LudicrousLemon
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All Jokes Aside, I Have an Unending Respect for Those Who've Served in Defense of Their Country.
May The Fallen Ride Eternal in Valhalla!
FoxJonesFIN
..but is the url illegal Al1En?
OtterlyMagnificent
That last one though...How many men have been found in piles of their own brass?
derekjohn
No. 3. I see an excellent sniper target silhouetted against the skyline,
xoverthirtyx
Truly, let us never forget the bravery for which they freedomed.
blublabli
Wow, war is cool!
burtgummersurvivalist
As former Army, #2 is 100% effective. My CO had a very specific way of asking if you didn’t want to get pick. Never told anyone how though.
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I DON'T have an unending respect for those who serve in defence of their country.
halcat
Most of this was JUST on the front page. Let a little time pass, at least.
VodkaReindeer
Shouldn't the military pay for corrective eye surgery so their soldiers wouldn't need glasses that could be lost -> low performance?
DariusWolfe
In addition to what AviMavi said: They do pay for corrective eye surgery. I haven't worn glasses in 10 years.
AviMavi
Not all eye issues can be fixed via surgery, and sometimes it can have permanent side effects. Source- me and my terrible eyes.
Wereallsick
OOOHRAH!! FELLOW DEVIL DOGS!!
bushpotato
Warthogs still look like normal-ish planes when inverted.
Curadh
It's 0423 where I am, and I am here for this.
artoh
Fuck your wars and military of "freedom".
WilliamBologna
Our wars are all great, I'll have you know.
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The best. YUUUUUGE
youcantproveit
You're entitled to your opinion. Fuck you. <-That's mine.
JakefromStateFarmTx
Marines, Who likes ice cream? *hands raise* you two, phone watch during chow....
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
Who wants to be a driver for the General? Good, he wants you to drive this lawnmower around the parade field.
brambleramble
oh god, so many memories
ducasluda
Too bad no war has been fought by american soldiers to protect their country since the civil. Too much glorification of the military...
WilliamBologna
The selflessness of American foreign policy is a fault? Bizarre.
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
Who frosted your flakes this morning there Skippy?
clydeman420
Skipped history class in school eh?
LexiClarke
I don't think LT's gonna complain about getting out of the cold - good advice!
heliohelio
a friend would like to know what an LT is
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
Lieutenant - bottom of the officer ranks.
heliohelio
my friend says thanks!
Imhereforthelurking
It's a lieutenant. Which is just a private with a degree.
HassanAlSabbah
Lieutenant
cdanea
No disrespect, but defence from what exactly?
RecordingCoder
Global chaos. Doesn't always work out like was planned, but it usually makes things at least a little less shitty.
GenderEqualityIsAMyth
Defense from our foreign interests being infringed upon. This game you see unfolding is chess. As a civilian, you only see the first move.
cdanea
As a civilian I want to raise my kids worring about my gvmt interference in my life as possible. Much less some foreign CEO or oligarch
GenderEqualityIsAMyth
Anyways, you asked. Wars will never go away, so you might as well get used to it.
Sefalim
Or just fetishise it like this pillock.
evergreenyankee
Not with that attitude they won't
GenderEqualityIsAMyth
Even if I have a good attitude about it, people will always be shitty to people.
TheqQueue
#2 is SO real it hurts, and I was navy, it worked just the same. (never be the first to talk)
Electricfox5
Never be first, never be last, and never volunteer for anything.
Ravenbreaker
"You can volunteer or be voluntold"
Metalhead97
army vet...never raise your hand for anything
Warbunny5000
Never, ever, ever, speak up or volunteer.
PoopDollaaa
"Oh you didn't volunteer? well now you're being voluntold!"
anintrigueofkittens
Former Air Force, can confirm.
Pokegeologist
It's no better in the civilian world.
paulpounder
Finally the fine art of being voluntold is captured on camera.
Grinton
Who likes beer?
