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Gorilla Radio posted:Is anyone here a JAG? My buddy (US Army) is getting chaptered out for a disclosed mental illness that his recruiter ignored. My buddy actually wants to stay in (actually loving crazy, right? Catch-22) but has had his two hearings and lost. Is there anything else he can do? Life is doing him a favor and he should really embrace that he's not under the command of Trump.
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ughhhh posted:predatory wedding loans This is it, this is the ultimate American Armed Forces thing.
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Memento posted:This is it, this is the ultimate American Armed Forces thing. When you absolutely need to hire out the entire Taco Bell.
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Jul 12, 2019 06:06
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Gorilla Radio posted:Is anyone here a JAG? My buddy (US Army) is getting chaptered out for a disclosed mental illness that his recruiter ignored. My buddy actually wants to stay in (actually loving crazy, right? Catch-22) but has had his two hearings and lost. Is there anything else he can do? Not throw away his lotto ticket for a better quality of life, imho
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Jul 12, 2019 11:16
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HiroProtagonist posted:Breaching rounds don't work that way, they're little metal fletchette type splinters in a mini sabot to maximize penetration of the (metal) and minimize spalling and ricochets after they straight up blast a hole in door hinges. They're designed to evaporate, not penetrate. If you wanted to murder anyone within 50m or more sure though they're not flechettes good lord, they're a slug of metal powder pressed together with just enough heat to stick together but evaporate on impact  flechettes are the nail gun from quake
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Jul 12, 2019 14:34
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Gorilla Radio posted:Is anyone here a JAG? My buddy (US Army) is getting chaptered out for a disclosed mental illness that his recruiter ignored. My buddy actually wants to stay in (actually loving crazy, right? Catch-22) but has had his two hearings and lost. Is there anything else he can do? Wayyyyyy too late if it’s anything like the Navy/USMC system. Just fight to get those VA claims.
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Jul 12, 2019 14:55
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CainFortea posted:Edit: Also those pizza box badges looool Lol goddamn Also in the video: wait what posted:He's African American, I'm Filipino... Stupidity has no race, dipshit.
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Jul 12, 2019 15:25
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Jaguars! posted:The GI lays on its back, its armour plate baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not until you take off the radio, the first line ammo, the second line ammo, the CDF, the 72. But you’re not helping. Why is that?  I refuse to let this post go unrecognized.
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Jul 12, 2019 15:31
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:they're not flechettes good lord, they're a slug of metal powder pressed together with just enough heat to stick together but evaporate on impact  
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Jul 12, 2019 15:40
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That works out to 1 flechette per 5.6 square meters, although I have to assume there's some clumping near the center. Did these actually end up getting used?
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Jul 12, 2019 15:45
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Lemniscate Blue posted:That works out to 1 flechette per 5.6 square meters, although I have to assume there's some clumping near the center. Did these actually end up getting used? Probably not to the same extent as lazy dogs in Vietnam
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Jul 12, 2019 16:12
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lazy dog bombs are small metal nerf footballs you dump out of planes and they 100% rely on gravity and come screeching in at 200 mph  Experimental Lazy Dog projectiles of various shapes and sizes were tested at Air Proving Ground, Eglin AFB, Florida, in late 1951 and early 1952. An F-84 flying at 400 knots and 75 feet (23 m) above the ground served as the test bed while a jeep and a B-24 were the targets.[4] The result was eight hits per square yard. Tests revealed Shapes 2 and 5 to be the most effective. Shape 5, an improved basic Lazy Dog slug, had the force of a .50 caliber bullet and could penetrate 24 inches (61 cm) of packed sand.[4] Shape 2 could penetrate 12 inches (30 cm) of sand—twice as much as a .45 caliber slug fired point blank.[4]
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Jul 12, 2019 16:28
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I was at a local range, and there was an older dude in a unit had sighting in a 22. We got to talking, and it turns out he flew support for SOG (CCN). As we chatted for awhile, he chuckled a bit, and then said, "I miss nailing Cong to the trees with flechette rockets."
