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Wasabi the J posted:No joke, I'm going go full hooah here and say the SSD courses would be so loving good if they were actual classroom instruction and actually replaced the modules they encompass instead of having to double up on certs. The DoD is moving away from death by PowerPoint. Unfortunately, they're moving into the interactive training / articulate storyline system. Think DoD IA training. Which is amusingly considerably more expensive to produce because you need an IPSS specialist to translate the material into an interactive format. The Army is also dicking around with alternative training videos, like the new TBI training.
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Vasudus posted:The DoD is moving away from death by PowerPoint. Unfortunately, they're moving into the interactive training / articulate storyline system. Think DoD IA training. Which is amusingly considerably more expensive to produce because you need an IPSS specialist to translate the material into an interactive format. But it's not addressing training redundancies: the SSD courses have literally everything you need in the other classes presented as one big block.
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Only the Army would have a mutually exclusive set of checkboxes for 'SHARP training' and 'SHARP training you're going to get because your buddy hosed up' BTW I'm in the army, and gay because of it
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Is any of that online training actually good and/or useful? Everything I've taken so far is common sense crap I could have answered had they just given me a test instead of making me sit through a bunch of surprisingly long online classes. The Traffic Safety one seemed like it would never end.
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Jul 23, 2015 03:06
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Mustang posted:Is any of that online training actually good and/or useful? Everything I've taken so far is common sense crap I could have answered had they just given me a test instead of making me sit through a bunch of surprisingly long online classes. The Traffic Safety one seemed like it would never end. Accident Avoidance is the worst
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Jul 23, 2015 05:35
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NTT posted:DOD Cyber Awareness Challenge is the worst The gently caress is wrong with you
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https://dema.az.gov/dema/news/arizona-national-guard-prepares-arm-service-members-self-defense So many people are going to have firearms accidents. And so many other people are going to commit suicide due to the eight days of firearms training that will be split over four drills for the next six months. Holy poo poo this is a bad idea. I think it was an AZNG O3 that was quoted as saying "I wouldn't trust half of the soldiers in the national guard with even a nerf gun, much less a real one."
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Geirskogul posted:https://dema.az.gov/dema/news/arizona-national-guard-prepares-arm-service-members-self-defense 99% of the people I don't trust around firearms are in the military.
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Jul 23, 2015 06:05
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Do they still make people do the pre-deployment online training thing where you're interrogated and slapped by insurgents?
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Jul 23, 2015 06:16
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Zeal for weapons is gonna get someone shot by people loving around with them instead of leaving them alone in the holster with the safety on, 100% of the time like they're supposed to be.
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Jul 23, 2015 06:21
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NTT posted:Zeal for weapons is gonna get someone shot by people loving around with them instead of leaving them alone in the holster with the safety on, 100% of the time like they're supposed to be. i unironically can't wait for this
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JSARSOM posted:Do they still make people do the pre-deployment online training thing where you're interrogated and slapped by insurgents? Yeah, SERE 100. I always blame the PV2 for causing the crash.
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Jul 23, 2015 06:28
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bro check out these sweet competition sights i got put on my knockup colt 9-11!!! *flags 1SG and 3 officers, overweight kitchen patrol sergeant gasps in horror*
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Jul 23, 2015 06:30
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NTT posted:overweight kitchen patrol sergeant Every unit has one of these, right? I just got back from that "deployment" a few days ago with an MPAD, and they had one. My home unit, an ASMC, also has one. They're everywhere.
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Jul 23, 2015 06:32
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wait they're letting az nasty girls carry their personal weapons or are they going to have to go to the armory every day to pull their weapon then get bitched out every day for it being dirty
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:wait they're letting az nasty girls carry their personal weapons or are they going to have to go to the armory every day to pull their weapon then get bitched out every day for it being dirty Yes.
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FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:99% of the people I don't trust around firearms are in the military. QTFT This is also true of most of the people you see open carrying. They just look 
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NTT posted:Zeal for weapons is gonna get someone shot by people loving around with them instead of leaving them alone in the holster with the safety on, 100% of the time like they're supposed to be. the recruiter in atlanta who shot himself did it after unloading the weapon to "show it to a recruit" then reloaded it and it fired when he was jamming it back down his pants. so basically peak army.
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Jul 23, 2015 07:43
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The only reason it hit the news was because atlanta's a big city, if it was one of the hundreds of smaller towns in GA that incident would have been paper pushed out of sight lol
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NTT posted:Accident Avoidance is the worst Pretty much all of the online training feels like it was made by these 3 girls in the national guard that routinely pop up in my Facebook feed posting about how they're hanging out with their besties at drill <3<3<3 and omg nobody was more of a hardass than Drill Sergeant Derris lol hooah team! FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:99% of the people I don't trust around firearms are in the military. When I was at BAF this cook in my battalion FSC ND'd her loving SAW in the Warrior DFAC. How the gently caress do you ND a SAW unless you're retarded enough to put the belt in the feed tray? Answer: you're retarded enough to put the belt in the feed tray. On a similar vein, I had an MP tell me that there were between 5-7 NDs per week on BAF, which at the time was roughly the size of Hood or Lewis. psydude fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Jul 23, 2015 14:24
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psydude posted:How the gently caress do you ND a SAW unless you're retarded enough to put the belt in the feed tray? Some people don't understand the difference between open and closed bolt, and find out the hard way when they try to ride the bolt forward.
