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The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo
pigrabbitbear writes "It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot blue desert sky. Inside, Ed Atchley had set up a booth for his company, Aspen Water Inc., right next to a 30mm chain gun designed to sink things like helicopters and Somali pirate ships. Atchley had traveled from his headquarters in Richardson, Texas, to the largest weapons trade show in the world, mainly because he makes 'the army's smallest, lightest, least expensive, high output, reverse osmosis water purifier,' he says, and people in the Middle East – including soldiers – get very thirsty."
Actually, those booths should be sitting next to each other. All the high tech drones, big guns, fighters, bombers, and armor doesn't mean much if your soldiers starve or run out of water. Sun Tzu said as much -- it was pretty much chapter 1 of The Art of War. It may not be very sexy, but it's like saying the internet is important... and electricity isn't.
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Unfortunately, at the weapons show, more of the attendees were probably interested in ways to keep this product out of the hands of "certain people" than buying it for themselves.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"designed to sink things like helicopters and Somali pirate ships."
I'd like to know how you sink a helicopter.
"Is it hot in Chad?"
The article is an obvious piece of PR disguised as informative journalism. I guess getting your sales pitch on slashdot is easier than renting billboards. Would not read again.
Is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators!
Showering sure is easier if you don't have to ask the military for permission.
Are you practicing medicine...or weapons repair.
It's not senseless murder. There is a lot of money to be made. In fact, it is one of the few industries that are booming today. Done correctly, murder can be highly profitable for the murderer (displace an ethnic minority to take their land, kill people opposing your government, stealing riches, protect your religion for heretics/infidels, etc.).
What? Do you hate economic growth? The rich killing the poor is what had created most of the developed nations of the world.
Senseless? Few people kill just for the fuck of it.
Now, whether you agree with a US soldier's rationale for killing a 12yo boy or an Al-Qaeda follower planting an IED that kills whoever detonates it is a different story, but they all have a definite rationale.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
...the stillsuit or the lasgun?
This technology could have quite a few peaceful uses as well.
You know those people you're talking about? The people trying to senselessly murder innocent people? Yeah, pretty much the only way to stop them is to kill them.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
I take it you're pro-death and torment from your request he "burn", right?
no be have to fully punch chad out for it to count
Gee I'm thirsty, I think I'll pull out my AK shoot you and steal your water purifier.
The Nicest Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo
If you want to publicise the work of some actual nice guys, what about those people who go into warzones simply to provide this kind of facility (some even do it for free, the gall of these people!) to those who are suffering because they happen to live in the middle of a war they want no part in?
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I have to disagree with you.
The senseless murder of people by other people has been going on for a long time and will unfortunately continue for at least the near future. But developing and producing better water purifiers does nothing to encourage it.
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Perhaps a correction to the headline is in order: The Nicest Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo If you want to publicise the work of some actual nice guys, what about those people who go into warzones simply to provide this kind of facility (some even do it for free, the gall of these people!) to those who are suffering because they happen to live in the middle of a war they want no part in?
Potable water is the most critical resource on the planet. The wars of the future will not be fought over access to oil or nuclear fuel, they'll be fought over water shortages.
Anything that makes water easier to obtain will save lives in the long run, even if it's being used chiefly by the military today.
Maybe he meant "senseless to a sensible person." Also, I think you meant rationalization, not rationale.
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Rodney King asked: "Can't we all just get along?"
Several thousand years of human history demonstrate that the general answer is a resounding "No!".
Many of us can get along with at least some of the others out there some of the time, but thinking that we all have nothing but peace love and singing Kumbaya in our hearts is wishfull thinking.
Oh, we might become that way at some point in the future. But, I think it would take some massive genetic/social engineering or eugenic breeding.
And I'm not sure what you'd end up with would be what you really wanted, or could really be called human.
So, until you come up with the right kind of magic pixie dust that makes us all like the angelic ones in My Little Pony you'll just have to deal with an imperfect world.
'An army marches on its stomach.'
'C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat.'
Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
fuck it tapped 100 a few times here in the states last week, besides why is this guy nice? Cause he wants to sell technology to any army that pays him enough, well just call him Jesus fucking Saint Humanity!
