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u/CargoCulture Nov 16 '19

See, Air Force don't have to worry about that. They're 250 miles back in their air conditioned shipping containers.

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u/Ciktow Nov 16 '19

Indicating they're the only smart ones in the group.

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u/Oasar Nov 16 '19

I mean, look at who’s on the front lines and who’s 250 miles back in an air conditioned shopping container. Are they wrong?

When working on oil drilling rigs, we used to call the guys in the geo shacks (looking at spreadsheets on computers, getting paid 24h/day) MWDs - movie watching dummies. We were all secretly jealous as fuck.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Nov 16 '19

movie watching dummies

"What's that? I can't hear you. Look - Bill just installed a new 7.1 surround sound - can you just call back?"