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Mustang posted:Don't know what it's like out in a cav squadron in the force but Harmony Church is like a hands in your pockets free for all zone or something, everyone stands around with their hands in their pockets. Haven't heard anyone yell at someone to take their hands out of their pockets since I was in OCS on main post. Wait till you get to JBLM...
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Apr 12, 2016 07:23
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Teflon Don posted:Spurs
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Apr 12, 2016 07:29
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It's impossible to adequately convey the complete and utter disillusionment that happens, whether it's a sudden soul-searingly perfect moment of clarity or just that gradual upwelling of disgust and contempt that doesn't really have a high tide mark. Sometimes it's one after the other, like the concussive force of one particularly hard cockslap from the Jolly Green Giant fixes the temporary blindness that made you enlist and allowed you drunkenly stumble through to that point without your brain revolting. After that it's all downhill because once you recognize the Bizzaro World for what it is, you won't ever be able to go back to the way things were without the unsettling feeling that everything is horribly wrong.
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Apr 12, 2016 07:34
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Spur rides are loving dumb. So are the hardon everyone gets for Stetsons.
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Apr 12, 2016 07:37
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I'm writing a one page 'leadership philosophy' for rotc-lite and i'm seriously contemplating putting the phrase 'worship jesus but dont be an rear end in a top hat' in it
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Apr 12, 2016 07:58
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Mostly because I live in the bible belt and it would be a childish but satisfying stab at how everyone in this state is an unredeemable christian bigot
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Apr 12, 2016 08:04
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There's a line in The Book of the SubGenius that describes them something like "crawling all over each other to suck on the finger instead of looking at where it's pointing." Ghandi's "I admire Christ but his followers not so much" is another classic if you want to drop a historical burn.
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Apr 12, 2016 12:56
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How the gently caress does the Army have such broken webpages in TYOL 2016. Holy gently caress. In the process of clearing and I have to fill out this online transportation bullshit and the website barely works. Won't let me click on Step 1, it's just ordinary text, no link despite it saying CLICK HERE>>>
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Apr 12, 2016 13:32
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It will only work on a version of Internet Explorer that has been out of date for several years. 
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Apr 12, 2016 13:37
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Teflon Don posted:Spurs Naked Bear posted:Came to post this. It will never make sense, but in cav, having (silver) spurs is somehow more important than having a combat patch, or, you know, a CAB. Soulex posted:Spur rides are loving dumb. So are the hardon everyone gets for Stetsons. My platoon was attached to the 2nd ACR in 2003 for like a minute or two. My entire platoon got awarded gold combat spurs. We never did any kind of spur ride, or other BS. Just got cool certificates signed by the regimental commander. Now I'm a 42 series super office clerk with spurs and a stetson. lol
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Apr 12, 2016 13:40
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Gold spurs are awarded on the same premise as a combat patch, you don't "earn" them. And a lot of cav units typically gift their swag to attached units for a cheap morale boost. Just don't be like those soldiers who wear their USMC or SF group combat patch because "we worked with them and I feel closer to them than my own brigade/division/whatever"
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Apr 12, 2016 14:16
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Zeris posted:Gold spurs are awarded on the same premise as a combat patch, you don't "earn" them. And a lot of cav units typically gift their swag to attached units for a cheap morale boost. Just don't be like those soldiers who wear their USMC or SF group combat patch because "we worked with them and I feel closer to them than my own brigade/division/whatever" My squadron was used to move a few chalks of SEALS for training poo poo at JTC over the course of a few weeks. We had a reservist fueler that went out and bought all these SEALs T-Shirts and wore them whenever he could after that. Same reasoning. His day-job was being the assistant manager of a Sonic, which he claimed made him a choice candidate for OCS because he had been in a leadership role since he was 17. He ended up getting a less-than-honorable because he knocked up some chick and just stopped showing up because he had to "Be there" for her and somehow got a hardship instead of rightfully butt hosed by the CoC
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Zeris posted:Gold spurs are awarded on the same premise as a combat patch, you don't "earn" them. And a lot of cav units typically gift their swag to attached units for a cheap morale boost. Just don't be like those soldiers who wear their USMC or SF group combat patch because "we worked with them and I feel closer to them than my own brigade/division/whatever" Actually, they made the gold spur "awardees" go through a spur ride with the dudes trying to get their silver spurs. We skipped town for that.
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Apr 12, 2016 14:41
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I once rode in a helicopter with MARSOC guys so I'm basically a marine special forces sniper.
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Mustang posted:Don't know what it's like out in a cav squadron in the force but Harmony Church is like a hands in your pockets free for all zone or something, everyone stands around with their hands in their pockets. Haven't heard anyone yell at someone to take their hands out of their pockets since I was in OCS on main post. Out in harmony they are cav squadrons buy Joe is mostly tankers and if you've ever met a bunch of disillusioned, no shits given motherfuckers it's tankers stuck in tradoc without tanks.
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I once sat in the drivers seat of my Bradley while we provided overwatch to some SF guys while they stood around doing stuff so that basically makes me SF.
