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Felix

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  1. Didn't see combat, thank God, but I've crewed every position on an Abrams. Almost impossible to see mines if they are deployed correctly. We mostly liked to operate at night since out night vision/thermal imagers were so good. Many mines use a probe instead of pressure so that it doesn't have to be run over by tracks to explode. They are easier to see in open ground but are more designed to be deployed in vegetation obviously. Those are the ones that really scared us because they were designed to blow a penetrator up through the bottom of the tank. That would usually be the end of the driver. Running over one with a track would usually just immobilize you instead of killing you.
  2. I made no argument. I simply stated an opinion, and a throwaway line poking fun at some of our overly negative reactions, as you pointed out. It sounds like you may have taken it personally but it was intended as self deprecating humor as I too am "Surly".
  3. Sounds like the racist neighbor who called them should be outed too IMO. If you call the cops because black folk are in your neighborhood that should open you up to civil rights charges too. It's fucking ridiculous.
  4. Yeah I know Surly thinks if you aren't great as freshman you'll never be any good, but that was a big loss. That guy is going to be a star IMO.
  5. When I saw it in the theater a WWII vet was sitting a few rows in front of me with a few members of his family. About 10 minutes into the Omaha Beach scene he got up and started staggering out of the theater and had to be helped by his wife. It struck me hard and I love the movie but I have a very hard time watching parts of it.
  6. Agreed. All aircraft are somewhat fragile just because they have to be as light as possible, but the difference in civilian and military is vast. Unfortunately modern anti-aircraft systems are really good at taking them down.
  7. "Everybody in McKinney is dead." LMAO
  8. Pretty much all air to air or SAMs have a proximity fused warhead. Much, much easier than direct hits and aircraft are fragile.
  9. Many evangelical churches believe that God chooses the Pastor. In the LCMS pastors and educators in schools are hired through a call process. The congregation notifies the Synod and the Synod gives them a list of pastors, teachers, principles, whatever that are "open to a call" and usually narrows down the list based on some mystical criteria. The congregation then determines through it's own process whom they want to issue a call to. That person then prays on it and if it's a better congregation than the one they got or the pay is better or it's in a better city or, just possibly, they actually have a calling for ministry decides to take it or not. If the first person doesn't heed the call then they move on to the next.
  10. Eh, it was over twenty years ago. Let's just say I knew what a shit show our congregational finances were and who the loudmouthed deadbeats were.
  11. The kind where when it came time to call a new pastor after the old one retired, so called "christians" went on a terror campaign to harass and shame other members of the congregation to get the one they wanted. People I had known for my whole life, including family, went to any lengths they could, including late night threatening phone calls, hateful letters, and outright back stabbing of folks they had spent generations with to get a "conservative" pastor who would hate as much as them. I left a church my great grandparents had built and never looked back. I was in my late twenties at the time and was the chairman of the stewardship board. I knew who gave what and was privy to most of the inside information of the church and it sickened me. I was too young to do what I should have done, so I just left one day and when they called me I told them I couldn't do it any more and I haven't been a member of a church since then. Fuck them.
  12. I haven't gone to church for years. Mainly because of shit like this. In the old days I would have just left. That's actually what I did. Now I think I'd have to stand up and say "Have you lost your fucking mind?" and then left.
  13. Drank beer and played domino's at the Type store after dove hunting/tank fishing at my grandfathers land in Coupland. Drove to Lexington at 6 am for Snow's BBQ on several Saturday mornings before Texas Monthly fucked it up for everyone. Fixed fences at my other grandfathers place in Elgin after Curls the bull pushed it over to get to Mr. Shroeders heifers in the next pasture. Chased Curls back to our pasture. He was very compliant for some reason. Maybe he was tired.
  14. Black guy knocked on my door this morning. I figured he was selling pest control, windows, solar, you know, the usual stuff. So I go answer just to see what's up and I wasn't in a meeting or anything. Dude is stumping for DeSantis. I just had to ask him if he was a true believe or if he was just getting paid to do this. He was just getting paid so I gave a simple "not interested" and he moved on. If he'd been a true believer, we'd have had a different conversation about voting against your own self interests.
  15. I sort of agree with you, but if history has shown that certain societies are warrior societies and others aren't. China is an economic power certainly, but when was they last time they fought and won a war? There's more to military tradition than most might think.
  16. Yeah, I'm no law dog for sure, but my understanding is the once the verdict is in the trial is over. The sentencing is a different process. I served on one criminal jury and that was how the judge described it to us after the trial was over and we'd found him guilty.
  17. I believe the reason for the appeal was that the sentences were consistently under the sentencing guidelines. I'm not a lawyer, but the conviction would seem to be the due process. Once convicted it doesn't seem like the sentence is anything that would change due process. It's set by the judge, supposedly based on fairly strict guidelines, so it seems much more administrative to me.
  18. My understanding is that either the sentences will be upheld or extended but not reduced. I could be wrong but that's how I read it.
  19. She crashed it to ruin it for everyone else. Duh.
  20. Oh boy! Those were interesting times eh? I was in Korea when the Berlin wall came down and we were on full alert for 48 hours. I can't imagine what it was like in Germany.
  21. I got one of these a few years back. It was me and I did pass the bus while the arm was down and the lights were on. It was stopped at a RR crossing about on the way to the Bus Barn with no kids on the bus on a 4 lane road. I threw it in the trash. I've gotten periodic collection letters but those went the same route.
  22. Related story. DPS Cousin-in-Law was in a high speed chase with four or five other various cops and they were debating how to get the guy to stop so CIL says he'll pit the guy. They are all flying down I-35 at speeds approaching 120 mph and sure enough he pits the guy and they both lose control. Both end up in the median in a cloud of dust and CIL realizes his crotch is soaking wet. He's sitting there thinking "Did I wet my pants?" Luckily he just squeezed his Big Gulp all over his pants.
  23. One of my cousins is married to a DPS trooper. He's about to retire but he drove one of the 5.0 Mustangs when they first got them. My brother went on a ride along with him and they were sitting on I35 eating snacks in the middle of the night clocking cars. Dude would pretty much ignore anyone going less than 20 over the limit because he liked to chase the real speeders. Guy goes by going over a hundred and next thing my bro knows he's stuck to his seat as they scream out of the median. Trooper is eating M&Ms with his big gulp between his legs, talking on the radio, slinging dirt while shifting gears and turning on the lights/siren. Dude was having the time of his life and my brother was having a heart attack at the tender age of 16.
  24. I got news for Tommy Boy. The military pays travel expenses for medical care for all kinds of shit. If you need specialty care that you can't get where you're stationed they will pay for the travel and the care. At least that's the way it was when I was in. All the ruling said was that abortion law is up to the states. Didn't say anything about folks going where they want to. Dumb fuck.
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