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lol, Mexico has cars? Oh wait...are they the ones that end in -o? Yugo, Pinto, Geo, etc...

Yes, I am sure the Israeli's are much more interested in being "popular," than not being attacked with nuclear weapons. It's not like if Israel DOESN'T attack Iran, they will get invited to the Prom and voted Prom Queen, and if they DO attack Iran, they will get their lunch money stolen and...

Sorry, that is what I meant by rhythmic, I should have specified. Don't think it is small arms fire though, sounds like a 249 or 240 to me. -- Bleh, watched it again. It could be an M16. It does sound kind of like a -16 on burst w/ the guy pulling the trigger as fast as he can. It is...

Just by the looks of it, the sequence of events: Civilian/Military convo op, the vehicle the camera is in is civilian, probably some sort of DipSec The attack is triggered by two IED's on the lh/rh shoulders of the road designed to blow out the tires. If you look carefully you can tell...

What a vehicle ambush looks like in Iraq...from inside the car! http://www.m90.org/view_image.php?image_id=2576 ...and for no reason whatsoever...the voice actors from the Simpsons on Conan. Pretty funny stuff. http://www.m90.org/view_image.php?image_id=2192

Every Marine I know thinks that Jarhead portrayed the Marine Corps poorly. When I was reading it, every Staff NCO that saw me told me to throw that trash away.

That was a pretty good one. Here is one I always enjoyed, although not as good as yours I think. It's from the book Strong Men Armed, page 64. Talking about the Battle of Guadalcanal. Hyakutate was going to use all the 20,000 soldiers then available to him to dispose of the remaining...

Funny = "Intended or designed to amuse" Hitting the water at 40mph = Hitting the water at 40mph... Is there a fat dutch kid dancing to bad European techno in the background?

I AM looking forward to the movie they are supposedly making of Generation Kill. A narrative account of a unit that actually saw combat is more interesting than a fantasy account of a shiatbird in the Marines.

The book was pathetic. He was actually trying to pass off Marine Corps urban legends as things he had witnessed first-hand. Swofford is a tool. He tries to make it seem like he is Mr. Hotshot-Cool-Guy who reads the Iliad and runs around the base all night in boots and utes, while everyone...

Heh, I like how the guys beating him up are Marines. At the end during the credits he says something like "You guys went to TBS, I went to OTS, it's the same right?"

ARGH!!! I hate that stupid POS song! Every stupid club in stupid Europe plays that stupid song every 5 farking minutes! Then everyone rushes on to the dance floor and starts jumping up and down in a non-rhythmic fashion. These are the same idiots who absolutely love the remix of John...

If you replace the word funniest with the words "most unfunny and not interesting in the slightest," then I think it is much more applicable to that video: "Quite possibly one of the [most unfunny and not interesting in the slightest] things I've ever seen"

The humps at OCS can't be that bad...I mean, you aren't even wearing packs are you?? You don't think the Marine Corps has 12,000 gorgeous girls walking around? Obviously you have never been to the E-Club in Yuma (They don't call them Yuma Yummies for nothing :D) or to the Double Deuce in 21...

You sir, have submitted one very funny post. Hillarity = Yes Reputation points for you shall ensue.

Isn't one of the purposes of IFS to help weed out air candidates who find out that "flying isn't for them?" With that in mind, if a Lieutenant went to IFS after TBS and found out that they didn't like flying as much as watching flying movies, wouldn't they be penalized in the form of not...

How long does IFS typically last? Do you attend it prior to attending TBS?

You are right. I must have been drunk when I posted that, I was actually using common sense to try and decide what Europe would do. In reality they would hold an "EMERGENCY CAUCUS OF THE EU" if Iran got nukes. Then they would all decide that they didn't have the "moral authority" to...

That's nice. Hell, why don't you make sure "there [is] plenty of war left" and enlist today. The Marines fell short of their recruiting mark for the first time in decades last month, and we are always recruiting infantrymen. Break, I honestly wouldn't be too worried about this all. It...

Ok...that video didn't work. This one is pretty funny though: http://www.acc.umu.se/~klabbe/star_wars_joke.wmv

Yeah, those guys always got 2 hour chow breaks. I remember times I rushed off the flightline to get some paperwork done at admin at 1615, still having a solid 3-4 hours left of work to do, only to find that they had "gone home early for the day." Should have been an 01. :D

I hate to burst your bubble, but I thought I would throw in $.02 in addition to what KBayDog said. This may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone in the Marine Corps loves their job. There are those people who hate being in the Corps. It is a lot of hard work with long hours and tough...

Here is a website where you can buy NATOPS manuals for many aircraft. http://www.eflightmanuals.com/detail/itemList.asp?CategoryGroupID=11 You can pick up an AH-1W or a UH-1/HH-1N (and many others) NATOPS manual for less than $20 on CD. If you want a hard copy of them, they vary in price...

lol, I'm a geezer at 21 :) I need a backbrace and a cane. Copy on the non-impact stuff, Sir. I figure I will hit the pool for a bit.

Don't know if this applies. If you already know it, then nevermind. Many people in the fleet simply make their racks, then crawl underneath the frame and use bootbands to keep the linen on tightly. Then throw a sheet over the top of it, and use your own linen to sleep under. In the...

