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Soulex posted:My step mom had cancer and she is alive (thankfully) but she had an 18 hour surgery where they literally peeled her face back, put a metal plate in her head, removed the cancer thing and replaced it with stomach muscle. She also can't smell or taste anything anymore because it was either do that or die. Jesus that's awful. It's amazing that the doctors even had the ability to do something like that and she survived, but still.
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My dad is currently battling with the VA to get financial compensation for his cancer, which his oncologist suspected was caused by Agent Orange. The doc and my parents were working really well together and making progress when, out of nowehre, the oncologist had a heart attack and died overnight a week before the hearing. That hearing was last Thursday and the VA told my parents to expect an answer in 6-8 weeks. The bad news is most cases of intestinal cancer aren't accepted as being from AO. The other bad news is that it has spread to his liver and a few other spots, but at least liver cancer is on the AO "approved" list. Basically, cancer sucks.
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My wife's memorial service was today (we decided to have it after the holidays so that anyone coming in from out of town wouldn't get raped by holiday travel prices, and a friend got married last week and we didn't want to compete with that). The honor guard had a real bugler, so that was cool. And then I got to watch a SGT and a SSG gently caress up folding the flag so bad that I drat near shoved one aside and said "gently caress you, I'll do it: Pull it TIGHT dipshit." lol army I'm probably going to have to re fold the loving thing so it's not so jacked up.
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Thump! posted:Jesus that's awful. It's amazing that the doctors even had the ability to do something like that and she survived, but still. Yeah. It was the first surgery done like that iirc. Aranan posted:My dad is currently battling with the VA to get financial compensation for his cancer, which his oncologist suspected was caused by Agent Orange. The doc and my parents were working really well together and making progress when, out of nowehre, the oncologist had a heart attack and died overnight a week before the hearing. Sorry to hear that man. Hope it gets better McNally posted:My wife's memorial service was today (we decided to have it after the holidays so that anyone coming in from out of town wouldn't get raped by holiday travel prices, and a friend got married last week and we didn't want to compete with that). The honor guard had a real bugler, so that was cool. Un ironically I wish you would have. I did one memorial as a specialist and I practiced my rear end off folding that flag. If those two assholes didn't or just didn't care, gently caress them. Not just because it's you, but in general. There are very few things I like about the military, but rendering proper respect to the dead is one of them. It's also why I don't go to "mandatory" memorial services for people I don't know. When my buddy had his, I had to listen to some human being SFCs talk about how they didn't want to be there and how it sucked and they had some email or whatever to write. It took literally all my restraint to not fly back there and hit them again and again and again. After that, I decided never to disrespect the people who knew or cared about the person by being one of those individuals. Hopefully. You're holding up. Let us know if you need anything.
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id have a tough time with that. how will i know how bad my farts smell if i have to rely on the reaction of others?
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Soulex posted:It's also why I don't go to "mandatory" memorial services for people I don't know. When my buddy had his, I had to listen to some human being SFCs talk about how they didn't want to be there and how it sucked and they had some email or whatever to write. It took literally all my restraint to not fly back there and hit them again and again and again. After that, I decided never to disrespect the people who knew or cared about the person by being one of those individuals. Same poo poo happened in 2007 at Ft Gordon. They dragged like three goddamned companies of IET soldiers to attend the funeral of some staff NCO and we had no clue who it was.
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Soulex posted:My step mom had cancer and she is alive (thankfully) but she had an 18 hour surgery where they literally peeled her face back, put a metal plate in her head, removed the cancer thing and replaced it with stomach muscle. She also can't smell or taste anything anymore because it was either do that or die. Does she eat gross poo poo now just to gently caress with you guys? Because that's exactly what I would do to make lemonade with that
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Booblord Zagats posted:Does she eat gross poo poo now just to gently caress with you guys? Because that's exactly what I would do to make lemonade with that Surströmming 
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Booblord Zagats posted:Does she eat gross poo poo now just to gently caress with you guys? Because that's exactly what I would do to make lemonade with that No,mthough she has almost burnt poo poo beyond recognition, let me get away with smoking while my dad was away when I was a teen and in school, and under seasoned a bunch of stuff, but mostly it's normal. She relies on texture. Yes we've already had the "could you eat poop?" Conversation. Yes, she could possibly. Yes, I've already asked her if she could pick up radio signals with her metal plate. No, sadly, she can't. Yes, free for all with flatulence. Though she wins all the time because she's super into that organic free moving compost farm this eat that movement. She enjoys texture and spice with foods. It means more now than it did. Also, she glitters her shoes and talks to birds. Not like having a conversation like they're talking back, but like how you would a kid I guess. My step mom kicks rear end, and I'll fight everyone.
