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GD_American posted:My first trip to MEPS I saw an Acura NSX parked at the Burger King on base. I thought "hunh wonder which general owns-" yeah saw some 1LT in germany with a viper
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Cojawfee posted:To be fair, an NSX is about 30K with lower miles. Not in 2002 it wasn't (new, anyway). I knew it was a new model because that was the year they went from pop-ups to fixed headlights. I mean, maybe his family was rich. Who knows. But it sure looked weird.
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GD_American posted:Not in 2002 it wasn't (new, anyway). I knew it was a new model because that was the year they went from pop-ups to fixed headlights. It's the awesome USAA new LT loan.
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Oct 26, 2013 05:33
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Godholio posted:It's the awesome USAA new LT loan. well i guess an nsx is better than facebook stock
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:well i guess an nsx is better than facebook stock A guy I work with had a bunch of apple stock. He bought $30K worth of it at 600 or something. It went up to 700 and we told him to sell it. He decided not to. Steve Jobs died and the stock plummeted down to 400 and then went back to 450 when he finally sold it.
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Cojawfee posted:A guy I work with had a bunch of apple stock. He bought $30K worth of it at 600 or something. It went up to 700 and we told him to sell it. He decided not to. Steve Jobs died and the stock plummeted down to 400 and then went back to 450 when he finally sold it. an officer on these very forums took out a $20k loan to buy facebook stock when they went public
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Oct 26, 2013 06:28
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:an officer on these very forums took out a $20k loan to buy facebook stock when they went public Holy poo poo.
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:an officer on these very forums took out a $20k loan to buy facebook stock when they went public Well he's up ~$7k on paper right now then.
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I had an instructor who spent the entire block bitching about FEMA, it's a good thing it was an easy block. Basically he attended some seminars at some point, thought he was a lot smarter than he actually was, and lost a bunch of money on real estate.
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Reverand maynard posted:We had people doing opium but not much happened because you can't give an entire company the boot while you're in afghanistan. No, but apparently you can boot an entire platoon.
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:an officer on these very forums took out a $20k loan to buy facebook stock when they went public The same thing will likely happen with Twitter when they go public here shortly.
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:Yeah, it's like when people win the lottery and buy million dollar homes. Any word on how much he got the bentley for? pkells posted:Was this in SC? Because earlier in the year I saw a younger dude driving a Continental GT on Shaw AFB, and I just couldn't make any sense of it. It was in '09, I couldn't tell you. Wouldn't surprise me though, he was one of the training room guys so it'd make sense for him to be TRADOC now.
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Craptacular posted:Well he's up ~$7k on paper right now then. apparently he sold it shortly after for 15 a share so no
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I have a pretty unique idiot story. For the last 6 months I was away from my regiment on a heavy equipment course. Since I got to my unit I've always worked hard and kept my nose clean and never really been in poo poo. But as soon as I get back people start coming up to me and recounting stories about things I supposedly did. I normally just deny these rumours but it confused me for a good week. A few weeks ago I get a phone call to my bay telling me that I have a bunch of tools I signed for from maintenance that I never returned, and that I need to go down immediately. I go down to maintenance, talk to the tool crib and look at the docs I supposedly signed. It's signed with my name and marked to my squadron, so I assume it's someone loving with me for some reason and bring it up to my chain. They ask around and it turns out a new guy who came last month has my name and initials. Apparently I have retarded doppleganger. We're drawing weapons to go to the field and by the time I get to the vault to get my weapon it's already gone. I had to track down the guy and get my loving weapon back. Not entirely his fault as the guys in the vault didn't do their jobs properly but buddy still should have noticed that it wasn't assigned to his service number. It gets sorted out and nothing else comes of it. We go to field and get back last week. In the field there was a pretty big accident where a friend of mine gets seriously hurt and everyone involved had to write witness statements. I write one and carry on with my work until today I get called to the troop office and ordered to wait at attention outside the door untill I'm called in regarding my witness statement. I'm confused but do as I'm told. Eventually I get called in and I'm waiting to get a blast of poo poo for... something. My boss starts to give me a blast of poo poo over my witness statement, and as he's starting I catch a look at the piece of paper he's about to go postal on me over. It's written by my loving doppleganger. I point out that I didn't write that statement, and that it's not even about the incident we were all involved in. Apparently he never read past the first line, which was "On this year of our lord two thousand and thirteen, I was frolicking in Wainwright when all off a sudden..." is as far as I could read. My boss storms out of the office to find my doppleganger and everyone else starts losing their poo poo laughing. I swear to god if I start to get a bad reputation around the regiment over this guy I'm going to lose my poo poo.
