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Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit
This Valentine's day, show your dependa just how much you care

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Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

red19fire posted:

Seriously dudes. Buddy of mine died of pneumonia over christmas like 2 hours from me because he was borderline homeless.

I cannot imagine how that must feel.

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
Dropped by quarter sales and netted myself a new pair of Danner RAT boots for 38 bucks. :woop:

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

Shif posted:

Dropped by quarter sales and netted myself a new pair of Danner RAT boots for 38 bucks. :woop:

shut the gently caress up boot, go police call the parking lot

elite_garbage_man
Apr 3, 2010
I THINK THAT "PRIMA DONNA" IS "PRE-MADONNA". I MAY BE ILLITERATE.
wear them on libo while you get filmed for activeduty.com scenes

new friend from school
May 19, 2008

by Azathoth

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

shut the gently caress up boot, go police call the parking lot

Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

elite_garbage_man posted:

wear them on libo while you get filmed for activeduty.com scenes

And now I know that this is a real website...Wikipedia says some poo poo about secretly filming straight marines in 29 palms for a video called My Straight Buddy.

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

And now I know that this is a real website...Wikipedia says some poo poo about secretly filming straight marines in 29 palms for a video called My Straight Buddy.

"secretly"

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
More knowledge for you, Gunny. Rah?


quote:

Two military buddies show up at Bobby's doorstep after hearing that he has some hot lesbian porn. Bobby keeps the beer flowing and neither guy objects when Bobby suggests they get naked. Before long, they're too turned on to overthink things when Bobby suggests they give each other blowjobs. Only one of them is willing, but that's all it takes! After he sucks his buddy's dick, they both jerk off with their legs touching!

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES


"Straight"

Shif
Aug 12, 2013

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

shut the gently caress up boot, go police call the parking lot



Now what?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Shif posted:



Now what?

You know Gunny doesn't like a wet deck.

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
Field night last week, half of the shitler rear end lance's don't even know how to loving strip a deck.

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

That's because it's the loving PFC's job

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
No junior is safe.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

lol you have to field day

my roommate and I just make the pfc clean our bathroom once a week

the dad farm
Dec 6, 2005

the real tragedy is whatever hosed up choices you made that led you to be in the USMC

elite_garbage_man
Apr 3, 2010
I THINK THAT "PRIMA DONNA" IS "PRE-MADONNA". I MAY BE ILLITERATE.
Welcome 2 war

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

You know Gunny doesn't like a wet deck.

thats not what i heard :heysexy:

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
Going to EAS before the new year, any advice? Still have to attend TRS but I want to hear an honest answer.

USMC503
Jan 15, 2012

For satisfactory performance while under the effects of hostile enemy alcohol.

Shif posted:

Going to EAS before the new year, any advice? Still have to attend TRS but I want to hear an honest answer.

Start your disability claim asap. Make sure you go to medical and they make records of everything you think is wrong with you. The VA will deny you if there is no paper on issues from when you were in.

If you're interested, see if they're offering any free money to go into the reserves for a year or two. Right after I got out, I know they were offering cash money for corporals to extend for a year. Idk if they're still doing that or if they'd do it for an active to reserve nco/snco, but it can't hurt to check if you're interested.

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
I was thinking about the Reserves, do you need stay clean? Also is there a chance to return active if fuckshit happens?

USMC503
Jan 15, 2012

For satisfactory performance while under the effects of hostile enemy alcohol.

Shif posted:

I was thinking about the Reserves, do you need stay clean? Also is there a chance to return active if fuckshit happens?

Staying clean really depends. You'll have to see when you get there. I got piss tested like once my first four years in. When I got back from deployment though, we had an admin fgt who could piss test so we started doing it all the drat time. Like, they didn't do the whole company, but they would do a random selection seemingly every drill.

As far as returning to active if poo poo goes craycray, you might get activated, but activations are usually like 400 days or some poo poo. It won't be permanent active duty. You'd actually be more likely to get called up to full time active duty from the IRR if that happened.

