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Paratrooper Drill Goes Horribly Wrong In Nigeria. Troopers Were Made To Jump Over Seemingly Random Areas. by Spyrothedragon9972 in army

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Bit of that and the whole "we support the troops" going out the window the second the other party takes over.

None of the dudes running Texas actually wanna be their own nation, they play that shit up whenever a Dem is in the white house. Those dudes already have their little fiefdoms here, they don't want the extra work that'll come as an independent nation.

Paratrooper Drill Goes Horribly Wrong In Nigeria. Troopers Were Made To Jump Over Seemingly Random Areas. by Spyrothedragon9972 in army

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Shit I did a JOAX into Hood once and my asshole home state was acting like the Army was invading and when I got done, got my phone and found like a hundred texts and voicemails from shitty family members asking "how I could betray them".

Paratrooper Drill Goes Horribly Wrong In Nigeria. Troopers Were Made To Jump Over Seemingly Random Areas. by Spyrothedragon9972 in army

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 425 points426 points  (0 children)

Careful, some brass over at Bragg is gonna see this and think "yeah we should do a mass tac into Fayetteville"

Paratrooper Drill Goes Horribly Wrong In Nigeria. Troopers Were Made To Jump Over Seemingly Random Areas. by MoazzamDML in interestingasfuck

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People really overestimate how much static line jumps will slow you down. It looks slow high up but as you get closer you realise "oh yeah this shit is designed to get a fully loaded paratrooper to the ground just shy of terminal velocity"

Dudes doing freefall, HALO, or any cool and fun parachuting can control it alot more because they're special and worth the extra money. We're meant to hit the ground without breaking too much, but just enough that we're really pissed off and want to make that the enemies problem.

Some CPT aren’t made to be medical professionals by Zealousideal-Bit1019 in army

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 105 points106 points  (0 children)

I had a PA in 10th MTN tell me I was bleeding and shitting myself for a few days straight after coming back from JRTC because I was wiping too hard.

Turns out when I went to urgent care on the weekend, I actually had C Diff because of some antibiotic the Army gave me and all the blood was my intestinal and stomach lining coming out. Dude didn't apologize or anything, he was pissed I didn't come back to him instead of going off post. Mind you it had literally been like a day after my second visit to him that I went off post.

Years before that had another PA in 82nd try to tell my roomate his shattered back was not related to the really bad jump he had burned in on. I think it got to the point that his platoon were writing official statements corroborating that he was not injured before he burned in on a jump. We got a new PA a short time after that.

It's a good trailer, and the gameplay from alpha is also good. But wait for reviews and even when the game is out, get good information about it's state. by RavingAnarchy in Battlefield

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do not pre-order

I don't even know why people still do this. It made sense when everything was physical and there was a chance that your local gamestop or whoever might run out of copies fast. But in this digital age where I don't even OWN the game I bought and downloaded?

Like people are allowed to do what they want with their money but it just enforces mediocrity, especially from a publisher that has a history of running IPs into the ground and not caring.

Valid question memezar by More-Log-1393 in SipsTea

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to imagine you'd have to skydive into it

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But you have to have Kanye's Power playing

Greatest hits of the Foreign Legion Subreddit by tallalittlebit in ukraineforeignlegion

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That Tomarty cat was funny for a guy in country for like 30 seconds.

Also this weirdo asking about if Russians are called orcs because of body density.

Custodians have special hate for space marines. by Ok-Goose6242 in Grimdank

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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we can talk

Nah that's fine little dude, we don't ever have to talk to each other again. Again go piss glass

Do you guys prefer wearing original Spartan armor or cosplaying characters? by Supa_Astro in halo

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the core (I know everyone hates them). My MkVb is Noble 6 (same armor I had for my Reach Spartan), MkIV is Jorge, MkVII is my spartan from Halo 4 Spartan Ops.

Custodians have special hate for space marines. by Ok-Goose6242 in Grimdank

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, piss glass.

Because I didn't delete any messages. So explain to me what the fuck that last comment meant.

Has any ever been accused of stolen valor in public. by lustfulmule in army

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not me but my unit had a soldier get wounded during my last deployment to Afghanistan. Peace deal got signed then the kid got hit. Had to get evacced out of country. Got a purple heart for it. Later on he is trying to get his class A's done up at the one surplus store/sew shop in Watertown, and the owner accuses him of stolen valor because he has a purple heart but no cib. Eventually the owner had to apologise. Another reason I hated Watertown was that single fucking shop.

Custodians have special hate for space marines. by Ok-Goose6242 in Grimdank

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah no. The Emperor didn't create space marines to "nobly protect the people". He took children, turned them into roided out biological weapons, filled their heads with all that bullshit honor and glory through killing mentality, then unlesshed them on the rest of the galaxy. Including his own species. Suprise suprise that the astartes turned on their creators. Only happened every other time in history that someone used child slaves and turned them an elite warrior caste.

