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Aranan posted:I work in a joint environment from time to time. During a 7 month stretch, the only NCO who came by and insisted we stand up from our desks and stand at parade rest to address her was AF. I would've stopped that poo poo immediately. After making her report in to me.
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Larry Parrish posted:Like buns not being too tight or having a solitary hair touching your ear or whatever gay poo poo. We had one capt get a bee in her bonnet about people shaving their heads or changing hair color. Shaving heads was bad because there's no tapering of the hair, like the regs say. Changing hair color is bad unless it's a natural color for you. A week later I was at the clinic and saw a black chick with blonde hair and wondered how well that would turn out if our captain saw her. I know she wouldn't have said anything but the shitstorm still popped into my head where at the end of this imaginary scenario, all the enlisted would end up having to go to racial sensitivity classes.
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LingcodKilla posted:Makes you wonder what they do for a butter bar. What would you doooOOOOooo? For a Butter bar?
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Internet Wizard posted:I went through a joint AF/USMC course at an AF schoolhouse last year, and one of my Marine instructors got "spoken to" for not calling attention on deck when an AF master sergeant decided to come sit in on the class for a bit. Why the gently caress would you come to attention for a loving enlisted?
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May 25, 2016 16:42
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ded posted:Why the gently caress would you come to attention for a loving enlisted?
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ded posted:Why the gently caress would you come to attention for a loving enlisted? Don't argue it, it's Air Force. I had a talk from one of the Navy cats at AIT because the head instructor was a Chief. I said "so what's that...like rating level?" he said "it's like god level. E-7" I loving laughed and laughed. Not because it was bullshit mind you, but I was previously rubbing shoulders with MSGs and SGMs as a specialist. I gave no fucks. Also so far I've cut 2 General officers off during briefings and not gotten yelled at. 
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May 25, 2016 16:51
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ded posted:Why the gently caress would you come to attention for a loving enlisted? It's an old courtesy for headmasters/deans who visit a class. (Not that it isn't disruptive, duplicative and dumb)
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CommieGIR posted:And then you hang out with ANG guys,who will flip off guys who do that. ANG guys are easily the chillest dudes. I saw a Cali ANG pilot save a friend from an rear end chewing once by butting in on the AF E-8 screaming at him for some bullshit flightline reg I don't recall but had a feeling he made up when the pilot just walked over and told the MSgt "Shut up, I can hear your shrill screaming over the goddam jets." Then dude just looked at him and said "go home, Marine" and then shoo'd the dude away. That Sgt was fuming under his breath as my bud just calmly walked away after a fast "Aye-aye, sir"
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:The Air Force is petty and stupid. AETC takes that to the next level. And that airman was Albert Einstein.
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I thought I was all smart by buying black tennis shoes when I was on a 6 month shoe chit. Didn't want to stand out too much. Huge mistake. Got stopped every 10 yards for assholes thinking they got me for in un bloused pants.
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Your generals are really chill though. I guess when you're at the top it's okay to not be an rear end in a top hat? Vigorious warrior 15 in Czech Republic we had a few marines stomping around being all aloof and professional. (compared to the insanely chill and professional Dutch and German or the weird chill poles and Czechs) then on visitors day some general drops by and sits down next to me when I'm just relaxing with a cigarette on a bench and I have no idea what to do so I just hello sir him while sitting. We talk for maybe five seconds before an avalanche of other high ups show up and I run away to smoke somewhere else. Yes. Maybe not reflecting well on Sweden and our people's army of equals but whatever. Your marines got p chill when we started drinking though.
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Soulex posted:Don't argue it, it's Air Force. So in the Air Force boot camp never ends.
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Booblord Zagats posted:ANG guys are easily the chillest dudes. I saw a Cali ANG pilot save a friend from an rear end chewing once by butting in on the AF E-8 screaming at him for some bullshit flightline reg I don't recall but had a feeling he made up when the pilot just walked over and told the MSgt "Shut up, I can hear your shrill screaming over the goddam jets." I saluted a ANG Major while walking on base once and the poor guy blushed and got sheepish and went on about how he was just a banker during the week.
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CommieGIR posted:I saluted a ANG Major while walking on base once and the poor guy blushed and got sheepish and went on about how he was just a banker during the week. A noble AND a banker.
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ded posted:Why the gently caress would you come to attention for a loving enlisted? It's AETC bullshit, some schoolhouses basically treat the senior instructor cadre (so SNCO types) like officers, when they come to visit you call the room/come to attention/etc Same AETC bullshit that had them calling the building for any officer that walked in. Same building contained an initial skills training schoolhouse for officers, so at any given time there were 25-30 butter bars running around said building. It was retarded. or joat mon posted:It's an old courtesy for headmasters/deans who visit a class. (Not that it isn't disruptive, duplicative and dumb) basically this
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CommieGIR posted:I saluted a ANG Major while walking on base once and the poor guy blushed and got sheepish and went on about how he was just a banker during the week. As an officer trainee (not even a Lt yet) I was saluted by a Lt Col. Oh, doctors joining the military 
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Godholio posted:As an officer trainee (not even a Lt yet) I was saluted by a Lt Col. Oh, doctors joining the military lol this exact thing happened to met at field training (at Maxwell)...we ran into a Lt Col and Maj who were clearly going through COT, one of them saluted us while the other one kind of half-heartedly returned our salute but was clearly confused about the whole thing
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Alternating left and right salutes were occasionally the greeting of the day when entering or exiting the nnptc schoolhouse. The left handed salutes would often get returned left handed too
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iyaayas01 posted:It's AETC bullshit, some schoolhouses basically treat the senior instructor cadre (so SNCO types) like officers, when they come to visit you call the room/come to attention/etc At Fuels Systems tech school we called the room to attention for ALL officers, Commissioned AND Non-Coms. Same vein of bullshit how in BMT they make you address everyone as sir/ma'am (respectful but makes officer greeting courtesies redundant and pointless).
