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Unimportant and unrelated to current poo poo, but Jesus loving Christ, what the gently caress takes so long to approve a CRSC application? I am just pissed off and want this to be done. It's like the last little game of "Just the Tip" from the green weenie.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Sorry I wasn't trying to assume with certainty what your current diet was like, I just know like a vast majority of soldiers I've met don't give a gently caress about what they put in their bodies. Army does a piss poor job of promoting a healthier diet. No worries. I honestly feel gross after eating fast food and stuff. Ever sinc Ive learned how to cook I've much preferred to make my own stuff. Not like pre-assembled bullshit either but mostly everything from scratch (gently caress making pasta from scratch) etc. i think my biggest complaint is that the BMI system we use is horribly inaccurate and outdated. I mean, I'm thick but fatter people have passed because of tree trunk necks. Sugar is probably my biggest enemy. I love fruit, but the nature of sedentary jobs make it easier to grab a soda and a box of nerds or something instead of an apple. I make conscious choices when I go out to eat, but it's the work day that sucks. I need to go back and get some more sunflower seeds. Ace of Baes posted:If you're trying to lose weight I'd suggest Stronglifts aka SL5x5, I did it on deployment and ate like a pig and still went from like 190 to 160 in somewhere around 14 or 15 weeks, it's only every other day too and will give you decent strength. Also it's super duper simple so you don't have to worry about getting the reverse side downwards tri lateral shoulder pull down machine at the gym. I'd love to do something like this, but the nature of my injuries gently caress me. The lower legs (failing condition) make it so I can't run, jump, or really anything other than walk. And that's at my pace or else pain goes through the roof. I also have a non-failing condition with my left arm. I have 2 plates and 16 screws in it from skateboarding way back in the day and when I joined I had full function-ability. Now, I can't hold my left arm palm up at all. Closest I can get is about 45 degrees. I tried going hard on weights and it caused too much issue and pain. Felt like the bone was bending with the plates and screws. That 5 compound fracture happened 3 days before I was put on my dads insurance too. That was expensive as gently caress. The gym does this weird tension rope thing that breaks you off something fierce that I liked, but you can't do it during pt hours, and I think they got rid of the instructors fr some reason. It's like TRX or something.
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I got roped into P90X or Insanity or whichever one when they were all the rage while I was out in Afghanistan because if there's one thing the Army has never managed to gently caress up it's PT. They made us do some kind of side-to-side shuttle sprint jumping thing that made me fall to the ground in pain when what I assume was a ligament on the outside of my knee decided that was a bad thing. So of course the Army had to Army it up and I was told I could skip that one exercise but had to keep doing the rest of the program next day. Well the program loving loved making us do burpees and I had to do them until I blacked out because that specific exercise has always hosed with my balance and made me queasy to do it. Now I'm out and I exercise on my own and yet somehow I manage to not injure myself on a regular basis all while not wearing a reflective belt. Amazing how that works.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Unimportant and unrelated to current poo poo, but Jesus loving Christ, what the gently caress takes so long to approve a CRSC application? I am just pissed off and want this to be done. It's like the last little game of "Just the Tip" from the green weenie. It took me about six months once the paperwork actually got to where it had to be. Then I got the VA's chunk of it about a month after the fact. This was about 18 months ago maybe, so it might be different now.
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:Yeah.
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SumYungGui posted:Now I'm out and I exercise on my own and yet somehow I manage to not injure myself on a regular basis all while not wearing a reflective belt. Amazing how that works.
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Mar 18, 2016 12:29
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Whats the deal with 1SGs having huge boners for cross fit
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Mar 18, 2016 12:41
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Mustang posted:Whats the deal with 1SGs having huge boners for cross fit First Sergeant doesn't have time for PT, but has time to ruin his joints and body other ways.
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We had one like that. Rock hard moto boner for PRT and crossfit. Then hurt his shoulder doing something dumb and they told him that his shoulder needed a complete reconstruction, and probably wouldnt be able to do much with his arm afterwards. Kind of lost his enthusiasm for everything crossfit and PT after that. Who knows how many other people he crippled before that though.
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Mar 18, 2016 13:40
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not caring here posted:Who knows how many other people he crippled before that though. Which brings back the old topic "leaders should be required to maintain a count of the people in their command they've permanently damaged". Or just burn everyone. Sanitation by fire.
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Mar 18, 2016 13:44
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psydude posted:Does this apply to officers, too? I stand corrected. I followed up and it applies to Warrants, but not commissioned officers.
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Soulex posted:
Are you seeing a physical therapist at all?
