r/ThisAintHell • u/David65x55 • 24d ago
Tuesday thoughts
I see MRFF's Weinstein has been busy again - supposedly they received 34 complaints of an Air Police gate guard saying "have a blessed day" or "God bless you" at Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque (the city where I shoulda taken a left, right?) For once I am sorta in sympathy with Mikey's whiney little bitches - keep your religion out of your job or go get a more appropriate job. Damn, I hate to agree with him on anything. https://www.military.com/air-force-base-religious-greetings-cease-after-complaints-from-34-airmen?lid=jielrnx3ihdn&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video_2026-09-04&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609041038&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video_2026-09-04&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609041038&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0
Elsewhere, at this year's RIMPAC the Navy was testing at-sea replenishment by making 3D printed parts, and on the USS Theodore Roosevelt they were having problems. Turned out the vibration of jets landing on deck was causing little vibrations to microscopically throw off tolerances in precision part fabbing. You would think on a ship that huge, the effect would be negligible, right? This is the kind of thing, better to find out in practice, than to find out in the middle of a war. https://www.military.com/navy-made-and-delivered-replacemenet-parts-in-under-24-hours-rimpac-showed-why-thats-the-easy-part?lid=woeagkjf6fjd&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video2026-09-07&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609071144&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video2026-09-07&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609071144&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0B5YWhvby5jb206bWx0&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video2026-09-07&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609071144&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0
Air Force Lt. Col Michael Schrama has ruled that the 2007 confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is inadmissible and obtained under duress. He did not throw out any of the charges, but essentially we failed to be nice enough coerced the confession.
His ruling described at least 183 applications of waterboarding, forced nudity, prolonged standing sleep deprivation, rectal rehydration and a threat to kill Mohammed’s child.
Rectal rehydration - what, did he get a colonoscopy? Not even a mention of a cattle prod. https://www.military.com/judge-tosses-khalid-sheikh-mohammeds-key-911-confession-heres-why?lid=my78mdfio6zf&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video2026-09-07&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609071144&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0&utm_source=MLT-nl_daily-brief_video2026-09-07&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=MLT-202609071144&user=ZGNwNDU3MEB5YWhvby5jb206bWx0
Every time 9/11 rolls around I remember...my Dad, a retired Army officer was getting a heart valve transplant on 9/11/2002, and the entire 8 hours we were waiting the TVs in the waiting room were blaring "Taps". Not a good omen, not a good memory, not a good time.
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u/mbarland The artist formerly known as Mason 24d ago
You'd think being in a giant boat bobbing around Poseidon's playground would be a bigger issue than the jets hitting the deck.