The Military Thread

General_Failure · March 21, 2011, 10:24:26 PM

Who the hell farged a two year old without a condom?

SD · March 22, 2011, 07:26:14 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_TlXlo1YUQ&feature=player_embedded

Marine boot camp compared to Army boot camp

mussa · March 24, 2011, 09:30:50 AM

SD · March 27, 2011, 01:20:30 PM

Might have posted this before but it's an SNL spoof on the 80's Navy commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-OtsN9VdM

It's not just a job...it's $96.78 a week.

Diomedes · April 15, 2011, 06:04:12 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_popular_veteran_suicide

Yeah so....yay war?

Eagaholic · April 15, 2011, 06:34:11 PM

Suicide rates among veterans, especially combat vets is a dirty little secret of the military. More Vietnam vets died by suicide after returning than were killed in the war itself, which is a pretty sobering statistic.

Diomedes · April 15, 2011, 07:09:58 PM

One of the reasons I am so anti-war is that I know damn well that the soldiers who die in war are often the lucky ones.

SD · February 16, 2013, 12:47:22 PM

USS Tarawa loses its anchor chain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7pRfix_sNg

As far as oh shtein moments in the Navy go this one ranks near the top. I was onboard when this happened. This was when we were off the coast of Hong Kong. Interesting deployment: we went through the Bush/Gore voter mess...made a stop in East Timor for a relief mission...the Commodore was relieved in Hong Kong during the change of command ceremony for being an old school bitches don't belong in the Navy icehole...this was the year the Eagles lost to the Giants in the playoffs, had to get up at 2AM to watch the games...and of course we had to save the USS Cole after the terrorist attack. Sprinkle in some crazy port visits to Australia/Singapore/Thailand/Hong Kong and hitting up the Pro Bowl when we pulled into Hawaii a week before arriving back in Port.

Sgt PSN · February 16, 2013, 01:32:23 PM

You know shtein got real when that Chief decided to start cranking. I assume that the newer boats are more of a push button operation rather than manual.

Diomedes · February 16, 2013, 02:07:50 PM

please to explain wtf is going on in this video thanks

Sgt PSN · February 16, 2013, 02:21:14 PM

The boat lost it's anchor.

General_Failure · February 16, 2013, 02:29:18 PM

And chain.

Diomedes · February 16, 2013, 02:30:21 PM

Quote from: Sgt PSN on February 16, 2013, 02:21:14 PMThe boat lost it's anchor.

fargs to you, I can see that much. Generally it would be good if you could aspire to brevity but in this particular instance, I'm looking for some farging exposition of the situation.

What's happening? Do these sailors realize from the beginning that there is a problem? Is the dust/smoke billowing from the stern when the anchor first drops normal? Is it normal inside the ship to have same?

Why are the two sailors cranking that wheel/what are they doing by cranking it? Letting the anchor go, trying to bring it up, trying to slow it?

WTF is going on?

I presume the white paint is what marks the fathoms?

hbionic · February 16, 2013, 02:32:16 PM

That was one long-ass chain. Holy christ. Seems to me that half the fuel a ship burns through is due to the weight of that chain.

Had no clue they were that big. (insert dick jokes here).

General_Failure · February 16, 2013, 02:37:19 PM

The ocean gets deep in some places. If you're going to drop anchor, you'd like for it to reach the bottom, preferably while still attached.