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We got a new guy that was supposed to be a doppelganger of another guy in our shop but he wasn't good enough at video games so he was supposed to be me 2.0. The only problem is he's even terrible at that. Basically when I got here, I ended up driving someone to work all the time because he didn't have a car, got friendzoned by some girl (not too bad, turns out she's gay and she ended up being my best friend anyway) and I play video games and do internet things. The problem is that he got acquaintance-zoned by some girl. She barely recognizes that he exists whenever we walk near her and she's also the person that he drives to work every day. He also lets her borrow his car all the time. Someone else talked to her and she said she only talks to him to borrow his car and for the rides. So he's not even friends with her and does all this poo poo for her. Then it turns out he's loving horrible at video games. Everything people play with him, he's loving garbage at. I guess he gets angry about it because he went all east texas and called them niggers and left the game they were playing (one of them is black).
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Wtf does that even mean? Content: when I went to engineer school in 2007, we had a guy whose name I can't quite remember. He was short and chubby with a baby face, and he was from Texas. We called him Bobby Hill, this pissed him off pretty good. One time, there were four of us carrying a piece of an MSG bridge (over 400lbs) when this cat gets mad about the Bobby Hill thing and just drops his corner and walks off. The day we graduated, he got caught stealing from the uniform store (I think it was a canteen he stole or something really dumb like that too), I heard he was adsepped shortly after that.
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safetyStanddown posted:Wtf does that even mean? I guess I should say he came into the shop and was talking himself up as really good at video games and didn't deliver. Then when he was supposed to be a copy of my goonyness, he was way worse at it.
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Cojawfee posted:I guess I should say he came into the shop and was talking himself up as really good at video games and didn't deliver. Then when he was supposed to be a copy of my goonyness, he was way worse at it. Definitely in the running for worst story in thread.
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Cojawfee posted:I guess I should say he came into the shop and was talking himself up as really good at video games and didn't deliver. Then when he was supposed to be a copy of my goonyness, he was way worse at it. That's what that mess was?
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Sorry it wasn't a "Spent thousands of dollars so 20 people could get blue balls" story.
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Godholio posted:That's what that mess was? i am pretty sure this story was a about a gay(what?) girl that slept in some dudes car on multiple occasions and there was blue balls on a completely unrelated girl
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I figure I should post about the best representation of DLI loners I've met here. I'll call him PVT TRex because this guy just held his hands like a trex every time he ran and just kind of hunched it the whole way. I first met him the night I arrived to DLI and came to the reception platoon where he was at too. He was the platoon guide, which for that platoon means you're the worst screw up and they're punishing you. Somebody leaned over and said "That's PVT Trex, he's PG because he hates black people." and that's how it all began. Of course we end up getting the same language and same class. He ends up falling asleep every single day, fails every test, and sleeps in late about 2 times every week for formation. When he did show up he'd have ketchup on his face no matter what he had been eating. It could have been cereal in the morning but by formation there he was running up with ketchup on his face. Eventually they pull him out of class and look at his record and decide that he shouldn't be in the Army at all, so they start kicking him out, only some lady at medical thinks he's not "rehabilitated" enough to leave for the civilian world so he hangs around DLI doing nothing for about 7 months. My friend found him the day it happened. He was crying behind the barraks and the conversation went something like this: Friend: hey, man, what's wrong? Trex: They're kicking me out of class Friend: That sucks Trex: Plus, I've got like 4 article 15s Friend: That sucks Trex: Plus I don't have any friends Friend: That sucks Trex: Plus they're kicking me out of the Army Friend:...That sucks Then he went to the company and told them to put Trex on suicide watch. They tried giving him menial work, but he couldn't do anything right. I remember they had him shredding files once and somebody walked in on him taking pictures of peoples' filed with his phone, so finally they just had him sit there collecting a paycheck. Fucker would loom around the company, asking if anybody else failed out so they could join him in the pit. Somebody asked him once why he always feel asleep in class and his response was "I look at porn all night." What kind of porn you might ask? Well PVT Trex borrowed somebody's laptop once for a CQ shift and then forgot to erase the history the next day when he returned it. Of course it was filled with furry porn and dragon erotica, as well as lactation fetish stuff. He borrowed another person's laptop and got that taken away by a sgt because he hooked up a private computer to the company network line. When he asked a third person if he could borrow their computer, the third person told him to gently caress off and use a public computer. Trex's only response was "BUT I NEED TO DOWNLOAD FILES." while flailing his claw hands around. They finally kicked him out 2 months ago and I had to add him on FB just to see what happened to him. Of course every status is him complaining "I'm such a nice guy, why won't girls talk to me?" and "If I wasn't so nice girls would be all over me." God speed, Trex, God speed.
