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Laranzu posted:Dude I was in school with was formally in a regional navy band. Chill dude, burned out on the tuba or whatever and decided to go into computer networks. Good at gay chicken and dirty jokes. I always wondered how they auditioned tuba players. "Okay, your 'bum-bum bum-bum bum-bum' wasn't quite up to par"
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What happened to the idiots thread. It was a classic and I miss it dearly.
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Dec 20, 2014 02:49
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It got renamed in my honor.
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So I got orders to Korea and I'm leaving in a couple of months. Should I buy a phone here and get it unlocked or just pick up one of their huge tablet phones?
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Eyre Kneed posted:So I got orders to Korea and I'm leaving in a couple of months. Should I buy a phone here and get it unlocked or just pick up one of their huge tablet phones? They have LGU+. Prices are compatible to american phone companies, maybe just a little more expensive. The phones they have are decent enough for the year you're there considering your life standards for happiness will immediately drop as soon as you land. They are just standard droid phones. So yeah just wait. I got one on my third day there.
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Dec 21, 2014 19:09
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Eyre Kneed posted:So I got orders to Korea and I'm leaving in a couple of months. Should I buy a phone here and get it unlocked or just pick up one of their huge tablet phones? kill yourself now and get it over with
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Dec 23, 2014 04:26
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:kill yourself now and get it over with From what I have heard, this is good advice.
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Dec 23, 2014 04:31
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I got out in April. Is my w2 going to be on mypay? I dont remember my login info for that poo poo.
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Dec 23, 2014 16:37
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I believe mine was, I got out in March. You get mypay access for another 12 months I think. DL your LESes while you can.
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Dec 23, 2014 23:53
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Yes, it'll be my pay.
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How do you clean the M50 gas mask again? Just take the filters off and wash the rest with soap and mild detergent right?
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Dec 28, 2014 02:34
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We dipped ours in bleach and then cleaned them with soap and water. Never really felt comfortable putting it on after that.
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Dec 28, 2014 02:54
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Cole posted:We dipped ours in bleach and then cleaned them with soap and water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbn7oxXh38
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Dec 28, 2014 02:57
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So how are you supposed to address warrant officers? Sir or Chief? If its chief do you just stare awkwardly at W-1s? Please excuse my pogy air force butt. There was a marine WO in school and everyone in our class, even the army/AF lieutenants, just kinda shrugged when we asked ourselves this question and resolved to just hide from him.
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Dec 28, 2014 13:34
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terrez posted:So how are you supposed to address warrant officers? Sir or Chief? If its chief do you just stare awkwardly at W-1s? Sir. Salute 'em too.
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Dec 28, 2014 13:41
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One the O side I never met a WO1, but technically their title is Mister. Always called CWOs Chief and never heard a complaint about it.
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Dec 28, 2014 16:11
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Navy/Marines just treat them like officers through and through. Usually with more respect. They're not very common though. According to the blue jacket manual bs an 0-1 officer outranks them no matter what because they're "commissioned"  but reading that poo poo in boot camp even then I could tell it was written by a bunch of self entitled officers who think they're royalty or the supreme upper class like it used to be and made me feel like the peasant I was
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Dec 28, 2014 21:51
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All the Warrants in the Coast Guard I just try and talk to them on a first name basis and they do the same with me as an O-2. However, when I was enlisted I always referred to them as Sir/Ma'am or Mr./Mrs.
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Dec 28, 2014 22:40
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I have literally seen one warrant officer ever and that was 12 years ago and from a distance.
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All the warrant officers I had any communication with didnt really give a poo poo what you called them as long as you weren't calling them to do any work.
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Cole posted:All the warrant officers I had any communication with didnt really give a poo poo what you called them as long as you weren't calling them to do any work.
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I work around some CW2-CW4s and I just call them Sir if I'm talking to them and Chief if referring to them (e.g. "Don't forget to take out Chief Blah's trash").
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Christoff posted:Navy/Marines just treat them like officers through and through. Usually with more respect. They're not very common though. For a more accurate equivalency, the ranks run parallel to normal O ranks, but generally are treated with more respect and as technical experts. Yes technically all CWOs are junior to all commissioned officers but I've never seen someone pull rank like you imply. A CWO can be a really vital asset for a command beacuse they are outside the normal structure and much more in a position to call someone (be it a JO, senior officer, or a chief) on stupid ideas and decisions. Also, for the Army/AF folks -- don't call a Navy CWO "chief."
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Just saying that's what the book said man! "They're kind of officers but don't forget they're enlisted so they're not 'real' ones" Honestly just making fun of the tone the whole thing was written
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Dec 30, 2014 19:43
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The thing with chief is that you never pissed them off because he's almost always super buddy chummy with someone who is a lot higher ranking than you.