Definition of SENSELESS:
b : foolish, stupid: it was some senseless practical joke — A. Conan Doyle
c : meaningless: a senseless murder
He probably meant it as "meaningless" I'm guessing. As in, it's meaningless to resort to violence when it only makes the problem worst.
Who is the sensible person? We Westerners really think that we are sensible, and that those Ay-rabs are bat shit crazy, but Mohamed Atta thought it was imminently sensible to fly a plane into the WTC, and there's nothing we can so or say that will convince millions of Muslims otherwise.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
He was trying to save people from the dehydration. Stop picking on the poor water distribution engineer.
Since the core issue is one of faith you will still have people fighting over the radioactive glass if we were to remove the land in question. Thus there will never be an agreeable settlement on all sides since the faiths in question separated over there issues, most of the west does not even realize that Muslims are a splinter faith from Judaic traditions. These guys have built there temples over each other as a way of spitting on something to say it's yours.
No sir I dont like it.
Could, and does. FTFA:
Since those legal hurdles were resolved, Aspen Water has been growing, distributing fresh water systems to militaries around the world and in humanitarian crises.
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
I think what drives more U.S. Soldiers to commit suicide than are actually killed in combat, is that it's often the case that the Al-Qaeda follower planting an IED is a 12 year old boy
I had to be Fair And Balanced (no, I don't watch FNC) as a sop to left wing America-hating pansies who blindly deny that there are groups of people in the world more Eeeevil that the US Military.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
In most of the world it's more like:
Gee I'm thirsty. So are my wife, six children, handful of cows, and all the people I know in my village. I don't have any way to dig a well deep enough to give me sufficient water, much less my family and friends who are also thirsty.
But we do have a lot of guns and bullets.....
It's a very shitty situation, and I think your logic is inappropriately reductionist and simple minded.
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The US military isn't evil it just follows the orders of the scumbag 1% who own the US government. The invasion of Iraq had only one driver to get Bush's croony oil folks rich'er. Everything else was a smoke screen for stupid people.
More damage has been done to other humans in the name of religion then any other factor.
Nice trite accusation, but you should really study more history, because you are way off base here,
It has one definite advantage; it allows forces that could not normally live off the land to occupy areas without good drinking water. Drinkable water facilitates the movement of troops. If troops can not go there they can not hold ground. I am not saying that military forces are a bad thing but that creating drinking water for military forces is very similar to the the creation of military rations; they both have military application.
Moral of the story? Make pots.
Well, the socialists want to legalize pot, but you neocons won't let them.
We can ruthlessly butcher the Muzzi-wog by the 10s-of-millions till they eat batshiit and live in caves with scorpions and iguanas. Kinda like 18-th Century invader-bashing "before the gates of Vienna" only we take-no-prisoners. He wins and writes history who piles the bodies highest!
Until rain becomes contaminated this is not going to be a world wide issue. There are a few places that are having issues with potable water such as the Nile and the Ganges but most of the world will not have that issue. With solar energy and contaminated water portable water is one step away.
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It is funny how people think that all military forces are bad. While it would be nice if there was absolutely no military forces in the world but that will never happen. It is human nature to want something someone else has and to want to protect what one has (which can soon morph into we have these forces and they have what we want). In every conflict there is at least one aggressor and at least one defender. In general I side with the defenders; taking land by force is wrong. In my mind the defending force are the good guys. They too need armaments and ammunition which is why I see not issues with military expos.
Whether or not a military force is a good or bad this is a moot point. It is how the people, through their elected officials, use their military forces on other countries that matters. As examples: North Korea, pretty bad; Canada damn good.
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Would have broken the rules of the jihad if it came to empire collapse. Since I have no one else to geek talk some dune with : P
so why do you have 6 children if you can't even afford to feed yourself and your wife? this is that poor mentality I don't get.. "I'm poor so lets fuck a lot have pump out the kids". If the society was agrarian, I'd understand, but I'm talking about places that are desert.
