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CainFortea posted:It's not like he has any other frame of reference, plus all the adults talking about how important it is. Yeah, you don't just wake up one morning and go from zero inventing a machine to extract oil from Iraqi children. That fundamentally flawed broken view of the world has to be cultivated at a tender age.
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 Boy oh boy my uniform's gonna get me laid any day now just you watch boy oh boy oh boy!!!
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I wasted three years of my life doing that poo poo. The one way it did prepare me for the future was with a sneak peak of the kind of defective personalities I'd encounter in the real military. I was once dumb enough to have a lot of respect for one of the teachers. I later came to realize that he didn't care for teaching so much as he had a psychological need to have a captive audience of dumb teenagers around to watch him huff his own farts. He did inadvertently teach me to be wary of SNCOs though. As it turns out they may talk a good game but ultimately don't give a gently caress about you, or have your back.
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i don't care if it's probably fake. i chuckled. https://twitter.com/TheWTFNation/status/1182816513172086786
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shovelbum posted:Does anyone in the US military including special forces actually know how to operate without historically unprecedented levels of reinforcement and materiel right around the corner Outside of your tier zero Sam Fisher types? Doubtful. I’d say the handful of guys that’ve ended up actually serving alongside the YPG as civilians probably have more of an understandinng of that mindset.
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The answer is Caro, as it always was, and always will be.
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shovelbum posted:Does anyone in the US military including special forces actually know how to operate without historically unprecedented levels of reinforcement and materiel right around the corner not, but we train our officers well on how to relearn tactics by getting people killed
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BIG HEADLINE posted:
RIP Flounder/Vir Cotto
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Milo and POTUS posted:Let out an audible oh goooood WHOA just had a flashback to college playing some F2P MMO (I couldn't afford WoW like my roommate  ). Anyways, I'm grouped up with some randos when a 'master chief' blows up on someone for besmirching his honor or some garbage. Another party member calls bullshit, making the master chief back down and admit he's just JROTC. The party member turned out to be a cadet at one of the service academies, and started to give 'leadership' lessons while everybody else was telling them both to shut the gently caress up. Pop quiz: Who's the bigger idiot in this story? Answer: me for signing up after getting a sneak peak of the future 
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Oct 12, 2019 14:56
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If you were sufficiently drunk or high it was probably funny as gently caress.
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Stravag posted:Christ jrotc in highschool was the dumbest poo poo ever why would you be that proud of it That poo poo got me out of SO MANY legit classes because "Oh I've got a rotc thing!" Teacher: "Great, just make sure to get that assignment turned in next class." Merit badges though...oof.
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All the JROTC kids I've encountered in service have been vocal they were JROTC and also very ate up. System working as intended.
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maffew buildings posted:All the JROTC kids I've encountered in service have been vocal they were JROTC and also very ate up. System working as intended. "Play any sports in high school?" "Well I was going to run cross country but then I made a terrible mistake...."
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Godholio posted:That poo poo got me out of SO MANY legit classes because "Oh I've got a rotc thing!" Teacher: "Great, just make sure to get that assignment turned in next class." Sadly i went to a military religious school with mandatory jrotc from 6th until 10th so it was a before homeroom after school thing. Christianity got its own class tho because why not. And the people doing uniform inspections every morning only vaguely knew how many activities you were in so after i got the 2rd triple ribbon bar i stopped because gently caress having to pay for those stupid things. Also "your tie is crooked by an 1/8th of an inch you lose promotion points today" cool go gently caress yourself. Jrotc was the reason i went from "maybe the military would be cool" to "gently caress that noise"
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Stravag posted:Jrotc was the reason i went from "maybe the military would be cool" to "gently caress that noise"
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When I was doing sea scouts as a teenager I thought being a BM in the coast guard would be the most awesome thing ever but I got distracted chasing tail and ended up joining as an IT in the Navy 20 years later.
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Stravag posted:Sadly i went to a military religious school with mandatory jrotc from 6th until 10th so it was a before homeroom after school thing. Christianity got its own class tho because why not. And the people doing uniform inspections every morning only vaguely knew how many activities you were in so after i got the 2rd triple ribbon bar i stopped because gently caress having to pay for those stupid things. Also "your tie is crooked by an 1/8th of an inch you lose promotion points today" cool go gently caress yourself. Yeah that sucks. Our organization was super easy and laid back. It took something truly stupid to really cause a problem for anyone (like say...stealing a fire hydrant, then putting a BDU blouse on it because it was the in way of formation and too heavy to move in time).
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LingcodKilla posted:When I was doing sea scouts as a teenager I thought being a BM in the coast guard would be the most awesome thing ever but I got distracted chasing tail and ended up joining as an IT in the Navy 20 years later. I was Navy then CG. Being a BM in the CG was pretty tits.