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
Yeah last year I went TAD for reasons and was talking with a couple activated marines. They really didn't have to do poo poo but drill and they get loving paid. Reserve + active duty + some weird activation pay, ended up being about 2 and a half months active pay in 2 weeks. The hell?

Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

Shif posted:

Going to EAS before the new year, any advice? Still have to attend TRS but I want to hear an honest answer.

Are you thinking about staying in? We are moving to peacetime Marine Corps and are in the middle of a drawdown so first term marines have to compete for boat spaces just to be afforded the privilege of trying to stay in.

If you did four years you are probably a Corporal or maybe a Sergeant if you are in a fast promoting MOS. If you stay in, your career will probably look something like this:

Years 4-8: Get poo poo all over by lovely SNCOs who got promoted during the surge when anyone with a pulse who wanted to stay in could. Hope you pin on a rocker so you don't have to deal with service limitations.

Years 8-12: Welcome to the SNCO world. As a SSgt you can look forward to being put on every poo poo duty that exists and given every lovely extra duty your Gunnies don't want to gently caress with. Things might start to suck a little less here but you are really just a bitch to everyone senior to you.

Years 12-16: You might actually pick up Gunny here. Gunny is a good rank because you finally have SSgts to take all that dumb extra duties that Lts and boot SNCOs get stuck with. You can kind of stop giving a gently caress because retiring as an E-7 is pretty respectable and people actually listen when you say poo poo like "In my experience".

Years 16-20: If you are lucky and in an MOS that actually promotes to MSgt, you might see E-8 (Unless you try to go the 1stSgt route of which I know nothing about other than they do NJPs and hold formations and no one likes them because they only do admin poo poo no one cares about). If you make it this far, you have arrived because no one fucks with MSgts. You can stop doing PFTs and make the S-3 run your old ones because you are never going to see Master Guns. Fitreps don't matter because you are cleared up until retirement. You are probably on your 2nd or 3rd marriage by now and alimony and child support eat up a fair bit of your checks. You can also look forward to splitting your retirement with your first wife who stuck around just long enough to cash in on that poo poo before she split town with another Marine she was loving around with while you were deployed.



So in 20 years, you might have 8 that aren't miserable. I stuck around but I was an idiot and just had a kid and was afraid of the real world. Once I got in so deep, it didn't make sense to stop without a retirement check.

Shif
Aug 12, 2013
loving hell that is absurdly accurate. I do happen to be a 3-year Sergeant but I've worked my rear end off to get here because I'm simply fuckoff competitive. Although a 20-year retirement check is appealing, I'm not sure I want to put up the potential bullshit anymore; gently caress duty/idiot marines. I guess I could look into the reserves, if not I'll just pop that fat Post 9/11 Bill and get learned.

Also wasn't there some looming poo poo in Congress about removing the 20-year benefits? If that falls through what happens?

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Nostalgia4Ass posted:

Are you thinking about staying in? We are moving to peacetime Marine Corps and are in the middle of a drawdown so first term marines have to compete for boat spaces just to be afforded the privilege of trying to stay in.

If you did four years you are probably a Corporal or maybe a Sergeant if you are in a fast promoting MOS. If you stay in, your career will probably look something like this:

Years 4-8: Get poo poo all over by lovely SNCOs who got promoted during the surge when anyone with a pulse who wanted to stay in could. Hope you pin on a rocker so you don't have to deal with service limitations.

Years 8-12: Welcome to the SNCO world. As a SSgt you can look forward to being put on every poo poo duty that exists and given every lovely extra duty your Gunnies don't want to gently caress with. Things might start to suck a little less here but you are really just a bitch to everyone senior to you.

Years 12-16: You might actually pick up Gunny here. Gunny is a good rank because you finally have SSgts to take all that dumb extra duties that Lts and boot SNCOs get stuck with. You can kind of stop giving a gently caress because retiring as an E-7 is pretty respectable and people actually listen when you say poo poo like "In my experience".

