quote:When she first decided to enlist, Starnes intended to go to the Air Force or the Navy — “like my pawpaw,” as she put it. First, though, she would need to pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, better known as the ASVAB, which is required of all enlistees. http://taskandpurpose.com/true-story-army-made-first-female-infantrymen/ i thought this was a really earnest duffleblog article when i read these 2 paragraphs. the rest of the article is all the same bullshit that's been written about it elsewhere. other than her interview, i dont think they had any new sources.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I'm no meteorologist, but how does a hurricane hit a city with like a thousand miles of land between it and the nearest major body of water? I dunno, how did it happen to southern IL back in 2009? Definitely not that global warming stuff, nobody has ever tied that with shifting extremes in weather patterns
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I'm not sure I buy this one. https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/869656402519760896 Military is saying their missile defense system finally intercepted a mock-ICBM in testing.
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facialimpediment posted:I'm not sure I buy this one. It had to happen eventually.
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Reagan promised me space lasers
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McNally posted:It had to happen eventually. We've only been working on it since at least the 80s.
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Onion Break! First, we had Glenn "Glenn as in just a general Glenn IT'S YOUR WORD" Thrush on SNL. Now, Philip Rucker of the Washington Post just got a story about him in The Onion (his second). ‘Washington Post’ Reporter Frustrated Every Space In Parking Garage Taken Up By Anonymous Source https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/869658957324922880 https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/869666782063316993 https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/869666273445240836 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 30, 2017 |
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Its great how while that's obviously a joke its metaphorically close to reality
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/869640918822998016 haha gently caress you again turkey
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I'm no meteorologist, but how does a hurricane hit a city with like a thousand miles of land between it and the nearest major body of water? It doesn't. That wasn't a hurricane. It was a line of severe storms. Professor Bling posted:I dunno, how did it happen to southern IL back in 2009? It didn't. 09 was a derecho.
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I mean you can take down an ICBM with unguided munitions if you fire enough f them.
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This is incredible: https://twitter.com/AlexanderEmmons/status/869649552617463808
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/869640918822998016 This is probably going to bite us in the rear end eventually, but gently caress Turkey, gently caress Syria, and gently caress ISIS in the meantime.
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is incredible: I would have been like 'the premise of your question is stupid' instead of stumbling through that
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Ooh this one's going to be fun. https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/869673351291084800 https://apnews.com/498598e0ec9c479bbbbd5055c3cf3eef I mean, China tends to "disappear" people a lot when they start to cause trouble, but the location and their job as investigators makes this very interesting.  Oh and not sure if I should be sorry or not Shim: https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/869674627227889664 full story, WSJ backing up AP https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-to-turn-over-business-records-to-senate-intelligence-committee-1496181428 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:08 on May 30, 2017 |
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facialimpediment posted:Ooh this one's going to be fun. Sounds like he may be cooperating. Who knows.
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is incredible: Does acting official mean Obama nomination or career civil servant in this case?
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hobbesmaster posted:Does acting official mean Obama nomination or career civil servant in this case? Both. Career Foreign Service since the Reagan era, appointed/confirmed as ambassador to Jordan and later Iraq during Obama administration. He ended up acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs when Anne Patterson quit in January. May be a rock or may have been thinking about how he was going to pay his mortgage.
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hobbesmaster posted:Does acting official mean Obama nomination or career civil servant in this case? Has to, anyone properly channeling the trumpster would've said "Monarchies don't have elections you dumbfuck" and moved on.
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is incredible: I know the State Dept is supposed to be starving for talent but that is absolutely incredible they let him go on TV.
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Zeris posted:I know the State Dept is supposed to be starving for talent but that is absolutely incredible they let him go on TV. This, but for pretty much everyone from the administration on TV.
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5_rn3vG3A
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Wait, are we jumping on the guy who took a (really long) moment to decide how to answer an incredibly stupid question? Why aren't we going after the moron who doesn't know that Saudi Arabia is not a loving democracy?
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Yo, don't sneak phallic object into countries where you have your soldiers sneaking phallic objects into its citizens.quote:South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered a probe after his Defence Ministry failed to inform him that four more launchers for the controversial U.S. THAAD anti-missile system had been brought into the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-south-thaad-idUSKBN18Q0I3
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I'm assuming this was explained at length through some channel that just somehow never got to Moon. If not, lol. THAAD launchers aren't exactly easy to hide: Even moreso when deployed at safe distances from one another instead of crammed into a motorpool.
