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Grrl Power #1311 - Tätowierungnaut

🕑 Added 2024-12-09 11:00:10 +0000 UTC

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eddi_TBH

I had forgotten that. But mixing some truth make the fiction easier to swallow.

Mark Magagna

So it was more "You're ready for the next recovery stage; time's a-wasting! "

Orlet Soir

I think the lie is in the "civilian contractor" part. Since Arc-swat is still technically military, iirc.

Thomas Dorner

I noticed Wikipedia (German) suggesting the page while looking up Landstuhl itself. ;-)

JasonAW3

No, because then you're giving the @$$holes legitimacy. Take it back and let them know how you feel about it. You might be surprised that a lot of "Trumpists" might agree with you about Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists! I think those people are the worst kind of scum.

JasonAW3

I hope nobody ever told Peg to, "walk this way," because, if they did, her automatic retort would have been, "if I could walk that way, i wouldn't need my prosthetic leg..."

JasonAW3

Uh eddie... I think she DOES know the Secretary of Defense, and she did meet, via teleconference, the US President, so, not much of a lie...

JasonAW3

In that case, take the meaning back! They are treading on YOU! Don't let them win! The saying for that is; "Don't let the bastards grind you down!" Take back the heritage that they are trying to steal!

JasonAW3

And your point? You should retake possession of that saying! Don't let scumbags steal from you, take back your heritage from those who would abuse and misuse it!

eddi_TBH

If Sydney gets loaned out, the Apocalypse is coming over the horizon and Max will lie that she's a civilian contractor who personally knows a quorum of Senators and the Secretary of Defense.

eddi_TBH

That's more SEAL territory.

eddi_TBH

See "Black Ops". If Peggy was in any other armed force in the world she's be the one on call to remove enemy assets from a mile away.

eddi_TBH

I think he prefers to keep them on his side. That does not require hiring them, just making himself indipensible to them.

eddi_TBH

Better to find another way to put it.

Torabi

When some people say "Don't tread on me", what they mean is "Don't interfere when I'm treading on someone else".

Kevin Wright

My friend definitely painted it as interesting.

Ian Brown

I'd like to think it'd be something cute and sniper-y, like a play on a the Cupid Heart with an arrow through it, but instead it'd be a round shot from a 50-Cal BMG. Peggy would be the sort to hide her adorability below the bootline where it wouldn't be seen in public.

Sardines are us

it's a bit of nonsense, all the seriously injured medivac'd casualties from Iraq & Afghanistan were routed through Landstuhl.

Richard Riley

It is regularly showing up next to Confederate and Nazi flags in the Trumpist White Nationalist crowd.

Richard Riley

Sailors and Asian mafia.

Nathan Wilson

Sorry, but my experience says you're wrong. I'm in the army reserves medical Corp, and deployed overseas twice. The ratio of officers to enlisted is way higher. We're all pretty lax for the above reason: high value personnel the military cares a lot more about keeping than potentially losing because someone higher rank has a stick up their ass. There are times when you want to look good and proper, and that's mostly when you're around other branches of the military and you don't want to embarrass your superiors. And if Maxima gets replaced? The mostly likely person to replace her would be Hiro. Supers are hard to find, and you don't put a non super in her place. Their chain of command already has a high ranking officer liason non-super in General Falk, and he gets it. He interviewed all these supers already.

Hugh Eckert

I'm trying to think of a Simo Häyhä reference for the tattoo. Maybe crosshairs over a rifle scope with "I see your lens flare, MF!"

JasonAW3

But... but... but... She's an ociffer! She's supposed to always be correct! <(* Sarcasm and bad spelling mode off. *)>

Norman L. Wash

"One shot, two kills!"

JasonAW3

More like a "plausibly deniable" sniper...

JasonAW3

So? Personally, i think everyone in the USA should adopt that saying. If you aren't willing to stand up for your rights, would you not be trod upon?

Dave Barrack

The Limitless series (which unfortunately only received one season) was really good IMO. It's also a direct continuation from the movie.

Michael Obert

In America it's been adopted by a lot of the pro MAGA crowd.

Anton Schleef

I'm not up on modern culture, and never really have been, but what's the problem with that slogan at present?

