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look at that loving last name on the signature authority holy poo poo
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Ace of Baes posted:Most rangers Ive met have been pretty chill, but then again Ive never been in ranger bat which i hear is gay as hell. i'd say there's a big difference between an ranger bat ranger, and someone who has a ranger tab the rangers i met and worked with on ft lewis were pretty chill, funny dudes with low tolerance for army bullshit whereas most tabbed infantry dudes i knew were mouth breathing moto morons for the most part anecdotal, but idgaf
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May 14, 2016 02:49
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:look at that loving last name on the signature authority holy poo poo 
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Booblord Zagats posted:Anyone remember Ranger Pudding Man? That doesn't surprise me Story?
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May 14, 2016 03:08
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Countdown until my boss transfers to a BCT and can't say "shared understanding" anymore My new boss seems like he grew up at an SEC college so I feel better
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May 14, 2016 03:11
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Mustang posted:Nah I didn't go to RSLC, just ARC. I am in a RSTA squadron though. ARC was the priority and everyone that didn't get ARC got sent to RSLC. I liked ARC a lot, best month and a half of training I've yet to have in the Army. Biggest difference I noticed between the 2 courses is that RSLC is all dismount and surveillance focused whereas ARC tries to cover every aspect of reconnaissance. Arc was more like 50/50 dismount/mounted when I went through. Those are probably the dumbasses who go the Ranger Joe's route and buy the prepackaged duffel back of poo poo, the packing list should be mostly issued stuff. I guarantee you you will be pressured to go to ranger school and the only reason people get cut is because the class size is probably too big. Everything I hear about ranger school is that the content of the course is easy and it's mostly just a test of your endurance for the most supremely bullshit gay peak army experience. If you plan on staying in, it's definitely a must-have for career combat arms officers (even enlisted). If not, well enjoy constantly being made to feel like a fucker by assholes until you retire/decommission/whatever ETS is called for officers. Just a forewarning. Another tip is if you have any inkling that you might want to go to it I'd go while you are a free agent because your unit will more than likely make you go through some gay as gently caress "pre-ranger" mini-ranger school which tacks on another two weeks of miserable faggotry to an already retarded process. You know, just to "make sure you are ready" for an overrated fuckfest. Justin Tyme fucked around with this message at 03:19 on May 14, 2016 |
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May 14, 2016 03:16
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:look at that loving last name on the signature authority holy poo poo sooklalimakarowski I don't even loving know where to start with that name.
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May 14, 2016 03:18
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i get annoyed having to spell my last name all the time and its only 5 letters 
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May 14, 2016 03:22
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Mr. Nice! posted:sooklalimakarowski Sook Sookal Sookanahgonnaworkhereanymore
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Triggs posted:Countdown until my boss transfers to a BCT and can't say "shared understanding" anymore So, what, he focuses on athletics at the expense of everything else?
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May 14, 2016 03:27
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I wanna see his uniform nametape.
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May 14, 2016 03:31
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uhhh just call me sook
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May 14, 2016 03:39
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sook me!? sook you!
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May 14, 2016 05:34
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thats like someone took an indonesian and a polish name and taped em to each other
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May 14, 2016 06:01
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All this is reenforcing my desire to never go to ranger school that gets more the further I get from being a butterbar. Also reserves so shyeah.
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May 14, 2016 07:10
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I just remember being a hooah in OCS and then getting out into the field and loving it and then all of a sudden not. Like don't gently caress with me for no reason.
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It seems like it's mostly the infantry officers with huge raging ranger boners. Armor LTC's and COL's and above seem more irritated with armor LT's and CPT's identifying as scouts rather than tankers despite the fact that a solid 2/3 of 19A's won't see the inside of an Abrams after ABOLC. In my case other than familiarization/mini gunnery/driving training I have hardly any time at all in a tank. I drove an Abrams for 3 missions in ABOLC and was in a scout platoon for the other 20+ FTX missions, not to mention ARC and Advanced Situational Awareness. As cool as tanks are it would be ridiculous for me to go around claiming to be a tanker. Fact is there are way more positions in Cav squadrons for 19A's than there are in units with tanks. And even if you are sent to a heavy brigade you still might end up as a scout. Infantry makes such a big deal about Ranger School that IBOLC LT's that fail out are a suicide concern for their command. An OCS buddy of mine failed to answer his phone because he slept in the day after he failed out of the course and when he finally did answer his commander was all "holy poo poo man I'm glad you're alive! thought you might have killed yourself!" I've never heard of any concern for a ABOLC LT committing suicide.
