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A shameful OP with not nearly enough stories from the old thread, some greatest hits and some I found by looking at random pagesFrosted Flake posted:I've heard about some pretty scary ammo screw-ups due to clerical error. Two of them off the top of my head: Vasudus posted:I've told this story a bunch of times before, but it's a classic. We had a Regimental Birthday Officer in Iraq. What had happened was a brand-gently caress-new 2LT that arrived about six days before main body deployment to one of the scout platoons. Lost his nods before we left Kuwait. Not misplaced, not had taken, lost. We weren't in country for more than a week and he lost his weapon. His brand new M4 with ACOG and PEQ2. Lost, as in lost for good. Cenen's Med trainee weekend of hell: pt 1 pt 2 Bird Cooch - Ballad of Dirty Joe pt 1 pt 2 Lt Mike, some war criminals and a body cast (Lead Out In Cuffs) The Slithery D's tragic but so incredibly stupid it's kind of funny anyway story of the Kiowa Pilot's pistol Don't worry, I've taken care of it (N4I)
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My Great-grandfather spent the armistice in a hospital with a court-marshal pending for bullying a guards officer at leicester square tube station. He was acquitted a week or two later.
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joat mon posted:Platoon leader and Company commander in two different infantry divisions, though I suppose they could have been H&S units. I don't think he saw any combat, though. His record is here though I can't read half the militarese: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/dave-grossmans-military-file-35246/#file-155927 I guess the lack of a combat badge means he was never involved in any of those 1980s adventurisms in south america?
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One thing I don't think has been mentioned yet is the lack of standards for cops. Some basic behaviours are expected from all soldiers. And then, if a soldier has been on a particular course, you have a reasonable idea of what they've been trained on, and what standard you'd expect them to perform to, and what the highest echelons expected when they developed the course. By contrast, US police forces are parochial as gently caress with very uneven initial training. The ones that allow brutality routinely normalize the behaviour for the other ones and there's no one up top to say that this police force is performing worse than the others and needs to be brought up to scratch.
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facialimpediment posted:One Cali wildfire was confirmed to be caused by a gender reveal party: This post reminded me of a guy. We were in a contact drill and a smoke genny caused a grass fire. He heard the call FIRE FIRE FIRE and interpreted it to mean "keep firing my rifle", which he did until the enemy party jumped out of their positions and ran past him to help the rest of us put the fire out. Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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tuyop posted:75l pack, 35 pounds dry and no camping stove? Hahaha Muerte posted:I've survived until the age of 26 and I've never cooked a single thing on a stove, actually I have cooked macaroni before. Stop acting like a dipshit. I can pick up a stove at any point if I decide I want one. Looking back, the whole self induced forced march without increasing his calorific intake (and maybe even reducing it) is the biggest death march aspect of it, but also what stopped him from getting far enough to really get himself in trouble.
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movax posted:I kept thinking it was the end and it just kept going and getting better. Holy poo poo this is awesome. Grem posted:That dude is going to put a round right through his hand doing that. Do ranges get pissed off with guys like that putting holes in their walls and roof all the time?
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And one lesson ahead of the people you're teaching.
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Everything I've heard about the rust shooting just makes it seem more and more like they hired some firearms consultant that is pretty much the guys we mock in these threads for putting holes in range buildings and hanging out of car doors while shooting.
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My Spirit Otter posted:If someone doesnt show up to work and nobody notices, thats a grey man. That's how it's used in the NZ Army. The guy whose every exercise report reads "Showed good speed, aggression and communication in the assault" because every section leader he's had is like "I'm one dude short for reports but I can't picture anyone else being in my squad"
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maffew buildings posted:I never understood the weird, I don't want to say reverence but the whatever the gently caress enlisted folks have for flag officers. Like bro they're just upper management they're just people that stayed at on job a long time what is so hard to understand about this If you're at the bottom of the tree you just always, always have to be careful around senior officers. Like not only can you get yourself in trouble, but real simple stuff get get other in trouble. A while back, I very senior guy was chatting to us and asked us how our communications were. Usually I'd say something like 'Could be better, but they good job at filtering out the bullshit'. However, if I'd said it to this guy, he'd have leapt into action and suddenly every private would be getting every change to coffee cup policy and regular force augmentation opportunity making GBS threads up their personal inbox.
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A lot of the time it's just an opportunity to get some time on the tools and check out one of your field units rolled into one.
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Fun fact: William Lambton, the instigator of the Great Trigonometrical survey of India, was blind in one eye because he attempted to take sun shots without a darkened lens.
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Mar 9, 2023 23:39
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Or a failed 1970s compact car
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They probably set their initial offer absurdly high and cunningly dropped their bargaining position. "We'll give him back for a truck full of baking" "A tray of fresh scones and a crate of milk? Give us a catcher full of grass clippings for the horse and you got yourself a deal!"
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Also, I had to watch a video on war thunder in a comsec briefing a while back. About a third of the class gave a laugh of recognition.
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AFAICT, the only things truly selected for in officers as opposed to enlisted are ambition and basic arithmetic. Courage, intelligence, integrity and the rest? It's maybe statistically a little better, but still the same lottery as any other soldier you might meet.
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