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LimburgLimbo posted:Considering how they lost so many air assets when that airbase was taken over, too, I'm rather surprised they didn't try to redistribute things to safe locations when it became clear that they weren't likely to hold on to Crimea. I don't know how much of it was ready to get underway at a moments notice, or was even air/seaworthy. Remember that Ukraine is easily one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, that usually doesn't bode well for military preparedness.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Twitter's lighting up with pics and vids of Russian MBTs and heavy equipment moving under their own power, some of it supposedly right at the Russia / Ukraine / Belarus border, not far from Kiev. Previously the heavy stuff was being moved around by train. Not sure how big a deal this is just yet. If Putin decides to invade Western Ukraine in spite of the fact that the US/EU response will be to collapse Russia's economy and steal all of his friends' money, I have to wonder how secure his place at the top really is.
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Snowdens Secret posted:On a lighter note, someone called this the other day Heh. Dude should probably stop washing down his borscht with sterno.
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Mar 26, 2014 22:32
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Godholio posted:So when do we get to see badass Cossacks with awesome hats and staches riding into battle against tanks? Cossacks are Putin's bully-boys. I remember he deployed them to Voronezh after some bombs went off. Big assholes with clubs and dogs smacking down anything bearded or brown.
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Mar 27, 2014 15:06
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In my life I've never seen a country bring 50,000 troops to a state of readiness unless they were going somewhere.
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Mar 28, 2014 17:30
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Don't the marines do a lot of war games around DC? They do them in Minneapolis around the Mississippi River from time to time. Every now and then I get paid OT to park my ambulance, turn on the lights, and then read my phone until they want me to pretend to pick someone up.
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Mar 28, 2014 20:15
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Snowdens Secret posted:^^^ I haven't seen anything about it but this mentions Afghanistan: Looks like Abbas started acting too much like the leader of a real nation with real interests and scotched the talks before Pollard got to taste any of that sweet, sweet Israeli air: quote:Abbas Takes Defiant Step, and Mideast Talks Falter What a lovely deal. gently caress Pollard, I'm glad that Abbas kicked these pointless talks in the balls.
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Frosted Flake posted:Did Americans come out in support of defending Canada? Anyone getting a significant invasion force anywhere near North America is gonna get nuked.
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joat mon posted:Before you added the link, I thought the idea of Venetian separatists with a tank was a story a day late, but googled it and got: That is the most half-assed killdozer I've ever seen. Marvin Heemeyer would be rolling over in his grave if he knew that crazies have fallen so far. MrYenko posted:Shelter in place is a brilliant plan, if by place, you mean armory, and by shelter, you mean gear up and go rear end in a top hat-hunting. *Ft. Hood destroyed by jumpy grunts shooting everything that moves. Probably would look something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgkFe5HYqY0 Zeroisanumber fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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mstrkrft posted:They'll be given nerf guns until proven they can handle live firearms. Going to be a lot of dudes walking around warzones armed with the N-Strike Elite Rayven.
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Whip Slagcheek posted:Operation American Spring Keep a photo album. You can show your kids how hosed-up politics in our time was.
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Snowdens Secret posted:The Poles want two brigades stationed in Poland so I guess they're ready to come up with something. Don't the Poles have a pretty decent military? I thought I remembered reading that they punch a bit above their weight.
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Apr 5, 2014 02:39
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Snowdens Secret posted:Just taking Japan as an example, though, the text isn't that different: Short of some pretty wild circumstances we would most definitely get involved in a fight between China and Japan. Ukraine is a corrupt backwater that we have zero strategic interest in, Japan is a major East Asian ally. Though you're right in that the treaty doesn't automatically commit us to Japan's defense in the same way that NATO does.
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Mortabis posted:Why would it be stupid? Who's going to stop him? Because we would steal all of his friends' money and crush Russia's economy. Even Europe would stop being candy-rear end bitches when the Russian Army is bumping up along Poland's border.
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Helldump Immunity. posted:Still better than the F-35
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Mortabis posted:I wish wikipedia were always right, then I could edit it and change reality. I would just delete everything if that were the case.
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Courthouse posted:Has anyone posted on Boko Haram kidnapping 200 schoolgirls and intending to sell them into slavery? Seems like a decent candidate for the west riding to the rescue and getting us stuck in another quagmire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjprq67kYI
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Courthouse posted:Well the schoolgirls are christian, and the kidnappers are muslim, does that count? I spared them a sympathetic thought and a hope that they can find a way to escape which is probably about as much as anyone, anywhere is going to do.
