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lmaoquote:This commercial was intended to be our commercial in the Big Game (you know the one). We weren't denied or rejected by anyone, it was our own decision to not run it. In the end we just couldn't take the big money risk. Yeah man, you sure are risking alienating the fuckheads who buy "Grunt Style" clothing with that commercial. In reality they mean "we couldn't afford it" but they wanted to spin it as a political move. gently caress off.
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I only know cause if there's a clothing company that might have something to do with the military, there's a legion of redneck farm boys wearing their gear. I forgot about GRC but it's hard to keep track. If anyone is interested in trolling a bunch of these type of people and making money at the same time put a flag , some guns and something about warriors on a green thong. lightpole fucked around with this message at 19:09 on May 5, 2019 |
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Dick Burglar posted:lmao It’s kinda nice that in this day and age those dipshits felt the need to self censor their ode to fascism and police abuse and just whine about it on their own channel instead.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Imagine booticking this hard These are the recommended video YouTube give me:  I feel like the stolen valour ones are especially on point. Also my phone tries to autocorrect stolen valour to stolen calories.
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Smalltime Idiocy: One of my guys texted me wanting to go on an exercise I knew nothing about. Turned out some dude with an indecipherable screen name had posted it on the facebook group. After mucking about for 15 minutes looking at old posts trying to work out the ex name, identity of the person who posted it (nice grunt painting avatar, tho) etc, I clicked something and realized that dude's real name showed in the URL as part of his FB account and dude was newly part of my unit's senior administration. With a certain sense of dread passed the return on to my pl sgt who sure enough hadn't heard anything about it and demanded to know the details. So yeah I've poked the sleeping dogs and killed the chillness, and I think we're all idiots.
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A Bad Poster posted:Sucks to suck. Nostalgia4Butts posted:not my problem Glad I'm not signed for that
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Belongs here, too:Powershift posted:Who needs some inspiration for some new nightmares? quote:A US soldier in Hawaii was critically injured after he fell 70ft (21 metres) into one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, parks officials say.
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Radios were pulled daily and not really kept track of because it was lazy assholes “supervising” feckless assholes so someone slammed the stupid emergency chirp button for two day shifts straight and as far as I remember they never figured out who it was lmao. Someone got bitch slapped more than once for pulling radio 69 though. (I once pussed out when someone wound their hand back when I pulled 69)
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Command master chief who told sailors to "clap like you're at a strip club" for Mike Pence has resigned from the Navy.
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chitoryu12 posted:Command master chief who told sailors to "clap like you're at a strip club" for Mike Pence has resigned from the Navy. When does he start his commentator gig at Fox?
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I just re-read through all 400 pages of this thread during a slow week at work and, drat. gently caress you if you're still in rings true as always. One thing I was reminded of recently while driving thru Toronto was how absolutely garbage the CAF procurement system was. We ended up with some legendarily bad kit, from the MKIII Combat Boot (a reject of the British Army), or the Victoria-class diesel-electric boats which have been just a comedy of errors from start to finish. But one of the absolute worst things ever foisted among the troops was the LSVW. (Light, Service Vehicle, Wheeled). It's essentially a copy of the Iveco VM90 which isn't a terrible truck. But in true Canadian tradition, we bought a foreign design and gave it to local suppliers to gently caress up. It's a long and storied tradition that includes companies like Bombardier, Irving and Western Star building hot garbage at the behest of politicians. In this case, the LSVW was built by Western Star in the riding of one of our old PMs, Kim Campbell. Even though the vehicle failed all the QA and operational testing consistently. It has a top speed of 90km/h on pavement and 25km/h off-road. It has a 2.5L turbo diesel which is...anemic, to say the least. The bed is so short that you often needed to tow a trailer to get a decent cargo capacity, which meant 90km/h for a road march was but a dream. Somehow those 115 horses are the angriest sounding fuckers in the world, the exhaust is absurdly loud for the size. The engine was near-inaccessible, and had the fun habit of not wanting to start in cold weather. But that's ok, because they added something called a Fuel Fired Coolant Heater to heat up the engine. But the drat thing almost never worked. They were extremely top heavy, so even if you did manage to do some off-roading, if you hit a deep rut odds are you were going for a ride. God help you if you had pax in the rear. So we have an underpowered, unreliable, small-capacity truck with limited speed and piss-poor off-road functionality with plastic body cladding that rusts, somehow. Those are probably the best features. The worst are the brakes. Anyone who's ever been in the CAF since the 2000s knows about LSVW brakes. They are what turn an already garbage vehicle into a joke. A touch on the brake pedals lets out an ear-piercing screech, no matter what the speed. You hit the brakes on the highway and you will see the drivers around you look with a "WTF" look from that horrible noise. No, the brakes aren't broken. They're like that by design. There is no being sneaky with this vehicle, trying to pull up onto a position at night you can hear the tiny diesel howling away and then the squeaking screeching of the brakes as you come to a sudden halt. We had them configured as battery command posts and whenever I wasn't on a gun I'd volunteer to run the wrecker MLVW (2 1/2 ton) just to not have to drive the CP. They are universally hated by everyone I know who has ever driven them. I recently heard one before I saw it driving downtown and talked to the driver at a red light. As the vehicles age, they get even weaker and crappier. You're lucky to hit 70km/h on the road. Transmissions pop out of gear at any abuse.