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Samu posted:A few weeks ago I get a phone call to my bay telling me that I have a bunch of tools I signed for from maintenance that I never returned, and that I need to go down immediately. I go down to maintenance, talk to the tool crib and look at the docs I supposedly signed. It's signed with my name and marked to my squadron, so I assume it's someone loving with me for some reason and bring it up to my chain. They ask around and it turns out a new guy who came last month has my name and initials. Apparently I have retarded doppleganger. The same thing happened to me during one of my deployments. One day I checked my LES and found I was getting paid one grade lower than I was supposed to. My MOS had also been changed from 19D to 68E  Apparently some shitbird who was in rear deployment got an article 15 for something and had the same name as me. No idea how that also caused me to get an MOS change. After several phone calls and faxes of supporting documentation (Because apparently the can just arbitrarily change your poo poo on the fly, but in order to correct it they've got to really double-check their facts) I got my pay-grade corrected and started receiving back-pay... very slowly. I never got my MOS fixed until after deployment, though. Never mind that everything else on my ERB indicated that I was a scout, the MOS box said 68E, because somebody, somewhere changed it to that, and that's all the evidence they needed to refuse to change it back.  So I guess that's the story of some idiot, or team of idiots, in some S1 office somewhere whom I will never meet.
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That sucks. I stopped getting paid one time. I guess no one told DFAS I'd reenlisted a year prior, so I stopped accruing pay and leave one day. It took about six weeks to fix. This was the only time I had to take out an NMCR loan, which sucks when you have a clearance because it raises flags and you have to explain it, which is annoying. Content: When I was in Iraq in '08, our company had a comm guy who was really good at his job, but was horrible at everything else. Dude had posters of teenage Disney stars everywhere, all he watched was Hannah Montana and such. He kept commenting about how hot the actors are. No doubt dude was a pedophile, although I looked through his laptop once and only found Disney shows, no porn (or anything else, like normal TV shows or movies). He was my roommate for a while, and he had the top bunk at the opposite end of the room. I woke up to a really loud noise in the middle of one night, turned on the lights, and found him dangling from the rack by his ankle, which somehow got trapped in the bars on one side of the rack as he was getting out to piss. In another incident, he threatened to stab his sergeant (who, to be fair, probably deserved it), so he got all his knives taken away, plus the firing pin from his bolt. Dude still had to carry his rifle everywhere. There was another idiot on the same deployment, who was also my roommate for a while, and who managed to cut off the point finger of his left hand between the first and second knuckle while adjusting the metal folding chair he was sitting on. That poo poo was just hanging off by a little bit of skin, and instead of going straight to the corpsman, this dude took the longest possible way there, knocking on every door along the way to show off his severed finger. It was eventually reattached, but it was black for a really long time (not sure if that eventually got better), and he lost all feeling there, as well as use of that first knuckle.