When you see the US espouse itself as a pinnacle of freedom and justice occupy another country for 11 years, taking resources and torturing prisoners, it should be unsurprising that a lot of people cry foul. The US military is hardly the worst in the world, but it is the most visible, and it is hardly a bunch of white knights riding in on horses and serving up happiness, rainbows, and puppies.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
The capability was even their when norma cenva created the fist fold ships from a knowledge standpoint, the rules of the jihad where the only thing keeping computational devieces from controlling fold ships. Although it was said they had way more of an accident margin compard to navigators due to the strangeness of the holztman equations.
The lighter the tail, the better, but too light and the beast dies. It's hard to achieve a good balance, and unfortunately politics plays a role, with all the kingdom building and buying things that need too much maintenance.
I mean seriously; armies need to make roads with gravel too. Just like they need a specific manufacturer's water purifier, which is worthy of slashdot's attention.
30 mm, not 30mm.
and most military expos are not about selling protection to democracies.
selling land mines has no legitimate military purpose. we still do it.
selling weapons to dictators has no legitimate diplomatic purpose, other than enabling one to kill a bunch of people from another. in the cold war, you could argue that was meaningful. the cold war is over. what is the argument now?
And the "home of the free" legalized slavery for 89 years and now wants to tell people how much Coke they can drink in one serving.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Done correctly, murder can be highly profitable for the murderer (displace an ethnic minority to take their land, kill people opposing your government, stealing riches, protect your religion for heretics/infidels, etc.).
Stab a rich guy in the alley and take his wallet...
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
this is that poor mentality I don't get.. "I'm poor so lets fuck a lot have pump out the kids".
What's not to get. It's like nine months after a significant power failure. What else are you going to do?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Actually, for most of these people, having a lot of children is the only for old age pension that they can ever have. They have 6+ children so that the odds of at least one of them reaching 20 years old is reasonable. Infant mortality rates in some parts of the word are greater than 20% and this is a big improvement over the last few decades. I am astounded you don't know that. Perhaps a little more empathy for these desperately poor people would help come up with better solutions. This is why education of women is the only cure for over population: it allows the women to make informed decisions about health and family planning. It also gives them a degree of independance making them not entirely dependant on their reletives.
Seeing US troops in the middle eased greased up to the eyeballs on LSD would be worth the cost.
Perhaps we could crowd source funding?
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Indeed!
Religion is the biggest excuse for killing not the biggest cause. The cause is always power. Power from owning land, resources, strategic positions or influence. The only other cause of killing is insanity, insanity as a result of disease, poverty, oppression, etc.
Power or insanity.
Religion brings them both together in one package, so its often cited as the cause.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
The people of Iraq are better off now than in the past 50 years. Whatever the agenda may have been the end result is a net gain in freedom for the people of earth.
Look at Saddam's son who would have followed him as the dictator there and would now be in power if Iraq had not been invaded. People tend to forget about how really evil that family was.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
The people of Iraq are better off now than in the past 50 years. Whatever the agenda may have been the end result is a net gain in freedom for the people of earth.
Look at Saddam's son who would have followed him as the dictator there and would now be in power if Iraq had not been invaded. People tend to forget about how really evil that family was.
And yet we (the U.S.A.) were responsible for putting Saddam into power. So if he is the ultimate horror, what are we?
glad to know you will stay with us as an AC angel after the death of your /. account .
we will avenge you somehow !
Until rain becomes contaminated this is not going to be a world wide issue. There are a few places that are having issues with potable water such as the Nile and the Ganges but most of the world will not have that issue. With solar energy and contaminated water portable water is one step away.
I think it's already portable, it's just heavy that it's difficult to move a lot of it unless you can channel it downhill ;-)
Seriously, on the larger issue I couldn't disagree more. Google gives lots of good stuff. The very first document says: "Our Bottom Line: During the next 10 years, many countries important to the United States will experience water problems—shortages, poor water quality, or floods—that will risk instability and state failure, increase regional tensions, and distract them from working with the United States on important US policy objectives. Between now and 2040, fresh water availability will not keep up with demand absent more effective management of water resources. Water problems will hinder the ability of key countries to produce food and generate energy, posing a risk to global food markets and hobbling economic growth. As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems.
Filtering dirty water to make it useful for crops or washing your car is easy. Filtering it (cheaply) to make it drinkable is much harder. Desalinating it, as this does, is more difficult still, and usually very energy intensive.
