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Rent-A-Cop posted:In a hundred years if we don't have Space Marines yet none of this was worth it.
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The Stygian posted:I tend to skip by a lot of 50FA's posts (but not all!) because I prefer to read about poo poo that isn't passed off as truth I said it before: as a cold war vet, I can attest that his stories are entirely plausible, especially for units that had a prognosis of zero survivability should the balloon have gone up.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:In a hundred years if we don't have Space Marines yet none of this was worth it. Airborne training will be vital on Klendathu
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Snowdens Secret posted:Airborne training will be vital on Klendathu Didn't the all-or-nothing airborne attack lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties and the resignation of the Sky Marshal though?
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Thump! posted:Didn't the all-or-nothing airborne attack lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties and the resignation of the Sky Marshal though? Oh sure but all that was the fault of the clowns in Intel I mean Games and Theory
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"Lets talk about idiots: Klendathu Drop!"
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Frosted Flake posted:I've always seen the Airborne as being about the same as the horse cavalry a century ago. They had their day, but they're so caught up in their own mythos and status that they can't see how obsolete the whole idea is. In a hundred years special forces guys doing a combat drop will be as novel as riding horses in Afghanistan was in 2001. I just saw the guy who sent me to Iraq right after getting to my first unit. I told him his big mistake was sending me to Iraq without sending me to Airborne school first. Of course back then I didn't really want Airborne. I was not educated enough to see how beneficial Airborne would be. He says he tried but they needed me in Iraq. I had to wait another two years before I was voluntold to go Airborne. IF I WAS KING OF THE ARMY---- No one would be assigned to an Airborne unit without mandatory Airborne school right after AIT. It's not about jumping out of planes. It's about being hooah enough to jump out of planes.
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Crazy Mike posted:It's not about jumping out of planes. It's about being hooah enough to jump out of planes. You're being serious again, aren't you Crazy Mike?
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Frosted Flake posted:I've always seen the Airborne as being about the same as the horse cavalry a century ago. They had their day, but they're so caught up in their own mythos and status that they can't see how obsolete the whole idea is. In a hundred years special forces guys doing a combat drop will be as novel as riding horses in Afghanistan was in 2001. Marines and amphibious assaults are the same, if to a somewhat lesser degree.
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Dec 21, 2013 18:09
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If you know anyone who had to study for the loving ASVAB, they probably belong in here.
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Mad Dragon posted:If you know anyone who had to study for the loving ASVAB, they probably belong in here. When I was joining my recruiter had a few prospects who he needed to try and train up to the 23 or whatever on the ASVAB that was the minimum for a waiver.
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gleep gloop posted:When I was joining my recruiter had a few prospects who he needed to try and train up to the 23 or whatever on the ASVAB that was the minimum for a waiver. The story I got from my recruiter was that they had one guy come in and get a loving 6 on the test. They worked on him for a couple months and got him to barely squeak by, and terrifyingly he is now a Marine somewhere.
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Dec 22, 2013 21:58
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When I went to take the ASVAB there were 4 others from my recruiting station taking it with me. I was the only one to pass it of the 5 of us.
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If the military said no to you between 2003-2010 you had to have a missing limb or literal mental disability. And half the time there was a waiver for those.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Marines and amphibious assaults are the same, if to a somewhat lesser degree. But we may have to assault an enemy beach one day!!! (We won't)
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Nyyen posted:The story I got from my recruiter was that they had one guy come in and get a loving 6 on the test. They worked on him for a couple months and got him to barely squeak by, and terrifyingly he is now a Marine somewhere. Kinda sounds like he's doing exactly what he was meant to do. Oohrah.
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Thump! posted:But we may have to assault an enemy beach one day!!! Need to retrain the entire Corps for cyberwarfare so they can storm ~virtual beachheads~ You know if you put it that way you could get some generals seriously wet
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Alright devil dogs, turn your porn torrents off. We're about to storm this cyber beachhead. Don't forget to reload after every five bullets you shoot and press Q to duck behind cover.
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Mad Dragon posted:If you know anyone who had to study for the loving ASVAB, they probably belong in here. I studied for it, it probably added a few points to my GT score. If you need it to pass the cutoff? Yeah- that's frighteningly dumb.
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Didn't the Marines rebrand themselves as OBUA specialists? I remember hearing about how the Marines took all the hard urban operations tasks in Iraq (Fallujah, Nasiriyah etc.) Of course that could have just been bragging after the fact.
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Frosted Flake posted:Didn't the Marines rebrand themselves as OBUA specialists? I remember hearing about how the Marines took all the hard urban operations tasks in Iraq (Fallujah, Nasiriyah etc.) Of course that could just been bragging after the fact. Could have just been something you made up.
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Frosted Flake posted:Didn't the Marines rebrand themselves as OBUA specialists? I remember hearing about how the Marines took all the hard urban operations tasks in Iraq (Fallujah, Nasiriyah etc.) Of course that could just been bragging after the fact. According to every Marine I've ever met, we're experts at every single military skillset every while simultaneously being the most incompetent fucks ever born.