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Booblord Zagats posted:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/08/dover-air-force-base-lockdown/8852129/ tbh, we should just fold them back into the Army. Bring back the USAAF and then hold both services to a stricter fitness standard b/c push-ups at dawn will save America.
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May 8, 2014 20:03
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FOURTH WAVE LESBRO posted:I think something broke in me when I stopped being affected by having to shove a q-tip up a dude's urethra. I lost something precious that day, and now I'm dead inside. Welcome to medicine. It's infected pee holes all the way down.
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JSARSOM posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/world/middleeast/yemen-silent-on-disclosure-of-shooting-by-americans.html?_r=0 Worse thing was that homes had to wander around Yemen with half a haircut for the next couple weeks while everything was on lockdown.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:in 20 years time will transracial people be the next big thing? Transhuman. My true form is a brain floating in a tank which is connected to a killbot of some sort.
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krispykremessuck posted:nuke the earth
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Reverand maynard posted:after afghanistan I tried getting sleep meds and the psychologist told me that my experiences made me a stronger person and then just sent me away. lmao. If Jack Daniels and sleeping with a gun under his pillow is good enough for Audie Murphy, then it's good enough for you.
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May 22, 2014 17:23
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:One of my company commanders no poo poo kept photos of Audie Murphy and John Wayne on the wall of his office. He was a little off... John Wayne would be less weird because you could always just say that you're a big fan of Hondo or some poo poo, but the two together should scare shitless anyone under his command.
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Mister Sinewave posted:
I read his book. It was my first, tentative step down the road to giving up on people.
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May 28, 2014 21:27
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BaconAndBullets posted:Hopefully we can find out everything about his captivity but more importantly what led to his capture(?). I thought that he freaked out and decided to just walk the hell away from his base out into Afghanistan and got himself caught. That actually reminds me of a pretty decent book by Tim O'Brien. Going After Cacciato.
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HClChicken posted:There are currently 0 american military held captive in Afghanistan now. They'll pin a medal on him and give him his back pay and then muster him out. If he's smart he'll move to some small place in the middle of nowhere and refuse all interview requests.
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JSARSOM posted:No clue if true, but apparently this guy was in his squad: This guy rules. 
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Dude says manbabies too much.
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Casimir Radon posted:A masters in buttrape and goat husbandry. Minor in chemistry with an emphasis on cooking meth.
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LongDarkNight posted:That twitter guy has apparently done a bunch of interviews about Bergdahl and newspaper articles should be hitting stands tomorrow, WaPo, NYT, WSJ. He's also on Fox News tonight with Megan Kelly. I heard him on NPR earlier. Casimir Radon posted:Then he got all upset when Owen Wilson played a much more competent fictionalized version of himself in Behind Enemy Lines, because he disobeyed orders and used swear words. Realtalk? I would be livid if Owen Wilson were cast as me in a movie about me.
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Enigma89 posted:Question for GiP dudes but if a guy writes a note and renounces his citizenship and bails then why bother chasing after him. It wasn't like he was some General that has a bunch of secrets. gently caress him let him go? Or is there a real reason about getting him just for justice purposes? Because letting one of our own get slaughtered by the Taliban is bad politics, even if he is a loving idiot.
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That's still the bravest thing that I've ever seen anyone do.
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Courthouse posted:So Putin has decided he didn't want those Ukrainians anyway? Just wanted a diversion he could hype up and then back down from so people would forget Crimea? He sliced himself a huge piece of cake and more or less got away with it, unless something goes sideways I think he's decided to quit while he's ahead.
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psydude posted:No, the actual stated purpose of prisons in the United States is to rehabilitate the prisoners. In practice, this almost never happens because many Americans like their prisons to be torture facilities for inmates, but it's the core goal of other modern nations' prison systems. The purpose of Gitmo is not rehabilitation. It's a place that we wring people for information and then throw them in a cell and forget about them.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:True. Barack Obama walks on water. He definitely didn't gently caress up. Compared to Bergdahl getting to make his own Danny Pearl video? Five dried-up Taliban cunts for one idiot in uniform is a steal.
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FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:Dude fuckin owns
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Personally, I wish that we'd let the Indians roll over them after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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