psydude posted:

Have we talked about this terrifyingly self-aware and unironic recruitment ad that the US Army's PsyOp branch put out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw&t=214s

Army Times posted:

The junior soldier told Crosby the day before the assault that she did not want a promotion ceremony.

But during work the following day, according to a prosecution motion, Crosby “approached [the junior soldier], told her to stand up, placed the rank in front of her chest, leaned in the grab the rank with his teeth...then placed his face between [the junior soldier]’s breasts...[and] vigorously moved his head from side to side between [her] breasts while still holding the rank with his teeth.”

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A Louisiana Guard cavalry troop operating in south Texas was temporarily disbanded after widespread issues with sexual harassment, discipline and command climate. The state returned its troops from the border mission a month ahead of schedule after two soldiers died in alcohol-related incidents, though a state spokesperson said the move was unrelated to the problems the units had faced.

spacetoaster posted:

We're wearing masks again.

MightyJoe36 posted:

The whole army, or just your post?

I live near an Air Force base and use their Commissary and Hospital. We still have to wear masks at the hospital.

MightyJoe36 posted:

The whole army, or just your post?

I live near an Air Force base and use their Commissary and Hospital. We still have to wear masks at the hospital.

mlmp08 posted:

When the last post unmasked, there was the option to keep masking. I stayed masked, and a handful of people seemed genuinely confused that I said I'd rather mask now than wait until the next outbreak and to not put on a mask until it was ordered.

And notably, in places like hospitals or even the mental health clinic and any other office where even admin medical professionals worked, the requirement never went away anyway...

Wrong Theory posted:

Was on TDY all week to Benning and came back to Picatinny today and haven't heard anything about a new mask mandate.

PeterCat posted:

Is the Louisiana National Guard the worst in the country?

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your...fMh_CrHQhZnFQgM

MightyJoe36 posted:

So, Air Force Base I live near just went to masks all the time.

PeterCat posted:

Is the Louisiana National Guard the worst in the country?

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your...fMh_CrHQhZnFQgM

General Battuta posted:

Hello army thread. Quick book research. Would anyone ever refer to someone by their pay grade? Maybe as a put-down? Like if you wanted to remind a petty officer that you (a master sergeant) outrank him, would you possibly call him 'E6'? Or is this nonsense and you would just call him by his rank or name.

quote:

He grabs the first military guy he sees outside—because he figures Erik would’ve left someone loyal to watch him—and says “I need to brief the unit. President’s authority.”

The guy’s name flash reads GARCIA. He’s a fellow chicano and, correctly in Clayton’s estimation, doesn’t give a gently caress about their racial solidarity. “You’re not the President, Mister Hunt. You’re a White House staff member. If you want to give orders here, you better issue a policy directive to Admiral McRaven at the Pentagon. Please follow me to your billet. Major Wygaunt wants you under observation.”

“No.” He’s not going to get loving arrested. He is going to fix this. “You’ve been seconded to Task Force MAJESTIC by USSOCOM, Admiral McRaven commanding. I am a representative of the President, who is supreme commander of the United States military, including McRaven, including you. Constitution of the United States of America, Article II, Section 2, Clause 1. The President dropped the bomb on Japan by direct order. The President dropped the bomb here too. It was my order, but it was on his authority.”

“That’s fine, sir. But I have orders to escort you to a CHU for observation.”

A CHU is a containerized housing unit and Clayton really does not want to be containerized, housed, or, for that matter, united. He wants to get into Blackbird. “Do you need me to walk you through the legalities? Fine. In 1863 Chief Justice Grier established that if war is initiated by a foreign nation, which I presume includes motherfucking aliens, the President is bound to to accept the challenge without waiting for legislative authority. In wartime the President has the power to take any measure which will avert a disaster that could lead to the defeat of the nation, and there I paraphrase FDR as quoted to me by the President.” That’s a lie, but what the hell. “That includes making me his god drat proxy in the field. That includes making me a god drat five star general if he wants to. He didn’t, but only because he didn’t think it’d be necessary. He can do anything he wants, and because of that I can do anything I want, right up to ordering you arrested for failure to obey a lawful general order or regulation, namely listening to me. Do you understand?”

“Sure,” Garcia says. “You can take it up with the Major. Please follow me to your billet.”

“I will call the loving president on the phone.”

“SATCOM is out, sir.”

“Not my SATCOM,” Clayton bluffs. “I’m wired into the aliens. Do you want me to raise President Obama to speak to you directly? While he’s managing the greatest crisis in the history of our planet, bar none?”

Garcia looks back at him, narrow-eyed: are you bullshitting me? “You have comms?”

“Hey,” someone behind Garcia says. “What disaster leading to the defeat of the nation?”

