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NTT posted:Do I still need to tell someone in my unit I have a name on a lease for type 2 or is that automated and everyone gets it without much fuss? Ask your admin people, but it should still be automatic.
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White Chocolate posted:Also we are (lol) scheduled for a 33 day JRTC rotation, the second one of two back to back rotations. I don't think that they will keep the days with NYC BAH for most of my Soldiers, but I could be wrong. What are the chances of them cutting it down to 21 days? Likely? Unlikely? This is after the first change in dates to support the mission. With only 60 pax, the BAH alone would be over $200k
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A double edged sword: Nobody stays because if we're here for a minute longer than we're supposed to be the unit goes bankrupt, also you will not be getting paid mad stacks just for being here
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HHC at OCS is weirdly chill, candidates ordering pizza and going out to subway and using their phones yet I have a sense of impending doom for when we class up. On second thought those are really normal things to do on a Saturday. Sand Hill has warped my mind.
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TMustang posted:HHC at OCS is weirdly chill, candidates ordering pizza and going out to subway and using their phones yet I have a sense of impending doom for when we class up. the first week is serious also land nav is a mofo where half the class fails out. Other than that it is not so difficult if you have your poo poo together.
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Mustang posted:HHC at OCS is weirdly chill, candidates ordering pizza and going out to subway and using their phones yet I have a sense of impending doom for when we class up. Do those poor souls at RASP hold still have to sprint to the OCS dfac five minutes before closing on weekends when the cadre just peace the gently caress out and the barracks are complete anarchy being ran by the single E5 candidate who was unaware that every dfac within the footprint were closed, and hold was on lockdown? You'll notice them by their shaved heads and two quart man-purse. Those cooks must have been pissed but the OCS dfac is pretty fancy for a dfac.
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Justin Tyme posted:Do those poor souls at RASP hold still have to sprint to the OCS dfac five minutes before closing on weekends when the cadre just peace the gently caress out and the barracks are complete anarchy being ran by the single E5 candidate who was unaware that every dfac within the footprint were closed, and hold was on lockdown? I believe they go to the new airborne dfac now, as that would line up with the story someone told me the same description when he went through jump school
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Mar 29, 2015 09:18
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The best part of being stationed on Ft Benning was eating at the subway and watching the RASP/Airborne school guys run around in silly helmets and canteens while I drank my extra large soda.
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Apparently the company I'll be in is in the barracks by the airborn guys and uses the airborn dfac which is supposedly better than the OCS dfac. Older barracks but closer to building 4 which is where I think most of the classes will be.
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Back when BOLC II existed our barracks were right next to the OCS ones. There were two OCS DFACs- a regular one and a fancier one with better food candidates got to use for the last week or two of school. We kept crashing the nice one since ours was sort of poo poo.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Back when BOLC II existed our barracks were right next to the OCS ones. There were two OCS DFACs- a regular one and a fancier one with better food candidates got to use for the last week or two of school. We kept crashing the nice one since our was sort of poo poo. Hahahaha BOLC II...we did the same thing. The OCS DFAC was probably the nicest one in the immediate area, though as with anything in BOLC II it wasn't hard for literally anywhere else to be better than them at any given thing.
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BOLC II cadre and some ROTC units seemed to be the place terminal captains were sent to die. Guys who had a deployment in, didn't want to go to six months of career course, and were looking forward to the good life civilian side.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:BOLC II cadre and some ROTC units seemed to be the place terminal captains were sent to die. Guys who had a deployment in, didn't want to go to six months of career course, and were looking forward to the good life civilian side. We had a hard charger that was only at Benning to get to various schools, and a terminally burned out set of NCOs working under him. He loved to yell at us for being unable to do proper pushups, but that shut down right quick when he got sent home from ranger school for failing pushups on the PT test 
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Mar 29, 2015 15:22
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Whoever loving thought 120 fresh commissionees straight out of college with a new officer's paycheck in a single dorm was a good idea was
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Every cadre officer at BOLC II was broke, and every NCO was just about to retire or get medically separated. The Army wasted a lot of my time, but BOLC II was impressively pointless.
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iKon posted:Every cadre officer at BOLC II was broke, and every NCO was just about to retire or get medically separated. The Army wasted a lot of my time, but BOLC II was impressively pointless. It was so impressively pointless that the army actually canned the entire program. That's amazing in and of itself.
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I want to see a sea of shining mustangs and chargers everywhere I look in a training environment
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One LT in my class had a Challenger and another had a used BMW. I was still driving my beater from college.
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Icon Of Sin posted:It was so impressively pointless that the army actually canned the entire program. That's amazing in and of itself. The logic is off, here. It was pointless but they couldn't justify a decade of studies and reevaluations into its effectiveness because you can't spread the manufacturing of parts for the BOLC II assembly line across multiple congressional districts.
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We had a Westpointer in my EBOLC class who was super proud of his 6 cylinder, automatic Camaro that he bought for MSRP.
