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Absurd overreaction to basic military training material.


They find some Navy PQSs (Personnel Qualification Standard) which are unclassified basic training papers for sailors. They just happen to be Chemical Biological Radiological training material. They referred to it as "cold war" and said they could get killed for looking at it...you can look at most of them online. At most you're going to see "For Official Use Only" which doesn't mean classified, it just means they don't particularly avail the public of the documents. And there's nothing "cold war era" about worrying about attacks. All shipboard sailors today get basic CBR training.

Now I can get that they wouldn't know these nuances, but the entire lack of "classified" or "secret" or other labels might have clued them in, and for the "cold war" claim, the modern printing technology, or the date on it should have given it away as not being quite so old.

The absolute stupidest thing they did was pick up the gas mask and suggest it had to do with a nuclear radiation attack and both seemed to back up and refuse to put it on, as if merely putting on material meant to protect you from threats would actually cause you to be harmed by these threats.Or that someone who'd been in a chemical attack for example would just keep the poisoned equipment around afterwards. Flashes of witch trials and beliefs in magic and ghosts danced in my head as I watched these two monkey brained idiots think protective equipment is somehow harmful.

The punchline to this whole moronic scene is that they never refer to any of this stuff again. Not even a note saying "we returned this to a military facility where they laughed at us".

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So much fake drama

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