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“EOD, but for nuclear weapons” sounds like the most terrifying thing ever 
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Mar 7, 2018 00:27
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Icon Of Sin posted:“EOD, but for nuclear weapons” sounds like the most terrifying thing ever They're pretty difficult to set off accidentally, normal eod is worse.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:31
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Yeah, at least if you set off a nuclear weapon, you won't possibly know it.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:58
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Icon Of Sin posted:“EOD, but for nuclear weapons” sounds like the most terrifying thing ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Emergency_Support_Team
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Mar 7, 2018 01:13
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Reverence posted:They're pretty difficult to set off accidentally, normal eod is worse. Yeah, NOW. It took literally decades to make that the case. In the early days, lightning nearby could do it, being dropped wrong could do it, a short in an aircraft system could do it, a fuel fire could do it, etc. Hell, people died because one guy dropped the core a few inches and it flashed at them. Godholio fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 01:24
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Godholio posted:Yeah, NOW. It took literally decades to make that the case. In the early days, lightning nearby could do it, being dropped wrong could do it, a short in an aircraft system could do it, a fuel fire could do it, etc. Those wouldn't be a full yield in any of those cases, without setting off all the explosives at the same time/in sequence it would just blow up like a normal bomb, or at worst fizzle, with the addition of nuclear debris to clean up afterward. Reverence fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 01:34
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Reverence posted:Those wouldn't be a full yield in any of those cases, without setting off all the explosives at the same time/in sequence it would just blow up like a normal bomb, or at worst fizzle, with the addition of nuclear debris to clean up afterward. For the MOST part, yes. Goldsboro would have been a loving full yield. SAC flew for a decade with bombs that were 1 point safe. Nuclear safety during the cold war was...not ideal.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:51
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MA-Horus posted:For the MOST part, yes. Yes, but specifically EOD wise, I'd rather get a call to safe a nuke then anything else.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:56
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Reverence posted:Those wouldn't be a full yield in any of those cases, without setting off all the explosives at the same time/in sequence it would just blow up like a normal bomb, or at worst fizzle, with the addition of nuclear debris to clean up afterward. Pretty sure all of those would've been full/near full yield. Goldsboro and the lightning storm, definitely.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:00
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Imagine disarming nukes for a living. That’s gotta be worth a few more inches on your penis.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:00
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boop the snoot posted:Imagine disarming nukes for a living. That’s gotta be worth a few more inches on your penis. You can probably go your whole career without doing it for real, though.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:12
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Midjack posted:You can probably go your whole career without doing it for real, though. EOD at my base only came by once every three months or so for training.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:18
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boop the snoot posted:Imagine disarming nukes for a living. That’s gotta be worth a few more inches on your penis. No point having extra inches if the radiation’s Baker your swimmers.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:22
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Found the Catholic.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:41
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Godholio posted:Found the Catholic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
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Mar 7, 2018 02:53
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Reverence posted:EOD at my base only came by once every three months or so for training. I think they would be used more often if the units on post actually like, reported UXOs. A lot of the live fire ranges on JBLM are also in the impact area of mortar rounds and every loving time we do squad live fire we find an unexploded mortar round, granted they've always been 60's instead of 120's. The first time I did squad live fire one of the NCO's in my CO just walked over to it, picked it up, and chucked it further into the impact area.
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Mar 7, 2018 04:55
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I remember one of the stories the new e5 recruiter told me when I originally enlisted was about dudes like loving with cluster muntion duds in Kosovo or where ever and getting their legs blown off yet I still thought that this was an organization that I aspired to serve in
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Mar 7, 2018 05:03
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Reverence posted:Yes, but specifically EOD wise, I'd rather get a call to safe a nuke then anything else. Yeah, now. In the fifties or sixties no loving thank you that poo poo was hilariously unsafe.
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Mar 7, 2018 05:13
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It's been mentioned but Command and Control is very much worth reading.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:57
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Did this get posted yet?
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Mar 7, 2018 21:04
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The person that wrote that statement is the idiot as far as I can tell.
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Mar 7, 2018 21:06
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Edit: nevermind, was posted at bottom of last page.
Cythereal fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 22:49
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mods change my name posted:I remember one of the stories the new e5 recruiter told me when I originally enlisted was about dudes like loving with cluster muntion duds in Kosovo or where ever and getting their legs blown off yet I still thought that this was an organization that I aspired to serve in this is a feature not a bug for russian poo poo
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Mar 7, 2018 23:21
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mods change my name posted:The person that wrote that statement is the idiot as far as I can tell. Apparently 'Soldier,' 'Civilian,' and 'Family' are Proper Nouns worthy of random-rear end capitalization.
