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Aranan posted:But guys, you get free Healthcare while you're in!! US taxpayers covered my $100,000+ medical bills last year, and that was for a small bowel obstruction. I can't even imagine the healthcare costs for amputees and worse cases.
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iKon posted:My favorite middle of the night call was for my armorer, who cheated on his wife and ended up run the gently caress over by said wife. She ran his rear end down in the grocery store parking lot, broke both his legs, then hopped out and started crying about what she did. Last I saw they're still married. Duzzy Funlop posted:E7 takes his wife to Berlin for their anniversary, gets hammered, beats her, tries to drown her in the toilet of the 5-star hotel, leaves her for dead, drives home 3 hours, hits 3 separate cars in the last half hour, ditches his ride after the last hit, has a police chopper look for him, dead-reckons the last 10 miles home on foot, opts to go straight to a club and brag about his great day to his buddies, buddies try to talk sense into him, dude gets picked up by courtesy patrol. ah, young love
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May 28, 2015 22:51
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psydude posted:My buddy just PCS'd to Hood and was notified that he has an upcoming 30 day FTX, followed by an NTC rotation, followed by another 30 day FTX, followed by another NTC rotation, followed by two weeks of block leave, and then a 9 month deployment to Korea. 1) why are they sending units to korea for 9 months? is that the new thing since 2/9 is apparently getting the ax? 2) lol "deployment" to korea.
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May 28, 2015 22:55
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Cole posted:2) lol "deployment" to korea. Still more of a deployment than a deployment to Kuwait.
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May 28, 2015 22:59
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i think korea is more dangerous to the psych than a deployment to afghan or iraq, so yeah i guess i take back what i said
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May 28, 2015 23:08
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if you make it out of korea the same rank as you went in you were either lucky or lame
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May 28, 2015 23:26
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Cole posted:1) why are they sending units to korea for 9 months? is that the new thing since 2/9 is apparently getting the ax? This is the new "let's pretend we're not in garrison" thing. CONUS units rotating to Korea and Europe.
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May 29, 2015 00:12
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:This is the new "let's pretend we're not in garrison" thing. CONUS units rotating to Korea and Europe. all i'm reading here is "let's find stupid ways to spend money"
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May 29, 2015 00:21
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PCSing 4000 people from casey/hovey all at once has turned out to be a total clusterfuck, surprising no one
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May 29, 2015 00:48
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psydude posted:My buddy just PCS'd to Hood and was notified that he has an upcoming 30 day FTX, followed by an NTC rotation, followed by another 30 day FTX, followed by another NTC rotation, followed by two weeks of block leave, and then a 9 month deployment to Korea. Is this 1st Cav?
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May 29, 2015 00:58
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Kiryen posted:Is this 1st Cav? Yes.
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May 29, 2015 01:02
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psydude posted:Yes. Evidently they have not changed a bit since they were doing Bosnia rotations.
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May 29, 2015 01:15
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Vasudus posted:if you make it out of korea the same rank as you went in you were either lucky or lame Perfect examples being me and my former roommate. While I should by all rights be sitting in a Korean prison right now because of a night spent with some of their Recon Marines, he's an ultra-Mormon weaboo who spent 95% of the weekends playing Starcraft. ROK Marines are like wind-up toys fueled by alcohol, if you get swept up in their shenanigans while you're out then you're in for a loving wild ride.
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May 29, 2015 02:12
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Vasudus posted:if you make it out of korea the same rank as you went in you were either lucky or lame We were told "What's the easiest way to make E-5 when you're in Korea? Go as a E-6". We had an E-6 and an E-7 (the E-6s platoon sergeant) go out drinking on a saturday night. After they both got really drunk, the E-7 (who drove them both out to wherever they went in Seoul) apparently said gently caress it and left the E-6 drunk at the bar. Eventually, the E-6 tried to get back to base but fell asleep on the train or something and wound up missing curfew and getting arrested. The E-6 got demoted to E-4 and didn't give a gently caress about anything for the last 2 months of the rotation. The E-7 probably got a stern talking to or something about being a blue falcon, as he continued to be a platoon sergeant. I was 20 when I went and wasn't legally allowed to drink until there were only about 2 months left; my commander told me he didn't want me losing my stripes so quick despite the fact I had never been a discipline problem, so I wasn't allowed to drink in Korea even after I turned 21. No crazy shenanigans for me except one time me and my buddy almost got caught in the middle of some big anti-US beef rally. I liked Korea, neat place.
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May 29, 2015 03:27
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thetechnoloser posted:Honduras is awesome. AFN is awesome (I wear a polo and khakis to work every day). Doing afternoon radio is awesome. did you get wrangled into an old guard contract in bct
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May 29, 2015 03:56
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Please surrender whatever remains in your skull. You clearly no longer need it. It only took me 2 years to get everything I wanted out of the army, and I'm going to sell more years to live in Germany. Being only half retarded though, I'm not going to reenlist unless I get it. "Oh, just re-up, stay in Campbell a little longer, and then call branch", nah gently caress off.
