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Current event PSA: it's been said before, but not recently. Anybody who has a .gov, .mil, or .edu email can subscribe to the Washington Post for free. Create an account, take a look at your user page, and select the ".gov, .mil, .edu: Get free access" under the subscriptions tab. NOTE: this is NOT the verify email option on your main account page. WaPo military/gov/student includes access to their mobile apps. Anyone with a .mil email address can also get the New York Times digest for free, a daily 10-page collection of the NY Times' top stories, editorials, and sports reporting. It can be received as a daily email, or can be accessed through the Times' webpage. Here's the signup page: http://www.timesdigest.com/customers/military This thread moves so fast I might have missed someone else linking it, but EPA head Scott Pruitt used a personal email account for government business, then lied to the Senate about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...omepage%2Fstory
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Victor Vermis posted:Well when you're working on a foundation of "killing people is cool and good" it kinda compels you to re-evaluate everything else you've ever taken for granted. Zeris or Shim, please edit this into the GiP welcome/rules thread header.
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Office Pig posted:Gee I wonder what that old fart Rudy Giuliani is up t- Who wore it better? Rudy Giuliani? Or the Wicked Witch of the West? 
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Parliament just cleared the last legal hurdle for Prime Minister May to trigger Article 50 and bounce out of the European Union. While it could legally happen on Tuesday, Downing Street is expected to wait until month's end. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39262081 No brakes on the pain train, indeed.
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Two Finger posted:i hope it doesn't cause anything bad, but.... Me either, but I can't foresee any way it ends well for every group involved. As best I can tell, it's a zero sum game. Either the UK is crippled, or else they remain financially solvent and thus prove that the Brexit voters were correct and EU membership was only a hindrance to their economy. This would all but guarantee the eventual dissolution of the EU. It also gives the rest of the EU a very real reason to try to screw the UK over in trade agreements. They can't make it look easy or painless for a nation to leave.
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Svartvit posted:A family member did a tour with NATO and apparently it's kind of a constant talking point among all the non-US nationals that porn is frowned upon everywhere except in the American camp where it's both sanctioned and subsidized. C/D, anyone? In warzones it's strictly forbidden for Americans. Everyone (and I mean *everyone*) breaks that rule, but it is codified. Just means that, at bigger bases with higher ranking officers, the Americans keep it on the downlow. I can't speak for anybody else, but the British were the deployment porn champs back in the day. I was a commo technician, so I spent a fair amount of time in allied nations' compounds fixing their networks. In TYOL 2009, when the Americans were furtively passing around USB drives of porn, the RAF guys decorated their offices with the skankiest porn mags imaginable. Woods porn quality, not even glossy pages. Quantity over quality. They had porn mags big enough to be used as doorstops. They also had their own bar and didn't ration beer the way we did. I can only assume being in the Royal Air Force rules.
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Kazinsal posted:Like the Max Headroom incident, but more psychological and less weird. I had never heard of the Max Headroom Incident until today. This thread continues to be the best in GiP.
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Bernard McFacknutah posted:The Navy is doing okay, it has lots of new ships on the way although there are worries about keeping them at sea due to costs. People look at the pitifully small number of Surface combatants left and forget about the sizeable very modern subs that we do have. The UK is running low on tanks and the US has storage depots full of them, which the army doesn't want or need. In a sane world, these problems would solve each other. Instead, America will buy even more tanks, because our Congress has been bought by General Dynamics. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/11/ohio-wins-again-in-armys-budget-for-more-m1-abrams-tanks.html
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