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Jeez. Gut shot by a 50. What could they have done for him even under good conditions?
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Scratch Monkey posted:Jeez. Gut shot by a 50. What could they have done for him even under good conditions? Go through his pockets and look for spare change?
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Dec 14, 2020 21:20
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I learned a long time ago take any reports like with a grain of salt. Also, humans are supremely fragile and uncannily resilient. Not saying he would have made it, but stranger things have happened, and maybe I'm a dumb grunt, but you have a job to do- and none of that includes murder. You kill who forces your hand; you save who needs to be saved, and drat your soul if you confuse the two. Maybe I'm just old and tired .
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Suntan Boy posted:Military ERs are always a special flavor of batshit, in a medical field rife with WTF stories. A grenade? Woah. Hardcore.
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Blow posted:A grenade? At first I thought you were just trying to be snide and cunty, but I had to remind myself that this is the internet and maybe you were actually serious. Then I took two seconds to check your rap sheet and nope, I was right, you're just a whiny little bitch. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Chopstick brought the osha thread crew to the thread.  hope you guys enjoy the dumb poo poo in here
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bulletsponge13 posted:Or smoke round. We had a yellow smoke expended round from an ND in our CP. This reminds me of when I went to a weekend-long cadets-like thing in grade 11. Actually it turned out to be like three days of basic training, and was pretty educational (if for no other reason than to illustrate why I should never join the military.) One of the officers there told a story about smoke grenades. Now white phosphorus is banned for use as an incendiary weapon under the Convention on Conventional Weapons. It is, however, not banned for use as a smoke screen. So, many militaries (including the South African military) continue to use it, but packaged as things like "white smoke grenades", with a wink and a nudge about how you are definitely not supposed to use them on enemy forces. But hand-held smoke grenades are something you use for signalling, like indicating your own position for friendly helicopters and such. While most smoke grenades can get hot, they don't generally spray out fragments of a substance that burns on contact with oxygen and can burn through to the bone. The officer telling the story made it clear that in their division, they did not, under any circumstances, use white smoke grenades, and strongly hinted that at some point in the past, some dumb grunt had thrown one on the ground next to himself to try to mark his position.
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Dec 15, 2020 05:29
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"Wanna know how I got these scars?"
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:"Wanna know how I got these scars?" "You did something stupid and entirely avoidable?"  "Yeah." 
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Dec 15, 2020 05:48
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My dad has a story about moving a load of WP in a UH1 in Vietnam and it getting hit by fire.
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I went to a boarding school in Nepal when I was younger and there used to be this older gentleman who used to just be in the main office all the time (he was some sort of investor or landowner involved with the school). By gentleman I mean wearing a hunting jacket, country gentleman's hat, with two pure bred hunting dogs. Always proper and spoke English with a British accent. He was a Rana which is the uppercaste of nepal and had been a highranking member of the Nepali royal army and had spent time in the UK at Sandhurst etc. He was also missing one arm all the way to his elbow. I ended up somehow being tasked with taking care of his dogs and some of his office work as part of my chores. I once asked him how he lost his arm and he told me in a very serious manner that it was due to his military career (his office had a bunch of plaques from UN missions and Nepali army stuff). Later I met his granddaughter in the US and she told me he lost his arm fishing/poaching with explosives he stole from the military while stationed in a nature reserve overseeing the troops guarding the place from poachers. Tldr: kill all nobles
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ughhhh posted:I went to a boarding school in Nepal when I was younger and there used to be this older gentleman who used to just be in the main office all the time (he was some sort of investor or landowner involved with the school). By gentleman I mean wearing a hunting jacket, country gentleman's hat, with two pure bred hunting dogs. Always proper and spoke English with a British accent. He was a Rana which is the uppercaste of nepal and had been a highranking member of the Nepali royal army and had spent time in the UK at Sandhurst etc. He was also missing one arm all the way to his elbow. That's a cool story, but I need more about this boarding school in Nepal bit.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"You did something stupid and entirely avoidable?" Toughen up buttercup! *Knees turn to dust*
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https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1338811290551156741?s=20
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From the stories in this and previous threads, I think you could just reuse the same poster.
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https://y.yarn.co/75638608-3915-4a63-9a89-e0e9f1094606.mp4
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lightpole posted:My dad has a story about moving a load of WP in a UH1 in Vietnam and it getting hit by fire. we were soldiers actually has a good representation of how to treat someone who gets hit by wp you dig it out of their skin with a loving knife because it will not stop burning. i was always exceptionally careful with wp and illum rounds because of that.
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MA-Horus posted:we were soldiers actually has a good representation of how to treat someone who gets hit by wp You also have to dig it out because it will *poison* you. WP is evil poo poo.
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I learned WP treatment when I was 10 from MASH. Later, I read accounts of what it actually does- including two moron PVTs in VN who would put on gunner gloves, and throw a smoke grenade back and forth while waiting for helos. The guy who made the error in grenade ID was shot in the head (iirc) to stop his suffering.
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It might have been at night and it was in the bay, not on a sling, so they rapidly turned into the sun.
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Just wait till it shmelts through the bottom of the helicopter. Or is that where they keep the fuel?
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Booger Presley posted:That's a cool story, but I need more about this boarding school in Nepal bit. I got shipped off to two different military schools in the U.S and I already know boarding school in Nepal stories are going to be better than mine except maybe for the Korean arsonists and the mad crapper. Should we start a separate thread? Getting sent to military school is p loving dumb tbh but it kept me the gently caress out of the real military so I think that's a W yeah?
