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GreglFaggins posted:I saw two Iraqi SF dudes get in a shoving/slapping match over who was going to man a crew served weapon (I wanna say PKM, but really don't remember) in the makeshift turret, muzzle swinging wildly all over the place. I was pretty sure it wasn't loaded because there was no belt present and I was inside of a small FOB, but I still tossed my cigarette and went inside behind a few concrete block walls, just in case. Entire country acts like loving 12 year olds, ridiculous. We killed everyone who was competent.
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TheUnhorse posted:I love it even more when there's a drill sergeant badge on that e-2. That's definitely a   moment. I can only imagine the hilarity of a former DS getting out and then coming back in as an E4 for whatever reason and having to redo BCT due to a break in service. I'm sure it's happened.
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DoktorLoken posted:That's definitely a He'll probably be the only dude eating at the DS' table in the DFAC.
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so my understanding is that if you have a 3 year break in service you HAVE to go back to BCT. What happens to all those e-5s and e-6s that come back with their rank? do they just hang out as specialists until they're done or what?
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We had a guy in my old unit who was in Dessert Storm got out and came back in and they made him go through OSUT again. So he walked around OSUT as a SPC with a CIB, ABN, and AASLT on his chest. He said the DS were cool he got his own room in the bay next to the DS office and after dinner chow he was released for the day to do his own thing. Even got overnight passes from Saturday dinner chow till first formation on Monday. He said the most annoying thing was every DS asking him what the hell he was doing in OSUT. He made E-6 within a year of arriving at my unit and was pretty squared away even bitch slapped my TL one day for being a retard.
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DoktorLoken posted:That's definitely a I've met one, he was an E6 who got busted down to E2, and was reclassing as a Medic when I was at Fort Sam. Awesome dude.
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My mom rejoined the Canadian Air Force after 4 or 5 years, which has similar rules(after three years you gotta redo everything) and when she was sworn in they promoted her back to warrant and sent her on her merry way. This was in a small trade and she knew the career manager pretty well.
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I think that would be the worst fate for me if I were stupid enough to take the TDRL buyback. Not being in the Army again, but the fact that I would have to survive ~15 weeks of OSUT again, knowing what I do now. I'm pretty sure I would go blind from rolling my eyes so often.
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I knew a 1SG who was in Vietnam. He got out sometime in the 80's. I'm not exactly sure when he got back in, but he was old as gently caress, literally the oldest dude in the army. I can't remember what combat patch he had, but it was some unit that doesn't exist anymore. It looked a lot like this, the 173rd patch. Except instead of the airborne tab on top, it had this massive Ranger-esque scroll on top. I can't remember what it said exactly, but there was some sort of connection to the Vietnam-era Ranger Companies.
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TheUnhorse posted:so my understanding is that if you have a 3 year break in service you HAVE to go back to BCT. What happens to all those e-5s and e-6s that come back with their rank? do they just hang out as specialists until they're done or what? For active duty it is. It's not for the Guard/Reserve. Probably because old prior service dudes would probably be like gently caress this if they had to do BCT or OSUT at 40 to reenlist into the RC.
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faddypaddy posted:who was in Dessert Storm What a delicious war that was.
