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Instant correction needs to be a thing; and I say this as someone who posted shit to alt.tasteless on Usenet in the early 90s... ...that irreverence got morphed into horrible shit later on the internet

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(Laudatory and derogatory at the same time for all of them; tho that cpt did become a friend who once literally gave me the shirt off his back, and gave me a place to stay until I got back on my feet)

I was never in the military, but I am picking up on things like terminal Majors, E4 mafia, etc. etc. over time... Met one West Point ring-knocker who managed my plant, an Air Force Sgt dog handler who thought he could treat his subordinates like his dog, and an Army tank captain who attended A&M

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Nine Inch Nails - Closer But It's Funkytown By Lipps Inc.

OK. As someone who remembers both "Funkytown" and NIN "Closer" when they came out; I can't decide if this is amazing or blasphemy www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3m...

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YouTube video by William Maranci Mashups

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And here I thought large corporations had ruined flow charts by making them more vibes-based for the upper echelons instead of a step-by-step decision process anyone could follow

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Some of them are young and trying to be "edgy"; some are pretending to be left leaning to stir shit up. ...a lot of the "just trying to be edgy, man" will end up shitheels; viz 4-Chan and Something Awful

Surprising not the see him; but dunno when this pic was taken. He'd have been there in the 70s for sure

Hm. I have thoughts. Not the least of which is, if this is a knock and announce instead of a no-knock (why would they announce if it was?), 5 seconds is... not enough. I think there's case law that says 11 seconds between announce and breach; but I've seen SWAT teams get around that.

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Those fuckin' plastic masks, man; couldn't see shit and the inside dripped with humidity from your breath. But, how else were you going to be The Incredible Hulk in 1977?

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Although... ...can't be sure these guys did, these days

-dust cloud with stars shooting out and when it clears, everyone's handcuffed to everyone else (exaggeration; but...) Once watched a guy try to slam down the double-strand (non-moving) part of the cuff on a wrist... adrenalin had overrode his brain Techniques you learn in the Academy;or should've.

It can be a little difficult when the arrestee is passively resisting, but... yeah, they got in each other's way a lot and were having trouble manipulating the cuffs. Ideally the cuffs are preloaded and gripped so it is just click-click However, I've had enough encounters where it's a cartoon-

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Prolly shouldn't have chosen that Beatles quote; but... it was right there

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Um. OK. This may sound weird to anyone who has not carried a weapon as part of their day to day on the off chance that someone might want to kill them, but... Happiness is a warm gun; but also knowing you have that gun just in case; because you (realistically) might need it

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Don't care what gun, platform, manufacturer, caliber, or ammo manufacturer; find your woobie and embrace it. If you got several woobies, like me, embrace them all. The best tool is the tool you have right now

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-a few because 1) I have one, 2) I have or can get or reload ammo readily; and... most important... When I carried one, it was like a warm security blanket. I may fuck up, but the gun won't. I know just how to shoot it and have practiced that a million times in a million scenarios. A woobie.

-have had *many* favorite calibers, manufacturers, platforms, and ammo brands in my life, because I had to trust my life to this gun, and wanted to make the best decision as Departmental Armorer as to what our agency should select-changing horses midstream costs money-and have settled on-

I saw that! Many recollections on how their 1076s or other brands were taken away and scrapped. OK. I preach that "you should be able to shoot with any gun put in front of you" (within reason; show me any belt fed and I'll be "uhhh, I read an article about this once"); but... I have and-

...especially depending on the scale

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How to Paint PE Instrument Panels Easily | Simple & Realistic Technique

Hm. Some interesting techniques for brass military model control panels with UV resin... bookmark; but I want light through my panels like real world. This was a lot of work; but *lighted* panels are a new layer of work and realism www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nug...

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YouTube video by SB Scale Model Working

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My villain side kinda scares me, TBH; milquetoast tho I may be.

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Just putting "7 fundamentals of marksmanship" into google gets you a zillion different answers; most good, because... hey... this is a known thing; and then some that go off the rails just for clicks

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Despite how much seed corn we put out. *skill issue*

DON'T YOU EVER BADMOUTH FRED!! *spoken by someone who watched that movie waaaaay too many times, sometimes because it was the only VHS tape in the hunt camp trailer on a weekend where we didn't bag anything*

7 fundamentals; *everything* else follows from those... they just get more dynamic the more you learn.

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Usually at this point if I'm just out of touch someone would weigh in and say "Well, ackshully; it helps with this"; but I can't see any scenario where this is a good idea.

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If you still have the beard, that seems to confuse folks as well.

-a better description, was a 90s "hippie" and hated her dad; and, well, I guess that fits.

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That's... a weird cognitive dissonance. I had a UN Black Helicopter/New World Order paranoid living next to me once who loved me because I was a cop with a take-home car and a firearms instructor. Kept giving me paranoid small-press publisher gun paranoia books to read. His daughter, for lack of-

Especially those few along Lumpkin that used to yell slurs from their porch at blacks or homosexuals walking back from downtown after the bars closed until someone challenged them... those of us on foot patrol would congregate in the bushes across the street at 2am just *waiting* for an excuse

(also, I don't know what the *Cool Operators* are doing these days and never really was one; but I think the basic fundamentals of marksmanship and a cool head will get you through most things)

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Although, I suppose, if you know this weapon inside and out you could zero at any distance and know how to adjust from there on the fly, but... Yeah. Don't think you have much to worry about with that one.He'll prolly sort himself out, darwin-wise, before Der Tag.

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I... I just gotta wonder what Yoo-Choob right-wing gun-tuber told him that was necessary for his survival, or was tactical, or what the Cool Operators are doing If you can't hit the target at 5 yards with a rifle... much less a snub-nose revolver... it ain't your zero that's the problem

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The biggest threat to any nation's national security is always a horny dick

Gotta say, though it might not be what a professional LE is supposed to do, but... ...We used to *pray* for a call to a brawl at a frat house so we could wade in and settle the matter. I don't think any of us liked frats or frat boys.

Getting into some of their heads enough to flesh them out can be kinda scary, if the character is a psycho. I wrote one violent murder scene for a novel (never published, just like me) and reading it a few days later was thinking "Geeeebus keeerist! What's wrong with you?"

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. ... 5 yards?

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*spends way too much time reading the thread* There was soooo much shit shooters heard through the grapevine or saw in a sort of sketch gun mag that became Absolute Fact™️for them that it gets really hard to so separate what actually happened vs. popular lore; and I've fallen victim to a few them

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Same, with interruptions... if it's something big, I'll need hours uninterrupted, maybe days; and some of that will time will be refreshing myself where I'm at and getting back to the mindsets of the characters.

I had recently filled the bird feeder, so they were probably waiting for the next one to show up

From behind? Size, mostly; and demeanor... Tippy and Zoomy have about the same size skeleton, but Tippy weighs more. Boo-Boo is a little smaller than Kenzie.