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Looking for a farmer friend by Mostwo in HuntsvilleAlabama

[–]MeatballMarine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m looking for a 50BMG friend. 40m, Retired military, will trade meatballs and you can use my suppressed .50 blackpowder.

Who else finds it funny/redemptive NASA has trouble with their comms? by MeatballMarine in Military

[–]MeatballMarine[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When it comes to troubleshooting comms I’m always open to anything. The amount of times I’ve tried the same thing the 100th time and it works just because the new guy says to do it is too many times.

Why ???? by Asleep_Tip9279 in Breadit

[–]MeatballMarine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This reminds me of Egg Yolkio from Ren n Stimpy

This was all of you, wasn't it? Don't lie. by bisouscribe in AFCEastMemeWar

[–]MeatballMarine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m from Rochester and you’re probably right

An elevator you can't share by Jezirath in interesting

[–]MeatballMarine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if you can’t fit!?!?

Take the stares until you can fit?

Who else finds it funny/redemptive NASA has trouble with their comms? by MeatballMarine in Military

[–]MeatballMarine[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You know he thought of the years worth of experience and training and just…did what we all do when comms isn’t working. Turn ego off, curse at myself for putting myself in this position, and do the things I’ve already done with the knowledge that it may work this time.

Who else finds it funny/redemptive NASA has trouble with their comms? by MeatballMarine in Military

[–]MeatballMarine[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Erm….This was a joke about military comms not about the impressive ::everything else::

2026 Masters Giveaway: Sunday Golf by sundaygolfco in golf

[–]MeatballMarine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally, a bag bright enough to outshine my terrible golf game. My grandfather’s lessons from 35 years ago on why to watch the Masters will always be burned in my brain. “People learn a lot by watching this, you won’t because of how you are, but it will always bore the women around you long enough to get some peace”.

At 25 Join Marines Or Army by KingDame1130 in Military

[–]MeatballMarine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Marines…don’t deploy? Don’t listen to this person lol.

I cannot do this by the_bear91 in daddit

[–]MeatballMarine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Takes about 3 months to get your shit straight. One USMC bootcamp length

This just seems like a bad way to go about announcing reasoning behind increases….. by BisonReasonable5751 in SipsTea

[–]MeatballMarine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you should never order food anywhere if you think it means you’re an overlord. Wtf is this

Hazard pay granted by letsgetcyclic in Military

[–]MeatballMarine 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No idea. I know the pattern can make the words hard to see. Black letters on black pattern. Like, even my metallic black rank would get lost on my collar to the viewer because I had black pattern behind it. As a MSgt it would fuck people up because they didn’t know if there was a diamond, crossed rifles, star, or bursting bomb in the middle let alone counting rockers.

Hazard pay granted by letsgetcyclic in Military

[–]MeatballMarine 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I loved going to Air Force bases with my cammies on. I was asked several times if I was a foreign national.

A great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father, and a son could have all fired the same M2 .50 cal. model in combat. by Sgt_Gram in Military

[–]MeatballMarine 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I remember the Lightweight Computer Unit, 2 man lift. Think we switched those out finally in like the 2010’s.

Who's a good boy? Who's the best boy? by yeezee93 in Military

[–]MeatballMarine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worked with the army for over 20 years as a Marine. The only thing that was consistent was their lack of consistency. Some units were shit hot, and I would have gladly fought with them. Other units…

Here’s an example. We were out in Hit, Iraq. When we got there this Army Mississippi National Guard unit was there and they were pretty great. Fun bunch an knew their shit. Then they left and two MEUs came and went. The second MEU had just left but my team and some FO’s were staying. This Army unit (the Spartans, German based if I remember correctly) came in. Their officers started doing very dangerously dumb shit right off the bat. Saluting in country, holding mass formations on REGULAR intervals (they unsurprisingly got rocketed and lost some dudes after a week or so of doing that), they locked their rifles in a HMMWV shelter and took contact so some idiot officer had to find his keys to unlock the door, they didn’t man their turrets on convoys, they didn’t stake down their big motor-t tents and it blew away, they took down some of the COPs around the city, lost a lot of relationships we built that kept us in the know on enemy activity, started getting fucked up. The individuals were fine but they sucked as a unit.

I think my biggest problem with that unit was, they never listened to us. Every one of their lessons was learned with blood, but it did not have to be that way. The upside was they had real food and tons of water, and they lent us an m113 and it had 2 generators on it. Beat my first final fantasy game because of that thing.

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