star, and Schlitz. Why drink something created in the 80s to sell to poor college students like Keystone when you can enjoy a little bit of regional history? So the next time you have an unpretentious cookout, camping trip, or float trip that calls for cheap cans of adjunct lager, go ahead and grab something different. It's what your grandfather would have done.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Why not have a nostalgia beer? The old Olympia Beer brewery is right near me, it shut down a while back in 2003 after Pabst bought them in 1999 
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A couple times a year, I'll put a slice of braunschweiger, a slice of limburger, and a slice of onion on rye bread and wash it down with Schlitz. Because that's what my grandfather would have done.
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May 29, 2017 02:22
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My grandfather would sit down with a Ballantine and a bowl of jelly beans, and put on The Quiet Man (which is a great movie, by the way).
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Naked Bear posted:My grandfather would sit down with a Ballantine and a bowl of jelly beans, and put on The Quiet Man (which is a great movie, by the way). That movie is super good. I need to watch it again
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May 29, 2017 03:04
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Rad Lieutenant posted:Harambe doesn't shake hands, he shakes toddlers
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Stultus Maximus posted:Beers like Stroh's, Olympia, National Bohemian, Stag, Narragansett, Lone Star, and Schlitz. those taste like balls and the big 3 own them anyways. just buy bud light instead of trying to make some lovely joke about keystone and redneck activities that no one is going to get. the whole point of tubing is to drink one thousand beers, get a sunburn, and piss your bathing suit repeatedly aka have a good time. if you're lucky, some other human who has drank one thousand beers, has a wicked sunglasses tan and pissed themselves a dozen times that day will put your weird uncut german cock in his/her mouth.
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Mike-o posted:I met him once and he had the most limp noodle handshake I've ever experienced. Maybe he just didn't like shaking hands, I don't know. I'm a retard and my IED blasted sadbrains made me confuse who I met, it was General Casey that had a limp dick handshake.
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Rad Lieutenant posted:Harambe doesn't shake hands, he shakes toddlers 
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My dad drank Michelob in High School/Coast Guard before I was born
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Carteret posted:My dad drank Michelob in High School/Coast Guard before I was born sounds like a pussy, if nice, dad
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My 1st Platoon Leader told a story of when he was a weapons squad leader in 3rd batt when McChrystal was the Regimental Commander. They were getting a class on the new 240s as they were replacing the 60s. McChrystal just happened to be walking by and jumped in and started disassembling and reassembling the guns right along side a bunch of privates. I also heard stories about later even as a general he would constantly jump into the stack and start clearing houses with the assault force.
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subterfudge posted:My 1st Platoon Leader told a story of when he was a weapons squad leader in 3rd batt when McChrystal was the Regimental Commander. They were getting a class on the new 240s as they were replacing the 60s. McChrystal just happened to be walking by and jumped in and started disassembling and reassembling the guns right along side a bunch of privates. I also heard stories about later even as a general he would constantly jump into the stack and start clearing houses with the assault force. Yes. He did this a lot, he was a lead from the front General. That movie really simplified a remarkable man/career down to some sound bites.
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Saw this on imgur and thought it would be appropriate to share (guy tracked down the grave and details for a WW2 vet as requested by the vet's 80 yr old sister): http://imgur.com/gallery/fsSSv
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Got a raise 
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