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Mar 18, 2016 16:53
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The It's Always Sunny episode from last season about the Crossfit Cult Dennis started hit the nail on the head
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not caring here posted:We had one like that. Rock hard moto boner for PRT and crossfit. On my last deployment my shoulder was separated and ended up being all kinds of hosed requiring surgery, so while I was waiting to go to BAF and eventually back to the States I was stuck being TOC bitch. My 1SG at the time was a huge tool and whenever he saw that I was in the TOC he'd talk to the company medic about how he hurt his shoulder lifting, but after he drank some water and had some ibuprofen he was good to go and went right back to lifting. gently caress that guy.
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I had to request an official transcript from the Army via email, since they couldn't send it directly to another federal agency through the online portal to request it. Do any of you have any ideas regarding the turnaround on that (outside of "lol never")?
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Mar 18, 2016 19:54
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sky shark posted:Are you seeing a physical therapist at all? Tried to 3 times. Was told "nothing we can do."
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Mar 18, 2016 20:49
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I think I just found the best MoH winner right here.some stupid loving website posted:
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lmao if he magdumped a thompson mag into him I'm just imagining one of the death animations from Jagged Alliance 2 and losing it
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I can't imagine a crazier time to be in the US Army than WW2, holy poo poo
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His last quote is army as gently caress
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He has a gym named after him on Bragg.
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Mar 20, 2016 03:24
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im sad that i couldnt do much of anything during my war
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Mar 20, 2016 03:52
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:im sad that i couldnt do much of anything during my war I had a wwf style wrestling match on our camps ad hoc boxing ring right across from the chow hall at lunch, that was pretty cool
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Soulex posted:I think I just found the best MoH winner right here. o7 gatdam
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that dude was metal as gently caress
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Mar 20, 2016 04:45
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HBO, make a drama comedy about the "Adventures of SGT Funk and the Funky Bunch" which uses the George Clinton song "We Got the Funk" as its opening intro. Someone please forward this suggestion to HBO, Showtime, and wethepeople.gov in order to make this a reality This concept is entirely copy-write of me do not steal
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:HBO, make a drama comedy about the "Adventures of SGT Funk and the Funky Bunch" which uses the George Clinton song "We Got the Funk" as its opening intro. I will give twenty US dollars for this. I know what you're thinking too, "this is gonna cost so much dollars to produce." I will render my services for free to play the part of annoying extra who talks to cast.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I had a wwf style wrestling match on our camps ad hoc boxing ring right across from the chow hall at lunch, that was pretty cool Anybody lose teeth? We knocked some dude tooth out and then had to do a police call to look for it.
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Soulex posted:Tried to 3 times. Was told "nothing we can do."
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sky shark posted:I don't remember are you being medically separated? If not that's some bullshit and you need to be going up the chain / seeking outside treatment Yeah. Just waiting on ratings now.
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Soulex posted:I think I just found the best MoH winner right here.
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Speaking of "stupidest loving thing i've ever seen", I requested a transcript for another federal agency via the online portal (JST) and the person processing the request a) thinks the agency is a school, b) asked me to try and tell them to sign up for a JST account, c) told me to submit an unofficial transcript, because "it contains the same information as the official transcript", d) said I'd need to get something in writing from the agency in question on why an unofficial transcript isn't good enough for them, and e) give my transcript request form to the agency I'm applying to and have them send it to the help desk at JST. 
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I had always felt that everyone I served with in Iraq were completely certain that once the US withdrew that it would turn into a total shitshow. Not that this was an argument in favor of continuing US presence there but more just a general sentiment on how democracy building in Iraq was a total failure. Did most of you guys feel the same?
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Mar 22, 2016 21:49
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Yeah, it was stupid from the word go.
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Yo, these ACAP classes are awesome. They're like "pft whatever, don't pay attention." so I don't. Well I kinda do but being able to listen while playing on my phone is loving surreal. It doesn't feel army at all
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ACAP is a joke, as is anyone who works in that program.
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it seemed like it was a weeks worth of "LINKED IN IS AWESOME DO THAT" and then a bunch of really generic advice like "dress appropriate for the interview"
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I'm in a course with a bunch of captains and senior NCO's and when they talk about their deployments to Afghanistan during downtime they pretty much all have experiences that fall in line with what you see in "This is What Winning Looks Like." One of them mentioned a boy in a nearby village getting kidnapped and raped for a month straight before being dropped off back at his families house. Then I found out about CPT Dan Quinn. Guy beat up a Afghan pedophile and got kicked out of the army for it. Don't even know why we bother trying to "nation build" such a medieval poo poo hole.
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my last unit just called me asking if I had turned my phone in. I loving went on terminal leave on OCT 2nd. I would have turned the phone in September. What the gently caress you bunch of loving morons 
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