Does he know it's in Rubles?
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jerryb73
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I guess he’s bout to find out..
srh88
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So finshaggy did actually start a business
Singlemalt
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What do you know about this "buddy"? Education, etc. Does he have demonstrable skills; chemistry education and background? 80K is a lot of dinero; my daughter's fiance is a whiz in the lab, works for UC in immunology in a lab that has grants up the ass and he makes 55K. Basically I'm doubtful
tangerinegreen555
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Sounds more like a union steelworker, RR worker or coal miner kind of wage.
Dirty filthy cancer causing jobs pay like that. Or an educated job with long tenure.
I know a 3rd yr. chiropractor making around 40k. After 9 yrs. of school and massive student loans. And he doesn't get medical insurance.
The economy looks good on paper, but people aren't making the same living as the '60's and '70's. And there are less good jobs per person available.
BarnBuster
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{{searching for citation for quote}}:"When it sounds too good to be true..."
Bareback
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The RR here has a scam going, two years of RR school and your guaranteed a job. Only to be layed off in about three weeks to make way for the next wave of graduates. Ohh and you have to pay for the school.
jerryb73
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I know nothing about him, don’t know him at all. I thought that sounded, to good to be true, that’s why I asked here. You guys are my mj experts. Lol. And yeah I’m skeptical.
Singlemalt
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Betcha it's bait and switch: he'll move to Colo and "well, sumthin came up; we can only pay $20/hr for now"
Chunky Stool
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You are exactly right.
He needs to get the offer in writing in case they back out.
BarnBuster
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Singlemalt
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LOL, so true
Olive Drab Green
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The unit mentioned in ‘09 in this article is my unit. And it wasn’t the entire division; it was the remnants of a single, undermanned company after they kept blowing us up and following up with small arms fire in many instances before vanishing with most of their dead, like ghosts. Built our COP up from the ground. Had to burn our shit. Didn’t have any real shower for 6 months. Couldn’t get a supply convoy in without at least one well-placed IED. They were mortaring the fucking COP, and a 15 year old kid with a Dragunov kept harassing us for months until we lit up a treeline and performed a BDA. No more than 120 people at any given time in that very long, fairly wide valley.
This isn’t me taking pride in or glorifying any of this; people don’t know a damned thing about this war, and they should. They’ve let it go on for nearly 17 years
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https://www.history.com/news/the-costliest-day-in-seal-team-six-history
“The Tangi Valley, located along the border between Afghanistan’s Wardak and Logar provinces some 80 miles southwest of Kabul, is a remote, inaccessible area known for its resistance to foreign invasion. Alexander the Great suffered heavy troop losses there during his campaign in Afghanistan in the fourth century B.C. In the 1980s, mujahideen fighters in Wardak and Logar provinces devastated an entire division of Soviet fighters.
In 2009, U.S. forces from the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army established a base in the Tangi Valley area after it became clear the Taliban had taken advantage of low coalition presence there to establish a stronghold within striking distance of the Afghan capital. As the United States and NATO allies began a drawdown of their troops in the spring of 2011, U.S. forces turned over the Tangi Valley outpost to their Afghan counterparts. They continued to run operations in the area, however, using helicopters and special operations forces to combat groups of insurgents in the region.
Under cover of darkness on the night of August 6, 2011, a special ops team that included a group of U.S. Army Rangers began an assault on a Taliban compound in the village of Jaw-e-Mekh Zareen in the Tangi Valley. The firefight at the house went on for at least two hours, and the ground team called in reinforcements. As the Chinook CH-47 transport helicopter (call sign: Extortion 17) carrying 30 U.S. troops, seven Afghan commandos, an Afghan civilian interpreter and a U.S. military dog approached, the insurgents fired on the helicopter and it crashed to the ground, killing all aboard.”
This isn’t me taking pride in or glorifying any of this; people don’t know a damned thing about this war, and they should. They’ve let it go on for nearly 17 years
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https://www.history.com/news/the-costliest-day-in-seal-team-six-history
“The Tangi Valley, located along the border between Afghanistan’s Wardak and Logar provinces some 80 miles southwest of Kabul, is a remote, inaccessible area known for its resistance to foreign invasion. Alexander the Great suffered heavy troop losses there during his campaign in Afghanistan in the fourth century B.C. In the 1980s, mujahideen fighters in Wardak and Logar provinces devastated an entire division of Soviet fighters.
In 2009, U.S. forces from the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army established a base in the Tangi Valley area after it became clear the Taliban had taken advantage of low coalition presence there to establish a stronghold within striking distance of the Afghan capital. As the United States and NATO allies began a drawdown of their troops in the spring of 2011, U.S. forces turned over the Tangi Valley outpost to their Afghan counterparts. They continued to run operations in the area, however, using helicopters and special operations forces to combat groups of insurgents in the region.