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vacation in kabul posted:What a delicious war that was. Duh, that's why the uniform was called "Chocolate Chip" 
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I have some time so I thought I'd type up some more stories about SrA Lard rear end (how he kept his rank is beyond me  ). Word was his method for actually just staying in the Air Force was to just immediately claim he was suicidal so they would have to send him off to some rehab place and by the time he'd come back things would have cooled down and they'd probably have to go gentle on him just for the whole "being suicidal" shtick.At Sheppard AFB we had a bus that went around base but it was pretty much just for cripples only and you usually needed a pass to ride it but sure enough Lard rear end would take it down to the commissary and back while everyone else had to walk. One day he's getting off the bus after we had all gotten done with PT and are stuck waiting in line while a couple hundred people shuffle through a single file line to get inside. Well when we see him getting off this bus with a bag literally full of ice cream my friend apparently had enough and just loving screams "HEY FATTY YOUR SO loving FAT!". Buddy just slips right back into line and everyone is just stunned and Lard rear end is just standing there yelling "who said that who said that?". No one says anything and eventually he just gives up and cuts a few dozen people in line. The one time he actually went to PT though was hilarious. He must have really pissed someone off since he was actually at PT for once but on top of that they had him up front with the PTLs so everyone could watch him break into a drenching sweat after 5 jumping jacks and watching fail at running in place for 30 seconds. His boobs were bigger than quite a few of the females. At one point someone in the squadron he was in had gotten a DUI and the commander decided that everyone from students to permanent party up to herself were going to stand outside the gate 24/7 (or close to it) with a sign that said something along the lines of 'dont't drink and drive'. Well since he was in the squadron he was going to have to help out but knowing he was a giant gently caress they decided to put him on the shift that would relieve the commander. Well surprise surprise he showed up late and drunk to relieve the commander of holding a sign at the front gate that says don't drink and drive...the way he could gently caress up was truly awe inspiring. I still have the story that was pretty much the end of him as far I could tell or care if you guys are interested. It pairs pretty well with a few of the other gently caress ups I went to tech school with.
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I was stationed in Rota, Spain for about two years when I was on active duty. It was, in a word, awesome. The work schedule could get a little ludicrous at times, but it was an all around great place to be. Of course, everyone knows you can't give people in the military nice things. We got a cinderella curfew in December one year, E-4 and below only, because of one our wonderful female IT2s. Apparently she and her boyfriend, another 2nd class in my squadron, were out at a club called Black Cat's one night and some skank was gettin all up on her man, or some such idiocy, and she proceeded to pull a small knife out of her purse and get all stabby about it. She actually nicked the other girl's heart with the knife and is very lucky she didn't kill her. So they do the natural thing and punish E-4 and below. At this point I figured they were going to hammer her, but nope wait, wait, wait on Spanish civilian court bullshit, stabee eventually drops the charges for some idiotic reason, IT2 Stabby gets knocked up by god knows who, and the crowning jewel, the Navy adesps her and let's her be on her merry way after about a year of limbo. No BCD, no Leavenworth for attempted murder, no nothing. IT2 Stabby's boyfriend also broke a bottle on another dude's head that somehow devolved into a Spanite getting hit by some other dude in our squadron's car about a year after incident one. Come to think of it that dude was the nucleus of a lot of dumb poo poo that went on there, but nothing ever seemed to stick to him.
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vacation in kabul posted:What a delicious war that was. Veteran of Dessert Storm
