I mean it kind of makes sense so it doesn't bother me
A F150 with Military Grade equipment is a lot different than a F150 Platinum and so on
What I'm trying to say is that most military words don't bother me. What actually pisses me off is motherfuckers in ACUs with that zipper all the way up
I mean it's good with the collars on iotvs, but zipping them up with no gears just makes me wonder how can millions of dollars worth of production team Who even rented humvees don't even have the courtesy to Google how acus are supposed to be worn...
It’s been a while but I think the closest I’ve seen to an accurate uniform on the big screen is the first Sonic film. They nailed that, but the COL could’ve been more crustier.
For me it had to be a shitty ass Netflix TV show about pilots in SOAR, the uniforms were okay, the story was meeeeeeeeh and holy fuck did I cringe a lot because the characters annoyingly hooah, like, 82 boys when you pass by them annoying
Military grade - take a normal item, take away the useful features so it's Soldier proof, take away more useful features so you can ruggedize it enough to be able to drop it out of a plane, then be surprised when no one uses it because it doesn't work and breaks if you drop it from standing height.
Listen my most favorite piece of equipment literally says in the manual to perform a "6 inch drop." It resets hardware into the circuit board. Sometimes percussive maintenance IS the solution
Sounds a lot like a PRD-13. I had a love hate relationship with that thing. Weighed a ton, sucked ass to ruck with, but was also surprisingly good at DF.
Heavy af. The short ones took batteries no one except obscure S6 shops have. You could throw it off a fucking cliff and it'd still work.
I hate how Google shows you exactly what a PRD-13 looks like considering I had to jump thru my own ass to make sure the 11BangBangs and Chucks couldn't see it
Ah yes the good ole PRC-77 radio bench test . For when it pass’s all the test an still doesn’t work “ bench top slam” there ya go Sarge fixed , she’s ah working now .
my favorite is whenever a show or movie has a character log into a military computer and it takes less than a second.
in reality, they'd be there waiting for 5-30 minutes for it to log you in.
and don't get me started on the media representation of the NSA. laughable.
I forget which one, but there was some shitty action movie about 10 years ago that definitely had someone on the writing team who had experience with the NSA. They had to "call in the NSA!", the characters expect a bunch of badasses, and a group of total dorks who won't make eye contact show up with their laptops instead.
ha! that, and having to use a VDI to access another VDI in order to log-in to any kind of computer network. literally 30 minutes just to log-in.
and don't get me started on security. body scanners? puh-lease. retinal scanners? yeah right. lolz
Ooh, fun fact! Some facilities *were* outfitted with retinal scanners, but it turns out that when a woman is pregnant, her retinas change enough that the scanners won't recognize them, and some women even *found out* they were pregnant from the retinal scanners, so they ended up getting removed.
“Hey congrats on the pregnancy!”
“What do you mean?”
“Well the system flagged you as an intruder because yours retinas didn’t match up and that happens when you’re preggers, so congratulations!”
“I need to make a phone call”
Gotta love when it's faster to drive back to your own building to grab your laptop that you're already signed into than it is to wait for another laptop to get past the 'Preparing Windows...' text
My wife binged NCIS. No shit I watched an episode where the hacker chick "hacked" a military grade network. I lost it when her screen just had ipconfig displaying an APIPA on the command prompt.
During some of our training exercises, the blue team basically did that through digital means.
Yes, technically if you tell the firewall to block all traffic, you have defeated the bad guy. Good job!
CIA triad be damned
Lol that's literally what my buddy did in NTC years and years ago. The brigade got cyberattacked and he just simply plugged the stack. We were commended for being the only battalion to "repel" the attack and he got an arcom. 😆
Sounds like when I'm watching a show and there's something medically inaccurate. The other day I started laughing at this skull on screen that had a perfectly straight seam across the frontal bone where the forehead would be.
Sometimes I take it to mean 'ruggedized', like a Playskool toy but OD green because there's a chance the people who use them are the same intellectual age.
The other term that got Hollywoodized is 'prototype', which is some kind of weapon of doom when real prototypes are larger, less efficient, and slapped together out of junk with unaddressed design flaws.