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People tend to forget about how really evil that family was.
People also forget that Iraq was a US ally before Saddam Hussein came to power. You know, like China (communist), Cuba (communist), and Iran (Militant theocracy, think Israel).
Once Saddam gained power via a US-led coup and directed his vitriol to the US plutocracy, Iraq went from donkeys and dirt to cars and highways. He also kept an open dialog with the USA until G Bush junior. Most likely, G Bush senior considered Iraq to be a friendly country, even when Saddam threatened his Kuwaiti oil-rigs.
Combat is almost over, so the suicide rate is reasonably likely to exceed combat deaths.
"is that it's often the case that the Al-Qaeda follower planting an IED is a 12 year old boy"
Since when are there many "Al Qaeda" followers and since when is mining commonly being done by 12-year olds?
The usual reasons for checking out have more to do with young marrieds coming UN-married as lonely wives get stuffed while the husband is deployed. Anyone pulling First Sergeant duty in war or peace or in-between gets to counsel lots of troops with domestic dramas. (That's a drawback to having a married force. IMO the military should pay SINGLE troops more and discourage marriage, but the GOP would come unglued...)
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Do you hate economic growth? The rich killing the poor is what had created most of the developed nations of the world.
At the very least doing so will increase the average richness of the people!
I would expect the peaceful/civilian market for such a system to be far greater than the military market. Also for more permanent installations. Plenty of communities that have a problem getting enough potable water. And it could have use in shipping industry too, saving the vessels to carry (and keep fresh) large amounts of water for long periods of time.
As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems.
That is exactly what I said; water will not be an issue in the entire Western Hemisphere and much of the Eastern as well. Those areas listed make up only a small part of the world and water supply is not a world issue.
Filtering dirty water to make it useful for crops or washing your car is easy. Filtering it (cheaply) to make it drinkable is much harder. Desalinating it, as this does, is more difficult still, and usually very energy intensive.
Do you notice that most of those places are very sunny and solar power is abundant? It will cost money to build and maintain these plants but it is still less than full scale war. On the other hand, perhaps people should move to places where there is water.
You and Nutria must be adults from your Slashdot ID #. Yet you talk like a bunch of junior high students who just want to smash the system!
Only for a very short time.
> Atchley had traveled from his headquarters in Richardson, Texas, to the largest weapons trade show in the world, mainly because he makes 'the army's smallest, lightest, least expensive, high output, reverse osmosis water purifier,' he says, and people in the Middle East – including soldiers – get very thirsty."
Who cares a damn? The Hungarian Military has had this capability for a decade to mobile purify putrified puddle-water in the field and offered it left and right to NATO and Uncle Sam to deploy to the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. However, US Mil will not use anything but bottled water and bottled cola and pre-bottled whatever, no matter how much it costs to haul Evian across the oceans and how much logistics headache that causes.
The czech-slovak military, who specialize in bio-chem warfare detection and warning are now much better off, because that is one good scare excuse to have at hand, so they are asked to deploy to most everywhere overseas. The downside is sometimes the Don asks them to detect threats that do not exist, but are needed for scaremongering at the UN and among NATO allies. The polish specialize in spec-ops missions and they have losses, but they are very close to USA and can get a lot of advanced, restricted export gear, although not for cheap.
Not that you're wrong about water being vital, but it's availability is very much dependent on "oil or nuclear fuel". It's not like there isn't enough water to go around, it's just that it's either in the wrong place or not drinkable. Both of those problems are trivially solvable with sufficient application of energy.
stalin, mao-tse-tung and pol pot in the name of their atheist philosophy together killed more people than anyone even claiming to be a religious person(s).
Yes the Communists and the Nazis were just peace loving agnostic/atheists groups.
Saying religion is the problem is oversimplifying the problem. Is religion used in an excuse to make war, yes. Is religion an excuse to make peace, yes.
Religion is only one way we consider our identity. So we will support our peers of like minds. Take away religion we will fight for other thing, political ideals, resources, borders, race and ethnicity, moral code, social class status.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Because Sadam was better then getting a communist supporter in power. Sometimes you need to choose from the lesser of two evils. The USSR with nukes pointing at you, or put a crazy man who will not join the side with all those nukes pointing at you, we will deal with the crazy man later. Just like FDR working with Stallin in WWII the communists were a threat to America, but Germany was a bigger threat.