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Apparently in the Navy thread people are proud to be NFOs so I figured I'd share my love of them too. My last command in the Navy was staffed by 99% NFOs and 1% pilots (the pilots were always marines billeted to us as marine liaison). The command enlisted was 70/30 split of air traffic controllers and operation specialists. On the shore side of things thing were fine, the only real work was admin type stuff. Let me tell you what its like getting ready to and deploying with these idiots. One of the ships we're doing circles with wants to fly their UAV in Saudi Arabian airspace along a published route, but they can't get permission because the Saudi's are worried if the UAV loses comms and starts circling it might hit something since this is one of their most used. Our CO being the NFO that he is doesn't have a clue how the NOTAM system work, he just knows whenever theres a short change to airspace and so on they use it to put up a notice for other pilots. So he asks me and another controller if we could please find a way to force one through that will make the Saudi's let us use their airspace how we want. For those not aviation inclined, itd be like asking if I can find a way to throw you out of your own house so I can sit on the couch for a few hours. Its their airspace they can deny whatever they want. Our CO figured one day that since he used to sit at a scope as an NFO he could jump on our only radarscope and tinker with the settings and make things better. That led to panic when we could no longer pick up primary targets at all and we couldn't pick up anyone's transponders either during flightops (our job at the time was working with FADIZ to do modes and codes, FOF crap. Someone point out that is the CICs job please, those guys tried to interrogate a UAV doing airstrikes.) Getting ready for deployment was interesting. During workups they (an OS chief and 3 or 4 NFO officers) decide that since our brothers the Operation Specialists had to work 12 hour shifts we controllers should to. I pointed out to them that 80T-114 strictly forbids that, we are only allowed to be scheduled for 8 hour shifts not to exceed 10 (except in emergencies) and this is based on a code of federal regulation. I'm quickly labeled the lazy sea-lawyer and over-ruled. Further, I'm told, the 80T-114 only applies to SHORE based facilities. Fine, whatever. A couple days later the guy doing our checks sees the schedule and flips his poo poo. This is one of a couple times during workups I've seen a senior chief kick the enlisted out so he could 'correct' a bunch of officers. After that I was told specifically to come forward with any regulations being broken in regards to controllers. At one point they wanted me to be a supervisor, to which I point out that our guiding document requires supervisors be E5 or have a waiver. A waiver is legal document. For example I had a waiver to do final radar approaches below the weather minimums, a legal document that in the event of an incident they could show big Navy and the FAA that yeah I was trained for/allowed to do it. It also protects me because I can turn around and go 'well yall said it was legally ok for me to do this stuff!'. The NFO in charge says 'I'll waive you then!' and waves his hand like hes using the goddamn force. I was never made a supervisor because nobody ever figured out how to get a real waiver done. Which brings up my biggest issue with the whole system set up. I asked them following the scheduling issue why if they were in charge of a primarily air traffic control unit none of them had ever even read the governing publications we use. They aren't even pilots. So lets say theres an issue brewing, controller asks the supervisor (a controller) what to do. The supervisor has to ask their supervisor what they want us to do, a person who has no knowledge of air traffic control and unable to offer a true 'pilots point of view'. Thank god it never came to that. In training we did have a scenario that was pretty telling though. We were leading an f-18 to a tanker for refueling on a tanker track. I called traffic between them because the f-18 hadn't reported them in sight. I kept on issuing traffic information, because I'm basically pointing a plane at another one with the intent to lose separation. The OS chief starts barking at me to stop issuing him traffic because in all his ATC knowledge he thinks by giving the pilot this info I am directing him away from the tanker, "thats not how air intercept control works!". I kindly tell him this isn't an air intercept operation. Cue a room full of NFOs jumping in telling me to stop and the one pilot in the room telling me to ignore them. After the scenario ended the previously mentioned senior chief put us on break and we get back he gives us official guidance that yes we should call traffic. In short: NFOs would be cool with me pointing planes at each other and just assuming at some point they'll see each other in a good way while I watch in silence. NFOs sent a bunch of air traffic controllers to a radio operator's course so we could learn how to talk on the radio to planes. Have to learn proper radio etiquette! NFOs figured training for controllers who might be sent to work in a captured airfield/improvised airfield should be 10% learning to set them up and 90% how to eat an MRE and how to set up a tent. Blackchamber fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Blackchamber posted:Insanity You honestly sound like that guy who is a pain in the rear end to supervise. I genuinely hope people like you work for the FAA on the civilian side, because attention to detail in your line of work is far more important that being an "easy employee." edit: Because this is SA I want to be clear that I'm not being sarcastic.