I just learned a "life lesson" about running (and possibly growing older?) If you have pain in your knee, don't go run 7 miles and try and "work it out." As soon as I got back from the run, literally the instant I stopped running, my knee tightened up, and in about 10 minutes I couldn't...

Your critique of the book would be better than a pilots, IMO, since the book is geared towards people who "want to learn about helos." If you have any mechanical questions send me a PM.

D'oh... I was punked by e-sarcasm. I was going to make a smart-ass answer to your smart-ass answer to my smart-ass answer, but I decided the universe would probably implode or something. Broadsword: Are you reading that book? How is it?

Pardon my ignorance, but aren't they essentially the same thing in this case since D[i]ssymmetry is inherintely dissimilar? eg: In a left hand turn, the lift created on the #2 side of the aircraft would not be similar to the left created on the #1 side of the aircraft.

99 bones? Screw that...if you really want to know, you could find a lot of info on the web for free. Flying a helicopter is easy. Power on, ignite, twist with your left hand, make sure all the lines line up with the green strips that avi put on the gauges. Pull up with your left hand...

Might be prescription sunglasses. I'm not sure what one needs to have in order to get prescription sunglasses, but I do know that the uniform reg allows for one to wear prescription sunglasses that are non-eccentric. Maybe that candidate has a need for prescription sunglasses, and for some...

Hehe, freezing stuff rules. I used to cut the top off a 2 liter soda bottle and fill it with water before placing SNM's whatever in it (usually a cover). COB comes and their cover (or whatever) is solidly encased in a block of ice.

Was there from Oct 2001 until late Feb 2002

When I graduated HMT-303 to become a Huey/Cobra line mech, me and some buds had OJT over at 367. While me and another guy were doing a Cobra tranny pull, two of our other buddies were out on the line launching and recovering and so forth. Anyway, one of the "salty" mechs tells one of our...

Man, weather in the Corps comes in to varieties: TOO COLD, or TOO HOT. I remember walking around Pendleton in the morning during the Spring with my sweatshirt and my wooly-pully on underneath my cammies, with gloves and glove inserts on, still freezing to death...then in the afternoon...

I can second that. This waiting seems so ridiculously long. I am going ape-shiat. Five months down, four months to go! Is this what your recruiter told you? Unless things have changed, I believe you enlist under the "AF" contract to be a mech; which includes all the airframes. My...

UH-1N - "Not pretty, but well hung" (or something like that - with the cartoon of the Huey w/ the gun mounts drawn freakishly large) That would be a cool T-Shirt. I used to have the shoulder patch, but I think I lost it in TMO somewhere along the way. This is always popular... :D :D

lol, where did that come from? Another point to remember is that the world is so globally oriented that it is hard to even pin down one country as producing something. Japan makes a part and puts it in a Chinese case that is shipped off to Russia to screw on the flux capacitor or whatever...

Excuse me in advance for my lack of research (something I guess I will rectify shortly), I have not really followed it's development very often. But just for the sake of knowing, Does that mean that the MV-22 cannot auto-rotate? If that is the case, does it have sufficient glide...

Of course every website out there that would comment on the topic one way or another is going to have some sort of intrinsic bias. To find those articles, I just googled "CNN bias" and found a few stories, then I searched around on some political websites I know of to find a few more, and...

Pat: Are you insinuating that CNN is *slightly* biased??? I think their coverage of Saddam's mass graves and terrorist beheadings and of suicide attacks compared evenly to their coverage of the Abu Ghraib tortures and the US Body Count. They are 100% unbiased, down the middle reporters...

Awww crap. You mean I was supposed to start building this bunker all the way back in April? Oh man...I am way behind the power curve. Also, does anyone know where I can get a framed portrait of Kim Jong Il? I lost mine last PCS. Something tasteful, like this:

Detachment 1 is officially in? Last I heard they were still just working with the SOCOM guys (and kicking a lot of butt, btw). edit: A little research. This shows them not being in, although I don't know how updated or accurate this is.

He is referring to the 106th SOAR that is comprised of Army helicopters which are used in SOCOM missions, primarily for SOF insertion/extraction I believe. The aircraft they use are MH-47's, MH-60's, and AH-6's. The Marine Corps doesn't have any units that fall under SOCOM. We don't have...

Sometimes Slate is slightly off in their facts, you might want to double check this one with an issue of Pravda.

They should take a cue from the European airlines. Lufthansa has Super meals, with fresh rolls, they pass out newspapers after takeoff, a damp towel before landing (on night flights), and the beverage cart goes by every 10 metric minutes.

shoo: It is not that simple. Airlines have HUGE economies of scale problems and therefore create a natural oligopoly, and many outside forces have negatively impacted what is otherwise a vital market. I can't think of many cases where I would say it is acceptable for the government to...

It's already 2005 over here. (GMT+2 0158 as I write this) You are living in the past over there! I will be on duty in a few hours...D'oh Happy New Year Devildogs.

Man, I wish I had gotten in this one earlier, I was all set to say: It will all be pointless once Skynet takes over everything anyway But I got beat to the punch. :(

There was a whole topic on the subject. I think the guy who wrote that book posts on here sometimes, maybe you could find him and send him a private message.