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A little late to Japan chat but if you read the Barrier and the Javelin, about their campaigns in 1942, they had no idea the British, Dutch and Americans would give way like that. The IJA was supposed to be a sideshow why the IJN waited for the climactic battle and instead overnight their reconnaissance detachments were seizing oilfields almost without a fight. They had no idea that they were going to get all the way to Rangoon, or New Guinea, let alone Manilla, within the first months of the war. In hindsight people either don’t discuss their overwhelming successes, or compare it to Blitzkrieg, but really it was practically by accident and they had to do some really crazy planning to reroute troopships on the fly as the places they were supposed to land at had already fallen.
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You say that but the rapid conquest of France was also basically an accident
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Can't wait for gamification to fully take over. Roll a lottery for your MOS gear, you might get the five star Next Generation Squad Weapon, a four star M16 that was brought from Afghanistan, or most likely a beat up rifle older than you. Danann has issued a correction as of 03:46 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Jan 27, 2023 03:41
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finally, a ponzi scheme powered military
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The Oldest Man posted:I mean, I think the attack on Pearl Harbor itself says volumes about the level of strategic competence among senior US leaders at the time. Its still wild how he was able to spin a tale of being hyper competant war hero after all his many many gently caress up. At least Patton had a movie to cement that idea in pop culture
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yellowcar posted:finally, a ponzi scheme powered military Lathe of Heaven https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1574511650446663692
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Danann posted:Can't wait for gamification to fully take over. Roll a lottery for your MOS gear, you might get the five star Next Generation Squad Weapon, a four star M16 that was brought from Afghanistan, or most likely a beat up rifle older than you.
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Jan 27, 2023 06:08
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A neck that long seems like it would be a liability in WW3.
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Grimnarsson posted:A neck that long seems like it would be a liability in WW3. I didn't know the army recruited Pez dispensers. 90s Solo Cup has issued a correction as of 12:31 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Jan 27, 2023 06:45
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Lol the army is taking a note from Mary Kay, love it.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:58
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Do you not have to go on your Primary Leadership Course + a trade specific course (Machinegun Team Leader, Gun 2IC, Tank Gunner, Infantry Section 2IC etc.) to be an E-4? That's equivalent to a Master Bombardier, Caporal-chef, Stabskorporal etc. etc. and generally entails leading a combat element in battle, not... referring a friend. Does it just mean you get a slot on the course, or...?
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Jan 27, 2023 17:09
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Frosted Flake posted:Do you not have to go on your Primary Leadership Course + a trade specific course (Machinegun Team Leader, Gun 2IC, Tank Gunner, Infantry Section 2IC etc.) to be an E-4? That's equivalent to a Master Bombardier, Caporal-chef, Stabskorporal etc. etc. and generally entails leading a combat element in battle, not... referring a friend. E4 can mean a 'specialist' or a corporal, a corporal would be someone generally on track to be promoted to E5 and eligible for PLDC or WLC or whatever it might be called now. A specialist is just an older lazier PFC. this has been a thing for decades afaik
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Jan 27, 2023 17:32
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mercenaries working in/for capitalist country forgets how capitalism works
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Jan 27, 2023 17:34
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That recruit a friend thing has been around since like the 80s
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Frosted Flake posted:Do you not have to go on your Primary Leadership Course + a trade specific course (Machinegun Team Leader, Gun 2IC, Tank Gunner, Infantry Section 2IC etc.) to be an E-4? That's equivalent to a Master Bombardier, Caporal-chef, Stabskorporal etc. etc. and generally entails leading a combat element in battle, not... referring a friend. definitely not no. army specialist is just a private with three more ranks. usmc corporal is expected to begin doing leadership stuff and qualifies to start getting sent to leader courses, but it’s not universal- in most cases you make corporal right before getting out of the usmc, and I know whether intended or not many (most?) corporals don’t get leadership courses beyond what’s basically a book and set of homework. You are expected to do “on the job” leadership training and get mentorship. I believe army corporals it’s similar (army corporals are e-4s like specialists, but have leadership responsibilities) edit: beaten Best Friends has issued a correction as of 17:43 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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people always say oh corporals start doing leadership stuff have never actually been in a unit with corporals edit: oh looks like you get to be the NCO on duty today corporal get to the loving barracks
