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The Oldest Man posted:https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/diploma-problem-navy-lowers-requirements-struggles-meet-recruitment-106723812 "No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals" mlmp08 posted:That’s just hailing back to the old world naval roots of impressing unemployed people into service. Sometimes regardless of nationality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFn4KGYNfV4
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Frosted Flake posted:"No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals time to lower the recruitment age so the us military can secure a stable supply of enlisted serfs who will learn warfighting from an early age to retirement age maybe open up paid commissions too while we're at it
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:
its both they are the same thing and the best thing to do is to organize the more people who organize more people faster, the faster all people will be free, nothing else matters because everything else will be a consequence of the organizations formed from that step all you have to do is that but more with more people, then the fascists and capitalists will attack and then they'll be destroyed rationally, it's not worth spending a minute on anything besides organizing people together to get more people together you don't need anything to start except people and time they'll get stuff or let you know stuff you need
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What are the chances that the US nuclear weapons maintenance has already been liberalized to the point that none of those weapons work anymore?
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:What are the chances that the US nuclear weapons maintenance has already been liberalized to the point that none of those weapons work anymore?
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:What are the chances that the US nuclear weapons maintenance has already been liberalized to the point that none of those weapons work anymore? high
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:What are the chances that the US nuclear weapons maintenance has already been liberalized to the point that none of those weapons work anymore? I’m thinking all that talk a year back about Russia’s nuclear weapons not working anymore might have been some serious projection
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Clip-On Fedora posted:I’m thinking all that talk a year back about Russia’s nuclear weapons not working anymore might have been some serious projection absolutely
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Clip-On Fedora posted:I’m thinking all that talk a year back about Russia’s nuclear weapons not working anymore might have been some serious projection It's always projection.
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DancingShade posted:It's always projection.
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the subs might be the most reliable part of the trinity left since they hit the sweet spot of old enough to be from an era when US weapons sometimes worked but not so old they’ve turned to dust.
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WW3 is already over I have video proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxW_SoCbIhg
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the droplet is a fearsome weapon of the trisolarans
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Danann posted:the droplet is a fearsome weapon of the trisolarans Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYwGIdYm2w
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Danann posted:time to lower the recruitment age so the us military can secure a stable supply of enlisted serfs who will learn warfighting from an early age to retirement age The British Army still recruits 16yr olds! Doesn't seem to be helping their numbers much, though.
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immediate demonstration of the individualism psychosis that is going to destroy americas capitalist and fascists what is more expensive to field: one navy seal who's dual wielding m4s f-16 pilot with an f16 and also a grenade launcher, huge muscles roided out megagenius or 20 people with bolt action rifles, 10 tons of steel, 4 lathes and some shovels, any 20 people any rifles it doesn't matter what is indisputably going to be stronger in a fight what is going to be stronger over 24 hours, 1 month how about 2, 4, 6 years how about over 20 miles of forest, hills multiply both sides by any size what's gonna be better at defending what is america spending 750bn a year on to have a successful people's revolution in any nation on earth probably 5 years from now: organize lots of people and arm them and prepare defenses and when the capitalists/fascists perceive a threat they'll attack, eventually it will end after concentrated artillery at a location with dirt defenses bc capitalists and fascists are both super disassociated they don't know what irl is they'll lose because they just assume since they never saw it no one figured this stuff out like 100 years ago and they've lost all their institutional knowledge they're not able to keep from losing it they don't have any people able to fix it who can be listened to by the broken systems people assume you can't learn anything useful from a book that you can't make up for with raw skill they only read books in school and pride themselves on how little they've had to learn about things that's a mental shortcut for efficiency, not total value it doesn't matter for war if someone doesn't read and use all their skill it's just a loss bc you only do one thing at once the consequences and realities of war ignore dollars entirely ignore aesthetics entirely it doesn't matter people cannot remember this anymore they are all disassociated jfc they're gonna blow up the world capitalism makes you retarded like pretending you are a king who is decided by god to rule over the peasantry does it's the same style of cognitive illusions & hallucinations being expressed differently under different conditions FirstnameLastname has issued a correction as of 11:29 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:The British Army still recruits 16yr olds! Bring back press gangs and round up all the Friday night drunk lads / slags, stick them in leg irons and let them wake up hung over & chained to oars. Which the next generation frigates will be using in lieu of turbine power plants because its green energy.
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Yeah, the big reason they were holding out on Sweden was about getting AESA radar upgrade kits, I assume they are going to reserve engineer them for their new fighter.
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Ahaha. Poor Lockheed Martin. Being bullied by that nasty Pentagon into fixed price contracts. Well no more! Number must go up. Really if anything they haven't been charging enough. Well that stops now. We could also call this "bent over a barrel". https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2024/01/25/no-more-must-wins-defense-firms-growing-warier-of-fixed-price-deals/ WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin chief executive Jim Taiclet offered a warning during a quarterly earnings call this week, The government, he said, is putting too much risk on defense companies by flexing its muscle as the sole buyer of military hardware, and his firm is changing its approach. “We don’t have any must-win programs with Lockheed Martin anymore,” Taiclet said. Taiclet was one of several defense industry executives who this week aired their angst about the government’s contracting practices. Many were particularly concerned about fixed-price contracts. Under these agreements, meant to secure the least risk for taxpayers, companies pick up the bill when costs run higher than expected. Such cases can be disastrous for defense firms — like Boeing’s $7 billion in overruns on a $4.9 billion contract for the KC-46, an Air Force tanker. Taiclet argued that, as the defense industry’s only customer in most cases, the Pentagon has enough sway to make its suppliers accept its terms. “Some of the competitors feel that they’re must-win programs for them, [and] that they will take tremendous risk on costs and pricing,” he said, noting that was no longer the case at Lockheed Martin. Those risks combine to result in cost overruns and delays on major programs, he said. Taiclet said the problem exists in both fixed-price and cost-plus contracts. But, during the same call, Lockheed chief financial officer Jay Malave noted the company is now seeing an “uptick” in cost-plus contracts, which could mean less risk. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
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It's funny to remember there was long ago a time when "war profiteer" was an at least distasteful thing to be openly.
