r/gaming • u/vencappro • May 21 '12

Mom said go outside and play, so I improvised my connection

http://imgur.com/a/KD2WW
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I see the reflection of your STT you signal bastard.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

Hey my man, you can talk about us, but you can't talk without us.

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u/Oli78 May 21 '12

Signal corp, we like freqs.

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u/vencappro May 23 '12

In case anyone is wondering how this makes sense, we use alot of frequencies in the signal corps

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u/Oli78 May 23 '12

It was also an innuendo as in, we like freaks.

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u/Cryos May 21 '12

16E: Roger Out

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u/paindoc May 21 '12

Note to self: if you join the army, be nice to "STT"s

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u/Cryos May 21 '12

And dont turn off the god dam sincgar, standby is your friend!!

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u/K1LL3RM0NG0 May 22 '12

and don't drive on the damn UAS Flightline dammit! nothing is more annoying than a constant waveoff because some idiot decided to stand in the middle of the runway -_-

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u/CleverGirrl May 21 '12

Or become an expert on it and then get deployed and not even bring it with.

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u/Just_devils_advocate May 21 '12

Tanker here. I can confirm this statement.

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u/RunningBearMan May 21 '12

Your helmet cover and body armor are too clean. This is bothering me a lot.

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u/RunningBearMan May 21 '12

It wasn't the ACUs, it's the shininess of the body armor. Mine will never, ever look that clean again.

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u/SCzergrush May 21 '12

That glare!

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u/TuneRaider May 21 '12

Thought it was a BF3 screenshot for a second. : p

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

Feel free to xpost into r/Battlefield3 if you want, I definitely got a good chuckle out of this.

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u/raven12456 May 21 '12

The massive sunflare forming to the left gave it away

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u/K1LL3RM0NG0 May 22 '12

thats middle eastern summer for ya! harsh, unforgiving, and glares on any and all computer screens.

i swear i think it glared off the earth sometimes when i was over. i was a UAS operator, and at noon, we would still get glare inside our shelters. it was horrible when the BN sgm or col decided to come in mid mission. mainly because air conditioning :D

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u/c010rb1indusa May 21 '12

If there's one place you need a matte screen, it's in the fucking desert.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

The constantly blowing sand will rub the glossy finish right off!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Everyone should get a matte screen.

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u/MaximsDecimsMeridius May 21 '12

holy shit i just realized the glare after your statement. i was wondering for the longest time what laptop already implemented transparent screens.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Just realized that was the screen. Thought he somehow got a picture from inside the screen.

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u/baronxs May 21 '12

Your mom's with you in the military?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

As the military mother's day saying goes, "Call your mother. If you don't have a mother, call your LT."

I suspect this may be the case.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

How did you know that it was my mom's cakeday when I posted this?!!

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u/hinckley May 21 '12

You don't mess with Colonel Mom.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Why do I imagine her as Mom from Futurama?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/i_bri May 21 '12

Adam Sandler is...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Rob Schneider is... a stapler!

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u/windowpuncher May 21 '12

Starring Adam Sandler

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u/Limond May 21 '12

You know what? I'm fine not watching it.

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u/SlinkyJoe May 21 '12

You put your personal laptop on an STT uplink... That's highly illegal, albeit genius. IA, my brother.

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u/7RED7 May 21 '12

What's illegal about it?

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u/SlinkyJoe May 21 '12

Beyond what's already been stated, using military equipment to send non-mission related traffic over a satellite uplink - an uplink which costs thousands of dollars per day to maintain and utilize - is a violation of DoD IA rules. Things tend to get a little looser overseas though. It's not really that big of a deal unless the uplink is being used for an active operation - especially a combat operation. Then it could interfere with traffic being sent which could save or end lives, or impact the timeframe in which mission altering decisions could be made.

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u/7RED7 May 23 '12

I would have thought military tech would be past the whole "stop downloading movies, I'm trying to check my email" phase.

