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not caring here posted:What the devil makes tactical fiber tactical? A thick casing with some shielding and a threaded coupling for the connector, which is otherwise just a standard LC fiber connector. Add in your 1000% government upcharge from your Service Disabled Alaskan Native Minority Woman Veteran Owned Small Business and you get a $10,000 spool of stuff that costs a few dollars to manufacture.
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I was hoping you’d say it’s camouflaged and has molle loops.
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Aug 8, 2018 19:12
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Has a rail system so you can mount an optic for more accurate information delivery.
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Aug 8, 2018 19:15
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Yeah, I was hoping for something cool but knew deep down it was just gonna be meh
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not caring here posted:What the devil makes tactical fiber tactical? I was gonna say fire resistant coatings that are super cancerous or cause heart attacks when it actually catches fire, and someone covered the real bidding process issue already. This doesn't mean I haven't seen people turn it into mollee loops though.
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Aug 8, 2018 19:16
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Probably direct burial too.
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Casimir Radon posted:Probably direct burial too. If that's the case, eliminating the need for burying conduit and access points throws tons of money back into the budget. But army being army, it probably runs through six inch pipe to concrete junctions.
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Aug 8, 2018 19:23
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Buried? Try "lies on the ground for people to trip over". Real talk, even at the FOBs I was on it was usually strung up along crumbling HESCOs that had been around since Dubya declared Mission Accomplished in Iraq. Bigger bases like BAF had proper conduit run by contractors, but the tactical poo poo was, for the most part, completely exposed.
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Aug 8, 2018 19:32
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psydude posted:Buried? Try "lies on the ground for people to trip over". We had a km of fiber we had to pretty much toss because one of my jackass PFCs ran it through a crawlspace under a building, decided it wouldn't look tidy to have the reel sitting at the connection point, and so unreeled the whole mess in the crawlspace, then grabbed one end and tugged it to where he was supposed to hook it up. Yanking it into a tighter and tighter rats nest under the building as he was walking broke it in like a million places so we couldn't just send it to be repaired at the one break point. Then there was the time the customs guy failed to lock the back of our comm Hummer after looking in there to make sure we weren't smuggling in alcohol or porn, so when we we're convoying from the airport to the iraq/Kuwait border the back door swing open and a km of fiber dropped out the back of the Hummer at 2 AM. I stole another reel from another company that didn't believe in gear guards and just cut the serial number tags off of it.
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Crakkerjakk posted:I stole another reel from another company that didn't believe in gear guards and just cut the serial number tags off of it. You didn't steal a drat thing, that's called midnight requisitioning! 
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facialimpediment posted:You didn't steal a drat thing, that's called midnight requisitioning! Broad daylight. Much less suspicious.
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Aug 8, 2018 20:31
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Tactical acquisitions is a valuable training block
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Aug 8, 2018 20:43
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My former recon mustang CO liked to call it Surreptitious Transportation of Equipment to an Alternate Location.
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Lordy, there are tapes! https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1027280564347437058?s=19 https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1027281384950382592?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 20:52
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Lateral transfer of equipment.
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Afghanistan was just a big flea market of gear. After the Poles cleared out of Ghazni and we were tearing down their old buildings, we found three mortar rounds still in their packaging just hanging out, as well as a bunch of frag grenades and rounds for whatever their version of the M203 is.
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Aug 8, 2018 21:00
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maffew buildings posted:Tactical acquisitions is a valuable training block As a medic this was beaten into me during AIT
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Aug 8, 2018 21:01
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 I'm getting a lot of these ads now, along with pleas to take a Trump approval poll on youtube Our Gov is leaving so now CT is getting hammered by the GOP trying to flip it
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You don't lay the fibre then put a concrete structure around it? I guess in war zones you wouldn't but most major fibre I see at work is inside a concrete structure. Same with most buried primary hydro
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Only way I've personally seen it done was at an airport while we were pulling something stupid like 4/O copper and the comms guys that hosed with fiber handled their own poo poo. PVC conduit encased in concrete, meeting at manholed concrete junctions. That being an airport, the standards are higher, so it's probably not the regular thing everywhere.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:You don't lay the fibre then put a concrete structure around it? I guess in war zones you wouldn't but most major fibre I see at work is inside a concrete structure. Same with most buried primary hydro I was mobile comms when I was in, generally expecting to move pretty often. We could tear down and set up comms for a BN HQ about six times in a day (though after 24 hours we had to slow down as sleep deprivation kicked in). So doing permanent installs wasn't really something we practiced much. Mostly you just tried to bury it or run it through culverts to get across roads. And this quantity of fiber is about the diameter of your pinky.
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Hackers hit the PGA with a bitcoin ransom demand https://golfweek.com/2018/08/08/hackers-target-pga-servers-seek-bitcoin-ransom/
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Aug 8, 2018 22:44
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Technically we haven't surrendered in Afghanistan yet.
