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got my pug in my lap smoking a bowl of legal weed. OMG being out of the army is great, would recommend that you get out
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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:30 |
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:OMG being out of the army is great, would recommend that you get out
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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:33 |
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White Chocolate posted:You dodged a crocodile. That new unit just made me $400 in overtime this past weekend.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:10 |
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:got my pug in my lap smoking a bowl of legal weed. OMG being out of the army is great, would recommend that you get out Tell this clock to go faster. Aranan fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Oct 20, 2015 |
# ? Oct 20, 2015 03:41 |
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Can you get pulled off leave? Terminal leave? For like a drug test or inspection?
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 04:04 |
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how do they know i'm not in alaska? I mean i'm sure hypothetically but why
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 04:06 |
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Curious really. Didn't know. Like how commanders can go "nah dude. gently caress convalescent leave and gently caress your profile." If they want to
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 04:42 |
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I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember that if it's for a medical retirement then it needs the CGs approval to bring you back. Something about new orders need to be made up or some poo poo. I assume it's a similar level of authority for other forms of ETS. They've still gotta get them to you though. I went overseas so good loving luck if they even tried to contact me.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 10:48 |
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11b1p posted:That new unit just made me $400 in overtime this past weekend. Dolla dolla bills yo. Make that paper. I would hope this is not because of some stupid poo poo they did but I know better by now.
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# ? Oct 21, 2015 03:15 |
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Soulex posted:Curious really. Didn't know. Like how commanders can go "nah dude. gently caress convalescent leave and gently caress your profile." If they want to To the best of my knowledge no, they can't pull you off leave for a urinalysis. That said, I'd just wait till it expires; that extra 60 or 90 days of no MJ won't kill you.
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# ? Oct 21, 2015 04:37 |
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Once you have your DD214 in your hand you are free.
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# ? Oct 21, 2015 06:28 |
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White Chocolate posted:Dolla dolla bills yo. Make that paper. I would hope this is not because of some stupid poo poo they did but I know better by now. The grass is going to be greener for you, but only because the grass is dead on the current side of the fence.
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# ? Oct 21, 2015 14:01 |
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:Once you have your DD214 in your hand you are free. I'm not so sure about that, we had a dumbass go on terminal leave from Ft Bragg. Over the course of the weekend he got a DUI in Fayetteville, cops found weed on him, he obviously got arrested. 82nd took him back in and started separation, never heard anything past they were starting the process of chaptering him or if he was able to fight it.
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# ? Oct 22, 2015 00:04 |
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When I got to this unit, my section had 47 people working in it. Today, it has 21. I've just been informed it's about to get worse. Go Army.
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# ? Oct 22, 2015 05:21 |
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BaconAndBullets posted:I'm not so sure about that, we had a dumbass go on terminal leave from Ft Bragg. Over the course of the weekend he got a DUI in Fayetteville, cops found weed on him, he obviously got arrested. 82nd took him back in and started separation, never heard anything past they were starting the process of chaptering him or if he was able to fight it. To be fair, this guy was an idiot. To be fairer, I am too for still being in.
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# ? Oct 22, 2015 07:39 |
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Suntan Boy posted:When I got to this unit, my section had 47 people working in it. Today, it has 21. I've just been informed it's about to get worse. "That's okay, just means the fat is getting cut. The good ones stay behind, one team one fight, dick is delicious."
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# ? Oct 22, 2015 14:35 |
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fyiysi
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# ? Oct 23, 2015 02:23 |
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gently caress you if you're still in
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# ? Oct 23, 2015 02:24 |
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Fucitol posted:gently caress you if you're still in
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# ? Oct 23, 2015 15:07 |
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Fucitol posted:gently caress me, I'm still in
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# ? Oct 23, 2015 15:55 |
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i think out of the 50-something people in my company that deployed in 2004, 3 are still in the military. 1 was an sfc and is now a csm 1 was a sgt and is now a 1sg 1 was a sfc and is now a sfc does quartermaster not promote well or something because goddamn, he's a good dude that wouldn't have gotten knocked down at all
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 05:27 |
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A lot of MOS just don't have the same kind of turnover inherent in combat arms and other, closely-related jobs. Hence, much slower promotions.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 05:32 |
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i think out of the 50-something people in my company that deployed in 2004, 3 are still in the military. My best PSG was an E6 who was in the occupation of Haiti. Not the relief mission, but the occupation in the early 90's. This was in 2011.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 05:33 |
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the best cook i ever met in the army retired after 20 years as a specialist
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 05:35 |
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:the best cook i ever met in the army retired after 20 years as a specialist We had a 21 year spc cook just retire last summer.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 06:00 |
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Geirskogul posted:We had a 21 year spc cook just retire last summer. i thought if you were e-4 and below at 20 you're out no matter what thats what happened to our cook
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 06:12 |
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It's lower now isn't it. Like ten years a specialist get QRP'd
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 07:07 |
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National guard, and the guy was borderline retarded. Well, actually retarded.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 07:59 |
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Soulex posted:It's lower now isn't it. Like ten years a specialist get QRP'd Twelve. And fifteen for Sgt.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 12:00 |
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Is getting E-7 in 7 mainly an infantry thing? I've met 2 so far, one in OCS and another is in my ABOLC class and I've met one scout SFC that got it somewhere between 7-10 years. The rest of them seem to be coming up on 20 years in.
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Mustang posted:Is getting E-7 in 7 mainly an infantry thing? I've met 2 so far, one in OCS and another is in my ABOLC class and I've met one scout SFC that got it somewhere between 7-10 years. The rest of them seem to be coming up on 20 years in. I think so. The infantry has high prestige but also high turnover and a mix of dumbass no ASVAB requirements guys with a leavening of smart philosophical killers who want to watch a man bleed out so they can write bad poetry about it some day, the perfect circumstances for a smart motivated guy to move up fast. The other branches have lower turnover, universally dumb enlistees (artillery) or they're all reasonably smart so it's hard to stand out (signal/medic).
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 15:37 |
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Another thing about signal, is that sometimes you have MOSs that aren't in danger of being shut down, but have such low manning numbers you can never move up. All me about being a specialist for 7 years.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 15:42 |
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Also depends on the density of senior NCO positions. For example, there's not a lot of positions for 68W NCOs in the army as a whole above E6. But combat arms/combat support branches like infantry, FA, engineers, etc. have tons of staff NCO positions at the battalion and brigade levels.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 15:44 |
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7 in 7 is a thing for scouts, also.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 17:41 |
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7 in 7 is a good indicator on how much of a douche that person is. Everyone I've met has been a colossal human being.
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# ? Oct 24, 2015 23:46 |
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I don't think I've ever met a 7 in 7. Closest I know is a 6 in 6 but he was a pretty cool 35F.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 00:24 |
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I worked with tanker who was E7 at 26. Dude was young as gently caress, it was weird.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 00:58 |
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Speaking of, when was the last time battlefield commissions were a thing? I would assume Vietnam but the WoT has been going on for 14+ years now.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 02:51 |
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battlefield commissions were a thing when you had such high casualty rates of junior officers that you couldnt keep up using the normal commission process. looks like the last time that happened was in vietnam
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 03:20 |
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My buddy made his way up to E6 in about 6 years at the age of 24. He was Psyops and had gone through two deployments, I think he was the only E-6 and the rest were a bunch of dudes who went through AIT while they were gone, everyone else ETS'd *Reserve unit*. Buddy is a helluva leader and would do anything for both his friends/subordinates so a well deserved promotion. But he said gently caress the army, got a job working for Direct TV and has a scruffy as gently caress beard. The way god intended it.
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