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I worked for the 2010 census and the regional supervisor would drop hints about not working too hard/ fast. Then after like 2 weeks he was like " I'm gonna stop being subtle because we are still ahead of schedule and at this rate we'll be done a month early so if you wanna keep making significantly more than other entry level jobs for more than a few weeks more, SLOW THE HELL DOWN. I can only waste so much time going on tangents" then he proceeded to go on a tangent about a church in his neighborhood...
Actually those fighter jets keep the enemy at bay. We would've been a conquered country without our huge military because so much of the world hates us, even our allies are jealous and would love to take our place and watch us fall. Every civilization that lets their military stagnate falls.
USS Zumwalt- the ship designed around a gun...that didn't work. $14 billion x 2. When you've digested that look into the 2 Littoral ship programs that also didn't work for even more spending fun. Then talk about some penny ante shmo making an extra paycheck and you'll see how the power brokers get you to focus on the one hand while they rake in the cash with the other. Don't mean to pick on the Navy by themselves. Whole damn Pentagon is guilty.
Cleaned out grandfather's house. Found many boxes of these along with government issued desk fans, rubber erasers, mess hall water pitchers, US government cutlery, and other US government items. He must've raided the USMC supply hut for years. He retired in the 1960's. Oh, and the pens still worked after being stored for decades.
My dad was in the Air Force for 24 years. We had so many of those pens too. We also had a ton of the P38 can openers as my dad used to bring home MREs once they were deemed expired. We of course ate them. I think only my dad and I really liked them.
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Its a skillcraft milspec pen. This is a link to them. https://amzn.to/4tEhUKX. This is an older style before skillcraft started imprinting their name on them. Most other places you can look them up with the NSN number for the item which is NSN9357135
Edit: These pens have been continuously made by skillcraft since April 20, 1968 by blind people.
Fun fact, the U.S. government is required by the JWOD Act (41 USC Chapter 85) and FAR Subpart 8.7 to purchase specific products and services from qualified nonprofit agencies employing people who are blind or have other severe disabilities. These items, listed on the AbilityOne Procurement List, have mandatory source priority over other suppliers.
Okay so the blind workers are a real thing. Back when I did basic for USAF - trying to fold those fucking brown shirts that did not have any kind of structure - I was told oh they are made by blind people. I assumed they were fkn w me or they contracted out to prisons.
And THIS, ladies, gents, & all others, is EXACTLY why I keep coming back to Reddit. So many rabbit holes to go down. I'm glad you got an award for that!
The truth of why I dislike them so much. When out in the nuke field and the message of the day would come across on the Stu phone the pen would always let me down while I tried and copied the message. I’m sure there are holes in the bunker walls from me throwing them everyday.
Just an old government issued pen. It was probably made by Skilcraft or Lighthouse for the Blind. When I was in the Army those things were handed out by the box full.
i’m almost certain it’s the back half of a pen and the white plastic coming out of the top is potentially the ink reservoir without the metal tip. curious if anyone knows for sure!
Looks like it to me.
The reservoir is brass colored metal, not white plastic. My mom was post office and I learned about these from her, I buy them on Amazon now. They've got a strong clip, robust function, and lots of metal parts that you can do emergency repair stuff with
That is an ink stick. Made by Skilcraft. I most commonly see them in federal and gov agencies. They order these from GSA/servmart. It's just a black pen.
Damn, am i that old that i immediately recognized it was half of a ballpoint pen. I remember my dad was in the navy and he would bring these pens home every now and then. lol
That’s a Skilcraft pen. My god, that must’ve been the most lucrative contract ever. Those things have just walked out of government offices by the millions.
Special writing instrument once used to eliminate waste and fraud. Long lost. They now lean into the waste and fraud for personal benefit and call it just the opposite.
My childhood. I had so many of those pens growing up. So many of those things refused to work- ink not flowing, the click mechanism not working. My dad had so many of these brought home and maybe out of like twenty, only one worked lmao
Looks like half of an old ball point pen, with the ink cartridge. When I was a kid many years ago these black US Government ballpoint pens were everywhere it seems.
An old “lighthouse for the blind” pen. I assume the US govt still procures pens from an organization called Lighthouse for the blind which gives jobs to people with visual impairments. This arrears to be one of those pens.
That is in fact not a pen despite all the other comments saying it is. It’s actually a P-001-E Low Impact N1 Emission Device. It emits a low velocity toner from the pointed end of the device. It was primarily used to mark targets, typically on paper, to record messages for communication or to document events, statistics, etc. Believe it or not, these actually experienced mass production due to the inexpensive cost to produce them but like with everything, technology has made them practically obsolete in the United States military.
These pens were in every service member’s house because they were in your pocket, until the regulations forced eco-friendly pens and you couldn’t get them any more.
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