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Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

The military is one of the few places a high school grad can get a full time job, free housing, free food, and a college degree within 4 years in this capitalist hellscape.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 04:30

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# ? May 16, 2024 23:01

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Wasabi the J posted:

The military is one of the few places a high school grad can get a full time job, free housing, free food, and a college degree within 4 years in this capitalist hellscape.

There's also prison.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 05:03

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Solice Kirsk posted:

There's also prison.

You can get a college degree in 4 years in prison?

# ? Aug 6, 2020 05:10

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

hawowanlawow posted:

I'm sure there's plenty of opportunity to do heroic poo poo in the forever wars

like kill your commanding officers, or leak classified info about US warcrimes?

here's some actual stories from actual vietnam heroes, from the book "Bloods; An oral history of the Vietnam war by black veterans" by Wallace Terry

quote:

Harold �Light Bulb� Bryant:
Well, I ran into this officer. Second Lieutenant. Just got out of OCS. He asked me if I was authorized to wear a combat infantryman�s badge and jump wings. I told him, �You drat right. I earned them.� He didn�t like that answer. So I said, �You can harass me now, sir, but you can�t go over in Vietnam and do that poo poo.� [�]

So when I heard he had orders for �Nam, I went and found him and laughed at him and told him that he wasn�t gon� make it back. �Somebody�s gon� kill you,� I said. �One of your own men is gon� kill you.�

Richard J. Ford III:
In the rear sometimes we got a grenade, dump the gunpowder out, break the firing pin. Then you�ll go inside one of them little bourgeois clubs. [�] We act real crazy. Yell out, �Kill all y�all motherfuckers!� Pull the pin and throw the grenade. And everybody would haul rear end and get out. It would make a little pop sound. And we would laugh. You didn�t see anybody jumpin� on them grenades.

One time we saw these [Confederate] flags in Nha Trang on the MP barracks. They was playing hillbilly music. Had their shoes off dancing. Had nice, pretty bunks. Mosquito nets over the top of the bunks. And had the nerve to have this camouflaged covers. Air conditioning. Cement floors. We just came out the jungles. We dirty, we smelly, hadn�t shaved. We just went off. Said, �Y�all the real enemy. We stayin� here.� We turned the bunks over, started tearing up the stereo. They just ran out. Next morning, they shipped us back up.

Before I went home, the company commanders in Bravo and Echo got killed. And rumor said their own men did it. Those companies were pressed because the captains do everything by the book. And the book didn�t work for Vietnam. They had this West Point thing about how you dug a foxhole at night. Put sandbags around it. You couldn�t expect a man to cut through that jungle all day, then dig a hole, fill up the sandbags, then in the morning time dump the sandbags out, fill your foxhole back up, and then cut down another mountain.

Guys said the hell with some foxhole. And every time you get in a fire fight, you looking around for somebody to cover your back, and he looking around to see where the captain is �cause he gon� fire a couple rounds at him. See, the thing about Vietnam, your own men could shoot you and no one could tell, because we always left weapons around and the Viet Congs could get them.

Haywood T. Kirkland:
You would see the racialism in the base-camp area. Like red-necks flying rebel flags from their jeeps. I would feel insulated, intimidated. The brothers they was calling quote unquote troublemakers, they would send to the fields. A lot of brothers who had supply clerk or cook MOS when they came over ended up in the field. And when the brothers who was shot came out of the field, most of them got the jobs burning poo poo in these 50-gallon drums. Most of the white dudes got jobs as supply clerks or in the mess hall.

So we began to talk to each other, close our ranks, and be more organized amongst ourselves to deal with some of this stuff. The ones like me from the field would tell the brothers in base camp, �Look, man, you know how to use grenades. If you run into any problems, just throw a grenade in their hootch.�

Robert E. Holcomb:
One night, we had come in for a stand-down. I was laying in bed, just about to go to sleep. We hear this burst, and the bullets went through the tent. Everybody jumped off on the floor. We didn�t have any weapons, �cause they�d always disarm us when we came in. What happened was this black soldier had taken some drugs, and he just sort of went crazy. A lot of his anxieties and hostilities came out. He got an M-16, and he sprayed a Sergeant, killed him and two others.

After another stand-down, we lost a second-lieutenant. A white guy. He had been in country about six months. And he had made a lot of enemies because he was really tough on some of his people in the field even though the pullout had started. Someone wired a claymore mine to the door of his hootch.

