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Teketeketeketeke
Mar 11, 2007


E: nvm

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not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
I think that is more than a .338 lapua

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

LonsomeSon posted:

Just looking at that video and trying to imagine fighting a tank while on foot is giving me heartburn.

Just drop a grenade down the barrel.

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Wild T posted:

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.

Those things are loving cool, I enjoyed their history and driving past them all the time. Just sucks they weren't as useful for their intended purpose, but the beehive makes up for it

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

LonsomeSon posted:

Apropos of page number, someone I've known since they were five (and I was nine) enlisted in the Army as a fuel systems MOS of some kind but wound up assigned to a truck driver unit, the ones which would load up in Quatar, fly into either war and go on 1-2 week missions all along the big supply routes, then fly out for 2-6 nights of maintenance and loading time. And he's got the fueler MOS, he's one of the drivers for the convoy fuel truck. It was an up-armored cab at least but no turret, so they didn't have a gunner.

So naturally he and the hand-off driver would just spend their entire time on the road with the turret hatch open, just blazing blunts of mail-order spice, but all the other vehicle crews in the unit would be, too. People were smuggling in booze and probably driving drunk on MSR motherfucking Tampa during the year right before the DoD outlawed spice, which was if I recall the height of the Iraqi civil war.

Just, like, hunkering down and rolling through ambushes while cross-faded on research chemicals and Military Special-grade raw grain alcohol mailed in-country in a refilled mouthwash bottle, pedal to the metal with like 800 gallons of JP8. gently caress. That.

e: also this man came home a loving wreck, about 9 months after I got out, but we chilled a ton, he got me back into smoking weed, and then also one day we were talking in my parents' backyard when this big awkward (part-pitbull maybe part boxer?) mongrel puppy just runs up through the garage from the alley and starts playing with us. We fed him and gave him water and he fell asleep on the dude, which was just palpably adorable. We put up fliers for a few weeks but nobody claimed him, and they have been together since. He named the dog Tigger, because he is super excitable and bounces around when happy, and in pretty sure Tigger was more important than his family and friends in helping him cope with his PTSD and work through the alcoholic phase.

So that part was a happy ending, and also consider trying pets if feasible for your friends who are struggling when they get back.

I'm quoting this

I don't know why

it's been an odd day

Dingleberry
Aug 21, 2011
https://komonews.com/news/local/tacoma-police-shoot-man-throwing-incendiaries-at-northwest-detention-center

I look forward to knowing his name so we can add it to the wall of heroes... might be different ends of political spectrum but jeez, still a great he-row





Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Oh my god I wonder if this is the guy on Garand Thumbs page taking a joke literally and trying to convince him to help him raid the detention center.

Context:



Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jul 13, 2019

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Good initiative bad judgement

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler
I feel like "burning down a building crammed full of people" is not a very good way to liberate them.

SeaborneClink
Aug 27, 2010

MAWP... MAWP!

my kinda ape posted:

I feel like "burning down a building crammed full of people" is not a very good way to liberate them.

it was the cars of the people that work there op

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

SeaborneClink posted:

it was the cars of the people that work there op

"Police said the man caused a vehicle to catch fire and that he attempted to ignite a large propane tank and set buildings on fire."

A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:
A severe misinterpretation of the rallying cry "live free or die."

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Bombing full refugees cages to own the... conservatives?

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”

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.

Summa summarum, i dont want to witness firing one into an actual real-life situation.

When I was in the Armor Basic Officers Leaders Course a few of the senior NCOs were tankers during the invasion of Iraq and a couple of them talked about using can rounds in urban settings. The image I got was that there was nothing left that was identifiable as human.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Mustang posted:

When I was in the Armor Basic Officers Leaders Course a few of the senior NCOs were tankers during the invasion of Iraq and a couple of them talked about using can rounds in urban settings. The image I got was that there was nothing left that was identifiable as human.

:catstare: :catstare: :catstare:

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

Good initiative bad judgement

Heart was in the right place but like all anarchists there just wasn't any thought put into it other than "it feels good"

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
He was pretty old so I think his main intention was to go out in a blaze of glory

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Professor Bling posted:

Heart was in the right place but like all anarchists there just wasn't any thought put into it other than "it feels good"

If he could get to the staff cars so easy before being detected there’s so much stuff he could have done like keying “I heart Caged Children” into everyone’s rear door that doesn’t risk getting exploded and/or shot.

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




Godholio posted:

Just drop a grenade down the barrel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGxNzZYr_1k&t=63s

Keep watching, this takes team work.

occamsnailfile
Nov 4, 2007



zamtrios so lonely
Grimey Drawer
There are buildings on those grounds that aren't holding areas so he might have been aiming for those. Reports wouldn't include that info.

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Scratch Monkey posted:

He was pretty old so I think his main intention was to go out in a blaze of glory

His "manifesto" pretty much lays out that this was "revolutionary suicide by cop" so yeah

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Most call it propaganda of the deed

Viva Miriya
Jan 9, 2007


Yeaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

van Spronsen was setting fire to the buses that GEO group use to transport detainees and deportees, not employee cars

ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Jul 15, 2019

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

From the A/T "Ask me about Prison" thread:

Ornithology posted:


I gotta say that sounds completely bullshit (not in the sense of lies but the story sucks all around). What a terrible situation that you were in for doing nothing at all. 


