All we need now is Jane asking Jersey to wear that Tiara while going into combat and Naka can sail behind Jersey constantly putting out the English theme to Sailor Moon and watch her Oil-pressure skyrocket.
Belated Battleships (KanColle) [REHOST]
- Thread starter theJMPer
- Start date
- Location
- Malaysia
The colonel's wife is human right?. Imagine a human girl thay rivals a shipgirl in beauty. A sight for sore eyes indeed. Go army!
Harry Leferts
Suave Shadow Cabal Kaiju
Well... I did hear about tales from Iraq during the war where you had guys grabbing tank and artillery shells before trying to use a hammer and chisel to try and get the copper.In the same vein and for maximum facepalm, this little gem of a Darwin Award from 2002.
...What.
No, seriously. These guys living near a battlefield. Accident happens when collecting stuff? Forget his own IED? Sure, shit happens, but gotta feed family, somehow.
Separating shells component with chisel and hammer? BY LORD'S FORGIVENESS, WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE?!?!
Fanart: Dunno what this is, but it's cute.
- Location
- Nowhere
Game... pieces?
fire around Pensy LMAO!!!!!!
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Harry Leferts
Suave Shadow Cabal Kaiju
You would be amazed at the stupidity that some people will do for money. I'm a security guard and once I had to guard an area where some natural gas pipes were above ground until they got them secured... because they were worried people might bust them in an attempt to get at the copper.
Burning Baron
This position needs more entrenching.
- Location
- In here, not out there.
By the way, everybody.
As you may or may not know, there's a Category 4 hurricane, Harvey, that's about to slam into the Texas coast, if it hasn't already. And it's headed right for Galveston and Houston. In other words, where Lexteen and Texas are anchored. I am worried about everyone in the path, but I'm also worried about Texas, who as you may recall, had a problem with a hull leak earlier this year.
As you may or may not know, there's a Category 4 hurricane, Harvey, that's about to slam into the Texas coast, if it hasn't already. And it's headed right for Galveston and Houston. In other words, where Lexteen and Texas are anchored. I am worried about everyone in the path, but I'm also worried about Texas, who as you may recall, had a problem with a hull leak earlier this year.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Not the worst I've seen.
Strype Story Time!
My first Iraq deployment, 2005. In May I was stationed at FOB Scunion, NW of Ba'Qubah, in Diyala province, NE of Baghdad. Across the highway from us was the much larger base for our brigade, FOB Warhorse. The local housing ran nearly up to our walls, so it was never very far to Iraqis houses and such. People lived quite close to us.
North of us, about an hour up the highway, was Camp Ashraf, what we called 'the MEK Compound', headquarters of the exiled People's Mujahedin of Iran. Because Saddam had been generous to them (since they were willing to shoot other Iranians for him), they had basically a mechanized division's worth of munitions on hand when we rolled up in 2003. We told them to just disarm, piling the weapons outside the wire of their camp, and stay put. So they did. Unfortunately, no one ever disposed of the piles, or ever guarded them, so they just sat there in the open, becoming a 'pick your part' free stockpile for local insurgents. They'd just drive up, fill their pickup truck with munitions, and drive off. But after a while, the weather scrubbed off a lot of identifying markers and such, so a lot of shells start to look the same when you're in a hurry to load up the truck before someone sees you and starts asking pointed questions.
One day, Abu Genius, aspiring jihadi IED-maker, runs out of artillery shells. He still has some mortar illumination flare rounds from his last run, but he's not sure they're useable as IED materials. So he decides to test one.
By shooting it with a rifle.
While he braces it with his foot.
I'm not sure what he expected to happen. But yes, the shell did go off.
As did most of his leg.
How do we know all this, you might ask? Oh, because of the best part!
So there Abu Genius is, lying in a blast crater, half his leg shredded, and wondering what went wrong. He's kind of bleeding. A lot. The closest place his friends can take him for urgent medical care?
FOB Warhorse, less than a kilometer away.
I don't know what story they told the gate guards, but they let him in, got the real story out of him while he was loopy from blood loss and painkillers, and cuffed him right on the gurney after the medics patched him up.