Sometimes in life you get places where you need to take the least bad action.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
In general, the Military does not start wars, Politicians start wars by telling the military who to attack. "War is the extension of politics by use of force" or words to that effect.
I have tremendous respect for the US Military, its members etc. I have a lot less respect for the rich and powerful who get their politician underlings to order the invasion of a country so they can secure oil and make big profits off of the support contracts for all the troops that get sent. Anyone US soldier who died in Iraq did so not only because the enemy killed them, but also in part because they were sent there by people seeking economic gain.
Almost every war is economic at heart, and the soldiers sent to fight it are merely tools used by Politicians to achieve their goals. This does not in any way denigrate the dedication of those troops who get sent to the war IMHO.
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And how many of those countries that the US has "invaded" in the past 100 years have they kept, and while yes we have killed innocents and tortured prisoners, but in compared to what and whom? I'm thinking Sadam had us easily beat in that department, same goes for the Taliban, VC, the N Koreans, the Russians, the Japanese, the Nazis, the Mexians, the Spanish, the English, and everyone else we have ever fought? (I'll give you the Native Americans we were pretty big douche bags towards them.)
I honestly wish it were about resources such as oil. At least then I'd know we'd get out after they ran out. No it's about a far worse thing called ideals, which unfortunately seems to constantly cause us trouble and never runs out.
My personal belief system dictates that we should stay out of wars and mind our own business, but if another country insists by threatening us and actually poses a real threat, the only reasonable response is the utter annihilation of the leadership and major populations that support them ie a spread of nukes on their major cities. We'd only need to do that once or twice a century to keep the lesson fresh. Most "threats" today are "little dogs barking" and warrent nothing more than a sharp hard kick rather in the full military mobilizations we've been doing.
You might be right about power, but religion feed off of power and power feeds off of religion. Reason is much harder to find when you start off life inside a lie.
Having spent some time in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Oman, I can assert that they don't waste a lot of water on frivolous things like showers.
No they want to restrict a business from selling over sized cups of sugary beverages, just like they restrict the serving sizes of alcoholic beverages.
Oh and your pathetic attempt at linking slavery to Coke sales earns you the highly valued "Twit of the Week" award.
The people of Iraq are better off now than in the past 50 years.
What!? Are you auditioning for the job of the new Iraqi Information Minister? ( replacing Comical Ali, aka Baghdad Bob.)
Spoken like a true Armchair General....
First Sergeant is a rank in the military, not a duty position. And nobody who knew anything about the military would call a 1SG a duty position.
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Actually the Taiping Rebellion was led by a Christian visionary called Hong Xiuquan and almost certainly killed more people than any of those three.
It doesn't feature much in Western history so it gets overlooked.
Done correctly, murder can be highly profitable for the murderer (displace an ethnic minority to take their land, kill people opposing your government, stealing riches, protect your religion for heretics/infidels, etc.).
Stab a rich guy in the alley and take his wallet...
That just makes Batman.
I thought estimates for deaths under stalin was 20 million on the low side to 40 million on the high side?
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
Yeah you're right, taking into account the massive differences in estimations depending on who you read, I shouldn't have said 'certainly killed more people'.
Looks like they were probably evenly matched, although Stalin was in power for a lot longer than the 15 years of the Taiping Rebellion.
Was trying to make the point that I've heard this 'biggest killers were all atheists' stuff before and it isn't really true.
..tries to sell water purifier.
He considers the target market and decides to try and sell to people who work in places where there is a shortage of water.
What's the story again?
You mean to say that those three killed more together than Hitler, the Inquisition, the crusades, both world wars and the handful of wars in recent times?
Also, it was a communist (maoist) philosophy, not atheist. Atheism (the philosophy) did not influence their decisions.
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I don't know if you were being sarcastic but just to make clear: the Nazi's were very, very much Christian. The SS belt buckle had "God with us" on it and Hitler was raised Catholic and always claimed to be a Christian but wanted to actually create a more extreme form of Christianity and make himself the Messiah.
