He is an aussie, so id say there is at least a 90% chance he had a mag drop on his head and claimed disability to play some long term shitpost on the armed forces
On the one hand you make a decent point but on the other hand Rand is also clearly not right in the head, so it makes sense to me that he had a legit brain injury. On the third hand though, some people are just retards without needing a crate of ammunition splattering brain matter everywhere, so who knows.
It was during a really long ass stream that involved Zoom (pedophile, liar) IIRC. I can't get you the specifics because the thing is over 7 damn hours.
He joined the Army. He clearly wasn't very bright to begin with.
While I'm not usually one to sing the praises of the Australian military, it's a lot better than the US army if you are comparing it to that. Benefits aside, as I can't speak much about what the US army can give you like medical insurance (Something that is of course actually affordable in Australia, and you get access to better doctors in the army.) or paying school loans (The Australian army will pay your debt for certain courses, and there is no interest on the debt if you're a civilian anyway). Pay wise an Australian army private will make at least $48,325 AUD ($36,651.32 USD) while a US army private will make $23,310 USD ($30,734.47 AUD). I'm pretty sure both are tax free.
Rand did not have a rail-road spike fly through his skull and take parts of his brain with it, at least.
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I remember hearing the relevant portion of this stream and rand's reaction made me think it was true. Also, it's really funny and I don't think zoom is clever enough to have come up with it on his own. It almost seems like something so funny it has to be true.
What I wouldn't give to see a drunken Rand angerly tear open one of those boxes only to find he misplaced his bottle opener.
If you family don't resent you rand why did they buy you the world's cheapest beer collection?
His wife is Jewish.
Pay in the US military is routinely looked at from a basic pay standpoint, which everyone rates. What isn't calculated into that is BAS (Basic Allowance for Subsistence, or food) which is constant at $372.71 qa month for ALL enlisted without dependents, and BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) which varies by locale. An E-1 makes $1,722 a month as base pay, with another $372 for food and--for the purposes of this figure I used Jacksonville, NC which is where Camp Lejeune is located--which is $1,257 a month. All told, an E-1 would be making $40,352 before any taxes, which would increase (and be non-taxable) in a combat zone. However, since almost every E-1 lives on base, they don't receive BAS or BAH and only rate base pay. If memory serves, the Australian military pay charts factor in similar things (BAH and BAS) to give you the number you quoted, which I believe to be carryover from the way the British military does it as well for transparency.
I thought that Rand prided himself on brewing his own beer?
Thanks for clearing that up, I've got no experience in the armed forces and the only things I know about/am interested in is the shooty shooty stuff. It appears that the Australian army also gives you a "Service allowance" of $13,717 AUD ($10,425.35 USD) and a uniform maintenance allowance of $682 AUD ($518.34 USD). This may be why the values on the Australian government website say that a Private-proficient can make at minimum $49,346 and at max $88,024, but I susupect probably has a lot more to do with specialisation and deployment pay. I also accidently used the private, non-proficient values for the Aus military (A Private E-1, I think). The difference is only $1k for Private non-proficient and proficient, though. (So a Private E-1 compared to Private E-2 I think.) That Australian government transparency website has given me more questions than answers.
I assume he's going to get drunk of whatever he usually drinks and then go through all that other stuff in a night. Imagine the hangover (for a non-alcoholic)
You wake up with a hangover and you immediately start drinking again which chases away the hangover. This is usually accomplished with one or two shots, but regular people might have one of those minosas or socially acceptable brunch hangover drinks.