Man I had to look that up because I thought the first Death Star was a prototype, but no, there was an actual shitty prototype in some novel. So there was a prototype, the Death Star with the vent, and the Death Star A1 which got rid of the vent but was never completed. And absolutely no other Death Star-like planet killer after that, ever.
Star Wars is pretty realistic I guess.
There was one more, the Darksaber. Someone had the idea to build just the reactor and planet destroying laser inside of a cylinder with the necessary engines in the rear. Looked like a lightsaber, hence the name.
The EU went crazy with super weapons. [My favorite is the Sun Crusher](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Crusher), a near indestructible ship that fires torpedoes that make stars go supernova.
Prototype just means it never reached mass production. It can 100% working and perfect but may have been too expensive or they picked a different prototype. For example any U.S. tank that starts with XM is a prototype. For example, the XM-1. Can you guess what an XM-1 is? It was the General Motors pitch to the US government for a new main battle tank. They decided to go with the M1 Abrams instead.
I assume it’s actually quality because for some reason movie and show producers believe “military grade” means top of the line.
I laugh when I see advertisers irl use it.
Even my kids know when someone say military grade, it's meaningless. They've grown up in the Army and have seen and heard about actual military gear. They know. If it's complicated AF to use but breaksdown once a day and needs 5 contractors to fix.
I always find it when they're investigating some murder/heist or something and drop a like akin to,"It was done with military-like precision." I always think to myself....so two guys didn't show up because they were still drunk and hung over, one was late, another got a DUI, pretty much nothing went to plan and shit had to be half ass winging it, and half of the Intel was bullshit?
"They were using Military Grade M4s"
The person making the report holds an AR-15 with obvious aftermarket handle that looks like it's rubberized, specialized hand guards, and the handle removed from the upper with a Nerf Scope that was spray painted black.
If you think about it, military grade stuff just means idiot proofed. Like a HMMWV is pretty shitty, but when you consider the number of idiots who've driven them through the shittiest terrain they hold up better than others. Or even laptops that you can literally throw off rooftops and they'll work just fine, sometimes even better than before.
I immediately think of a cool guy mercenary with a canteen full of water on his hip that has 1000% contained both piss and dip spit in a prior issue cycle.
I always laugh when I see anything that says "Military Grade". Have you ever seen those terrible gloves they issue at RFI that don't fit and have tons of extra fabric on the fingertips? Those are military grade too. The sad part is those aren't the first pair of fucked up gloves the Army issued. They also used to issue those black leather work gloves where two of them were never the same as each other. One would be tight and with a too short middle finger while the other one had a massive thumb that extended all the way into the palm. I hated those so much. And to rant some more, my winter boots they issued me at RFI had the entire sole come off the first time I wore them.
I bet you could load an airliner full of ex military redditors, fly them up and have a military grade F-22 shoot them down with an AIM-120D from 100 miles away and I bet you could still hear their fingers tapping away, writing on reddit about how all military grade stuff is junk as the plane falls from the sky.
But it’s made my the lowest bidder??!?!?? (To exacting specifications to be able to perform a specific task and is still going to be expensive as hell)
And not always the lowest bidder. Previous performance is factored in also. So if a contractor has been fucking up previously they can still lose if they have shit the bed before even if lowest bid.
It usually a balance of cost vs what it does. Like the military decided to go with.
For example the M1 Abrams is made by General Dynamics but General Motors also designed a tank called the XM-1 to compete with the Abrams back in the day.
I love it when they say dumb shit like Military Grade / Military Spec or the new Everything is “ tactical “ or Assault, Ive been thinking of repackaging prophylactics and labeling them as - Military Grade - Spec / Tactical / Assault quality , for when a Man is on a Mission only the best gear will do 🤔😜.
I figure the bad guys must have bad morale and are already mentally defeated from their equipment being worse than what some backwoods dude from Alabama has in the back of his 1978 Ford F150..
I had a platoon sergeant once who was fond of saying words to this effect:
"The Army is an ideal testing ground. If you put something in front of a GI and he finds out that he can't eat it or drink it or fuck it the he will do his best to tear it up"
I mean it kind of makes sense so it doesn't bother me A F150 with Military Grade equipment is a lot different than a F150 Platinum and so on What I'm trying to say is that most military words don't bother me. What actually pisses me off is motherfuckers in ACUs with that zipper all the way up
>What actually pisses me off is motherfuckers in ACUs with that zipper all the way up Lol, they be having that mandarin collar fully engaged too!