Under cover of darkness on the night of August 6, 2011, a special ops team that included a group of U.S. Army Rangers began an assault on a Taliban compound in the village of Jaw-e-Mekh Zareen in the Tangi Valley. The firefight at the house went on for at least two hours, and the ground team called in reinforcements. As the Chinook CH-47 transport helicopter (call sign: Extortion 17) carrying 30 U.S. troops, seven Afghan commandos, an Afghan civilian interpreter and a U.S. military dog approached, the insurgents fired on the helicopter and it crashed to the ground, killing all aboard.”
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Olive Drab Green
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When we got flown out on redeployment home, it was in CH-47D Chinook cargo helicopters. I remember looking out the tail, my heart in my throat, thinking “This is where God fucks with our feelings and they put an RPG into one of our rotors.”
2 years later, lo’ and behold, 22 SEALs, 5 Rangers, 9? ANA commandos, a terp, a service dog, and I think a bunch of Nightstalkers died after a Talib put an RPG into their bird, right outside “Jaw-e Mekh Zareen.” We called it the Juy Zarin Bazaar. Around NAI (kNown Area of Interest) 2 & 3.
Operation Red Wings (Lone Survivor) was the worst loss of casualties during the war up until that point. This event surpassed that in loss and severity.
2 years later, lo’ and behold, 22 SEALs, 5 Rangers, 9? ANA commandos, a terp, a service dog, and I think a bunch of Nightstalkers died after a Talib put an RPG into their bird, right outside “Jaw-e Mekh Zareen.” We called it the Juy Zarin Bazaar. Around NAI (kNown Area of Interest) 2 & 3.
Operation Red Wings (Lone Survivor) was the worst loss of casualties during the war up until that point. This event surpassed that in loss and severity.
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Olive Drab Green
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It started out with us holding Shuras (meetings with the tribal elders) passing out blankets, teddy bears, money, food, medical assistance. We said “We don’t want to disturb your life. We don’t want anyone to get hurt. We are just tasked with securing two roads (MSR Ohio and ASR Georgia.) We are here to protect you from the Taliban.”
“No, no Taliban here.”
“Ok.”
They’d shake our hands, smiling. As soon as you leave the village limits—because they cannot kill you inside their village, it’s against their code of Pashtunwali, and they must offer you asylum in their home—we would get blown the fuck up. Sometimes with a disassembled FM radio we gave some kid, who used it as the trigger switch before blending into the population. We became so embittered, we started walking through their graveyards (because they weren’t going to desecrate the graves of their dead with an explosive) and we were just so full of rage after a time we started kicking down their headstones. Not that any of that was right, either. Hindsight is 20/20.
I never knew hate before the Tangi. It scarred me for life, and I’ll probably spend the rest of my life working through it. Climb to Glory; Conquer Men & Mountains.
“No, no Taliban here.”
“Ok.”
They’d shake our hands, smiling. As soon as you leave the village limits—because they cannot kill you inside their village, it’s against their code of Pashtunwali, and they must offer you asylum in their home—we would get blown the fuck up. Sometimes with a disassembled FM radio we gave some kid, who used it as the trigger switch before blending into the population. We became so embittered, we started walking through their graveyards (because they weren’t going to desecrate the graves of their dead with an explosive) and we were just so full of rage after a time we started kicking down their headstones. Not that any of that was right, either. Hindsight is 20/20.
I never knew hate before the Tangi. It scarred me for life, and I’ll probably spend the rest of my life working through it. Climb to Glory; Conquer Men & Mountains.
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Olive Drab Green
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Olive Drab Green
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I mean, fuck, the Rangers called for reinforcements. We were alone with our dicks flapping in the wind for half a year. Prior to that, my unit established COPs in Sayed Abad and Jalrez (COPs Conlan, Carwyle/Carwile, and Jalrez)
That will hopefully explain to many of you why I get the way I do sometimes. My adrenals have a hairpin trigger, but I swear it has nothing to do with choice. I’m working on it, though.
That will hopefully explain to many of you why I get the way I do sometimes. My adrenals have a hairpin trigger, but I swear it has nothing to do with choice. I’m working on it, though.
BudmanTX
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ummm dude...you ok....just curious...
Olive Drab Green
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I’m good. You just see yourself published by the History Channel and Time Magazine, it just makes it a bit more real. I feel it’s going on too close to twenty years now because no one knows what’s going on. I feel like the reason I didn’t learn about Vietnam in Public School was so the US didn’t have to learn from its mistakes. Never learned anything about it until college, despite my grandfather serving three tours as a gunner’s mate with the Brown Water Navy; killed himself in ‘90-91 (I was very young), may God rest his soul. I feel obligated to educate people.
ChingOwn
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Plug us in bruh I Know how to set timers and shit, probably even convince them that I can double up as securityThat’s kinda what I thought, seems like a “high”salary to me. He told me that his buddy will be working by himself, idk. Said he has accepted job and leaves this weekend.