Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "Business Insider" channel.

First day here?
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@Noahandgracebaseballsoftball As usual, and right on cue, is someone thinking it's an exercise in sadism. It is not, and never has been, anything of the sort. You've seen too many movies. It's about teaching the young and unsure to not flinch in the face of stress and to band together when dipped in chaos. And they're masters of the craft. By the time you get done, you get that lesson. You, sitting comfortably behind a computer screen, do not get it.
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@Noahandgracebaseballsoftball Oh, you've done studies have you? That's adorable. You ever tried to get people to do their job and stick together after an EFP IED shreds your platoon leader's M1114 by telling them about the term paper you wrote in college about leadership? And I absolutely DO know what I'm talking about. Because I've done that. And I know what it takes to create both the troops and leaders who keep their heads on straight when it all goes to hell. Anyone can build the toughness of character necessary, but you don't get it by doing "studies" anymore than you can win a marathon by watching lots of YouTube videos of them and taking nice, casual walks and considering that cardio training.
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The great, unspoken secret of all Army training: It's not about being perfect and getting it right, it's about being a ninja in a ninja squad who never gets caught. Dirty, rotten teamwork that gets it done is better than a Mr Perfect with a track record for snitching. If that offends you, take your naive notions with you to your grave. The Army Values taught me: the value of a good cover-up. Like when your battle buddies sneak you earplugs.
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Pathfinder school: Lots of land nav. You navigate your way from billets to bus. From bus to chow. From chow to bus. From bus to classroom. And then back again.
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As capabilities and projected mission environments change, I'm sure the Corps will adopt them again when the need is forecast and funding shifted. Today it's back to quick, light amphib and air for pacific missions with China eyeing island nations, tomorrow it could be back to needing to drop heavy armor to deal with North Korea in an inland battle situation alongside 2nd ID. They focus we've put on counter-insurgent, small-target battle capabilities the last 20 years has crippled our focus on near-peer, full spectrum, high intensity warfare. Like how just 10 years ago everyone was saying Artillery was obsolete. We almost owe the Russians for driving home what a mistake that is. We're still spending like 3 million bones on overly "smart" networked vehicles with crap for armor and a host of failure-prone gizmos just to haul a Ma Deuce into battle.
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Pilot: 8 million knobs and doohickies, innate understanding of applied physics. Me: still trying to set the time on my microwave, can't defrost a burrito without blowing it up
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This channel: Shows me a rich, tailored suit Italian gent talking about the purity of Italian parm Also this channel: WON'T YOU PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE POOR PARM FARMER
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lol, the mobile cadre are freakin' sadists
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For over a decade starting prior to 9/11 I had to repeatedly hear the urban myth mutterings leaking from the E-4 Mafia and League of Buck Sergeants about "stress cards", falling standards, blah blah blah. In all that time, never once met a new troopie reporting in who ever witnessed any such unicorn. Same crap, different day. The Korea crowd made up shit about the Nam guys, the Nam guys talked shit about us Desert Storm slobs, and on the cycle goes.
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Yeah, right. They also told me Charley's Chicken Farm and getting "wall to wall counseled" by your DI's was a thing of the past in '91 as well. Oh, how they lied.
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My Fleshlight got stuck in the amnesty chute. Talk about an awkward conversation.
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The R1T, as a platform, could easily achieve more commercial success. My son worked at Morgan building cargo bodies for delivery trucks. They largely built around a stripped platform that was designed to be tailored for customers. Platforms like the Ford E-350 & 450. Everything from a postal delivery vehicle, U-Haul rentals, landscaper dump bodies, UPS cargo van, even the gut truck that shows up at your work for lunch. The R1T platform can be adapted to this, the Tesla...pretty much is what it is. Forever. If you do around-town deliveries, and you have the foresight to festoon your buildings roof with photovoltaics to keep it charged without mogas or an electric bill, then you have the most cost efficient short-haul delivery fleet there is.
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Adventure vehicles are a "Niche Market" ...... LOL, have you ever left your own downtown area?!? Tesla & Rivian are AMERICAN auto manufacturers. That carries weight. And this is a country where 30 year old Toyota trucks are worth as much on the market now as they were off the lot three decades ago. We do adventure vehicles & trucks here. ALOT.
