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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:52 am    Post subject: Cool Military Stuff Reply with quote

What's the coolest military stuff you guys have come across?


This one has to be near the top of my list. Simple, and powerful.


http://news.yahoo.com/military-video-captures-destructive-power-navy-newest-railgun-001012348.html
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The numerous Nike Missile Bases scattered around Michigan and the rest of the Northwest are pretty cool.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind the wheel of a Nuc Sub can be awesome. Top speed and acceleration isn't all that great but you can go for 10 years without a refuel.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've come across a few nice military women. Sometimes it didnt even go all the way across.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The John Wayne can opener. Badass in so many was
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sketchy_1 wrote:
The John Wayne can opener. Badass in so many was
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That is a P-38 can opener still have mine.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"The greatest battle implement ever devised".
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The coolest think I can think of would be the people that are out there in the military doing what they do because the chose to be a part of something special, for comparatively little money.

After that would be the families that wait at home for the loved ones, and keep the fires burning in their absence.





The least cool thing are the shitheads that camp out in their little tents and bitch about everything.



The P-38s are badass, but really screw up your pockets if you put one on your key chain. Mine have been relegated to my military momento chest.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The P-38s are badass, but really screw up your pockets if you put one on your key chain. Mine have been relegated to my military momento chest.


Lol, mine has been on my key chain since 89, and its never bothered me. The great thing about P38's is that they never dull, the more you use them the sharper they get.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stale air wrote:
zozo wrote:



The P-38s are badass, but really screw up your pockets if you put one on your key chain. Mine have been relegated to my military momento chest.


Lol, mine has been on my key chain since 89, and its never bothered me. The great thing about P38's is that they never dull, the more you use them the sharper they get.
I'm still packing around the one I got with my first c-rations from Basic Training in 1982. It's never failed me and never messed up my pockets. I used it just two days ago to open an #10 can.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my65vert wrote:
I've come across a few nice military women. Sometimes it didnt even go all the way across.


You really put the ass in class.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd love to see this stone cold badass of a...?

What is this?

http://www.yurock.net/russian-tank-ship-plane/
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Semper_Dad wrote:
Behind the wheel of a Nuc Sub can be awesome. Top speed and acceleration isn't all that great but you can go for 10 years without a refuel.


Its now 30 years, life of the Ship. And the new ones are like giant Video Games.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I collect WW2 stuff, the best of which is the items given to me of my two Grandfathers. Both in the Pacific, one Navy, one Army Air Force China/India/Burma. These items are priceless and will never end up at a military swap meet.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did the body/paint on a 44 Scwimmwagen about six years ago, quite a cool machine. I'd really like to restore an old Jeep now, just for good Karma...
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VintageVulture wrote:
I collect WW2 stuff, the best of which is the items given to me of my two Grandfathers. Both in the Pacific, one Navy, one Army Air Force China/India/Burma. These items are priceless and will never end up at a military swap meet.


I collect ww2 stuff as well. Some of the stuff in my collection I would never sell due to the fact that I know it more than likely could not be replaced.
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