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Ways to get Kicked Out of Walmart

Start giving product advice using non-sequirters as mnemonic devices, such as the fact that a quarter-inch wood dowel will fit in your ear, but a three-eigth inch one will not (but it will fit up your nose, while a half-inch dowel will not).

And the oil based paint cans tastes funny.

Also, determining unlabeled petroleum products by scent.

Gooooood Moooorning Viiiieeetnaaaaam!

My late next door nieghbor was unfortunate enough to be on New Guinea by Christmas of 1942. Had a very detailed description of a halftrack plowing through the woods (driver dead), on fire, until it became wedged between two trees. Treads spinning in the air.

It took 2 weeks to recover the remains of the driver.

Six months later, the British forces in the area had confirmed that the Japanese were cannibalizing the dead, wounded, and captured.

Ultimately, what they went through was dusted-off, polished a bit, and turned into official US policy just in time for Vietnam.
-Including landing planes in elephant-grass up to your head.

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A paymaster descibed how -in order to avoid snipers- the truck carrying him would not stop to let him off, instead it would slow down to about 30 mph, and two guys would catapult him out the back, he'd perform a half-turn in mid-air, and land running for the nearest ditch armed with just a pistol and payroll for an entire battalion.

Getting picked up was never really described. But it probably involved being a human-mailbag. At night. With the driver in blackout conditions.

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On a lighter note: Tony Stark impersonating Nick Fury.

Ban the Person above you

Banned for letting Clem pet your avatar, but then clem realizes is only a shadow, which cannot be of the petted.

obsolete

It's pretty much stumbling upon computer-esperento and thinking it'll replace english and chinese as the two most widespread languages on Earth. (Russian, Spanish, French, and German are still relevant, I guess)

New language, totally revolutionary... only spoken by nerdy AIs with no real ability to do anything, and of no value when trying to get fleshy meatbags to do your bidding.

Gooooood Moooorning Viiiieeetnaaaaam!

>The moment when your knowledge is completely blown out of the water and your history dick seems really really tiny.

Well shit, you guys should just GM this.

@Lady Selune

I've had decades to study and interview people on the subject. Everyone from mech-infantry, LOACH-pilots, paymasters, and coast gaurdsmen, to fighter stick jockies and pig-gunners.
-I've been told it gets annoying when I try getting into the specifics, as some of them had the luck of Jack Lucas and John Ripley.

>That moment you you realize your birthdate is closer to the Vietnam war than it is to today.
-By nearly a decade

Ban the Person above you

Banned for demanding refunds from a cat.

Gooooood Moooorning Viiiieeetnaaaaam!

Oh, and this is a thing that happened.

NYC to Vietnam beer-run, 1968.

Gooooood Moooorning Viiiieeetnaaaaam!

I kinda like detachment B-52 of Delta. Something about resorting to treating special-operators like a triple slung load under a huey and the unfortunate consequences when the cargo doesn't quite make it into the straps.
(or the whole list of everything that can go wrong)

Projects Gamma (B-57)* and Sigma (Bravo-5-6)** were also things.

Also, hardest moment to watch of BAT*21:
"I say again, is it the pilot?"

*In 1969, the intellegence-gathering network had been compromised, extensive burn-notice throughout Cambodia... huge rescue-affair and assasination mission ensued. Buzzword that followed in a Senate inquiry: "Terminate with extreme prejudice" / "You have failed me for the last time" > You are in command, Admiral.

Then there's the "Regional/Popular Forces" AKA: "Ruff-Puffs", ARVN militia. Mid-war, the USMC tended to implement a few men per platoon with some success. Despite the average grunt only recieving ten days of training in the vietnamese language (causing plenty of communication barriers, amonst other problems).

-PFs were intended to be purely defensive, having some sort of occupation precluding them from actual deployment, but trained more-or-less as minutemen. This changed for the worse towards the end of the war.
-RFs were closer to 3rd-line national-gaurd with WW2 era equipment and scavenged stuff, patroling rear areas "of strategic importance" (such as some wealthy landowner rubber-plantation).

How they were treated by the VC is pretty straightforward.

Gooooood Moooorning Viiiieeetnaaaaam!

Oh good, this plot is sliding forwards again.