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AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#51501: Jun 11th 2017 at 3:52:28 PM

And in true slapstick fashion, each bullet narrowly misses as the American witlessly dances just out of the way each time.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#51502: Jun 11th 2017 at 4:08:19 PM

Or one Taliban watching in in his scope, giving a small laugh and then saying Hey Omar, call the others to check what that yankee infidel is doing! It is hilarious!

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#51503: Jun 12th 2017 at 4:10:24 AM

Dear America:

I know you like showing off, but this is ridiculous. [lol]

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Rosvo1 Since: Aug, 2009
#51504: Jun 12th 2017 at 4:35:46 AM

Question, how do you qualify with a weapon in the US military?

AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#51505: Jun 12th 2017 at 5:04:41 AM

[up][up]What was the ridiculous part? Was it the marching band? I bet it was the marching band. Those are always over the top.

[up]In the Air Force, you have a currency requirement based on what type of job you have (so it might be, for example, once every year, or more or less often), and when you come due, you get scheduled for a shooting day. Skip work and show up at the instruction facility, and you spend the morning in class learning how to shoot and how to operate the weapon and how to strip it and clean it and assemble it. Grab lunch, get out onto the range proper, load your magazines however they tell you to and hit whichever targets however they tell you to. If you make the minimum number of shots for each portion of the test, you pass. If you make over a certain number of shots total, you get Expert. Fail any given portion, and you have to come back to class again and reshoot.

Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#51506: Jun 12th 2017 at 5:10:34 AM

American special forces are assisting the Light Reaction Company, Scout Rangers and NAVSOG aka Naval Special Operations Group in Marawi via technical assistance since the constitution doesn't allow foreign forces there unless there's an agreement though Duterte didn't ask for this.

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51507: Jun 12th 2017 at 5:14:05 AM

He did hint that the armed forces were pro-US, so it could be they went partially over his head.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#51508: Jun 12th 2017 at 5:19:04 AM

Well the task force is there for a while in Mindanao, just in reduced numbers to mention prospective commandos.

And you're right that the public thinks the same way. Albeit his critics on the net are mocking him on why he didn't the Chinese to send in special forces since he's "good buddies" with them.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#51509: Jun 12th 2017 at 5:21:31 PM

Ros: There is basically predetermined test where you go and shoot the weapon and are scored on your hits. The USMC divided its shooting up into two courses. Known distance and combat course. Combat course has knock down targets and has you shooting from and around props in different positions.

Who watches the watchmen?
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#51510: Jun 13th 2017 at 12:26:46 AM

Surprise, surprise, the F-35 once again hits a snag.

TBF, "only" five pilots have suffered hypoxia so far. That said, the article points that this really isn't a good time for the F-35 to hit a snag, given the air show in Paris next week.

edited 13th Jun '17 12:33:29 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51511: Jun 13th 2017 at 1:06:47 AM

Apparently it's irregular. Reminds me the F-22's "raptor lung".

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#51512: Jun 13th 2017 at 1:10:30 AM

[up]I figured as much. Still, this is pretty shitty timing for something like this to happen. Especially since this is yet another snag in what has been a very long, costly, and troubled production.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#51513: Jun 13th 2017 at 8:19:39 AM

I swear these things will be obsolete by the time they are fully operational.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51514: Jun 13th 2017 at 8:34:16 AM

[up]

They are already fully operational. Except the B-model (VTOL), which seems to have marred the entire program.

edited 13th Jun '17 8:36:26 AM by TerminusEst

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#51515: Jun 13th 2017 at 8:47:03 AM

Some of the logistics software and other systems aren't ready yet. They are combat ready, but not at 100% yet.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#51516: Jun 13th 2017 at 9:21:38 AM

I'm pretty sure that described the F-16 to a T when it rolled of the assembly line in the 70s.

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AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#51517: Jun 13th 2017 at 9:57:47 AM

It wasn't for nothing that the F-16 shared the F-104's nickname of "Lawn Dart".

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#51518: Jun 13th 2017 at 7:39:34 PM

The F-16's first decade was a little rough.

For entertainment value I present yet another name to walk away from to maintain sanity or read for amusement. Captain Kaye aka Randy Cramer.

First the nutter link.

Mars whistleblower reveals more of his covert military service.

A much more sober look at this fellows claims and fairly recent past.

Randy Cramer and the Mars Colony: A case study in False Memory Syndrome

Bonus round.

Coast to Coast AM has touched on this one.

edited 13th Jun '17 7:40:22 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?
TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#51519: Jun 13th 2017 at 11:57:52 PM

Always a nut who wants attention. Put him in the bin with "otherkin" and those who claim to have "secret military records" to "prove" they were not basic training wasouts but really SEAL/SNIPER/NINJA/Assassin/Black ops.

Pathetic.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#51521: Jun 14th 2017 at 2:54:44 AM

I mean at least the silver lining is those poor troops only had to listen to one K-pop band.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51522: Jun 14th 2017 at 3:48:04 AM

It's not the music...

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#51523: Jun 14th 2017 at 2:14:06 PM

I was a Basic Training washout, and I will freely admit it. What bugs me is the bullshitters who were never in the military at all, and claim, "I was a Special Forces airborne ranger!"

To which I say: "Oh, izzat so? Well, which one were ya, Rambo??" Special Forces, Airborne, and Rangers are three entirely separate divisions. Nobody could have been in all of them. When I point this out to them, they never seem to have an answer...

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#51524: Jun 14th 2017 at 2:21:31 PM

Plot twist, they actually were in all three but they were actually some low level logistics clerk who got shifted around a lot.

edited 14th Jun '17 2:23:16 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#51525: Jun 14th 2017 at 2:28:16 PM

Wouldn't anyone who was (somehow) part of all three keep that type of information VERY close to their chest?

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