AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Conservatives are competitive in elections because they draw in virulent racists who will gladly cut off their own nose if it means they get to stick it to minorities and foreigners.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Y'all and your good 101st units. My rear end was sent to the precursor for whatever DISCOM/SUST BDE was at the time (under the leaning shithouse). They stood up Support/Sustainment Bde right around when I got to Campbell, then renamed it DISCOM. Then something else, probably. But it wasn't under the leaning shithouse control anymore.

You want to see a brigade full of people that can't function outside of an office, you go to 101st DISCOM. Maybe 1/10 can actually shoot or soldier. I got good at hiding from people trying to make me do poo poo other than my job (truck mechanic). My last time shooting m16 at the range I cleared the bar for sharpshooter and spent my last few rounds helping my ulls clerk pass. Just pass, 23/40. Goddamn unit.

We also had a guy that got in on forged HS transcripts/diploma. It was shaken out of him, and he got his GED in the army, but then he was caught with atropine injectors in his car and he was separated shortly after his 45/45. We had some dumb ones. Self included.

ASAPI posted:

retardedness

Flying_Crab posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with these dudes? I’m convinced the SEALs are only recruiting sociopaths given all the recent news about them.

Proud Christian Mom posted:

You have to be a sociopath at this point to do this

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

If that was the case at least you could grudgingly accept that they're selfish assholes narrowly looking out for their own best interests.

But there aren't enough rich people in any country to form the basis of a democratic movement. Conservatives are competitive in elections because they draw in virulent racists who will gladly cut off their own nose if it means they get to stick it to minorities and foreigners.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1140...ingawful.com%2F

Fallom posted:

Wait so our fake secdef quit literally in the midst of the Right trying to convince everyone we’re on the brink of war? Yikesarooni.

Fallom posted:

Wait so our fake secdef quit literally in the midst of the Right trying to convince everyone we’re on the brink of war? Yikesarooni.

quote:

One of the U.S. military’s largest private-industry landlords falsified maintenance records, Reuters found, helping it secure incentive fees as families awaited repairs. The company’s actions, a former employee said, were akin to “bank robbery at a corporate level.”

quote:

Whittington said he knew falsifying records left families in peril. A retired Air Force veteran, he said he was disgusted by his actions, and, after wrestling with his conscience and refusing further orders to alter records, resigned.

“It’s like they’re operating a bank robbery at a corporate level,” Whittington said. “I got to the point where I was waking up in the morning and wondering, ‘Well, how many people am I going to have to screw over today?’ ”

Whittington’s claims are supported by numerous internal memos to Balfour Beatty employees instructing them on how to engage in the deception. Reuters documented at least 65 instances in 2016 and 2017 in which Balfour Beatty employees backdated repair requests, filed paperwork claiming false exemptions from response-time requirements, or closed out unfinished maintenance requests.

Such problems were well known to some Air Force housing employees stationed at Tinker. For years, they told the Air Force of questionable record keeping and slum-like living conditions. Yet their attempts to hold Balfour Beatty accountable were blocked by the Air Force Civil Engineering Center, or AFCEC, a unit based in San Antonio, Texas, that is tasked with monitoring private landlords.

At least 18 times since 2015, Tinker-based Air Force housing officials warned that Balfour Beatty maintenance logs contained false information making it appear the company promptly responded to service requests, Air Force reports show. “We do not feel that emergency, urgent and routine work orders are accurately recorded,” said one periodic report on Balfour Beatty’s performance.

Quarter after quarter, the Air Force engineering center downplayed these concerns, giving the company high service marks and advising Tinker officials to drop their complaints. “It doesn’t matter if they were in compliance or not, they would still get paid,” a local housing official at Tinker wrote in a February 2018 email.

At the heart of the failure to hold the Tinker landlord accountable was a conflict within the Air Force. On one side was the on-site Air Force housing office, whose prime mission was assisting residents and conducting daily oversight of Balfour Beatty. On the other was AFCEC, responsible for developing and managing all of the Air Force’s privatized housing projects. While AFCEC, too, has an oversight role, it is also responsible for ensuring smooth long-term relations with the landlords with whom it does business. Over the years, AFCEC repeatedly sided with its partner, Balfour Beatty.

Prop Wash posted:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-military-maintenance/

you know what, just read the whole thing

quote:

“Conversations are still taking place” with the U.S. Department of Justice “about what avenues (criminal or civil) – if any – can be pursued against Balfour Beatty.”

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Because of course,

ASAPI posted:

Holy poo poo are you right on that. They sent me to a DISCOM (later reflagged as a SUS BDE) unit. Talk about poo poo show. I think they took lovely leaders that were distilling in their (e: no, stupidity) and placed them in command.

Not to mention no one knew what to do with the units.

Casimir Radon posted:

He also hit his ex-wife at some point, and downplayed things when his teenage son attacked her with a baseball bat and knocked her unconscious before fleeing the scene.

Milo and POTUS posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with this family

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

his ex wife seemed abusive as well, she was the first one arrested for domestic charges in the family

psydude posted:

All they're missing is sustained alcoholism to be an Irish American stereotype.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Known progressive Joe Biden is attempting to court GOP donors for fundraising.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/billionaire-trump-donor-says-he-rejected-joe-bidens-request-for-fundraising-help.html

And amazingly enough it’s not going well!

colachute posted:

Yeah too bad they don’t have the Irish part.

mlmp08 posted:

I don't think I will ever understand the UK.

https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1140909612276654080?s=20

ManMythLegend posted:

loving lol. Dusted.

Proud Christian Mom posted:

but guys bifartisanship

Proud Christian Mom posted:

but guys buy partisan ship

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

EBB posted:

So that's the payday ship for them how many ships did they let through before that

colachute posted:

Maybe mine is the anecdote and not the norm, but I think morale has a lot to do with it as well. All of the people I met that were ever in the 173rd thought it was great and I never really heard much about it.

Meanwhile my company at Campbell had an entire platoon just for people getting chaptered for drug offenses after we got back from Afghanistan.

Don’t get me wrong. These dudes could shoot and ruck but everything else? Nope, all hosed up.

E: now that I think about it all of my anecdotes are from after my deployment. And it was a rough one. So maybe this is more of a mental health issue than one of the unit being poo poo the way you’re thinking? I don’t know. poo poo, even I put a gun to my head at one point.

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

im not gonna lie I'm pushing full on for brexit because watching the very last remnant of the british empire crumble apart until nothing is left but an economically devastated england would be funny as poo poo