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iceslice posted:You honestly sound like that guy who is a pain in the rear end to supervise. I genuinely hope people like you work for the FAA on the civilian side, because attention to detail in your line of work is far more important that being an "easy employee." No I understand how that looks on the outside. Air Traffic Control is full of people who obsess over the details and fine print and in our small community nobody calls people sea-lawyers or thinks its about being difficult. Like I said, being tossed in with a bunch of controllers who never controlled before and rates that aren't familiar with how our job is done look at as being nit-picky. The bigger picture is that air traffic control is all rules, legality, and technicality. Lets say something bad happens to a plane and its not your fault, you still aren't in the free and clear. There is always an investigation of some kind and its their job to assign blame. So if you forgot one tiny little detail you can be found to a % (yes a percentage) of fault. For example few years back a c-130 plowed into 2 cobras outside our airspace. They were both in a warning area where they are supposed to check in with the controlling entity when passing through. They had been out of our airspace like 1 or 2 hours that they never contacted who they were supposed to, but as part of the investigation they found one of our guys at fault for telling him a frequency change was approved (to contact the controlling entity for that airspace) but didn't implicitly state to contact them by name. We had a F-18 that was using vfr (see and avoid) and he decided he wanted to see how close he could get to another plane that was on final, and stated that. One of ours got busted for not telling him to 'maintain visual separation'. Again should be covered under VFR rules, he still got a piece of the blame. And its not a small matter usually. Incident reports are required to be reported to both the FAA and to Big Navy, are available to every air traffic control facility that cares to read about it, etc. At that point in my time of the Navy I was looking to get out and the last thing I wanted was to lose my 'ticket' and get revocated (legal blackballing by the Navy and FAA to never be allowed to control again) because I chose to go along with the ignorant crowd cause I know how well 'I ignored the rules cause someone told me it'd be ok' works at Navy legal. And sadly no, they weren't O-1s. They all took this billet as part of some check-in-the-box for promotion to get their own commands someday the way they tell it. One was an O-2, the rest were 0-3 and the CO was an 0-4. It was a conclave of NFOs and it was crazy watching them tackle problems. The solution they came up with eventually was to make sure our Marine pilot was always on watch for the busy stuff, or to constantly call him for his opinion. He was always right there with us though rolling his eyes and standing up for common sense. EDIT: Just remembered another idiot story that further illustrates this junk. We had a H-60 in the fuel pit at the end of the taxiway. One of the ET's is going out to the LSO cart to do some techno-thing, and decides to cross next to the refueling helo. She calls up the guy on ground and he just says 'approved'. The ET then turns off all the lights on her vehicle (this is at night) and heads straight for the 60. The line guys doing the fueling are waving their arms like crazy and she came within feet of having her truck become a convertible according to the pilots and crew. She has her airfield drivers license suspended. The controller's ground qualification was taken away because he didn't tell her to 'utilize caution', in other words 'dont plow into the helo in front of you and kill yourself'. And legally speaking and as a controller I agree he did the wrong thing... but who the hell shuts off their lights at night and does that? The controller was given 'the opportunity to re-classify' and last I saw he works at the chapel. Blackchamber fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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brains posted:there is a soldier in my class who was in the gulf war. he is legit like 50 years old. he is a corporal. how does this happen. Had a gulf war vet in my platoon in like '08 who was a specialist with a big break in service. He was in the loving army when they introduced humvees for the first time. He ended up getting injured or whatever and kind of got pushed out of the platoon after he drunk dialed the platoon sergeant and called him a friend of the family.
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We had some dumbass Mission Crew Commander on JSTARS chamber an M-9 twice before the DO forcefully took it away from him. He probably made Lt. Col. So it goes.
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We had a guy that wanted to make a .50 cal necklace on our deployment and decided to hammer the round for some reason, ignited the primer and blew part of his finger off. He was an NCO and got sent home after he was medevaced elsewhere. It was like two weeks into our deployment. He also had to go to jail once for thirty days and got to take leave for it and had no NJP against him. The dude had been promoted last time I saw. E: he might have been drilling through it. Also gay people who make 50 cal necklaces usually use the spent shells not try to make them out of live rounds. vacation in kabul fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Lucky that he only lost a finger. http://i.imgur.com/4Q3WZ6y.jpg
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AB posted:Lucky that he only lost a finger. He was beyond lucky. He literally just blew a part of his finger off, he had a smallish chunk missing off of his pointer finger and a nice scar. He probably got sent home mostly because he was an embarrassing retard.
