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So is Army gonna pay/ chip in for the surgery if you need it? Going in on april and getting rid of glasses would be nice indeed
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Anyone who has applied for a Fed job while still in: What do you put for the number of veterans preference points if you haven't been given a disability percentage yet? Just don't count it? I'll be out in 4 months, so I'm filling out some applications and unsure of what to put.
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Feb 26, 2016 05:55
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MurderBot posted:I regret never getting Lasik or PRK/whatever when I got out. I'm an idiot and plan to go back in, so during OCS i'll be wearing those god drat glasses. When are you going to OCS? Fortunately OCS has a new commander now and it seems like it's less lovely since I've been seeing guys in black ascots around on the weekends doing things other than just getting haircuts.
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Feb 26, 2016 06:06
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Valtonen posted:So is Army gonna pay/ chip in for the surgery if you need it? Going in on april and getting rid of glasses would be nice indeed Yes. I got PRK for free in the Army. Some get denied for some reason or another like astigmatism but if your eyes are ok you'll get it for free. I also got a tooth implant. Overall I've had 8 surgeries or procedures that required me to be knocked out, and never paid a dime. Gooble Gobble posted:Anyone who has applied for a Fed job while still in: What do you put for the number of veterans preference points if you haven't been given a disability percentage yet? Just don't count it? I'll be out in 4 months, so I'm filling out some applications and unsure of what to put. They should have internships that you can do while still in the Army. I'd recommend this because you get some awesome experience, and a real good shot at a job when you get out. Also no fucki army stuff. Just being an intern at whatever fed place you want.
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Feb 26, 2016 06:58
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Mustang posted:When are you going to OCS? Fortunately OCS has a new commander now and it seems like it's less lovely since I've been seeing guys in black ascots around on the weekends doing things other than just getting haircuts. I'm going through Marine OCS *most likely*, and if I don't get selected I had considered guard OCS. Shooting for end of May report date. Either way it's probably not gonna be great
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Feb 26, 2016 07:14
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Go Air Force gently caress the hardcore hoorah bullshit
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Feb 26, 2016 07:17
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Or do the smart thing and get the gently caress out. While officer bullshit definitely has a better taste, at the end of the day you're still eating poo poo.
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Feb 26, 2016 07:25
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MurderBot posted:I'm going through Marine OCS *most likely*, and if I don't get selected I had considered guard OCS. Shooting for end of May report date. Why?
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Feb 26, 2016 09:06
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quote:Army Thread - you fuckers are never getting out, God won't help you in this one  You're welcome thread
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Feb 26, 2016 09:23
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Aren't there some posts that require you to wear eyepro for PT? Or is that another one of those army legends
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Feb 26, 2016 10:28
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Found out my old NCO who ETSed apparently missed the military... at least they went Air Force, this time. I guess. edit: Someone linked me to some Vietnam era lighters. This is my favorite:  Aranan fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 11:41
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Aranan posted:No worries. "Get rid of the glasses" is solid advice for a ton of poo poo in the Army, or even just physical activities outside of it. Deadlifts in particular usually result in my glasses falling off of my face, so I just do it mostly blind. Luckily that's not a big deal. I paid out of pocket for PRK before I deployed and it was probably the best money I've ever spent. Totally didn't tell them about that at the SRP, though.
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Feb 26, 2016 14:27
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I hope everyone has a good safety brief day today
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Feb 26, 2016 17:55
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gently caress yeah, done with night shift. For a while at least. Now to somehow make it through this day without falling asleep. The Army is hell on my Zs.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:00
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Aranan posted:gently caress yeah, done with night shift. For a while at least. I jumped at every possible chance to take night shift. You get hosed with soooo much less. "What? Oh sure I'd love to help you with [ASININE TASK X] but welp it's sleep time for me laters!"
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Feb 26, 2016 18:11
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I hope everyone has a good safety brief day today screw you top im loving that skank raw
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Feb 26, 2016 18:26
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SumYungGui posted:Or do the smart thing and get the gently caress out. While officer bullshit definitely has a better taste, at the end of the day you're still eating poo poo. Yeah but getting out as an officer if you decide you're done isn't all that hard. Getting denied promotion to 1LT and getting passed over for promotion twice to Captain will get you shown the door. Being incompetent as enlisted only gets you this.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:26
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i would love to be an officer so I can have mandatory fun on new years eve hanging out with the commander and sucking his dick. so much dick sucking activities in the officer world, its unreal
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Feb 26, 2016 18:29
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What the hell do you have to do to not get picked up for 1LT?
