When I was a tyke and for sure was gonna be an astronaut someday I got to go see the launch of the IRAS satellite, as a guest of a family friend who worked for NASA. He also toured me and my dad around SLC 6.

Say what you will, the graying of young presidents leads me to believe these guys are earning their pay in terms of overall stress load at least.

Not sure if it is still done but same in USMC... maybe its all contractors now... I was a spare so I only had to do Mess and Maint in boot camp...

Worst ass kicking I got was on M&M when, in the depths of my exhaustion (seriously I was never more tired than working chow hall for a week) I ROLLED MY EYES at a Sr Drill…

It is depressing to me that my dad, who is from Latvia, fled from the Russians as a small boy, came here, watched the Baltics regain their freedom, and now in his declining years has to witness these Russian fucks once again menacing his homeland. And I think we all know that the US ain’t going to war over Latvia...…

Speaking as a former skydiver, and as a current RC pilot, unless you were specifically invited to do this, keep your fucking retard UAV thing on the ground during skydiving operations.

Shit might look easy and for a GK who does a bunch of demos each year, it is much like rolling out of bed, but again, unless you were…

Not scary that he is out driving... just scary that he is out there existing.

Got a hankering for cherry tomatoes slathered in ranch. Went to TJ’s. Food poisoning. Spent next 2 days barfing and shooting brown water out my butt. Apparently if you left that particular brand of ranch out of the fridge for more than say... 2 minutes, it tuned into “open up both ends of your digestive system and…

$300K a fucking episode for making funny voices* is not being exploited. WTF.

I know that the defensibility of these things is a topic for endless debate, but when I see how big these fucking things are, all I can think of is, “If we ever get into a real shooting war with a real enemy, it’s going to be one multi-billion dollar carrier against a hundred million dollar missiles, and I think we’ll…

“At one point during cruise, I heard a grinding sound I’ve never heard in my life...”

The “Don’t you know who I am?” thing is just horrible on a couple levels.

People. PEOPLE.

UGHH. So annoying.

Yeah that's the thing that amazes me about special ops types... I know that someone who has a bubble and who has been to airborne and HALO schools is NOT by any means a master of all 3 disciplines (scuba, static line, HALO)... in fact they probably operate their entire careers at a novice level to some extent (again,…

And fighters don't need guns and we don't even need fighters anymore and so on it'll all be UAVs...

I did a LOT of skydiving and a little bit of non-wingsuit BASE jumping...

The fact that CDG is on here makes this entire list suspect.

As a former skydiver, this was always the plane I wanted to jump out of just one time... As I understand it, the way they used to do this with recon Marines was to come in at tree top level, pull up steeply, turn on the green light and 2-3 guys in back undo a seat belt and out they slide.

I just sort of feel like if you have a name preceded by "Big", life is just generally better somehow.

Someone please explain to me in minute detail what this game is and how it works. Thank you.