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Ace of Baes posted:I once rode in a helicopter with MARSOC guys so I'm basically a marine special forces sniper. I rode in a helicopter with a full bird so I'm basically a staff officer now. Mustang posted:How the gently caress does the Army have such broken webpages in TYOL 2016. Holy gently caress. In the process of clearing and I have to fill out this online transportation bullshit and the website barely works. Won't let me click on Step 1, it's just ordinary text, no link despite it saying CLICK HERE>>> Wait till you have to do training. Also, Wallet Hall is the place here that you'll want to contact for anything PCS related. Also if you need temporary lodging, book now because they are ALWAYS busy. Waller Hall isn't too far away from the hotel, and they just put in a base transport system in case you need to go to North Fort or Madigan. If you got issues or something let me know, PM, here or ESO (forgot your name). I'll help sort you out.
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spacetoaster posted:Actually, they made the gold spur "awardees" go through a spur ride with the dudes trying to get their silver spurs. a cav unit hooah
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I think stetsons may be the one thing thats more ridiculously stupid than bloused jump boots in a dress uniform
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No, nevermind, the boots thing is still worse
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Apr 12, 2016 19:03
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Eh, compared to the shoes the boots are kind of comfortable and it doesn't sound like a queef every time you take a step.
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Apr 12, 2016 19:54
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A page late, but based off the directive of finally-dismissed-after-the-6th-or-7th-SHARP-charge CSM Diddlefingers, everyone on guard here must have all their magazines pouches the same way no matter what. And wear a FLC over your IOTV because reasons. Thank Gaia for my turboPOG nerd MOS. The BC and now former CSM of this infantry battalion both started as comms guys. I live in a laughable carnival of posturing
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I think stetsons may be the one thing thats more ridiculously stupid than bloused jump boots in a dress uniform Counterpoint: tanker boots own bones. Basically tanker is the least lovely combat arms gig but Chandler that cocksucker makes me want to shoot him then myself for being associated by MOS.
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Paradise Lost posted:Eh, compared to the shoes the boots are kind of comfortable and it doesn't sound like a queef every time you take a step. My squadron commander wasted taxpayer dollars (a few grand for 30 mins) and pencil-whipped the approval required to single-pilot a kiowa over Jalalabad airfield with a photographer in the copilot seat so he could take pics of his primary staff in stetsons/spurs standing in formation on the airfield. Ban cav
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I want someone to do a detailed study of how much time and money is wasted by the Army each year in briefings. And then use that information to reduce the number of staff officers and NCOs to a realistic number.
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Soulex posted:Also, Wallet Hall is the place here that you'll want to contact for anything PCS related. Also if you need temporary lodging, book now because they are ALWAYS busy. Waller Hall isn't too far away from the hotel, and they just put in a base transport system in case you need to go to North Fort or Madigan. Sweet, thanks, will do. Will definitely need temporary lodging as I check out places to live. I'll be up there in around 2 and a half weeks or so. The Transportation site is down for who knows how long and when I went to the transportation office they told me I could do it on JBLM's end and just tell them the site was down while I was clearing. Signed off on my clearing papers so I can leave though. Hoping this won't bite me in the rear end and have JBLM's transportation office tell me I can't do it there.
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Washington knew a new person was coming so it started raining again, just for you. Hope you like rain. And overcast skies. (It'll start getting sunny again soon......hopefully).
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psydude posted:I want someone to do a detailed study of how much time and money is wasted by the Army each year in briefings. And then use that information to reduce the number of staff officers and NCOs to a realistic number. if you're trying to save money and waste with this plan, you should start at the top with the flag officers dude
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Mike-o posted:Washington knew a new person was coming so it started raining again, just for you. Hope you like rain. And overcast skies. yeah we're getting the same out here as well. It's been so beautiful and poo poo. I was getting so tan 
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:if you're trying to save money and waste with this plan, you should start at the top with the flag officers dude If I'm not mistaken, the number of flag/general officers is established by congress, rather than the branch.
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Right, well, they could stand to lower that number is all. How many dumb gently caress vanity commands can the army keep staffed?
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psydude posted:I want someone to do a detailed study of how much time and money is wasted by the Army each year in briefings. And then use that information to reduce the number of staff officers and NCOs to a realistic number. That would be a fun briefing!
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Right, well, they could stand to lower that number is all. How many dumb gently caress vanity commands can the army keep staffed? One time we had a command whose entire mission was to manage vanity commands
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MrsAdiabatic posted:A page late, but based off the directive of finally-dismissed-after-the-6th-or-7th-SHARP-charge CSM Diddlefingers, everyone on guard here must have all their magazines pouches the same way no matter what. And wear a FLC over your IOTV because reasons. Thank Gaia for my turboPOG nerd MOS. I wanna personally ask every shitstain who mandates wearing the FLC over the IOTV just what exactly their intention is by doing that, like why do they think that's a good thing to do. It sure would be real funny if one of them had to deal with a wound to the torso while all dumbed up.
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i was gay and liked having my poo poo on a FLC  but then again i had a fuckin sweet rig made by Tactical Tailor here in washington that our company paid for (everyone got one, they were good poo poo) it also had quick disconnects to get it the gently caress off you though, so yeah
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I wore the FLC just because I am a gay noble that liked being able to take off my mag pouches when I was walking around with my lovely M9 instead of my M4.
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Yeah one of the shithole outposts I was at required IBA / IOTV and helmet anytime you were outside, so pretty much everyone in the platoon was rocking a chest rig or FLC or whatever pretty quick so they didn't have to carry all their poo poo everytime they went to take a poo poo or grab chow.
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