mister96.bsky.social
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I made some great friends doing this. One guy is so nice, he keeps giving me free flashdrives for work and bags of cash when I plug them into computers.
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Holy smokes, Mr. White is tall.
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Awesome, congratulations!!!!
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British newspapers would print three different stories on his death because all they did was cite contradicting PR from Dutch colonial authorities.
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At some point, I really don't think I can cite Wespada news articles from 1947 printed solely to keep morale as evidence, especially because claiming mass defections was a tactic of Indonesian propaganda efforts. Just on Mercenary pilot Ralph Colbey,
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POW book. The only reason he faced little pressure from the UK was because his propaganda was in 1948.
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ill con-woman. At some point I basically had just 5 pages about how she bungled every single deal for 40 years after.
John Coast is a bit easier. He was a full-on British Nazi that joined up to fight in Singapore, got captured and coasted to wealth based off a well-selling
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they didn't immediately land on Java. And so the Dutch soldiers started singing Nazi hymns about fighting England.
The month they did land in March 1946, a bunch of pemuda militias organized in Bandung, where a Korean who was formerly with the Japanese Army would join up.
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him to just obey the Dutch. And the Dutch were so virulent, they just wanted him to violently shut down Indonesian Republicans, rather than negotiate like he was trying. There's a pretty crazy story where when British ships arrived with the Dutch 2-14 RI,
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I will add--I really don't think it's the British fault for the stay-behinds that were influenced with the lack of timely repatriation. For all the shit Louis Mountbatten gets over India/Pakistan partitioning, the Atlee government was so vague to the SEAC in Indonesia that they wanted
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But the official number from a Japanese-Indonesian cultural org puts the stay-behind soldiers at 903. Japan also had a sort of romanticized renaissance with documentaries, academic papers and autobiographies of the stay-behinds in the 1980s and 1990s.
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I think it's pretty fair to say that because the British didn't have the capacity to repatriate the Japanese en-masse until the US loaned ships in May 1946, a lot of Japanese soldiers were able to hand off weapons to various Indonesian groups.
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than a keynote speaker org. I guess older people are just as afraid to talk directly as my generation is when it comes to nonsensical internet squabbling.
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Which agencies outside of the DoD? In the FBI, most people switch from green to blue because of better pay.
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Cambodia and leading militants against the Vietnamese-installed government.
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Third issue: France did not sell a patrol vessel called the Dos de to Venezuela in 1954.
-Dos de Diciembre was the original name of a presidential yacht converted from a transport sold to Venezuela [or at least arrived] in 1955.
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Another small issue- it says that France sold the Almirante Montt to Chile in '53. Chile's naval repository website states it was purchased in 1952, same year it was first started being built.
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And based on the only public collection of all MH1521 tail numbers/registrations per a website documenting its history, MH-1521 dot fr, the first aircraft actually purchased was finally handed to the French in October 1954.
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Instead, the faces of the fighters are now a tool to sell a favorite camouflage for American Lost Causers.
I do wish Nation Thailand and Irrawdaddy had a bigger platform at this point. Some of their deepdives on EAOs and Warlords are great.
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of the Tatmadaw's Border Guard Force.
For small outlets like Qilo TV, they filmed a little known Chin-aligned group called PDF Zoland to sell Rhodesian brushstroke hats and jackets for a parent company, and probably only were able to film because the Chin EAOs thought their message would go global.
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real life, but the day for separating person from internet persona is over when the ketamine addict running Twitter is now the US's unofficial Prime Minister.
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TO BE CLEAR Com/764 participants are THE LOWEST form of life on this planet. I have never worked anything as fucked up as this - and Elon is down with it www.wired.com/story/764-co...
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I feel that.
I'm leaving the start of a government career just to teach english overseas. Had so much fun researching and working, now I gotta start over. But I can't imagine what the careerists are thinking.
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FBI in my office said they'd be firing around 50% of staff in CJIS Division if they did that to them, and they'd probably have to close the entire NOU.
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A while back I made a post of the claim of someone in Delta Force dying--at this point I believe this was a wholly fraudulent claim from an individual who supported Mobutu's regime way back then. The academic paper that put forward the allegation said as much too.
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After I transitioned into Reserve CA, my unit was preparing for deployment and a GB turned OHASIS manager came in and basically told us that our best skills would be acting like the civilians we were 98% of the time.
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Of subsaharan African countries put out official information, from election center openings and school-years to military recruitment timetables.