3 in 1 fun

THREE IN ONE FUN

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I simply adore the misinformed and/or moronic of the world.  Without them I wouldn’t have much to write about.  And talk about using resources and wasting oxygen, right?  I am a chronicler of idiocy, which is basically my main claim to fame and about my only skill set.  I could claim analytical thinking but that might both be pushing the bounds of possibility and proclaiming an occupation no one has need for any longer.  Thinking is the enemy of emotion and not needed when everyone only wants to feel good whilst awaiting the icy cold water of the north Atlantic creeping up the deck of the Titanic.  The band played on for very good reason-it calmed the doomed who craved the opiate.  I know after the collapse I have zero skills, thinkers and writers not needed,  and have no choice but to be a better killer than the other uninitiated, or my place at the dinner table is jeopardized ( not a better equipped soldier, just a better one, which starts with getting your mind right now, accepting the historical necessity.  Don’t listen to all that liberal bullpiss on how males are gentle caring creatures and killing is foreign to us and how it will haunt our dreams-that is propaganda to the submissive serfs.  And, yes, I’m aware I made a poor LEO.  But soldiers don’t need to be hampered by being blocked by over-thinking any situation.  You kill everything.  A much simpler decision tree ).

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One thing I LOVE talking about is the retards that run the military.  The reason for this is that I love to rant and rave, but also because in this country we seem to be in a period of serious gayboy love towards the institution and if you strive to emulate them it will get you killed.  Almost nothing the military does is a good idea.  If you are able to impartially cherry pick, that is fine and dandy.  Otherwise, beware!  You should, 99% of the time, just do the exact opposite of what they do and if you are following some super ninja dude who is making his living preaching military tactics to you, you should be aware that 99% of what he is teaching you will get you killed.  The military is in the business of killing its members.  That is what they do.  Sure, in WWII Patton played the crowd with his “let the other dumb bastard die for his country”, but in practice you were just another machine sent to clash with the enemy and if you broke there was another replacement to take your place. 

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A warrior fights despite the danger of death, but a soldier fights to die.  The first uses tactics that minimize the poor odds, the second fights in a way which maximize his chances of death.  If you are working for the state rather than the tribe, your chances of retirement in wartime equal lottery odds.  Why do you think soldiers eventually do their empire no favors, losing their martial spirit?  They don’t start minimizing risks because they lose their bravery, they start pushing back as rewards diminish.  They know what they are gambling with and refuse to do so for diminishing returns at the same time leadership qualities diminish.  Draftees in the trenches in WWI died in large numbers, far more casualties than in Vietnam.  By that latter war, draftees were unwilling to risk their lives.  Why?  It wasn’t that the older generation was better, it was the fact the empire had already withdrawn sharing the spoils with the lower classes, who then understood there was no point in risking their lives ( baring certain cultures such as the southern mountain poor which were always neglected by their empire, whichever one they were in, and used the military as an escape, while being raised fighting.  A rare combination, and hence the exception ).  Just because people are poor doesn’t make them stupid, you ignorant Yuppie twat!

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Well, the other night I’m watching the new Kong movie, Skull Island or whatever, since it was free.  A typical popcorn movie, so dripping with political correctness I should have been snacking on my own vomit the entire movie.  I might be wrong, but I wasn’t aware of the wholesale use of Black officers in Vietnam, certainly not in aviation specialty units.  The female lead Kong falls for is depicted as having super strength, the males are all just dumb animals, the dumb animals on the island seemed just a bit too large for the ecosystem, the native dudes had female warriors which is absurd, and of course there simply HAD to be a love interest ( although subtle ) with a Black and Asian scientist.  I’m really surprised the transgenders didn’t have a role.  But you know, I could ignore most of that because I kept noticing that one soldier had a M203 and that was bugging me the entire time.  Were those even issued in Vietnam, or was it an anachronism? 

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Well, don’t rush to your Wiki searches, in fact the weapon was adopted in 1969 and by the early ‘70’s some were seen in the war, so I was wrong.  But I just couldn’t get that out of my mind.  Damn M203, a very crappy replacement for the specialty M79 ( the M79 was a single shot break open grenade launcher, nicknamed the Blooper after its launching noise, issued to the grenadier.  The M203 was a hunk of plastic crap joined underneath to the M16 where you used the carbines magazine as a pistol grip and slid a round into a very short tube ).  Firing the 203 was a HUGE pain in the ass.  The sites blow and the whole arrangement is not in the slightest agronomic.  The military trains you in its use for a very short period, gives you three shots with training rounds ( powder dye rather than explosive ), then expects you to pick up the unit years later with no remedial training and use it to good effect.  They became, at least in my unit, more status symbols than anything else as the senior sergeant carried one.  They never trained on it, you understand. 