Arthur E. �Gene� Woodley, Jr.:
So on [this Sergeant�s] birthday, which was three days [after he demoted me], he was havin� all the officers in his barracks. They was partyin�. Music was playin�. Me and some friends of mine got a M-79 grenade launcher, got behind some sandbags, and we M-79′ed his birthday party. A couple of people got hurt.

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# ? Aug 6, 2020 07:07

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

For actual decades I've had this idea for a TV show I want to see: it should be called Fragged and it should follow an army investigation into the suspicious death of an officer in Vietnam, and the protagonist should keep running into false leads and subplots about other horrible poo poo going on while the army heads just keep wasting time and lives.

I'm thinking the tone should be a bloodier Twin Peaks conflicted by the social unrest of the times.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 08:29

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

By popular demand posted:

For actual decades I've had this idea for a TV show I want to see: it should be called Fragged and it should follow an army investigation into the suspicious death of an officer in Vietnam, and the protagonist should keep running into false leads and subplots about other horrible poo poo going on while the army heads just keep wasting time and lives.

I'm thinking the tone should be a bloodier Twin Peaks conflicted by the social unrest of the times.

I'd watch the hell out of that

# ? Aug 6, 2020 08:34

spookygonk: Apr 3, 2005; Does not give a damn

https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1290816947458777088?s=20

# ? Aug 6, 2020 14:11

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

500excf type r posted:

There are many, many amazing people out there that, putting aside the politics of war, forfeit their lives to accomplish the mission and / or save lives

See also: protest medics. Here's a photo from a few weeks back of some protest medics plugging up a bullet hole in a protester with the shooter standing less than a foot away, still holding the gun and looking for a new target.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 15:12

Rasmus: Jul 13, 2016; I wish I was brian Blessed

I was going to ask where this was from, but of course it's a black guy that laying shot on the ground while Whitey McGunface has a big old American flag on his back.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 18:49

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Subjunctive posted:

You can get a college degree in 4 years in prison?

For the purpose of that joke, sure.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 18:57

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

I think it's that blue line flag that white supremacists fell in love with.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 19:06

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

spookygonk posted:

https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1290816947458777088?s=20

I have basically done this. I didn't take samples in a bucket but I poked it with a stick and the stick caught on fire

I am not a geologist

# ? Aug 6, 2020 19:06

freeedr: Feb 21, 2005

You can get a bachelor�s degree very fast in prison; you�ve got nothing but time.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 19:08

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Rasmus posted:

I was going to ask where this was from, but of course it's a black guy that laying shot on the ground while Whitey McGunface has a big old American flag on his back.

I double checked, it was in Seattle on June 7

The dude who got shot, Dan Gregory, also deserves a post here. He ran in to stop the driver and shield the other protesters and took a bullet for it, didn't even fuckin' care. :clint:

https://twitter.com/AGarlandPhoto/status/1269835122011865088

# ? Aug 6, 2020 19:28

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

dpack_1 posted:

WWII Was, in my opinion, the last time the absolute TOP medals of whatever branch of military from whatever country the allies offered, should have been awarded.

Like, in the UK for example, it's the Victoria Cross. Now I'm sorry, but hearing about some kid with zero real training, just being conscripted then tossed into the front lines within a week, and instantly performing some movie-like feat of bravery such as throwing himself on a grenade to save everyone in his platoon. THAT kind of excellence and selflessness will FAR exceed some bullshit volunteer in the 21st century Air Force using a Microsoft HOTAS to push a drone into a nosedive so it hits a 'potential' terrorist but also caused [REDACTED] collateral damage. Doing so will end with them getting a medal for 'bravery' because they made the tough choice of taking out 27 civilians just to hit the 'Jack of Clubs' or some nonsense.

The Silent Generation War Vets were made from Iron and Grit with balls of Steel.

Sounds like you haven't heard of Johnson Beharry, then. His full citation is on his wiki page, but the gist is that after being ambushed while on a rescue mission he drove his APC a mile while Iraqis fired RPGs at his exposed head, then personally extracted two wounded crew members to another APC before returning to his burning vehicle to drive it back to base. Then, five weeks later, he did it again despite having suffered a head injury which left him effectively blind.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 20:13

Cocaine Bear: Nov 4, 2011; ACAB

^^^ less of that

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I double checked, it was in Seattle on June 7

The dude who got shot, Dan Gregory, also deserves a post here. He ran in to stop the driver and shield the other protesters and took a bullet for it, didn't even fuckin' care.
https://twitter.com/AGarlandPhoto/status/1269835122011865088

and more of this, tia.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 20:46

joat mon: Oct 15, 2009; I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

We've got plenty of ideology threads, let's allow this one to stay the badass thread.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 21:30

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Cocaine Bear posted:

and more of this, tia.

