whats the point of including taxpayer dollars literally everything and everyone employed/built by the government is by your taxpayer dollars whats yhe point of including the title
No one is saying Uncle Sam can control the weather. We are saying that Uncle Sam can control. When to anchor it with its mooring straps which is SOP when a helicopter or plane is on the ground for:
I’m just a civilian, and def not a pilot, but you think something worth millions of dollars would be protected a little better. I don’t know, maybe anchor points with rope or chain. I know they can tie shit down. How else would they transport shit! I’m sure someone got in trouble for this lol I almost feel bad because I know it probably wasn’t even there fault
Our sorry military where I am from *destroyed 5 “Żubrs” each cost 100M each (500 million total) to learn how to “master” driving the damn thing. “It's like putting a saddle on Godzilla... It's not gonna end well and something expensive will be destroyed” as conscript Illya De La Santos-Larionov put it during a video upload, he left Russia with family for asylum in USA (granted).
Looks like we need to design another helicopter for a couple hundred billion dollars then cancel the program when we realize we could have just strapped them down , considering our advanced weather tracking and modeling capabilities and we knew the wind gusts were coming.
Awww they just want their bellies tickled!! Show some love ❤️
Belly skirtches!!!
I need some of those powerful dollars. Maybe they will blow my debts away
The way it’s looking against all sorts of currencies…
Unlimited dollars for the military. Just throw the choppers in burn pits...
whats the point of including taxpayer dollars literally everything and everyone employed/built by the government is by your taxpayer dollars whats yhe point of including the title
Because the military gets too many of them to the detriment of more important budgets.
To show how incompetence leads to the dollars being squandered.
Americans pay tax for bad weather apparently
Yeah of course. The office of Weather Malfeasance, you haven’t heard of them. Obama started the office (Thanks Obama).
Well it ain't paying for your healthcare luv
Well they don't pay for tie-downs, apparently.
I was thinking the same thing.
I dunno if it was taxpayer dollars that blew the helicopter over lol
no you dont get it, the taxpayers didnt pay for the wind, but for the heli, and if they hadnt paid for the helis then it wouldnt have happened
I had no idea my tax dollars could blow Super Stallions away like toys... Now I do! I feel drunk with power! Unstoppable!
OP thinks taxpayer dollars affect the weather.
What a whirlwind of emotion
That's how all my helicopters look in GTA 5.
I’m sure some poor sod of a junior enlisted is gonna take in the ass for this.
A machine that creates wind is defeated by wind...
Well over a $100 of damage that's for sure
Helicopters don't fly. They beat the air into submission.
This reminds me of when Hurricane Michael trashed Tyndall Air Force Base and a bunch of F-22 stealth fighters.
Are you stupid, it’s not tax payer dollars that caused the winds you dense lemon
No one is saying Uncle Sam can control the weather. We are saying that Uncle Sam can control. When to anchor it with its mooring straps which is SOP when a helicopter or plane is on the ground for:
Nicely put
Ugh did they not have time to put on mooring straps? Was weather off for a training day. This should have been avoidable.
15 min. Might be enough time for a few but idk. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m just a civilian, and def not a pilot, but you think something worth millions of dollars would be protected a little better. I don’t know, maybe anchor points with rope or chain. I know they can tie shit down. How else would they transport shit! I’m sure someone got in trouble for this lol I almost feel bad because I know it probably wasn’t even there fault
You can’t have them tied down constantly you armchair quarterback
You act as if it got exploded lol
Will it pay for your healthcare tho ?
Our sorry military where I am from *destroyed 5 “Żubrs” each cost 100M each (500 million total) to learn how to “master” driving the damn thing. “It's like putting a saddle on Godzilla... It's not gonna end well and something expensive will be destroyed” as conscript Illya De La Santos-Larionov put it during a video upload, he left Russia with family for asylum in USA (granted).
I read somewhere that an helicopter pilot once said that helicopters are constantly trying to kill you.
Looks like we need to design another helicopter for a couple hundred billion dollars then cancel the program when we realize we could have just strapped them down , considering our advanced weather tracking and modeling capabilities and we knew the wind gusts were coming.
Haha. Und wir beschweren uns über die Bundeswehr.
Nothing duct tape wouldn’t fix.
Tiedowns are for bitches.
Waiting for some but job on FB to post this pic with some rant about how god is mad abortion is legal or some crap….
"Tis but a scratch" mumbled the sea king
Ooof no anchor points or hangars?
"Wind"
Being replaced anyway with the CH53K. That one there is probably older than most of us.
Strong gusts?
They didn’t tie them down!?
They didn’t have time, in the videos you can see sailors running from the flight line
its a submarine now....you can't unsee it!
Couldn’t have anchored those down?
So you’re saying that the US NAVY can't predict the weather and either put the equipment inside or at least tie it down.
A thunderstorm?! In the summer?! In Virginia?! Chance in a million.
Welp our taxes aren't gonna go down this year now
Damn Putin and his farts!
"And then, the insurance company said 'that's an act of God'...."
WOW.
They didn’t have time to tie them down, if the military stopped working because of a storm warning early in the day nothing would get done anywhere.