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Mustang posted:It seems like it's mostly the infantry officers with huge raging ranger boners. Armor LTC's and COL's and above seem more irritated with armor LT's and CPT's identifying as scouts rather than tankers despite the fact that a solid 2/3 of 19A's won't see the inside of an Abrams after ABOLC. In my case other than familiarization/mini gunnery/driving training I have hardly any time at all in a tank. I drove an Abrams for 3 missions in ABOLC and was in a scout platoon for the other 20+ FTX missions, not to mention ARC and Advanced Situational Awareness. As cool as tanks are it would be ridiculous for me to go around claiming to be a tanker. your friend may not have died that day, but his career did
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White Chocolate posted:I just remember being a hooah in OCS and then getting out into the field and loving it and then all of a sudden not. Like don't gently caress with me for no reason. Which company were you in? I was in Delta, OCS was one giant gently caress gently caress game from beginning to end for me. Bravo and Charlie seemed to have a much easier time with the course and got privileges a lot sooner than we did. I think it's because Delta until recently was the only company left in the old barracks and being all by themselves for years resulted in an all together different experience.
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Justin Tyme posted:your friend may not have died that day, but his career did That's the case for a lot of infantry LT's then because the majority of them never get their tabs for various dumb reasons. A big chunk of my stryker leaders class was infantry LT's and only 2 had tabs.
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Mr. Nice! posted:sooklalimakarowski Dollars to donuts it's just 'Ski around the office.
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the army is retarded and im so glad ill be out of it by next weekend
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Ace of Baes posted:the army is retarded and im so glad ill be out of it by next weekend Jels
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Mustang posted:That's the case for a lot of infantry LT's then because the majority of them never get their tabs for various dumb reasons. A big chunk of my stryker leaders class was infantry LT's and only 2 had tabs. No tab was a huge negative for infantry NCOs in my battalion. They could only get as high as platoon sergeant before being shuttled off to S3 or brigade to finish out their days while tabbed E7s took on different platoons until a 1SG spot opened up. I think having a tab was more of a signal that you were willing to play stupid army games than anything else.
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Ace of Baes posted:the army is retarded and im so glad ill be out of it by next weekend Feels good man
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:thats like someone took an indonesian and a polish name and taped em to each other It's that god damned ski on the end that has me head scratching. I mean the Spanish traveled the world and added to the gene pool everywhere they went. I can't recall ever hearing of a famous polack explorer. I was gonna say pole explorer at first, but I've known a few pole explorers in my day.
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May 14, 2016 14:04
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Ace of Baes posted:the army is retarded and im so glad ill be out of it by next weekend Til then, though, get hosed
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Mustang posted:Which company were you in? I was in Delta, OCS was one giant gently caress gently caress game from beginning to end for me. Bravo and Charlie seemed to have a much easier time with the course and got privileges a lot sooner than we did. I think it's because Delta until recently was the only company left in the old barracks and being all by themselves for years resulted in an all together different experience. Delta wasn't a company when I was there for sure(2012) I was in Bravo had to drop and re cycle for land nav to Charlie. They were pretty meh on PT tho. We never had privileges until white scarf. We were the last ones to not have privilege. HHC could literally not do anything basically stay at the compound fido.
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Mr. Nice! posted:It's that god damned ski on the end that has me head scratching. I mean the Spanish traveled the world and added to the gene pool everywhere they went. I can't recall ever hearing of a famous polack explorer. your mother being chief among them
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Mustang, sorry if I'm reading something that's just not there, but if you're spinning that getting tabbed outside of the infantry branch doesn't truly matter that much, particularly as an officer, let me save you some heartache. Particularly as a combat arms officer, getting your tab is the single most valuable thing you can to make the army easy-mode. You can shoot out of the box, have a platoon full of negligent-discharging mouth breathers, lose loving equipment, stab your platoon sergeant in the back, and get a DUI, but if you score a 300 and have your tab, no one is going to gently caress with you. Don't get me wrong, ranger school seems like a pain in the dick and a bunch of gently caress gently caress games, buy if I was a new LT and hadn't yet to figured out that the army is gay (smdtfb), I'd try and do myself that favor. Especially in this awful peace time army.
