tux7350

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[–] tux7350 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ha, ya know? I think I know some people who will just regurgitate whatever input they receive

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[–] tux7350 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Naw not 20 years ago, that's 2004. Here's an article from the Army talking about their introduction in 09, most Army units wouldn't have seen till 2010.

Link to Army News Article

I was in the USMC so adding about 5 years till we got them tracks lol. I absolutely was taught in the school house with no confidence clip and I remember what country I was in when I got training on it in 14-15.

[–] tux7350 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You wouldn't have remembered if it was 20 years ago. That clip was introduced recently, I remember where I was the first time I saw one and that would've been like 2015.

[–] tux7350 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Check out my other comment but I'm pretty sure it's because of the confidence clip. There's actually an extra step where you sweep your thumb across the spoon to allow the pin to be removed from the grenade. After that yeah you probably could pull it with your teeth.... but if you fucked up and fumbled it you'd win the Darwin award.

Really the myth should be about cooking a grenade. Absolutely no way in fucking hell you'd ever trust that fuse to "actually" be 4 seconds. What if it's short and actually 3? And you wait to 2 to throw? Nooo way lmao

[–] tux7350 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

They're probably referring to the confidence clip. We used to tape the spoon to the grenade because if the pin got caught on your jacket, you'd have a really bad day. There's actually an extra step before you pull the pin where you sweep your thumb across the spoon to allow the pin to be pulled out. If you just grabbed a grenade and tried to rip the pin out with your teeth, without removing the confidence clip, you'd rip your teeth out.

[–] tux7350 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mullvad let's you write down an account number on a piece of paper and mail it in with cash and they'll activate it.

[–] tux7350 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? If it makes you feel any better, the Earth will be fine. Has been for a couple billion years. We did this to ourselves :(

[–] tux7350 2 points 2 months ago

The Marine Corps keeps his legacy. As one of only two Marines to earn the Medal of Honor twice, it's one of the things they force you to memorize. They yell out "Two Marines, Two Medals" and we'd all scream "Dan Daly and Smedly Butler sir". One of the first required readings I had when I got to my unit was "War is a Racket"; still got the book report somewhere lol

[–] tux7350 2 points 2 months ago

I just want to say, your work on that game absolutely would've contributed to making my high-school years better. Me and my social group played this game constantly, spent tons of hours playing SF Refinery 😂 From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much!!

[–] tux7350 4 points 2 months ago

I recall it being fully simulated. You had to walk into a class room and sit down and watch a like 45min (maybe? Idk this was over a decade ago) presentation on an overhead where an instructor went over a combat life saver course. You'd have a test to answer with multiple choice questions that you had to pass at the end lol

[–] tux7350 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nawww it was way harder than that!! If you wanted to play as the medic class in a game online you had to do the offline training. The training made you sit through like a 45 minute long combat life saver class. No shit had to like walk into the classroom and sit near the projector and look down to answer questions lol

If you wanted to do the Special Forces maps (basically night mode maps) you had to pass this skull dragging class where you had to avoid being spotted and slowly move into an area. I remember trying for like 3 days just to pass that friggin class!

[–] tux7350 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

:3

You like using window managers, don't you?

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