The Military Thread

So can he just leave like that, or is he just full of shit again?

When has Trump ever been completely right about what the President can and cannot do?

Isn't the Orange crayon the strange one?

Am on mobile which limits research abilities but I assume NATO (as the name says) is a *treaty*, which means I had to be voted upon by congress. Meaning he'd need Congress to pull out.

Of course, he could just refuse to actually do anything if Article V is invoked which...yeah...

Edited by 3of4 on Aug 24th 2018 at 2:36:07 PM

Livestream of Medal of Honor ceremony for Technical Sergeant John Chapman.

Behold the level of Russian stupid has reached epic levels.

The Russkies are claiming to have developed a "combat ready" mech walker. You have to be fucking kidding me. Even as a PR stunt this is pretty damn stupid.

Edited by TuefelHundenIV on Aug 24th 2018 at 6:27:16 AM

The Americans have announced that they have developed a specialized anti-mech device: Twenty feet of rope, two trees, and a flight of stairs.

That thing looks so far from "combat ready" it isn't even funny.

So, any videos of this thing actually doing anything besides standing still?

Sometimes I wonder if their propaganda arm ever actually talks to their engineering division.

The Russian engineers probably have a lot of heated arguments with them trying to explain that they are not wizards.

It even looks like something straight out of (early) Battle Tech art, Jesus Christ.

This shit has me more and more convinced that Putin is a closet scifi nerd. Shit, maybe he has a secret collection of Warhammer 40k stuff.

So maybe we shouldn't be too surprised if Russia starts trying to make real life Astartes.

He's going down the wunderwaffen section of the tech tree.

We should be so lucky-hideously expensive boondoggles that nearly or actually bankrupt Russia might do more to curb Putin and his cronies then everything else put together. Put it another way-we should all hope Putin is the guy who starts building a Titan factory in a 3 way, 15 planet map in SINS.

Heh, maybe Putin's also a troper.

...Wait, shit.

The Russians deploy their "walker".

Meanwhile, at the US Army Infantry school at Fort Benning and The Basic School for the USMC at Quantico, Virginia, there is music in the air:

If that Russian 'Mech (okay, by BT standards that thing is just oversized and undergunned Battle Armor, but still) doesn't say this:

when turned on, Russia should be cancelled.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45295212

The first JASDF female pilot has been posted and qualified to fly F-15s.

Three more are going to follow.

Wow, the JSDF has joined the 20th Century!

But Really, congrats to the women who made it and shattered that glass ceiling.

Really in Japan it's more made of concrete.

Hell of an event, this is.

Aye. May her career be safe and successful.

Or dangerous and successful. That means faster pomotions.

...If a JSDF fighter pilot has a lot of dangerous missions, it's likely that either Russia or China/North Korea is involved in some dangerous shit.

I kinda don't want that. XP

Speaking of career, today marks the last day of me as a soldier. Honestly, unless I do some really crazy shit, like sexual harassment, physical assault, going AWOL, and attempted ushering forth of zombie apocalypse, I can get away with a lot of offenses now. XD

Well, technically I'm still a soldier until 2359 tomorrow, but my ETS ceremony is 0900 l, so there's that.

Try and steal yourself a trophy before you go

The beatings will continue until 23:58.