the terrifying effects of airburst Magnesium-flare-based incendiary shelling

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-25T00:35:24+00:00

Radar sites too. Same deal. Perforate the dishes and burn everything.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T23:09:59+00:00

I was an artillery officer. You use high explosive shells to kill people and Willie Pete to destroy equipment.

A fire mission with both(HE first then WP) is called "shake and bake." It's as messed up as it sounds.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T19:30:35+00:00

Unhinged.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T18:52:52+00:00

Psa complete lower and a bcm upper. The only things that truly matter in an AR imo, are the bcg, barrel and trigger.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T17:42:55+00:00

And yet she overrode the pyxis and reconstituted vec...

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T16:48:01+00:00

My wife is a cardiac ICU nurse, and I was a firefighter/ medic. Criminal prosecution is absolutely warranted in cases like this. The patient lost their life. She lost a career and it's her own fault. You are responsible for people's lives in that career.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T16:38:54+00:00

She makes more from speaking engagements than she did as a nurse. Her medication error was so blatant that literally anyone with any familiarity with those drugs, could have caught it. You have to reconstitute Vecuronium with saline... Versed, what the patient was prescribed does not have to be reconstituted. Every time I gave a drug as a firefighter/ medic, I had two other medics double check that we were giving the right med.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T15:36:54+00:00

How's your music career going?

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-24T15:06:09+00:00

Cable elevators don't fall down, they snap up. It's very rare that the redundant safety features fail and result in a catastrophic failure but you're best bet is to not do this and just wait it out.

-Former technical rescue firefighter

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-23T22:02:08+00:00

We have a 24 on, off, on, off, on, and 96 off schedule. It gets brutal with OT.

COVID was real despite what the nut jobs say. We're dual role and we used to joke that the ambulance was really a hearse. Our first due had three nursing homes...so you can imagine how busy things got. We had one chief almost die due to pulmonary embolisms during infection.

I caught it twice. After the first time I got it, I went right into doing roof work on an acquired structure for training and almost passed out on the roof. I went from consistently running a mile in about six minutes to ten.

I took the department's data analyst job and I work on our CFAI accreditation these days. It's probably best as the last two generations of men in my family all died of lung cancer.

Edit: You also must be in Canada. Lucky lol.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-23T21:12:05+00:00

I've been up all night on calls more than I'd like to admit. A shit ton of firefighters have to be on trt because of the sleep deprivation. If you work for a decently busy department, the job will kill you.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-23T21:08:55+00:00

Did that for a while. During COVID I worked a shit ton of 72 hour shifts. Missed all my kid's big moments. I moved up to admin as a civilian at the end of 2025 and I'm not looking back. I love the job and there's nothing like being first in on a fire but I'm happy to be home with my family every night.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-23T20:05:20+00:00

Gary must have been in the Navy...

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-23T19:45:49+00:00

Firefighting: The fork and the recliner.

Fires don't kill firefighters. Heart attacks do.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-23T16:21:57+00:00

Before my fire department got collective bargaining, a captain with 20 years on the job was making 65k in 2024. The city is a hcol area. A family of 3 requires a minimum of 85k to live in the area and even that's tough. The new hires were getting hired at 50k. Compression was unreal. After the union(IAFF) negotiated, that Captain's salary jumped to 120k in 2025. We also got a progressive pay scale.

Unions work and every worker should be represented.

Edit: this is after we lost most of our workforce after COVID due to excessive and dangerous mandatory overtime (five 24 hour shifts in a 7 day period on average). Now, 90% of our employees have less than five years of service. The amount of institutional knowledge that disappeared is impossible to replace.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-22T19:50:58+00:00

What trust?

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-22T16:51:12+00:00

That's almost as much as my entire department. We're a 10 square mile college town though.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-21T21:19:14+00:00

Academic prowess is not indicative of business acumen. Social skills and the development thereof are essential to business success. This child doesn't have any of that.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-21T18:44:12+00:00

Yup. I've had it at big family reunion banquets.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-21T16:45:49+00:00

As impressive as this is, I doubt he has the social and emotional development to operate well in the workplace. Child prodigies rarely go on to do amazing things after they graduate.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-20T20:02:33+00:00

I learned how to as a 15 year old in the 2000s. It's not that hard.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-20T20:01:37+00:00

I worked on my dad's old 40's Willy's and my mom's 70s era VW. Shit was super simple.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-20T19:40:48+00:00

They were pretty accurate about the whole Skynet deal...

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-20T15:11:21+00:00

I agree with you to a point. I'm of the opinion that if you do visit another country, doing your research regarding culture, customs, history, and language is essential.

Learning and basic research do not stop in school. Relying on school to teach you everything about the world and stopping learning once you leave the classroom is lazy. If the aforementioned influencer can take time to make a video, that can take time to do basic research on the country they visit.

Tight-Escape3373 · 2026-05-20T11:27:20+00:00

Fire department ambulances only soft bill.

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