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Sometimes in life you get places where you need to take the least bad action.
In America we call that "an election"
Move to where? Immigration rules usually stop it if you have to go to another country to find abundant water.
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When you see the US espouse itself as a pinnacle of freedom and justice occupy another country for 11 years, taking resources and torturing prisoners.
What resources is the US taking? Yep, I agree with you about torturing prisoners, but my understanding (from limited reading) is that the US is doing a damn poor job getting the resources from Iraq. You would think that if the US takes over a country for their oil (or whatever else), that it would end up controlling that oil. But, instead, it's not, which means that not only is the US a bully, it isn't even taking the lunch money. Please let me know if my understanding is wrong.
And think how much economic stimulus Batman has pumped into the economy over the years acquiring all his wonderful toys. If you believe in trickle down effect, this should be good for everyone.
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. The USSR with nukes pointing at you, or put a crazy man who will not join the side with all those nukes pointing at you, we will deal with the crazy man later.
You know, while the average person on the street was all whipped up into a froth over nukes in Russia, I'm not sure that anyone actually making decisions was. Kim-Jong is a little scary, though.
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Then perhaps immigration rules are the issue.
Don't believe AC that the US installed the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party into power.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
I have tremendous respect for the US Military
Support the troops: bring them home?
I have a lot less respect for the rich and powerful who get their politician underlings to order the invasion of a country so they can secure oil and make big profits
Shades of Smedley Butler...
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
So... Without Batman, Wayne Industries would have specialized in porn, DRM, and GMO crops?
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First Shirt is, in the Air Force, a Special Duty Assignment. Scroll down in your own reference!
It is common to pull "alternate First Sergeant" and at least in the Air Force there are more of them than the official, diamond-wearing one-per-unit variety.
When the Shirt deploys or goes on leave, his duty doesn't go away. The alternates get to take up the slack and can be on call if he can't be reached.
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First, I know very few Air Force personnel who have been in any situation in which they are in direct combat with the enemy. That's to say, I know they are out there and a lot of them are bad ass (let's avoid the "Air Force fights" flames). However most of the Air Force spends more time putting gel in their hair and hanging out at the MWR tent in theater than doing anything else. SOURCE: been there, done that.
While you may be right about the Air Force, in both the Army and Marines, it is not a special duty assignment. Since we were discussing direct combat with the enemy, it is heavily implied that we are speaking about the Army and Marines, as they are the most likely to engage a 12-year old al-Qaeda fool planting a bomb on the side of the road.
Given that, in the Army and Marines, a duty position is "CQ runner" or "KP" or "tower guard". First Sergeant is a rank, generally E-8. However it can be given to any NCO with a memo written by a O-5 or above to indicate that the person has been awarded the title of First Sergeant and wear the rank, yet still be in the same pay grade (E-7, etc). SOURCE: had to deal with my crappy PSG being the 1SG while we were deployed.
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I find it odd that if A is the complete opposite of B, that people still attribute A to B despite all other evidence just to protect their point of world view or in order to mentally win their argument.
If that is so, then give your home, car, & iPad away and go back to wherever your ancestors originated. Oh, you're tied to those. Hypocrisy, how does it work again?
The fact that hard work, sweat, and a populace having a sense of ethics make developed countries is lost on your mind scrambled by years of Maoist indoctrination in public schools.
The only resources the US has been taking are those of our citizens...and redistributing them in Afganistan and Iraq. If it was the other way around, we'd be getting rich here in the US...instead we're spending all our resources on roads, bribes, construction, keeping of the peace, and other measures abroad.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
No they want to restrict a business from selling over sized cups of sugary beverages, just like they restrict the serving sizes of alcoholic beverages.
All of which the Constitution authorizes the government to do....correct?
Oh and your pathetic attempt at linking slavery to Coke sales earns you the highly valued "Twit of the Week" award.
And your blindingly ignorant, short sighted, and stupid apology for fascism earns you the "Traitor to Liberty of the Year" "award."
we have killed innocents and tortured prisoners, but in compared to what and whom?
What meaning is any comparison?
Does it make the people we've tortured and murdered hurt less or feel less dead if we're not AS evil as some other total shitholes?
