|
Almost every senior NCO I've met in the military would be laughed out of any actual professional setting in the real world.
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 18:18
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 00:21 |
|
|
Fortune 500 companies will totally respect that I've been to SLC and Sergeants Major Course, I'll just show them my DD214 and collect $12039211291 a year //ends up working as a GS5 at CIF, kicks your unused poo poo back
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 18:22
|
|
|
lot of former senior NCOs, to include a few CSMs guarding gates at Benning.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 20:42
|
|
|
Kiryen posted:This is why you never play that card until the absolute last second. Tell them you want to re-enlist for some weird-rear end MOS you have no chance of getting, and then if it does look like they're going to arrange it, change your mind. 88U is my go-to
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 20:46
|
|
|
MightyJoe36 posted:Never got this. They send E8/E9s to a year-long school to be CSMs, then all they do is check police call and tell people to keep off the grass/get a haircut. I've met three SGMs that weren't complete idiots and actually contributed to planning beyond what the uniform was going to be.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 21:35
|
|
|
not caring here posted:lot of former senior NCOs, to include a few CSMs guarding gates at Benning. The cleaning lady at my office is a retired E-8
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 23:25
|
|
|
Booblord Zagats posted:The cleaning lady at my office is a retired E-8 
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2015 23:46
|
|
|
Booblord Zagats posted:The cleaning lady at my office is a retired E-8 Haahahahahahaha.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 05:09
|
|
|
Booblord Zagats posted:The cleaning lady at my office is a retired E-8 im dyin
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 05:26
|
|
|
I hope you stand at parade rest for her
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 06:09
|
|
|
Booblord Zagats posted:The cleaning lady at my office is a retired E-8 feels good man
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 06:28
|
|
|
i would demand the cleaning lady to be at the office at 530am to empty the trash before pt because there is a can in it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 06:30
|
|
|
Counsel her on failing to clean to standards and how her lack of attention to detail is crippling the warfighting effort, jeapordizing the mission and safety of ARE TROOPS
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 10:18
|
|
|
On the one hand, it makes me kinda sad that they invested that amount of time to have so little to show for it when they hit their expiration date, and probably sacrificed good relationships along the way. On the other hand, poor computer literacy, a bullshit degree from a bullshit institution, a maybe high school level of articulation, dictatorial micromanagement, utterly absent personal boundaries, poor prioritization of and obsessing over meaningless cherry-picked metrics for ill-defined goals, a penchant for wasting resources and man-hours, and being unable to describe in concrete terms your meaningful contribution to the organization, aren't highly sought after qualities outside of the army bubble, and I'm glad these people exist so I can point them out to potential career enlisted. Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Oct 4, 2015 |
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 10:38
|
|
|
Suntan Boy posted:On the one hand, it makes me kinda sad that they invested that amount of time to have so little to show for it when they hit their expiration date, and probably sacrificed good relationships along the way. This is a good post.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 13:44
|
|
|
Suntan Boy posted:On the one hand, it makes me kinda sad that they invested that amount of time to have so little to show for it when they hit their expiration date, and probably sacrificed good relationships along the way.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 17:22
|
|
|
Suntan Boy posted:On the one hand, it makes me kinda sad that they invested that amount of time to have so little to show for it when they hit their expiration date, and probably sacrificed good relationships along the way.  Jus' gonna quote this in the "Ask About Joining" thread.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 17:33
|
|
|
sky shark posted:Counsel her on failing to clean to standards and how her lack of attention to detail is crippling the warfighting effort, jeapordizing the mission and safety of ARE TROOPS Nah, I let my brother do that poo poo, because she's not that good of a cleaning lady. She was bitching to me (thinking that hey, I'm his brother, I can talk to him) about her only making $9.50 an hour and I tried to explain how a janitor for a 1100 sqft office should probably be happy making more than minimum wage. When she complained to him, he walked her through the building pointing out every shoe print on the tile and every smudge on the windows, then asked her how the hell he was paying her more than minimum. Seriously, everyone in my office with exception for our receptionists are former military. Most got out at O-4 and the only time the rest of us talk about the military is to bitch about how stupid it was, but she keeps telling us how exciting running Humvee/HEMTT convoys from Irwin to Hood was like the rest of us would give a poo poo.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 17:47
|
|
|
I work with a few veterans, but we rarely ever talk about the military. Although they typically assign at least one of us to work with DoD customers because we know how to manage the personality types (re: terrible assholes). Which gets old, but oh well.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 19:08
|
|
|
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/10/army-unveils-pink-camo-for-breast-cancer-awareness/
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 20:43
|
|
|
not caring here posted:lot of former senior NCOs, to include a few CSMs guarding gates at Benning. Confirmed for Bragg as well.
|
|
#
?