Years 16-20: If you are lucky and in an MOS that actually promotes to MSgt, you might see E-8 (Unless you try to go the 1stSgt route of which I know nothing about other than they do NJPs and hold formations and no one likes them because they only do admin poo poo no one cares about). If you make it this far, you have arrived because no one fucks with MSgts. You can stop doing PFTs and make the S-3 run your old ones because you are never going to see Master Guns. Fitreps don't matter because you are cleared up until retirement. You are probably on your 2nd or 3rd marriage by now and alimony and child support eat up a fair bit of your checks. You can also look forward to splitting your retirement with your first wife who stuck around just long enough to cash in on that poo poo before she split town with another Marine she was loving around with while you were deployed.



So in 20 years, you might have 8 that aren't miserable. I stuck around but I was an idiot and just had a kid and was afraid of the real world. Once I got in so deep, it didn't make sense to stop without a retirement check.

:911:

USMC503
Jan 15, 2012

For satisfactory performance while under the effects of hostile enemy alcohol.

Shif posted:

loving hell that is absurdly accurate. I do happen to be a 3-year Sergeant but I've worked my rear end off to get here because I'm simply fuckoff competitive. Although a 20-year retirement check is appealing, I'm not sure I want to put up the potential bullshit anymore; gently caress duty/idiot marines. I guess I could look into the reserves, if not I'll just pop that fat Post 9/11 Bill and get learned.

Also wasn't there some looming poo poo in Congress about removing the 20-year benefits? If that falls through what happens?

What was your MOS? Hard charging reservists usually have a boner for guys who come from active duty. You'll instantly have respect, people will assume you're a good Marine, and unless you prove otherwise, your equals and higher ups will probably give you a high level billet in your platoon and your skates will be beyond reproach.

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

USMC503 posted:

What was your MOS? Hard charging reservists usually have a boner for guys who come from active duty. You'll instantly have respect, people will assume you're a good Marine, and unless you prove otherwise, your equals and higher ups will probably give you a high level billet in your platoon and your skates will be beyond reproach.

3 year sgt means hes some pog shitlord

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

My MOS just now dipped below some of the 03s for corporal for the first time in a couple of years, so #notallpogs are 3-year sergeants

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009
gently caress all ncos and above anyway

TheArmorOfContempt
Nov 29, 2012

Did I ever tell you my favorite color was blue?
Attempted to submit a package for Return to Active Duty Officers, turns out myself and like five others didn't read the fine print about how if you were passed for career designation then you aren't eligible for this board. Guess this highlights why I was passed over to begin with, attention to detail devil dawg...

red19fire
May 26, 2010

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

3 year sgt means hes some pog shitlord

gently caress yeah, Motor T for life. e-5 in 3-3/4 year, EAS'd like a month later. Eat the apple, gently caress the Corps, y'all.

Nah motor t is the worst.

Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

Shif posted:

Also wasn't there some looming poo poo in Congress about removing the 20-year benefits? If that falls through what happens?

It'd be political suicide to even mention changing retirement benefits for those already in. You might be able to squeeze a new plan through that changed benefits for future generations. When I first came in all the SNCOs had different retirement plans than we do now. It used to be that you retired at whatever the highest rank you held was. It changed to the average of your highest three paid years. This saved some money because a lot of guys would pin on E-8 and only do the mandatory 2 extra years.

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

It'd be political suicide to even mention changing retirement benefits for those already in. You might be able to squeeze a new plan through that changed benefits for future generations. When I first came in all the SNCOs had different retirement plans than we do now. It used to be that you retired at whatever the highest rank you held was. It changed to the average of your highest three paid years. This saved some money because a lot of guys would pin on E-8 and only do the mandatory 2 extra years.

Retirment changed in the mid 80s to high 3. loving geezer..

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

the dad farm
Dec 6, 2005

times its acceptable to be in motor t:

-you are black

-you are a fat white girl


thats about all i got guys

Victor Vermis
Dec 21, 2004


WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN


LOL

Kanish
Jun 17, 2004

the dad farm posted:

times its acceptable to be in motor t:

-you are black

-you are a fat white girl


thats about all i got guys

-from Alabama

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BITCHTITS
Oct 22, 2003

Perry'd


why is this on the second page?? loving POGS

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