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Jul 12, 2019 16:33
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:lazy dog bombs are small metal nerf footballs you dump out of planes and they 100% rely on gravity and come screeching in at 200 mph During the international intervention in Libya, French jets ran out of explosive munitions so they switched to concrete-filled training bombs - worked extremely well iirc
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Alright this story happened a long time ago so some of the details might be off. I swear that this story eventually ties into the military. Back in 2005-2006 eve online was a new thing and it was the perfect game to goon rush. The initial period was one of much turmoil with many different goon groups rising, falling, and imploding not unlike orc tribes from warhammer. Finally a savior emerged as goon orc mentality saw the fattest and gooniest person and everyone rallied behind him. Dan Dargon AKA Remedial was a law school student who at the beginning was being supported by his parents whom I believe were also lawyers. Dargon however had a fatal flaw and could not resist the siren call of puerto rican pussy, largely because she was the first :female: to tolerate his presence much less spread her legs. Remedial's parents did not approve of their overweight manchild son dating an overweight puerto rican and once they became engaged decided to cut him off. Dear Leader now cutoff from his family check book and unable to get a fast food job as he couldn't understand the part where you give customers food instead of eating it asked goons for donations from his fellow eve goons so that he could pay rent, allowing him to continue playing space leader and going to law school. He was showered with a few thousand dollars and things were great for awhile. Soon however this was not enough, as he stole all the assets that his position as leader allowed him to get hands on and sold everything on ebay for more rent money. A few years go by and he is mostly forgotten about. He has finished law school and found employment in a law firm. One of the goons that did not forget went looking for him elsewhere online, and found him on a swingers website and found a photo of our dear chubby manchild with his baby dick in hand. Naturally, goons took to faxing this photo of him holding his baby dick to his law office. Another few years go by and he starts his own law firm dealing with mortgages, except that he does so illegally and is soon forced to shutter his office as he faces 300k in fines that he is unable to pay. And so he does the obvious thing: enlist in the army as infantry as an overweight failed Saul Goodman, resulting in what has to be the most over qualified company clerk in US history as I'm sure some 1st sgt cummed when he had access to PFC with a no poo poo law degree to do his paper work   http://badlawyernyc.blogspot.com/2011/07/im-not-really-happy-about-too-many.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandargon/ PookBear fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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Jul 12, 2019 17:24
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Updates? In theory he apparently isn’t past the RCP for SPC. 
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bulletsponge13 posted:I was at a local range, and there was an older dude in a unit had sighting in a 22. We got to talking, and it turns out he flew support for SOG (CCN). As we chatted for awhile, he chuckled a bit, and then said, "I miss nailing Cong to the trees with flechette rockets." 
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Jul 12, 2019 18:01
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Flying_Crab posted:Updates? In theory he apparently isn’t past the RCP for SPC. he hired one of those services that floods the internet with websites about you in order to make it hard to find the news articles
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:he hired one of those services that floods the internet with websites about you in order to make it hard to find the news articles I saw Pookie posting about 2006 and already knew RemDick was making an appearance.
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You ain't seen nothing yet. Meet the Ontos.  Take 6 105mm recoilless rifles, mount them on a self-propelled track chassis. Designed to be a lightweight tank destroyer, it performed fairly lovely in that role. However, once Vietnam rolled around they figured out they were great for airbase security when they loaded all six barrels with flechette rounds. Said rounds were nicknamed 'Beehive' because the sound of the flechettes cutting through the jungle evidently sounded like the world's angriest swarm of bees.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:36
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:they're not flechettes good lord, they're a slug of metal powder pressed together with just enough heat to stick together but evaporate on impact yeah my bad for misspeaking, I had the image of little metal splinters that the compressed powder makes when it gets fired in my head when I was posting that but my brain just inserted the wrong word. fletchettes are much nastier things.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:47
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It took me forever to figure out what a flechette was as a kid thanks to Hexen having three different items called Flechettes, none of which were a flechette.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:58
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Gorilla Radio posted:Is anyone here a JAG? My buddy (US Army) is getting chaptered out for a disclosed mental illness that his recruiter ignored. My buddy actually wants to stay in (actually loving crazy, right? Catch-22) but has had his two hearings and lost. Is there anything else he can do? Has he requested a JAG to consult with? He's entitled to one, and he needs to do it yesterday.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:28
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:Alright this story happened a long time ago so some of the details might be off. I swear that this story eventually ties into the military. Is he still all up in that fine PR panocha?
