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free hubcaps posted:So General Famous changed his name to Marshall?? Yah he invented mousse. That's where the problems came from
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Vesi posted:george washington sighed as he drew his wakizashi george washington!?!? the la lei lai la lou??
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Xakura posted:Running a modern military without gps would suck poo poo, but it's not like . . . nobody in the entire us mil haven't thought about what they would do in a gps denied environment. pretty sure the marines still teach orienteering to all enlisted and officers, but the army doesn't, not 100% on this though regardless of if it gets taught, they don't practice it. tell an infantry officer to arrive at a place at a time using only a map compass and a watch and prepare to be disappointed
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Cactus Ghost posted:pretty sure the marines still teach orienteering to all enlisted and officers, but the army doesn't, not 100% on this though It appears the Army still requires land nav courses for officers, but not all enlisted. I lived in an army town and recall people saying that most candidates either aced it on the first try or needed to retake it several times before passing, with very few people in-between.
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Cactus Ghost posted:pretty sure the marines still teach orienteering to all enlisted and officers, but the army doesn't, not 100% on this though orienteering is a literal game. land navigation is what militaries do. where are you getting this nonsense?
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Cactus Ghost posted:pretty sure the marines still teach orienteering to all enlisted and officers, but the army doesn't, not 100% on this though I should have asked a long time ago, is orientering taught in school gym class in the US, like in europe? Every third grader and up over here gets orientering skills, mostly under protest ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I should have asked a long time ago, is orientering taught in school gym class in the US, like in europe? Every third grader and up over here gets orientering skills, mostly under protest School curricula are local so no way to answer definitively. Going to guess it's rare though. I'd guess most people who learn it do so in Boy Scouts or equivalent.
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I’d have figured the easiest way for a lieutenant to navigate would be to say something along the lines of “Sergeant, have the men move to (such snd such) location” and then follow him.
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i have no idea where the heck a school would teach orienteering. maybe like some out of the way area in idaho or w/e where half of the surrounding land is BLM forests boy scouts we "learned" it to the extent needed to pass whatever half-assed exam was being used for a merit badge before returning to the usual activities of lighting sticks on fire and doing swordfights with them
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canyoneer posted:It appears the Army still requires land nav courses for officers, but not all enlisted. Everyone in the Army does land nav, both new officers and new enlisted soldiers. And if you're in a combat brigade, it's a skill you're using all the time, especially as an an NCO or officer. As a scout platoon leader I relied on a physical map way more than I ever relied on a GPS, though I usually used both at the same time.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I should have asked a long time ago, is orientering taught in school gym class in the US, like in europe? Every third grader and up over here gets orientering skills, mostly under protest No, we learned how to navigate a map in social studies class, but it was in class, not outdoors.
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Cactus Ghost posted:pretty sure the marines still teach orienteering to all enlisted and officers, but the army doesn't, not 100% on this though Who, a marine infantry officer? Their Army counterparts are doing this nearly every time they go to the field.
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Probably the most difficult things we did in FDF training were night time foot recon missions. No GPS, just maps and compass. Of course need to stay in concealment so no lights except to read the map under a tarp or someting. And only night vision gear we had were like two lovely scopes. Funny how it gets quite a bit more difficult to determine your location when you cannot see any landmarks because of the darkness. Of course getting the lovely ancient comms systems to work while on mission in the freezing dark was always fun.
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bad_fmr posted:Probably the most difficult things we did in FDF training were night time foot recon missions. No GPS, just maps and compass. Of course need to stay in concealment so no lights except to read the map under a tarp or someting. And only night vision gear we had were like two lovely scopes. Funny how it gets quite a bit more difficult to determine your location when you cannot see any landmarks because of the darkness. I'm real tempted to do a Yorkshireman but honestly, same. Nothing quite hones the skill like loving it up and having to stop loving up, because the only way this ends is when you stop being a fuckup. But forever gently caress having to navigate through featureless roadless forest on a moonless night. Anywhere else you'd at least feel confident on which way is up
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Historians are still debating why Christopher Columbus, upon first sighting land, shouted “GORDON’S ALIVE!”
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Have this one instead. what do the leaf skirt and twig represent (I'm not gonna ask about Geordi's bell skirt)
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echopapa posted:Historians are still debating why Christopher Columbus, upon first sighting land, shouted “GORDON’S ALIVE!” Not even the only Brian Blessed character on those covers.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Not even the only Brian Blessed character on those covers. When you have the opportunity to draw a Brian Blessed, why stop at only one?
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China's still really goddamn mad about messi lol, they canceled two friendlies w/ the argentine national team
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Did they resume fishing claims in their territorial waters
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cynically it is probably in Taiwan's larger interest to lose de facto control of Kinmen and Matsu over a few years through PLAN/CCG grey zone tactics interdicting Taipei's ability to maintain effective government of the islands and resupply the low thousands of military personnel remaining stationed there: it would considerably improve the clarity of defensive commitments toward Taiwan island proper that is, now that the Fujian province CCG seems to be asserting a right to enforce mainland law in the waters around Kinmen, Taiwan should probably protest loudly but not actually physically contest it much, and indeed quietly look into further drawing down its presence and inviting a fait accompli. Kinmen is not Taiwan's Ayungin reef but rather Mischief reef, so to speak: the territory that must be lost so that domestic entities cannot claim that China can be satiated (China no longer pretends that its presence in Mischief reef is purely civilian, as it once did)
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Mr. Fix It posted:xpost 
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Update on my idiot brother and his second vacation to China! After 3 weeks of radio silence, they are back and really happy. Turns out he went with the family saying of "no news is good news" and just stopped worrying about his phone plus left his laptop back in Denmark to ensure that he actually took a, you know, vacation with his family.
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lmao why is China hosing down boats from Philippines?
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Tai posted:lmao why is China hosing down boats from Philippines? Because the Philippines dares to have a coastline on the South China Sea E: I mean come one, china's right in the name! free hubcaps fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Thought there might be more too it outside of claiming poo poo 1500 miles away from your coastline again.
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I'm pretty sure that incident was specifically the Philippines trying to resupply the old rusty hulk they use as a base in the Spratly Islands, China always throws a poo poo fit about it and engages in all sorts of dangerous maneuvers and harassment towards the Filipino ships.
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