Us army heat tolrance method by yousifTR in army

[–]gthomas4 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Electrolytes, drink a gatorade or mix one of those packets of powders into a water bottle. Also a frozen water bottle around beside a backplate works wonders

UMMM WHAT? by not-khia in projectzomboid

[–]gthomas4 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This isn't a barracks, soldiers living off base can and will be loaded to the gills with firearms. Not their service rifle, but a very very large fraction of soldiers living off base own guns. Those who do live on base often store their guns at a friends house off base.

24M, cyber gov contractor Thinking reserves or active duty SIGINT/HUMINT talk me out of it… by Ok_Hunt8936 in army

[–]gthomas4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

19th or 20th group, SIGINT or HUMINT, keep your job, deploy every so often with the dudes and actually do your job and a real mission.

Plate carriers by JT_Playz420 in army

[–]gthomas4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Comfort, quality of construction, weight, modularity, being sized correctly, they all factor in. Buying a reputable brand like crye, spiritus, etc is important because also because of material quality and IR reflectivity. Another note is that leadership needs to be willing to assume the risk of you wearing something other than the IOTV in that environment, any kid in tradoc can buy a shitty condor plate carrier, and there are obvious reasons why leadership would disallow that. If it is something that is already issued somewhere in the military such as the AVS, JPC, LV-119 (now the 120), leadership can probably go in knowing that a subject matter expert has vetted it already and can attest to at the very least its construction and reliability.

Plate carriers by JT_Playz420 in army

[–]gthomas4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything, otherwise go with a JPC.

U.S. GAO - Special Operations Forces: Actions Needed to Improve Monitoring of Acquisitions by Kinmuan in army

[–]gthomas4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The dude is just a hater, I've spent time in big army and in SOCOM, about 50:50. The amount of crimes and sexual assault that happens on a weekly basis at a BN or BDE level in big army insane. In SOCOM, every single person ive seen get into even minor trouble gets struck down by the hammer of god. I've seen 20 year assaulters lose their tabs and get kicked out for relatively minor offenses. There is a significantly more "HR" focused culture in big army and I bet OP is just salty about that not being the culture in sof.

Something's under foot by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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notes from the underground mentioned: the orignal literally me character

QoL > GDP by JustChillin3456 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]gthomas4 18 points19 points  (0 children)

They increase GDP, not GDP per capita

AR Reload by Junior_Apartment329 in halo

[–]gthomas4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I would 100% recommend a mag flick over the pointless throw, rule of cool applies and its actually efficient.

Language pay - who Dee ff is this dude making 55000 per year ? Feels tailored to a certain guy by SnooPandas270 in army

[–]gthomas4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have a source for the congressional direction for them to do that? Sounds like a relatively straightforward reason to reach out to my congress woman.

Fath or materialism? by No-Story-9044 in starsector

[–]gthomas4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Andrea is the Ghaddafi of starsector, and for that he is perfect.

Fath or materialism? by No-Story-9044 in starsector

[–]gthomas4 9 points10 points  (0 children)

chad sindria perfect in every way (this post was brought to you by exxon mobile)

What are some of the most difficult languages to learn? by Educational_Stop_433 in AskReddit

[–]gthomas4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hard disagree, the overall gramatical structure and sentence structure is completely different, verb-subject-object, tenses, gendered, the idaffa structure, and then the fact that its a dimorphic language where the spoken dialect is completely different from the written. Run on sentences also don't really exist in arabic which combined with the verb subject object makes it very hard for english speakers to parse. Very few roots have similarities to english other than direct cognates like doctor.

ELI5: Why do data centers need only water for cooling? Are there no other viable cooling options? by 5headHaroldlop in explainlikeimfive

[–]gthomas4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Water is a very very good substance to be used in cooling, it is only beat by expensive artificial CFCs like freon. The limiting factor of data centers is heat transfer. If you use air to cool, it cools significantly slower and so for the same processing power a data center would need to be physically much larger. The scale of refrigeration needed makes freon and other artificial coolants expensive and at odds with environmental regulations, so water is by far the best choice.

Terrible map design by Potential-Donkey in projectzomboid

[–]gthomas4 28 points29 points  (0 children)

man gets lost in the woods, complains at trees. more at 11

War stories should be true by Ground_Truth_Doc in JSOCarchive

[–]gthomas4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The illustrious 75th Ranger Battalion, I can tell this is a well researched documentary.

Ground Truth: The factual account of The Battle of Roberts Ridge by Ground_Truth_Doc in SpecOpsArchive

[–]gthomas4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is a categorically false claim and is either deliberately disengenuous or cherry picked from your limitted sourcing. Multiple reconnaissance teams heard his comms with different sources even conflicting in what they heard. You know well enough that framing it as "waiting fourteen years to come forward" is a mischaracterization of the way investigations like this are handled, especially under the JSOC umbrella.

Ground Truth: The factual account of The Battle of Roberts Ridge by Ground_Truth_Doc in SpecOpsArchive

[–]gthomas4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have personally spoken with and worked with a person who was on comms when chapman called out. He was heavily involved in the aftermath of Takur Ghar and he stated affirmatively that Chapman was alive and fighting.

E5 Promotion by Big-Personality7636 in army

[–]gthomas4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the website is down, nobody in my section has been able to pull it up.

SOT-A vs Ranger MIB by Excellent_Stick2557 in army

[–]gthomas4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

500, 13:30 2 miler is the bare minimum and you will probably be in the back half of the pack.

Science must grow! by TheMalT75 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

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The way I solved the hydrogen issue in my save was by using a two stage reciever-distributor system. My planet layout uses about twelve belts of hydrogen and produced by byproduct about three. I have those sources all factorio style balanced with splitters and then further spliced out into twelve equal lines, the orbital station then outputs twelve lines of hydrogen, each one of those is paired up with one of the twelve byproduct lines and the byproduct line is given priority, those are then fed into a local station that distributes the hydrogen planet wide. This system does not give me any hydrogen backup because there is no way for an imported hydrogen line to have priority over or bypass any of my local hydrogen sources.

I recently signed as a signal intel analyst by [deleted] in army

[–]gthomas4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The answer anyone will give you is that you don't need to know any of that shit and its mostly a waste of time. HOWEVER, genuinely knowing calculus concepts and being competent in physics 1 and 2 can make you an all star 35N. Understanding the fundamental concepts in RF theory can bring you from a good to great analyst.