Oct 4, 2015 23:21
|
|
|
Triggs posted:Has anybody been to JRTC recently? I got tagged to be an OC/T and I'm fully expecting it to suck. Just got back but I was in fob forge. It does suck.
|
|
#
?
Oct 5, 2015 03:27
|
|
|
How often do units go to JRTC or NTC? The brigade I'm going to just got back from NTC recently.
|
|
#
?
Oct 5, 2015 22:40
|
|
|
Mustang posted:How often do units go to JRTC or NTC? The brigade I'm going to just got back from NTC recently. I went twice in four years up at Wainwright. Once before a deployment as an entire brigade, and another time to pretend to be Iraqi Army as a battalion.
|
|
#
?
Oct 5, 2015 23:27
|
|
|
Obstacle2 posted:another time to pretend to be Iraqi Army as a battalion. Did you have to stay below a time limit for how fast you could evacuate your vehicle?
|
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2015 10:25
|
|
|
Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 01:35
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long I have seen 30 plus pages for a grass cutting detail.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 01:37
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long Welcome to Tactics Phase, or why I was drunk for three months straight. Say goodbye to your weekends.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 01:39
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long It's been amusing watching the horror slowly dawn on you.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 01:46
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 01:47
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long Nobody uses OPORDs below the battalion level. You'll either use a CONOP or just tell your NCOs what the mission is. Also, nobody who isn't an idiot plans a mission by themselves. Bring in your NCOs and let them plan that poo poo with your input.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 02:09
|
|
|
Armor school OPORDs are the definition of full retard.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 02:14
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 03:25
|
|
|
Mustang posted:Please tell me platoon OPORDs aren't normally 16 pages long Thanks 4 ur service! :usa:
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 03:39
|
|
|
Hopefully this is the right thread to ask a general question in, but I have an acquaintance who's an Army NCO and today he posted on Facebook that he'd been notified earlier this year that he was one of several NCOs who were under consideration for denial of continued service thing under the QMP and today he got the notice that after 16 years, he's gotten the boot. Since most of my family's either Navy or Air Force, I don't have a clue what this means other than he got the sack and I can't really ask the guy for the dirt. So, if anyone can explain what this is and what would be the reasons for this, I'd be thankful since my curiosity's going wild.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 04:57
|
|
|
Army says we have enough of you. You also happen to be unfortunate enough to (pick at least two): - Have a job or slot that they don't need anymore due to restructuring - Have high enough rank that you're "too senior" to reclass to change positions - Be in a state (guard) or area of the country (reserve or active) that has run out of money - Have pissed somebody off who is of equal or higher rank with a penchant for Brutusing people - Refuse to suck as much dick as your peers of equal "paper value" (promotion points, NCOERs, etc) - Be an actual shitbag and be in a position career-wise that you allowed that poo poo to catch up to you BONUS: pick only one of the following in lieu of any of the above for an automatic qualification for getting kicked out: - Rely on oxygen to function
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 05:18
|
|
|
M_Sinistrari posted:Hopefully this is the right thread to ask a general question in, but I have an acquaintance who's an Army NCO and today he posted on Facebook that he'd been notified earlier this year that he was one of several NCOs who were under consideration for denial of continued service thing under the QMP and today he got the notice that after 16 years, he's gotten the boot. Since most of my family's either Navy or Air Force, I don't have a clue what this means other than he got the sack and I can't really ask the guy for the dirt. So, if anyone can explain what this is and what would be the reasons for this, I'd be thankful since my curiosity's going wild. If he's an E5, he hit RCP and that's a wrap
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 05:59
|
|
|
Lmao at getting the boot 4 years before retirement. Could he do a 4 year contract in another branch/reenlist and retire as an E5 or something or is that really it?
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 06:11
|
|
|
Justin Tyme posted:Lmao at getting the boot 4 years before retirement. I don' t know. From how he's talking it's a final set in stone thing. Going from the list Gierskogul posted, I could see it being not advancing fast enough in the eyes of the higher ups, or pissing someone off since he's a bit of a smarmy Internet Atheist/Libtard type as well as feeling he's above any asskissing. He's also one of those obnoxiously nerdy types with all the Dr. Who/Joss Whedon fanhumor references, a furry and possibly a brony too.
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 11:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 00:21 |
|
|
Is this real life?
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2015 11:51
|
|