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Owlbear Camus posted:It's funny to remember there was long ago a time when "war profiteer" was an at least distasteful thing to be openly. i think the shaw play major barbara was about that but i was probably really high in the dorm when i read it so i might be mistaken
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DancingShade posted:WW3 is already over I have video proof sound on https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s7y8yyOrtK1z0lvw3_720.mp4 Seems like U.S. diplomacy hasn't worked in the pacific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUEd4NFxl04 Nauru FM urges other Pacific countries to embrace one-China principle for common good Lionel Aingimea, Nauru's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade posted:One of the discussions I had with the foreign minister, of China's great assistance to the PIFs (Pacific Islands Forum). I think it will be strengthened much, much more with Nauru now being part of that of the one-China principal group. I think the other countries who have not yet recognized the one-China principle should also, that other Pacific countries, should also change allegiances and recognize the one-China policy because it will be for their advantage, and then you will have a whole PIFs united under the one-China principle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0dsfQt_sw Lionel Aingimea, Nauru's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade posted:One of the great things that China has is that it sees development partners as equal partners. China looks forward to assisting them with, so in these areas, we're looking at areas of fisheries. We are a small nation, land wise, but we are a big ocean nation with a very big EEZ (exclusive economic zone) that rivals the EEZs of other countries. And therefore, that's one area. One area of practical development also is a phosphate industry. [Cooperating with] China, especially with its global initiatives, we look forward to those practical benefits that will actually start happening on the island. Jon Pod Van Damm has issued a correction as of 03:46 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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DancingShade posted:WW3 is already over I have video proof Jon Pod Van Damm posted:Nice graphics. I didn't know a sequel was in the works 👍 I always have to shake my head at this kind of shameless marketing by Lockmart.
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:Nice graphics. I didn't know a sequel was in the works 👍 I take issue with the military accuracy of this, that independence class LCS appears to be seaworthy before it gets blown up.
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Real hurthling! posted:i think the shaw play major barbara was about that but i was probably really high in the dorm when i read it so i might be mistaken It's about anticapitalist Methodists
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Thread title is still future tense when its happening right now Because the defeat occurs at the end of the war? moran
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WW3 started in 2014. We are in the 2nd phase. Analogy to the spanish civil war phase.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Apopoka_/status/1751421969046577337?t=QvzOZ18Izs_CzE_i7IZzBQ&s=19 It's a good thing history began yesterday, or I'd be extremely loving embarrassed        
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Frosted Flake posted:It's a good thing history began yesterday, or I'd be extremely loving embarrassed ooooh poo poo they went and got him pissed megapost barrage incoming!
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The US isn't a ship focused military, so inability to acquire or produce ships isn't a big deal The US isn't a fighter aircraft focused military, so inability to acquire or produce fighter aircraft isn't a big deal The US isn't a soldier focused military, so inability to acquire or produce soldiers isn't a big deal
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personally, if I was a American soldier I would be extremely worried if I thought we were not an "artillery focused military"
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Atrocious Joe posted:The US isn't a ship focused military, so inability to acquire or produce ships isn't a big deal profit cope and phone induced superadhd are all that is keeping capitalism from wrecking the world in a death war
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Retvrn to elan focused military doctrine
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WW3 A.K.A. the "Big L War".
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dead gay comedy forums posted:ooooh poo poo they went and got him pissed I don't think it merits a mega post, do you? I mean, "...our emphasis has always been on close air support surgical strikes with larger missiles..." "Always" really means "since 1991", and as only 7% of aerial munitions used were "surgical strikes", and a smaller amount of those "larger missiles", the whole thing falls apart. So, I would guess the author first became aware of the US military probably around 2003, with "Shock and Awe" - A PR campaign that played off memories of a Desert Storm, itself largely a PR campaign. If you're a millennial, how the military was talked about as a young child was in terms of Desert Storm, Allied Force, where AirPower alone was supposed to defeat Serbia, and then OIF. But, that was always kinda bullshit. The US military was able to use Cold War platforms, munitions, and a Cold War sized military with Cold War stockpiles and logistics, while beating up on countries that were not at all prepared to fight back. The strikes weren't surgical, but that was never going to make it into the media, unless there was friendly fire (which there was, often), and large missiles were not used that often. Large missiles did keep aircrew out of danger, and the media liked the image of US technological superiority and invincibility, so they became of the face of the whole thing, but unless you think the AGM-65 is big, I wouldn't say the US has ever relied of large missiles, certainly not for the tactical role. Incidentally, while the A-10's gun was always played up as its main armament in the media and USAF PR, in reality from the time they were available in numbers, the AGM-65 was recognized as the aircraft's main weapon, and the only one likely to bring the pilot home in a Cold War gone hot. For whatever reason, people held onto the idea of the gun far longer than it was ever expected to make a real difference on a contested battlefield.
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