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Meanwhile the U.S. somehow got to the point where the worst thing about the Humvee is fitting into it if you're over 6'00" with all of your poo poo on. Or going uphill faster than 45mph. Thank you Canadian, for making me feel better.
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Nothing made me feel like more of a dumb rear end in a top hat than getting in an up-armored Humvee that was parked on a grade and tilted to one side, then feebly struggling inside the vehicle with all my gear on and no leverage to get the loving heavy-rear end door closed.
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Wild T posted:Nothing made me feel like more of a dumb rear end in a top hat than getting in an up-armored Humvee that was parked on a grade and tilted to one side, then feebly struggling inside the vehicle with all my gear on and no leverage to get the loving heavy-rear end door closed. That's a pretty funny mental image, though 
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As an aside: is it actually remarkable that it was carrying live ammunition? Do they usually fly without?
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Hyperlynx posted:As an aside: is it actually remarkable that it was carrying live ammunition? Do they usually fly without? Maybe it was flying through a bad neighborhood
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Hyperlynx posted:As an aside: is it actually remarkable that it was carrying live ammunition? Do they usually fly without? I'm just a mil aerospace nerd, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it had a pair of Sidewinders and AMRAAMs just because. IIRC -16's are the favorite for continental intercept in case of a "problem" with a commercial or private flight in US airspace. I imagine having to constantly rearm and disarm an aircraft between training missions and ready status would be a pain in the rear end. Godholio or one of the other pilot guys would know for sure.
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Beach Bum posted:I'm just a mil aerospace nerd, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it had a pair of Sidewinders and AMRAAMs just because. IIRC -16's are the favorite for continental intercept in case of a "problem" with a commercial or private flight in US airspace. I imagine having to constantly rearm and disarm an aircraft between training missions and ready status would be a pain in the rear end. Godholio or one of the other pilot guys would know for sure. "being a pain in the rear end" is a top command concern but not in the way you think it is.
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The plane needs either ammo for the gun or replacement ballast for it and (I think) flares and chaff for balance purpose. Also isn’t the F-16 the one with the hydrazine turbine? Generally speaking, ammo or not, you want to stay clear of plane wreckage. Fuel, hydraulic fluids, batteries, coolant, pyrotechnics... tons of poo poo you don’t want to annoy after it’s been through a plane crash.
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FrozenVent posted:The plane needs either ammo for the gun or replacement ballast for it and (I think) flares and chaff for balance purpose. Hydrazine fueled APU, yes.
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FrozenVent posted:Also isn’t the F-16 the one with the hydrazine turbine? Yes, it’s APU is hydrazine powered for emergencies.
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FrozenVent posted:The plane needs either ammo for the gun or replacement ballast for it and (I think) flares and chaff for balance purpose. Now you tell me...
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FrozenVent posted:Generally speaking, ammo or not, you want to stay clear of plane wreckage. Fuel, hydraulic fluids, batteries, coolant, pyrotechnics... tons of poo poo you don’t want to annoy after it’s been through a plane crash. But how am I supposed to loot it then?
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Hyperlynx posted:As an aside: is it actually remarkable that it was carrying live ammunition? Do they usually fly without? Yes. Usually CONUS flights are for training, so maybe they have fake missiles, maybe they have inert bombs, maybe they have nothing. They usually don't carry lives unless they're on a mission. I'm guessing this was a homeland defense mission or an alert jet that launched. Or it could've been a test/training mission with live weapons, but that's pretty rare and I don't think it happens in that part of the country. There are special ranges for that. Edit: And pilots should absolutely know what's loaded on their loving jets. Just as the B-52 crew that accidentally carried nukes across the loving country a decade ago, because they half-assed their pre-flight.
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So assuming the nukes had to be brought back, who gets stuck with coordinating the logistics of securing the devices and bringing them back? Who has to foot the bill for the fuel and overtime for the crew manning the return trip? Is there even overtime for stuff like this? Time off in lieu of payment? Wishful thinking by a civvie?
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Nystral posted:So assuming the nukes had to be brought back, who gets stuck with coordinating the logistics of securing the devices and bringing them back? Who has to foot the bill for the fuel and overtime for the crew manning the return trip? Is there even overtime for stuff like this? Time off in lieu of payment? Ask Mustang about all his comp time 
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