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infantry officers go to infantry basic officer leadership course, or ibolc. had an LT who called it "i-ball-lick." hope this helps.
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Kneejerk response to lieutenants graduating signal and logistics schools with zero ability to personally perform, look for, or enforce things like "reading a map" and "cleaning weapons". After my BOLC iteration I learned the source of the problems originated much earlier in the pipeline in the recruiter's office
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Armor school taught me what happens when 100+ guys run out of nicotine on day five of a twelve day FTX. Other highlights include: a Lebanese exchange officer shoving a Big Mac in my hand like it was drugs and telling me to eat before the cadre saw, volunteering for 2 AM nights shifts to smoke cigars and listen to Stevie Wonder so I could have some time to myself, and watching tanks break in every conceivable way. I think we had three complete engine replacements total during the exercise along with all the various track and suspension issues.
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Regarding the OP and excessive requirements: Last year at this time we had annual training for some reason or other. During the exercise, all of the NCOs and officers had to go to a talk given by LTG Talley, Chief of the Army Reserve. During this talk he straight-up told us that it is completely impossible for Reserve and NG units to actually complete all training requirements in a year. There simply are not enough drill and AT days.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Armor school taught me what happens when 100+ guys run out of nicotine on day five of a twelve day FTX. Other highlights include: a Lebanese exchange officer shoving a Big Mac in my hand like it was drugs and telling me to eat before the cadre saw, volunteering for 2 AM nights shifts to smoke cigars and listen to Stevie Wonder so I could have some time to myself, and watching tanks break in every conceivable way. I think we had three complete engine replacements total during the exercise along with all the various track and suspension issues. on a long enough timeline, everyone will suck a dick for a cigarette.
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Kiryen posted:Regarding the OP and excessive requirements: That is truth right there. And there is no money to fix it either, is there.
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Cole posted:on a long enough timeline, everyone will suck a dick for a cigarette. what if you dont smoke? (cigs or dicks)
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:what if you dont smoke? (cigs or dicks) non smokers get smoked when the smokes run out
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This is why I always bring sunflower seeds on a field OP. Always.
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Engineer BOLC was super gay and couldn't decide if it wanted to be a gentleman's course teaching civil engineering, construction project management, route clearance, obstacle integration, and mobility/countermobility/survivability planning (you know, the things that engineers actually do while deployed), or a gay as gently caress combat arms course with hooah poo poo like rucking the sapper course that's basically useless in the real world. e: Oh wait, the post OEF/OIF world is stupid poo poo like going on ruck marches so I guess my post is invalid in TYOOL 2015. psydude fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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psydude posted:Oh wait, the post OEF/OIF world is stupid poo poo like going on ruck marches so I guess my post is invalid in TYOOL 2015. Insha'Allah
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Hail Satan.
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Has is ever not been? Every IBOLC LT is supposed to get a shot at ranger school. Meanwhile QMBOLC we started with 6 slots and ended with 2, oops sorry no reservists/guard...jk lolscravius posted:Is IBOLC basically pre-ranger now?
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Active duty IBOLC students who don't desire to go to Ranger school have to give an in-person explanation to the IBLOC commander why.
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As annoying as it was to be an artillery officer in an infantry unit, I felt way worse for the tab-less infantry guys. They received hourly "lol why are you here shitbag" reminders from all sources, E2 to O5. D co was of course the hugbox for the tab-less folks, same as the fat junior NCOs and unpopular senior NCOs hated by all, but totally un-fireable in the light infantry days of the late 00's. We had an armorer try to eat his way out of a deployment but he worked too hard at his job to really commit to getting chaptered.
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Zeris posted:As annoying as it was to be an artillery officer in an infantry unit, I felt way worse for the tab-less infantry guys. They received hourly "lol why are you here shitbag" reminders from all sources, E2 to O5. D co was of course the hugbox for the tab-less folks, same as the fat junior NCOs and unpopular senior NCOs hated by all, but totally un-fireable in the light infantry days of the late 00's. We had an armorer try to eat his way out of a deployment but he worked too hard at his job to really commit to getting chaptered. Truer words have never been spoken about a D co in light infantry
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Pesticide20 posted:Truer words have never been spoken about a D co in light infantry The crappy part is the D co mission in LI requires some brains, and a lot of the joes there had that (relatively speaking), but words like "this makes more sense let's do it this way" induced vessel-bursting rage in our CO who heard it all as "FAT FAT LAZY BAD SOLDIER RANGER WASHOUT FAT ACTUALLY DOES LEG DAY AT THE GYM FAT" edit- I was in a task-organized rifle company that swapped one platoon with D co edit 2- that D co commander later got an OTH or general for getting ratted out / not being popular whileallowing detainee abuse Zeris fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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What are the specialty roles for companies in LI? I spent my life in a CAB, so doctrinally it was A&B running screens in brads/humvees and C&D running heavy with tanks.
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