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Soulex posted:My step mom kicks rear end, and I'll fight everyone. Who could argue? She sounds like the most awesome person out there  Also, re: McNally's wife's funeral: Burn down everything, loving Christ. Since she was part of an active unit, were they members of that unit doing the ceremonies? Because if so, they need to be tossed in a goddamn furnace for that poo poo. I know with my pokey reserve unit we got called on to provide services for all manner of funerals and what not, but they were pretty much always for retirees and other geriatrics and what not. We were generally pretty well practiced on the stuff though, because gently caress loving up someone's final send off. That poo poo is inexcusable.
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Thump! posted:Who could argue? She sounds like the most awesome person out there She was a reservist on active duty orders. No idea who the honor guard was. I think they had AG branch insignia and my wife was MI. One of the fuckers qualified marksman pistol. How lovely can you get?
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McNally posted:She was a reservist on active duty orders. No idea who the honor guard was. I think they had AG branch insignia and my wife was MI. Must have been a green to gold candidate Thump! posted:Who could argue? She sounds like the most awesome person out there She's done some legit cool poo poo, like biking across Europe. And some straight up weird poo poo, like living in the Everglades, in a tent, for like 2-3 years or something. I have seen what lives there, I hate Mosquitos, gently caress that place. Soulex fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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Soulex posted:My step mom had cancer and she is alive (thankfully) but she had an 18 hour surgery where they literally peeled her face back, put a metal plate in her head, removed the cancer thing and replaced it with stomach muscle. She also can't smell or taste anything anymore because it was either do that or die. My dad had tonsil(?!) cancer and his surgery was 20+ hours and it included cracking his jaw apart at the chin, hinging it out of the way, and scooping out the cancer. I mention it to my kids whenever the subject of tobacco use comes up. Don't smoke, kids! More on topic. A bit old but it came up recently over at TFR http://abcnews.go.com/US/dramatic-moment-machete-wielding-attacker-breaks-door/story?id=28323560 Twain Thomas' attorney, Dave Martinez posted:...told ABC News that a neuro-psychologist who tested Thomas had concluded that the 55-year-old suffers from post traumatic stress disorder as well as brain damage from a car accident that occurred when he was a teenager. He also said that Thomas had a "traumatic" upbringing and had undisclosed hardship while serving in the military, when he was based in Germany during the first Gulf War, though he never served in a combat zone. So if Mr. Machete is to be believed, not only did the army let in a brain damaged dude but he somehow got PTSD during the Gulf War even though he was in Germany the whole time. Sure, why not?
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Scratch Monkey posted:the army let in a brain damaged dude tbh this thread might not exist if they didn't do this
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Scratch Monkey posted:My dad had tonsil(?!) cancer and his surgery was 20+ hours and it included cracking his jaw apart at the chin, hinging it out of the way, and scooping out the cancer. I mention it to my kids whenever the subject of tobacco use comes up. Don't smoke, kids! The army doesn't have a patent on trauma or subsequent stress/readjustment disorders. I guess war PTSD is god's chosen variety, and this case feels like false advertising, but whatever man. Someone has to be pedantic and point this out, might as well be me. And of course the army let in a brain damaged dude. Come on. Come on.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Surströmming man I think she'd still smell that
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Soulex posted:Un ironically I wish you would have. I did one memorial as a specialist and I practiced my rear end off folding that flag. If those two assholes didn't or just didn't care, gently caress them. Not just because it's you, but in general. There are very few things I like about the military, but rendering proper respect to the dead is one of them. It's also why I don't go to "mandatory" memorial services for people I don't know. When my buddy had his, I had to listen to some human being SFCs talk about how they didn't want to be there and how it sucked and they had some email or whatever to write. It took literally all my restraint to not fly back there and hit them again and again and again. After that, I decided never to disrespect the people who knew or cared about the person by being one of those individuals. When I was doing predeployment with the Army at Riley back in '08 they trotted all 150 or so AF/Navy dudes to go to a memorial for two dudes who just got killed. Basically we just kinda stood awkwardly while this Lt Col got up and gave a terrible, generic speech in a clipped, monotone "I have better things to be doing" voice. They were videotaping the whole thing to send to the guys' families. At the end of the speech the Lt Col finally looks up from the loving green pocket notebook he's reading off of, looks straight into the camera and says "Duty First." I never wanted to dick-punch an officer so badly in my entire life.
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Reverand maynard posted:man I think she'd still smell that She wouldn't. I assure you. She would open it as a form of warfare right after dinner though. Wild T posted:When I was doing predeployment with the Army at Riley back in '08 they trotted all 150 or so AF/Navy dudes to go to a memorial for two dudes who just got killed. Basically we just kinda stood awkwardly while this Lt Col got up and gave a terrible, generic speech in a clipped, monotone "I have better things to be doing" voice. They were videotaping the whole thing to send to the guys' families. At the end of the speech the Lt Col finally looks up from the loving green pocket notebook he's reading off of, looks straight into the camera and says "Duty First." Exactly. gently caress that poo poo. Also I wouldn't have added the duty first to the video if I had made it because standards, and the last thing you'd want to hear is how duty is the trump card to the family who just lost someone. He still said it though which would make him look like an rear end in a top hat regardless. At my buddies memorial, (his name was Shiver, like shy-ver) our CSM kept calling him driver because he drove the CSM around as the driver and apparently never thought to learn his name. That was a rough time. One of my only friends dying then another going to jail for 4 years on assault. He had to go to the memorial in handcuffs.
