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There's no loving way I would have stayed in if we were converting to peacetime. Hoooooly gently caress. Send me out to a FOB in the middle of nowhere, make me run route clearance every day, anything.
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Vasudus posted:There's no loving way I would have stayed in if we were converting to peacetime. Hoooooly gently caress. Send me out to a FOB in the middle of nowhere, make me run route clearance every day, anything. Route Irish racing team!
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spacetoaster posted:Route Irish racing team! Horizontal or vertical race? 
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Really glad I'm not around for 24/7/365 gently caress-gently caress garrison Army.
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Someone here (I think) posted a great article about 90s army. Shinsheski, or one of those guys who eventually became like Chief of Staff, having his troops do some sort of training in front of a senator or something, and it was just so utterly ridiculous.
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sorry thats really vague, I'm hoping someone without as much of a broken brain remembers it better than me and can post it tia
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Someone here (I think) posted a great article about 90s army. Shinsheski, or one of those guys who eventually became like Chief of Staff, having his troops do some sort of training in front of a senator or something, and it was just so utterly ridiculous. It was Petraeus. http://www.vice.com/read/i-was-david-petreauss-bitch-in-the-90s-and-i-hated-every-second-of-it
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MEDS CURE SCHIZOS posted:It was Petraeus. thank you 
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Airborne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YsSL65quM
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Naked Bear posted:Really glad I'm not around for 24/7/365 gently caress-gently caress garrison Army. I remember a peacetime Marine Corps. When war were declared we lost more people to drug pops than the guys who didn't want to re-up for violence because we all got stop loss'd.. I later wound up with the Army due to a poor decision making process that let me think working for the TSA would be an easy part time job while I work on college but that was somehow dumber and more homoerotic than peacetime Marine Corps, where we had a guy we called "The Gay from the Bay" cause he was from San Francisco and would stare at people in the shower.
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MEDS CURE SCHIZOS posted:It was Petraeus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XXE_gjje7A
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MEDS CURE SCHIZOS posted:It was Petraeus. quote:Normally, when we carried our weapons, we kept one finger (the trigger finger) at the ready next to the trigger mechanism in the event we had to quickly engage the enemy, but that wouldn’t fly under Petraeus, who introduced the “Devil Grip”, since apparently everything with him had to involve the loving devil. Essentially, this just meant keeping your trigger finger out of the trigger well.  abloobloo meaniehead petreaus wont let me be a retard with my gun, woe is me!
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Kaliber posted:They are also going to have a BDE live fire. With no dry/blank run. Or a walkthrough..... How to get relieved in
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:
That article just screamed O-1 problems.
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Yeah like what the gently caress pretty sure keeping your finger off the trigger isn't some weird policy Petraeus come up with, if anything that article showed there were massive systemic safety issues within the brigade to the point the commander needed a cutesy name for "stop being loving stupid" 
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Justin Tyme posted:if anything that article showed there were massive systemic safety issues within the brigade to the point the commander needed a cutesy name for "stop being loving stupid" I remember reading that article the first time and thinking at the start, "maybe there were warning signs or something..." and at the end hating the jackass who wrote it. Oh no, someone made him do his drat job, it was terrible. Just some idiot who hates his old boss because he made him do his drat job.
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yea, his list of grievances are literally: 1. high and tights mandatory (gay but whatever) 2. have to observe gun safety (shouldnt have to be said) 3. occasionally do dog and pony show demonstrations instead of scratching your balls or hazing or cleaning or whatever peacetime army does
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Best general I ever met gave nobody his itinerary, pulled a major he knew to be his driver, slept in the field with the Joes, made us do a single briefing, then left.
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I had heard of something (before my time) in the 82d that I think this is referring to. Troopers used to keep their trigger finger straight along the Mag well like normal people, until some dickhead came along and made them put all four fingers on the pistol grip, like an ape. Imn (picture that being a normal finger off the trigger thing) instead they were required to do it like this mm. Picture that horizontal on an M4. I am tired and don't know if that makes sense.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I had heard of something (before my time) in the 82d that I think this is referring to. Troopers used to keep their trigger finger straight along the Mag well like normal people, until some dickhead came along and made them put all four fingers on the pistol grip, like an ape. yeah, i got you. sounds dumb.
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well this part is pretty damningquote:Essentially, this just meant keeping your trigger finger out of the trigger well. which implies that lt fucknuts had his booger hook hovering over the trigger like a goddamn idiot
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please name change me to boogerhook fucknuts, thx in advance
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It's almost like Vice deliberately floods the Internet with poo poo
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just lol if you dont walk around with burst selected
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:just lol if you dont walk around with burst selected Every time I shot burst it was everything I could do to not yell "pop pop pop"
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Booblord Zagats posted:Every time I shot burst it was everything I could do to not yell "pop pop pop" There have been plenty of time when I had to do exactly that with some low budget lovely training
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:There have been plenty of time when I had to do exactly that with some low budget lovely training I did this with the M2 a few times. But I made ratattattat noises and then explosions and bombs like it was one of those gi Joe noise makers
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Booblord Zagats posted:I did this with the M2 a few times. But I made ratattattat noises and then explosions and bombs like it was one of those gi Joe noise makers yeah if your "gun" never started randomly making PEW PEW PEW noises go gently caress yourself!
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bulletsponge13 posted:I had heard of something (before my time) in the 82d that I think this is referring to. Troopers used to keep their trigger finger straight along the Mag well like normal people, until some dickhead came along and made them put all four fingers on the pistol grip, like an ape. There's trainers out there these days saying that finger straight can lead to spraining and dislocation injuries during movement, fwiw
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sky shark posted:There's trainers out there these days saying that finger straight can lead to spraining and dislocation injuries during movement, fwiw  this is the same dumb babby line of thinking that got everyone wearing pt belts for everything
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sky shark posted:There's trainers out there these days saying that finger straight can lead to spraining and dislocation injuries during movement, fwiw maybe lil piss babies should suck it the gently caress up
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sky shark posted:There's trainers out there these days saying that finger straight can lead to spraining and dislocation injuries during movement, fwiw I'll start to maybe give one tenth of a flying gently caress about that source of possible injury when the Army gets serious about known, documented and blatantly obvious sources of injury like 'Hey company, we're all going to ruck twenty miles next week for PT. Better get ready for it!'
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It's like the Army is capable of doing stupid things despite knowing better. Shocking revelation.
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daily reminder that the army can forever suck my balls eat poo poo got my dd214
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:daily reminder that the army can forever suck my balls
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:daily reminder that the army can forever suck my balls
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:daily reminder that the army can forever suck my balls
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Also apparently back when that dude wrote that article the army was using AR15s for some reason instead of M16s. That stuck out most, like, who the gently caress calls it that?
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Justin Tyme posted:Also apparently back when that dude wrote that article the army was using AR15s for some reason instead of M16s. That stuck out most, like, who the gently caress calls it that? Could be for the sake of the audience. You hear AR-15 more often than M-16 in the media now and he wanted readers to know what he was talking about.
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