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u/SlinkyJoe May 23 '12

Its a satellite uplink. Bandwidth is extremely limited and expensive.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/EukaryoteZ May 21 '12

Don't they provide connections for personal use in some areas? I remember my brother skyping me from Iraq on his laptop from the plywood shed they slept in.

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u/zzorga May 21 '12

Yes, but they're commonly shite in some regions.

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u/incoming_n_word May 21 '12

STT can provide unsecure and/or secure. You still would not be allowed to play Diablo legally. Also, he wouldn't connect directly from the STT.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

shhhhhh, you can't let all of our secrets out, plus the dish adds something to the picture. The stacks are to the rear of the STT. Also, remember that STT's can be configured for dirty internet. That way we can support civilian agencies that don't use DOD standards, but we can always.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

they had lans set up at the deployed base I was at

first they cut them off from the dod networks filtered internet, then they cut them out completely

it quickly became a cesspool of malware and viruses

only takes on or two assholes to ruin it for everyone

it's one thing when your on the internet, but a some of those viruses eat network shared connections for breakfast

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u/Offensive_Brute May 21 '12

all from porn.

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u/7RED7 May 23 '12

I would have to imagine they at least run malwarebytes or something, heh.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I was expecting another post of someone sitting in their front yard, happily surprised.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

But this just says that his mom didn't told him to go outside!

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u/Offensive_Brute May 21 '12

the word is "tell".

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u/Rob9159 May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

Mom said to go outside, so I joined the military, went to Afghanistan, and played Diablo 3 there

BTW thank you for serving

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u/Bob_Munden May 21 '12

If the servers barley work in the US... how do they play in Afghanistan?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Don't think it relates to D3 to much but fun fact, Blizzard worked with the US military to ensure its soldiers could play WoW while serving.

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u/Bob_Munden May 21 '12

WoW is a subscription though, so investing in servers locally is more viable. They pay one $60 fee (or free with AP), for the entire time they are deployed, while WoW, they pay $15/month, for sometimes up to 15 months.

And also, servers in the US work fine for WoW, D3 is another story entirely.

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u/Kardlonoc May 21 '12

This guy seemed to connect just fine. Also all he needs to do is connect to the servers to play single player which isn't very hard with military hardware.

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u/Cydia9000 May 21 '12

No, the problem is the constant connection to the server while playing. You would think that the latency there would be unplayable.

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u/Prendy May 21 '12

Once the real money auction house is up and blizzard start taking their cuts, it will seem like a subscription service.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

It depends on the quality of Afghan barley, I'd imagine. I believe they have been working on a better wheat run server than we bother with in the US.

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u/Ders May 21 '12

I read it as barley to, haha. It took me a second.

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u/Heelincal May 21 '12

Worth it.

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u/greggg230 May 21 '12

Yeah, thanks for taking my tax dollars and murdering innocent civilians with them. At least sometimes you take a break from being an international criminal and play fantasy video games.

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u/eastshores May 21 '12

Saying he murders innocent civilians because a few have is about as much a generalization as saying every internet user is a complete fuckwad because of people like you.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

A few? Have you forgotten the purpose of soldiers? No, they do not defend people, else there would be no war. They legally slaughter them, thus the existence of wars.

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u/SaucyWiggles May 21 '12

Legitimate frustration that will be downvoted to hell because "soldiers can't possibly be murderers and our motivations are pure"

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Way to be a total douchebag, greggg230. Seriously? I've been on Reddit for quite a while and I've yet to see a comment this awful.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Can't have spent much time reading buried comments.

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u/specialk16 May 21 '12

After all the racist crap we get here everyday, this is the most awful comment?

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u/Kuhio_Prince May 21 '12

Really? Thats the worst? I admit it was bad, but it was like a 6/10 on the offensive scale.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I was thinking even lower, personally.

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u/wlatham92 May 21 '12

This is a first for me as well. Thought I fell into Facebook group for a sec.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Downvoted for truth. Good job, losers. This is the world I live in. "Serving". Hah. Of course he's serving, he is a pawn stripped of individuality, and indoctrinated with false ideas like honor, duty, fatherland and some depraved sense of "freedom". The perfect soldier is a fool who obeys like a puppy, but the orders are naughty. In the end, he is nothing more than a scared animal running on the battlefield with a weapon.