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https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1149707791235526662?s=20
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Goddamned Florida Nuetzis.
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They make you go nuetz.
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Right into my veins
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Flechette chat- the replacement for the flechette round for tanks is the Canister round. https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/large-caliber-ammunition/120mm-m1028/ this is a 120mm shotgun shell containing tungsten balls. Is fun.
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Wild T posted:It took me forever to figure out what a flechette was as a kid thanks to Hexen having three different items called Flechettes, none of which were a flechette. same
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Valtonen posted:Flechette chat- the replacement for the flechette round for tanks is the Canister round. https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/large-caliber-ammunition/120mm-m1028/ this is a 120mm shotgun shell containing tungsten balls. Is fun. Give them a whiff of grapeshot! The true classics never go out of style!
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Valtonen posted:Flechette chat- the replacement for the flechette round for tanks is the Canister round. https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/large-caliber-ammunition/120mm-m1028/ this is a 120mm shotgun shell containing tungsten balls. Is fun. In slow-mo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgn1nhUEgo8
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Cannister rounds are the best. I happened to get a side view of one being fired through thermals, and going by the cloud zipping by, at about 500 meters you would shred an entire infantry platoon in patrol formation into fertilizer and cloth strips.
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Dingleberry posted:Is he still all up in that fine PR panocha? He was as of a few years ago. When I was at Drum I randomly came across a post from his wife on a facebook FRG page. A quick search in global confirmed that I was in fact CLIMBING TO GLORY at the same time as Remedial. I got curious and looked again a few months back but I couldn't find him, so I'm guessing he's out now.
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not caring here posted:Cannister rounds are the best. I happened to get a side view of one being fired through thermals, and going by the cloud zipping by, at about 500 meters you would shred an entire infantry platoon in patrol formation into fertilizer and cloth strips. The US Army gunnery rules require a tank firing one to call ”fire and suppress” which means using the coaxial machinegun to ”sweep remaining enemies” immediately after a can round. Needless to say, in actuality you press the triggers, and after the smoke clears you ceremonially fire a burst into where you think the targets used to be and radio ”target” to the tower since all target silhouettes are long gone. Summa summarum, i dont want to witness firing one into an actual real-life situation.
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Yeah the aftermath of that has to not be uh, pretty. I wonder what kind of energy each of those tungsten balls are packing.
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Flying_Crab posted:Yeah the aftermath of that has to not be uh, pretty. I wonder what kind of energy each of those tungsten balls are packing. Enough to ruin your entire day. Just looking at that video and trying to imagine fighting a tank while on foot is giving me heartburn. I bet a good hit from one of those rounds would mulch the entire crew of an 1151, for that matter. I try to think about what fighting a force-parity-ish conflict would be like compared to the occupations, and basically just gently caress me. Who would do that?!
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Valtonen posted:The US Army gunnery rules require a tank firing one to call ”fire and suppress” which means using the coaxial machinegun to ”sweep remaining enemies” immediately after a can round. Needless to say, in actuality you press the triggers, and after the smoke clears you ceremonially fire a burst into where you think the targets used to be and radio ”target” to the tower since all target silhouettes are long gone. The coax rounds are to mercy kill anyone that is unfortunate enough to still be alive after the cannister round blew through. I did some napkin math. Assume that each ball is ~.25" or 1cm in diameter and is composed of pure tungsten (19.25g/cm^3). General Dynamics claims that the muzzle velocity for the round is ~1400m/s. KE = (1/2)mv^2 or ~9800 joules at the muzzle 1400m/s buckshot is no laughing matter. That number seemed absurdly high so feel free to run the numbers yourself and correct me.
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