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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin_E._Wirkus Does anyone have a good source for more info on this historic idiot? His wiki is very confusing. He was crowned king DURING his service and he only stopped when he was reassigned a role back stateside. Oh yeah and then he rejoined the marines 10 years later as a recruiter. I can only imagine the meeting that his superiors had when they heard one of their nco’s accidentally conquered an island by marrying a voodoo priestess who was convinced he was the reincarnation a previous ruler. It’s a lot to unpack in an hour is all im saying.
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Borscht posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin_E._Wirkus Just reading the overview it sounds like this guy's life is screaming for an episode of The Dollop.
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Borscht posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin_E._Wirkus Well the first part sounds familiar
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Jan 9, 2024 22:22
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https://i.imgur.com/GJfBLCj.mp4
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Jan 10, 2024 18:26
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The body language that says “…well gently caress.” translates well across every language.
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Jan 10, 2024 18:32
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Icon Of Sin posted:The body language that says “…well gently caress.” translates well across every language. The way he adjusts the strap afterward reminds me of a puppy struggling to understand how something just happened.
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Anathematic posted:The way he adjusts the strap afterward reminds me of a puppy struggling to understand how something just happened. Internal monologue: “Did I forget to clip that o-gently caress”
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The real question for me is if there were people on the ground.
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Jan 11, 2024 00:42
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They sure as poo poo ain't getting into the chopper now.
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Jan 11, 2024 00:50
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Just have the guys on the ground toss a heaving line to the chopper.
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Jan 11, 2024 01:14
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If we fly backwards, will the ladder come...back?
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"Chopper 30 seconds! Hold the perimeter, keep firing. Up the ladder one at a time when I tap you and HURRY for gently caress's sake. You and the bird are huge loving targets. Chopper 10 seconds!" *Full unattached ladder lands besides the Sergeant First Class* Edit: thinking about it, in my unit not only would have the unattached ladder completely hosed up our evac, but it also would have landed on someone important like the medic and/or commo guy. Gorilla Radio fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jan 11, 2024 02:31
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Do they carry a backup ladder for such eventualities?
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Jan 11, 2024 02:51
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That was the backup
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Jan 11, 2024 02:54
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Vengarr posted:Do they carry a backup ladder for such eventualities? In any such situation assume the primary was misplaced six months ago and they’ve been using the ‘backup’ ever since.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:58
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I believe someone who worked in those kinds of helos said that was the school.
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The Lone Badger posted:In any such situation assume the primary was misplaced six months ago and they’ve been using the ‘backup’ ever since. On submarines, if we have more than one of nearly any piece of vital gear, then one of them is tucked away in some hermetically sealed vault inaccessible to mortal men and never seeing the light of day. It only comes out if squadron shows up for an inspection or something like that. We end up stuck with some old busted piece of poo poo for everyday use.
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Jan 11, 2024 08:12
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I never saw a ladder go over the side, but I did see the cleat a fast rope was attached to, tear free and go yeeting out the side of a Blackhawk as the crew chief kicked out the coil.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I never saw a ladder go over the side, but I did see the cleat a fast rope was attached to, tear free and go yeeting out the side of a Blackhawk as the crew chief kicked out the coil. Did Boeing make the cleat?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I never saw a ladder go over the side, but I did see the cleat a fast rope was attached to, tear free and go yeeting out the side of a Blackhawk as the crew chief kicked out the coil. Way safer but also way less funny than it happening once loaded
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Anathematic posted:On submarines, if we have more than one of nearly any piece of vital gear, then one of them is tucked away in some hermetically sealed vault inaccessible to mortal men and never seeing the light of day. It only comes out if squadron shows up for an inspection or something like that. We end up stuck with some old busted piece of poo poo for everyday use. If you use your spares when you need them then you won't have any spares to use when you need them duh
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Hey thread, this is for a Delta Green game I'm running. Let's say you're a young goon fighting the GWOT at some combat outpost in Afghanistan, mid 2000s? What's your soundtrack? What music are you listening to when you have the chance? What music do you hear other people listening to when they have the chance?
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lightpole posted:If you use your spares when you need them then you won't have any spares to use when you need them duh "Captain, if we replace the burnt-out lightbulb with one from spares, we will be in violation of the regulation requiring us to maintain a full supply of spares at all times."
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iwentdoodie posted:Way safer but also way less funny than it happening once loaded I was first man on the stick, so I would probably been that person taking a 20-meter prat fall.
