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My dad got accepted into the Chicago College of Performing Arts but the timing was all hosed up and he didn't have any pull with the draft board since he was poor and from a blue collar family. So he enlisted in the Navy before he had to report and was a damage control guy on a quartermaster ship that sat in the delta. His twin was a horrendous fuckup and got assigned to the Wasp as a welder.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:I probably would have been an anti-war pot smoking hippy tbh. That was me then for sure.  
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Sep 29, 2017 01:26
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The idiocy skips a generation in my family. My grandfather volunteered for the army, my dad never got called, I volunteered for the army, and I'll be frank in telling my kids how loving stupid they are if they enlist.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:The idiocy skips a generation in my family. My grandfather volunteered for the army, my dad never got called, I volunteered for the army, and I'll be frank in telling my kids how loving stupid they are if they enlist. My boy wouldn't last a day with his defiance disorder. #blessed #notreally
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I was shooting the poo poo a year ago with a plumber friend of mine I've known for years, but never knew he served in Vietnam. Turns out he was on one of those Navy gunboats, which does not sound like a fun thing. So one time, scared as poo poo he's manning the 50 cal or 60 cal or whateverthefuck cal gun on the front deck while they're plying upstream through the jungle. And he sees these a pack of these dark shadowy dude shapes on the bank keeping up with the boat. Black pajamas for sure, so Fred opens up with that gun for all he's worth. He slaughtered a whole troop. Of monkeys.
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Sep 29, 2017 01:32
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I was one day short of being drafted, but my retarded self would have enlisted obviously.
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Mr. Mambold posted:I was shooting the poo poo a year ago with a plumber friend of mine I've known for years, but never knew he served in Vietnam. Turns out he was on one of those Navy gunboats, which does not sound like a fun thing. So one time, scared as poo poo he's manning the 50 cal or 60 cal or whateverthefuck cal gun on the front deck while they're plying upstream through the jungle. And he sees these a pack of these dark shadowy dude shapes on the bank keeping up with the boat. Black pajamas for sure, so Fred opens up with that gun for all he's worth. Dude. Racist.
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Sep 29, 2017 01:34
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I think I posted that here before and got the same comment.
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Sep 29, 2017 01:35
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My dad was in 'Nam 68-69, 1st Cav Artillery. He thought the war was wrong but when his draft number came up he answered the call because that's what his father did in W-W-2. He saw some poo poo, shot some gooks, hosed some whores in Thailand.
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Sep 29, 2017 02:12
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Dad was born on 56' so he missed Vietnam. Joined the Air Force in 83' because the economy was in the toilet, where he worked the only job he really liked. Talked about finishing out his time in the reserves but then pit it off tpo many times until it was too late. Too bad, he hates working corrections.
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Dad was born in 46, joined the IL Guard, got to beat on hippies during the '68 riots
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My uncle got drafted, the recruiter found out he raced hot rods and made him a Huey mechanic. Deaf in one ear from the rockets and MGs.
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Sep 29, 2017 03:25
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I liked in episode 4 when they were talking about how well-connected rich white people joined the national guard and reserve to avoid the draft while showing a photo of George W. Bush. But they didn't actually tell you it was him pictured, they just let you figure it out. e: So I thought I recognized the one guy being interviewed in this documentary. Sam Wilson is one of the most influential people you've never heard of. He gave a speech at a dining out we had in ROTC and told a story about his grandmother, who was a girl during the civil war and saw a union officer and a Confederate private hold each other as they died in her house at the battle of Appomattox Courthouse. He apparently died a few months ago. psydude fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Chowing down on fresh caught squid and a growler of local beer. Dad level rising.
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wireless charging is cool and good and the future the future is rad sometimes despite the inevitable nuclear war
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LingcodKilla posted:Chowing down on fresh caught squid and a growler of local beer.  Drinking an IPA that tastes like pine needles. This beer is peak PNW.
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Kazinsal posted:
Got a red ale from Slaughter County. It's decent.
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LingcodKilla posted:Got a red ale from Slaughter County. It's decent. Ooh. I'll see if I can find that up here. This one is a Granville Island Infamous IPA.