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It's specifically to build a tolerance to stress & high tempo chaos You take the mental toughness training out by going Disney mode, you get people who think choking under pressure, separating yourself from your team to avoid consequences, and seeking excuses for being lazy is fine You are EXACTLY 180 degrees wrong and have failed utterly to grasp the whole point
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@HateTheIRS It's literally a question of the unit environment. I have served in Guard units that were far, far more intense than most Active Duty units. One had heritage links to the 2nd BN 75th Ranger Regiment up at Lewis. The 2-162 Infantry I went on my first all-expenses paid vacation to Iraq with was...more hardcore than I was expecting, and was a retirement home for old rangers. Life in the Guard hasn't been 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year for many, many MTOE units for almost 20 years now. I have seen shitbag Active duty units galore, I have seen shitbag Guard/Reserve units galore, and I have been opcon'd to some severely hardcore outfits that you would never have expected. The military life is full of surprises, and even as a lowly enlistee you will find yourself in shit that most people would never believe, whether as a part or full timer. I spent more time overseas doing Secret Squirrel stuff with Guard units than I did with 1st Cav and 3rd ID. You just never really know. Most hardcore outfit I ever was attached to was a Reserve Civil Affairs outfit. Which sounds sad, but it was nothing of the sort. They fell under SOCOM as their Major Command (MACOM), were bedecked with ex SF guys, ranger tabs, and were Combatives (hand to hand training) junkies. So, in summary, it's a crapshoot. The one REAL difference between active duty and reserve is age. Older troops fill the ranks of reserve/guard outfits, and most were active duty before they went part time so they could stay in service, but raise a family without being ditty moved every year. You find more wise, slow adults in the Part Timers, you find more young go getters in the Active. Whether or not they are more strict us up to the Commanders and NCO support chain you work for. I got away with an awful lot of shenanigans as an active duty Medic and Forward Observer, but found myself on lockdown all the time as a part time Track commander in the armor world.
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@jacobstrine4432 That was my first deployment. I was in HHC, then Alpha, then Delta company by the time we crossed the Iraqi border for the convoy up north and for the rest of that long, looong deployment. We weren't actually in Sadr city, but we had bad days where missions took place there. And our involvement in the second big Fallujah battle. Our PB (Patrol Base) was called Volunteer, for the unit creedo, in an area that could best be described as south central Baghdad. It was directly across from Saddam's personal basketball stadium. Our Bravo company was picked to be the QRF team for the entire 1st Cavalry division, which is quite an honor for a National Guard battalion attached to a prestigious active duty division. General Pete Chiarelli, the Division commander at the time, showed up to every one of our field funerals for every guy we lost. I know the name Strine..wasn't he in the Mortar PLT? I was one of the FO's.
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They go in as nice young people filled with potential. They come out as some serious assholes who like to tell you all about how they went to The Point, lol
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If only they'd let our assigned cooks do the actually cooking, instead of contractors all the damn time when we have the personnel and facilities already. But hey, SOMEBODY always gotta get a sweetheart contract everywhere we go
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1903: First Powered Flight 1922: First Aircraft to land on a Boat (Aircraft carrier deck landing) 1969: First Man to stick a landing on the Moon 2021: Still trying to figure out how elevators work and how to unclog the Captains Log from the plumbing
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Christ, what I would have given to have an M150 ACOG for qualification day
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1. Because they can be 2. Because there's a sucker born every minute 3. Because some of #2 were born with money, not brains
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If China's government is funding you, it's because they expect you to torpedo an American company. Their every move has an undercurrent of economic warfare meshed into the deal
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Rivian needs to get their Silicon Valley image under control. Don't get carried away spending that startup money on fancy offices and cringy ad campaigns. Word of mouth is what makes success in 2020 America. Not Monday Night Football ads, viral marketeers pretending to be real people on forum boards, and not hype train imagery with bizarre VR references. You only need 3 things: 1. It has to look sexy. This is where most American vehicles suffer. 2. It has to price right. This is where European vehicles used to suffer, and Japanese vehicles used to excel. 3. It has to surprise people with interesting capabilities, not bludgeon them with advertising BS.
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