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Phanatic posted:Hey thread, this is for a Delta Green game I'm running. Moto Mix '04 was like Let The Bodies Hit The Floor, Boom, and Bombs Over Baghdad set to videos of explosions on repeat. Also that 9/11 tribute version of Crawling.
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Phanatic posted:Hey thread, this is for a Delta Green game I'm running. Not AFG, but Iraq Vet here with deployments in that time frame. Basically Top 40 Pop/Rock/Country- figure the average Trooper is within a few years of 18, and would mostly be listening to whatever is/was popular in the last few years. 05/06 was a lot of Fall Out Boy, MCR, Panic! type music. Spatter in some old country (like Coe/Haggard/Cash/Jennings/Jones type; some female singers, too, but I'll explain) and old Gangster rap, because both talk a lot about fighting, loving, and family problems. For funsies, throw on a bunch of traditionally 'Girl Anthems' if it's an Infantry Unit- I've seen most a Platoon get into poo poo like Beyoncé 'Irreplaceable', and some terribly sung but very fun renditions of things like "Midnight Train to GA". Classic rock like Violent Femmes and Bon Jovi. The older guys would be very similar, mostly listening to what they came of age with.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I never saw a ladder go over the side, but I did see the cleat a fast rope was attached to, tear free and go yeeting out the side of a Blackhawk as the crew chief kicked out the coil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIfjSRRT3AU
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McNally posted:"Captain, if we replace the burnt-out lightbulb with one from spares, we will be in violation of the regulation requiring us to maintain a full supply of spares at all times." I hate you
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Here’s the soundtrack to Generation Kill https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1sIiEjNH9kBAU85YjoaZDa Wheetus and Avril
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McNally posted:"Captain, if we replace the burnt-out lightbulb with one from spares, we will be in violation of the regulation requiring us to maintain a full supply of spares at all times." I heard a variation of that said in real life when I was with the 82nd.
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why am i not suprised at that from heroboy division
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Scoff all you want LEG
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pssht triggered much gloryboy XVIII 
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lightpole posted:If you use your spares when you need them then you won't have any spares to use when you need them duh Sometimes it's easier to just stay broken than it is to explain things to the chop that he could never possibly understand.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:pssht triggered much gloryboy That dragon still gaggin’
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McNally posted:"Captain, if we replace the burnt-out lightbulb with one from spares, we will be in violation of the regulation requiring us to maintain a full supply of spares at all times." I'm going to angrily drink a beer tonight after reading this. 
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McNally posted:"Captain, if we replace the burnt-out lightbulb with one from spares, we will be in violation of the regulation requiring us to maintain a full supply of spares at all times." Yeah, this brought back a flood of memories involving a certain battalion commander.
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Phanatic posted:Hey thread, this is for a Delta Green game I'm running. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6pJ1ncbkTC9quxttK62Imn
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I can't remember who first linked those, but whoever that person is they have that spark of inspiration. Other classics include "going straight lizard brain while the LSWV engine fire slowly engulfs the training area", "road rage in an MSVS while troops in the back throw up gang signs at the tailgaters", and "2000s hits to vom to out of the turret of the g-wagon"
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Granted I was on a sub and not infantry, much different service experiences, but we have one social space, and thats the mess deck, which fits all of 24 people to eat shoulder to shoulder. We put a TV in there, and connected it to our totally legal NAS. (It was on its own isolated network, we ran the cables for it by hand). While almost nobody ever loaded stuff onto it themselves since our sole IT guy who set it up was a huge  and was way ahead of the curve on that, at a point around Korea someone had found one of those youtube downloader extensions. They decided to use their time in Korea (On restriction on base obviously) to download about 18,000 music videos and throw them on the share.This was good for a while because people would put a few on to fill the gaps where we weren't allowed to watch movies, like meals and cleaning hours. Lots of Shakira and Rhianna and Iggy Azalea. Remember to Forget you being a staple. But at some point, as we were nearing the end of this particular 7 month deployment, someone either added or discovered the most ratchet poo poo. We were in that odd headspace where everyone was vibing in abject mutual misery but after smelling each others asses for half a year you've zero energy left to even be angry about anything. For whatever reason in that state of zen depression someone put on the Kreayshawn/Lil Debbie one about waffles. Now this is bad music, she has no rhythm and her voice breaks and she cannot rap at all but it was so critically stupid that it spread like wildfire. What followed was like a week long fiesta of the absolute most garbage crap music as people tried to find other terrible music videos and we were all enamored by how *bad* it all was and because we were so insane at the time the mutual experience was cathartic. Then I accidentally dropped a flange onto a guys head, which broke the spell, and suddenly everyone was getting furiously mad at everyone else again.
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