>>64876364Why are Americans still so shit at this? Why do their company level cav/tank officers lack the class necessaey to enforce decent standards of names like Britain and Australia seem to manage?
>>64876374Lighten up, Francis.
>>64876377No. Whimsy is fucking gay. Men should be warriors and the attitude of warriors towards the tools of war should be stern, not whimsical.
>>64876385Nah
>>64876374Because these things are named by a bunch of grunts following the "I was bored and thought it was funny" naming convention. In artillery, guns could be named just about anything that started with the letter of the battery they belonged to and wasn't a slur, and I suspect tanks work the same way. I saw an Abrams named "Deplorable" in 2017 at an exercise, for example.
>>64876385>the virgin butthurt euro"guys war is SRS BSNS stop joking around!!!">the chad whimsical american"haha i called my tank Big Nigga"
>>64876385I'll never understand why you Europeans start wars with each other so often when you don't even enjoy them. Is it like a masochism thing?
>>64876391We engage in a bit of tomfoolery
>>64876385
>>64876392The whole point of officers is to force their soldiers to act better than they are capable of on their own. I know that the odds of a soldier picking a non-shit name are no better than chance, and so do cavalry officers everywhere, which is why Commonwealth squadron OCs tell their crew commander to fuck off and come back with a better name when they say they're going to name their tank "Big Chungus" or "Anuwubis", and give them an extra guard duty to help them put enough time into thinking about it."Deplorable" is a solid name btw, notwithstanding political connotations at the time ofc.
>>64876356> I have PTSD from when our hole got pounded by big chungus' main gun
>>64876374>>64876385Completly. Fucking. Retarded.There is always at least one vehicle in the British Army named "Biggus Dickus" (he wanks as high as any in Wome!) at all times.
>>64876408I think you're just butthurt because Americans are better at war than you and everyone knows it.
>>64876356"Per my last email"
>>64876385>top 10 examples of things non-warriors say
>>64876374>like Britain and Australia seem to manage?
>>64876391>not sure if historical or /k/ meetup with heavy filter
>>64876406My favorite was>implying you're not starving
>>64876356We don't do that. Each armored vehicle has its own serial number painted on it and operationally they are called whatever callsign their unit has been assigned for the mission. Crews can informally call their vehicles whatever they want, but not graffiti the name on them. There are no 'personal' armored vehicles, a tank crew is not married to a specific tank.
>>64876356'ASVAB Waiver' is the best I've seen
>>64876374Never forget what they took from us
>>64876438/k/ femboys look like THAT?
>>64876453Who is "we" exactly? Naming your tank is crew tradition and builds familiarity and ownership with the vehicle.
>>64876374Because the US actually has a functioning military that can power project
>>64876356"Nigger blaster">>64876385autistic
>>64876385hegseth pls go
>>64876356Biggus Dickus 88
>>64876356
Big Nigger
>>64876356SHIT(skin) SPLATTER(er)
>>64876374>WE DONT DO DAS IN DER KOMMON WEALTHall of you euros are so fucking insufferable, it's not just the germoids. pls fucking lighten up and stop taking yourselves so seriously because no one else does. or consider suicide. whichever is more convenient
>>64876385the whimsical soliders/warriors/side always beats the 'stern' side though, dipshit
>>64876374I guarantee that your country is less White than my state.
>>64876385I unironically believe that Hegseth really is the kind of retard that browses /k/ and I think this is him.
>this thread
>>64876374This has to be bait, or brownoid divide and conquer trolling.
>>64876408The Air Force is basically entirely officers at the sharp end. I can't even post half my collection of nose art on a blue board.
>>64876374>>64876385Go away kegsbreath, no one likes you and we think ur cringe.
>>64876356Something like big doofus or dum-dum, i.e. dumb-dumb, always works.Hard knock is nice too, especially if anyone in the crew managed to hit their head on something.>>64876374>>64876385Having fun is the most important part of war. There are few things as cringe as pretending to be le stoic hardass manly man.
>>64876453How can I romanticize war if one crew doesn't live and die in one singular tank?
>>64876356FURRY With the second R crappily scribbled over
>>64876408
>>64876356BENIS :DDDD
>>64876356She's getting painted on the barrel too
>>64876356Roberta.