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May 29, 2015 05:40
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Nimmy posted:It only took me 2 years to get everything I wanted out of the army, and I'm going to sell more years to live in Germany. Germany's OPFOR is pretty great apparently
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May 29, 2015 07:48
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Nimmy posted:It only took me 2 years to get everything I wanted out of the army, and I'm going to sell more years to live in Germany. I did the exact same thing and regretted it immensely. I wanted to travel, instead 3-158 AHB decided that we would spend 8 out of 12 of the months in various fields like JMRC or multinational training in Latvia or Lithuania. I've been here for two years now, and have probably enjoyed three months of my time here. Most of my time has been either in JMRC or Poland/Latvia sleeping on a cot, and I am an intel weenie with an aviation unit wtf.
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May 29, 2015 13:43
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I feel like I missed out on a good deal of classic army stupidity by not deploying to Korea. Of course, this brigade is supposed to rotate through in 2019, but God help me if I'm still in the Army then.
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May 29, 2015 14:20
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psydude posted:I feel like I missed out on a good deal of classic army stupidity by not deploying to Korea. My ETS date goes through then, but I'm NG not reserves.
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May 29, 2015 14:22
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LeoMarr posted:did you get wrangled into an old guard contract in bct LOL, I've been out of BCT quite a while. I got voluntold after a reclass. I'm PAO, not 11B.
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May 29, 2015 14:48
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Knocked out the OCS history exam, it was pretty easy, can't believe its one of the parts of OCS that causes some of the most recycles. Pretty much just outpressing poo poo left to do before commissioning. Word is I'll find out my unit sometime in the next 2 weeks.
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May 29, 2015 17:51
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Mustang posted:Knocked out the OCS history exam, it was pretty easy, can't believe its one of the parts of OCS that causes some of the most recycles. this is where you get sent to a tradoc environment and tell us it isn't that bad right
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May 29, 2015 17:56
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LeoMarr posted:this is where you get sent to a tradoc environment and tell us it isn't that bad right Between the snowbirding and the length of Armor school he won't be leaving Benning until almost a year from now.
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May 29, 2015 17:59
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I'm already stuck at Benning for ABOLC, it will be depressing if I get sent down the street to 3rd ID.
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May 29, 2015 17:59
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Mustang posted:I'm already stuck at Benning for ABOLC, it will be depressing if I get sent down the street to 3rd ID. NAh you'll get 2-54 or 2-45 and really want to kill yourself. Or you'll be a 30th AG XO and learn nothing but how to be a Tradoc CO.
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May 29, 2015 18:27
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lol if he gets stuck at 2-54 or 30th AG
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May 29, 2015 18:40
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Nimmy posted:It only took me 2 years to get everything I wanted out of the army, and I'm going to sell more years to live in Germany. lmao just because you get the duty station you want doesn't mean the army won't drill your rear end in a top hat so hard with the green wienie that the worst hemorrhoid imaginable would seem like paradise seriously what the gently caress is wrong with you
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May 29, 2015 20:27
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lol peacetime Army
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May 29, 2015 20:30
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i once heard that you don't actually have to be in the military to live in a foreign country i also heard that being in a foreign country because you are in the military is the worst loving way ever to experience a foreign country can anyone confirm or deny any of these?
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Confirm: I was born in Germany and can hardly remember a goddam thing about it other than being at a Halloween party once and these other kids had cool toy trucks to play with and I didn't and never did. What a load of crap.
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May 29, 2015 20:34
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Cole posted:i also heard that being in
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May 29, 2015 20:54
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I've been to Korea in the military and as a civilian. Did you know civilians don't have curfews? And no off limits areas? Also, koreans don't loving loathe you. Tourist Korea best Korea.
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psydude posted:I feel like I missed out on a good deal of classic army stupidity by not deploying to Korea. Wait you are in my guess is a reserve signal brigade that is supposed to rotate through korea? I didn't know that Reserve units did that. Sounds terrible.
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White Chocolate posted:Wait you are in my guess is a reserve signal brigade that is supposed to rotate through korea? I didn't know that Reserve units did that. Sounds terrible. drawdown 
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May 30, 2015 06:27
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Cole posted:i once heard that you don't actually have to be in the military to live in a foreign country I know you're right, but the odds of me moving to Germany without language skills as a civilian is virtually zero. Being the stupid gaylord that I am, I think that I can go there, learn the language, and stick around the country after ETS.
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May 30, 2015 08:28
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Nimmy posted:I know you're right, but the odds of me moving to Germany without language skills as a civilian is virtually zero. Being the stupid gaylord that I am, I think that I can go there, learn the language, and stick around the country after ETS. Rosetta Stone sucks less dick than an enlistment.
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Wasabi the J posted:Rosetta Stone sucks less dick than an enlistment. Sucking dick sucks less dick than an enlistment.
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White Chocolate posted:Wait you are in my guess is a reserve signal brigade that is supposed to rotate through korea? I didn't know that Reserve units did that. Sounds terrible. When you hear the term "operational reserve" this is what they're referring to - treating the Reserves like they're available for deployment just like Active Duty, only less frequently.
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Nimmy posted:I know you're right, but the odds of me moving to Germany without language skills as a civilian is virtually zero. Being the stupid gaylord that I am, I think that I can go there, learn the language, and stick around the country after ETS. Do you know what unit you're headed to yet? If not, what's your MOS? They've closed a lot of the better duty stations and housing here has some pretty stupid rules that could force you to live on post regardless of your rank. I assume you're a single SSG or below, so prepare to live in the barracks. Europe has been kind to me. Not so much for Ptolemaeus, apparently.
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