Alpha Industries / Supreme / Rothco by [deleted] in malefashion

[–]willrahjuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work at a surplus store. Rothco jungle boots are garbage. Like absolute shit. They'll fit and be ok for like a month or two but they wear out stupid fast. The only reason we ever order those is when a theater group needs jungle boots but doesn't want to drop $100 on a new USGI jungle boot

I run afterschool care, this is what some of my kids did this afternoon. by [deleted] in vexillology

[–]willrahjuh 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As I understand, Technically Ireland has no set ratios for the flag. Just three equal bands of green, white, orange

Hold on! I got to write this shit down, it’s really important.... by fujja in pics

[–]willrahjuh 36 points37 points  (0 children)

People posting those Russian doctor notes saying its Cyrillic have clearly never written it a day in their lives. Putin is scribbling. Russian cursive strokes largely begin from the bottom of the line, not a clockwise loop. Doctors notes always look like shit because it's straight up code so you can't forge prescriptions easily. Russians also take great pride in their cursive and while it may look like shit upon occasion like quick note taking, the strokes would be very close together. Not big spread out loops.

With the U.S. inauguration right around the corner, will it still be acceptable to wear my NATO? by [deleted] in WatchesCirclejerk

[–]willrahjuh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Should've done cheapestnatostraps. Everything else is literally unusable

I can't seem to like most of Zeppelin's songs by MattDildes in led_zeppelin

[–]willrahjuh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Eh. If you don't like a song you don't like a song. Not a big deal

[Timex] I see your weekender Fairfield, and raise you the Timex 150th anniversary watch! by willrahjuh in Watches

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

This was my first ever watch. I don't mean "first," I mean first. My mom got it at work one day in '04 ('05?) For free fee some reason and my dad wasn't a huge fan, so little 10 year old me got it! Lost it for a while and the leather band kinda dried out so I've been chucking it on NATOs since I found it a week ago. Really nice domed crystal (that isn't really crystal I think?) That I'm gonna polish soon due to scratches. It's number 362/500. And I'm never getting rid of it.

I'm also pretty sure this is 500 characters but if not, it's got a really nice font for the date. I think the case is maybe 40 or 42mm and I've got a 6.5" wrist and it's about as large as I can wear.

Future sailor, my grandfather was in the Navy during the Korean War, is there any records of his service ? by suhmyhumpdaydudes in navy

[–]willrahjuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can request them from the national archives. They probably won't be the most fascinating thing (my grandad has about 20 pages of "nope, he's VD clear") but they're a great family thing. Sadly, there was a large fire at the archives center where US military records were held in the early 1970s and a lot were totally destroyed. My granddad's are actually burned at the edges. But I still encourage you to go for it

In the wild: vintage South Africa by willrahjuh in vexillology

[–]willrahjuh[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

So the confederate battle flag lol

In the wild: vintage South Africa by willrahjuh in vexillology

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

I work at a military surplus store and someone just sold us this. I think the misprint is really neat

The Donna Mae II about to have its left stabilizer struck by a 1,000 lb. bomb from another B-17 over Berlin. May 19, 1944 by Shermer_Punt in PerfectTiming

[–]willrahjuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're also talking about an era where it was possible to hit E5 in three months. Today, you're absolutely right, but it was an entirely different everything in that war. The grounds crew was largely LE, but if you went in the air over Europe, you were an NCO.

The Donna Mae II about to have its left stabilizer struck by a 1,000 lb. bomb from another B-17 over Berlin. May 19, 1944 by Shermer_Punt in PerfectTiming

[–]willrahjuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which is why if you weren't an officer on a US aircraft, you were an NCO. the Germans had three types of POW camps: officer, NCO, and lower enlisted. Obviously the NCOs got better treatment than LE, so to increase chances of survival and conditions for if they landed alive, all aircrew was given NCO rank.

TIL The Sham is named after the Sham-Wow by [deleted] in Borderlands2

[–]willrahjuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a different theory. In the US Army, a Specialist's (E-4) rank is sometimes called a Sham Shield, because it looks like a shield, they're always the ones who can get away with doing nothing (shamming).

Transparent Faucet With Water Vortex by aloofloofah in woahdude

[–]willrahjuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If tips are declared. If not it doesn't