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Aug 8, 2018 23:18
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Ellicott City's going to end up abandoned and absorbed into Patapsco Valley park, just like Daniels.
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Yeah Ellicott City got turbo-hosed last time around. Two years after a "thousand year flood", they got smashed again. Some places were still rebuilding or had just finished after last time and welp, there it goes again. There's all kinds of bitching about zoning ordinances and property restrictions and stuff because they want to blame it all on how the town was built and grown. I mean, there's probably some truth to that but the lengths people go to, to avoid saying "climate change" is pretty impressive. Pretty sure a fair amount of people are just going to give up on the place this time around.
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Chris Collins is hearing up to fight the charges Cool, keep it in the news
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Whatever the next generation of federal flood insurance is, it should be a buyout and demolition of these places to turn them into national park wetlands.
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bird food bathtub posted:Yeah Ellicott City got turbo-hosed last time around. Two years after a "thousand year flood", they got smashed again. Some places were still rebuilding or had just finished after last time and welp, there it goes again. There's all kinds of bitching about zoning ordinances and property restrictions and stuff because they want to blame it all on how the town was built and grown. I mean, there's probably some truth to that but the lengths people go to, to avoid saying "climate change" is pretty impressive. Pretty sure a fair amount of people are just going to give up on the place this time around. I heard in passing they had standing water in the street again a couple weeks ago during another one of the storms that rolled through. As of July 25th quote:Here are some of the marks that have been added to Baltimore’s record books, according to the National Weather Service: It's been rainy here.
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e^: I had my entire lawn dug at the end of April up to fix the sewage line and we got so much rain in May that the grass had entirely grown back by the end of the month.bird food bathtub posted:Yeah Ellicott City got turbo-hosed last time around. Two years after a "thousand year flood", they got smashed again. Some places were still rebuilding or had just finished after last time and welp, there it goes again. There's all kinds of bitching about zoning ordinances and property restrictions and stuff because they want to blame it all on how the town was built and grown. I mean, there's probably some truth to that but the lengths people go to, to avoid saying "climate change" is pretty impressive. Pretty sure a fair amount of people are just going to give up on the place this time around. The article at the end of the thread kind of summarizes it: the combination of bad zoning and climate change has turned something that might have resulted in minor/major flooding into something that's catastrophic. I don't think it's avoiding discussing climate change as much as it is them pointing out that the county hosed everyone in the river valley by approving all of these buildings in the surrounding hills that have large parking lots.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:There was a fake news article 5 years ago about 1/3 of the US population being RFID through vaccines. I showed that the college that did the study didn’t exist and that active rfid that could be tracked is substantially to big to ever fit in a syringe. 1/2 of the people talking about it dismissed me outright because they don’t trust the federal government, despite being on active duty, working for the federal government. Knew a 9/11 truther who
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not caring here posted:What the devil makes tactical fiber tactical? Certainly not its ability to survive being run over by 5 tons, it turns out.
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Godholio posted:Certainly not its ability to survive being run over by 5 tons, it turns out. You were specifically asked not to walk on it.
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Milo and POTUS posted:You were specifically asked not to walk on it. Nice
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Crossposting from Trump CSPAM thread, this made my evening since this terrible family is gonna get turbo hosed by the courts
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Nick Soapdish posted:Crossposting from Trump CSPAM thread, this made my evening since this terrible family is gonna get turbo hosed by the courts This time -- maybe. 
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psydude posted:e^: I had my entire lawn dug at the end of April up to fix the sewage line and we got so much rain in May that the grass had entirely grown back by the end of the month. Ellicot City is a major flood plane. I was at a Maryland Sierra Club meeting and they went over what happened to Ellicott City in great detail. To sum up what you said, the watershed north of the city used to be able to naturally absorb more of the water. Now that it is all parking lots and streets, that water has no where to go but be funneled into the downtown area. On top of that, Ellicott City received up to 12 inches of rain in a 3 hour period. That's insane, and that ONLY happens in a world where we have greater than 400ppm of CO2 from 200 years of industrialization. Ellicott City is just the start. poo poo's going to get way, way worse.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Crossposting from Trump CSPAM thread, this made my evening since this terrible family is gonna get turbo hosed by the courts The twitter guy trying to use it to plug his wife’s fursuiting channel is the cherry on top of the idiot sundae here.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Ellicot City is a major flood plane. I was at a Maryland Sierra Club meeting and they went over what happened to Ellicott City in great detail. To sum up what you said, the watershed north of the city used to be able to naturally absorb more of the water. Now that it is all parking lots and streets, that water has no where to go but be funneled into the downtown area. On top of that, Ellicott City received up to 12 inches of rain in a 3 hour period. That's insane, and that ONLY happens in a world where we have greater than 400ppm of CO2 from 200 years of industrialization. All this heat almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter...
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