Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

So would much of the world. And why tools, techniques and tactics aren't revealed. But, I'll give a pro tip, learn the culture, sociology and language for each adversary. That's how these companies and agencies did it.
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The thought betrays an understanding of the reality that exists, both there and well, everywhere. The majority of the populace really don't give a tinkerer's damn about politics or religion, they want to do that making a living, play with the kids, do the spouse, go to bed, get up in the morning, rinse and repeat. The mistake is presuming a monolithic block where no such thing exists anywhere on the planet, ever.
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I dunno, that one guy with a pro mask, every unit has "that one guy"... I was that other guy, the one standing smoking a cigarette inside of a cloud of RCA, shunting men to where I needed them and I'll feel irritated when I get the time later. Yeah, I was that prick that stood in a cloud of CS, CN, OC, whatever the lowest budget agent was that week and smoked a cigarette while directing men around to where they needed to be. Yeah, me and protests, I'll let somebody else be a soft target. I'll be bringing up the rear with a full case of beans, the Conventions be damned. Seriously though, that's always been a pet peeve on Hollywood crap, big badda boom, people go flying through the air in precisely the same way people don't fly, remain intact and yeah, nope. Loads of shredded and broken, tons of red stuff that the bodies are running out of, everyone's in shock as our central nervous system isn't constructed with extreme concussions in mind - as military medical science is finally discovering. The problem with tracers is, they work both ways. Blood, old medic's adage, eventually all bleeding will stop - react wrong, it'll stop the way you didn't want it to. Still, one other adage, "Don't get shot". The bodies in rooms, anything of intelligence value? As for war crimes, conducting war crimes is the swiftest way to find oneself in the midst of a reprisal, as the Waffen SS learned the hard way after summarily executing Allied prisoners. Another Hollywood gun is a lot newer, but we used similar for .50 BMG simulators, propane gas gun that has a spark plug to detonate the gas when the trigger is depressed. Then, there's CGI boom-boom-bang-bangs. Never ceases to amaze me on how quiet Hollywood guns are, as you said, shoot-em up inside of a room, end up with dead people and deaf people. Eh? MRAP, same with aircraft, fuel hungry beasts that eat spare parts for light snacks. The one area most frequently forgotten in films is, vehicles - armored or combat aircraft are fuel hungry as all hell. Hell, even Patton forgot that lesson and had to learn when his tanks exhausted their fuel until the fuelers caught up. The problematic White House assault is easy, Scotty fucked up with the transporter. That's why we said to never drink and beam. Damned senior officers always thinking that they're special... :P Whatever are you talking about with the sandbags? Every CSM worth his salt will want fresh sandbags, with fresh paint on both sides. Yeah, you know I had to go there. ;) The Beast is a tank that's disguised as a limo. Yeah, the hummer would've come apart like an opera singer at a rap concert. Current issue for Protective detail is the MP7, a wee bit of improvement over the 9x19.
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Have we been visited by aliens? Hell yeah, go to any international airport, you'll see them in droves. Add in non-tourist types, such as in the region around Roswell in its initial era of infamy and well, the area was teeming with aliens from all over Europe. Space aliens, not so much. Think on it, if you had the power of spaceflight, not just between planets, but between stars - trips that would take us literally thousands of years to die on, would you stop here to be dissected?
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@artisan002 what city was that? I am unaware of any city that still practiced those drills in that era and Philly was decidedly on a first strike list for the Navy yard and DPSC depot.
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Yes, they forgot ever since they voted the Almighty out of office and anointed Trump their god-emperor wannabe.
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@sixgunsymphony7408 yep. They're not built to defeat a heavy MG round, but to protect against small arms fire.
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@OOspazOO a Davy Crockett recoiless rocket nuke. A weapon that, we're I ordered to fire it, Sir would be urinating into a cup first, for Sir must be fucking high.
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I jokingly call LLMs for what they're damned close to, Chinese Rooms.
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I'm pretty sure that the movement in a year of a division's worth of personnel would also be noticeable by the increased number of flights required to move them all back and forth. And seeing them charged with war crimes over the Great Water Bottle Pallet caper would be entertaining. Although, I do know of some military cooks who could be charged with crimes against humanity, that's defensible due to just simple incompetence and nobody has criminalized that yet, lest entire governments end up in prison after their terms expired... I'll just get my hat...
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I dunno, that corn missile could do some damage. Didn't you watch The Croods? Don't eat that, it's new.
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@SpookyFow cool, someone else is taking notes. Nice to get unofficial notice, given how much official notice we already get as CDC's.
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@VictoriousGardenosaurus more like a weak wristed intimidation tactic, "I have a list and I'm putting your name on it". About as exciting as a gnat farting. Given Ryan and I are both cleared defense contractors and on more lists by more government than Carter ever had little liver pills. Usually, I offer the idiot a special cookie, fresh from the cat box. This specimen just didn't quite make the grade though. Probably butt sore because his god-emperor wannabe was a no-call, no-show to his own rally tonight.
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Well, that's why the Normandy landings failed and we never crossed the Rhine. Ribbon and pontoon bridges took way too much manpower that couldn't be protected, so Nazi Germany won the war. Oh wait, we did construct such structures under fire, extremely withering fire, kept them operational and prevailed. They're talking about a brigade sized element, meaning a battalion or two could be dedicated to security for the construction, maintaining it after, well ribbon bridges, which this floating dock and causeway essentially is, are not trivially destroyed. They're literally made to have the bejesus knocked out of them and quickly repaired. I'd not put men to live on the ground, patrol, sentries, OP's yes, ferry them back and forth, that whole armored landing vehicle thing does exist today. Keep the entire site a sterile area for a kilometer inland, if the Almighty shows up within the sterile area, bad things happen to the Creator. I understand that he's a pretty forgiving chap. And for every Iranian spurred idiocy, perhaps an old Iranian sea mine might float by chance into the Port of Abbas, which I'm sure would delight some of the bint haram brigade. As for employment campaigns, sounds workable, call it the Khalas, Hamas campaign. Might as well go with some psyops to keep everything well greased.
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@rickjames8317 yep. Google "Combat engineer boat". Those ribbon and pontoon bridges don't build themselves.
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