(08-01-2020, 11:32 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(08-01-2020, 08:25 PM)mikesez Wrote: The only overseas contingency that the US National guard should ever be involved in is an emergency in a US territory such as Puerto Rico or American Samoa. 
If we ever need to set up a roadblock in Baghdad again, it can be done with army or Marines or even private contractors. Even if it's beneath their training. Just not the National guard.

Dude. Shut up. You have never served and don't know what you're talking about. I'm an Army veteran and don't know exactly what Jagibelieve and Homebicuit are saying (regarding ships and other Navy stuff) because the Navy and Marine Corps speak a very different language than the Army. But I know they know what they're talking about and are making you look like an idiot. 

The Coast Guard is not military. They are not Department of Defense. They are Homeland Security. Their job is vital to our nation but they are not technically military and the 23 year old Guardsman I know who is stationed in Florida would tell you the same thing. 

So please, be quiet. Unless you want to continue being made to look foolish, in which case carry on.

JIB is mistaking terms of art for meaningful knowledge. So are you.
Someone on a ship might have laughed at him or kicked him his first day when he asked about the restroom or the cafeteria. "You fool! This ship doesn't have a restroom! It's called the head! And there is no cafeteria! We eat in the galley!"  This in word / out word stuff builds comraderie, but it's not knowledge. Knowledge is knowing that if you're going to be out to sea for weeks, so there must be a place to go to the bathroom and a place to eat. Jargon is what do you call those places without getting laughed at.

Obviously the angled deck carrier with F-18s is going to get different missions than the smaller ship that carries F-35Bs. I said they're basically the same thing, and you're insisting that they're totally different things, but my point is that we have more than enough of each. We have 10 or 11 angled deck carriers. France, the UK, and Russia each have one. China has one or two.

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