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FrozenVent posted:No I’m accusing Keller. That could use a cite too, particularly in light of contrary evidence
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bird food bathtub posted:It's quiet out there tonight. Too quiet. Ended up being a bit of a stealth deployment, I'm only learning now. Welcome!
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joat mon posted:That could use a cite too, particularly in light of contrary evidence She's never looked a jewish person in the eye, for one. Turned a deaf ear to the holocaust.
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Everything I know about Marines is from the Miz and the one comic where Obama calls someone a boot Do I need to know more?
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Anybody here lookin for a great deal on an ‘05 Dodge Charger?
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Only if all the seals are blown and it's covered in moto stickers while listed at 125% KBB value.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Anybody here lookin for a great deal on an ‘05 Dodge Charger? 15%APR and you got a deal
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Carteret posted:15%APR and you got a deal 15%APR?!?! What, you got some kind of 3 digit credit score or some poo poo richly rich?
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:15%APR?!?! We can definitely go up, I'm sure I can find someone here in Latvia who could help out with offering a >15% APR loan.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:We can definitely go up, I'm sure I can find someone here in Latvia who could help out with offering a >15% APR loan. Friend, jarheads can walk right off the base at home and finance and brand new charger at 42% apr. Although since they’re on deployment only their wife and jody will enjoy it.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Friend, jarheads can walk right off the base at home and finance and brand new charger at 42% apr. Although since they’re on deployment only their wife and jody will enjoy it. *furrows eyebrow* We can do more than 42% too.
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Anyway, what's the Dodge Charger meme about? Popular car?
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Young, dumb, and full of cum, back from a deployment with combat pay they couldn't spend and "ooooh look cool muscle car!" There's an entire industry of scummy car dealerships right outside base run by people specifically offering those vehicles to idiot 19 year olds that don't even understand what APR is. This exists to the point where I received mandatory briefings on returning to country spelling out exactly how many problems you will cause for leadership by getting these cars and going bankrupt shortly afterwards.
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bird food bathtub posted:Young, dumb, and full of cum, back from a deployment with combat pay they couldn't spend and "ooooh look cool muscle car!" There's an entire industry of scummy car dealerships right outside base run by people specifically offering those vehicles to idiot 19 year olds that don't even understand what APR is. This exists to the point where I received mandatory briefings on returning to country spelling out exactly how many problems you will cause for leadership by getting these cars and going bankrupt shortly afterwards. I see. Slightly amusing to hear about the briefings for managing personal finance.
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bird food bathtub posted:Young, dumb, and full of cum, back from a deployment with combat pay they couldn't spend and "ooooh look cool muscle car!" There's an entire industry of scummy car dealerships right outside base run by people specifically offering those vehicles to idiot 19 year olds that don't even understand what APR is. This exists to the point where I received mandatory briefings on returning to country spelling out exactly how many problems you will cause for leadership by getting these cars and going bankrupt shortly afterwards.  Jacksonville is nothing but car dealerships, lovely tattoo parlors, and strip clubs. The city is designed to fleece Marines.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I see. Slightly amusing to hear about the briefings for managing personal finance. I was looking for some of the scans of various truth in lending sheets that show how bad many young boots get screwed but couldn’t find it. Lots of unscrupulous car dealers right outside base will set you up in a nice new car and take advantage of a military pay option to automatically deduct the massive payment from your paycheck before you even get it. The interest rates on these start at credit card rates (22% or so) and go up from there.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I see. Slightly amusing to hear about the briefings for managing personal finance. Hell, in bootcamp we had an hour long briefing on "do not get married. You have no idea what your life is going to be like a year from now and that's a huge commitment. Do not get married"
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Mr. Nice! posted:I was looking for some of the scans of various truth in lending sheets that show how bad many young boots get screwed but couldn’t find it. Lots of unscrupulous car dealers right outside base will set you up in a nice new car and take advantage of a military pay option to automatically deduct the massive payment from your paycheck before you even get it. The interest rates on these start at credit card rates (22% or so) and go up from there. CainFortea posted:Hell, in bootcamp we had an hour long briefing on "do not get married. You have no idea what your life is going to be like a year from now and that's a huge commitment. Do not get married"  I guess I'm tasting the crayon joke a bit more clearly now.
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I don't think that is exclusive to the Marines , we got the same lectures when I was in the Navy. More just a bunch of 18 year olds who have a ton of money relative to what they are used to with a peer group that is going through the same. Everyone was buying trucks and lifting them if they were rednecks when I was in, or they were buying VW Golfs and modifying them if they weren't.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
I can't find the original version of this video, so you'll have to deal with going to reddit to see one without audio. As he sniffs I think he says "mmm, coconut" and then says "thanks kids" as he's crunching it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/n6z7v4/military_ape_finds_tastiest_thing_in_care_package/
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I'm convinced Jacksonville is the worst place on earth. It's every bad stereotype of military towns and every bad stereotype of the south compressed into a singularity of shittness.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I can't find the original version of this video, so you'll have to deal with going to reddit to see one without audio. As he sniffs I think he says "mmm, coconut" and then says "thanks kids" as he's crunching it. Somewhere there is a good diet joke too, given how jacked the lad is.  Rakekniven posted:I'm convinced Jacksonville is the worst place on earth. It's every bad stereotype of military towns and every bad stereotype of the south compressed into a singularity of shittness. Sounds like I should update my assumption for Las Vegas being the worst noteworthy town in America.
