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Jun 5, 2020 01:18
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Wasabi the J posted:No one wants any of the things in those pictures aside from the blue sky. I actually prefer crappy weather
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Jun 5, 2020 02:12
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https://twitter.com/mildew00/status/1268654797785268230?s=21
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Jun 5, 2020 15:46
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https://twitter.com/athenogenes/status/1268986572592087040?s=21
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Jun 5, 2020 20:55
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Remember what his solution was?
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Jun 5, 2020 21:56
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Ha, I hadn’t seen his actual explanation: https://twitter.com/williemcnabb/status/1158068337269776393?s=21
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Jun 5, 2020 22:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMoLKLM8SMg
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Jun 6, 2020 04:13
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I laughed then I was sad.
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Jun 6, 2020 08:21
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Richard Bong posted:I laughed then I was sad. He’s right about the weebs. (I still don’t know exactly what the word means but we used it for the Anime dorks and Furries) lot of that in intel. I’m just gonna go on record as saying some of the most hosed up jobs in the USAF revolve around those goddamned drones. Kill TV is a legit thing, and if you are the least bit squeamish about killing, the job will gently caress you up. Because we kill a ton of motherfuckers with drones. And not all (or even most) of them are high ranking terrorists that are clearly in need of a hellfire. poo poo, if the wrong dudes showed up to those funerals he mentions, and there’s enough bad guy nexus going on, we’re gonna loving kill them at the funeral. Or a wedding. Or pretty much anywhere. We definitely try to avoid hitting mosques and hospitals and poo poo. But as we all know, it’s working with imperfect people, using imperfect intelligence, in very stressful and time crunched environments. So yeah, collateral damage is definitely a thing. Personally conflicted about my time doing that. It got me into a community that did very cool things, but on the whole balance of things, I’d sacrifice my time in the cool selectively manned units if it meant I wouldn’t have done the predator mission. And that’s saying something since a lot of my pride in my service revolves around those selective units and my time in them. It’s like a video game that shreds your humanity and leaves you with moral quandaries that are very hard to get through. And since it’s all Classified and Compartmented, you can’t even get into details even if you do go seek help from mental health even if the counselor has a clearance (officers generally all at least have a secret clearance). And details are important to the mental healing process. I feel like we need to get cleared, read in, competent mental health folks who can help with that poo poo. The way they handled poo poo up until 2013 was.. bullshit. I seriously doubt it’s very different in 2020- but I have to admit I’m out of date on recent developments. Maybe they’ve done something since then. I hope they have. You can (could, when I got out at least) make about $100-$120k a year deployed to Afghanistan doing predator Mission Controlling as a contractor. That is not enough money, unless you are some kind of sociopath. And the $36k-$50k a year you get as an enlisted person doing that poo poo deployed for a year sure the gently caress isn’t enough. When he says he doesn’t know why they had contractors doing it instead of just enlisted men- it’s easy- it breaks Airmen. At an incredibly high rate, at that. Broken Airmen cost way more than $120k contractors. And we never created a dedicated career field for it, so it’s been a mix of intel ops and imagery analysts doing the job, and it’s kind of the USAF’s luck of the draw on whether that intel body can do the job. Literally no training prepares you for the job ahead of time, it’s all OJT and baptism with fire. With a contractor you can hire and fire. With an Airman your stuck with whoever AFPC filled the slot with, and how well that kid can do the job. It’s not an easy job, either. Though it’s a relatively safe one as long as you aren’t embedded with an assault force. Contractors don’t do the embedding, or at least didn’t when I was working that mission. That almost certainly has changed though, because they wanted to change that as far back as 2006 because special operations types aren’t all that hot for random Joe Schmo Intel Airman to go outside the wire with them lugging his toughbook and Radio / ROVER gear next to the commander. In short, the predator world is a land of contrasts, and hellfires. So many goddamn hellfires. LtCol J. Krusinski fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jun 6, 2020 |
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Jun 6, 2020 10:47
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It’s like a video game that shreds your humanity and leaves you with moral quandaries that are very hard to get through. And since it’s all Classified and Compartmented, you can’t even get into details even if you do go seek help from mental health even if the counselor has a clearance (officers generally all at least have a secret clearance). And details are important to the mental healing process. This was a very good, heart-felt post, and I don't want to give the impression that I'm picking and choosing by just focusing on this part: They have, in certain areas, made the tiniest stride toward rectifying this. Where I work there's a licensed therapist and a mental health contractor who are available for therapy sessions with Top Secret and Compartmented. It's far from what we need force-wide, or even just where I work (which is a hub for intel dweebs like myself), but people have recognized the problem and are pushing a way to solve it.
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Jun 6, 2020 14:16
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It’s been one of the major changes for drone operators as well. Read in counselors who can also call bullshit if the operator doesn’t acknowledge something like a civcas event might be weighing on them. https://twitter.com/julian_epp/status/1269024594603790337?s=21 mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jun 6, 2020 |
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Jun 6, 2020 18:25
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Honestly I accept my fate of a rope around my neck. Because I'm pretty sure Wehrmacht and SS got PTSD too and some maybe even felt bad about it, but they were hung nonetheless.