Gelatinous Cube

"Getting the bottom of your foot tattooed seems like a poor choice," DUDE, most of the military grunts make nothing BUT bad life choices. It's a whole thing. 20% Dodge Charger loan, anyone? But if it's an ankle tattoo, and only $90, I'd say a either a butterfly, or death skull. No in between. LOL

Kevin Wright

I totally would have had to Google the "Limitless" reference in your commentary if a friend hadn't mentioned the show literally yesterday. Sometimes the universe is weird like that.

Mark Magagna

So was Max checking Peggy's German and saying "Right, you're going to Germany" because her German was poor? So in case she's talkative she would be limited in who to talk to? I think pretty much anyone a recovering amputee would talk to in Germany is likely to have pretty good English.

Mark Magagna

I don't think that's how real world armed forces actually work. Just because it would make sense is no reason for overriding tradition. Maxima seems pretty young to be her rank, and for many other officers of that rank they would have internalized protocol by now. It would be especially bad for the Americans as they've pretty much been on top for living memory (at least in their minds). Any setbacks or defeats have been explained away, and the relevant officers have not been removed. In other words, if Maxima gets replaced/promoted then whoever comes would realistically be much more of a stickler.

Mark Magagna

So "tattoo sailor"? Isn't that just "a sailor"? Maybe I'm old, but sailors were famously the tattooed ones when I was young. For pretty much anyone else it was unusual.

Justaguy

Does this make Dabbler a heimliche Stripperin ?

Stephen Gilberg

"You saying you're transracial? Or so racist you only shoot black people?"

Greg Morrow

Landstuhl is where we have a monster hospital where we evac wounded military, rescued hostages, etc. in that half of the world. Eastern hemisphere Walter Reed, as I understand it.

Magraal

"If you can read this I'm either turned on or pissed off"

Town Crier

I, too, have told a recovering anti-legger to "walk it off". I have also told a client, who told me that he felt like he was having a heart attack while exercising, to "walk it off", and when he asked what to do if it was a stroke, I told him to "walk it off in a circle", to which he started laughing so hard I had to end his exercise session anyway. I am also not above telling an anti-legger to "hop it off" if they give me the lame excuse of missing a leg. I have also given the anti-legger an invoice for inappropriate destruction/loss of military equipment to the tune of $250k. Yeah, I'm an ass, but the right person was laughing, so screw the rest.

rhekke

I do wonder if the comic will explore Deus making an active attempt to lure away superpowered individuals from various ARC branches. He can offer them more money, more freedom, and can put together an entire law firm dedicated to getting recruits out of the contracts they signed with ARC. Right now, he doesn't need to, and doesn't want to piss off Max by outright poaching from her org. However, if he did want to cripple ARC, that would be a logical first step.

BW78

The "naut" part of words like astronaut comes from the ancient Greek for sailor, or traveller.

Nathan Wilson

That's a much more succinct way of putting it, yes.

rhekke

I doesn't hurt that the majority of the members of the unit are irreplaceable due to their unique superpowers. Retention is probably prioritized over decorum.

Wyrmhand

Ankle tattoo: Foot in a moth.

Michael Obert

Insis not see Max as a Dr. Pepper drinker. Neat. Oh, and my two cents, stay away from any Don't Tread in me ink. That slogan, uh, it's not great right now. 😞

Nathan Wilson

The laxness makes sense for their environment. They have a small enough team that everyone knows everyone, and each person is unique and worth holding on to. In that environment it would work exactly as it does in the comic. Upper brass might grumble about proper military courtesies every now and then, and drill down on it when around other military services, but when just around their own soldiers? They wouldn't really give a shit most of the time. Recruits get classes on proper courtesies, and light physical exercise punishments if they overstep their bounds, and that's mostly going to be it.

Jan

She is a blackshooter? 🙈

Jared Kolbly

I feel a fair number of actual military officers would be as lax as Max if they could, but the environment doesn't allow it. If the entire military branch was small enough that you could possibly get to know everyone personally, it seems a bit silly to be strict about how people interact along the chain of command outside professional settings to a degree.

Dwaz

Dolphin with a knife in it's mouth?

Stefan Schmiedl

You could end up with "Tätowierungnaut" if you drop the "not" as in "dreadnought" in the same melting pot with "astronaut" (farer in the ocean of stars), stir well with the spoon of sounds-alike and garnish with a touch of zed-vs-zee and tomayto-tomahto for colo(u)r.