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When I was doing a range in Korea one of the squad leaders, a 22 years in E6 whose been on BN+ staff for the last 15, nearly killed my entire squad. We were doing a platoon level demo mission, really simple stuff. Few crater charges, few blocks of C4, really simple stuff. The last part of the process involves using a clacker and a tester.  The idea being that the clacker (the M57 Firing Device) is connected to the Test Set, which simulates a live connection. You look into the end of the tester and you hit the clacker, if the tester lights up the clacker works. Hooray. Now when your demolitions doesn't fire off, you know immediately that it's not your clacker. I wasn't there, as I was downrange with the rest of my squad setting up the last bits of demo, but as the story goes this squad leader doesn't remember the details about how to do this poo poo. He connects the clacker to the real demolitions line and not the tester and tries to clack it. Anyone that's worked with clackers knows they very rarely work the first, second or even third time if they're old as poo poo. The story goes that he made it to two clacks before my LT saw what was happening and knocked the loving thing out of his hands. He then proceeded to scream until his voice gave out, and this E6 quickly found himself back in BN staff somewhere in 2ID. I think they sent him to 1-72AR  Had the clacker actually worked the first or second time, he would have detonated the shot, which was about a half dozen cratering charges.  These things. edit: And before someone corrects me, we were using the claymore det lines and caps to bust the shot. Yes, I know that sounds dumb. They wouldn't give us the requested amount of poppers. That's Korea for you. Vasudus fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Ask Cage Kicker, I talk about this poo poo casually.
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Blackchamber posted:Christ... My brother (Marine pilot) said he could pick out an NFO out of any line up by finding the guy with the comforting smile and a blank stare. He might be on to something
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Vasudus posted:-Combat Engineer horror story- Holy loving ball poo poo I would have probably murdered that dude. At least a swift kick to the nuts, especially considering that would probably be one of the few times one could do that to a higher up and not get NJP'd for it. That seriously is sending chills down my spine just reading that. Thank god that thing wasn't pushing enough current down the line to make that 240 pounds of fun go off.
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It wasn't even anything super interesting either, I never did a ton of cool poo poo. I was just lucky enough to be around idiots enough to have something to talk about but not be injured by them.
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Vasudus posted:I think they sent him to 1-72AR Ahh, poo poo. I worked closely with some guys in 1-72. What year was this?
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I'm trying to refine my "Greater Theory Of Military Idiocy", in which there is a direct correlation between actual, heartfelt "motivation" and severe, debilitating incompetence. Basically I'm stealing from Dunning-Kruger and Sapir-Whorf so I have to ask, "Was this life endangering individual particularly, or unusually motivated? If so, how motivated and did others despise this individual based on their moto level alone before even knowing how life endangeringly stupid they are?" Edit: the language bit is why we always get the "There is no such thing as a field or garrison Marine/Soldier/Sailor" we all well know there are people you trust in the field that you can't leave alone with a sharp object or dull woman but, certain risk averse people (whom I shall now refer to as "cowards") institute language controls in an attempt to cover up their failure and make the people who actually get the job done look like poo poo on paper i.e. the now garrison Marine/Soldier/Sailor making life difficult for the field one. By instituting such heuristic control they offer to make some minor uniform or non life threatening alcohol incident worse for someone's career than actually going and getting someone killed. Steezo fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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I don't have a life and death story, but I've got an idiot story from Korea, in particular 1-72. My first line, whom I'm sure I've spoken of before as he is a massive poo poo hoarding turd baron, was this douchey looking corporal who joined up the Army because, well, gently caress YOU DAD. 20 years old, and because he was terrified of deploying, AIPed in Korea (volunteer for an extra year for a couple of bucks extra each month). Because he AIPed, he picked up corporal as quick as gently caress. Around post, a specialist couldn't run a range, or a detail, had to actually be an NCO (even though corporals are just big gay babies). Thus, specialists became corporals all the time. So we are tasked with having to move a platoon of tanks to the wash rack. I jump in my tank and fire the sucker up. After it's warmed up, ol' Naggin' Nancy comes over my CVC with "oil level low. Oil level low. Oil level