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Feb 26, 2016 18:36
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SumYungGui posted:I jumped at every possible chance to take night shift. You get hosed with soooo much less. "What? Oh sure I'd love to help you with [ASININE TASK X] but welp it's sleep time for me laters!" Normally, yes. I've had night shifts and swing shifts and they were glorious because nobody is around to gently caress with you. However, this situation was somewhat different and it blew. Trust me.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:39
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Mustang posted:What the hell do you have to do to not get picked up for 1LT? I knew one person who managed to pull it off, and it was a comedy of errors and terrible judgement. This was back when BOLC II was a thing, and during that course the guy decided that he would exceed his mileage pass without telling any of his friends, get arrested somewhere in FL (some spring break beach, either Daytona or Panama City Beach) for being drunk in public, and while being arrested decided that resisting arrest by punching a cop in the face was a good life choice. He picked up a GOMR and an article 15, I think. The cadre made a big deal about how it takes a 2-star general to give an LT an article 15, though his "punishment" was probably something tame and stupid.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:47
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I saw some S2 or maybe S3 2LT have a mental break down in Iraq. He just dropped a release packet and played guitar the rest of the deployment. It was pretty cool. Pretty sure he didn't advance.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:49
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Mustang posted:What the hell do you have to do to not get picked up for 1LT? I don't even know. This was back in 07 and on, but I watched peers make O2 and O3 on the then-normal timeline of 18 months for O2 and 36 months for O3, despite DUIs, GOMARs for curfew violation in Korea, infantry LTs who couldn't hack ranger school and were assigned as IBOLC training company XOs, shooting up entire buses of civilians (and having it brushed under the rug obvs). *in Afghanistan, trying to shoot up a car full of civilians during LP/OP poo poo, trying to call for fire on his own platoon (that guy did lose his platoon for that)... I guess there was the other company's commander, back at FOB Airborne, who presided over detainee abuse and got an OTH discharge. But he was just a fall guy. My friend who narc'd him got rated top lieutenant in the battalion and sent off to ranger batt. Zeris fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 18:51
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I had a roommate for about a month when I first moved into my apartment that was a 2LT that had been in for over 2 years. He told me he was an armor officer when I first met him and I thought he might be in the 3rd ID but later he told me he worked for a LTC and mostly from home at that. I later found out through some NCO's that he never passed ABOLC, not sure why it took so long to kick him out. Dude wasn't even branch qualified. So he was getting paid as a 2LT while working from home for who knows how long. Never once saw him wearing a uniform. Granted I only knew his last month in the Army so I'm guessing they had him doing bitch work after he got dropped from ABOLC for failing too many times. Once he found out he was getting kicked out he started cleaning all his TA-50. I was in my room and it started sounding like something in the apartment was about to explode or some poo poo. Turns out he put his IOTV in the washer, with the plates still in it no less. Also he found out his girlfriend was pregnant as he was getting out so he married her soon after and had the delusion that some oil company would hire him for a management position and he'd get paid big bucks since he's a former army officer.
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Feb 26, 2016 19:15
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Yeah UCMJ actions can hold up promotion to O2. They're passing people over for promotion to O3 for not having enough OERs despite complaining about how they have such a shortage of junior captains.
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Feb 26, 2016 19:34
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Mustang posted:I had a roommate for about a month when I first moved into my apartment that was a 2LT that had been in for over 2 years. He told me he was an armor officer when I first met him and I thought he might be in the 3rd ID but later he told me he worked for a LTC and mostly from home at that. I later found out through some NCO's that he never passed ABOLC, not sure why it took so long to kick him out. Dude wasn't even branch qualified. dude should have enlisted instead
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Feb 26, 2016 21:08
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Mike-o posted:dude should have enlisted instead I was about to say, you sure he was a noble?
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Feb 26, 2016 22:14
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Just found out that the pre ranger armor LT platoons original scheduled training for today consisted of a 11 mile ruck out to a land nav course, 5-10 miles of land nav with a ruck and then rucking the 11 miles back. The entire platoon pretty much mutinied. Ended up being significantly less miles to ruck.
