Duke of Gloucester's armor was worth 103 pounds

Equal to 5,150 days labor for a skilled trade

Or US$82,000 today

anyone wanna talk about the vietnamese dong?

Hahaha

Mail was about 500 days labor or $4,700

Like 4x what a modern soldier wears

Damn

alright

so its justifiable to have an exoskeleton now?

i mean

its like knight armor but better

Mercenary knight wage was about $60 a day

Nobody should get anything new in the army until they allow beards

Nunchaku for harvesting rice? Wat?

You mean a kunai or kama right?

Also cant have a beard it messes up facial recognition in Gundams

Nunchaku are for beating the shit out of the rice stalks I think

Some pilots in G Gundam had beards

And Galan Mossa

Idk

Wiki says its Okinawa martial arts weapon

I'm gonna tell 1st sgt, you think beards are unprofessional? Are you saying Robert E Lee was unprofessional???

Yes

All officers are

Thats why that cant be trusted with the american flag ever

Always enlisted

Same with guidon and other flags except for change of commands

http://civilwarsaga.com/famous-civil-war-soldiers/

Confederate units elected their company grade officers. Field grade were appointed by the state in some regiments, elected by the company grade officers in others

Union was similar until halfway through the war

And the government generally picked people with experience. Not like today's shitshow

Still cant be trusted with the flag

All those rules were made before the US was

Modern officers make up lies about facial hair

Hell they go back to Rome

British system was purchase of commissions

I meant relative to the flags

Rank was bought if there was a vacancy, promotion the same way

I meant relative to the officer corps

Still werent allowed to carry the colors