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Now, here is the thing.  A grenadier used to actual serve a very needed purpose, delivering small bombs on target.  He was a mobile embedded mortar man with a fire team or squad.  The M79 was an improvement in just tossing a grenade like a baseball, the range far beyond muscle powered.  Now your squad had its own artillery.  Bullets tend to be fired horizontally and your enemy takes cover accordingly, but a mortar round or a grenade comes in over your head, dropped from above.  And it is high explosive fragments which does much nicer damage than a bullet.  From the very beginning of the war the M79 was in use, issued to a dedicated grenadier, and it was very popular with the troops.  Because it, you know, actually worked well in saving their asses.  Now, I tend to dismiss most of the efforts of the military because of their leadership, and for very good reason, but one thing you have to give them credit for was the ability to eventually get themselves pretty good weapons, eventually, with all that Military Industrial Complex spending going on, from 1939 to about 1963-5.  Prior to that date the military wasn’t needed to support the economy ( or, wasn’t allowed to anyway ), nor was it yet an imperial force, and after that date which was the effective end of empire, military weapons went from economic stimulus with high utility in defense, to merely an economic stimulus, period, with diminishing utility.

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You can clearly see the trend which started with the M16 and just got worse and worse ( the same would apply across most weapons systems, I‘m sure, from tanks and ships to aircraft, but I‘m only familiar with infantry weapons, merely picking up the occasional disillusionment with other weapons as I read widely ).  A prototype of this did exist in the M14, but that was just doctrinal rather than in the equipment.  The M14 was a vast improvement over the Garand, mostly replacing what sucked and keeping what worked, mostly.  The problem was that the military wanted to replace three weapons with one.  The BAR, a portable squad machine gun ( always problematic with capacity but you could saw down trees with the bastard.  It weighed about as much as a tree, too.  But at least it wasn’t an M60 ), the submachinegun and the Garand.  But the M14 only replaced the Garand competently.  Using it as a machinegun didn’t work in the slightest since the rifle didn’t weigh enough and it weighed way too much to replace a submachinegun.  So, what was the solution there?  Making a squad automatic gun from a rimfire carbine which was supposed to also be a sniper rifle.  But, that came long after the effective collapse of a useful military ( today there is even question if our nuclear deterrent is even effective, as testing was banned and old weapons must be replaced by new, but we can’t test the new.  We test on a computer.  A Blue Screen Of Death computer, I have no doubt ).  In the meantime they just kept introducing one weapon crappier than the last. 

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We simply couldn’t keep a weapon that the actual end users voting their confidence in, could we?  We’ve become so blinded by bigger and bigger explosives, our religiously fervorish adherence to Second Generational Warfare only seeing volume rather than quality deliverance, a single shot grenade wasn’t acceptable.  We had to have automatic fire added in with that.  The grenadier had to spray and pray with the rest of the men.  Never mind he didn’t hit anything, because of that old horizontal fire thing, and then when he had to use a grenade he still couldn’t hit anything because the frigging rifle got in the way of aiming the grenade PLUS it only got half the range of the specialty weapon it replaced, with a non specialized user no less, never mind all that because there was more rounds down range.  Same with the 223 replacing the 308, same with the 9mm replacing the 45.  As the number of personnel in the military was drastically shrunk in tune with our imploding economy, each soldier now had to fire a lot more.  Aiming was secondary.

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We now had two soldiers, a grenadier and a marksman, replaced by one guy with a submachinegun who on very rare occasions ineffectively lobbed a very anemic grenade in the kinda sorta general direction of the enemy.  The quantity shrank up to 90% and the quality followed suite.  We now need to equip our carbines with electronic sites that cost double the amount of the gun it is mounted on, so that we can come close to hitting something-with a friggin submachinegun!  I guess the military is too busy learning gender sensitivity, sexual orientation sensitivity, not to mention rapid magazine changes because volume is more important than hits, that they can’t be bothered with marksmenship, fielding weapons that work or unencumbering their troops of all that bullet resistance clothing so the poor bastards can run out of the way rather than standing there like RoboCop, absorbing lead awaiting his turn to electronically target the perpetrator with a cool low weight high velocity burst.  Seriously, dude, go back and watch the movie RoboCop.  You’ll never look at military tactics the same.

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Notice here that I am NOT wasting time decrying the serious decay of our military.  That process started before I was even born, and as I no longer have any dog in that fight I don’t seriously care anymore.  I’m not taking another opportunity to hate on the M16 ( you’ll notice I heroically restrained myself ).  I’m pointing out the idiocy of our military, trying to get you to see reason so you don’t emulate or even much fear them.  Understanding your enemy gives you a more intelligent way to oppose them. 

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