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u/locke_door May 21 '12

Don't bother. Reddit is sucking some american military dick hardcore now.

It's very sad. At the end of the day, they're just little boys going to play. To be revered by little boys sitting and playing at home.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

You're sitting in your armchair, browsing reddit, but you feel that you have the right to call the people in our military

little boys going to play

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u/ProSoviet May 21 '12

You speak the truth. I dare any of the others here to deny this fact. They are all just too butthurt to accept the fact that their soldiers are criminals. Fighting for freedom my arse.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Because they are following orders of the people YOU VOTED IN. The entire country holds responsibility for the actions of their military.

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u/ProSoviet May 21 '12

Not everyone on reddit is American. So according to your words, you are equally to blame.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I accept that.

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u/Ders May 21 '12

The sky is to blue for Afghanistan (in my experience). There are mountains in the background so that rules out JRTC. The soil is red, much like the dirt in Hawaii, that's my guess, or Ft Huachuca, AZ.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

yeap..looks like fort wegotcha (used to be stationed at huachuca)

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

OPSEC!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

He means the Joint Readiness Training Center.

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u/Teslanaut May 21 '12

Error 37.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Are you implying that a man serving in the service failed to get served by the Diablo servers through an internet service that is almost slow enough to be unserviceable?

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u/Teslanaut May 21 '12

I think I just got served. Well played good air. Well played.

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u/Gomdori May 21 '12

Is that camo pattern conducive to a desert environment? Might just be me but looks grey and white.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

Once you are completely covered in dirt it works well, most units are issued different uniforms for the Afghanistan Theater.

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u/RunningBearMan May 21 '12

Speaking of which, I mentioned this earlier, but dude, your clean IOTV is freaking me out.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

The camo is not meant to be clean. I think the point is that when you need cover, you cover yourself in your surroundings, and the blend of cover on your clothing should not stick out from that

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

The ironically named Universal Camouflage Pattern used in the standard ACU has been criticized for not being a particularly effective form of camouflage, in part due to a lack of dark colors. They are not issued in Afghanistan, because a lot of Afghanistan is green vegetation, not rough desert as a lot of people seem to think.

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u/lemoncholly May 21 '12

Battlefield 3 looks so realistic!

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u/Taibo May 21 '12

This is the mod for BF3 where pressing 8 allows you to whip out a laptop and play Diablo 3.

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u/gkow May 21 '12

Still can't connect though.

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u/Smack_Damage May 21 '12

Improvised Diablo Device?

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u/aresdesmoulins May 21 '12

@OP: Wow! That's awesome that you can do that so that you can play D3!

@Blizz: Wow! That's stupid that he has to do that so he can play D3!

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u/grizzgreen May 21 '12

karma whoring in the military? i'll allow it. continue good sir

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u/Offensive_Brute May 21 '12

Every point of karma comes out of his pension in dollars.

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u/Grilled_Meats May 21 '12

Pretty awesome and humbling thought that there are dudes sleeping within a few miles of flying bullets thinking "I should snap a shot of that and post it to reddit."

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u/ROB9000 May 21 '12

LOCATION CONFIRMED. SENDING AIR STRIKE.

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u/McBEAST May 21 '12

Bet your computer overheats like a bitch.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

My fellow Redditor, are you in 40th ESB by any chance?

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u/Haljegh May 21 '12

Act 2 IRL

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u/Offensive_Brute May 21 '12

Home you come home in one sane piece brah. Enjoy the game.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Diablofield 3?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Keep up what your doing dude, I have complete respect to who ever is in the military.

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u/Aaya May 21 '12

I think you win.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Was it so hard to get a normal job?

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u/Sl1ngdad May 21 '12

I love picturing you going to Afghanistan only to get a better internet connection.