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One minor story from early '90s ARNG, back when Bush the senior was closing bases down and the only concern in the unit was keeping headcount up. 'John' was a fellow maintenance scrub, your stereotypical midwestern, semi-retarded yokel that was a--I don't know what the gently caress he did besides sweep the maintenance bay all weekend. I volunteered as TAMMS clerk because replacing pages in FMs was less bad than greasing axles and tightening lug nuts all weekend.  One day, SSG handed John a hand axe and told him to remove all the saplings that were growing around the concrete barrier around our unit, with a specific warning to avoid sideswiping the concrete and lopping a toe off. It didn't take. John walked back into the maintenance bay a few minutes later with a large gash in the top of his boot and squelched his way into the office. "Uh, SSG? I think I hurt myself." SSG went totally deadpan for a long moment and came back with, "Well did you or didn't you?" John just stood there with his vacant smile and waited for further instruction.
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Back in 2005 I took the ASVAB at the same time as some girl who came out of the office after getting her results and contract offer on the verge of tears. She did so badly on the ASVAB that she only qualified for one MOS. Only one. Just one thing the Army decided she was qualified to do. Seamstress.
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thehumandignity posted:Back in 2005 I took the ASVAB at the same time as some girl who came out of the office after getting her results and contract offer on the verge of tears. 
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thehumandignity posted:Back in 2005 I took the ASVAB at the same time as some girl who came out of the office after getting her results and contract offer on the verge of tears. I bet she still managed to put the backwards flags on the wrong arms.
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Nyyen posted:The story I got from my recruiter was that they had one guy come in and get a loving 6 on the test. They worked on him for a couple months and got him to barely squeak by, and terrifyingly he is now a Marine somewhere. the guy in the seat next to me when i took the ASVAB got a 4. pretty sure he got an 11b contract after a retest. ahh, 2008 
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thehumandignity posted:Seamstress.
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Casimir Radon posted:I'm kind of surprised that's even still a thing. Don't you have Yeah, I'm surprised as well...I figured the Asian American Female Employment Service had a lock on that. e: Apparently it's 92S, which sounds less like "seamstress" and more like "oversees the TCNs that do the laundry." Also there was someone in ROTC who I got told I had to "tutor" to get her to pass the math portion of the AFOQT (AF officer equivalent of the ASVAB). It isn't anything more difficult than basic algebra. The minimum score is a 10. I think she was legitimately retarded. iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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That's bullshit because I'm a seamstress and you do not give that poo poo to an idiot unless you really want your clothes to fall the gently caress apart and don't mind being uncomfortable and looking like rear end on top of it. Dry cleaning/laundry, on the other hand, is believable as a great job to give the tards. edit: also I'm not Asian and yeah I get a lot of weird looks when I'm applying for jobs/talking shop
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Pile of Kittens posted:That's bullshit because I'm a seamstress and you do not give that poo poo to an idiot unless you really want your clothes to fall the gently caress apart and don't mind being uncomfortable and looking like rear end on top of it. Dry cleaning/laundry, on the other hand, is believable as a great job to give the tards. Most people in the military are barely literate. You can train them to do a wide variety of tasks to include repairing complicated aviation circuitry regardless of this fact.
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Mindless devotion to tedium doesn't really require you not to be an idiot, just tenacious.
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Vasudus posted:Most people in the military are barely literate. You can train them to do a wide variety of tasks to include repairing complicated aviation circuitry regardless of this fact. Doesn't the military just give the complicated repair jobs to contractors these days?
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AmyL posted:Doesn't the military just give the complicated repair jobs to contractors these days? They have a small contingent of military dudes do it. Then they decide that the MOS is vastly overstrength and do a forced reclass/RIF, then hire them back three years later at five times the rate.
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iyaayas01 posted:Yeah, I'm surprised as well...I figured the Asian American Female Employment Service had a lock on that. I just saw a FB post from a friend stationed in Japan looking for a good tailor shop. About a thousand possible responses ran through my mind in the first half-second.
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Pile of Kittens posted:That's bullshit because I'm a seamstress and you do not give that poo poo to an idiot unless you really want your clothes to fall the gently caress apart and don't mind being uncomfortable and looking like rear end on top of it. Dry cleaning/laundry, on the other hand, is believable as a great job to give the tards. Look, everyone here was an idiot for at least some point during their lives. No one is going to mock you if you tell us you got a 52 on the ASVAB.
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This guy in my platoon was gaining weight and fast. A few months back he faced the problem of his uniform being way too tight for his buttery self. Now for some, this might be a wake up call, a realization that "hey, maybe I am gaining too much weight." And a wake up call it was, a call to buy a bigger uniform. He now owns the XL top. He was pretty surprised when they recently told him he was being chaptered out for his weight too.
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thehumandignity posted:Look, everyone here was an idiot for at least some point during their lives. No one is going to mock you if you tell us you got a 52 on the ASVAB. Wasn't a 31 the cutoff for "too stupid to enlist anywhere"?
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