This does not in any way denigrate the dedication of those troops who get sent to the war IMHO.
Sure it does. Why would anyone respect a tool? The thugs in power certainly don't.
U.S. Air Force veteran speaking.
First, I know very few Air Force personnel who have been in any situation in which they are in direct combat with the enemy.
That speaks to your own ignorance more than anything else.
However most of the Air Force spends more time putting gel in their hair and hanging out at the MWR tent in theater than doing anything else. SOURCE: been there, done that.
Yeah, and most of the Army spends their time drooling on their shirts .... or filling out Air Force transfer paperwork.
While you may be right about the Air Force, in both the Army and Marines, it is not a special duty assignment. Since we were discussing direct combat with the enemy, it is heavily implied that we are speaking about the Army and Marines, as they are the most likely to engage a 12-year old al-Qaeda fool planting a bomb on the side of the road.
Nice ASSumptions
My unit in the Air Force was a Combat Communications Squadron. Where do you suppose that name came from?
Given that, in the Army and Marines, a duty position is "CQ runner" or "KP" or "tower guard". First Sergeant is a rank, generally E-8. However it can be given to any NCO with a memo written by a O-5 or above to indicate that the person has been awarded the title of First Sergeant and wear the rank, yet still be in the same pay grade (E-7, etc). SOURCE: had to deal with my crappy PSG being the 1SG while we were deployed.
Cool story bro
That's to say, I know they are out there and a lot of them are bad ass (let's avoid the "Air Force fights" flames).
Yeah, ignore what is right in front of you. Real easy to cherry-pick a statement, change the context, and make it say something else.
If you were actually a forward air controller, then you would fall under the "bad ass" category, just like PJ's and some SF (security forces, not special forces). If you submitted their leave forms and fetched the coffee for the Commander, then not so much. So what was your actual job series, not your Unit's name?
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Look, nobody wants to claim Hitler as one of their own. Self-admitted fascists look down on him for giving their ideology a bad name, and the Chaplin mustache will likely never be popular again. Reasonable. However, he was raised Catholic, and wasn't excommunicated. That makes him Catholic. The use of religious phrases and what not throughout his government indicated it meant something to him. Sure, he might not believe what you believe, but even a brief examination of the history of Christianity will reveal that the same is true of basically all of them, too. Belief is a varied thing.
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You haven't provided enough info to argue that the Nazis were Christian. "God with us" -- every monotheistic religion could say that (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc.). And no form of Christianity holds that you can become the Messiah -- so if Adolph started wanting that, it wasn't a "more extreme form of Christianity," it was a rejection of Christianity and a pure power grab.
Former Air Force here. Look. You were wrong. You got called out on it. Admit you were wrong and let it go instead of getting into service rivalry pissing matches, aright? It's pretty irrelevant to the original conversation, and adds nothing to this article. Let it go.
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When I look at the images, it might be great for large amount of people. However for the soldier in the field there is the Lifesaver. Also available in bottle and in jerrycan sizes.
The HUGE advantage is that it can be easily used, does not need any maintenance and can be used by anybody. Yes, larger ones are available as well.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Anyone pulling First Sergeant duty
That's what was said, not "Anyone pulling First Sergeant duty in the Air Force" So while I may have been wrong about 1 out of 3 of the services which have First Sergeant rank, I am correct about 2 out of 3. OP is correct about 1 out of 3 services, and incorrect about 2 out of 3.
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Precisely. Thank you EvilHamster
The high birthrate in the developing and least developed world stems from two hard facts:
Most women there are either subjugated to the point of essentially being property, or are very poor and have little to no access to healthcare, so it follows that they are undereducated or completely uneducated. Consequently many women rely on superstition for birth control, or know about it but can't afford birth control. In much of Africa husbands will harm or even kill their wives if they take charge of their fertility in any way shape or form. That's a pretty big deterrent.
Secondly, the infant mortality rate in many developing or least developed countries is so high that the only chance of having a child that lives to adulthood is to have many children and hope for the best.
And on another note, many people (a little below 50%) in the third world do have to subsistence farm, and are agrarian to some extent. Even when they live in a desert they have to eat and make a living somehow.
Hectice, baby, Mercator says hello to you