The Military Thread

[Drunkmasterflex]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=747_1211406529

BOOM

There was a video of our lead truck of our convoy getting hit by an ied on liveleak, I can't find it anymore. 

It was a propaganda video they said they killed two of our guys.  It wasn't true, the only thing that happened was one of our guys got his foot broken.  You can actually can here me trying to shoot the trigger man/spotter.

[Seabiscuit36]

damn, you gotta find that and DL it to show your grandkids one day.  And Barry was trying to open dialogue with Hamas, and the hardline groups, in an attempt to control a shtein storm from being unleashed.  Obviously he's getting different updates daily, but i'd imagine the amount of effort to keep nuclear weapons from those groups is off the charts. 

[Drunkmasterflex]

I've looked for it but I can't find it at all.  I have a ton of other videos, but that one was one posted by the insurgents.   

[shorebird]

Virtual Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

If you knew anyone who died there, you can view their memorial page, and see a full profile. If you haven't been to the memorial you can find out the panel and line their name is on so it's easier to find if you ever go there.

[rjs246]

Virtual Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

If you knew anyone who died there, you can view their memorial page, and see a full profile. If you haven't been to the memorial you can find out the panel and line their name is on so it's easier to find if you ever go there.

I think this is great. Good find, shore.

[shorebird]

Thanks man, had it sent to me from a buddy who knows my brother died over there. I never knew it, but he only lasted three months. He was a Marine so he went from boot camp right into the shtein. Finally found out were and how. Might not sound like much but it meant a lot to me 'cause my Mom forbid us form ever asking or talking about it. She just couldn't take it and never really got over it right up until the day she died. He was 19.

Him dying over there was the only reason I didn't join 'cause I was the last surviving son and she flipped when I told her I wanted to join up. My whole family was Military, and I'll just say I honored her wishes.

[Sgt PSN]

power point presentations are freedom's newest enemy

Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“[b[PowerPoint makes us stupid,[/b]” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

a-farging-men.  even at the lowly enlisted level i still deal with power point more often than i'd like.  if i'm giving a brief, it has to be in power point.  if i'm being briefed, it has to be in power point.  personally, i'm a huge fan of the white board.  we're planning a deployment to south america in july and i've got a 5'x8' white board in my office that is my planning board and it's got every minute detail of this deployment laid out on it.  some of the officers wanted a brief on this stuff about 2 weeks ago and i invited them into my office and showed them the board.  they said "this is great, but put it in a power point, then brief us." 

so i snapped a pic of the board with my phone and then pasted it to a ppt slide.  my entire "presentation" was 3 slides total.  the intro slide,  the slide with a picture of my white board, and a "questions?" slide. 

i figured they would have been pissed because i was clearly being a smart ass but they farging loved it.  wtf?  it was so much harder to read the slide version of my white board than it was to read the real thing but these chuckleheads simply aren't comfortable with it if it isn't being presented to them in power point.  farging amazing.   

[Drunkmasterflex]

Agreed on the ppt shtein, they rely way too much on it

I found the video on live leak I was looking for.  Right after the explosion you hear a short burst that is me firing at the trigger man.  At the 225 mark they fire some hellfire rockets into a hillside just to scare people away.  


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d95_1216038037

[Seabiscuit36]

Dam, so the 23second mark is the beginning IED, and you were firing in that?  Thats some crazy shtein.  Can you contact them about DL'ing the video?  I know there's software to rip stuff like that too. 

[hbionic]

Agreed on the ppt shtein, they rely way too much on it

I found the video on live leak I was looking for.  Right after the explosion you hear a short burst that is me firing at the trigger man.  At the 225 mark they fire some hellfire rockets into a hillside just to scare people away.  


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d95_1216038037

Jesus christ man....did you nail him at least? God damn.

[shorebird]

Damn, they must have some serious armour plating underneath those humvee's now for anyone to have survived that. Thats some scary shtein.

[Diomedes]

Don't understand the soundtrack, but it's totally awesome.

[Seabiscuit36]

The soundtrack was perfectly timed, i have no idea what the song is about, but i give them credit it sounds like arabic rap. 

[Drunkmasterflex]

No...I didn't hit the guy he was peaking around the corner of a wall and I never saw a human move that fast.  I guess adrenaline really is a crazy thing.  The video is actually a propaganda video, they said they killed 3 of our guys.

Truth is they didn't kill anybody and the driver was the only one that was really injured and he has a broken ankle.  And shore that is no a Humvee, it is a RG 31 they have a v-shaped hull.  They are 10x's better than a Humvee. 

[Seabiscuit36]

Hummers should have never been more than what they were, an offroad vehicle that can go thru a ton a shtein.  The military should have used more heavy duty transport options like the MRAPs.  I saw one the other day being transported up I95.  What a beast of a truck