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TerminalSaint posted:Marine Raiders, formerly the Marine Special Operations Regiment. Also Marine Recon. That said, the USMC is traditionally anti- elite; they prefer not to form elites into their own units. They prefer instead to keep especially good Marines with their units and promote them to bring up training, leadership, etc, across the board. It's only relatively recently that they've jumped onto the Special Forces bandwagon, and that's only because they were left out of the cool kids SpecOps club until they did so.
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It probably has something to do with SOCOM getting their own money pool to the point of having their own air force and what not, might as well get on that free money train.
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https://twitter.com/Tom_Antonov/status/1081503245942558720?s=19 o7
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The French Foreign Legion wine in that pinned tweet looks kinda dope
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BPD is a good starter metric, but with all the salt easily available I really want to see their MPM.
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FastestGunAlive posted:The French Foreign Legion wine in that pinned tweet looks kinda dope le complex boulangerie-industriel
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Tunicate posted:BPD is a good starter metric, but with all the salt easily available I really want to see their MPM. mpm?
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Libluini posted:German Kampfschwimmer could probably pull that off. German marines though would attack in diving suits in the middle of the night, using underwater-night vision gear for maximum surprise, like some sort of swimming ninjas. (Those guys swim a lot.) 1942: German frogmen clashed with Soviet frogmen at a Tsemes Bay seaport at Novorossiysk.[2] The skirmish resulted in some knife battles underwater.[3] Sounds rad as hell
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https://twitter.com/luke_j_obrien/status/1081567164166037505 What's this about the Queen Elizabeth? Are they optimized for sausage roll manufacture or something?
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My hard-republican voting Marine officer uncle, who had a bigass staff job at Kandahar early in the clusterfuck that is our Afghanistan campaign, told me with all seriousness that he would rather work with the French than the US Army. Apparently if you gave French officers strong coffee and something vaguely resembling a croissant they'd shut up and get on with whatever their jobs were because it was Afghanistan and they were there because a bad thing happened to an allied country.
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darthbob88 posted:What's this about the Queen Elizabeth? Are they optimized for sausage roll manufacture or something? "5000 industrial-sized kettles entirely for tea brewing."
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steinrokkan posted:1942: German frogmen clashed with Soviet frogmen at a Tsemes Bay seaport at Novorossiysk.[2] The skirmish resulted in some knife battles underwater.[3] Wasn't this a scene in Top Secret?
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It’s part of the ending to Thunderball.
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chitoryu12 posted:"5000 industrial-sized kettles entirely for tea brewing." The most uncivilized people I've ever met were Englishmen denied access to a cup of tea.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The most uncivilized people I've ever met were Englishmen denied access to a cup of tea. they're obsessed
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The most uncivilized people I've ever met were Englishmen denied access to a cup of tea. So... Americans? Now I'm imagining a WW1 tank trailing behind the rest without guns but lots of tea kettles to keep the supply lines intact.
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Argas posted:So... Americans?  you've never met an American at all
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steinrokkan posted:1942: German frogmen clashed with Soviet frogmen at a Tsemes Bay seaport at Novorossiysk.[2] The skirmish resulted in some knife battles underwater.[3] dude it sounds amazing. Dont softball such poo poo
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yeah, their MPM. The USN briefly converted the USS Georgia into a 'rita machine back in 2005, though it was only done for a week as an experiment mid-refit. I'm sure a carrier with dedicated equipment should have a higher sustained MPM than a submarine, even if they tied it directly into the sub's main propulsion system.
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In an alternate history the vehicles known as tanks were shipped in crates marked INDUSTRIAL COMPANY SIZED BREWING KETTLES.
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SeanBeansShako posted:In an alternate history the vehicles known as tanks were shipped in crates marked INDUSTRIAL COMPANY SIZED BREWING KETTLES. This is more or less a thing that happened during the Cold War. A British solider assigned to the Hong Kong-China border reported to his superiors that the Chinese were unloading a lot of tanks near the border. A suitably large troop of brass set out for the observer's position only to discover the Chinese were unloading a lot of metal water tanks. When bollocked, the anonymous squaddie replied, quite properly, that if he had meant tanks, he would've used the phrase "armored fighting vehicles".