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This is what a A1C/E-3 Did in my Unit: So this Kid first was a terrible Mechanic had no grasp of his job. He was Comm/Nav and I knew more about his job then he did as a Hydraulics guy. He took forever to get trained and was always sick for something. Nobody paid much attention to this kid being he was worthless to the unit. We gave him the chances to learn and put some of the best dudes we had out there to train him. He just kept missing work for "Doctor appts and Surgeries". Every time he was on quarters or had a surgery he had some paper work with him and otherwise we trusted him because he never lied to us. Then we found out on a complete he was lying about all of it. He never had a single surgery. All of his problems were made up and he was scamming the Gov't for a paycheck for the most part. This all got caught on a joke by his boss. Basically this kid didn't didn't show up or do anything for about a total of 6 months of his One and a half years on the base and almost got away with it. If it was for an old cynical boss making a bad joke. He got almost no punishment out of it as well. Then my favorite: We had a stabbing on our flight line. Basically 2 kids were arguing about who's car was faster and better. Started slap boxing and next thing that happens is this young kid pulls out a 6 inch butterfly knife and stabs this kid in the arm. While a 130 was about to take off with Air Crew in seats. This kid didn't even get a BCD. Most of the punishment he got I don't remember since I was on the road during the Court martial
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wiskibubbles posted:This is what a A1C/E-3 Did in my Unit: Was this post translated by Babelfish from the original language?! 
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wiskibubbles posted:So this Kid first was a terrible Mechanic had no grasp of his job. He was Comm/Nav and I knew more about his job then he did as a Hydraulics guy. He took forever to get trained and was always sick for something. Nobody paid much attention to this kid being he was worthless to the unit. We gave him the chances to learn and put some of the best dudes we had out there to train him. He just kept missing work for "Doctor appts and Surgeries". Every time he was on quarters or had a surgery he had some paper work with him and otherwise we trusted him because he never lied to us. Then we found out on a complete he was lying about all of it. He never had a single surgery. All of his problems were made up and he was scamming the Gov't for a paycheck for the most part. This all got caught on a joke by his boss. I feel like this guy understands how to military correctly. wiskibubbles posted:Then my favorite: We had a stabbing on our flight line. Basically 2 kids were arguing about who's car was faster and better. Started slap boxing and next thing that happens is this young kid pulls out a 6 inch butterfly knife and stabs this kid in the arm. Crew_chiefs.txt
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In 97 when I was in my first month of flight school a really salty Major that looked like Sgt Rock stopped a bunch of us 2nd Lieutenants/Ensigns and imparted some amazingly wise words. "You know that rat faced gently caress in your class you all hate? Too incompetent to be trusted with his own dick in the pisser, too lovely of a person to want to spend more than 6 minutes with alone? He's in every single class that comes through here, always has, always will be. That pissy little rear end in a top hat will be the one who ends up a flag officer. He's the only person here who's too loving dumb to get a job in the outside world, too loving square to ever go out and have fun that doesn't involve reciting JJDIDTIEBUCKLE every nine minutes while he watches a PBS special on some rear end in a top hat who got himself killed int he Civil War. Women who don't look like his fat, overbearing mother will be repulsed by him, his life will be sad and disgusting, and he will end up the man they put in charge of the classes that come after you. Leadership doesn't exist past O-5, it's just an incestuous slime pool of mouth breathers trying to make up cool sound acronyms for their command that can't be bothered with learning how to do the actual duties they need to be. And after they ruin the military for 30 years, they'll take a sweet contractor job making the same lovely decisions day in and day out until they die. So next time someone asks you if you plan on being here for life, remember what that actually means"
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River Raid posted:In 97 when I was in my first month of flight school a really salty Major that looked like Sgt Rock stopped a bunch of us 2nd Lieutenants/Ensigns and imparted some amazingly wise words. 
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River Raid posted:In 97 when I was in my first month of flight school a really salty Major that looked like Sgt Rock stopped a bunch of us 2nd Lieutenants/Ensigns and imparted some amazingly wise words. 
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Generals' ranks on berets look so lovely, it's like the people at Skilcraft just said gently caress it we aren't redesigning this poo poo and went with it.
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Justin Tyme posted:Generals' ranks on berets look so lovely, it's like the people at Skilcraft just said gently caress it we aren't redesigning this poo poo and went with it. How can you blame them, they can't see how dumb it looks.
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TRIM THOSE SIDEBURNS CHANDLER
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Mortabis posted:How can you blame them, they can't see how dumb it looks. 
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:TRIM THOSE SIDEBURNS CHANDLER I really, really want this guy to have some kind of scandal. Chandler can eat a dick. And even if it never happens, I still have one thing: I outrank him. 
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