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FrozenVent posted:The fact that the accident led to the implementation of the ISM code - arguably the biggest change in maritime regulation since the motherfucking Titanic should tell you it wasn’t about one dude falling asleep. I listened to that episode and felt like they were pretty clearly blaming capitalist cost cutting for creating the situation more than the dude falling asleep.
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stealie72 posted:You all are listening to Lions Led By Donkeys and Hell Of A Way To Die, right? I think it was Lions Led By Donkeys that had a series on the Iran Iraq War, and I learned (and double checked because it was so bizarre) that Iran had been moving troops through a swamp so Iraq rigged the water with wires and electrocuted a whole lot of guys. The Unconventional Soldier is another good one by UK artillery vets who have interesting stories & good interviews. They had a guy who had been on the ground in the Falklands & contrary to popular images of the war being a joke turned out the Argentinian infantry was competent and put up a serious fight. They also had someone who had been in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, which sounded intense but had humor like how British troops were very limited in being able to call home as there was risk of the IRA intercepting calls, except the Welsh officers could call home all they wanted as apparently Irish have extreme trouble understanding Welshmen. Also had interesting info about how during a Red Storm Rising how they were trained to be stay behind spotters with elaborate concealment to call down artillery on the Red Army. This mission would likely be concluded by the front line going too far west and they realized in retrospect their superiors were vague about how they’d reach allied lines and that they’d 100% be POWs.
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McNally posted:Holy poo poo the three star quoted in this article was the colonel at the Pentagon who reached out to me when I dropped that "gently caress you, here's everything you hosed up" letter on Big Army. May I read it?
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A.o.D. posted:May I read it? Gimme a minute to make a redacted version
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I think it was Lions Led By Donkeys that had a series on the Iran Iraq War, and I learned (and double checked because it was so bizarre) that Iran had been moving troops through a swamp so Iraq rigged the water with wires and electrocuted a whole lot of guys. The power line thing was in our "So you are fighting Iraq" books. Terrified me. Thousands killed at once with no warning. No sounds of aircraft or incoming, no rumbling tracks or whistling shells.
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Apr 28, 2023 01:28
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Soylent Pudding posted:I listened to that episode and felt like they were pretty clearly blaming capitalist cost cutting for creating the situation more than the dude falling asleep. Heh they were still attributing too much blame to the worker for my taste. Similarly their - much earlier in the run - Piper Alfa episode features a whole bit where Liam rants about “why didn’t they just use a ratchet wrench, idiots? They even make a fun sound!” And like, I get that their whole bit is to do the absolute bare minimum of research but “poo poo exploded lol” isn’t even where it gets interesting. Compare to, say, a CSB video. Any of them.
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Apr 28, 2023 01:45
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McNally posted:Gimme a minute to make a redacted version Here is the first letter. I sent this to my congresscritters, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LrZYeND-WAkL5XrhD01kU_t3CCk5AN4w/view?usp=sharing About a month later I received a letter from someone writing on behalf of, I think, the Chief of Staff of the Army who vomited some platitudes at me and then closed by calling my wife by the wrong name. I sent this letter in response. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pBaYOmgUih-fdXQbz4sLoYLnrp-ru7ul/view?usp=sharing Colonel, now LTG, Stitt called me on the phone 11 days later. Seems I touched a nerve. Turns out that Army casualty assistance is split into two little fiefdoms: The uniformed side and the civilian side. The uniformed side managed to wrest more control away from the civilian side as a direct result of my letter because, it turns out, people in uniform give more of a poo poo about casualty assistance than DA civilians.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/davis_winkie/status/1651668049974505473?t=ADFEUgwXnjLeUKezxOgEjQ&s=19 The silver lining: Let's say someone wants out, but they're committed to 11 years. ETS at 11 years: neat, here's your BRS-era TSP, I guess. Involuntarily separated for failing to be promoted to Major above zone: Separated at about 11 years and a few months and walk away with (in 2023) about $97,000 in severance pay, plus retain the regular benefits.
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McNally posted:Here is the first letter. I sent this to my congresscritters, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. First, thanks for sharing that with me. Second, holy poo poo I was not ready to read that. I was expecting, well, I'm not sure what, but it sure as gently caress wasn't that. With that said, having been on the wrong side of payroll and personnel fuckups, I believe every single word of what I just read.
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McNally posted:It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. I read it. I mean I had a rough idea of what you had gone through based on your posts over the years, but gently caress me, that poo poo is awful dude. I'm sorry you and anyone else who lost a family member had to deal with that poo poo. Unfuckingbelievable.
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Some of the stuff like being confused about a guardsman and paperwork processing isn't the most surprising thing on Earth, even though it's deplorable in execution, but the RAPIDS center saying "no, you just don't get to have an ID, and I'm keeping your ID now" is just so lovely and weird. It's not only extremely wrong, the lazier answer is just to shrug and say they don't know and let the family member leave without helping, not to go out of their way to gently caress the survivor over.
