It's basically a scholarship program where the military pays for you to get a bachelor's degree, upon completion you will have to serve a minimum time as an officer. Typically 4-8 years depending on the job/contract

You sign up for that as a civilian too

If your already enlisted in the military, then you can work your way up to a bachelor's and apply for OTS (officer training school). Or, if you're under a certain age (I think it's 23 for the airforce) then you can apply for that branch's academy. The academy route also take civilian application's, but they're pretty damn strict

I think there's the HPSP, but I never looked into medical that much

Health professions scholarship program, btw

The "common sense" argument goes out the window if there was the slightest chance that you, as an individual, could be harmed by another's actions. Self preservation is one of the highest values that most people have (or should have) and it makes no sense to limit one's ability to defend their life

On the topic of explosives (plastic, powder, etc) it gets a bit fuzzier, mostly since there aren't many, if any, scenarios where an explosion can be used in a defensive manner.

If you're going against any form of government, then legality becomes pointless

Even so, the main point of explosives, if not as a propellant, is for either A) causing indiscriminate casualties or B) demolitions

Thing is, there's no real way to make them inaccessible to anyone with a home depot and chemistry textbooks

Resident Evil 4 save points

Sound warning btw

There's also the lack of a filter and improper seal due to wearing it over the headscarf and what looks to be facial hair sticking out the bottom

Possible, it's definitely an Israeli civilian model regardless of modifications

Then the feeling will go away. It's mostly the unease of being unfamiliar with a setting, especially a setting that by some accounts (not all) is unwelcoming

Martial arts are helpful, but mostly in the fitness/awareness kinda way. You aren't gonna be doing compression locks when 6 guys coral you into an alleyway

Tbh my views on guns for defense are more like fire extinguishers. If you actually need to use them, shit's already gone sideways beyond all doubt, but you'd rather have immediate access to one.

Good. Also, keep in mind that some ranges have rules against going alone, mostly to prevent suicides

Rentals

That's pretty normal, just your brain recognizing potentially dangerous serious and going "what if?"

Just practice and do drills with it

They'll form both muscle memory and reflexes, as well as sorta "desensitize" you to those thoughts

Kinda like after driving in a car for a few months you just stop thinking about every little bump and sputter, you get used to it being part of the process.

Might as well pick up another .22, they're good starting points to hammer in the basics.

Yeah, Matebas are pretty sweet. I just wish that they get their import shenanigans straightened out, I want one of their new runs

The OG imports are straight up unobtanium

One of the fire in Cali, the entire west coast is ablaze now

Pretty sure that program only tracks US fires

This is from the NASA FIRMS (fire information for resource management system) map

Granted, the US has way more than Canada or Mexico in their respective regions

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2020-09-12..2020-09-13;@0.0,0.0,3z

Check out Africa, shit's about to be entirely desert

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Never been a fan of televised sports, but being in stadium is fun as shit

at least for hockey

That's not really new, Halloween season starts right after Labor day

https://twitter.com/bluelivesmtr/status/1305638718313824256?s=20

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1306025265290674177?s=09

Get a smaller size then, mechanix are stretchy as hell and will accommodate

Don't think any native english speaker has used it unironically since the 90's

It honestly depends on how dry the trees are

#10 r is 72/5
-16/5 = r/3 -8
Add 8 to both sides, multiply 8 by 5 to slide it into the top of the fraction on the left
(40-16)/5=r/3
24/5=r/3
Multiply both sides by 15 to cancel out both denominators
72=5r
divide both by 5, get r
72/5=r

Do fuck am I late to the party

Multiply both by 15

5 cancels out left bottom, so 24*3

nah, 15/1

I'm fine with it until they add the greek letters, fuck that noise

It's the same

I just said 15 cause it is the end result

Yep

Mark out he denominators and cross-apply them

Or something

I may not be sober

My brain just auto pilots on most stuff

@cidrnet For one, absolutely shit on stabilization in the middle east, keeping us over there way longer than needed

@Seal details on that upper?

So many civilians died that they had to classify all males older than 16 as "military aged males" to fluff the numbers

Covid was left to the states, and they independently fucked it up

Yeah, on the off chance he doesn't get reelected I'm pretty sure that at least a quarter of the current enlisted are gonna punch their tickets

Like, make and model and what not. I've always liked reciprocating charging handles

Nice

And bet

SKS'S are always fun, i got a Chinese one back home

Fuckin A man

Thinking about getting an old Krag when I move out of the barracks since A) 30-40 is rare enough to not be out of stock amd B) most of them are pre-1898 so you can literally order them to your doorstep

Yep

PFM brah

From an STG...

Yeah, basically just take the standard loading process and flip it 90°

But those are chambered in different rounds, the barrel won't be compatible with the internals

Unless you buttfuck the entire design process and fabricate 70% of it by hand, at which point there's no point in using the stg in the first place

Pretty much, look at 5.45×39 mags in comparison

Okay, that actually makes sense then

And sweet

He's definitely keeping Nebraska and Florida though

Yes

Portland and Seattle too

That, and every president with a vacant Supreme Court seat during an election year (22 of them) nominated someone during that year

Pretty sure that the suicides and overdoses caused by the lockdown has already surpassed what deaths would have been directly from covid without the lockdown

It's FN's full sized 9mm pistol

5.7mm is basically 22WMR designed to get maximum velocity out of a pistol length barrel, usually getting up to 3 times the energy as 22wmr at any barrel length under 5"

Yeah, this server is pretty comfy

Legitimately depends on how much you're willing to bribe your sheriff

Nevermind, CA doesn't allow private ownership of NFA Class III firearms

So that bribe oughta be in the 6 figure range, or move to Nevada

That's how much the real things weigh

Yeah, WA is like night and day about 5 miles outside of the Seattle-Tacoma area, even in some pockets in them. I've seen more Trump signs here than I have when I lived in NC during the last election

I'm a morning person in the terms that I go to sleep at noon