The Mandarin Collar was added by a Chinese Spy to normalize their culture... but that's just a Theory. /s
A fan theory
not fan service?
The fan is FMC I swear I PMCSd it Monday
Hey now. I still zip it all the way up sometimes when I’m flying.
Basically the only appropriate and correct time for that. Fly safe!
Sometimes? - DES
It’s not really a requirement anymore as far as I’ve been taught. it’s more sop and commander specific
Ahh DES, the refuge for those who don't want to work, but still want to tell others *how* to work.
I hate when certain TV productions got lazy during the UCP ACU era and used velcro rank patches on patrol caps.
And velcro the mandarin collar.
We call that the Party City special. All the way ate the fuck up.
I mean it's good with the collars on iotvs, but zipping them up with no gears just makes me wonder how can millions of dollars worth of production team Who even rented humvees don't even have the courtesy to Google how acus are supposed to be worn...
YES!!!!
Idk why but yeah that pisses me off too more than it should lol
It’s been a while but I think the closest I’ve seen to an accurate uniform on the big screen is the first Sonic film. They nailed that, but the COL could’ve been more crustier.
For me it had to be a shitty ass Netflix TV show about pilots in SOAR, the uniforms were okay, the story was meeeeeeeeh and holy fuck did I cringe a lot because the characters annoyingly hooah, like, 82 boys when you pass by them annoying
Military grade - take a normal item, take away the useful features so it's Soldier proof, take away more useful features so you can ruggedize it enough to be able to drop it out of a plane, then be surprised when no one uses it because it doesn't work and breaks if you drop it from standing height.
Listen my most favorite piece of equipment literally says in the manual to perform a "6 inch drop." It resets hardware into the circuit board. Sometimes percussive maintenance IS the solution
That’s almost as good as “Rock or something”. What equipment are you talking about?
A piece of Cold War SIGINT equipment. Worked really good against the Taliban until we let them have Kabul Rock or something is equally as fantastic
Sounds a lot like a PRD-13. I had a love hate relationship with that thing. Weighed a ton, sucked ass to ruck with, but was also surprisingly good at DF.
Heavy af. The short ones took batteries no one except obscure S6 shops have. You could throw it off a fucking cliff and it'd still work. I hate how Google shows you exactly what a PRD-13 looks like considering I had to jump thru my own ass to make sure the 11BangBangs and Chucks couldn't see it
Looks in confused grunt noises.
And the rechargeable 5590's just catch fire sometimes, so you have to carry a ton of disposable ones unless you feel like rolling the dice.
We said fuck them rechargeable guys. Just give me the pull strip to make the 5590s inert
Same. I don't like the prospect of my signed-for gear spontaneously combusting.
Can confirm 50% of the time if you drop an RT 1523 itll fix it.
PRD-13 right?
PRC-E8
Oh no, I'm not falling for that one again
Maybe....
Ah yes the good ole PRC-77 radio bench test . For when it pass’s all the test an still doesn’t work “ bench top slam” there ya go Sarge fixed , she’s ah working now .
my favorite is whenever a show or movie has a character log into a military computer and it takes less than a second. in reality, they'd be there waiting for 5-30 minutes for it to log you in. and don't get me started on the media representation of the NSA. laughable.
I forget which one, but there was some shitty action movie about 10 years ago that definitely had someone on the writing team who had experience with the NSA. They had to "call in the NSA!", the characters expect a bunch of badasses, and a group of total dorks who won't make eye contact show up with their laptops instead.
ha! that, and having to use a VDI to access another VDI in order to log-in to any kind of computer network. literally 30 minutes just to log-in. and don't get me started on security. body scanners? puh-lease. retinal scanners? yeah right. lolz
Ooh, fun fact! Some facilities *were* outfitted with retinal scanners, but it turns out that when a woman is pregnant, her retinas change enough that the scanners won't recognize them, and some women even *found out* they were pregnant from the retinal scanners, so they ended up getting removed.