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One of my Aussie Army buddies got his arm cut up badly by a fuckhead marine who took a kabar to a pub in Sydney, got drunk, dropped his beer and thought an offer of a free round was grounds for a knifing. loving lucky MPs just happened to be passing by when the minor riot broke out as the marines pals reacted badly to two of my friends mates holding said marine and loosening a couple of teeth. Looking into my family history I have a great great cousin or something who enlisted in the Army back in 1918, in Melbourne, and was in for 2 days before being dischanrged for having 6% vision in one eye, and 6.5% in the other. Fucker was blind as a post. He turned up again in Sydney a week later and enlisted again. Was in for 5 days before being discharged. They too, discovered he was blind. 6 months later in the Queensland town of Roma, he joins the army for a third time. He's in for 10 days, when they do the eye exam and... yep, discharged. It would seem he gave up after that.
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princecoo posted:Looking into my family history I have a great great cousin or something who enlisted in the Army back in 1918, in Melbourne, and was in for 2 days before being dischanrged for having 6% vision in one eye, and 6.5% in the other. Fucker was blind as a post. I'm sorry, this is the idiots thread, the hardcore badasses thread is over that way.
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I told my story to the IG today, who basically stared incredulously the whole time and agreed that what I'd been told was, in fact, the dumbest loving thing ever. So now I just fill out a form, email it in, and then they'll start to tell everyone from the garrison commander on down how much of a shitshow the RAPIDS office is.
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McNally posted:I told my story to the IG today, who basically stared incredulously the whole time and agreed that what I'd been told was, in fact, the dumbest loving thing ever. Let's hope they enact some old school decimation on those shitheads.
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Being an actual invesigator for the IG seems like it would be a job that would leave you with no more respect or faith in your fellow man
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Booblord Zagats posted:Being an actual invesigator for the IG seems like it would be a job that would leave you with no more respect or faith in your fellow man Pretty much any job involving people does that
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Booblord Zagats posted:Being an actual invesigator for the IG seems like it would be a job that would leave you with no more respect or faith in your fellow man
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Nobody I've told this story to, including civilians who don't know dick about the military, ever thought the idea of a military survivor's benefits expiring when the deceased service member's ETS date rolls around sounded at all reasonable. So we're dealing with a special kind of stupid here.
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Now I want to hear what kind of back pedaling he-said-she-said stories and lies the RAPIDs office comes up with in CYA mode.
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Casimir Radon posted:The chance to gently caress up some rear end in a top hat's career might make it worth it to me. Man if I were IG this is what would get me out of bed in the morning with a smile on my face, the chance to destroy a noble's career would be great.
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Best of luck with all this, McNally. Also, there was a dude in my company in BCT named McNally, but his nametapes were wrong. He walked around all of BCT with "McAnally" on his uniforms.
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Mike-o posted:this is the best kind of schadenfreude This isn't schadenfreude. There's no shame in this joy. This is just glorious and divine retribution. Simple, perfect and well earned. Pious men pray for this kinda poo poo, the gently caress ups merely receive it.
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Let's not assume any good will come of this. If I keep having the kind of luck I've been having, then the RAPIDs office will claim I assaulted someone and I'll get arrested.
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McNally posted:we're dealing with a special kind of stupid here.
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I can't wait to read hat happens next. gently caress those guys.
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Booblord Zagats posted:Being an actual invesigator for the IG seems like it would be a job that would leave you with no more respect or faith in your fellow man Yeah but only because it's another job in the U. S. Army
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Zeris posted:Yeah but only because it's another job in the U. S. Army The file of complaints sent to a single IG office could probably sustain this thread for years. It'd probably cut both ways too, some of the complaints being completely stupid and others being firmly in the realm of "this can't possibly be real, how are some people this goddamn stupid  ".
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Just read the whole thread - a hell of a ride. Give those shitheads what they deserve McNally. I was in the Australian Army reserve, 5/6 RVR during the late 90s and early 2000s. Dumbest thing I ever took part in was a parachute jump into what had been a dry salt lake, before the drought broke and turned it into a foot of incredibly salty water over a foot of salt mush. Fuckwitted officer had failed to read a weather alert for the area indicating the potential of flash flooding and given us the go ahead. All 24 Austeyr rifles from my platoon, as well as every single metal item we had on us was rusted basically instantly, and we wrote off all of the parachute silk and belts/boots as well. I can only imagine he got a medal of some sort.
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