Here's another Seattle medic (in her hospital scrubs!!!) getting blasted full in the face with pepper spray and knocked on her rear end by the pigs while she's trying to pull a protester to safety. She still manages to extract the guy and supports him while he walks up the hill. It takes more than pepper spray to slow these medics down, they've been out there every night for 60 days running and they eat that poo poo for breakfast. :v:

https://twitter.com/SimoneReports/status/1287197567772553216

Bonus points she's a goon

If anyone feels inspired to help buy them medical supplies and PPE like helmets and safety goggles then you can sling them some $$$ via this GoFundMe

# ? Aug 6, 2020 21:32

Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

See also: protest medics. Here's a photo from a few weeks back of some protest medics plugging up a bullet hole in a protester with the shooter standing less than a foot away, still holding the gun and looking for a new target.

Are you actually comparing protest medics, an objectively good and badass thing, with active duty american military personnel, an objectively horrible and bad thing? What the gently caress, there's an entire subforum for sucking military dick, and it should be contained to that cesspit.

# ? Aug 6, 2020 22:06

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Biplane posted:

Are you actually comparing protest medics, an objectively good and badass thing, with active duty american military personnel

# ? Aug 6, 2020 22:25

DandyLion: Jun 24, 2010; disrespectul Deciever

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

No

Glad we got that all cleared up

# ? Aug 6, 2020 23:37

Lady Disdain: Jan 14, 2013; are you yet living?

The Bloop posted:

I have basically done this. I didn't take samples in a bucket but I poked it with a stick and the stick caught on fire

I am not a geologist

You say you're not, but that sure sounds like you were practicing some geological analysis. Are you sure ?

# ? Aug 6, 2020 23:40

Resting Lich Face: Feb 21, 2019; This case of an intraperitoneal zucchini is unusual, and does raise questions as to how hard one has to push a blunt vegetable to perforate the rectum.

By popular demand posted:

I think it's that blue line flag that white supremacists fell in love with.

It's an ironworkers union shirt.

Kinda ironic.

# ? Aug 7, 2020 00:17

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

Lady Disdain posted:

You say you're not, but that sure sounds like you were practicing some geological analysis. Are you sure ?

nahh you gotta write poo poo down

which The Bloop just did

ok, checks out

# ? Aug 7, 2020 00:23

Moon Slayer: Jun 19, 2007

Everyone play nice, please.

# ? Aug 7, 2020 02:13

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

Moon Slayer posted:

Everyone play nice, please.

I don't wanna

# ? Aug 7, 2020 02:17

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

spookygonk posted:

https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1290816947458777088?s=20

I love the way they rip open the wrapper to access the gooey filling within

# ? Aug 7, 2020 02:19

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Lady Disdain posted:

You say you're not, but that sure sounds like you were practicing some geological analysis. Are you sure ?

Mushy rock make stick go on fire, try tomorrow with different stick, also try different rock. Me am do geology.

# ? Aug 7, 2020 02:23

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I also got first degree burns on my toes just from proximity to the lava because I was wearing flip flops

# ? Aug 7, 2020 03:53

Evil SpongeBob: Dec 1, 2005; Not the other one, couldn't stand the other one. Nope nope nope. Here, enjoy this bird.

Biplane posted:

What the gently caress, there's an entire subforum for sucking military dick, and it should be contained to that cesspit.

Ahahahahahahahahah, have you actually read a single thread in GIP?

# ? Aug 7, 2020 04:56

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

Biplane posted:

Are you actually comparing protest medics, an objectively good and badass thing, with active duty american military personnel, an objectively horrible and bad thing? What the gently caress, there's an entire subforum for sucking military dick, and it should be contained to that cesspit.

LMAO just read the GiP cop thread.

# ? Aug 7, 2020 05:18

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

OwlFancier posted:

Mushy rock make stick go on fire, try tomorrow with different stick, also try different rock. Me am do geology.

You go too far!

# ? Aug 7, 2020 08:44

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Jedit posted:

You are go too far!

Fixed.

# ? Aug 7, 2020 10:09

The Sausages: Sep 30, 2012; What do you want to do? Who do you want to be?

Biplane posted:

Are you actually comparing protest medics, an objectively good and badass thing, with active duty american military personnel, an objectively horrible and bad thing? What the gently caress, there's an entire subforum for sucking military dick, and it should be contained to that cesspit.

lol no it's more like