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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Jesus. Trap housing. Christ.

We responded to a Cat-R mission one time. A pair of 155s on the opposite side of the route had crumpled a 998 into so much tin, and the only person left in one piece was the vehicle commander. We approached him, mid rant, and he sounded exactly like this. Complete scramble. I was 20 and even as a young man my heart felt crushed, knowing this person was NOT going to be OK.

47, on the other hand, wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight, and to see the "commander in chief," sound identically incoherent is honestly shocking. This isn't his usual nonsense. That's brain damage. The emperor sounds like he just got SGLI in processed and the racists and the homophobes got their fingers in their ears like, la la la.

Stay strong friends. Next few weeks will be very bad.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm trying to figure out what you're saying here. So you pulled an injured guy out of a vehicle that had been hit by artillery?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No mate, all that lingo was pretty clear. 155mm (accurately 152mm since they were foreign) were standard IEDs in the second Gulf wars. A humvee (m998 pre-uparmorings) was all but totally destroyed. The person sitting in the shotgun seat was the only person left alive and they were possessing about as much sense in their speech patterns as I just heard in this video. Feel me? Zero coherence from a fellow human, whoever they are, is disturbing and more so when while swaths of people pretend otherwise.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Pro tip: Put jargon (specialized language of a particular profession) in parenthesis. I love learning new jargon! I like to think I'm well informed but I couldn't make any sense of that except, I think there was a wreck of some kind?

    Anyway, yeah, I can't imagine how much longer his handler's allow him in public.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    To be fair, all I saw in that paragraph was meaningless numbers before I read this. I gathered a vehicle had been attacked from context, and the survivors' cognitive abilities etc, but the numbers and "Cat-R" meant nothing to me before I read the follow-up.

    Of course there's a relevant xkcd

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah back in 82, I was stationed there and saw a couple of 452s who caught a whole 9/11 worth of 67 in their mm-125s. My TPI was fuming, and I'll never forget what he said to me:

    1300355506

    Really makes you think

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  • [+] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I think he ran out of blinker fluid..

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I wonder what that MRI scan said that's making him want to discredit magnets.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Im Confused. I swear I saw this same rant like 6 months or a year ago.

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