This is what the air force spends money on

Don't worry. It's just some officers getting creative with article 15.

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Burn the heretic! Kill the mutant! Purge the unclean!

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I’m a burger and I agree with the finnfag.

Our whole country has become a bad joke. Like bad Jerry springer episode that never ends.

what the fuck

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They could have at least used a more realistic, tried-and-true design for the sword... This is just cartoony.

It literally reminds me of how wacky Scientology is with their over the top ceremonies and space/navy themed aesthetics.

Has Scientology infiltrated the Air Force?

It's an award given by enlisted to really good senior officers. It's distinctive enough to be unique, but not overly gaudy enough to never be displayed
Also most swords look like this, so your hatred of the air force is misplaced

Air Force has to make its own traditions cause it was only fucking created 70 YEARS AGO. People like you will bitch about the Space Force looking like a bunch of LARPers too

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>but not overly gaudy enough to never be displayed
I would rather display pictures of my cock than a sword as gaudy as that.

>that sword

0/10

Wouldn´t slay a Balrog in an Air Force commercial with it.

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Was the location in texas and/or the awardee texan?

Space Force will never happen. Mattis and the Pentagon will just delay and quietly shelve it and space matters will stay with the Air Force. Everyone will forget, except Jow Forumsommandoes because I'll still be here to remind you what a bunch of retard fags you were.

Space force is gonna happen cause the navy is a bunch of niggers who think they belong literally everywhere

God help us if the space force gets mechs.

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That sword is actually decently proportioned for the mech. No way the Air Force would accept that sword.

>ywn see the space force purge xenos in your lifetime

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It's like they took a plastic toy sword that came with an action figure and scaled it up.

These look more like cheap "made in China" decorations that rattle in their hilts and are bought by teens with bad taste as wall hangers.

Kek underrated.

We have these threads so often and yet I never grow tired of them.

Who the fuck do they hire to design these? Looks like what some 15 edge lord "designs" in his basement as he listens to metal, vapes "death juice of 1000 souls", while sitting in his shrine to Steven Seagal.

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>It's distinctive enough to be unique, but not overly gaudy

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anime has become victorious

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>Top Ten Anime Weapons

>Also most swords look like this
Yeah, that's... still an atrociously tacky, cheap-ass wallhanger.

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Even the fucking SeaOrg has better taste.

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>kek
good one

euro here

desu, there were some pretty gaudy animulooking swords back in the day too

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Yep... that's a keell

have some goddamn respect. Its an ancient artifact from a legendary air force swordsman, heathens

Under-fuckin'-rated
Captcha:pill bottles

>Air Force has to make its own traditions cause it was only fucking created 70 YEARS AGO.
Maybe it's traditions should reflect its modern origin then, rather than appealing to a fantasy past it has no connection to?

What use does a pilot have for a sword?
A model plane or even a watch would be a better award.

It looks like something a child would draw when asked "what do you think a cool sword looks like"
I winced looking at the image

Funds are donated by senior NCO's

>the sword is bankrupting the air force
It cost $30,000 for every flight hour in the f35 and $737,000,000 for a b2 bomber

or a badass sheepskin bomber jacket maybe

I'm russian
The sword is amazing .
We will winter war you again bitch.
You think i care about slav lives? Still won didn't we.

I don't disagree. The least they could do is trade it for an effigy of a fucking jet or something, not like we invented airplanes or anything.

They should rework the ceremony to include a defused incendiary from WWII and rename it "Order of the Bomb".

>while you studied land nav, I studied the blade.

Common mistake. This sword is authentic. You are probably used to seeing only ground based swords, this is actually a replica of an authentic sky sword. Its what they used to stab other airplanes before the gun was invented thats why the shape is the way it is ,brave men.

When you finally kill the King in Dark Souls and use the Silver Slab to craft a sword.

The fuck is that

>This tacky, disgusting abomination of a ceremonial sword is so inherently American it's amusing. A commercialized corruption of European culture.
So much this...And the icing on the cake is the fact that two mexicans are carrying the LARP-sword.

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>that sword
Wasn’t the goal of the landscknecht to be as flamboyant as possible though?

honestly very based and redpilled, whoever designed that must be an absolute unit

"Really good" is a stretch. Our maintenance oic is a fatass female captain in her 20s who "works" for 6 hours a day while the rest of us are on mando 12s and gets butthurt when we correct her on everything from maintenance practice to AFI to common fucking sense. And on the wall in her office?

A faggy looking sword.

>but not overly gaudy

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the fuck am I looking at?

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>meanwhile, at the marine corps...

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>I formerly served in the airforce but never heard of the order of the sword
Yeah, uh huh.

What does a sword have to bloody do with the tradition of AIR force?

Could they not have made some kind of ceremonial ejection seat?

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Such is the life of enlisted maintainers. Sleep easy knowing that you are single handedly propping up your local liquor stores and providing jobs that therapists.

