iirc a few of us military guys raised a few eyebrows/questions at the uniform pictures

do you have any links? my dad, my broth, uncle, friends are all military, until i moved out for college i live on an army post my whole life....

this was like back in 08 hahah good luck finding it.

oh fuck that, i was here, and i vaguely remember them, but i wanted to refresh my memory..

He came in after the swap to the ACU (he is only 24?) but the uniform he posted pictures of was a BDU. That was 3-4 years ago so I don't remember details. He was in < 3 years but if you added up all of the time required to do the training for the badges he had it was >4 years and that didn't account for gaps between training.

This post was edited by FMX_89 on Dec 28 2012 08:43am

Ok here we go. I'm a little late but deal with it. Nowhere did I say that the longest wheelbase possible is better. You are putting words in my mouth. There is a fairly direct correlation between power and wheelbase amongst all cars of the same TYPE. You used a rear engine car as an example when all of the other cars we are talking about are front engine. The BRZ and the Mustang are both front engine RWD. These cars are sold to the general public. The general public are not trained in maneuvers like counter steer and trail braking. The general public need a car with slight understeer, not oversteer, in order to keep them out of the trees.

So when we put a lot of power in a car with a short wheelbase (and lighter weight) what do we get? Easy power induced oversteer. AKA the back end passing the front end. If the car has pretty neutral handling leaning towards understeer and you have enough power to break the back end loose in a corner and induce oversteer the wheelbase of the car has a direct effect on how fast the rear end moves out.



Example. Spin around in a long ass crew cab truck. Now spin around in a ZX-14 powered Smart car. Anyone that has ever played around in a RWD vehicle has felt the phenomenon. So, a car with a shorter wheelbase is harder to control once traction has broken than a car with a longer wheelbase. That is common sense. Where you fucked up in this argument is founding your counter argument on an example car of a different type. A rear engine porshce has NOTHING to do with what we are talking about.

No, I'm not a race engineer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

oh i see, there was still some "specialty" units in BDUs (like some of the special forces guys were one of the last ones to change to BDUs), but if he was like infantry or something like that, he would have been one of the first in ACUs. the patches would give it away the easiest tho. did it show his rank that you could remember? if it was anything more than a specialist, and he was only in for 3-4 years, then he was clearly lying as it takes 4-5 years minimum to get sergeant.

No idea. He says he was a 15b attached to the SOAR 160th. So he was a helicopter mechanic. But he let a machine shop put his pistons in backwards. Seriously.

right...well, fuck lol. either he was a bad mechanic or not one at all.