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Jun 6, 2020 20:14
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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1269048818739212288
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Jun 6, 2020 22:44
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https://twitter.com/popehat/status/1269399913210642432?s=21
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Jun 7, 2020 00:03
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at hospital lost handat
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Jun 7, 2020 00:35
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Oh my god that's the best possible caption.
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Jun 7, 2020 07:04
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Wasabi the J posted:Honestly I accept my fate of a rope around my neck. IIRC one of the main drivers for the gas chambers was because too many SS men were breaking from having to murder civilians face to face with guns.
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Jun 7, 2020 15:05
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Generation Internet posted:IIRC one of the main drivers for the gas chambers was because too many SS men were breaking from having to murder civilians face to face with guns. Yes, and the camps were designed to rely on slave labor as much as possible because of this, including work like cleaning out the bodies from the chambers and burning/burying. Even most of the hardened nazis couldn't handle this work without breaking down so they just used slave camp labor.
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Jun 7, 2020 15:55
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The croatian fascists relied on throat-cutting and poo poo like that at Jasenovac and apparently the guards were absolutely coming apart. A bunch were executed by their own guys. If there was a worse place on earth I hope I never learn about it. Don't take this as a challenge to post one pls.
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Jun 7, 2020 16:23
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Pryor on Fire posted:Yes, and the camps were designed to rely on slave labor as much as possible because of this, including work like cleaning out the bodies from the chambers and burning/burying. Even most of the hardened nazis couldn't handle this work without breaking down so they just used slave camp labor. Don't worry, next time I'm sure automation and robotics will be advanced enough that this won't be an issue.
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Jun 7, 2020 17:41
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https://twitter.com/CrisLeeMaza/status/1270072484470153223
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Jun 8, 2020 23:37
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You want to translate or am I supposed to assume Cyrillic = Evil and menacing like the comments think??
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Jun 9, 2020 00:08
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Wasabi the J posted:You want to translate or am I supposed to assume Cyrillic = Evil and menacing like the comments think?? "Kosovo is Serbia" and (I think) "Serbia remembers Clinton's cock"
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Jun 9, 2020 00:18
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Softface posted:"Kosovo is Serbia" and (I think) "Serbia remembers Clinton's cock" The quiet part being "Kosovo is Serbia, and it would still be true if Clinton hadn't helped stop us from ethnically cleansing Kosovo."
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Jun 9, 2020 00:32
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joat mon posted:The quiet part being "Kosovo is Serbia, and it would still be true if Clinton hadn't helped stop us from ethnically cleansing Kosovo." This, 100%.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:34
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joat mon posted:The quiet part being "Kosovo is Serbia, and it would still be true if Clinton hadn't helped stop us from ethnically cleansing Kosovo." Ah thank you. Russian / American media influence makes it difficult to find out propaganda vs fact.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:37
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Jun 9, 2020 02:06
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Wasabi the J posted:You want to translate or am I supposed to assume Cyrillic = Evil and menacing like the comments think?? Ah poo poo sorry, I brainfarted and just unthinkingly assumed that everyone knew the slogan. As everyone said it's like "Poland must become German again", with a p genocidal undertone, and seemed funny juxtaposed with end racism.
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Jun 9, 2020 03:03
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Jun 9, 2020 17:29
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The owner and one of his relatives who also works there wrote a Facebook post about how they are legally required to report suspected counterfeit bills to the police, but when the cops came they were way overreacting and not listening to anyone who worked there.
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Jun 10, 2020 01:15
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https://twitter.com/peter_miller/status/1270491482009374721?s=21
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Jun 10, 2020 01:31
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Jun 10, 2020 06:10
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Jun 10, 2020 06:10
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https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1270676531770253312?s=20
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Jun 10, 2020 14:53
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James should have an AFB, but otherwise that list owns.
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Jun 10, 2020 17:33
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It really is mind blowing that we don't have a Ft. Grant
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Jun 10, 2020 17:36
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We did, but it's now a prison. Remember, we've had literally thousands of military bases that have closed.
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Jun 10, 2020 17:39
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Yeah that's true. I guess I should have qualified that with "we don't currently have a Ft. Grant"
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Jun 10, 2020 17:51
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We used to have a Ft. Sherman, Panama too, I lived there for 3 years as a kid. Army officers seem to be almost universally Union Army fanboys, don't think I've ever met one with outspoken confederate sympathies, even ones from the South like myself. Don't think I've ever heard an NCO or enlisted Soldier discus anything related to the Civil War. Comes up a lot in junior officer professional development though, especially for the cavalry scouts. Every cavalry officer in the Army knows about John Buford and his role during Gettysburg.
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Jun 10, 2020 22:05
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I was in a unit that gave NCOs Union Cavalry sabers and a stand as their going away gift. Had exactly one NCO ask for the confederate equivalent. Of course the answer was “hell no.”
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Jun 10, 2020 23:09
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