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Sep 29, 2017 08:13
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loving Vietnam documentary is brutal and I have to watch it in parts because it pisses me off and hits incredibly close to home sometimes with the interviews. Goddamn, goons if you're still on the fence about this you need to watch it.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:14
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Imagine the one we'll get for Iraq/Afghanistan
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How long is this thing? Ken Burns is the guy who makes like 10 hour series on a single season of baseball right?
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Imagine the one we'll get for Iraq/Afghanistan
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Sep 29, 2017 16:33
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My uncle served in Vietnam and I had always assumed it was around '65-'66 because he was older than my dad, who enlisted in the Air Force in '67. He was visiting this spring and we got to talking and it turns out he was actually there from '67 to '68, skipping town juuuust before Tet. But to hear him tell his stories, you'd have thought he was in Germany or something. He was a clerk, not a grunt, so his experience was vastly different.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:33
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Naked Bear posted:"Well, we didn't have any hookers in Ghazni, but there was a portashitter tucked up close enough to the HESCOs that it didn't get blasted by the sun in the afternoon." Pfft, the Poles didn't need hookers. Between their distillery near the arty pit and their porn shack, they were set.
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psydude posted:Pfft, the Poles didn't need hookers. Between their distillery near the arty pit and their porn shack, they were set. That shack was loving disgusting. My company cleaned it up and I'm not sure how it wasn't just burned to the ground.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:37
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psydude posted:porn shack
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Porn shack is an understatement. I'll check around and see if any of the guys that were there took pictures of the place.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:48
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 Like, was it a Manhole, or a full on gently caress dungeon?
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Dead Reckoning posted:
Comrade, is your turn in barrel this week.
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Pesticide20 posted:That shack was loving disgusting. My company cleaned it up and I'm not sure how it wasn't just burned to the ground. We ended up tearing it down and burning the debris, so it got what it deserved.
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Dead Reckoning posted:
Yes. Imagine two medium sized B huts connected to each other plastered with hustler spreads and private rooms for whatever. Pesticides' unit cleaned most of it up. We just ended up tearing down and burning what was left. They also had a fully functional distillery complete with a pot still and fermentation vats.
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Kazinsal posted:
Sierra Nevada's Torpedo is great for that if you're feeling like a super-hopped beer. I just filled a growler with 7 seas' cascadian dark ale(the beers that used to be called dark IPAs even though that doesn't make any loving sense). It's real good, great malt flavor and not overhopped. edit: also using this thing for growlers now. It cost a bit (~$120) but I bought it with the excuse that I needed it for the wedding. It keeps the beer under CO2 pressure so the beer will keep for weeks instead of days. You can also modify it to dispense nitro coffee, get a 128oz growler, and all sorts of poo poo with it, just don't try to push 60 psi or something into it. 
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[quote="“Dead Reckoning”" post="“476887644”"] Like, was it a Manhole, or a full on gently caress dungeon? [/quote]
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oh god there has to be pics I need to know more
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Imagine the one we'll get for Iraq/Afghanistan
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Our company is having a workplace respect training seminar today. This gem came from a software dev:quote:Say I grope someone at work and they don't go to HR but to the police. Am I protected since it happened at work and wasn't reported to HR? I cannot stop laughing.
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 what the gently caress?What an oddly specific question.
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cowboy elvis posted:Our company is having a workplace respect training seminar today. This gem came from a software dev: And that's why these programs are about as useful as active shooter training or be less racist please training
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Every girl who heard it through others is immediately like, "WHO ASKED THAT?!"
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psydude posted:Yes. Imagine two medium sized B huts connected to each other plastered with hustler spreads and private rooms for whatever. It was covered in stains. Where there wasn't porn somehow stuck to the walls they decided to try their hands at drawing, and well, some of the results displayed actual talent. Others were not so good. Think Dennis from It's Always Sunny drawing dresses but scrawled onto plywood. There were rat droppings, piss bottles, and all kinds of rubbish all over the place. It was beyond disgusting and I used up a few favors to make sure that the guys in my fire team didn't have to clean it up.
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