>>64876385Oh great Hesgeth is here
>>64876356My Other Car's A Camaro
>>64876364lmao
>>64876356I'm good at nicknaming people, I find their names easy to play off of and if that fails there's usually something in their past, or in my dealings with them, or their physical appearance that I can rely on.By contrast, I suck with nicknaming inanimate objects. So I'd probably let my crewmates do the naming, and then enthusiastically join in once it's done.
>>64876374Take it easy Francis
>>64876657Youreapeeins have gone completely off the fucking deep end the last few years and I'm fucking sick of it. I'm almost at the point to where I'd rather talk to hues and Indians.
>>64876385This is why your army is 1/10th the size of ours.
>>64876727There have been at least 1000 tanks that were named some variant of "Saddamizer" between 1990 and 2003
Lmao people complaining about comical names have never been in the military or on a sports team, this shit is normal in any competitive male environment
>>64876411Need Incontinentia buttocks to accompany biggest dickus
>>64876753Based
>>64876621>10kThat’s Varrock people money if I’ve ever seen it. In Lumbridge our girls go for the price of a mithril scrim or dyed goblin mail.
>>64876984
>>64876374We named the QRF vics we had in Syria Girth Brooks, Girth Papi, The Girthfather, and Big Girtha. Command thought it was funny but made us take our mre box license plates with the names off when we had some 2 star or something come through.You sound like a fag btw.
>>64876374being a silly guy is motivational and you’re forgetting how young most grunts are. Let them do dumb teenager shit. God knows I did.
>>64876356Biden Blast
>>64876356Big News III. Next choices if the III causes confusion are Regulator, The Yeti, or Miss October.
xx_Darklordd
>>64876356>Lotti Reborn
>>64876356steve
Boat
>>64876963
>>64877078https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4B6TsZNFGw
>>64876356>Fat Cunt>Mister Lister the Armored Fister>The Knot>Smaller Gustav>Fluffy
>>64876356attention to the maparmor 500 load AT
>>64876356Old Fatberg
>>64876901Some of those aren't too bad, but it does ignore the fact you've ended up in armour so>Stay In School
>>64876356>What would you Name Your Tank? Marengo
Shitting Dick Nipples
>>64877369Fire Marengo, fire away
>>64876356>What would you Name Your Tank?Relationship CounsellingMinor TremorUnusual SmellPost MortemEarthly DelightTourist VisaPlastic StrawEnviromentally FriendlyFortunate SonHome RunTax ReturnRecently DivorcedDebaser
Winning TicketCthuhluSpace InvaderUnfair AdvantageChronic FatigueInteresting TimesMortal Coil
Yellow Perilt. Mongol
>>64876901>American Flight 175Based and race-revenge-pilled.
G-StringGoverment WitnessForced SmileMalignant TumorUnwelcome GuestTotal Eclipse
>>64876356Betsy.
Temporary InsanityPants DownTerrible MessPiss JugFap SockGreat ExpectationsMostly Harmless
Indecent ExposureNeedful ThingsDelicate Flower
Retard ExpressIncontinentia ButtocksUSS Tirpitz
>>64876356Blue Breaker. Those who know, know. Those who don't, too bad.
>>64876694>black magic>white bimboI just assume she's got an Ace of Spades tattooed around her anal hole.
>>64876901>beaner on board
Gud BoyNot SureBudget DeficitMy WayUnfortunitate IncidentTally HoOops ApocalypseBum FightToo LateYours Sincerely
bout tree fiddyTwin TorpedoSasha GreyEipsteinOnce BittenMoist CakeOnly MePremature EjaculationHampster Wheel
Thomas
>>64877408>Indecent ExposureClass 2 Felony
>>64876356Some fun ones in the thread so far. Thanks, anons.>The Heinous>AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!>Thunder Stick>ICU>And Your Mom>Soon>Allah ACKbar>Dust To Dust>Taxpayer's Advantage>Big Badda Boom>Knock Knock>Special Delivery>Your Face When
>>64876405IIRC 08 15 is german slang for something that is budget or low quality.
>>64876901Whats up with all the misspellings?