Can you share if the prison experience was really bad / hosed you up at all if that's not too personal? Especially because you're innocent I worry about the effects of such an event, when you didn't even deserve any such punishment. 


From my own experience, I'm in Canada. I legitimately victimized someone online when I was a young teenager but the charges were trumped up much higher than they should've been IMO (they were trying to charge me with child porn and being a sex offender for having photos of someone 1 year younger than me, I did victimize someone but these charges were bullshit and these days it's called cyber bullying whereas when I did it I was facing decades of prison time and sex offender registration). Due to an extremely supportive family and a poo poo load of money on a top lawyer I only had 6 days in a youth jail before making bail, then a 2 year anxious wait to find out I only had to do probation. 


After getting the ridiculous charges dropped I did a criminal background check and they were all still listed just as "withdrawn" like that would make anyone care or not after reading the charges. 


Yeah that was not the most fun time of my life, in fact it was the worst ever. I was legitimately guilty of hurting someone but I don't feel the reaction was appropriate. I am still hosed up to this day. If I had a prison sentence longer than a few months I think I would likely flee or commit suicide out of fear. I strongly empathize with anyone who has spent ANY time in jail or prison, guilty or not, these places are not good for you in any way. 


Most people were in there for gangbanging related activities and seemed to be having a blast making connections, arranging robberies and drug deals once they got out. Nice job on rehabilitation, Canada. 


If I wasn't from a well off white family who supported me and could pay a $600 an hour lawyer, or was not a teenager at the time, my entire life would be ruined. That makes little sense to me, the fact that I "was lucky" in this whole situation makes me sick to my stomach about how the justice system works here. Many of the other people in the jail were just awaiting trial, only charged but not proven guilty, and had been there for over 1 year due to being black and only being able to afford crappy lawyers or public defenders. At the bare minimum if I didn't have this advantage I would've spent at least 2 years in jail without a trial, as the prosector tried extremely hard to deny me bail.



zapplez posted:


Did you just change your username and edit your post because you admitted to sending out revenge porn of a teenager? Holy gently caress man. Just ban yourself.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Has to be a troll

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

"i did victimize someone but...." lol

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
BOYS WILL BE BOYS :smithicide:

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


a podcast i listen to did a segment on "Hunter" Biden, who got a waiver to join the navy at forty goddamn years old and then another one for pissing hot on day one

as one of the hosts remarked, "his life is a movie written by an rear end in a top hat"

link

e: soundcloud links defeated me

Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jul 16, 2019

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

EBB posted:

Has to be a troll

If only

It reads just like the kind of person you expect to have that experience

Hang em high imo

Wild T
Dec 15, 2008

The point I'm trying to make is that the only way to come out on top is to kick the Air Force in the nuts, beart it savagely with a weight and take a dump on it's face.
Hunter Biden is just the worst. Using his daddy's clout to score overseas business deals, getting wrecked constantly with no repercussions, and of course loving his dead brother's wife like immediately after he died.

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

Wild T posted:

Hunter Biden is just the worst. Using his daddy's clout to score overseas business deals, getting wrecked constantly with no repercussions, and of course loving his dead brother's wife like immediately after he died.

Sounds like he's trying to join the SEALs.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


McNally posted:

Sounds like he's trying to join the SEALs.

Hunter was also a Navy reserve officer for all of one drill weekend when he pissed hot for cocaine.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



https://www.wsav.com/crime-safety/fort-stewart-soldier-detained-after-video-of-parking-lot-altercation-shared-on-facebook/

quote:

The video has been viewed on Facebook over 300,000 times and has more than 900 comments.

Someone in 3rd ID is having a fun day.

:dukedog:

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Was just about to post this widdle temper tantrum. Jr enlisted as gently caress.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

You know his SL watched that, and just face palmed as he poured another double of Military Special "Bourbon".

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



bulletsponge13 posted:

You know his SL watched that, and just face palmed as he poured another double of Military Special "Bourbon".

I’d assume this about everyone in his CoC up to the brigade level.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Nick Soapdish posted:

Hunter was also a Navy reserve officer for all of one drill weekend when he pissed hot for cocaine.

So on some level he’s smarter than most of us

A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

I'm in a fairly minor position of responsibility for the young and dumb. I handle my guys at my worksite fairly well. Some I can talk to like adults, others I have to treat like literal children.

I cannot imagine being in any way responsible for their behavior off the clock. Like, holy poo poo, I just had a girl leave my crew because she hosed two of the guys on my crew and got knocked up. The idea that my boss would come up to me, screaming and purple faced, because I didn't somehow prevent young, dumb, and horny young adults from doing something incredibly stupid on their own time is totally alien to me.

How on Earth does anyone expect a PL or an SL to prevent this kind of behavior? Or hell, anyone higher than that? There's some 2nd LT out there today who's gonna get his rear end reamed because of some dude he barely knows getting into a fight.

A Festivus Miracle fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jul 16, 2019

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Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



A White Guy posted:

I cannot imagine being in any way responsible for their behavior off the clock

Congrats on not being in the military.

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