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Feb 27, 2016 02:53
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Mustang posted:Just found out that the pre ranger armor LT platoons original scheduled training for today consisted of a 11 mile ruck out to a land nav course, 5-10 miles of land nav with a ruck and then rucking the 11 miles back. smdftb if you're still in
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Feb 27, 2016 02:58
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Mustang posted:What the hell do you have to do to not get picked up for 1LT? GOMORs and subsequent Article 15s for alcohol incidents and drug offenses, really. Even then, if they get picked up they'll be first on the chopping block for O-3. I have a peer who had UCMJ against him for some shenanigans involving his wife and he had to delay pinning O-3 for at least 6 months. Mustang posted:Since the Army Marksmanship Unit is here at Benning there's been a push for LT's to go through some extra training thing they put on but I haven't had a chance to go yet. The guys that have been say it's great training, I just hope I can get to do it before I PCS. Most likely its just common sense shooting in the sense that they show everyone that the Army's methods of shooting aren't necessarily correct (i.e. putting your nose on the charging handle every time to acquire a consistent sight picture). It's a technique and an Army 'standard' but by no means does it work for everyone.
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There's a bunch of 36 month captains in the HQ I'm a part of and they keep asking us when we're getting promoted, like a bunch of grandparents at a wedding.
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Feb 27, 2016 03:37
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Mustang posted:Just found out that the pre ranger armor LT platoons original scheduled training for today consisted of a 11 mile ruck out to a land nav course, 5-10 miles of land nav with a ruck and then rucking the 11 miles back. laughin' my fuckin' rear end off, doesn't poo poo like that need approval from the BC anyway since there's so many risks involved? Oh well, get hosed, that's what you deserve for still being in. Also anything put on by the AMU is legit, friend of mine went to a traveling SDM course and they pretty much make you experts with everything to do with the ACOG. Who would have thought that being trained to actually use the equipment the way it was intended would make people better at Army? Like, just think about all those buttons and functions on an ASIP that you never used.
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Justin Tyme posted:laughin' my fuckin' rear end off, doesn't poo poo like that need approval from the BC anyway since there's so many risks involved? Oh well, get hosed, that's what you deserve for still being in. yea that sounds like a good way to break a bunch of booterbars
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Feb 27, 2016 04:13
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Late to the party but all the courses the AMU dudes put on are totally legit and worth sending your guys to. Just look them up in ATTRS or whatever it was called. Also, smdftb
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:i hope no one has to go in tomorrow for accountability gently caress you I'm on pass don't trigger me like this you mother fucker
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Triggs posted:GOMORs and subsequent Article 15s for alcohol incidents and drug offenses, really. Even then, if they get picked up they'll be first on the chopping block for O-3. I have a peer who had UCMJ against him for some shenanigans involving his wife and he had to delay pinning O-3 for at least 6 months. Maaaan I was shooting expert and sharpshooter before I started doing this. No loving wonder.
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Feb 27, 2016 08:41
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I'm one of those weirdos who scores better with iron sights than with an M68 or ACOG.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I knew one person who managed to pull it off, and it was a comedy of errors and terrible judgement. This was back when BOLC II was a thing, and during that course the guy decided that he would exceed his mileage pass without telling any of his friends, get arrested somewhere in FL (some spring break beach, either Daytona or Panama City Beach) for being drunk in public, and while being arrested decided that resisting arrest by punching a cop in the face was a good life choice. He picked up a GOMR and an article 15, I think. The cadre made a big deal about how it takes a 2-star general to give an LT an article 15, though his "punishment" was probably something tame and stupid. Officer's pretty much all have to have general court marshals. Although all your past sins are erased upon promotion to captain. Seriously, everything get's masked so if you screwed up once it doesn't ruin you forever. I don't think you can make general officer without at least one giant screw up in your career. I was working with some old engineer general a few years back and he had found some old DDT (it's a powder and was kept in shakers) in an ancient supply closet and thought it was foot powder, so he passed it out to his company.
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spacetoaster posted:Officer's pretty much all have to have general court marshals. Not anymore. They're no longer masking OERs for promotion to O4 because a number of O2s are holding command.
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