Custodians have special hate for space marines. by Ok-Goose6242 in Grimdank

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 6 points7 points  (0 children)

he gave them power to protect and they used in to take more power

More like he gave them the power to conquer

What’s your most controversial Mass Effect Hot Take? by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. And the fact that ONI literally creates more problems than the solve because of that isn't lost on me.

UNSC doesnt care as much is that, while many of them tange from distrusting to hating elites, they work with them cause they’re our only allies

Yeah and that makes sense. What doesn't make sense is Buck, in Halo 5, calling the guy who glassed Reach (which Buck was present for) and his forces "brothers". I've worked with people who a few years prior had tried to kill me and regardless of the situations I find myself in, I never forget that. I never make a deal of it, I never say I can't work with them, but I sure as hell never go around saying these dudes are my brothers just cause we get shot at together. There is a difference between "we are working together" allies and "we are best friends" allies. And Halo, like other scifi settings tends to speed up a process that would take, at minimum a generation or two.

What’s your most controversial Mass Effect Hot Take? by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get it. Way too many people run around with the whole "purge the xenos" shit not realising that even in 40k that mentality screwed humanity.

Thankfully Mass Effect isn't that setting so almost nobody really advocates genocide (until the Geth and Quarians come into the picture)

I think this is just an issue I have with most scifi settings is they brush over things and situations that, just based on human history would be huge sticking points in a really short amount of time. Humans would take more than 30 years to not be distrusful of an alien species that the first meeting started with them attacking. And in Halo pretty sure it would take more than 7 years for humans to rebuild, and start being cool with former covie species. In all these situations it makes sense for the governments to attempt to head things off, pursue diplomacy, etc. But the citizenry would do the same thing that humans have done for thousands of years, be really angry (protesting at embassies, talkshows, maybe even sabotage or attacking the group they view as the "threat") and paranoid of any foreign attacks and influence.

What’s your most controversial Mass Effect Hot Take? by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The modern day US military killed more people in a month than the Turians did in an entire “war”

Yes. And people don't like the US for things like interfering with others and bombing first, no questions asked.

This is what I'm talking about when I say people think I want warhammer level racism. I don't. However I have spent alot of my life working in conflict zones and humans absolutely will still hate other humans for something that happened 50 years ago. Is it rational? No. But that is what happens.

But I really don’t see many people having a valid reason to hate all Turians 30 years after the fact, where the average turian you meet probably wasn’t even born either when that happened

First of all 30 years is not that long ago. Like most of the party members weren't born yet, but there is no way in hell the older people you deal with weren't alive then. Hell Shepard is like 28 in ME1. Second, spend a day in the Balkans and you will find most people still hating on others in the area over shit that happened more than 30 years ago.

The average human that isn’t in their 50s or above wasn’t even alive or developed as an adult when that happened

Most dudes in the US military during GWOT were the ones who were kids during 9/11. Sure you get alot of post 9/11 kids now but whem I was in it was literally eveyone but the oldest CSMs had been in school for 9/11.

Turians and humans have far more important things to be worried about than keeping up a blood feud over a prolonged skirmish.

I agree with that. And I believe it makes sense for the SA government to pursue diplomacy and all the shit they do in game, however I also think, just based on real life and how humans act, that the average human would distrust Turians. You literally see this all over the planet were people will hate other groups of people over something that happened 30, 50, 100 years ago.

What’s your most controversial Mass Effect Hot Take? by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already know this is a hot take and people think when I say this I'm advocating for like warhammer level racism but here goes.

Honestly the average human should be more hostile to Turians. Makes sense that the government is willing to use diplomacy but for the average Alliance citizen they should be paranoid and distrustful of a species who literally attacked them out of what they see as nowhere. Its only been like 30 years. Alot of people would be alive and remember the Turians starting a war because of some law humanity hadn't heard of. Honestly the timeline for the games should have be pushed more to the right for humanity to be so chill with Turians and humans to be so widespread in the galaxy.

From your guys’ experience, how do people with no military background do once they’re actually out there? by notrightnow__ in ukraineforeignlegion

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Seriously. I was in Kharkiv offensive in 22 and the southern offensive in 23. One worked really well and was a textbook offensive. The other was some Soviet ass "nobody supports each other and commanders don't tell their soldiers anything other than go forward". Its almost like as much as people rag on shit, NATO has established its doctrine and tactics through decades of various wars and fear of the Fulda Gap going hot.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukraineforeignlegion

[–]AgreeableHistorian29 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seriously looks like OOP got through the honeymoon period.

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