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I have no idea if the following details are accurate, but dammit I need Fear and Loathing in Iraq in my life.quote:We were somewhere around Samawah on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge camel spiders, all swooping and screeching and diving around the truck, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the windows down to Balad Air Base. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?” Then it was quiet again. My co-driver had taken his armor off and was pouring beer on his chest, to facilitate the tanning process. “What the hell are you yelling about?” he muttered, staring up at the sun with his eyes closed and covered with wrap-around Oakley sunglasses. “Never mind,” I said. “It’s your turn to drive.” I hit the brakes and aimed the Big Green Weenie toward the shoulder of the highway. No point mentioning those camel spiders, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough. BigDave fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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I love this forum.Wild T posted:A Warboy. Your friend is a Warboy who rode shiny and chrome as gently caress. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/jkass99/status/1144282466720468992
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BigDave posted:I have no idea if the following details are accurate, but dammit I need Fear and Loathing in Iraq in my life. 
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"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"?
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"?
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"?
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? Holy gently caress, yes dude.
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? 
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Wat, how did he not get absolutely trashed on his NCOER for that.
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Well you see he did exceptionally well on his PT test, read to children at a hospital once, and is known for punctuality and enforcement of uniform standards.Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? Sixteen years! It took sixteen years for this masterpiece!
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Because there’s a CSM somewhere in that rating chain looking out for a fellow shitbird?
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With a title like that there’s no choice but to write a fiction book.
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? This post needs the  crying eagle overlaid on it. It's perfection.
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? Mods?
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I just want to say thanks for the shout out to the city of my Shrapnel Party, Samawah.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I just want to say thanks for the shout out to the city of my Shrapnel Party, Samawah. Thanks for validating my random Iraqi city pick. Should I edit the whole goddamn book like this?
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NightGyr posted:Mods? Thank you McNally
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I'm surprised that it's never come up before! I just googled it - literally the only place this exact phrase shows up is a 2015 deviantart comment on a 2012 map for some dude's alt-hist EU/UAR cold war. And now, here. I'm so proud.
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? 
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Flying_Crab posted:Wat, how did he not get absolutely trashed on his NCOER for that. Somebody had to stay back and account for the 14.9 billion dollars in government equipment for which he was responsible as well as eliminating "waste" and saving the government another 550,000.00 in lost time and resources. Seriously, evaluation reports are always so arbitrary and pointless that the guy who go busted for a DUI can get a "promote before peers" while the E6 with 16 years gets an admin sep during a draw down because they were counseled once for having their hair 1/8" too long while working 16 hour days.
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? How has it taken this long?
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Rockopolis posted:"We can't stop here, this is ba'ath country!"? Rocko we're good now lol
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Viva Miriya posted:Rocko we're good now lol  Well, I was not expecting that. I guess I should post more.
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Rockopolis posted:
Only if you keep making good posts. Now go get rid of that lovely avatar. poo poo is gross my dude.
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I go back and forth between hating it and thinking I'm supposed to have it. Which is it's own idiocy, so, appropriate. I'll think of something to replace it.
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Rockopolis posted:I go back and forth between hating it and thinking I'm supposed to have it. Which is it's own idiocy, so, appropriate. You need a picture of Raoul Duke driving a fuel truck.
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BigDave posted:You need a picture of Raoul Duke driving a fuel truck. https://i.imgur.com/RUXDmSq.gifv
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Wish I had the skill to shop desert camo on that hat and jacket
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I've got a really lovely prelim, it's going to take a while to finish. It's been like a decade since I've done any of this. I guess it's technically something patriotic I can do over the 4th of July?   The tint on the eagles is already surprisingly good, but the shape needs work. Plus the original gif had like sixteen more frames and was about 1mb.
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A Bad Poster posted:I have gotten "randomly selected for additional screening" literally every time I've gone through security at an American airport, even when I do TSA Pre-check. I'm not exaggerating, it's every single time. Luckily when I drive across the border they never seem to give a poo poo, they just give off an air of "gently caress you for making me be here, why would you leave the US anyway." Same. Being a big dude with a full beard is apparently somehow suspicious, despite me being the whitest kid in the room thanks to decade on grave shift.
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Liquid Communism posted:Same. Being a big dude with a full beard is apparently somehow suspicious, despite me being the whitest kid in the room thanks to decade on grave shift. Big people look imposing, gotta flex that lovely badge power on you
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Liquid Communism posted:Same. Being a big dude with a full beard is apparently somehow suspicious, despite me being the whitest kid in the room thanks to decade on grave shift. Conversely, when I came home from a year in Egypt, I was completely clean shaven and wearing a clean collared shirt, yet I still got pulled out of line and asked a bunch of questions about what I was doing there, whether I had met any terrorists, and whether anyone had talked to me about joining al-Qaeda. I’ve since leaned that DHS is convinced that self-radicalized Westerners will shave their beards and dress normally when they come back to the US so that they don’t look like they crawled out of some cage or something.
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CBP once detained a us army captain who had a combat action badge and who was also a current NYPD officer for "identity verification" Apparently "I have a security clearance and you can also call my commanding officer in the NYPD" is not the right answer
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Smiling Jack posted:CBP once detained a us army captain who had a combat action badge and who was also a current NYPD officer for "identity verification" That’s exactly what a terrist would say!!
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How has no one linked the correct solution to terries getting froggy yet? https://youtu.be/eiWIOKKuyGE
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Smiling Jack posted:CBP once detained a us army captain who had a combat action badge and who was also a current NYPD officer for "identity verification" Further cementing the opinion that CBP likes to get off by making GBS threads on people who have no recourse.
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Conversely the last two times I’ve reentered the US (@ JFK and Detroit) I blazed through customs in like 5 minutes and said maybe one sentence to the CBP person. Although I have Global Entry which probably helps immensely.
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Flying_Crab posted:Conversely the last two times I’ve reentered the US (@ JFK and Detroit) I blazed through customs in like 5 minutes and said maybe one sentence to the CBP person. Although I have Global Entry which probably helps immensely. Ok. You said JFK and Detroit? Sorry about that, we'll make sure to talk to you in depth next time. Happy to help @ #cbp!
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