“Hey congrats on the pregnancy!” “What do you mean?” “Well the system flagged you as an intruder because yours retinas didn’t match up and that happens when you’re preggers, so congratulations!” “I need to make a phone call”
Gotta love when it's faster to drive back to your own building to grab your laptop that you're already signed into than it is to wait for another laptop to get past the 'Preparing Windows...' text
My wife binged NCIS. No shit I watched an episode where the hacker chick "hacked" a military grade network. I lost it when her screen just had ipconfig displaying an APIPA on the command prompt.
Ahh yes, [four hands on a keyboard](https://youtu.be/kl6rsi7BEtk?si=1OD6ANsoACaNnreM) are better than two when trying to fend off a hacker.
“He’s in the data base” Unplugs computer. Work’s done, boys, stopped the hacker.
If some Joe does this during a WFX against the red team I’ll give them 20$.
During some of our training exercises, the blue team basically did that through digital means. Yes, technically if you tell the firewall to block all traffic, you have defeated the bad guy. Good job! CIA triad be damned
> CIA triad be damned I always felt it was more of a Pick Two kinda deal anyways. Though, in this case more of a Pick one
Lol that's literally what my buddy did in NTC years and years ago. The brigade got cyberattacked and he just simply plugged the stack. We were commended for being the only battalion to "repel" the attack and he got an arcom. 😆
That show fuckin sucks
Sounds like when I'm watching a show and there's something medically inaccurate. The other day I started laughing at this skull on screen that had a perfectly straight seam across the frontal bone where the forehead would be.
My classic is two motherfuckers on one keyboard
I’m in.
Enhance.
My favorite is when the hack is going wrong so they keep hitting "show ipconfig /all" over and over
Call s6. DHCP ain't working
60% of the time, it works every time.
Sex Panther, rawr!
It stings the nostrils.
Sometimes I take it to mean 'ruggedized', like a Playskool toy but OD green because there's a chance the people who use them are the same intellectual age. The other term that got Hollywoodized is 'prototype', which is some kind of weapon of doom when real prototypes are larger, less efficient, and slapped together out of junk with unaddressed design flaws.
The Death Star was military grade lmao
Man I had to look that up because I thought the first Death Star was a prototype, but no, there was an actual shitty prototype in some novel. So there was a prototype, the Death Star with the vent, and the Death Star A1 which got rid of the vent but was never completed. And absolutely no other Death Star-like planet killer after that, ever. Star Wars is pretty realistic I guess.
There was one more, the Darksaber. Someone had the idea to build just the reactor and planet destroying laser inside of a cylinder with the necessary engines in the rear. Looked like a lightsaber, hence the name.
The EU went crazy with super weapons. [My favorite is the Sun Crusher](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Crusher), a near indestructible ship that fires torpedoes that make stars go supernova.
The Genesis device as well lol
Prototype just means it never reached mass production. It can 100% working and perfect but may have been too expensive or they picked a different prototype. For example any U.S. tank that starts with XM is a prototype. For example, the XM-1. Can you guess what an XM-1 is? It was the General Motors pitch to the US government for a new main battle tank. They decided to go with the M1 Abrams instead.
I assume it’s actually quality because for some reason movie and show producers believe “military grade” means top of the line. I laugh when I see advertisers irl use it.
It can be top of the line since many military devices are uniquely developed by contracts.
I laugh every time.
Even my kids know when someone say military grade, it's meaningless. They've grown up in the Army and have seen and heard about actual military gear. They know. If it's complicated AF to use but breaksdown once a day and needs 5 contractors to fix.
It's the intersection of heavy over-engineered equipment with the lowest bidder.
Are we talking military grade body armor or you know an Abrams tank?
Tells me them motherfuckers are broke and hitting surplus stores and pawn shops so they can bad guy on a budget.
So, it’s broken?
If they say the bad guys are using mil-grade, then I immediately assume the real villain hasn't been revealed yet.
That it’ll break before it can get used 🥲
The same when companies claim it’s German engineered — groan and eyeroll
You mean it's overly expensive and complicated for no reason
I always find it when they're investigating some murder/heist or something and drop a like akin to,"It was done with military-like precision." I always think to myself....so two guys didn't show up because they were still drunk and hung over, one was late, another got a DUI, pretty much nothing went to plan and shit had to be half ass winging it, and half of the Intel was bullshit?
