Afghanistan

[KellyinAvon]

Kelly,
Yeah I give you a NSN no matter the branch you pull it off a shelf or order it.
In Iraq they get it no problem normal business. In the Stan its a mystery.

I left the Supply Management career field in 1999 and I could still get you your part. It ain't rokkitt signs, but if you don't know 6 from blue? You ain't gettin a part.

 

[Libertarian01]

And that would be so stupid, it might just work for them! Do you think a bunch of nomadic goat buggerers that just got billions of dollars in aircraft (that will require some kind of runway) will think of that?

I picture much of the Taliban like Kruge, seen here:




They don't give a tinkers damn how much it screws them up, so long as it screws up their enemy WORSE.

Regards,

Doug

 

[Hatin Since 87]

but if you don't know 6 from blue? You ain't gettin a part.

Well that sucks for marines.

 

[bwframe]

Our next president...










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[Twangbanger]

Our next president...










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"What difference does it make?"

It's like they have a death wish to bring Trump back. She sounds like she is dumber than Biden was at that age.

 

[maxwelhse]

Teaching a monkey a math problem?

Patches O'houlihan said something about it... Something about a door knob...

 

[maxwelhse]

Every time they went over things in class (his example was how to land), all they would say is, "Yes, yes. I understand. No problem. I can do it." Then they would crash. He put it down to some sort of bull headed machismo that wouldn't allow them to look stupid or inferior.

I've run into this before in a different context with different people... It took me a long time to figure it out, and I'm not saying it's the same, but it was a cultural thing were the "yes, yes" and everything that came after it meant that they heard you speak the words. It didn't mean they understood the words. To them, it was as if I asked them "Can you hear me?"

There was also no solution to this problem, because if you saw me do it 100 times and heard me say it 100 times then you're just too dumb to do it if you still can't. I just found it to be an interesting difference in culture.

 

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Brain Mast is a bad ass...

 

[Liberty Sanders]

Our next president...







She doesn't want these people back. She knows every one of them will be tireless in keeping democrats out of office.


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[BehindBlueI's]

Teaching a monkey a math problem?

No, that oversimplifies it and makes it seem like its just an issue with ability. Ability is part of it, but there's also just a strong cultural aversion.

Imagine aliens land and demand you learn to cook and to do in their way. They provide equipment you've never seen, don't understand, can't maintain, and can't source from anyone else. They provide ingredients you hate the sight, taste, and smell of and, again, can't source from anyone else. They have techniques that require you to have tentacles and infrared vision to properly do. Your friends think only sissies learn to cook. Your vaguely convinced it's sinful behavior to learn to cook. You are always aware that the aliens will eventually leave, that your access to the required equipment and ingredients may be fleeting.

That's sort of the issue. It's not just you don't have the base skills to build on, although that's also true.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

BBI,
Is on point good buddy of mine was a MSG E-8 mechanic. He set up a basic training maintenance program for the ANA. Had manuals printed in 4 languages guess what most of them could not read or write.

So when you do maintenance if you need something you go to the parts guy with the NSN.
Parts dude gives you the part.

The ANA guy’s couldn’t figure that out.

In Iraq the literacy rate is 93%
Afghanistan 38%

You know how nations have stereotypes with other nations? Like Americans stereotype Brits as having bad teeth and Canadians as being overly polite? In the Arab world the Iraqis have the stereotype of being bookish. Sounds like not without reason...

 

[Sylvain]

I bet a large portion of that will make it to the black market outside of the country.
We're going to see A LOT of cheap M4 rifles all over Europe on the secondary market in the next few weeks.

 

[Expat]

<kicking rocks> well what about us, we deserve some M4s to....

 

[BigRed]

Is obiden going to give an update today or will we now be getting updates directly from the taliban where they tell us what to do?

 

[BigRed]

<kicking rocks> well what about us, we deserve some M4s to....

If you want the us gov to provide you with firearms, you will need to join a terrorist organization or become an fbi patsy.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Is obiden going to give an update today or will we now be getting updates directly from the taliban where they tell us what to do?

They might be easier to understand than Biden. Even if they give them in their native language.

 

[rooster]

Taliban got a Blackhawk in the air. And some people think the CIA isn’t or didn’t train them...... smh

 

[ditcherman]

<kicking rocks> well what about us, we deserve some M4s to....

I bet a large portion of that will make it to the black market outside of the country.
We're going to see A LOT of cheap M4 rifles all over Europe on the secondary market in the next few weeks.

*googles gunbroker.eu

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Taliban got a Blackhawk in the air. And some people think the CIA isn’t or didn’t train them...... smh

Propaganda value aside, meh. Contractors likely trained them and not as Taliban but as Afghani military who then defected. Being "Taliban" is much more fluid then you seem to think. Guys who weren't Taliban yesterday likely are today and when local warlords decide it's better to not be Taliban then the reverse will happen.

The company I used to work for did a lot of pilot training for various US proxies and indigenous forces (not me personally, I was on the dumb end of being a guard). There will always be exceptions, but as a whole I would not be really worried about a Taliban air force. Getting one off the ground vs flying it effectively, maintaining it, etc. are different things.

 

[NKBJ]

Anybody wondering how much this has to do with not just the Eurasian land bridge but also with Taiwan?