>>6487752208/15 means vanilla.
>>64877418is because shes got black hairwhat do you think, we'd paint a colored woman on our aircraft? preposterous
>Thx Mr Taxpayer>Pink Pony Club>Pibble Mom>The Sounder>3 Thrusts & A Stare>Pons Mubis>My Fursuit>Toot For Me
>Reply All>Uninvited>24% APR>I Heart BPD>Rock or Something
>>64876356"As Per My Last Email"
>>64876385Fuck off ferret face!
>>64877005Just needs one with "Fishing lvl?" as a name.
>>64877522It usually means mediocre or basic.
>>64876356for me it'd probably be>pantsu inspector>front towards enemy>infidel exploder 5000>opinion revaluator>candy truckor a long black censorship bar
Pig PhysicsWhen in Dubai!Gunga MoneySchmitmarGulpOk GarminPerfect FlashMY PEBBLES!Your Phys-EDLeaving SCARSStill In LoveThat's EnoughWarsmithI Can LeaveNevermindNo LessOomph!
>>64876356>>64876374You look at this >>64876901 and tell me we're shit at naming tanks, I fuckin dare you. Names selected from tanks entering a decommissioning facility
>>64877525Sometimes because we enlisted can be dumber than a box of rocks, but most of the time it's either a typo from whoever made this sheet, or there will be some actual reason that will forever be known only to the guys who named it that way. Like CHEDDER BOB is such a ridiculous name that it makes me think the misspelling is intentional to add to the silliness of it. A couple also reflect amusing pronunciations and spellings, like "bizhitch"
>>64876901>A TANKgets me every time
>>64876901Lots of metal song/album names.>Cowboys from Hell is listed twice
>>64877418Mutts law
Who Rescued WhoBig Tank For YouSteve HarveySurvey SaysLimited Commercial InterruptionsWarm Hands Cold HeartBig LoadGrowerLive From CNNComing to a City Near YouYo XboxCobsonBasedjackBig ChudAsk Me About My ChargerI Love My GranddogsSalt LifeCounter-Terrorists WinFappleBazingaCry Cry AgainMaster of My DomainLow BatteryWho Wants McDonalds
>>64876356Obso1337yeah im a boomer
>>64876356I would name my tank gwen tennyson
>>64876408>CommonwealthStopped reading there.
>>64876356Can o' Beans.
>>64877810>>64877393I see what you did there. My picks are:>Special Week>Taiki Shuttle>Vodka>El Condor Pasa>Manhattan Cafe>King Halo>Durandal>Jungle Pocket>Loves Only You>NTR>No Reason>Rhein Kraft>Stay Gold>Tap Dance City
I would name my tank after my favoritest thing in this world, Maxi Mounds.
>>64877614>>Reply AllThis may be a winner for me. Dunno why it tickles my funny bone so hard.
>>64878082>Who Rescued WhoBased and Yukari-pilled.
big jobs
At least in the US Army a unit will share the same letter for naming their tanks for easy ID.Hence why they all start with B in this photo >>64877005Or G in this post >>64877015Notice the vast majority are A, B, and C names in >>64876901 with the outliers probably being the HQ section.
>>64876408We limited the insanity by forcing soldiers to name starting with the letter of the company/troop.Ie, all A trp tanks started with A. B trp was B etc. We were T. So my platoon had such wonderful names as "Taint" "Tabitha" "Titan" and my personal tank because it was always broken "Titanic"You don't say "no" to what Soldiers want to name their tank because it's theirs. You remind them that when they die my letter is going to include the name of their tank. If they want to be remembered for dying in "Taint" and that's the letter going on their parents mantle then that's on them. If they want to be remembered for being a clown then great- hopefully it provides solace to family and friends. I want my Soldiers to have autonomy; when I die in glorious combat I want them to be empowered to make decisions. How can you say you trust them to make combat decisions if you can't even trust their ability to name a chunk of metal?
>>64876356Nigga, Deez Nutz.
>>64876356Jazz standards are an absolute goldmine>A-train>Girl from Ipanema>Caravan>Bye Bye Blackbird>My Funny Valentine
>>64876687>>64876694>No more nose art cause BVR is everythingI hate RAM coating
>>64876395>call my tank Big NiggaI double dog dare you, motherfucker.