CIASAD operator Skyler Nashbrook unpeels himself from whatever zone of denied knowledge he was lurking in (behind the container dorm, Clayton supposes). “gently caress,” Garcia mutters. Clayton knows for a fact that Garcia has worked with SAD dudes before, during Delta Force’s opeations arround Baghdad. “Nashbrook? We’re taking Mr. Hunt into protection. Major’s orders.”

“Why?” says another guy. Mike Jan, the DEVGRU hotshot, who must’ve been loitering around waiting to see what happened. “It sounds like Mister Hunt’s in charge, Master Sergeant.”

“Major Wygaunt’s in command, E6 Jan.”

“Major Wygaunt grabbed twenty dudes at random and hosed off east with the Kurds,” Nashbrook says. “He’s no longer in the picture. And if the Deputy National Security Advisor has orders from the President to avert something big, I think we better listen. What disaster leading to the defeat of the nation, Mr. Hunt?”

The three MAJESTIC operators ring up around Clayton like gunfighters looking to draw. Four-horned night vision goggles and plated body armor and weapons that imply, in all their Piccatiny-railed modularity, a post-industrial approach to warfare. These are not the helmeted GIs of old war movies, citizen-soldiers who’ll go home to marry their girls in South Dakota once the Nazis are whipped. These are artisanal, professional killers, as customized and specific as the legal briefs Clayton wrote to justify Obama’s assassinations.

General Battuta posted:

I'll just give the context from my stupid book (on store shelves next autumn wow!!!!) and you can tell me if it lands the way it's supposed to, which is to say 'don't forget I outrank you, DEVGRU dude.'

Bolded the exact line so you don't have to read all my loving if you don't want to

The reason this quote is so loving long is that I'm curious about what you, army NCO guy, would do if the Deputy National Security Advisor started giving you direct orders. He works for the President, but he's not a member of the Cabinet and has no military rank, so the consensus among people I've asked is "I would obey my CO's orders and tell the Deputy National Security Advisor to take it up with my CO".

I left the last paragraph in cause I think it's cool

Carteret posted:

Dropping the rank altogether when speaking to a subordinate above Specialist in the Army is a solid way to wave your dick around. It feels like "I don't even respect that you earned your rank"

Mustang posted:

Google something like "US Army command board". Every company level unit and above has one of these that goes straight up from their unit up to the President. Everyone knows exactly who's in their chain command all the way to the top.

quote:

“No.” He’s not going to get loving arrested. He is going to fix this. “Maybe you’re unclear on your unit’s chain of command. I get that, with how fast things have been moving. Let me clear it up.”

“I know my command board, sir.”

“Do you?

“Yes, sir. I’ve been seconded to Task Force MAJESTIC by USSOCOM, Admiral McRaven commanding. I report directly to my team commander, Major Wygaunt, who reports to LTG Votel at JSOC, who reports to Admiral McRaven USSOCOM, who reports to Secretary of Defense Hagel.”

General Battuta posted:

How does this read to you? Frankly more detail than the reader probably needs, but...

Did I miss any necessary steps in there? Is that implausibly few links in the chain?

FAT BATMAN posted:

Hey y’all, long time lurker here, I asked this in the active resources thread but didn’t get a response, so wanted to try here:

I’m a civilian but I have a good friend who was in the army and, in their words, “fell for the trap while ETSing about joining the military reserve” and has been in the reserves for a while now.
They wanted me to ask y’all, “since I fulfilled my initial contract, what all does an IRR packet entail?”

To clarify their question: how does one go about putting together and submitting an IRR packet to get out of the army reserves?

Feel free to PM me for details, or if there’s a discord where I could ask around, that’d be cool too.

bird food bathtub posted:

I just totally deuce'd the gently caress out when I was done with active duty so I still had IRR time, meaning this is not first hand experience but foggy memories of paperwork from years ago. I'm preeeettttyy sure if you do reserve time after active duty that satisfies your IRR requirement. If they've done active duty, then reserve, and I'm not stupider than usual, they should be totally done.

Godholio posted:

You're on the hook to attend musters, IF any occur. In my three years of IRR, I sat through one. They were trying to entice aircraft maintainers (which I'm not) to come back as reservists. Just keep the address updated for that purpose, show up if necessary, roll eyes throughout the presentation, and leave.

In exchange for that, you get full base privileges...Class Six, commissary, PX, etc. Get that ID card.

Edit: In theory, the IRR could be mobilized, but since we've finally wrapped up Iraq/Afghanistan, I don't think that's particularly likely barring a major loving twist.

FAT BATMAN posted:

Ah, thanks for the context. I was confused why the responses seemed to be more about what IRR is vs what the process is; I get the issue now. I’ll cut it out with the telephone stuff, or get more info.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted: