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Good use of prayer
#11
RE: Good use of prayer
(September 29, 2011 at 4:25 pm)Heather Wrote:
(September 29, 2011 at 4:22 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: bucked tooth rednecks need prayers....... or shooting.

Yeah, exactly!! I'll have my kiddo aim the soccer ball towards his head... wait, that may mess up the teeth even worse, huh?

But at least that kid'll get his teeth fixed.

Actually, I've given this some little thought (very little, in fact), and the only really good use of prayer I can think of is a priest on his knees and praying for whatever it is they pray for - because then his hands are kept occupied and out of harm's way.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#12
RE: Good use of prayer
I'm sure god will bump that highly important shit to the top of his priority list. Meanwhile, at disney world there is probably a little girl who can eat an apple through a picket fence, happy to take that brace face's spot in line for space mountain.
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#13
RE: Good use of prayer
When I was a kid I prayed for a McDonalds, and, you guys just won't believe this! MY MOM CAME HOME WITH A MCDONALDS!!!!!!!!!! OMFG!!!!!!!!! MIRACLE!!!!!!!!

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#14
RE: Good use of prayer
The entire building? Impressive. (also explains certain things about you)

You gonna LoL it up or what hooker?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#15
RE: Good use of prayer
(September 29, 2011 at 4:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know you hear this a lot, but it has to do with our overall theory of crippling and oppressive firepower, applied in an instant and sustained without interruption until nothing is moving. The way we pull it off without unbelievable amounts of friendly fire is mainly by positioning and communication, not target recognition. If an element is out of place it's pretty much automatically assumed that it is enemy contact. We do this because it works extremely well, and with complete understanding of the limitations of this particular tactic ( I was a SAW gunner btw, so I would be the worst offender in a ff scenario, as the only person likely to be carrying a fully automatic weapon). Hilariously we don't really stress rifle accuracy anymore unless you're talking infantry, and the kids behind the keyboard on that missile platform were probably drunk and watching Buffy not but an hour beforehand. So many jokes about US soldiers but not a lot of appreciation for what they do, yes, even for you Brits (though as long as you aren't implicating the infantry I'm totally on-board with you, the rest of those fuckers are not squared away).



US missiles btw, are nasty as shit, who manufactures your missiles in the UK?

Shoot first, apologize to the widow later. If you guys don't like the way we play maybe you should take your ball and leave. Wink

I'm not implicating anyone. I'm just surprised that the US has so many retards that control weapons, we'd string up our own for such stupidity. Ff will always be there, but the amount of these occurrences is quite large. The tankbuster one was the worst.(think that was your national reserve, isn't that another name for NRA)

But then you(Americans) did vote in dubya, twice.

Missile wise, I'd presume we either get them from you guys, or someone like BAE Systems.
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#16
RE: Good use of prayer
(September 29, 2011 at 6:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You gonna LoL it up or what hooker?

I'm on european server, piss take to change it...
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#17
RE: Good use of prayer
Yeah, and our weekend warriors and nasty girls don't always get the best training. We compound the issue by hiring contractors to run the kitchen and put cooks on patrols with infantry as babysitters. Guess how we feel about that.

Mostly 18 year old kids with no other prospects. Thing is, being a retard isn't really an impediment to military service. They run carrier decks too. Don't think for one minute those kids are any smarter. So sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..lol. My 1st Sgt actually landed in his position after a pretty nasty friendly fire incident in the 1st Gulf War. The guy did not like to turn out the lights in his APC. He'd brutalize anyone who even tried, and he was a big dude. Terrible stuff, obviously.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#18
RE: Good use of prayer

Penises
(September 29, 2011 at 6:20 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yeah, and our weekend warriors and nasty girls don't always get the best training. We compound the issue by hiring contractors to run the kitchen and put cooks on patrols with infantry as babysitters. Guess how we feel about that.

Jesus f Christ.

Mostly 18 year old kids with no other prospects. Thing is, being a retard isn't really an impediment to military service. They run carrier decks too. Don't think for one minute those kids are any smarter. So sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..lol. My 1st Sgt actually landed in his position after a pretty nasty friendly fire incident in the 1st Gulf War. The guy did not like to turn out the lights in his APC. He'd brutalize anyone who even tried, and he was a big dude. Terrible stuff, obviously.

Do you get education whilst in the forces?

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#19
RE: Good use of prayer
Depends on what you mean. Soldiers can attend college if it doesn't interfere with their duties. If by education you mean mission operational specialty type stuff, sure, but it's spotty for a lot of MOS. Recently, the service has been leveraging soldiers in roles they were not properly (if at all) trained for. For example, our famous female capture. Females aren't combatants in our armed forces, so how did she get captured? Well, if you're a poorly armed or trained band of insurgents, who do you attack? Infantry units or support personnel in areas they should not be in?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#20
RE: Good use of prayer
(September 29, 2011 at 4:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know you hear this a lot, but it has to do with our overall theory of crippling and oppressive firepower, applied in an instant and sustained without interruption until nothing is moving. The way we pull it off without unbelievable amounts of friendly fire is mainly by positioning and communication, not target recognition. If an element is out of place it's pretty much automatically assumed that it is enemy contact. We do this because it works extremely well, and with complete understanding of the limitations of this particular tactic ( I was a SAW gunner btw, so I would be the worst offender in a ff scenario, as the only person likely to be carrying a fully automatic weapon). Hilariously we don't really stress rifle accuracy anymore unless you're talking infantry, and the kids behind the keyboard on that missile platform were probably drunk and watching Buffy not but an hour beforehand. So many jokes about US soldiers but not a lot of appreciation for what they do, yes, even for you Brits (though as long as you aren't implicating the infantry I'm totally on-board with you, the rest of those fuckers are not squared away).

US missiles btw, are nasty as shit, who manufactures your missiles in the UK?

Shoot first, apologize to the widow later. If you guys don't like the way we play maybe you should take your ball and leave. Wink

Intriguing... I've heard that something like 720 or 7200 bullets are fired for a single casualty inflicted, but I could be wrong. That sounds like overwhelming, unrelenting force to me.

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