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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The USN never should've switched to camo from dungarees. Who the gently caress needs camo on a drat ship or in a dockyard? It struck me as borderline dangerous; if you're wearing your ocean camo and go overboard you're much harder to see than if you had on a bright orange uniform. They'd probably get laughed at in the cafeteria in the pentagon though, better go with the mall ninja colors instead.
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Midjack posted:It struck me as borderline dangerous; if you're wearing your ocean camo and go overboard you're much harder to see than if you had on a bright orange uniform. They'd probably get laughed at in the cafeteria in the pentagon though, better go with the mall ninja colors instead. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh You're hard as gently caress to see regardless of what you're wearing, spotting people in the water is insanely difficult. I wouldn't really call that a factor.
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May 29, 2022 01:49
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Oh poo poo they're attacking 32nd Street, thank god we blend in with all the concrete wearing our camo!
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May 29, 2022 01:53
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As much as I hate wearing OCPs, which are lovely versions of Multicams, I'm glad I don't have to wear the Navy camo. It straight up looks like vomit
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May 29, 2022 03:24
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Midjack posted:It struck me as borderline dangerous; if you're wearing your ocean camo and go overboard you're much harder to see than if you had on a bright orange uniform. They'd probably get laughed at in the cafeteria in the pentagon though, better go with the mall ninja colors instead. There were a lot of urban legends made by idiots floating around that the aquaflage would release orange dye in Salt water. The Navy type III's they wear now are just regular digital camo. 95% of all shipboard work in the Navy is done in coveralls anyways.
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May 29, 2022 03:45
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bulletsponge13 posted:That sounds terrible. I find your ideas intriguing and would like to sign up for your newsletter.
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May 29, 2022 15:31
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Elviscat posted:There were a lot of urban legends made by idiots floating around that the aquaflage would release orange dye in Salt water. The blue digis loving sucked. I swear to God that was the worst uniform and the boots they wanted to be worn with them literally destroyed your loving feet. I had a pair of the flight deck toe cap boots that got worn any time it wasn't a uniform inspection and got yelled at constantly. The smelter boots were baller af though. The type 3s weren't too bad and at least you could get some mall ranger tactical boots that were comfy as hell without getting screamed at. Dress whites were comfortable and people loved them but holy poo poo they were basically one time use items. Blues are baller but holy loving uncomfortable batman. Plus having to get them altered to where you could take a piss without undoing 13 buttons. Work pajamas aka coveralls were the goat. Go to the thrift store, find a pair about 2 sizes up, wash till they feel like cotton sheets. /uniformchat
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May 29, 2022 16:41
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The USN never should've switched to camo from dungarees. Who the gently caress needs camo on a drat ship or in a dockyard? The dungarees look really comfy not gonna lie
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May 29, 2022 17:01
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The blue cammies required those specific stupid black bates boots that had no durability and never fit right and also were also thick and heavy as gently caress in the florida sun. Bad times. Also lol how the uniform allowance covered like at most 25% of the amount of stuff you need unless you work in an office.
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May 29, 2022 17:14
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gently caress you just reminded me of AJROTC days, standing in late August or early September Florida sun with the black patent leather shiny loving shoes. It was really loving hard to maintain parade rest when my feet were cooking inside my shoes
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D34THROW posted:gently caress you just reminded me of AJROTC days, standing in late August or early September Florida sun with the black patent leather shiny loving shoes. It was really loving hard to maintain parade rest when my feet were cooking inside my shoes Yeah but if you’re from florida and in JROTC you deserve at least that
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May 29, 2022 19:50
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Dress White CNT's with piping would have been S-tier.
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May 29, 2022 20:54
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We talking lovely uniforms?
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Godholio posted:We talking lovely uniforms? Was that issued during the invasion of Tommy Bahama?
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gently caress you, AF Tiger Stripe owned. They don't need effective camo- the dudes that do will have them. But gently caress yeah. Then they made it breed with ACUs
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Godholio posted:We talking lovely uniforms? I seen that same pattern on a hawaiian shirt on sale at a hardware store.
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May 29, 2022 23:42
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Chambray work shirts are still the best. I had one custom made I like them so much.
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Godholio posted:We talking lovely uniforms? It’s like an Hawaiian shirt had a bird strike.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Yeah but if you’re from florida and in JROTC you deserve at least that Funny this. That nephew I brought up previously lives in Florida, is either in or about to start Air Force JROTC, and wants to go to the academy.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:Funny this. That nephew I brought up previously lives in Florida, is either in or about to start Air Force JROTC, and wants to go to the academy. He needs to make friends with a congressman if he wants to go to the academy.
