In the name of being honest
Didn't he make this pitch last year?
But yeah, sure, let's privatise the Forever War and let Afghanistan's rare earth metal deposits fund the whole enterprise. What's that? East India Company and the VOC, you say? Why, you know what they say: third time's the charm.
Really? I was always told that you need to have your hair restrained in a workshop environment.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
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Executive Outcomes, ho!
Meanwhile he's continuing his business in China.
Edited by TerminusEst on Jul 13th 2018 at 2:37:19 AM
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On the hair thing, I actually have heard from service women that the bun is awful because it doesn't let you properly wear a helmet....
I am not sure a pony will alivate that, but the braids should help.
And considering how LOUD the complainants about the buns got, I don't think this was a decision FOR men... though I do feel the hairstyles chosen probably were, because again, I am not convinced a ponytail works with a helmet either.
I mean my experience is limited to trying to fit one under a bike helmet, but I've not had issues with a low tail getting in the way there.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
Meanwhile the Air Force just removed the minimum hair length requirement for females.
They also specifically banned mullets. I'm upset about that.
vicarious
Lol
Jesus, that Blackwater dude just screams of being a Metal Gear villian
Well, then he fits right in with Trump whom people likened to a shitty off-brand version of Armstrong before.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jul 13th 2018 at 5:34:57 PM
Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.
Prince is about as amoral as a human can be. He's been at it since the 90s and has made a boatload of money selling his services to anybody who can pay for them.
Ensign commissions her 63-year-old father as a Navy officer
Krause, the chief of cardio-thoracic surgery at Jersey City Medical Center, was commissioned as a commander after the Navy determined his 24 years of experience as a heart surgeon warranted a rank that typically takes 16 to 20 years to attain, the Virginian-Pilot reported.
Making the commissioning experience expontentially more memorable, though, was the officer swearing him in: Krause’s own 27-year-old daughter, Ensign Laura Krause, who serves aboard the Ramage. The younger Krause then became the first officer her father saluted.
Are PQOs normally news?
"Yup. That tasted purple."
I don't understand the question. Acronym translation please?
In this case the story's noteworthy because of the familial relation, the expectation reversal (usually the older family member is the existing servicemember), and because the one getting the commission is already about as established in his professional civilian career as you can get (he's the chief of surgery at a civilian hospital).
(Cross-posted from the Sky-High Aviation Thread)
The Air Force’s $10,000 toilet cover
Misleading headline. If you read the article, the toilet seat cover now only costs $300 because the Air Force has started 3D printing their own. Basically, old equipment costs money to maintain due to old parts both wearing out and being hard to find replacements for (the C-5 Galaxy was built in the 1960s). For bonus points, some of these seemingly mundane-sounding parts have some pretty specific performance requirements, like being able to keep the toilet contained during sharp banking turns.
But yeah, keeping vintage gear costs money due to wear and tear. That's why the Air Force has started having their CE folks spend a lot more time cataloging and tracking the age/condition of equipment and facilities. Sometimes it's better to just let a building fall apart than waste time and money fixing it. It might actually be cheaper to just spend a few million dollars on a new building and tear the old one down, but if you don't properly track the wear-and-tear, and don't program the replacement early enough, you end up stuff like 50+ year old airframes performing wartime missions.
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180716_06/
Mike Pompeo made the announcement that the work to hunt down for remains of American soldiers who died in North Korea will continue.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
Professionally Qualified Officer. Britishism for officers who need a pre-existing professional accreditation like doctors, dentists, nurses, lawyers, pharmacists, veterinary surgeons and chaplains.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
Oh, OK, I grok now. Yeah, the main thing here was the familial relation, and the novelty of the younger family member pinning on the older one.
The Wanderer
Friend of mine saw these but I'm not sure what they are exactly
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The chassis seems M113 though.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
I am tempted to say those are M-88 Hercules Recovery Vehicles.
Who watches the watchmen?
They’re M88s. You can see the crane laying flat, and the side door is a dead giveaway.
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Edited by archonspeaks on Jul 17th 2018 at 11:11:41 AM
They should have sent a poet.
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A VICE piece on rebuilding the Haitian military.
Let's say that not everyone is not delighted on this.
Those uniforms, though...why didn’t they just use OCP.
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IIRC, the Ecuadorians helped them out first, so they most likely got their basic kit from them.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
There's a ton of MARPAT lying around. Easy to get your hands on.
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You ought to see the National Police, they got different camos for their units.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
Once again, Erik Prince (of Darkness) rears his vaguely humanoid head:
Blackwater founder makes new pitch for mercenaries to take over Afghan war
Price promoted the plan in a You Tube video released Tuesday that coincided with the recent NATO summit in Belgium.
“The Pentagon does what it does and wanted to keep doing the same thing it has done for the last 17 years,” Prince said in the video. He said CIA officers and 6,000 mercenaries should take charge in the conflict.
Prince also said that President Trump has “stayed the course” in Afghanistan so far and that continuing a conventional war in the region is “reckless and it’s irresponsible.”
Prince's comments come as he faces scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.