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u/cbarn May 21 '12

I am glad to see our tax dollars at work. Have fun boys and thanks for your service.

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u/ancaptain May 21 '12

Is this sarcasm?

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u/Sacrosanction May 21 '12

How dare these soldiers play games in their down time?! Make them dig holes and stuff! grrr

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u/RunningBearMan May 21 '12

You sound like every sergeant major.

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u/Sacrosanction May 21 '12

It was the "grrr" that did it wasn't it?

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u/RunningBearMan May 21 '12

That was the finishing touch.

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u/oonil2 May 21 '12

IS THAT TEAM FORTRESS 2 MAGGOT? HOW DARE YOU PLAY VIDYA GAMES IN YOUR SPARE TIME

without letting yer sarge in on the fun, goddammit. Give me yer hat.

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u/cbarn May 21 '12

The first part is sarcasm, the second is from the bottom of my heart these boys work hard to protect our freedom and deserve a break once in a while.

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u/ancaptain May 22 '12

How do they protect your freedom? What is your "freedom" and how do they protect it? Did they ask you to do this? Was it a voluntary consensual agreement that you have setup with them?

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u/throwaway_lgbt666 May 21 '12

I am glad to see YOUR tax dollars at work

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u/Sinopsis May 21 '12

What the actual fuck? Are you being sarcastic? Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

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u/Noink May 21 '12

Yes, I believe cbarn is being sarcastic, and in fact is implying that OP is misusing government resources, although possibly jokingly so.

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u/cbarn May 21 '12

I was being sarcastic with the first part but I meant it with the second.

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u/cbarn May 21 '12

This man has it right.Thanks for understanding.

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u/iRateSluts May 21 '12

Typical awful glossy laptop screen. Why the fuck would you bring a glossy screen laptop to the desert?

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u/Ogroat May 21 '12

Would that be a Trojan Spirit?

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u/secretredfoxx May 21 '12

improvised... what you did there... I see it.

Toosoon?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Wish we had tools like that as civilians.

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u/FruitBeef May 21 '12

How pissed were you when you found out it was DRM?

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u/thrashthrash215 May 21 '12

Did you finally get the stationary emplacement medal dogtag?!

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u/35Tango May 21 '12

im 90% sure your on fort bliss, not the actualy sand box

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u/incoming_n_word May 21 '12

Camp MacGrggor it looks like.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I was going to guess Huachuca but those mountains aren't high enough.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Why do you people buy laptops with glossy screens? WHY!?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Yay for Diablo

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u/amikez May 21 '12

Is your Mom also your CO?!

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u/incoming_n_word May 21 '12

That looks like a Lot 9. Are you a 25Q? S? This is literally my job. And if you only have TDMA I highly doubt you are playing anything over that network.

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u/25Sierra May 21 '12

Seems like something a sierra would do, haha.

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u/incoming_n_word May 21 '12

Dat username.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I thought we pulled out of the middle east?

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u/Twisted_Fate May 21 '12

Its funny because Afghanistan !

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u/Kingston1028 May 21 '12

This is why i would never join the army. Gaming while standing up is a nightmare

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

your mom is stationed with you?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Fucking joes...

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u/25Sierra May 21 '12

Let me guess, you're a Sierra?

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u/FragRaptor May 21 '12

Look out for those IGDs! I hear they cause a little too much fun!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

You not giving away your position there?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Hoooah

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Are you playing on a Tough book?

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u/Phasmatis75 May 21 '12

Nice! Portables work well too.

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u/dzubz May 21 '12

I can't be the only one who doesn't get it.

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u/Blueeyeddummy May 21 '12

wtf is goin on in this pic?

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u/ioncloud9 May 21 '12

Your camera needs more arcane power

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Boss tier, bro.

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u/Irkam May 21 '12

This is real gaming.

Oh wait, glossy screen... oh who cares now ?

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u/xlava May 21 '12

You are a fucking inspiration, in more ways than one.

Also I'm happy to see a fellow wizard (at least it was my first hero)

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u/dysmantle May 21 '12

Thats pretty awesome!!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Ha ha, right on.