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For the Air Force Academy it also wouldn't hurt to have him seek out his nearest Admission Liaison Officer. https://www.academyadmissions.com/contact/ The service academies also have Prep Schools they can (it's their decision, not the candidate's) send people to if they like the cut of one's jib but their academics aren't up to snuff first. You spend a year there and start the next year if/when you pass muster. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 01:57 on May 30, 2022 |
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bulletsponge13 posted:The only people who should wear dress uniforms are ceremonial dudes like Sentinels. And then I want the most pompous, overdone, powdered wig tricorner bullshit. With Sabers and flintlock pistols and poo poo. I want Central African Dictators to look at them and go, "gently caress, that's a little much". Gold-plated M4 as an official issue item?
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Softface posted:Found in the Schadenfreude thread IM LETTING GO JUST STOP GRABBING MY DICK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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May 30, 2022 03:58
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Happy Memorial Day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HtVYr9aKRM
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A.o.D. posted:He needs to make friends with a congressman if he wants to go to the academy. I had an in to West Point if i wanted to, a Massachusets Congressman at the time is a second cousin. Almost went to a summer leadership academy there. But i don't do well with people telling me what to do and i would have had a lot of weight for DIs to take off 
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Counterpoint: Don’t go to a service academy because they’re dumb throwbacks to the days of aristocracy and you’ll be surrounded by other big dumb idiots with the same single minded goal.
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As someone who went to a service academy I strongly support abolishing all of them and there is empirical evidence that they at best produce the same quality or worse officers than ROTC or direct OCS
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May 30, 2022 21:08
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People who choose service academies over ROTC do not understand quality of life and shouldn't be placed in positions that affect it. What positions remain is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Or some of us went to an academy pre-internet and didn't know any better. 
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As someone acquainted with the products of service academies but not the academies themselves, do they serve any value as an actual repository of military knowledge?
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I just got through the audiotbook of Recollections of a private soldier in the Army of the Potomac which was written in 1848, and the author spends an entire chapter complaining how academy idiots are useless blowhards who got too many men killed in the ACW.
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The Officer Corps would be better off sending their potential officers to do 2-4years as an enlisted gently caress before becoming a Noble
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GD_American posted:As someone acquainted with the products of service academies but not the academies themselves, do they serve any value as an actual repository of military knowledge? Yes, but you could get 90% of it on your own time without going to an academy.
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More value out of going to a real college with normal people.
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MRC48B posted:I just got through the audiotbook of Recollections of a private soldier in the Army of the Potomac which was written in 1848, and the author spends an entire chapter complaining how academy idiots are useless blowhards who got too many men killed in the ACW. It was written in 1886, the author was born in 1848. There was no Army of the Potomac in 1848.
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iwentdoodie posted:The blue digis loving sucked. I swear to God that was the worst uniform The best part of that Navy uniform was that it was nylon. Great to face the possibility of having to fight a shipboard fire wearing clothing that melts to your skin.
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McNally posted:It was written in 1886, the author was born in 1848. There was no Army of the Potomac in 1848. poo poo, that was a typo, Idiot inside the thread.
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Phanatic posted:The best part of that Navy uniform was that it was nylon. Great to face the possibility of having to fight a shipboard fire wearing clothing that melts to your skin. That's called motivation shipmate
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I'm a civilian who worked for the DOD but I have to post my academy grad story. At the time I'd been working for the Air Force for about 8 years and we had a rotating Lieutenant on our team that would change out every 2 years. We got an academy grad who was probably the laziest Lieutenant by a wide margin I'd ever seen. After spending 2 years with us he had orders to head to Iraq. Apparently he had to qualify with a pistol and a rifle but the 25 year old 1st Lieutenant had never fired or even held a gun before. We kept asking him with questions and apparently he got a some sort of waiver of going through fire arms training because it would conflict with rugby practice. It should have been our first clue that none of the active duty guys were willing to help him out but despite him being a gently caress up we still wanted to help him out. So 2 civilians, 2 retired Air Force NCOs and a retired Navy NCO take him to a local firing range. We've all been handling guns since we were kids so we're pretty comfortable with 5 people training one. We give him a safety talk. Hand him an unloaded revolver to get the feel for. He immediately starts waving it around and flagging us at random. The Navy chief yanks the gun out of his hand and we go out to the store part of the range to reexplain gun safety. Don't point guns at things you don't plan to shoot. Always treat the gun as loaded. We head back into the range and try again. He does a little better until he thinks it's empty, then hands the gun over barrel first. This time one of the Air Force chiefs gives him the lecture. We finally get to the service pistol and give him a chance to go for accuracy. He hits the roof, the floor, the walls. If you'd asked him to shoot away from the target I think he would've done better. The Navy chief was planning to let him shoot his AR-15 but he just miraculously ran out of ammo early. No one was going to argue. You're thinking that this was going to go very badly for his qualifying test but it turned out that the range safety officer was another academy grad. Turns out they just pencil whipped that test. I'm hoping that expedition to the firing range was the only time that he fired a gun and I would have hated to be in his unit in Iraq. I've worked with a wide variety of military people but man that Lieutenant will always color my perception of academy grads. A military officer who knows nothing about firearms was just so bizarre to experience.
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