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I assume they're aging cheese down in the hold.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:
I've certainly never met a someone from England deprived of their tea.
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Pounding on the table We must not allow a baked goods gap! Get Krispy Kreme on the phone immediately.
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feedmegin posted:First, the RN also had Scottish, Welsh and Irish officers. Vincent Van Goatse posted:
Argas posted:So... Americans? Britain takes its tea seriously.
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I mean the BV has other uses too aside from tea, but I imagine that is the primary use for it.
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FrangibleCover posted:Every British AFV since Chieftain has been fitted with a Boiling Vessel intended to make water for tea. The primary use of the Chieftain's stabilizer was to put your cups of tea on the gun breach so they wouldn't spill when you were driving around.
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LatwPIAT posted:The primary use of the Chieftain's stabilizer was to put your cups of tea on the gun breach so they wouldn't spill when you were driving around. I'm pretty sure this isn't true because the primary purpose of the Chieftain's engine was to break every half an hour so you could stop and have a cuppa.
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Kettles are the best thing, seriously. I can't believe hotels in America don't have kettles.
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Back in November I got to go to a WW2 battleship in North Carolina and run around. I kinda felt like managing to fit all the day to day conveniences below decks was more impressive than when I was crawling around in one of the turrets. When you're in around the gun's machinery, it's hardware first, stick some seats in and the humans can just figure out how to duck out of the way of anything important. When they were laying out the below decks, they had to make all these cramped spaces livable long-term with all kinds of things like a laundry facility, mail room, bakery, ice cream maker, and multiple kitchens in addition to more mission-critical systems. You're only going to be in battle for so long, but you're going to be living in the ship for months on-end. And man, there were a lot of steep stairs. I don't envy the sailors that had to take shells up and down those. I didn't get an opportunity to see the upper decks either because it started raining.
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LatwPIAT posted:The primary use of the Chieftain's stabilizer was to put your cups of tea on the gun breach so they wouldn't spill when you were driving around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYI6gOc-3vQ
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Fangz posted:Kettles are the best thing, seriously. I can't believe hotels in America don't have kettles. There were some posters in the UK DnD thread who were absolutely convinced this was because American power outlets literally weren't powerful enough for electric kettles. It was like. . . dudes, do you really not understand not everyone needs or wants the same appliances? I guess that's just the same mistake everybody's always made about others, that is assuming that if others were capable of doing so, they'd do everything the way we do. Anyway, the reason American hotels and kitchens don't have electric kettles is we need the counter space for a coffee maker. Space is limited so you have to make trade-offs.
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FrangibleCover posted:By ethnic origin, Americans are Germans denied their beer. Although I hear that's gotten much better over the last few years. Hmm. Trump is a teetotaler German-American, so you may have something here.
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I've seen this video a whole bunch of times and never noticed that he leaves a gigantic head on the beer which has deflated somewhat by the time the tank is seen in motion. It's still impressive stabilisation but you can see the beer itself is quite considerably disturbed in motion, not least by the acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle that the gun isn't stabilised against. It's just that there's enough space in the stein for it to wobble without spilling.
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Squalid posted:There were some posters in the UK DnD thread who were absolutely convinced this was because American power outlets literally weren't powerful enough for electric kettles. It was like. . . dudes, do you really not understand not everyone needs or wants the same appliances? I guess that's just the same mistake everybody's always made about others, that is assuming that if others were capable of doing so, they'd do everything the way we do. A coffee maker without beans in it to ruin the output is a kettle.
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Squalid posted:There were some posters in the UK DnD thread who were absolutely convinced this was because American power outlets literally weren't powerful enough for electric kettles. It was like. . . dudes, do you really not understand not everyone needs or wants the same appliances? I guess that's just the same mistake everybody's always made about others, that is assuming that if others were capable of doing so, they'd do everything the way we do. Well I guess if they think that England's grotesquely oversized plugs are necessary to heft all that water-boiling electricity around, I guess they'd immediately think that America's svelte outlets can't carry enough umph.
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From what I remember, they did did feel wiggly as hell compared to others (NZ in my case), but that's OK because they don't carry 240v. And while it isn't the reason for the coffee dominance in the US, Kettles on a normal 120v setup are a lot more feeble than on a 240v setup.
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