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Godholio posted:Wait, are we jumping on the guy who took a (really long) moment to decide how to answer an incredibly stupid question? Why aren't we going after the moron who doesn't know that Saudi Arabia is not a loving democracy?  Of course Saudi Arabia isn't a democracy. But accusing Iran of subverting democracy while standing in and praising one of the more authoritarian countries in the world is the height of absurdity, and the administration should be called out for it. Or in other words, "can you tell us how Saudi Arabia is committed to democracy" is a more polite and subtle way of saying "jesus christ how can you peddle this rank hypocrisy and expect us to take it seriously?" e: And the guy giving the State Department response absolutely bungled it, hence humor of the situation. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 02:18 on May 31, 2017 |
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Godholio posted:Wait, are we jumping on the guy who took a (really long) moment to decide how to answer an incredibly stupid question? Why aren't we going after the moron who doesn't know that Saudi Arabia is not a loving democracy? I think he was trying to be snarky and failed? ie, the administration is questioning Iran's democracy while propping up Saudi Arabia.
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Genocide Tendency posted:It doesn't. That wasn't a hurricane. It was a line of severe storms. I was at SIUC for that it was crazy, a tree crushed my neighbors car, another one mashed a house near us, and power was out in the region for days. It was like right around graduation so there were a bunch of blackout parties and some light looting. That night was also the first time I hooked up with someone willing to go AtM so overall a great time for me.
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Richard Bong posted:I was at SIUC for that it was crazy, a tree crushed my neighbors car, another one mashed a house near us, and power was out in the region for days. It was like right around graduation so there were a bunch of blackout parties and some light looting. That night was also the first time I hooked up with someone willing to go AtM so overall a great time for me. No way, I was living up in DeSoto with my ex-fiance during that; had 108mph gusts and we were living in a single-wide trailer at the time. Talk about fun.
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Two Finger posted:Are these two posts related? All posts are related
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Professor Bling posted:No way, I was living up in DeSoto with my ex-fiance during that; had 108mph gusts and we were living in a single-wide trailer at the time. Talk about fun. Holy poo poo, that sound terrifying. Did you guys make it out of that ok? I was thankfully living in a large brick house on W College at the time so it was not as much of white knuckle of an experience as I assume you had. Two Finger posted:Are these two posts related? Yeah, DeSoto is a small town about 10 minutes north of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, a lot of students who have cars just get a cheaper place up there since it's not a bad commute at all. Back in 2009 there was an "inland hurricane" much like the Moscow video that hit the region right around graduation and it got crazy. Of course Southern Illinois is not as built up as Moscow so the damage was not as severe.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:http://taskandpurpose.com/true-story-army-made-first-female-infantrymen/ How do you intensely study for the ASVAB of all things and only come off with a 31? I took that thing cold turkey with no studying after not having my rear end in a classroom seat for 4 years and got a 95.
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orange juche posted:How do you intensely study for the ASVAB of all things and only come off with a 31? I took that thing cold turkey with no studying after not having my rear end in a classroom seat for 4 years and got a 95. I assume illiteracy is a factor. I'm not joking. I had a similarly high score with no prep, and I had a Colombian guy in my basic training flight who literally could not read or write English. He could speak it well enough, and eventually guessed his way to success on the one multiple choice test we took. And even he, presumably, scored above the 31st percentile on the ASVAB. Good to know that the Army maintained its existing standards for its first female infantry soldier.
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My brother had to re-test because he blew off he asvab in high school (me too). He's a functional idiot and collected a mid-20s score the first time around, studied for a few weeks to score a 39 or so, not over 40 though, I'd remember that. This was during the boom in 2002 when they'd take anything with a pulse for the Iraq build up. He could have gotten a waiver and done something really dumb, but his re-test got him into commo, where he still did all the dumb guy work. I smoked a huge goddamn joint on my way (30 minute drive) to MEPS in my old beat to gently caress diesel pickup and walked out first in my group with an 80. How we came from the same mother is surprising to even me.
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I didn't take the asvab but I scored well on my civil service exam which got me my sweet union gig so what I'm saying is I should have taken the FD exam
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