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Rakekniven posted:I'm convinced Jacksonville is the worst place on earth. It's every bad stereotype of military towns and every bad stereotype of the south compressed into a singularity of shittness. It really, is. gently caress that place forever.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Somewhere there is a good diet joke too, given how jacked the lad is. between jax and fayetteville there's nothing else in this country that can come close to the pit of despair that is eastern NC. FFS the most notable geographic feature is actually named "The Great Dismal Swamp"
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shame on an IGA posted:between jax and fayetteville there's nothing else in this country that can come close to the pit of despair that is eastern NC. FFS the most notable geographic feature is actually named "The Great Dismal Swamp" But there’s cultural sites, like Groverhaus.
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truly, someone needs to find whatever types run local history museums in the great dismal swamp suburbia area and have them stand up a proper groverhaus history exhibit
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shame on an IGA posted:between jax and fayetteville there's nothing else in this country that can come close to the pit of despair that is eastern NC. FFS the most notable geographic feature is actually named "The Great Dismal Swamp" Well, one of the most notable landmarks of Latvia also happens to be a swamp...
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Well, one of the most notable landmarks of Latvia also happens to be a swamp... i mean if you think about it quote:На берегу пустынных волн are foundational works of russian literature not describing a man, full of hubris, surveying a vast swamp, on which he intends to build a great house and nigh, a city even, which ends up both majestic and a clusterfuck, renowned, but because it is not quite the shining example he originally envisioned? a startling edifice that outlives its creator, yet torments all who see it with his madness? saint petersburg is a goddamn grovercity, in the fine russian tradition of building bigger and bigger things that don't quite work. they just somehow leapfrogged grover in time
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shame on an IGA posted:between jax and fayetteville there's nothing else in this country that can come close to the pit of despair that is eastern NC. FFS the most notable geographic feature is actually named "The Great Dismal Swamp" My dad chose to retire in ENC, forcing me to the live out middle school and high-school in that hellhole. I've never lived anywhere worse.
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Carteret posted:My dad chose to retire in ENC, forcing me to the live out middle school and high-school in that hellhole. I've never lived anywhere worse. Jfc, that's awful
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Carteret posted:My dad chose to retire in ENC, forcing me to the live out middle school and high-school in that hellhole. I've never lived anywhere worse. feel like CPS should be called on the parents of this poster...or whoever commissioned the Antwone Fisher movie should be looped in for OP's latent trauma to write an oscar winning screenplayer whichever really
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The only bright side is that living near marines for that long made sure I never joined. I enlisted Army instead! 
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Carteret posted:The only bright side is that living near marines for that long made sure I never joined. Being around x made me never wanna be like them. So anyway I did x squared.
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I used to teach fellow airmen (in the rank sense) how interest rates worked, how compounding interest works, the different kinds of IRA’s and also how important it was to have renters insurance. Even if you live on base. Hell, especially if you live on base. You think you are gonna be the rear end in a top hat that gets Uncle Sam to pay him what he’s truly owed? That’s reserved for military death row inmates. I knew all that stuff because I was in this thing called FBLA in HIgh School. FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) was all about understanding finances, accounting, and various other business skills. I did good enough at FBLA stuff that I wound up being state secretary on the governing council. Not a super high position in the council, but still high enough to make a very Jewish mother proud. Every Sunday in Boot Camp should have various mandatory personal finance and legal classes after church services. Wouldn’t have to lengthen boot camp, and you lessen the number of dumb new service members buying 42% APR 80 month 0 down loan on a used Dodge Challenger that’s automatic transmission only made it through the test drive because it’s filled with brake fluid. Or extend boot camp a few days and make it an intensive serious of courses. Even then, Joe is still gonna Joe, and Snuffy is still gonna Snuffy. The (ostensibly) most intelligent of our service members (Think Nukes, Linguists, Space, Certain Intel specialties, etc) fall prey to this poo poo at the same rate as their infantry and motor pool and admin peers. The military doesn’t create the sickness I don’t think. It just acts as a very nutrient dense Petri dish for the sickness that brings itself to the military.
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Marine story for the Marine thread.Kith posted:A story from a friend of mine, shared with permission:
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Jfc, that could've ended so much worse. Lol at the mental image of razor blades taped haphazardly inside an asscrrack though. Hopefully dude got over his alcoholism and homophobia.
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this butt story makes me feel way worse than actual combat stories. also while you people are still defending us here in DnD, I wanna tell my Marine story when I went to MEPS for the Army, my roommate for the night was a future Marine. He failed the breathalyzer test they put you through like instantly next morning. later, I fail to piss in front of my new closest friends, I just can't go, so I have to stay another night just to prove my piss has no drugs this night, another future Marine. the literal stupidest motherfucker I have ever met. His phone alarm went off a few hours before we were supposed to get up and he couldn't turn it off. Dude could not figure out snooze mode, or, apparently, numbers, or the concept of time. anyways we eventually went back to MEPS. He got into the Marines and served honourably (afaik) while I noped out of my boot camp date and moved to Canada because why not? semper fi and thanks for your service, Marines
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