And as silly as this sounds, this is still not as bad as the story of Abu Butterfingers, and how he wiped out his entire IED cell.
To keep this BelaBatt related, just take this as a NSTIW story from my LTC expy.
(No Shit, There I Was, the traditional opening to a good war story.)
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I'm guessing because there was so much explodey crap sitting around in Saddam Hussein's many, many munitions dumps and Soviet-era stockpiles that securing it or even burying it all would be extremely labor-intensive, especially for the relatively lean-manned force that went into Iraq. Disposing of leftover artillery shells isn't exactly easy; it's the kind of work that takes specialists to do safely.
I have heard it commented that for a show where the English theme talks about never running from a fight, the gang did an awful lot of running away from the monster of the week, at least in some seasons.
So... I guess Jersey can at least live up to the incredibly teeth-gritting song as well or better than its own protagonist did?
Dammit, colonel! Now we're going to have to put Jersey in drydock; she laughed her stern clean off!So there Abu Genius is, lying in a blast crater, half his leg shredded, and wondering what went wrong. He's kind of bleeding. A lot. The closest place his friends can take him for urgent medical care?
FOB Warhorse, less than a kilometer away.
I don't know what story they told the gate guards, but they let him in, got the real story out of him while he was loopy from blood loss and painkillers, and cuffed him right on the gurney after the medics patched him up.
And as silly as this sounds, this is still not as bad as the story of Abu Butterfingers, and how he wiped out his entire IED cell.
To keep this BelaBatt related, just take this as a NSTIW story from my LTC expy.
(No Shit, There I Was, the traditional opening to a good war story.)
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nullptr
Mostly Harmless
- Location
- The 906
Wasn't it back in something like '01 when some Georgians tried to salvage some old Russian RTGs they'd found and ended up killing themselves and contaminating a bunch of stuff with radiation?
- Location
- Pacific NW
There are many locations on the northern Siberian coast that are radioactive now. The Russians knew that lighthouses for the Arctic Ocean are necessary, but manned lighthouses up there, well no one wants to man those. So the Russians built a bunch of lighthouses with small nuclear powered generators to keep the lights on and the system worked as long as you sent someone by every four to six months to check on the generator and keep everything copacetic, then they left back to somewhere warmer. Well, during the Yeltsin years, there wasn't the money to send someone to look after them. And since the economy outside of the cities was even worse, any locals from the villages in proximity to these lighthouses began searching them for anything salvageable. This eventually included the lead protective shielding.
owlmessenger
Parts Guy Extraordinaire
- Location
- New York
I want to bump this because It didn't get answered and I am curious
Spectre
eternal servant to the Fire/EMS gods
- Location
- NY
As someone with similar tails from firefighting, I can tell you that near death stories are always like that...
owlmessenger
Parts Guy Extraordinaire
- Location
- New York
This whole topic smacks of the old saw about two things being infinite and we're not so sure about the universeThere are many locations on the northern Siberian coast that are radioactive now. The Russians knew that lighthouses for the Arctic Ocean are necessary, but manned lighthouses up there, well no one wants to man those. So the Russians built a bunch of lighthouses with small nuclear powered generators to keep the lights on and the system worked as long as you sent someone by every four to six months to check on the generator and keep everything copacetic, then they left back to somewhere warmer. Well, during the Yeltsin years, there wasn't the money to send someone to look after them. And since the economy outside of the cities was even worse, any locals from the villages in proximity to these lighthouses began searching them for anything salvageable. This eventually included the lead protective shielding.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
That's the thing about a sophisticated civilization, whose weapons and tools are advanced and powerful and dangerous in unexpected ways.
If you make people desperate or reckless enough that they stop having an incentive to play by the rules when no one's watching, you get all kinds of "this is why we can't have nice things" stuff going on. They'll eat their own seed corn as an alternative to starving, they'll search for scrap metal in ways that endanger themselves, et cetera.
The Soviet Union, with its many flaws, was a sophisticated society that could build and maintain some pretty cool stuff. Those nuclear-powered lighthouses are the kind of idea I have a lot of respect for.
