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shiningPate24 karma

Shortly after your heroic save, a young black man I know expressed similar sentiments as WhovianMoak's professor above on facebook. He felt white people were racists making fun of you when they were amused by speech in your interview. What I felt when I saw your interview on TV was that you were glowing with the sheer joy of having made such an incredible rescue. I wanted to know you, laugh at your jokes, and be infected with your happiness at having made such a big difference in the lives of those girls. From your response above, it doesn't appear you resent the people who laugh at your "colorful" manner of speaking. Do you feel these internet memes are cruel representations and white people finding them funny is inherently racist?

shiningPate18 karma

So each of the services have some specialty units that often seem redundant: Navy SEALs, Army Delta force (or whole spectrum of special forces). The Air Force has their own special forces, usually plane based (e.g. low observable helos, C130s with artillery pieces installed). However the air force also has their own commandos: guys who jump out of the helos with guns, fight hand to hand, etc. The justification is that sometimes the air force needs guys with guns to jump out and do shit. So, I'm kind of curious, as an air force bomb squad technician, what is the Air Power tie-in for your squad. Why do you exist as an air force unit instead of army or marine corp bomb squad being called in? Where are you deployed? Do you only defuse bombs around air bases, or are you out on the roads just like the army and marine corp guys?

shiningPate2 karma

Are the Absher app servers hosted by a well known western cloud provider or hosting company?