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Even easier was just right clicking the certificate pdf, edit text, and put whatever name and date you wanted on it.
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A lieutenant in my old unit was approached by NCOs in his platoon about some PEQ-15 lasers in the arms room that weren't on the books and wanted to take them. LT thinks this is a great idea and approaches his commander about getting in on it! I saw him being escorted into the brigade commander's office but I'm not sure what the exact consequences were. The arm's rooms in brigade combat teams are so frequently used/inventoried that I have a hard time seeing any sensitive items go missing from them other than through damaging or losing individual items in the field. I think more likely is they go missing through some kind of bureaucratic gently caress up like with a unit being deactivated or a support unit of some kind that never goes to the field and thus never uses their weapons. Stuff that isn't on the books is generally pretty easy to get away with though. Units can use their own funds to buy stuff and that poo poo almost never ends up on the books. Like say a commander wants to buy some fancy dismount assault packs, those things will absolutely no longer be with the unit once all the people using them leave. The S4 shop is 100% the shadiest in a unit, and the amount of shadiness definitely correlates with how good they are too.
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I grew up in Tampa and in college I took an Earth science class. The professor talked about something I think he called a "subtropical high" and Tampa sits right along one and that they tend to push hurricanes either above or below the city which makes it so rare to be directly bit by hurricanes. That was over 10 years ago so not sure if I've got the terminology right though.
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Sep 29, 2022 16:39
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Oh yeah, totally get it. Great lakes ain't that bad though. 4/10 is still better than the midwest, the great sea of corn and soy. Western Washington has mountain views in nearly every direction, huge forests full of some of the largest trees on Earth, 3 National Parks, the Puget Sound which runs right through the middle of Western Washington and has multiple species of whales, seals, and sealions you can see with not much effort. Plus legal weed, , great breweries and wineries, and one of the most progressive electorates in the country. You're surrounded by beautiful scenery nearly everywhere you go, including in the cities. Here's some recent pics all from near where I live in Seattle.  Sunset over the Olympic Mountains from Golden Gardens Park, Seattle  Downtown Seattle from Gas Works Park  Gas Works Park, an old gasification plant turned into a park  Sunset over the Olympic Mountains from Lumen Field, near Seattle's port  Green Lake Park, Seattle  Grab a beer while riding one of Washington's ferries across the Sound I can't imagine a better place in the US to live. It's certainly not perfect here but in my opinion the advantages massively outweigh any disadvantages of living here.
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Follow up with some more pics of cool plants and stuff from around the Puget Sound region.      If you can't tell, I really loving love living here.
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Sep 29, 2022 20:30
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Last post of pictures, this time from last fall.    So uh yeah, Washington is awesome.
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Sep 29, 2022 20:36
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Kazinsal posted:If someone offered me a green card and a solid salary to move to Seattle I'd do it. Vancouver is lovely but wages are crap and there's no way in hell I can even think about living in any of the main cities with how little I make comparatively. Having the border in between definitely sucks. Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland seem to have much more in common with each other than either of them do with the rest of their respective countries. That's just my perception from visiting Vancouver anyway. This part of North America feels really isolated from the rest of the populous parts of the continent, almost like an Alaska Lite.
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Sep 29, 2022 20:46
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Is that true of M-ATVs (the type in the pic) though? S4s and other support types in Stryker Brigades use those, I felt way safer in a rollover situation in one of those than I ever did in a humvee or Stryker. It also has functional seatbelts that you can actually use while wearing body armor. Edit: it's not clear in the pic but M-ATVs are quite a bit different in shape and size than the much larger MRAPs that came before it
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CainFortea posted:Well, that's good. But that still seems like quite a lot of weight pretty high to keep that low rate of rollover gold star. It is top heavy, but in the case of a roll over I wasn't particularly worried about my own safety. It's probably the only military vehicle I've been in that the Army uses and has a functional seatbelt system. Strykers have seatbelts for passengers but you can't use them if you're wearing body armor. The risk of a rollover while standing out of the hatch of Stryker at night and moving through mountainous terrain regularly terrified me yet we field entire brigades with them.
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