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  1. Counting this year's full salary, PD is owed at least $18M on his current contract.  If someone snatches that off the waiver wire, we should send them a nice fruit basket.
    I agree, but they don't think like that. Exactly why Matt Carpenter was sitting in the dugout for 3 seasons while not contributing. The smart play is to get rid of those guys, but they rarely do
  2. 35 minutes ago, someguy said:

    I will say, parking was an absolute shit storm.  I pre-paid for parking in the Trinity Garage using the link the Moody Center provided.  I waited in a super long line to get into the lot, and when we were near the front they closed the garage because it had reached its capacity.  Either they were letting in folks who didn't pre-pay, or the pre-pay system didn't keep track of the number of spots available.  Hopefully they get all that ironed out.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    How the hell do you capture a Helicopter? 

    I was kind of wondering the same thing.  I was also wondering the difference between "abandoned" and "captured". 

    Maybe some Ukrainian farmer just hooked it up to his John Deere and dragged it off of some forward location.  They are definitely some resourceful folks.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Probably as an officer near the front, he needs his helmet but it has to be able to accommodate a radio headset?  Who knows?

    If their supply folks are anything like ours, then he just got fucked over and they gave him the Mongo sized helmet.  Probably doesn't happen to officers like it did to us enlisted scum, though.

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  5. Yeah, sorry about that. 

    Back on topic...  My Lai, in my opinion, was a failure at many levels.  When I went through Marine boot camp, we were taught that you not only have an obligation/duty to obey lawful orders, but also to NOT obey unlawful orders.  That training may have been a result of lessons learned from My Lai, but I'm fairly certain that unlawful vs lawful orders have been a known thing since well before Vietnam.

    Edited to add:  The courage that it took for Hugh Thompson to do what he did is incredible.

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  6. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Edited to add pre-existing officers that make it to flight school, which is a somewhat unusual path, unless something has changed.  The Army used to draw extensively from the enlisted ranks for helicopter pilots, but much less so today.  And I think they encourage college graduates who sign up to go directly to flight school and emerge as warrant officers, rather than OCS, some other officer billet, and then flight school, where you would remain a "commissioned officer."

    The Army has a handful of fixed-wing aviators, too, which is what I meant by few. 

    Ah, the old Sherpa pilots.  I think they do have some warrants that fly Sherpas, at least the last time I was around the Army, which was about 10 years ago. 

    My buddy's son, after graduating college, he went to OCS and then flight school at Fort Rucker.  Not sure what they call units at the platoon level in Army Aviation, but he was either a "platoon" commander or company XO and also a pilot.  I think he was flying a Kiowa at the time.  I think those are out of service now, but he's flying something.

  7. 9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    For the record:  all Army helicopter pilots are Warrant Officers except academy graduates.  Maybe the few other Army aviators, as well.

    I'm not sure what you mean by "few other Army aviators", but there are many helicopter pilots in the Army that are neither Warrant Officers nor Academy grads.  Buddy of mine, his son is an A&M grad and is a company commander within a CAB and helicopter pilot.  Maybe that's what you meant by "few".

  8. Yeah, Matz was disappointing yesterday.  I don't want to read too much into pitching just yet.  They take a bit longer to hit their stride, especially starting pitchers.  Early season coupled with a very abbreviated spring training makes me want to give it a little more time.

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  9. I heard from Paul today -- he said "We have a legitimate chance to win the World Series," which not only have I never heard him say before, but also is pretty out of character for him, so I'm going to support him by pretending to believe him.  
    Well, that makes me want to believe.
  10. On 3/28/2022 at 10:37 AM, Beau Vine said:

    Meh, seems like the best way to send those guys out is by upgrading at SS and P and putting them in one last pennant race.  

    Or, they could just be satisfied with selling a shitload of tickets and making a lot of money while going .500.  

    You summed up my feelings perfectly.

  11. 16 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Yeah, that guy is a piece of shit. He's basically torturing a civilian.

    Cue the resident Walter Mittys to go "but, but, but," to which I say "true, true, true, and that guy is still a piece of shit."

    I hope that no one on here would approve of us doing that to the parents of one of our killed enemies.  We sure as fuck wouldn't approve of our enemies doing it to us.  No way what that dude did should be acceptable.

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  12. 1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

    I'd say its the opposite. To the US the war is a patriotic event that promoted our grandparents and Great grandparents to mythological status. Our current feeling towards Germany, Italy, Hungry, Japan, etc have a complete disconnect from the war. We would never put "On to Berlin" on our new equipment for a parade because it was an event for Zeros and Spitfires and not for Apaches and Javelins. We enjoy talking about it but it has no connection to the now like it seems to have in Russia.

     

    It's cultural too. When you had the Romney vs Obama debate it seemed preposterous to average Americans when Romney was discussing the Russians because we had already "beaten" them just as we had the British, the Mexicans, the Confederates, Germans, and everyone else. This is a trend in our historical perspective that other and older states/cultures may not share. That's the American connection to history. Positivism and moving forward.

    Fair enough.  I probably misread/misunderstood the original post.  We do have a long history of armed conflict and we do romanticize it to strong degree, which is how I understood the original post.

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  13. 9 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    This is most likely a piece of equipment that had been decorated for a “Great Patriotic War” parade or display and hadn’t been redone before getting put in the field. The orange and black Z ribbons (St. George ribbon) are also linked to the war. 
     

    It’s hard to tell people who haven’t lived it how bizarre and fixated the Great Patriotic War mythos is to Russian society. Russia’s state religion isn’t Orthodoxy, it’s a cult of the war.  And I’m using the GPW phrase carefully. In Russian historiography World War II as started in 1939 and involving theaters in Asia, Africa, and Western Europe is distinct from the GPW and there is no reflection on how things they did between 1939-1941 led to the Nazi attack on the USSR. 

    Um...  I hate to admit it, but we ain't much different, are we?

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