Hey so what are those… metal-caged white plastic cubes(?) called, that off-gridders use for fluid storage these days?
About 3-4ft on a side, kinda debuted in the sandbox wars, maybe related to those metal-caged fabric sacks that a front-end loader can fill with rocks & dirt to create defensive terrain faster than sandbags?
“Intermediate Bulk Container” (that name’s not gonna stick) / “Pallet Tank” (unless there’s snappier wartime slang, that will)
IBC, done.
Or “Tote” I guess.
oh jeez OH JEEZ
KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED
know how between Alien and Aliens, First Blood begat Rambo, so the second xenomorph movie came out as part of the ‘Nam revisionist (i.e. “there was a way to win…”) wave
So after all the projected-forward squad tactics, undermounted grenade launchers/flamethrowers, the remote-controlled turret that’s clearly based on Stoner systems (after they refuse Ripley’s MacArthur-in-Korea suggestion to nuke it all from orbit)
the final battle in the exosuit
that was the future projection of the Vietnam REMF-ass logistics experience of warehouse/carrier-deck forklifts
And now it’s the future and instead of that we’re just further along on reworking our material environment to be shaped better for a forklift