Nah you're just a puss who couldn't hack it anyway

>thinks he knows better than an OIC
>doesn't have the fucking mastersword

THEY'RE THE FUCKING HERO OF HYRULE YOU MOBGOBLIN PUNK, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE IN DISTRESS THEY HAD TO SAVE WHILE HORSE RIDING TO BASE?! THEY HAVE TO DO 6 HOUR DAYS BECAUSE THE OTHER 6 ARE SPENT CHOPPING DOWN TREES BY SPINNING AROUND AND AROUND WITH AN AXE BIGGER THAN THEMSELF TO COLLECT WOOD AND APPLES AND FINDING AND DEALING WITH TEDIOUS PUZZLE DUNGEONS OR MOVING ROCKS ABOUT TO DEAL WITH THOSE FUCKING DEKU NUT DICKHEADS. IF YOU SHOOT THEM WITH AN EXPLOSION LASER THEY WILL DEFLECT IT BACK AT YOU WHICH THEY LEARNT BY TRIAL AND ERROR AND TANKING THOSE LASERS TO THEIR FACE. IF THEY JUMP UP IN THE AIR THEY CAN PAUSE TIME AND IF IT'S NOT RAINING THEY CAN CLIMB A VERTICAL SURFACE LIKE SPIDER-MAN.

THE FUCK DO YOU DO? "I had to lift a heavy thing once" "my scwew dwiver bwoke" SUCK IT UP FAGGOT THEY SHIT BOMBS BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD AND CAN THROW THOSE BOMBS OVER 100 YARDS WITHOUT TRYING AND EVERY THING THEY TOUCH BREAKS AFTER FIVES USES AND THE LAND IS FULL OF KILLER ROBOTS CONTROLLED BY THE GIANT PIG GHOST OF EVIL WHOSE BLACK EYEBALL-FILLED CUM THEY MUST WADE THROUGH TO RESCUE THE KINGDOM FROM ANOTHER APOCALYPSE, A FATE THEY'RE DOOMED TO REPEAT THROUGHOUT TIME AND AN INFINITE NUMBER OF REINCARNATIONS WITHOUT END.
AND WE'RE NOT A SHE!

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Self hating Americans are worse than arrogant Europeans.

Americans aren't the only LARPers though.

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Who would win in a fight, this guy with his viking larp sword or a marine grunt with the AF larp sword?

>Estonians larping as vikings
wow, that's pathetic

This. Fucking disgraceful.
During the Vietnam the NVA captured this colonel and during one of the interrogations they talked back and forth a little and somehow Henry fonda was brought up (he signed some autographs for the NVA and visited them and supported an end to the war)
The colonel asks: "what do you think of Henry fonda?"
the NVA responds: "his politics are excellent but otherwise we can't stand him"
Colonel:" really? Why?"

NVA: "what kind of man turns on his own people? Uck"

No one likes traitors.

A SeaOrg recruitment poster. They're the extra nutty and chewy core of Scientology.

Between their origins in the Army Air Corps and the knightly/cavalry implications of a guy fighting alone on/in his very expensive steed I'd say swords work out quite fine for them.

My money's on the Estonian, his piece of shit isn't as heinously overweight as the thing in OP's pic.

Scimitars don't look as impressive as over-the-top vikang swords.

>You think i care about slav lives?

No, and apparently no Russian leader does either, since they are all happy to send you into a meatgrinder and get you killed against some made up enemy. Oh, and its off to the workcamp if you disagree.

tbhwydesu it was probably bought with unit funds (raised by unit fundraiser), or it was outright made/purchased by a commander out of his own pocket.

it's still supergay though. fuck the air force.

I heard about officers swords, but this is not what I fucking expected.

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Cool.

Slav earn "e" for slave when is time for war or polítical re-education either way is freeze and die. I wonder if getting shot is warm? I hope i live long enough to find out. If I can stay at home then is just drink until factory machine catch coat and pretzel me. I wonder how many rutabaga I will be allowed to eat before then?

>A fucking sword
>In a branch, that has zero focus on frontline ground combat
>In a nation that was created after swords were obsolete

Jesus Christ they fucked up badly...

Reminder that the USMC took 18 months and $300,000 to decide to copy CADPAT.

>created after swords were obsolete
>obsolete
Im a student of the blade. I am a nice guy but don't get me angry.

*tips*

Yes, making anime real is the primary mission and purpose of the USAF.

*returns tip*
Always nice to meet a fellow gentlemen

MARPAT>CADPAT>>>multicam>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ACU

>BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY

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Looks like they have at least 4 different larping Swords.

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didn't the air force just get in trouble for buy 2 million dollars in coffee mugs because one piece breaks on them all the time.

And finally, the ultimate Zelda tier larping implement.

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It is so amusingly American that you can't even comprehend.

>The original order of the sword was patterned after two orders of chivalry founded during the Middle Ages in Europe: the (British) Royal Order of the Sword and the Swedish Military Order of the Sword, still in existence today. In 1522, King Gustavus I of Sweden ordered the noblemen commissioned by him to appoint officers to serve him, and these people became known as the noncommissioned officers.

There was no British order of the sword and there isn't even British state continuity going back to medieval times. When it comes to Swedish order of the sword, it well known and it really isn't order at all. It was state decoration and it was established in 1748.

What you want air force anime sword for is for cutting steel beams as jet fuel can't melt 'em.

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They have unique larp swords for all awardees.

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Scientology

Why are 'murricans so tacky and lacking in taste?

I always wanted to join the USMC Order of the Umbrella

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hahahahahha

Each and every awardee gets his own, unique sword?

They should give them an eagle

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Americans dont have culture.

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>Dying for israel
or
>Getting a cool sword
I know which one is more based.

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>getting a cool Israel

ARE YOU THREATENING ME??

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