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Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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Real Mean Queen posted:

Houthis about to find out why the troops don’t even have health care

lol that logic is so astounding on so many levels

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Real Mean Queen
Jun 2, 2004

Zesty.


Gravid Topiary posted:

the blob on the right is a soldier holding a rifle and the blob on the left is the farmer he just canoed, the maple leaf is the brains

It’s clearly a soldier aiming a shoulder-mounted moose, sighting through the back of its head like anybody would. The leaf is decorative and bad design

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

BearsBearsBears posted:

Apparently there's a bigger version of the blob pattern. People online are saying it looks like a man (likely a Canadian) jacking off a moose.


it's the bottom image

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

I don't know how the u.s. thinks it's going to be able to beat iran when iran can afford to hire so many student protestors

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

The Voice of Labor posted:

I don't know how the u.s. thinks it's going to be able to beat iran when iran can afford to hire so many student protestors

The US found George Soros' horcrux so now there's no more money spigot - bing bong, so simple!

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjs8EYB2s4

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187

No wonder the US is sleepwalking into economic destruction. Their own top people don't know how all the financial systems work!

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187

No wonder the US is sleepwalking into economic destruction. Their own top people don't know how all the financial systems work!

lol I expected something hilariously stupid but I didn’t expect a dude who is unable to form coherent sentences

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

The point of borrowing in a currency you print is to create bonds for safe investments so the capital owning class can have free money at the people's expense

rudecyrus
Nov 6, 2009

fuck you trolls

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187

No wonder the US is sleepwalking into economic destruction. Their own top people don't know how all the financial systems work!

ho-lee poo poo

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

The guy got there about creating bonds, he was just uncertain if he was supposed to say the bonds were the point out loud and flailed. He *knows* whats going on, he just doesnt have the conviction to say it like its a normal and good thing

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187

No wonder the US is sleepwalking into economic destruction. Their own top people don't know how all the financial systems work!
Me during a job interview being asked questions about the Azure skills I put on my resume

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Nix Panicus posted:

The point of borrowing in a currency you print is to create bonds for safe investments so the capital owning class can have free money at the people's expense

the trade off is giving the ruling class an interest in keeping the state alive

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1786362618552222173

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013



boldly telling 45 year old Ukrainian men to die in a trench so that America can deter China

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

quote:

Russia is producing about 250,000 artillery munitions per month, or about 3 million a year, according to NATO intelligence estimates of Russian defense production shared with CNN, as well as sources familiar with Western efforts to arm Ukraine. Collectively, the US and Europe have the capacity to generate only about 1.2 million munitions annually to send to Kyiv, a senior European intelligence official told CNN.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

TeenageArchipelago posted:

boldly telling 45 year old Ukrainian men to die in a trench so that America can deter China

It's called being a Useful Idiot!

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?




lol that's a one day supply for Russia.

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde

"just getting started" I say as the war's been raging for two years.

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187

No wonder the US is sleepwalking into economic destruction. Their own top people don't know how all the financial systems work!

What the gently caress do you mean "Is that what they do?" Jared?? YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT THEY DO

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Proust Malone posted:

the trade off is giving the ruling class an interest in keeping the state alive

Unfortunately it turns out risk free money forever isnt as attractive as stripping the copper out of the walls to make more money now

Nix Panicus has issued a correction as of 04:37 on May 5, 2024

BearsBearsBears
Aug 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/Opartofwar/status/1786900785780887950

A historical "Dudes Rock" moment.

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀
iirc the first casualty in IFOR or KFOR was a guy who was loving around with a Serbian mine using his leatherman pliers.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

this used to happen all the time out in adak when I was a kid, japanese shells and all

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/christankerfund/status/1787471670179205507

Retrvn to sailing the cape of Africa holding strong.

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/Militarydotcom/status/1787548071477367235

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

what ????

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀

Space Force soldiers/airmen/sailors/marines are called "guardians", and three of their officers just completed an Army Cavalry course.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

thank you. that is a strange name.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

TeenageArchipelago posted:

boldly telling 45 year old Ukrainian men to die in a trench so that America can deter China

this was the theme of the 2023 NATO conference, yes

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

euphronius posted:

thank you. that is a strange name.

all of the space force poo poo is cringe af

guardian in command of the 15th cyberspace squadron, space delta 15, United Space Forces - Space, supported by Space Base Delta 1.

it's a 3-story office park in colorado springs full of computer touchers. space base delta 1 is what they call the site services people that manage the garbage pickup.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
us space force space station 13

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

You know this guy is a superhero, look at his eyebrows.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
does the army even have horses anymore or did they just give these guys hobbyhorses to ride

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀

Raskolnikov38 posted:

does the army even have horses anymore or did they just give these guys hobbyhorses to ride

Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry

The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a mechanized branch is arguably one of the greatest military transformations in history. Through Mobility We Conquer recounts the evolution and development of the U.S. Army's modern mechanized cavalry and the doctrine necessary to use it effectively. The book also explores the debates over how best to use cavalry and how these discussions evolved during the first half of the century. During World War I, the first cavalry theorist proposed combining arms coordination with a mechanized force as an answer to the stalemate on the Western Front. Hofmann brings the story through the next fifty years, when a new breed of cavalrymen became cold war warriors as the U.S. Constabulary was established as an occupation security-police force. Having reviewed thousands of official records and manuals, military journals, personal papers, memoirs, and oral histories-many of which were only recently declassified-George F. Hofmann now presents a detailed study of the doctrine, equipment, structure, organization, tactics, and strategy of U.S. mechanized cavalry during the changing international dynamics of the first half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, maps, and charts, Through Mobility We Conquer examines how technology revolutionized U.S. forces in the twentieth century and demonstrates how perhaps no other branch of the military underwent greater changes during this time than the cavalry.



500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

does the army even have horses anymore or did they just give these guys hobbyhorses to ride

everyone gets a pony

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

They take turns being the horse

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀
They still do have mounted troops for parade, but the optics are... not great... in light of the history of the US Cavalry




Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


A "spur ride" isn't a "cavalry course", it's a bullshit hazing ritual

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CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀
How tf is it not referring to the final phase of the cavalry officers' course where you earn your spurs?

Can the Guardians lead a patrol and all of the other things you're supposed to do?

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