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mlmp08 posted:Some of the stuff like being confused about a guardsman and paperwork processing isn't the most surprising thing on Earth, even though it's deplorable in execution, but the RAPIDS center saying "no, you just don't get to have an ID, and I'm keeping your ID now" is just so lovely and weird. It's not only extremely wrong, the lazier answer is just to shrug and say they don't know and let the family member leave without helping, not to go out of their way to gently caress the survivor over. Some people like nothing more than confiscating IDs. When my CAC was up for renewal two cycles ago the dipshit at the desk tore the current one out of my hands almost before I could finish asking for the new one.
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I read it, it reminded me of how hosed the military is, and how glad I am to have my DD-214. Sorry doesn't help at this point McNally, but gently caress dude, what you did/try to continue to do is important. Please keep pinging us whenever we need to yell at our congresscritters.
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McNally posted:Here is the first letter. I sent this to my congresscritters, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. loving hell, what a nightmare.
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McNally posted:Here is the first letter. I sent this to my congresscritters, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. Good lord. 
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McNally posted:Here is the first letter. I sent this to my congresscritters, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. Jesus loving Christ. I'm so sorry.
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McNally posted:Here is the first letter. I sent this to my congresscritters, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It's four pages long so I don't blame you if you don't read it. I don't think anyone else did either. At first. jesus gently caress man im so sorry
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Carteret posted:I read it, it reminded me of how hosed the military is, and how glad I am to have my DD-214. Whole heartedly feel the same on all counts.
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Thanks for sharing those letters, I'm boiling with rage now but we need to see these things.
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mlmp08 posted:The silver lining: This happened to us, but it was a matter of months rather than years. Edit: Just read the letters. I'd heard/read most of it, but jfc. That story, and letters, should be published in Army Times or something. Godholio fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I regret to inform you that Audrey Tatou of “Amelie” fame is unfortunately a chud. Lmfao
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Godholio posted:This happened to us, but it was a matter of months rather than years. I provided details and documents to Stars and Stripes in 2018 but apparently the guy I was working with was told not to pursue this because he ghosted me lol Going through the email chain for that reminded me of a few things, like how I managed to keep falling through the cracks even after they started fixing things. They started fixing things because of my letter, wrote me a letter to tell me they did, and then... somehow the letter never got to me. Apparently holy hell started raining down on offices at Fort Meade because Big Army sent a copy of my letter to the garrison commander, who probably didn't appreciate seeing his fort being named so prominently in an "everything is hosed up and I have receipts" letter. McNally fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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McNally posted:I provided details and documents to Stars and Stripes in 2018 but apparently the guy I was working with was told not to pursue this because he ghosted me lol Want CJ Chivers or David Rohde’s number my guy? Cause I got that on deck for ya.
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TheWeedNumber posted:Want CJ Chivers or David Rohde’s number my guy? Cause I got that on deck for ya. Nah. I've put a lot of this behind me and there's really not a lot to be gained. poo poo was broken, poo poo got fixed, I've moved on.
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McNally posted:Nah. I've put a lot of this behind me and there's really not a lot to be gained. poo poo was broken, poo poo got fixed, I've moved on. Ok well I’m gonna slide into one of their DMs at some point behind this Voc Rehab bullshit. FYI, DM me because although I mainly have my own experiences to talk about, probably this summer and for sure next summer I will be “stacking mags” on these motherfuckers and gathering as much evidence I can to take it to some reporter type. Get some sunshine on the issue to disinfect it. And it’s not even a “you’re salty about your program” issue neither. It’s a “I’ve been lied to and hosed with since 2018 and if it’s happening to me it’s happening to others.” I didn’t go forward, y’all went forward. So the least I can do is go forward on this for y’all and everyone else. Because more than a few people took their no. Or stopped fighting for their benefits or said gently caress it. And I need y’all to know that poo poo is by design. They don’t wanna pay out. But imma get em. Imma get em twice. First, on this Masters and possibly PhD money. Second, gonna make em famous yet again. Anyway I’ll have a coke with that.
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TheWeedNumber posted:But imma get em. Imma get em twice. Godspeed.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I regret to inform you that Audrey Tatou of “Amelie” fame is unfortunately a chud. What gets me on this one is that I clicked through earlier looking for comedy comments on the tweet. But, since twitter blues are basically all chuds, the replies were all poo poo about her being an FBI plant along with the usual Ray Epps nonsense. I couldn't even find any jokes in there because of the blue-boosted chud replies. The power users seem to be psyched up about the Bluesky twitter knockoff in closed beta, but at least it's already created some comedy: https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1651746564577062912?t=XidZpF1yC9LLR8_CFgNFzw&s=19
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I regret to inform you that Audrey Tatou of “Amelie” fame is unfortunately a chud. That's her? 
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Midjack posted:That's her? That's the joke
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1652045992030511108?t=ASEJsDUG5grJaoyiQEGgCA&s=19 Lol it passed the state senate though. So now some magic has to happen to reconcile the house and senate versions.
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