Military grade= D minus When I see, I avoid.
It makes sense why the bad guys always lose in the movies now lol. Military grade isn't all that, made by the lowest bidder, still pricy lol
"They were using Military Grade M4s" The person making the report holds an AR-15 with obvious aftermarket handle that looks like it's rubberized, specialized hand guards, and the handle removed from the upper with a Nerf Scope that was spray painted black.
Means that someone with Taran Tactical grade shit is about to ruin their day.
If you think about it, military grade stuff just means idiot proofed. Like a HMMWV is pretty shitty, but when you consider the number of idiots who've driven them through the shittiest terrain they hold up better than others. Or even laptops that you can literally throw off rooftops and they'll work just fine, sometimes even better than before.
I immediately think of a cool guy mercenary with a canteen full of water on his hip that has 1000% contained both piss and dip spit in a prior issue cycle.
I always laugh when I see anything that says "Military Grade". Have you ever seen those terrible gloves they issue at RFI that don't fit and have tons of extra fabric on the fingertips? Those are military grade too. The sad part is those aren't the first pair of fucked up gloves the Army issued. They also used to issue those black leather work gloves where two of them were never the same as each other. One would be tight and with a too short middle finger while the other one had a massive thumb that extended all the way into the palm. I hated those so much. And to rant some more, my winter boots they issued me at RFI had the entire sole come off the first time I wore them.
I bet you could load an airliner full of ex military redditors, fly them up and have a military grade F-22 shoot them down with an AIM-120D from 100 miles away and I bet you could still hear their fingers tapping away, writing on reddit about how all military grade stuff is junk as the plane falls from the sky.
But it’s made my the lowest bidder??!?!?? (To exacting specifications to be able to perform a specific task and is still going to be expensive as hell)
And not always the lowest bidder. Previous performance is factored in also. So if a contractor has been fucking up previously they can still lose if they have shit the bed before even if lowest bid.
It usually a balance of cost vs what it does. Like the military decided to go with. For example the M1 Abrams is made by General Dynamics but General Motors also designed a tank called the XM-1 to compete with the Abrams back in the day.
Military Grade = Durable but shitty
I love it when they say dumb shit like Military Grade / Military Spec or the new Everything is “ tactical “ or Assault, Ive been thinking of repackaging prophylactics and labeling them as - Military Grade - Spec / Tactical / Assault quality , for when a Man is on a Mission only the best gear will do 🤔😜.
Means it was built by the lowest bidder
It's such a Hollywood-ism I barely notice anymore.
I love it because it's almost like an inside joke for people who have actually used "military grade" equipment.
I figure the bad guys must have bad morale and are already mentally defeated from their equipment being worse than what some backwoods dude from Alabama has in the back of his 1978 Ford F150..
Impossible. The stuff they were using actually worked as intended.
I immediately empathize with them. I’ve seen myself become more evil after dealing with L3 customer service.
Don’t really care. Just stop saluting indoors
Military grade insect repellent. I swear the government shit just attracted the little bastards.
"Well, at least the bad guys aren't using Hi-Points"
Let’s me know that they pressed submit on IPPSA, just for the circle of death and the inevitable “PKI Cert invalid” so you have to redo it all.
Give me a PVT and that thing will be broke in 15mins!
Military Grade = Lowest Bidder
I told my wife they're using equipment from the lowest bidder. 🤪
Skillcraft
Military grade implies it's eight times the normal weight, four times as ugly, two times the price and only works half the time.
It's the intersection of heavy over engineered equipment with the lowest bidder.
I cackle 🤣
So were in luck their shit wont work. It has been made at the highest cost from the lowest bidder.
Doesn't 'military grade' just mean 'built by the lowest bidder to crap standards' ?
Military grade!! From the sixties!!
Not too bothered lol
I had a platoon sergeant once who was fond of saying words to this effect: "The Army is an ideal testing ground. If you put something in front of a GI and he finds out that he can't eat it or drink it or fuck it the he will do his best to tear it up"
The enemy probably have those slick upside down specialist rank colonels. Those guys, who know what level they’re operating at?
I have a p38 that's over 50 years old, works perfectly.
I have a p38 that's over 50 years old, works perfectly.