Fat Cunt
>>64876704Kegsbreath is the kind of retard to think that "General Armageddon" is a cool name, while bitching that "Iron tits" sounds trans or some shit. Literal Russification of America. I mean, the faggot calls the Chair of the JCS by his nickname as if they were buddies. It's so cringe, dude.
>>64880155okay, but what about General Tittygeddon?
>>64880155>Ridgeway is Iron Tits>LeMay is Iron AssWho's...who's Ironpussy?! Ironcock? Is the cold war American brass giant iron exodia woman a futa?
>>64877344Devilish
Epstein Records
>>64876385fool. how could you forget Sun Tzu's more important rule of warfare: have fun
Futa Cock
>>64876356Grounds for Divorce
IDF story from the early weeks of the recent Gaza offensive:>Every unit (battalion?) gets a position transponder. >Battalion comms guys task to set it up.SexyKitty6969 show up on the warroom battle management bigscreen...>Colonels in rage>—Gaza Division Comms, fix it right now.>We have no remote access of this level>—SouthComm, fix it right now!>No sufficient access>—Whole-Ground Comms, fix it!!!>No human resources for this, ticket opened.SexyKitty69 on the map for 2 days....Some bored commsguy did a bit tomfooolery in the middle of a firefight....
>>64876356How many do you think are named after fandom ships?Imagine getting killed by an M1A2 nicknamed "Funny Bunny" or "Kriselle"
>>64876385The heckin srs bznz side of le based staunch traditionalists never seems to win against Idaho boys with an IQ barely above room temperature taking silly photos with dead things. Ponder that, faggot, while you wait for the US to win another war for you.
>>64876901Someone should name their tank George Floyd
>>64876356Fight. That way, if anyone asks which tank is mine I can reply, "My tank is Fight."
>>64876356Steve the Tank
>>64876901>Class 6Lmao, fucking drunkards.
>Awful Smell>Bad Habit>Cute & Funny>Done Dirt Cheap>Echo Chamber>Fox Girl>Gwen Tennyson>Hey Ya>Invasive Species>Jewish Tricks>Korbo>lol u tk him 2da bar|?>Modest Reshiram>Niggling>Orange Piccolo>Pizza Time>Quistis Rule34>Raging Bonnet>Sarah Lastofus>Tim Hortons>Uohhhhhh>Violent Retard>WWFD>Xibalba>Yume Niggi>Zigger Hanger 9000
>>64876356Menufeast McDestiny
>>64880335>the threats to fuck the Soviets weren't metaphorical after all
>>64880335>Dire straits if he real
>>64881452>Gwen Tennyson
>>64876374massive volunteer military's are de facto filled and ran by absolutely retarded degenerates. It's what makes them great.
>>64876356Xiuhcoatlgonna be filled with spics anyways, might as well pander to them
>>64876374Change your tampon, bitch nigga
>>64876395>>64879935Back in my day, we could use a hard R
>>64876385Nope, we doing whimsy up in this bitch.
>>64877614>>Reply AllYou load M1028 instead of M830 by mistake ONE TIME and suddenly they make you rename your tank
>>64876356Connie Lynn
>>64876356TITBITS II
>>64876453Picrel
>>64882651But we do have trains here. Unless they mean passenger trains which are a thing in more built up cities, but in small towns really aren't worth the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure.
>>64882659
>>64882671Deleted my text I guess. Of course most major cities have rail systems of varying complexity. Even small towns sometimes have passenger trains like Klamath Falls. The size and distance of and between population centers is hard to comprehend for a European. Making some progress but I would love to see rails along the interstates one day.
>>64882969
>>64882981
>>64876356Big Dick Nick
>>64880852Yids use their own made up language right, how the fuck can you even get sexykitty in there.
>>64876613i have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus
>>64876356Party VanShort BusScooty Puff Jr.Be Not Afraid「Mastodon」Big OManburger HelperBiblically Accurate Golf CartHowl's Moving Castle Doctrine
>>64876356>What would you Name Your Tank?Pinkie Pie
>>64882651Germans are patriotic. Most just don't worship Hitler and the Nazis, which is what you're probably alluding to.