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LingcodKilla posted:When I was doing sea scouts as a teenager I thought being a BM in the coast guard would be the most awesome thing ever but I got distracted chasing tail and ended up joining as an IT in the Navy 20 years later. From what I gather you were a clown long before you joined the navy!
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Milo and POTUS posted:From what I gather you were a clown long before you joined the navy! Laugh now.... uh....laugh some more.... i'm sure i'll cry someday about this
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I quit the Civil Air Patrol cadet program when I was 15 after I got sick of getting yelled at by a kid two years older than me but was somehow an “officer” for having my rank insignia being 1/32 of an inch out of place.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I quit the Civil Air Patrol cadet program when I was 15 after I got sick of getting yelled at by a kid two years older than me but was somehow an “officer” for having my rank insignia being 1/32 of an inch out of place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzG7Y3SPRA
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At least CAP has a slightly better chance of doing something cool. That's a big maybe, but far better than the big fat zero chance you'd get in JROTC.
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Na man if you signed up for extra bullshit you could twirl rifles Edit: that actually pissed me off cuz the 42id base or armory was across the street and the best "cool thing" our army jrotc school could come up with was some propoganda display at the pepsi arena with like 1 bradley and a half dozen guys firing blanks into smoke clouds? And this was like in 04 or 05. Stravag fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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I quit thr CAP after I went to an encampment and got punched by a seventeen year old officer from down-state for saying his girlfriend was fat (she was) and I was the one punished because I “started it”. I was thirteen. CAP had some fun stuff but as soon as you got outside of the immediate squadron hooooly poo poo. Edit: to be honest I was kind of an rear end. But I was also thirteen and being an obnoxious rear end is kind of a base state. Also the people who decided I started it and was at fault for my black eye were middle aged adults. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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I got my first piece of action, first sex and first hang over from my time in sea scouts and they all happened with kids the same age! Also I did some stuff with boats.
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LingcodKilla posted:I got my first piece of action, first sex and first hang over from my time in sea scouts and they all happened with kids the same age! I've never gotten any of those things from a boat except the hangover
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Hungover and seasick is its own special version of hell. No extra punishment required, I’ve never been so miserable in my life 
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Icon Of Sin posted:Hungover and seasick is its own special version of hell. No extra punishment required, I’ve never been so miserable in my life Thank you so much for the reminder. Dick.
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I never really got seasick, but hungover when leaving port was a pretty common thing among all ranks.
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I was all ready to hate all over this given the title, and it might be a bit serious business for this thread, but *drat*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I was all ready to hate all over this given the title, and it might be a bit serious business for this thread, but *drat*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g Yeah, that book hosed me up. There's not a place in hell hot enough for McNamara. ...I do highly recommend reading the book, but man is it depressing. https://www.amazon.com/McNamaras-Folly-Low-IQ-Troops-Vietnam-ebook/dp/B0108H60MG ulmont fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I never really got seasick, but hungover when leaving port was a pretty common thing among all ranks. My favorite overseas memory is from first getting into port in Cebu in 09, and everyone immediately going out on libo, getting positively hosed, and pounding every girl and what not in a five mile radius, and the next morning having PT on the pier. Our extremely pious PL was so distraught over our debauchery that we were doing sprints in the summer heat until we had a guy pass out while everyone was puking over the side. What the hell did they expect us to do, go to church?
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ulmont posted:Yeah, that book hosed me up. There's not a place in hell hot enough for McNamara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFhmZUfp65o listen at the 28:00 this guy was very creative with his radio during his time in vietnam
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So, idiots: This weekend is "Fleet Fest" at Naval Station Norfolk. Tomorrow (Saturday) the public can go on base to tour ships, see some aircraft static displays (and buy some quality E-2 merchandise that supports a good cause  ), and see a demonstration from the SEAL/SWCC team. Who are a bunch of absolute loving idiots. Today we hosted a bunch of school groups to get the same tour as the general public on Saturday, and I was on duty talking about the plane. Hundreds of kids swarming around asking adorable questions like "how do people die in this plane" and "what's the RPM of the propeller". A fun day for everyone. But as things are winding down and most of the kids are walking to their buses, the SWCC dickbrains decide to run their tactical demonstration that starts off with full-auto blank bursts from an M-249. With zero warning. Absolute loving chaos ensues as everyone screams and runs for the buses. Kids get knocked over and one is drat near trampled. Consider that this is 2019 and kids now get active shooter training before they learn cursive. I have no doubts that this is going to cause nightmares for a lot of those kids. Plus, when I walked over to see what the hell these chucklefucks were doing, they were firing blanks directly at the crowd. I'm not an expert on blank firing but I'm pretty sure that's still a bad loving idea. Just like that entire exercise.
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