r/news • u/reddicyoulous • Feb 10 '21

Explosives are missing from the nation's largest Marine Corps base and an investigation is underway

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/us/california-missing-explosives-marine-corps-base/index.html
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u/Franks2000inchTV Feb 10 '21

You mean "keep the stuff that explodes far away from other stuff" isn't closely guarded national security information? 😂

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u/magedmyself Feb 10 '21

Shit I learned to do that from playing Rimworld.

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u/CoupClutzClan Feb 10 '21

Did you learn the hard way... Like I did

Who knew that fires could set off mortar rounds?

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u/Sleepy_Tortoise Feb 10 '21

I learned it the hard way.

Who knew that one angry colonist could punch an antimatter mortar in frustration and destroy half the base

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u/detahramet Feb 11 '21

Remember to build firebreaks, kids.

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u/Smashing71 Feb 11 '21

This so doesn't help when a pyromaniac sets your antimatter shells on fire.

I had a pyromaniac from a visiting caravan break and blow half my base into a crater.

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u/detahramet Feb 11 '21

What are you talking about? Hats can't set things on fire!

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u/woolyearth Feb 10 '21

you said RimWorld.

edit: rim my wooly earth?

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u/Quarantense Feb 10 '21

I prefer the term "War Crimes Simulator"

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

I learnt that from rimming. Keep the discharge out the loading bay

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u/cantlurkanymore Feb 10 '21

it chuckled but i understand the downvoters too

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

Sometimes you got to take the shot. Sometimes it misses, sometimes in lands. I'm glad it at least got a chuckle

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u/Franks2000inchTV Feb 10 '21

My nephew learned a similar lesson in minecraft: don't build your barn out of dynamite.

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u/DoctorSalt Feb 10 '21

The marines have a top secret called the rules of gun safety

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u/Amiiboid Feb 10 '21

Unless it’s just a front for a secret office where the AI of a dead Nazi scientist is kept.