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Mar 7, 2018 23:55
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Actually capitalizing the word "soldier" is 100% IAW regulations
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Mar 8, 2018 00:00
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Dick Burglar posted:Apparently 'Soldier,' 'Civilian,' and 'Family' are Proper Nouns worthy of random-rear end capitalization. Also Service Member
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Mar 8, 2018 01:30
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Soulex posted:Also Service Member Thus, use Service Member Inspector in your Powerpoints, not "meat gazer".
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Mar 8, 2018 02:23
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Automatic Retard posted:Did this get posted yet? The guy who does the emergency announcements at my base is such a bad speller that I would genuinely be suspicious if we ever got a message that didn't have a typo. Epic center sounds rad as hell though. 
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Mar 8, 2018 03:07
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The guy who does the emergency announcements at my base is such a bad speller that I would genuinely be suspicious if we ever got a message that didn't have a typo. Epic center sounds rad as hell though. I loving hate those things with the fire of a thousand suns. That little popup soaks up all my computer's resources for a good 45 seconds. Thank god I keep my sound turned off. But the I get the email that says the exact same thing. Then the phone call that literally reads the same message (I didn't realize this until that actual exercise when it read the typo).
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Mar 8, 2018 03:34
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Godholio posted:I loving hate those things with the fire of a thousand suns. That little popup soaks up all my computer's resources for a good 45 seconds. Thank god I keep my sound turned off. But the I get the email that says the exact same thing. Then the phone call that literally reads the same message (I didn't realize this until that actual exercise when it read the typo). Good news! An actual event uses the PC speaker in the latest version of At Hoc.
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Mar 8, 2018 03:47
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Godholio posted:I loving hate those things with the fire of a thousand suns. That little popup soaks up all my computer's resources for a good 45 seconds. Thank god I keep my sound turned off. But the I get the email that says the exact same thing. Then the phone call that literally reads the same message (I didn't realize this until that actual exercise when it read the typo). Oh, it's absolutely magical when you have multiple offices with 5+ phones per room. The entire day is just an endless stream of klaxons blaring from computers, phones ringing, and people screaming in rage at the stupidity of it all. It's like the circle of hell that's reserved for unrepentant telemarketers.
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Mar 8, 2018 04:51
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Oh, it's absolutely magical when you have multiple offices with 5+ phones per room. The entire day is just an endless stream of klaxons blaring from computers, phones ringing, and people screaming in rage at the stupidity of it all.  Strike sounds like a Dante-esque pit of phones and computers at max volume as LTs scream and rip their hair out.
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Mar 8, 2018 06:02
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krispykremessuck posted:Good news! An actual event uses the PC speaker in the latest version of At Hoc. Good News! I actually deleted the audio drivers!
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Mar 8, 2018 06:48
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MA-Horus posted:Nuclear safety during the cold war was...not ideal. Air Force safety. My boy Hyman G made sure Navy nuclear culture was different.
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Mar 8, 2018 12:46
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Ron Jeremy posted:Air Force safety. And Army.
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Mar 8, 2018 17:28
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Soulex posted:Good News! I actually deleted the audio drivers! Most modern OSes redirect beep calls to the system sound platform if available, but if there are no functioning audio devices it'll go right to the onboard noisemaker. It may be disableable in the BIOS, but generally the only way to stop it is to physically break it.
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Mar 8, 2018 20:31
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wolrah posted:The PC speaker does not use drivers, it's the thing that beeps at you during boot. It's low-level hardware dating back to the original IBM PCs. Oh! I just know when I did this, the idiot whose computer it was couldn’t play anymore of his goddamn idiot music on repeat. NCOIC said handle it so I did. I don’t recall how it got fixed.
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Mar 9, 2018 00:39
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Soulex posted:Oh! I just know when I did this, the idiot whose computer it was couldn’t play anymore of his goddamn idiot music on repeat. NCOIC said handle it so I did. I don’t recall how it got fixed. So a random user account was able to make a system level change to an Army workstation I.e uninstalling drivers/other software?
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Mar 9, 2018 01:35
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Yes. I don’t recall if I got there through devices or task manager. It’s been a very long time. I did it in Iraq.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:55
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At Hoc definitely doesn't make any noise on my laptop with the volume turned off. I have a newer laptop with windows 10 on it and for some reason the Army bought laptops without disk drives, the only way of transferring files from computer to computer other than share drives on government computers.
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Mar 9, 2018 05:18
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