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manchego posted:awful peace time army
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I never said it didn't matter just that it doesn't seem nearly as important in the armor branch, especially outside of light brigades. Most of the officers in my chain of command are tabless. I still recognize that it's great to have for your career, especially an as officer. If I decide to do 20+ years in the Army it's definitely something I'd plan on doing whether that be while I'm at my unit as a LT or back at Benning for the career course. I quickly learned in BCT and OCS that the army is gay. On top of the gently caress gently caress games it didn't help that I left OCS and started ABOLC with a knee injury so I was already kind of bitter and cynical while my ROTC and West Point peers were all bright eyed and super motivated to do Army stuff. Post ABOLC has been pretty good for me so far so I'm not really bitter anymore but still expect that to be tested at some point in the (likely near) future. I don't have any plans for where my career is going at the moment anyway, the Army owns me until 2019 or 2020.
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Going TDY for a week. Is there any trick to milking the Army for as much money as I possibly can? I've got a government travel card and have been told conflicting things on how to use it--put everything on it vs put nothing on it so the Army doesn't know what you spent and thus you get the whole per diem in pay.
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Aranan posted:Going TDY for a week. Is there any trick to milking the Army for as much money as I possibly can? I've got a government travel card and have been told conflicting things on how to use it--put everything on it vs put nothing on it so the Army doesn't know what you spent and thus you get the whole per diem in pay. The only non-illegal way to get more money is to travel down the day before and travel back the day after. The JTR authorizes this if you have to start in the morning or work a full day. This will get you 2 more full per diem days. Do not do anything shady like claim mileage but carpool with other travelers. You'll get the same per diem no matter how much you spend. Never put any per diem expenses on your travel card. Split disbursements are a pain and you don't get any CC rewards. Put reimbursable expenses like airfare, hotel, etc on the card because people will complain if you don't. Make sure you join all the hotel/airplane/whatever loyalty programs.
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Hackan Slash posted:The only non-illegal way to get more money is to travel down the day before and travel back the day after. The JTR authorizes this if you have to start in the morning or work a full day. This will get you 2 more full per diem days. Do not do anything shady like claim mileage but carpool with other travelers. I'm definitely not looking to do anything illegal--I get enough green weenie as it is. Luckily, I'm already going down the day before and leaving the day after, so that's cool. The bit about only using the travel car for hotel/air/rental car is good info. I'll keep the per-diem expenses on my own accounts.
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Aranan posted:I'm definitely not looking to do anything illegal--I get enough green weenie as it is. Luckily, I'm already going down the day before and leaving the day after, so that's cool. One other thing I forgot to mention is that meals provided by the hotel don't count against your per diem, so you can find a place like Residence Inn that serves breakfast and dinner and save even more money. If you're a total cheapskate grab enough food to cover lunch. If they're paying to send you somewhere that provides a meal you have to claim that against your per diem. The usual case is if they're paying to send you to a convention and it includes lunch.
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They have cut down a lot on the money you can make from TDY, it's not as fruitful as it was. I went TDay for a month, ended up with 50 extra dollars.
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The GTC is locked down pretty hard now too. It used to be good at just about any vendor (like grocery stores and Walmart) but some people discovered it worked at strip clubs so now you're limited to travel related stuff like airlines, hotels, car rentals, gas stations, and restaurants. If you're lucky enough to get cash advance privileges and a PIN don't be a dumbass and gently caress it up even worse than it is. Also enjoy getting junk mail from Shittybank for the rest of your life.
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Zeris posted:Til then, though, get hosed tuesday is my last day and im not even going to formation, im showing up at the final out building at like 5:30 and standing outside their doors as soon as i see people start lining up, i scheduled my appt for the other stuff as soon as they open and talked to S1 so I can sign out on leave at noon that day, ive already double checked to make sure everything i needed to clear is good, so hopefully the army cant find a way to gently caress me over for the literal 20 minutes ill be in my unit footprint for the rest of my contract
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The morning I left on terminal leave, I got up in front of the company formation while the 1SG and PSGs were still in the office and recited this speech:quote:This is as my Master told it to me and now I tell it to thee. No regrets.
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