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My Mom told me that if I acted up in school, she'd send me to military school. I started acting like a total rear end in a top hat. Turns out, we are too poor for military school, and my Mom vastly under estimated how much I wanted away.
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Booger Presley posted:That's a cool story, but I need more about this boarding school in Nepal bit. It's like hogwarts and basic without any of the magic but all of the violence, abuse and stupidity. Add to that being in a remote part of the country away from the cities filled with kids of important people during a maoist insurgency. Several members of the administration got kidnapped and ransomed, one parent was ambushed and killed on the way back to kathmandu, and our school compound was surrounded by torch and rifle wielding villagers as part of a labor dispute twice.
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ughhhh posted:It's like hogwarts and basic without any of the magic but all of the violence, abuse and stupidity. Add to that being in a remote part of the country away from the cities filled with kids of important people during a maoist insurgency. Several members of the administration got kidnapped and ransomed, one parent was ambushed and killed on the way back to kathmandu, and our school compound was surrounded by torch and rifle wielding villagers as part of a labor dispute twice. Wow I went to a ChalleNGe program on JBER and all we got was the Alaska drug taskforce headquartered on our area, occasionally seeing drug bust rolling out with 40 vehicles at a time. Thankful for military boarding school (and my vet turned hippie uncle) teaching me how poo poo the military is.
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bulletsponge13 posted:My Mom told me that if I acted up in school, she'd send me to military school. Opposite problem, I rolled the dice and it turns out a narcissist single parent will totally ship you off if they can go the extra mile and manage it. One of the problems of being raised a spoiled east coast brat is that you don't know you are a spoiled east coast brat. There was that one time a kid's parents lied to him and told him he was going to Disney World and they just dropped him off in the middle of nowhere bumpass VA and as soon as he stepped out of the benz he realized what was happening and bolted. An adult faculty member (former marine) yelled without thinking "After that man!" and 15 or so cadets tore rear end after him because we were all strung like piano wire in that place. Thankfully he caught up to them right as they caught up with the new guy bc they were clearly about to dog pile this poor kid. Everybody in the same clothes and haircut does weird poo poo to ppl. But that's no kidnapping or Maoist revolution
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aphid_licker posted:Just wait till it shmelts through the bottom of the helicopter. Or is that where they keep the fuel? The fuel is right behind the passenger/cargo cabin. Still going to go very poorly.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This reminds me of when I went to a weekend-long cadets-like thing in grade 11. Actually it turned out to be like three days of basic training, and was pretty educational (if for no other reason than to illustrate why I should never join the military.) there is no wink wink nudge nudge with wp because it isn't banned.
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Yeah, it's not banned. It is frowned upon to use it as a weapon against targets, and I'm sure a bunch of people agreed not to use it, but none of that matters to anyone of consequence in the international community. And the US is immune from ICC anyway, so gently caress it. Willy Pete Preschools from the Sky, and flash your junk on the windscreen.
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bulletsponge13 posted:My Mom told me that if I acted up in school, she'd send me to military school. I did the same thing in 9th grade and again my freshman year of college. I mean I actually wanted to and then went to military school, couldn't afford it, and had to get a job in high school to "pay it back". Then joined a cadet program because I probably have a spectrum disorder
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the main thing is that HE is just more effective at actually killing people.
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Not sure this one made the thread yet.
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Is that her shoe?
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CainFortea posted:Is that her shoe? Yup. I also love the dude's heads on head move. It's a universal human message of "oh gently caress."
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PookBear posted:there is no wink wink nudge nudge with wp because it isn't banned. “Gotta aim the fiddy cal at their belt buckle.”
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Mr. Nice! posted:Yup. I also love the dude's heads on head move. It's a universal human message of "oh gently caress." 2 universal signs across all humans: Hands on hips: “...well gently caress.” Hands on head (aka “the surrender cobra”): “OH gently caress”
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bulletsponge13 posted:I learned WP treatment when I was 10 from MASH. Just after the Falklands war ended some volunteer Argentinian PoWs were clearing one of their ammo dumps and one somehow triggered a whole bunch of WP. He was shot as a mercy killing due to the scale of the fire around him. The soldier who did was meant to have got a thankyou from the Argentinians. This was one of many stories being passed around the British Army shortly after the Falklands. Another lesson taken to heart was theres nothing better for clearing trenches than WP.
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Platystemon posted:“Gotta aim the fiddy cal at their belt buckle.” Thanks now my right eye is twitching and itchy again. I have spent a lot of time trying to work against the unending game of telephone that gets people bad info. I hate the pervasiveness of that one in particular.
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I remember reading a story a while back of someone walking on a French beach, picking up a pretty white rock and putting it in their pocket. Turned out to be a bit of WP that ignited when it dried out, dunno the end condition of that poor soul. Couldn't find the article when I looked for it.
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DaNerd posted:I remember reading a story a while back of someone walking on a French beach, picking up a pretty white rock and putting it in their pocket. Turned out to be a bit of WP that ignited when it dried out, dunno the end condition of that poor soul. Couldn't find the article when I looked for it. That happens in the Baltics occasionally with people confusing bits of either WP or sulfur mustard, can't remember, for amber.
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