• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOP
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      It might come as a surprise to you, but quite a lot of people in the world learn English as a second language, and terminally online 4chan anons tend to get quite good at it, so this doesn’t narrow it down much.

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          Hmm, that’s a good point.

          Alright, which country would you suspect then? Because outside of the US, every other English speaking country uses the metric system (but I’m not sure if any of them still have mandatory conscription).

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    My dad had a similar story. When he got recalled they had to shoot a bunch of nearly depleted ammo for 155 mm arty.

    They sit in the field waiting for the command to fire. Guy that has the pull cord had been smoking some weed and was sitting behind the gun drumming.

    One of his beats is with the hand in which he has the cord, it was slightly to strong. The gun fires and he gets the recoiling breech block in his face.

    My dad jumps on him and keeps his tongue from sliding back in the guys throat. Shouts at the commanding officer to get a medic, finally the guy gets wheeled out by an ambulance. Nothing heard from the guy.

    Years later, in a bar he hears some drumming he recognizes. It’s the same guy, he got small fracture at the base of his skull and got an army pension for life. Buys the beers for my dad the rest of the evening.

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      he gets the recoiling breech block in his face

      I expected to respond to this with the sad crab meme captioned “this kills the recruit”. That guy must have an amazingly thick skull.

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        He was incredibly relaxed, which might have saved him. You see this with drunk drivers too.

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    Unless Anon served in the Russian army, accidentally shooting a rock 10m away would be quite a serious safety breach leading to a good amount of investigations.

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      In soviet Russia the pension will get you for life… Jokes aside he won’t get any pension or medical in russian army, just get sent to Ukraine. Cheaper

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      Anon is on 4chan and mentioned mandatory service…so yeah, probably Russia or a former Soviet state.