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Felix

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  1. On 3/15/2023 at 2:28 PM, SHOOTER12 said:

    I remember when I worked in Kentucky back in 79-80 I had the shock of my life when I moved there. I was living in Lebanon, which thinking back, I don't recall EVER seeing any person of color. I was working on a cross country transmission line so some days the trip to work could be 90 miles away. Anyway, one of the little burgs I drove through had a sign at each end of town which read "N***** Don't Let Sundown Catch Your Black Ass Here". Needless to say I nearly ran the pickup off in ditch the first time I saw it. It wasn't just some small sign either, the damned yhing had to be 16 X 20. Didn't think I'd ever forget the name of that shitehole, but alas, senility calls. I want to say Danbury, Denwall, Danville, "D" something. 

    Being from a small South Texas town I had seen some racism but never dreamed that the crap in Kentucky still existed at that time. Damned disgusting.

    *not even close name wise, Rayburn, Raymond,  something like that...

    When I was at Ft. Knox in the early 90s the orientation for incoming troops included warning to the black soldiers as to which towns they should not go to.  They weren't strictly off limits but it was made very clear that bad should would very likely happen to you if you went there at any time of day.  The one I remember was Shelbyville.

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  2. 5 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    "here's a deflection on a blocked shot"  says the announcer.... as the video clearly shows the ISU player getting fouled twice by the 2 Pitt players.....

     

    lol

    Announcers are cheerleaders these days.  Not serious commentators on the game.

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  3. Just put him on ignore.  Something broke in him a few years ago.  He used to be someone whose posts I respected.  You'll feel better if you don't have to read his disingenuous snark.

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  4. 1 hour ago, txhorns said:

    Does anyone have a video of the pick that lead to RT getting a tech?  It’s strange that they didn’t show a replay of it on the broadcast.

    My biggest issue with the current trend of broadcasting to "sell" the sport.  We never get replays of controversial calls or non-calls.  The announcers are relentlessly positive about the calls and the officiating with one or two disagreements allowed per game it seems.  There is no neutrality in any broadcast because the networks and the leagues are partners.  I hate it.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    During Desert Storm an M-1 shot through a sand berm and knocked out a T-72.  If the old 105 mm gun could do that, the newer 120 mm damn sure will.

    Pretty sure that was an M1A1 with 120mm main gun, but the 105mm on the M1 and M1IP could definitely kill them too.  Maybe not through a berm though.

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  6. Got called recently and went down to the cattle call.  Judge came in and gave us the spiel asked for anyone who really needed to not be there.  Ten or so went up and gave their story's. He released them all.  Time to get down to brass tacks and start the selections process.  Defendants attorney approaches the bench.  Prosecutor called up.  Whispered conversation.  Judge clears to court room and asks us to wait in the hall.

    Thirty minutes later they call us back in and release us. Defendant fired his attorney and went back to jail.  Judge said it was the second time he had done this.  Counted as having served so won't get a criminal one for a while I guess.

  7. 47 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

    I watched "Tears of the Valley" about the War of Yom Kippur. The Isrealis held back and destroyed over 100 soviet supplied tanks with 6-10 of our Patton tanks. 

    They did have a strategic advantage being parked up on ramps which put them above the axis of the Syrian tank barrels, but still. 

    I mark this as one of the first examples of how shitty soviet Era equipment is/was.

    Yeah know issue with most Soviet era tanks. Because of the small turrets and later the auto-loaders they had very limited main gun elevation so if you had the high ground you could shoot them and they couldn't shoot you.

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  8. Knew a guy like this.  One day I came to work and realized I hadn't seen him in a while.  Turns out he was just sentenced to 25 years for Tax Evasion.  Sole breadwinner for his family.  Wife and six kids.  Brilliant IT guy.  That was about ten years ago.  I think about that knucklehead sometimes and wonder if his family is ok.

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  9. 19 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    During the early part of the invasion, there was a lot of talk from analysts and others who were familiar with Russian training and logistics, who said  many of the Russian T-72 crews were only allowed to shoot a couple of rounds a year, because the corruption was so bad and maintenance so poor, that the budget and supplies just weren't there for the training.

    A couple of rounds a year.  That seems really bad.

    We each got to fire 5 rounds in AIT before we ever hit our units.  Each man.  Now these are training rounds, which is also what we shot in gunnery qualification and training.  Training ammo is slightly tuned down from war shots.  I don't remember the exact numbers but muzzle velocity for war shot Sabot was like 1400 meters per second, while training sabot was closer to 1200 mps but the projectiles were also aluminum instead of DU so the ballistics were very similar.  When we fired war shots, which was far less often you could tell the difference.  The training ammo is easier on the tanks.

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