low." I tell my corporal, but he seems to think that listening to warnings is for pussies, and guides me forward. I roll forward, and then naggin' Nancy pipes up again with "oil pressure DANGEROUSLY low, oil pressure DANGEROUSLY low, oil pressure DANGEROUSLY low", so I drop it in reverse, back it up all of the 3 feet I had travelled, and hit the emergency shut down. He then proceeds to go nuts. Blah blah blah, emergency shut down can destroy an engine, blah blah blah, how dare you disobey an order. So I tell him that this tank was filled with oil -- if memory serves it's like 7 or 8 loving gallons -- and that it's gone from that, to about 1 or 1.5. In the space of less than 2 minutes. There is clearly something wrong with this tank, and I don't feel like burning out a 100k plus turbine engine which I know for a fact this rear end in a top hat corporal will find some way to try and dump it on me. He tells me to start the tank back up, and I tell him "no". He flips out some more. Lots of crap about disobeying an NCO, blah blah blah. I tell him that if he wants it moved, he should then drive it himself, because I guarantee that the engine is gonna tear itself apart in a few minutes and possibly burn the tank to the ground, let alone the 20 minutes it takes to drive them to the wash rack. He flips out again, so I just close the driver's hatch and let him freak out some more. I get the platoon sergeant on the phone and tell him what's up and he tells me to sit tight until he gets there. Turns out, when someone doesn't respect the might of his babby NCO rank, he doesn't know what to do and just walked off. Platoon sergeant turns up, I jump out, and we have a look what's up. Yeah, there is now GALLONS of oil all over the ground. It looks like it's spurted out at a pretty high pressure to boot. Platoon sergeant says good call, let's call the 88 and get this bitch towed into the bay. Says don't worry about the corporal, you just saved his rear end. So we head back to the office afterwards, and here is this dickhead corporal, looked online to see what an article 15 packet looks like, and decided to put one together himself and takes it to an E6, and tells him this big sob story about how this E2 disrespected him in front of everyone and how no one will ever respect him if I get away with telling him no, and blah blah blah. We walk in, I give a quick run down about how the dickhead wanted me to take a tank for a 20 minute drive when it was pissing out oil, and then I was told to leave whilst there was a discussion in the platoon office. It was a loud discussion. 30 minutes later I was told there would be no problems because of this, and good job. Nothing happened to this corporal. He was a board bunny so was on the E5 list just before he left, but I tanked his getting promoted cause the CO asked me what he was like. I said he was a brain dead idiot that ran his guys into the ground so he could get an extra inch of dick forced down his throat by the BN CO, married a cross eyed Filipino hooker just so he could get out of the barracks, and couldn't leave post for fear of getting beat to death by anyone he's ever worked with. His new unit took him off the list when he got there, but he went to the board, got straight back onto it, and picked up his E5 in just over 2 years. Army strong, hooah.
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A couple fisters that were in my company were doing live fire training, calling in fire with their FSV Stryker near one of our lovely little FOBs in Afghanistan. I'm a dumb loving grunt so I can't remember all the terms and names, but the guy back in the tent who is supposed to take those calls and send them to the gun bunnies was a complete loving idiot. To put it in a few words, he screwed up the readback so bad that they were danger loving close about 50 meters from our fisters. Cue giant pieces of shrapnel flying towards the FSV, with one bowie knife sized shard of metal zipping past and slicing open my buddy's hand as he's standing in the turrent. I don't even think they punished the guy, and he stayed in that position until the end of the deployment.
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Cobbsprite posted:Ahh, poo poo. I worked closely with some guys in 1-72. What year was this? Winter gunnery of 03, so late December 03 to early January 04.
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Vasudus posted:Winter gunnery of 03, so late December 03 to early January 04. Couple of my platoon guys might have known him, then. They transferred out of 1-72 to the 1BCT 1Cav PSD in '06 and probably knew him. Should have gotten some stories from them, but we were making stories all our own. Like the time a sniper took a potshot at one of our turret gunners in a Humvee. The bulletproof plasticglass stopped it, and SSG Snuffy (real name withheld) kept telling him on the radio to point his turret at the estimated area where the shot originated and provide suppressing fire. At a target he couldn't pick out that had the demonstrated ability to put a round in a direct line that intersected his noggin. The gunner wisely chose NOT to make himself an easy target for the sniper, and the rest of the section provided suppression until we picked up our principals and took off.
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