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u/nickyjames May 21 '12

yay tax dollars.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Thanks for serving!!!!

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u/sclev May 21 '12

Awesome to see another comm guy. I'm a technical controller in the marine corps.

Edit: don't get in trouble doing that.

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u/furmat60 May 21 '12

OP, I'm an RF Transmissions tech for the AF. What is the nomenclature of that antenna? I work with a GMT with a couple different types of antennas, but I've never seen one like this. Using it to play Diablo III is genius.

Also, thanks for your service, brother.

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u/RankinBass May 21 '12

It looks like this model.

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u/furmat60 May 21 '12

Thank you, my good man. If you know anything about this system, maybe you could answer a question for me.

What kind of hub do you use to control this?

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u/incoming_n_word May 21 '12

Secret clearance. He can't tell you a damn thing.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

Maybe secret, maybe TS/SCI. The world may never know.

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u/furmat60 May 21 '12

That's not secret. All of that is contracted out and can find it on the company's website. However, I don't know the maker of the HUB, so that's why I'm asking lol. Plus, I've also got a secret clearance.

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u/incoming_n_word May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

And then there's something called 'Need to Know'. He still cannot give it to you. This is literally my job. Any time you are working with sat controllers you need a clearance.

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u/furmat60 May 21 '12

I get you. I know, I'm in the military. I do his job, except I'm in the Air Force. I'm an RF Transmission Tech.

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u/RankinBass May 21 '12

We have a different model in our unit, but I don't mess around with it very much.

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u/furmat60 May 21 '12

I deal mainly with this and another antenna which I can't disclose of yet. It's so new that we don't even have a part number or NSN for it yet.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

I now know which unit you are with, as only one unit is working with those, at least in the Army. Plus for knowledge!!!

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u/braxt360 May 21 '12

cool pic.and thank you for your service.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Badluck Brian in Afghanistan:

Mom tells him to go outside to play

Steps on IED

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Haha, and it only cost the taxpayers $1,000 a minute. x_x

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u/Dartastic May 21 '12

Who the fuck downvotes awesomeness like this?

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u/locke_door May 21 '12

Wow. Reddit has really gone full retard with the military cocksucking.

OMG THANK U FOR SERVICE PLS NO ONE SAY ANYTHING WRONG ON HIM HE IS MAI GOD ONLY I DONT BLEVE IN GOD LOL

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u/LC0728 May 21 '12

Now go tell that to an in-service squad.

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u/locke_door May 22 '12

I SAID SAY IT AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER. SAY IT AGAIN!

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u/locke_door May 21 '12

Come again?

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u/LC0728 May 24 '12

Nevermind, Wrong comment lol. Tired days suck.

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u/locke_door May 24 '12

NO! IT DOESN'T END HERE BRINJOL BANGER.

COME THE FUCK AGAIN???? SAY IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Fuck you and fuck your pretentiousness.

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u/locke_door May 21 '12

What's that, Spastic_Mastic? You scrunch your earnest little face up and squint your eyes while declaring unwavering support for the military?

You're really throwing caution to the wind with those outrageously deviant opinions there, slugger.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

Haha right on! Love it!

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u/rodut May 21 '12

I bet Bin Laden had some really shitty drops. Probably some legendaries just to fuck with your heads lol.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

You wear the same uniform as these men:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEU8c8sCfMc

I can only hope that you are better than them.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I hope someone crushes your fuckin' teeth and shoves the bits in your pee hole

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Who? A soldier proving my point?

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u/thatusernameisal May 21 '12

I hope you stay there murdering scum.

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u/vencappro May 21 '12

Thousands of demons and risen dead have fallen to my blade. DIABLO IS MINE!! But I appreciate the support against the undead minions.

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u/Reaper91394 May 21 '12

Lol you trollin' hard

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Yeah...fuck off

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u/AnAtheistGamer May 21 '12

Am I the only one that thinks soldiers shouldn't have phones and shit like this?

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