-TU--33ker 0 Posted December 14, 2002 i think everybody would get the joke if it was about the french army! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arkadeyevich 0 Posted December 17, 2002 It is a well known fact that the italians have lost every single battle since the height of the western roman empire. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-TU--33ker 0 Posted December 17, 2002 didn't they win WW1 with the allies? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralphwiggum 6 Posted December 17, 2002 stay on topic please, this thread is about posting military stupidity stories. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-TU--33ker 0 Posted December 17, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Dec. 17 2002,21:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">stay on topic please, this thread is about posting military stupidity stories. <span id='postcolor'> lol first time offtopic in this thread and you're here in no minute! ok this will end now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLight 0 Posted December 18, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote ([TU]$33ker @ Dec. 17 2002,00:08)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Dec. 17 2002,21:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">stay on topic please, this thread is about posting military stupidity stories. <span id='postcolor'> lol first time offtopic in this thread and you're here in no minute! <span id='postcolor'> Let's give him an applaus ladies and gentlemen! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jinef 2 Posted December 19, 2002 This isn't really military stupidity just funny. "He was in the intelligence tent when he shot himself in the foot while cleaning his gun when he was drunk" - Catch 22 I love harriers, they are a true sign of British innovation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tales_From_Topographic_Oceans 0 Posted December 19, 2002 An example of military ingenuity, innovation and resourcefulness. It just does not gte any better than this folks. Who needs to sleep anyway? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/nosleep021218.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-TU--33ker 0 Posted December 19, 2002 i remember this film where they tried out drugs on soldiers so that they didn't have to sleep. well they all went mad and killed everybody. it was a crappy movie anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLight 0 Posted December 20, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote ([TU]$33ker @ Dec. 18 2002,19:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i remember this film where they tried out drugs on soldiers so that they didn't have to sleep. well they all went mad and killed everybody. it was a crappy movie anyway. <span id='postcolor'> Actually that really explains the friendly fire problem... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bordoy 0 Posted December 20, 2002 Not sure if anyones got this (too many pages to read), but wasn't there an Italian tank in WW2 which couldnt withstand bullets. That's pretty stupid and unlucky. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-TU--33ker 0 Posted December 20, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bordoy @ Dec. 20 2002,18:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Not sure if anyones got this (too many pages to read), but wasn't there an Italian tank in WW2 which couldnt withstand bullets. That's pretty stupid and unlucky.<span id='postcolor'> LOL that's pretty stupid! i think the main goal of this tank was to scare the anemy. if this tank really existed! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bordoy 0 Posted December 21, 2002 It did exist. It's in an army magazine, but it doesn't have the name of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrMilli 0 Posted December 21, 2002 Mussolini picked picked his tank designs using the highly sophisticated IP-DP method. (oops, missed a I in there somewhere ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Denwad 0 Posted December 22, 2002 How many gears does an Italian tank have? One forward and six in reverse. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLight 0 Posted December 22, 2002 Hehehe, you should make a thread for these kind of jokes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nolips71 0 Posted December 23, 2002 lol bordoy i know which you mean. it was bolted together hehe i british soldier lobed a grenade and it fell apart Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Assault (CAN) 1 Posted December 23, 2002 From member 'Reaper' on the Canadian Gun Nutz forum: </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Ok here is a relativley mild shack story: In 1987 when posted to Kapyong Barracks in Winnipeg, one of the guys in my Company was about to get married. When we came to drag him out the night before for some celebratory brews we found that he had locked himself in his room to avoid what he knew was coming. Not ones to let a minor thing like a door get in our way, we battered out the large vent in the bottom of the door and launched an assault on him, his defense with a broomstick was very aggressive so we beat a hasty retreat. The obvious solution was to light a bundle of old newspapers on fire and throw them into the hole in the door and smoke him out: No dice he was not coming out. Next phase of the operation was to grab a hold of the much abused pop machine on the floor, with 4 guys pushing it we smashed in the door and somehow the pop machine ended up out the 3rd floor window. Undaunted, we managed to get some handcuffs on the individual and drag him down stairs and out of the building. By this time a crew of guys were busy putting out the fire that had started in the room. We dragged the victim outside and chained him to a lightstand in the parking lot where he was doused with water and shot with paintballs throughout the night as a penalty for his insolence. Come morning when all were hungover we were awoken by the Duty NCO who needless to say had some choice words for us and demanded that we released our prisoner, whom quite frankly in the booze fest of the night had been forgotten about, and there was a crowd of very pissed off family members at the main gate wondering where the Groom was, as it was an hour past when the wedding was supposed to start. In the end he did get married and we wound up having to pay some $600.00 in barrack damages....Ah the good old days.. <span id='postcolor'> LOL Tyler Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Othin 0 Posted December 23, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Othin @ Nov. 06 2002,21:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hopefully tommorow I can (if I can find a site to store them) put up some pics of one of our Super Hornets doing a little canyon running in our local "Star Wars Canyon".<span id='postcolor'> *direct image link deleted* Only a month or so late, but here is one of the pics I was able to upload.  Stupid freeservers made me reduce the image size by over half.  I have more, I'll throw them up when I get the chance... Anyways, this is my old boss doing Star Wars canyon somewhere near the base.  Picture is copywrighted to Ian "Chunx" Anderson.  Anyone who does SIMHQ has probably seen/heard him before. </end hijack> UPDATE: This link of the Super Hornet Canyon Running should work.  Sorry for the trouble on that  They still wouldn't allow me to upload the full res version though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
red oct 2 Posted December 24, 2002 foo, i can't see your pic. all i can is this: back to good old link edit: ralph: the link worked...somehow... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralphwiggum 6 Posted December 24, 2002 yup. i saw it before Freesev got ot it. basically, view of cockpit and the pilot from instrumental level and you could see a bit of canyon since the jet is a bit tilted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-TU--33ker 0 Posted December 26, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Dec. 24 2002,04:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">yup. i saw it before Freesev got ot it. basically, view of cockpit and the pilot from instrumental level and you could see a bit of canyon since the jet is a bit tilted.<span id='postcolor'> nice discription but i'd prefer to see it myself. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralphwiggum 6 Posted December 30, 2002 well, another civilian firing range stupidity to share. i went to a local firing range as usual, and i was done with my sweet practice. while i was talking to one of range owners, a guy comes out and asks other owner to see what could have been wrong with the .45 he was holding. the slide was pulled back, and for some reason, the next round won't be chambered. i wasn't around close enough to see it, but soon, the range owner managed to fix it, and the fat man was jolly and went back. here's what happened: the idiot used a .40 S&W instead of .45 ACP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nolips71 0 Posted December 31, 2002 what happend then? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralphwiggum 6 Posted December 31, 2002 luckily nothing. what i wrote about is pure idiocy and thought this thread was appropriate. but thinking about, it gave me some chill. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites