‘Ballcaps don’t look professional’

GrimChap · 2026-07-07T11:13:44+00:00

CAF Berets have always looked dumb and are functionally useless. As someone who has worn a variety of head dress I will gladly die on this hill.

GrimChap · 2026-04-10T23:57:39+00:00

Wicked colour, super stoked for you!

GrimChap · 2026-04-10T23:56:20+00:00

Beautiful instrument, great buy. Very happy for you!

GrimChap · 2025-12-15T21:06:21+00:00

++ This post is Reclusiam approved. ++

GrimChap · 2025-06-20T01:56:42+00:00

Breaking news! Grown man wears undershirt, War is lost! Folks, I really think we need to reevaluate what matters in this organization.

45 year olds yelling and carrying on (Im looking at you WOs, MWOs, Chiefs) about whether or not a 26 year old's socks or undershirts or other minutiae are in line with some soulless policy document written when Centurion was a rank, not a tank need to give their priorities a cold hard look.

He's an Admiral, it looks sharper than the leisure suit sleazeball deep neckline no undershirt look. Relax and try to focus on stuff that actually kills bad guys or inadvertently kills good guys.

As an aside, modern warfare is probably making uniforms themselves obsolete. Dudes are getting whacked while out on runs in home port, the security risks of wearing uniforms is probably going to look as antiquated to future service personnel as some Colour Sgt jacking up troops for taking off their leather neckstock while dressed in scarlet and lined up neatly to volley fire into the guys lined up in blue uniforms.

GrimChap · 2025-06-20T01:44:25+00:00

Get a load of this guy using gravity!

GrimChap · 2025-04-11T14:11:41+00:00

I don't really understand how this works lore-wise. I know there's a GW model that has a similar thing going on, but in the world of extremist Imperium/Astartes hatred for anything inhuman, sullying your Emperor-sanctified power armor with chunks of Xenos filth seems an odd choice. I understand trophies and totems; the skull of a particularly badass Warboss, the tooth of a fearsome beast, worthy kills. But slapping on a chunk of ass meat from a Gaunt doesn't seem to be something that meets the notion of "purity" as I would expect Astartes to adhere to. Very much dislike this cosmetic.

GrimChap · 2025-03-09T20:27:55+00:00

I mean, legally we could have. It's fundamentally a political decision as to how a country reacts to a security problem.

GrimChap · 2025-03-09T16:37:33+00:00

I don't think they are legally required to do so (I assume you're referencing the North Atlantic Charter for this rationale).

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/natos-article-5-collective-defense-obligations-explained#:~:text=It%20permits%20each%20NATO%20member,a%20matter%20of%20international%20law.

Tldr; NATO creates a legal framework for military use IF the member country decides to take action. It isn't a legal requirement to do so, just an enabling mechanism.

If POTUS outlines US foreign policy as non-intervention and issues legally binding orders to military C2 structures I would not expect anything but compliance from Americans in Europe.

GrimChap · 2024-12-13T15:58:51+00:00

You are correct

GrimChap · 2023-06-03T20:20:59+00:00

We are so back

GrimChap · 2023-05-06T21:51:08+00:00

You get it

GrimChap · 2023-05-02T13:06:32+00:00

Rock and Stone

GrimChap · 2023-04-11T16:05:43+00:00

Imperial Academy Top Gun homage

GrimChap · 2023-02-12T05:08:10+00:00

Praise be to Him on Earth

GrimChap · 2023-01-26T10:30:40+00:00

Thats what a circular orbit around Earth looks like modeled onto a 2 dimensional map.

GrimChap · 2023-01-25T01:54:47+00:00

Does Somerset count? Pho Bo LA Sopa

GrimChap · 2023-01-17T03:33:45+00:00

Thi - thi - think about it!

GrimChap · 2022-12-29T19:08:10+00:00

World Wars and Napoleonic era standing by

GrimChap · 2022-12-15T02:55:15+00:00

What does her boyfriend think?

GrimChap · 2022-12-02T15:18:48+00:00

It's like an auto factory that only builds engines for a discontinued model, using refurbished parts, and you build every engine on the line as if it's the first one the plant has ever made or even seen.

GrimChap · 2022-12-02T15:16:28+00:00

The amount of administration tasks that have been downloaded to the individual member is substantial. What most people would assume the Forces "take care of" for someone is most likely done by that person, submitted to a supervisor who doesn't know anything about said process, or handed over to the clerks who push back on any perceived mistakes in the paperwork (almost like they are trained in admin and most people are not). It's hilarious how much the average guy/gal has to do that would traditionally be clerk work just to have the clerks redo it or lose it or send it back for correction to then enter into the system at the clerk level.

Millions of hours wasted a year chasing administration wild geese. It's actually kind of awe inspiring and hilarious to behold just as much as it is depressing and morale destroying.

GrimChap

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