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On base in Bergen we got told (as conscripted) to not salute higher officers, because they thought it was annoying to have to return the salutes every N minutes. We still did it, depending on who it was  Same rotation, one of the temporary NCOed conscripts (due to being instructors) tried yelling at one of our senior enlisted electricians working on quay for not wearing his cover. He got his rear end chewed out first by the enlisted, then by the chief engineer who heard it all from the mess and came out wondering why the gently caress some land lubber was annoying one of his guys. Pretty sure that temp NCO never set foot near KNM Trondheim again, for fear of getting keelhauled by an irate Lt Cmdr.
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May 26, 2016 01:34
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Who in the what now?
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Larry Parrish posted:Who in the what now? Phone posting at 3am is the best, I promise... What's unclear?
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Larry Parrish posted:Who in the what now? KNM Trondheim, it was launched by Queen Elsa herself in front of an entire regiment of Reindeer Household Cavalry.
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Larry Parrish posted:Who in the what now? Wibla posted:On base in [FOREIGN LAND] we got told (as FOREIGNERS) to not salute higher officers, because they thought it was annoying to have to return the salutes every N minutes.
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My squadron's base civil engineer (who's an F-16 pilot one weekend a month) had to go TDY to an army base recently. From what I was told, he was getting legitimately pissed off from being saluted and called "Sir" everywhere he went. Also, he had to wear ABU's the entire time. Which has to be absolute torture for an Air Force fighter pilot.
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I had to go talk to a retarded Navy E-6 paralegal to get a Power of Attorney. She forgot to tell me to bring a mandatory item the first time ("I usually tell everyone, I just forgot!"). Okay, fair enough. Show back up to my second appointment, she's not there. Fifteen minutes later she comes walking by, sees me waiting outside the door, looks surprised and remembers the appointment. They kept their door closed and their lights turned off, I'm assuming in hopes that everyone assumes they're gone and doesn't make them work. As I'm in their dimly-lit office, I hear a noise and turn around to find some guy has been sitting back there quietly the entire time. Kind of surprised and weirded out, I tell him "Oh, hey. What's up?" He replies "What's up, sir?" "Not a lot. I'm here to get a power of attorney." "No. What's up, sir?" I had to walk across the goddamn room before I could finally see who or what this dweeb was. "Oh, what's up, LT." (Yeah I know he was a Lt JG or whatever but loving with self-important nobles comes before customs and courtesy.)
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If you ever have the opportunity to interact with mil guys as a civilian it's priceless. "Hello, uh Major." "Its Captain." "Sure thing, whatever, anyway where's (random office)". I think my best was calling a marine LT "ensign".
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LingcodKilla posted:When in doubt just say sir? Where's the fun in that?
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Splode posted:Where's the fun in that? I'll look into it, sir.
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LingcodKilla posted:When in doubt just say sir? I did this to everyone in civilians when doing ACP guard. Check their ID, some SGM, "have a good day sir! All the Way!"
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i used to whip out the salute when in doubt. then I accidentally saluted a loving specialist because his regimental crest was mostly that gold color and I never did again. I found that most officers don't give a poo poo and its the sycophant e7s you have to worry about. then again when I was at the recruiting course we were specifically instructed to salute a certain model BMW because it was the school commander and it was his thing. Like it wasn't a mil vehicle with a placard but salute it because he gets mad!!!!!!!!!!! never saluted that piece of poo poo
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Wild T posted:I had to go talk to a retarded Navy E-6 paralegal to get a Power of Attorney. She forgot to tell me to bring a mandatory item the first time ("I usually tell everyone, I just forgot!"). Okay, fair enough. Show back up to my second appointment, she's not there. Fifteen minutes later she comes walking by, sees me waiting outside the door, looks surprised and remembers the appointment. Did you see a warfare pin? I wonder if he was sitting in a dark office because hes a dink bitch whose about to get an upgrade
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So I'm the idiot, right?  Guess that wasn't too legible for people without some knowledge of our dinky 5-ship navy...
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Did you see a warfare pin? I wonder if he was sitting in a dark office because hes a dink bitch whose about to get an upgrade I don't even know what one would look like, and if so I doubt I'd be able to see it. He was scuttled off into a dark corner like some kind of nerdy, lawlerly trapdoor spider.
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I'm just a civilian but a friend of mine just shared this.  I'm just sitting here like, "dude, you only got of basic like 2 months ago calm down drat"
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Boot moto, checks with chart.
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"The United States has too much freedom of speech." - LT 5 feet away, just now E: "I don't care, I'm going to vote for Hillary because she's a Democrat." Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 28, 2016 |
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Mr Confetti posted:I'm just a civilian but a friend of mine just shared this.
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