Klaaism
Navy? The Marine Uber service?
lolunix
Never Again Volunteer Yourself..
PartTimeMemeDealer9
Explain for my friend?
whydotheycometometodie
As soon as the request was sent out. One immediately responded.
JDarcher
If you ask what you just volunteer.
heyitssnowing
Since he asked he becomes the first volunteer
PartTimeMemeDealer9
Damn that blows
LudicrousLemon
Never be the first to talk/don't ask stupid questions or you volunteer yourself for the grub work and/or menial tasks
Hyippy
Wouldn't that be a question of whether or not I have my consent? /s
TheqQueue
think of it like this. the tallest nail gets hit first.
Schadenfreuda
The biggest mouth makes the biggest target
ImSimplyAChairLeg
Never heard that before, I like
UhhhhhNick
What if you ACTUALLY volunteer? Do you get brownie points with the ranking officer or do your fellow soldiers just look at you like "Dafuq?"
brambleramble
Yes
Britboy
Generally if they don't tell you what it is for it is going to suck
Lamech777
Just don't hide a doughnut in your footlocker
lolunix
Never Again Volunteer Yourself..
goboltz
NAVY -Never Again Volunteer Yourself.. lol
whydotheycometometodie
I always volunteered. After the third time volunteered, I was permanently banned from special duty out of fairness to others.
brambleramble
MARINES: my ass riding around in navy equipment, sir!
CinnamonBunny
Very interesting loadout on that A-10 #1
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
They usually store sidewinders along when for chance encounters with helicopters, or a hail marry against fast movers.
barnwolf
Really bugs me the load-out is asymmetrical. I think they just put one of everything on for a publicity shot.
barnwolf
Left to right: GBU-10?, 7xAPKWS?, AGM-65, Mk-82?, Mk-84?, GBU-10?, BLU-1?, AIM-9
CinnamonBunny
That "BLU" is Litening pod. You at least got the 82 and 84 wrong way. And they aren't the basic variants anyway.
OriginalSyn
If you don't like asymmetry then the A10 isn't for you.
barnwolf
Naw the offcenter gun is fine, it's how they could have had a symmetric load-out, but then chose not to.
barnwolf
Like seeing someone set a table with the fork on one side for one plate and on the other side for the next plate.
CinnamonBunny
They have a targeting pod on one wing, that alone means you cannot have it symmetric.
Brhino
#1 A-10s have a dark spot painted on the bottom, below the cockpit, to make it hard to tell if it's upside down or not.
Konoton
CF-18s have the same feature.
MetaSomma
It confuses its natural predators into thinking it's always watching them, an example of natural selection in the wild
DavidBrooker
I believe this practice first started on Canadian CF-18s, but was later adopted by numerous other operators and aircraft.
SpicyPeanuts27
Look how much soot is covering the bottom of it from that badass 30mm gun firing. Someone has been dispensing a lot of freedom.
powershit
That's pretty clever. Guess if you're that close though you're kind of fucked anyway, right?
Rediix
Whats the reason for them being upside down? And how does the camouflage prevent someone from shooting it anyway?
DrunkGermanGuy
Fake canopies are more a thing for aircraft that might see air-to-air combat. The idea is that in a dogfight it fucks with the other pilots'
DrunkGermanGuy
sense of perspective.
whydotheycometometodie
It's not very effective. Everyone knows the only effective way to engage the A-10 is at distance with a several missiles.
Wildcat0202
Actually lol, the effective way to engage an A10 is with another plane. They handle like their namesake, pigs.
whydotheycometometodie
Yes, airplanes shoot down other airplanes with missiles.
berjel1997
But does a pig brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttt?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Yes, and you also don't want to be in the line of fire.
MetaSomma
That's for ground targets, I don't believe it's ever shot down another aircraft with that gun
TheScotchKraut
One shot down a helicopter, but I don't think they've downed a fixed-wing craft