>>64882969>>64882981>>64882984I guess you could say this tank got bogged!
Conjugal VisitBackscratcherFree SamplesCannonade StandThe Jewish QuestionMr. Clean
Kavabanga
>>64876356THE CHUDMOBILE
>>64883577Carlos!!!
Dies IraeMastodonRolling AnvilManowarGotterdammerungIron HandPowerslaveThe TrooperPainkiller (used that one for flavor in an alt-history character background, actually)
>>64882674There's also the fact that if you wanted a coast to coast railway you need to account for not just the distance but the fact the train will be going through every type of biome on Earth with the exception of iceberg.
>Ass We Can!>DSFARGEG>Bejitabro...>FGSFDS>Baby Fuck!>Dig Bick>Formerly Chuck's>Gachimuchi Country>AIT Reclass
>>64876356Come Honor Face
>>64876356>the sign is a subtle joke>be patient I'm a tank>other ride is ur mom>needs directions>camel smoker>undercompensation>underpaid, overfun>Don't brake for Chinese>Veteran Driver, still suck
Der Kopfjäger (D-14, D Co., 3/66AR)
>>64876356The Game
>>64877005>back to lumbyI'll admit I audibly chuckled at that one
>>64876356>Friendly reminder
>>64880335Moar liek kekxodia, amirite?
>Cunt Ripper>Cunt Ripper Pro>Diet Cunt Ripper>Son of Cunt Ripper> Cunt Ripper 2: Electric Ripped Cunt>The Cunt Rips Back>Cunt Ripper Rides Again>Air Cunt Ripper>A Ripped Cunt Orange>Planet of the Ripped Cunts>Honey I Ripped the Cunt>For Whom the Cunt Rips
>>64876356BIG COCK FOUR THOUSAND
>>64884300Fuckkk
>>64876356Sword of Destiny
>>64876356>Uses Apple Maps
>>64882659>but in small towns really aren't worth the cost of building and maintainingyes they are the gains are just not as easy to identify in a pure cost analysis, they have great secondary economic benefits. and anyways passenger rail is a public good not everything has to be a profit driven race to the bottom.
>>64885148They are easily substituted by buses which don't require building and maintaining separate infrastructure.
>>64885320And seizing peoples' property through the power of eminent domain. Funnily enough, existing private railways have some power to do this themselves. This is not without controversy, and may eventually lead to the Supreme Court condemning the practice and withdrawing that power.https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/02/18/georgia-appeals-court-hears-arguments-railroad-eminent-domain-case/
>>64884998Your tank would have phimosis and be a gay faggot?
>>64879496i thought the big list just happened to be in roughly alphabetical order. damn. that's neat, thanks anont. neverserved
>>64876901>cancer stick>cameltoe>a tank Good ones.Mine would be:[Barrel end]|this side of paradise
>>64882984i'm assuming they buried it on purpose and didn't just leave it until shit grew on it right, since the recover vehicle is already there in the first imagealso can i say how fucking cool those things are? just a tank without the part that makes people think of a tank as a tank. and whenever one is involved someone looks like they're taking the piss, look at the left guy's face in >>64882969 with that grin, or this image from the wikipedia page on the M88 recovery vehicle just called "commander having fun.jpg" (really)
>>64876374>Australia >ClassLiterally only country in the world where walking barefoot into a restaurant or grocery store is socially acceptable.
>>64876385t. luigi cadorna
>>64876385Very Teutonic (i.e lost two world wars) attitude.
>>64885446>i'm assuming they buried it on purposeYou would assume wrong.>Taking on any new challenge, Maintenance Support Team personnel of the Minnesota National Guard's 1st Combined Arms Battalion – 194th Armor got the opportunity to recover a 70 ton The M1A1 Abrams Tank during a training exercise in Sweden Sept. 19, 2017. While maneuvering as part of the international exercise, tankers of 1CAB – 194 Armor were surprised by soft ground resulting in a mired vehicle. Recovery crews from the unit’s MTS responded and in collaboration with our Swedish Armed Forces hosts extracted the tank. Within less than 36 hours the battalion’s maintenance teams we able to recover, clean, repair and verify the tank making it fully mission capable and returning it to the simulated battlefield.tl;dr americans on exercise in sweden discovered that driving a tank in sweden (and finland for that matter) where there are no trees growing is going to end in disaster because it's most likely soft clay earth left behind by the Scandinavian Ice Sheet.This is why tracked articulated vehicle and other low ground pressure vehicles are so popular and necessary in this region. It's not just the snow that you can sink in.