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Jul 23, 2015 14:27
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NTT posted:SERE 100 is the worst I understand if you drank your memories of that shitfest out of your system
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:this was basically all army online training for me I did the slingshot one all the time as a kid using a steak knife and a wrist rocket. hosed up some aluminum siding pretty good
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Mike-o posted:I'll forego my usual "lol ur still in" and ask it genuinely. Why are any of you still in? We all know how gay the army is, I saw the writing on the wall in 2010 and got the gently caress out as soon as I could. I'm guessing most of you will respond with "I still have four more years to go" or something to that effect but is anyone staying in regardless if they still have a ton of time left? Because I hosed up and didn't listen to you guys while I was still in college.
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One of my AGR buddies killed himself last night. As we were sitting around this morning letting it soak in, one of my other buddies said, "So...I guess I should work on my briefing." He just gave the suicide briefing at drill this past weekend.
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Retardog posted:One of my AGR buddies killed himself last night. As we were sitting around this morning letting it soak in, one of my other buddies said, "So...I guess I should work on my briefing." He just gave the suicide briefing at drill this past weekend. Sorry dude. Please tell me you stomped the poo poo out of the guy who made that comment.
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No, it was just a bit of gallows humor during a situation we're all still trying to process. This guy was less than a year from retirement; he had his twenty year letter hanging in his office. He hadn't shown any of the signs we get drilled into us all the time. Nothing about him seemed out of the ordinary. Hell, one of his soldiers showed up this morning because the guy had asked him to come in today. It just loving sucks...
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Really sorry to hear that, man. Never gets any easier.
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Retardog posted:No, it was just a bit of gallows humor during a situation we're all still trying to process. This guy was less than a year from retirement; he had his twenty year letter hanging in his office. He hadn't shown any of the signs we get drilled into us all the time. Nothing about him seemed out of the ordinary. Hell, one of his soldiers showed up this morning because the guy had asked him to come in today. It just loving sucks... Jesus. I hope you're alright; what state are you guys in, out of morbid curiosity? I have an AGR that I know personally went through some brushes with suicide and recently gave a brief about it, now I'm worried about him.
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I've been telling every person that brings up the ARM ARE TROOPS poo poo how bad, how really, really bad an idea it is. It's going to be a flaming catastrophe wrapped in a clusterfuck covered with a tragedy and tied together by a poo poo-fest bow. People are still trying to tell me I'm wrong. I don't much like pulling the "I'm a vet, you have no idea" card but I've been doing it constantly on this issue and I'm still somehow wrong. Armed standing military in the general civilian population is such an unbelievably bad idea there are no words.
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SumYungGui posted:I've been telling every person that brings up the ARM ARE TROOPS poo poo how bad, how really, really bad an idea it is. It's going to be a flaming catastrophe wrapped in a clusterfuck covered with a tragedy and tied together by a poo poo-fest bow. People are still trying to tell me I'm wrong. I don't much like pulling the "I'm a vet, you have no idea" card but I've been doing it constantly on this issue and I'm still somehow wrong. Armed standing military in the general civilian population is such an unbelievably bad idea there are no words. Third Amendment implications might arise as well...
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A SGM in uniform in his mid 40s tried to hit on my mid-20s girlfriend at a lunch spot and got all creepy and pushy when she politely declined. Stay classy, Army.
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Wasabi the J posted:Jesus. I hope you're alright; what state are you guys in, out of morbid curiosity? I have an AGR that I know personally went through some brushes with suicide and recently gave a brief about it, now I'm worried about him. Kentucky. And yeah, I'll be okay. I feel bad for his wife and child, and the guys that served with him. The rest of us'll play some cornhole and drink a few beers in his honor. Retrowave Joe fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Retardog posted:Kentucky. Ah, ok, not who I was thinking, most likely. I'm very sorry for your loss.
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psydude posted:When I was at BAF this cook in my battalion FSC ND'd her loving SAW in the Warrior DFAC. How the gently caress do you ND a SAW unless you're retarded enough to put the belt in the feed tray? Answer: you're retarded enough to put the belt in the feed tray.  the saw is the easiest weapon to safe though....... i loving hate the army
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Whenever I had to play like i was a real soldier, in basic as well, and had to carry a loaded weapon I'd just bang a mag in and not chamber a round. Problem solved. The perfect solution to when the army is being more gay than normal, and there's no chance you are gonna have to shoot someone (or have blanks loaded).
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not caring here posted:Whenever I had to play like i was a real soldier, in basic as well, and had to carry a loaded weapon I'd just bang a mag in and not chamber a round. That was the standard procedure inside the FOBs in Afghanistan (barring an attack). For the SAW/240, though, you weren't supposed to put the belt in the feed tray.
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we had a nco trying to tell us to half-cock the saw so you could put the safety on great way to ruin a saw
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