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TsarAleksi posted:For a more accurate equivalency, the ranks run parallel to normal O ranks, but generally are treated with more respect and as technical experts. Yes technically all CWOs are junior to all commissioned officers but I've never seen someone pull rank like you imply. A CWO can be a really vital asset for a command beacuse they are outside the normal structure and much more in a position to call someone (be it a JO, senior officer, or a chief) on stupid ideas and decisions. I've never seen a WO1 or a CWO5. The warrants I have seen got treated about the same as O3-O4.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I've never seen a WO1 or a CWO5. The warrants I have seen got treated about the same as O3-O4. I think I saw a WO1 on an army base once. He was super confused when I saluted him. He was super confused in general. My Department Head two commands ago was a CWO5. Dude didn't wear an undershirt under his khakis and had the most awe inspiring protruding chest hair I've ever seen. Also he didn't give a fuuuuck. Edit: Forgot what thread I was in. Generally called them Chief here.
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There was a WO1 in my unit for a little while, no idea why. We didn't have any warrant slots, so I think he was just filling a slot in one of the shops. Guy was a kind of a dick, though. The small handful of other warrants I've met were cool, I guess, but I never really knew them that well. The aviation BDE that I shared a FOB with had a WO5, though, and that dude looked crusty beyond all gently caress. Seriously looked older than anybody I'd ever seen in uniform, like some kind of crusty old unicorn.
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What rank do you have to be to not wear white undershirts. CWO5? 0-6?
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Christoff posted:What rank do you have to be to not wear white undershirts. CWO5? 0-6? I think there's a rate issue, too. Like, a BMCS can lose the undershirt but an ISCS sure shouldn't.
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Varicelli posted:Hey guys. Really, really obscure question here, wasn't sure where to put it being a first time poster to GIT and all, so hopefully it's OK. I'm Australian, and don't know anything about the military, so apologies in advance for my probably offensive lack of knowledge. In 2008 my infantry company got slotted underneath a division special troops battalion, so we got to compare our pretend badass selves with the pogest of pogs, at the division level at least. We had a band in the battalion; they deployed. They stayed on Bagram airbase the entire time as far as I knew. Here is some info to start you on your quest. The 10th mountain division wiki has a few lines on the band's involvement. You will better and more interesting stories on the official mouthpiece, http://www.music.army.mil/news/blogs/ Looks like music.army.mil is a thing, and lets stupid little Army Strong blog stories sit on its page. This is for recruiting and PR so keep that in mind. Apparently bands have a quota for DSLs on real-life 8s: http://armystrongstories.com/army-stories/Once-a-Student-Now-a-Soldier-at-the-US-Army-All-American-Bowl This band company was commanded by a crusty as gently caress, 40-year careered CW5: http://www.army.mil/article/138781/First_Team_welcomes_new_band_commander/ Keep in mind a CW5 with 40 years TIS makes $9,315.10 a month http://www.militaryrates.com/military-pay-charts-w1_w5_2014 Pretty good loving pay for being a musician & paper pusher.
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Has anyone had Amazon Prime while stationed overseas? I couldn't find too much information on it for APO addresses and how the shipping benefits would apply to me. Obviously I won't get 2 day shipping but if I could get free shipping on every order instead of paying $16 on top of a $23 order that'd be snazzy.
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Jan 4, 2015 10:11
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Just place orders over $25?.... Are you trying to place 5 orders on items worth like $3?
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It's $35 now. It'd be nice to be able to order stuff without having to wait until I have >$35 of stuff I need to get.
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Jan 4, 2015 10:27
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Yeah I'm almost positive it'll work that way with prime
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If you have prime, you have free standard shipping, just like I do in Hawaii. Here's the help page explaining it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201118050Amazon posted:FREE Standard Shipping...APO/FPO addresses with U.S. ZIP codes.
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Awesome, thanks.
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The segment of the journey from warehouse to your grubby overseas palms covered by Amazon Prime is relatively short. So, the 2 day shipping might get the box on the last plane/boat/whatever of the day departing from the APO facility on the East/West coast but most of the time it won't matter. Once UPS/USPS/whatever hands it off to the military APO facility, your shipping method is complete and the package is traveling with uncle sam now. I used it in Afghanistan. Some deliveries were disturbingly quick, >1 week; others took the average 14-28 days. A lot of guys had the problem with packages from home disappearing completely but that only happened to me once, and never with Amazon.
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terrez posted:Has anyone had Amazon Prime while stationed overseas? I couldn't find too much information on it for APO addresses and how the shipping benefits would apply to me. Obviously I won't get 2 day shipping but if I could get free shipping on every order instead of paying $16 on top of a $23 order that'd be snazzy. Amazon prime works fine to APO addresses. I've used it to order many $5-$10 items with around a 10 day shipping time.
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