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A Bakers Cousin posted:people always say oh corporals start doing leadership stuff has never actually been in a unit with corporals imo it depends on how common corporals are in a given mos (every mos has different “cutting score” thresholds to get promoted)
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Is there a reason for the pay and responsibility imbalance between the Americans and CW? British, Canadian and Australian Corporals get paid about the same as American Sergeants and have the same responsibility. For example, a Corporal leading an 8 man infantry section with a Lance 2IC was the norm, (until the 90’s when they inflated ranks during the pay freeze as an incentive to stay) now it’s a Master Corporal and Corporal. I’ve read articles where an American with 7 or 8 years was a Sergeant (maybe Staff Sergeant) where here they’d be a Master Corporal. It’s probably not as deep as culture of leadership, way of war, blah blah blah, I’m just curious why that might be? Promotions as incentive? Americans also get way more medals than us. I won’t post my rack, but the Brigadier General commanding the Staff College has fewer medals than what seems to be an American Corporal who was good at pushups:  I will say, here it’s the norm (though I can’t find a policy) that the Reserve Force promotes twice as quickly as the Regular Force. I’ve always heard that was an retention incentive as well. It caused a lot of problems in the later years of Afghanistan where the Reserves were 50% of the force, but were not really interchangeable. Now they usually knock them down one rank when they transfer to the Regular Force which is deeply unpopular (on their side) and probably not sustainable. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 17:58 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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us military is hosed up, i made e7 in 7 years so ttfwiw and my rack looked like as a 5
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post ur rack.
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Tankbuster posted:post ur rack. 
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Best Friends posted:imo it depends on how common corporals are in a given mos (every mos has different “cutting score” thresholds to get promoted) to clarify, the army keeps a running tally of every E4 and E5's good boy points and when they get empty slots at E5 and E6, they grab the first X names on that tally this means that some people will never get above E4 because there simply aren't any slots because nobody with one of those slots is leaving, and some people will make E6 because they have a pulse and anyone with a brain got out already
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But if a Regiment only has an establishment with so many Sergeants, how would an Army-wide list help? It doesn’t help you if a slot opened up somewhere else.
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Frosted Flake posted:But if a Regiment only has an establishment with so many Sergeants, how would an Army-wide list help? It doesn’t help you if a slot opened up somewhere else. in the us the ranks are locked army wide, not by unit, except for low ranks like e4 and below. So you can be slotted in a position below you rank, though it generally not a huge problem (I have a picture of my first deployment and by the end we had a major, 4 captains, 2 e8s, 6 e7s and a bunch of other promotions) (I held a position slotted for an e6 while I was an e5 e6 and for a time as an e7, idk it worked out ok)
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A Bakers Cousin posted:in the us the ranks are locked army wide, not by unit, except for low ranks like e4 and below. So you can be slotted in a position below you rank, though it generally not a huge problem 
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Just for comparison there are almost as many e5s in the us army as there are soldiers in the entire canadian military
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A Bakers Cousin posted:Just for comparison there are almost as many e5s in the us army as there are soldiers in the entire canadian military Touche.
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the usaf straight up got rid of normal sergeants at e4 at some point since my dad got out, and the space force got created with specialists only up to e-4, really just the navy/marines that still reserve e-4 for ncos only guess if you're close to water you get paid less for some reason atelier morgan has issued a correction as of 19:25 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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atelier morgan posted:the usaf straight up got rid of normal sergeants at e4 at some point since my dad got out, and the space force got created with specialists only up to e-4, really just the navy/marines that still reserve e-4 for ncos only Stupid tax for joining the Navy/Marines
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atelier morgan posted:also a reminder that the space force exists haha what a goddamn embarrassment I say, after making sure my monitor is on
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https://twitter.com/Nickatgreat1220/status/1593047003919187968 chinese missile trucks and spaag looks cool ngl
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Bar Ran Dun posted:it’s still amazing to me that some of y’all come out for explicit , Autocracy, Nationalism and Orthodoxy because America bad. lol
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atelier morgan posted:also a reminder that the space force exists haha should i join the space force? seems based. no mandate, no mission, no duties. seems cool
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https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1618889447327633408 Posting this here since this is the place for hardware nerds.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/Nickatgreat1220/status/1593047003919187968 What is the big stubby cannon for on this thing? E: NM just zoomed in and realized it's a giant minigun, fucken rad
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