>>64885587Then we also have another thing called quick clay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_clay ) which is equally terrifying and fascinating. It is a clay that is solid, until it is disturbed or the salt balances changes and then it turns into a pourable liquid. That is the "fluid" in front of the tank in >>64882969 that almost looks like oil or grease.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgDQsYAcS3o
>>64876385Never met a single "muh trad stern warrior" type who had even been in a fight let alone in the military or active combat.>>64876403I'm a Britbong so maybe I can't speak for the rest of Europe but we have a history of having a rather grand old time in war. You would as well if you were stuck on this island.
>>64885457Not even the nazis were this joyless
>>64876901>CHOCOLATE CITYThat just sounds like anal porn movie where a white dude fucks some black chicks because they stole something from him.
>>64876356>AAngelmakerAngry TrashcanAckshuallyAhabAll InAlabama Man>BBetter than Call of DutyBlack BettyBugzapperBackshotsBingedrinker>CCrunchies Look Out!ChimeraClit woodClamslammerChimpoutCreatine and HGHCigarette MoneyCollege Tuition>DDead PresidentsDoctor PhilDeepthroatDeadlyDead InsideDrunk DriverDemeter
Tank>but anon, what if you got a different tank?Tank 2
>>64876356Whatever your mother name is. Because she's hefty, moves slowly and goes off when you pull her buttons and not at all when actually needed
>>64876356>Down BRed>Smurf Account>Big Willie>.46 ACP>Taking names and TBIs>Watch Out, Sober Driver>The Recruiter Lied>Sardine Can>Swamp Ass
Bad Dragon
Free Candy
>>64876385I'd be way more scared of the guy who thinks the war is fun.
>>64876356The People's Republic of China
>>64876356Richard Mongler
>>64882651I knew someone would take the /int/ bait eventually.Nope, not Germany. We do operate german MBTs but our autism is stronger.>>64876491No such thing in a conscript army. Our vehicles meet new crews all the time.>>64876720Easy, you don't.
>>64876385Shut the fuck up, Hegseth.
>pic rel not posted yetThe sad state of /k/
>>64883014NTA but it was probably just SexyKitty69 in English.
>>64886571Protip, government recruiters: all you have to do is start genetically engineering these into existence and promise one (1) as part of the enlistment contract, and the military's recruitment problems will be solved forever.
>>64876374>>64876385
>>64876406The more things change, the more they stay the same.
>>64879496Anything that isn't A-C (sometimes D) or H is probably Cav.
>>64876385You've never served, have you?
>>64876385YOU are gay, not whimsy. Sense of humor and being generally silly is how those men do their jobs and stay vaguely sane
>>64876438Nobody in that picture is morbidly obese
>>64876408Go away, everyone itt thinks and knows Big Chungus tank is absolutely based, and you are not
>>64876420Underrated
>>64886038>conscript armyEw
Hot Tub Tony
>>64876356BIGGER NIGGER
>>64885589So it's like the opposite of supercooled water that's still liquid and sloshy until it's touched and then it all freezes at once? That's fucking cool, but yeah also terrifying.
>>64885699A man has to protect his lemon grove
Gerald
>>64876385There are times to be stern, like when people are being faggots, but this is not one of those times.
>>64887422Fucking lemon-stealing whore.
>>64882468need those pics lol
>>64876356Door Stuck>>64879520Come on, getting "T", you couldn't NOT go with "The Knot".>>64885906Need the sticker on the tank, too.
>>64882674>>64884070Everyone forgets there is a sweet spot economically and timewise for rail, and one side of the USA to the other will always lose out to flying. That holds true in Europe too.
>>64889532I think France banned short haul aircraft between places that a train would be competitive.Have fun with that in the US :)
