Funny military memes, B.S., and shotgun club!

i was an echo, i left that other shit for the charlies

 

You can, but as long as the lot number is the same and environmental conditions (same day, same place) is the same, it will burn the same rate. That said, if you pre made your initiation systems, don’t cut anything until the day you plan to use it. Most times you can still use 3’ from the same M14 for the test burn. The “extra” would be why I stuck to 45-60 seconds. Plenty of time if it’s not the first time you’ve used it. You have to learn confidence in the tools of trade to be completely comfortable using them.

 

I'll take that. Sleeping at home most nights, getting per diem in coastal towns, etc. Underway time was half the year away from home for years, though. But Dutch Harbor and PV and Panama beats whatever crap sandbox I could have been in had I stayed army.

 

Heh, that might very well be the opposite of smart. IDK, all the prior Marines I know loved coastie shit.

 

Coolest training I ever got was detection of illicit sources of radioactive material. Class was taught by a room full of doctors, just about one of them for every student. One of them even had a collection of consumer goods that had radioactive stuff in it. From watches to dishes and all kind of other weird shit. I'm always been a nerd so E4 me thought it was kinda neat. They were teaching us to go forth and teach others, so we got to see a lot of fun stuff for real even though there was effectively a zero chance of us ever finding that kind of thing in the real world. I mean, I'd want the real military to get called in on that sort of thing.

 

Heh, plenty of radioactive cans in container ports. They don't have to placard incidentally radioactives so you start getting above background hits from occasional cans you then need to pull shipping papers for.

 

Hey who taught you that?!?

 

That’s what I say when people ask if I’ve gone to some cool countries. Ummm the Army doesn’t get deployed or stationed anywhere cool. It’s always some shitty dessert, kinda fun in a disturbing way, but not an awesome place.

 

Practical experience? My first rad survey course was at Ft McClellan, AL .. then I did (among other things), SecPDX, SecNY and SecPS container inspections.

 

yeah, but i'm not confident in using tape to seal the end of a piece of time fuse. and i really wasn't interested in carrying a roll of fuse for anything outside of a garrison environment

MDI rocked; it was pre-cut, pre-packaged, electro-statically protected, waterproof. all sorts of reliable and safety-minded shit that made me love it
in the early 90's we used a food sealer to waterproof our fuse sets, then some enterprising soul decided to make those bags the electrostatic type and then start charging us more... for shit we already did

but seriously, i don't know if it's a robot or a little old lady on that assembly line, i've never had a bad MDI set that wasn't already poorly-handled
i cannot say the same for spool-cut time fuse.

oh yeah, crimping caps was retarded too. we had some dude show up with his own crimpers and wanted to show us how professional he was. until he found out they were the wrong crimper that didn't have a stop and he popped one.
*bang*... instant "that guy"

 

cool places the army sent me:

canada, slovenia, france, belgium, luxembourg, montenegro, poland, spain, portugal, iceland, scotland, peru, costa rica, england, colombia, israel, greece, italy, sweden, norway, japan, australia, viet nam, laos, denmark, palau, lichtenstein, south korea, hong kong, and the faroe islands

not-so-cool places the army sent me:

turkmenistan, iraq, china, south africa, mali, afghanistan, pakistan, ukraine, senegal, cote d'ivoire, liberia, jordan, lebanon, egypt, togo, niger, nigeria, fucking ghana, morocco, tanzania, zanzibar island (tanzania), kosovo, serbia, macedonia, cypress, burkina faso, kazakhstan, sudan, bangladesh, nepal, mauritania, djibouti, moldova

it almost evens out

 

I never minded crimping caps way back in the day. What I don’t miss is actual electric caps. The levels of protection you had to use to avoid static was crazy.

Sounds like that guy crimped way to high or on the wrong end. When I was stationed in Benning we had a red cycle detail to help the inf school teach demo. AI’ing OBC (inf officers basic course) and school of the americas (Latin Americans), now that was scary. I had a guy really try to crimp the wrong end, stopped him just in time.

 

lol 18 series are a special circumstance that does get to see cool places.

 

i used a static wrist strap and just knelt down on the floor when i used electric caps

and the dude that popped one, he had a pair of crimpers that had a removable stop, that little rod-thing on the side that kept you from over-crimping. just a simple travel limit to keep your fingers in their place. his was missing one, removed or broken off... i didn't care. he was an idiot.

i loved nonel and MDI when it showed up, most of that unsafe nonsense left with the intricacies of manual assembly

and fucking whinsec, i had to stay at Benning transitional housing once back in the day. my next-door neighbors were bolivian and would cook some of the most foul-smelling shit in their room and walk everywhere in their fucking boxers. one of them was playing with a cockroach like it was a pet, he was petting a massive roach like it was a puppy. it was a bad three days

 

to be fair, some of that was when i was a kid and travelling on my dad's time and uncle sam's dime.
he was an army helicopter pilot for 24 years and we travelled a lot

edit: i only wrote out the best and worst places i've been. there are others that are just kinda meh. like thailand. thailand is so fucking mediocre.

my kids like to play a game with the globe "find a place dad hasn't been"

 

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

 

don't get me wrong, the majority f the people i met there were seriously upbeat and generally happy

and i do not know why. the whole country is fucking hospice.
it's like god punched a hole in the dirt and pissed a lot in that spot, and just kinda... left it

the national bird is a toss-up between the wind-swept plastic shopping bag and a horsefly

 

NORM, not Norm.

NORM: naturally occurring radioactive material

 

Lucky you didnt catch ebola

 

sudan had a few cases while i was there, otherwise there wasn't much word of it
edit: and thanks for the concern, i'm touched