The Soviet system might mismanage things every time it turned around, but at least it could set aside and enforce rules for someone's idea of the long-term interests of the country. Like "no looting the lead shielding on the nuclear generator near your village" and maybe even "okay, let's make sure the locals don't feel like they need to loot the lead shielding on the nuclear generator near their village."
Replace that system with a kleptocrat's paradise run by the oligarchs for the oligarchs, while abandoning the peasants to their own devices, and it all falls apart in ways that are damned hard to repair or reverse.
You don't need pure, responsible stewards of the public good to administer a country successfully. A certain amount of self-interest isn't a problem among the elite. But when you look at a place like '90s Russia... Well, we see that it takes very little of that kind of absolute selfishness in positions of power, to begin destroying a society that was at least more or less functioning beforehand.
If you make people desperate or reckless enough that they stop having an incentive to play by the rules when no one's watching, you get all kinds of "this is why we can't have nice things" stuff going on. They'll eat their own seed corn as an alternative to starving, they'll search for scrap metal in ways that endanger themselves, et cetera.
The Soviet Union, with its many flaws, was a sophisticated society that could build and maintain some pretty cool stuff. Those nuclear-powered lighthouses are the kind of idea I have a lot of respect for.
The Soviet system might mismanage things every time it turned around, but at least it could set aside and enforce rules for someone's idea of the long-term interests of the country. Like "no looting the lead shielding on the nuclear generator near your village" and maybe even "okay, let's make sure the locals don't feel like they need to loot the lead shielding on the nuclear generator near their village."
Replace that system with a kleptocrat's paradise run by the oligarchs for the oligarchs, while abandoning the peasants to their own devices, and it all falls apart in ways that are damned hard to repair or reverse.
You don't need pure, responsible stewards of the public good to administer a country successfully. A certain amount of self-interest isn't a problem among the elite. But when you look at a place like '90s Russia... Well, we see that it takes very little of that kind of absolute selfishness in positions of power, to begin destroying a society that was at least more or less functioning beforehand.
- Location
- Vancouver WA United States
The suffering shifts! Now being Jersey is suffering!
Arizona: You wore WHAT?!?! *cue prude rage!*
"Hurricane's and ship hulls don't mix." ~ Drum
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But she already *has* them! A tramp-stamp of her name, hull numbers on her hips, and draft/plimsoll marks on her waist! :lol
Just talk SECNAV into authorizing special hull markings for her, and they'll magically appear at her next drydocking (shower).
Reminds me of something that apparently resulted in an organized EOD cleanup at White Sands a few years back. See, there's certain desert rats who are actually authorized by the Army to go onto certain parts of the range and collect debris for salvage--they tend to be knowledgeable about what's safe to handle and what's not, and it saves the military the cost of having EOD people do "environmental remediation" by removing all the splinters and such. Well, one time, one of these guys was out and found what he recognized as a WW1-era mortar round. He knew how to handle it safely, so he picked it up... and it went "*slosh*".
Knowing the sort of shit that we were using in World War One, he very quickly--but very carefully--set it back down and called in the EODs to deal with it, and, sure enough, it was a phosgene shell that had failed to detonate on impact and was still very much full of what was still very deadly chemical agent... after that, they realized they really needed to clean up the old range areas that were no longer in use, just to make sure nobody else found a surprise like that.
Eh, it's not so bad. That's just her aft outer torpedo tube doors, they're basically just sheetmetal and aren't actually watertight. Now, if it had been one of the WATERTIGHT hatches that was removed...
Burning Baron
This position needs more entrenching.
- Location
- In here, not out there.
Yep. That's what I mean.
Grounders10
Nine-Tailed Kitsune
- Location
- British Columbia, Canada, Mars
Oh god its spreading.
Skywalker_T-65
Writer with too many ideas.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- Plural/They/He/Her
It's been spread far and wide. Considering the amount of fanart.
(That I still have none of
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Now, if a Sara prem (CC or 8-inch armed CV) is put in the game...and the bully spreads...
Then I'd be worried. >.>
(That I still have none of
)Now, if a Sara prem (CC or 8-inch armed CV) is put in the game...and the bully spreads...
Then I'd be worried. >.>
Pfft. BelBat cannot be contained, eh?